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wellesley names jennifer desjarlais dean of admission President Diana Chapman Walsh has announced the appointment of Jennifer Desjarlais as the new dean of admission of Wellesley College. “In September I asked the committee to help me find a proven leader with both a strategic and an operational understanding of all aspects of the admissions process, a person of grace and integrity who can represent Wellesley College very well, and someone with insight into the special challenges of recruiting a strong and diverse applicant pool for an all-women’s college,” Walsh said. “The committee brought me its unanimous recommendation that in Jennifer Desjarlais we have found the leader we sought and want. “As director of admission, starting in July 2001, Jenn did a superb job overseeing the operations of the division. As its interim leader over the past six months, Jenn inspired the admiration and respect of trustees, faculty, members of the administration, and her own staff. She has clearly demonstrated her ability to take on this leadership role, within the college and in the wider educational community. Our search yielded plentiful evidence of the high regard in which Jenn is held by professional colleagues across the country.” Desjarlais came to Wellesley in January 1999 as a senior associate director of admissions with 13 years of experience in admissions, as associate director of admission and coordinator of admission marketing at Smith College and, before that, as associate director of admission at Simmons College, among other positions. She is a 1985 Simmons graduate and earned a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs administration from the University of Vermont in 1990. “I hope you will join me in congratulating Jennifer Desjarlais for this well-earned promotion and in wishing her much success and many satisfactions in the months and years ahead,” said Walsh. de varona to discuss future of women’s sports As part of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, two-time Olympic gold medalist and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Donna de Varona will speak in Collins Cinema Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 pm. Because many of today’s women student-athletes enjoy the benefits of Title IX without having dealt with the adversity of a pre-Title IX playing field, de Varona’s talk will challenge them to be politically active about opportunities in sports. An original member of the Women’s Sports Foundation, de Varona is the chair of the Foundation’s Board of Stewards. In 1963, she won gold medals in the 4 x 100 freestyle and the 4 x 100 medley relays at the Pan American Games. She made her first Olympic appearance at the 1960 Olympic Games at the age of 13, making her the youngest swimmer to compete on a U.S. Olympic team. During her career, she broke 18 world records. She was voted 1964’s most outstanding female athlete by the Associated Press and United Press International. An Olympic Hall of Famer, she is a recipient of the Olympic Order, the Olympic’s highest award. She joined ABC Sports as the network’s first full-time female television sportscaster in 1965. Today she is a commentator/reporter assisting ABC in its dealings with U.S. and International Olympic Committees and serves on a Senate committee to restructure the U.S. Olympic Committee. The NCAA Honors Committee awarded her the 2003 Theodore Roosevelt Award – its highest individual honor. In 1999, Sports Illustrated for Women ranked her on its list of Top 100 Greatest Athletes. For more information, call x2003. Viewers of the movie Mona Lisa Smile have found the fictional story set at Wellesley College significantly differs from the real college of 1953-54. Among the discrepancies is the teaching of art. On Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 5:30 pm, in Jewett Loft, join art professors Patricia Berman and Lilian Armstrong for pizza and a discussion of the way Wellesley’s art department is portrayed. In Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts’ character subversively introduces students to modern art. In reality, Wellesley was one of the first colleges or universities to teach modern art – beginning with a course on modern art in the late 1920s that was taught by Alfred Barr Jr., who went on to found the Museum of Modern Art. For more information on the discussion, call x2042. friends of library offer book appraisal lecture The Friends of the Wellesley College Library will offer a reception and program by Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of Boston’s Brattle Book Shop, one of the oldest and largest book shops in America. Gloss has also been appraiser on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 4:45 pm in the Library Lecture Room, Gloss will present an hour-long lecture, “Treasures