Activities - During the year, the Friends sponsor lectures both on and off campus, tours of the Libraries, and celebrations of staff. Below are a few of the 2001-2002 highlights.
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Thursday, October 24, 2002in the Clapp Library Lecture Room, The Friends of the Wellesley College Library and the Wellesley College English Department jointly sponsored a Poetry Reading by Margaret Fleischer Kaufman '63  |
Above, Margaret Kaufman poses with Wellesley College Professor Frank Bidart |
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She is a recipient of a Marin County Artists' Grant, the Anna Rosenberg Award from the Hudah Magnus Museum, and the Jessamyn West Poetry Award, Ms. Kaufman leads poetry workshops in Marin County, California. She co-edits fiction for The Marlboro Review and has been the poetry editor for the Western Journal of Medicine. Previous works, such as Aunt Sallie's Lament, Sarah's Sacrifice, Praise Basted In, and Deep in the Territory are in the Wellesley College Clapp Library's Special Collections. |
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Thursday, September 12, 2002 - Lynn B. Sherr '63 talked about her new book America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song. |
Lynn Sherr '63 (left) and Diana Chapman-Walsh '66 |
| June 8th - Reunion Activities
Special Collections Librarian Ruth Rogers talks to reunion attendees (below)   Book Arts Instructor Katherine MacCanless Ruffin demonstrates some printing techniques (above) Even though it is now 5 years old, The Knapp Media and Technology Center is still new to some folks (below)  | ||||
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| Open House for Graduating Student Assistants The Friends of the Library and Library staff threw a party for graduating seniors, who had worked in the Clapp, Science, Music, or Art Libraries. The open house was held on the Wednesday afternoon prior to graduation so that families, who had already arrived for graduation, could also attend. Many of the student assistants had worked at the libraries for all four years; others, for only one or two years. After welcoming remarks from June Stobaugh, Alumna Co-Chair of the Friends of the Library, and Micheline Jedrey, College Librarian and Vice President for Information Services, each librarian spoke about the contributions that the students had made to the different libraries. Assistants were presented with a certificate of appreciation and a bookmark bearing the distinctive lantern symbol of the College and the Library. Students will also receive a year's free membership in the Friends of the Library. | |||
Tuesday, April 30th - The Friends of the Library hosted a talk by Ms. Amalie Kass '49 In her new book, Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D. 1786-1876, (Northeastern University Press), Amalie Kass ’49 relates the history of 19th century childbirth practices, advances in obstetrical education, and development of medical science through a compelling account of Dr. Channing’s long life. This was a time of transition was women sought the medical expertise of physicians—overwhelmingly male—over female midwives.
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After she spoke on her recently published book, Midwifery and Medicine In Boston: Walter Channing, M.D. 1786-1876, Amalie autographed copies for the numerous students, faculty, and alumnae who attended the event. Inset, President Diana Chapman Walsh introduced Alumnae Trustee and distinguished author Amalie Moses Kass' 49 at the Friends of the Library program on April 30th. | |||
Wednesday, April 10, - 6:30 p.m. | Wednesday, April 3 - 6:30 p.m. Slide Lecture: “The Shaping of Space and the Meaning of Place: Cities, Parks, and Gardens as Expressions of Cultural Values” by Betsy Barlow Rogers '57 on her new book Landscape Design: A History of Cities, Parks, And Gardens. At Hunnewell Building, MHS at Elm Bank. Co-Sponsored with the New England Garden History Society and Other Friends groups. | |||
Creating A Journal - A Long Stitch Binding Workshop by Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Visiting Instructor in the Book Arts Saturday, March 9 1:00 - 4:00 Book Arts Lab, Program featuring the creation of a custom hand made journal or sketchbook in an afternoon, and learning a technique that can be easily repeated at home. Katherine guided participants through the process of making this elegant and functional soft cover non-adhesive book cover.Decorative papers were available in the workshop along with beads to embellish the exposed sewing. Participants were also invited to bring their own papers or collage materials to use for the covers of their books. Previous book making experience was not necessary. |  | |||
Marilyn Yalom
|  Friends Co-Chair, Polly Slavet (left), with Marilyn Yalom | |||
| More than 100 alumnae toured the Library during June reunion. Tour stops included Knapp Media and Technology Center and the newly renovated fourth floor, including Archives, Special Collections, the Conservation Facility, and the Book Arts Lab. In the Lab, pictured above, alumnae printed a letterpress keepsake, a quote from Melvil Dewey: "To my thinking a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and above all, a great heart ... and I am inclined to think that most of the men who will achieve this greatness will be women." | |||
| The Library conducted an open house for the 41 graduating seniors who had worked in the Clapp, Art, Science, and Music Libraries during their years at Wellesley. Two days before graduation, Friends of the Library and Library staff welcomed these students and their families to a reception in the Library lobby. Soon-to-be alumnae received a certificate of appreciation, a bookmark with the hallmark Library lantern, and a free membership for 2001-02 in Friends of the Library. |
Jeanne Hablanian, Art Library Associate, second from left | |||
In a first, Friends of the Library presented a program off site. In a fascinating "show and tell," Ruth R. Rogers, Special Collections Librarian, held a two-hour seminar for members of the Washington, D.C. Wellesley Club, explaining the concept of artists' books and allowing members to touch and examine interesting examples from Wellesley's own collections.
This is only one example of the many artists' books Ruth displayed, some unique and others editioned, but all representatives of this flourishing genre of contemporary books-or are they art? | ||||
| On April 5, in an event sponsored jointly by Friends of Art, Horticulture, and the Library, art history professors Peter Fergusson, James F. O'Gorman, and John Rhodes delivered brief, illuminating lectures based on their new book, The Landscape and Architecture of Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA : Wellesley College, 2001). President Diana Chapman Walsh, who wrote the preface, introduced the afternoon's speakers, welcoming their work as apt celebration of Wellesley's 125th anniversary, of "our history ... embedded in the landscape." | ||||
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