in Your Attic; Old and Rare Books.” “The lecture is divided into three sections,” he said. “The first 20 minutes I talk in general about old and rare books, the second 20 minutes I take questions and answer them and the last 20 minutes I appraise to the audience a few books that are brought in. At the end I answer all questions informally and appraise all books brought to the lecture. People should be encouraged to bring books for evaluation.” Attendees are invited to bring one book for a free appraisal. Profiled in Biblio magazine, Gloss talked about the fun of scouting out old books: “New England homes are treasure troves of rare and old books. We have a strong literary tradition, and New Englanders have always owned books. And the climate, with its relatively low humidity, actually helps preserve books, so many survive in very good condition.” For more information, call x2872. upstage
presents story of love, race and class “It is a new approach to the traditional Little Mermaid tale,” said Mangrum-Willis. “It tells the story of Ti Moune, a peasant girl who falls in love with Daniel, an upperclass boy, after she saves his life from a car crash. The four gods Love (Erzulie), Water (Agwe), Earth (Asaka) and Death (Papa Ge) bring the lovers together and send Ti Moune on a journey that tests the strength of her love.” Set on a tropical island, the musical addresses issues of race and class while spinning its love story. “It is a wonderful piece that is full of dancing, singing and colorful costumes,” said the director. “The story explores some disturbing history but also takes you on a journey that shows the power of love.” The play is free for Wellesley and MIT students, $10 for regular admission and $6 for seniors and other students. For more information, call x2000. tony antonucci, senior horticulturist, and elizabeth reece, Friends of Horticulture, were featured in a Boston Sunday Herald article, “Dorm Room Cultivation 101: Students Get Lesson in Nurturing at Wellesley.” The story highlighted the Wellesley program in which first-year students each receive a plant and instructions for its care. The program helps raise awareness of the College’s greenhouses, botanic garden and arboretum while adding a homey touch to dorm rooms. adrienne asch, reproductive issues, has been quoted in the Boston Sunday Herald in a story titled “Surgery Death Fuels Debate on Cosmetics,” which examined the death during cosmetic surgery of Olivia Goldsmith, author of the book The First Wives’ Club. Asch noted that the pressure to look young can be enormous, even among those who decry standards of culture. vernon shetley, English, wrote a review, “Academe’s Embattled Groves,” in the Boston Sunday Globe on the new books Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind by Gerald Graff, Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture by Richard Ohmann and Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education by Derek Bok. “If the American university was ever an ivory tower, set apart from the world, it is so no longer,” he noted. “Nowadays, the university is the area where we choose to fight many of our social battles while we expect its laboratories to furnish us with discoveries that will keep us healthy and technologically competitive, and its sports teams to entertain us. At the same time, higher education is part of the economy, subject to the same imperatives, the same cycles of boom and bust, as other economic sectors.” imbolc. (Pagan tradition.) groundhog day. cws workshop. “Résumé Writing.” 12:30 pm, Green Hall 330. Info: x2352. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. cws info meeting. “Summer 2004 Stipend Program.” 12:30-1:30 pm, Library Lecture Room. Info: x2352. french table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Conference Room. Info: x2415. lecture. “Love, Money and Sex in the Transnational Circuit: Filipina Entertainers in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea.” Speaker: Sea-ling Cheng, Columbia University. 4:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Women’s Studies. Info: x2538. lecture/booksigning. “The Wisdom of Solitude.” Speaker: Jane Dobisz, Cambridge Zen Center. 4:30 pm, Pendleton East 239. Sponsors: Buddhist Community, Religious Life, Religion. Info: x2793. lecture. “Treasures in Your Attic; Old and Rare Books.” Speaker: Kenneth Gloss, Brattle Book Shop. 4:45 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Friends of the Library. (See story, above.) Info: x2872. unitarian universalist meeting. 5-7 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. discussion. “What Is Art and Other Questions Surrounding Mona Lisa Smile.” Speakers: Lillian Armstrong ’58 and Patricia Berman, art . 5:30 pm, Jewett Loft. (See story, above.) Info: x2042. russian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Russian Dept. Lounge, FND, 4th Floor. Info: x3549. lecture/recital. “Working Under the Influence: Schubert’s Artistic Debt to Beethoven.” Triple Helix Piano Piano Trio. 12:30-2:15 pm, Jewett Auditorium. (See story, below.) Info: x2028. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm. Billings 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. cws workshop. “Interview Skills.” 4:30 pm, Green Hall 338. Info: x2352. film. Metropolis. By Osamu Tezuka. 4:50 and 7:30 pm, Founders 120. Sponsor: Japanese. Info: x3226. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, meditation room, Lower Chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. japanese table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Severance Conference Room. Info: x4442. cws workshop. “Job Search Correspondence.” 4:30 pm, Green Hall 338. Info: x2352. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. theatre. Once on This Island. Director: Hollee Mangrum-Willis ’04. 7 pm, Barstow Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free to Wellesley/MIT students; $6, students, seniors, Wellesley faculty and staff; $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. (See story, above.) Tickets: x2000. bible study. 7-8 pm; worship services, 8-9 pm, Little Chapel. Refreshments. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. squash vs. Connecticut College. 7 pm. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2900. lecture. “Preserving Title IX: A Game All Wellesley Women Can Play.” Speaker: Donna de Varona, Women’s Sports Foundation. 7:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Athletics. (See story, above.) Info: x2015. muslim prayer. 12:45-2 pm. Little Chapel. Refreshments. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x2656. theatre. Once on This Island. Director: Hollee Mangrum-Willis ’04. 8 pm, Barstow Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free to Wellesley/MIT students; $6, students, seniors, Wellesley faculty and staff; $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. Tickets: x2000. saturday february
7 squash vs. Smith. 1 pm. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2900. theatre. Once on This Island. Once on This Island. Director: Hollee Mangrum-Willis ’04. 2 and 8 pm, Barstow Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free to Wellesley/MIT students; $6, students, seniors, Wellesley faculty and staff; $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. Tickets: x2000. nirvana day. (Buddhist tradition.) fencing. Northeast Conference Meet. 8 am. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2900. worship services. 11:15-12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Religious Life. Info: x2688. concert. “Beethoven and His Vibrant Legacy, Concert III.” Triple Helix Piano Trio with Kim Kashkashian. 7 pm, Houghton Chapel. (See story, below.) Info: x2028. theatre. Once on This Island. Director: Hollee Mangrum-Willis ’04. 8 pm, Barstow Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free to Wellesley/MIT students; $6, students, seniors, Wellesley faculty and staff; $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. Tickets: x2000. monday february 9 cws info session. “American Cities Internship.” 4:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. exhibits. Recent
Acquisitions: Contemporary Art, through Feb. 15. Dancing
Cranes,
through Feb. 15. Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Info: x2051.
don't miss... triple helix piano trio explores beethoven’s influence on schubert The Triple Helix Piano Trio, ensemble-in-residence at Wellesley College, presents its third “Beethoven and His Vibrant Legacy” concert of the season Sunday, Feb. 8, at 7 pm in Houghton Memorial Chapel. The ensemble will perform Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 1 in Op. 5, No. 1 and Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, “Spring,” and Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 99. The concert’s companion lecture-recital, Working Under the Influence: Schubert’s Artistic Debt to Beethoven, will take place Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 12:30-2:15 pm in Jewett Auditorium. For this concert and lecture-recital, the third of four during this final season of the ensemble’s three-year Beethoven festival, Triple Helix explores Beethoven’s influence on Schubert. Schubert, whose brief life overlapped with Beethoven’s, idolized the great composer. “His relationship with Beethoven was complicated,” said Triple Helix pianist Lois Shapiro, who will discuss Schubert’s connection to Beethoven in depth at the lecture-recital. “Schubert was highly original yet unabashedly appropriated Beethoven’s (and others) works as the basis for his own creative journeys.” For more information, go to www.wellesley.edu/Music/concerts.html or call 617- 744-1183.
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