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View the latest addition to Wellesley College's new video series, Wellesley Stories. As part of the College's website redesign, they've located many of their videos and other rich media on the pages called Wellesley Wire. Check it out! WCAB Board is Looking for YOUR Feedback! As our next year gets underway, we're looking for some feedback from you as to what we can do to make your membership an even more valuable asset. We'd appreciate your feedback in this short survey, which should take you about five minutes to complete. Thanks for your help in making WCAB the best it can be! Click here for more information about the ALGONQUIN CLUB. | The Center for Work and Service Needs Alumnae Mock Interviewers From the Alumnae Association:
The Center for Work and Service is recruiting alumnae to conduct mock job interviews with Wellesley College juniors and seniors during our Mock-A-Thon on Saturday, November 5 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Breakfast will be available from 8:30 - 9 a.m. and we encourage you to join us. The interviews will help students to hone their interviewing skills and practice public speaking. The interviews will be twenty minutes long followed by five to ten minutes of constructive feedback on the student's interviewing style. Alumnae will interview four to five students. If you are available to serve as an interviewer, email mhawkins@wellesley.edu. Please provide the following information in your email: company, industry, and title/function. This information will be shared with students and fellow alumnae at the event, so it is important that we collect complete and accurate information from you. We thank you in advance for your participation and willingness to assist Wellesley students. Melissa Hawkins Assistant Director, Center for Work and Service What I Did On My Summer Vacation In the spirit of the traditional school essay, we asked local alumnae to relate their summer experiences. Grace Yi-Wen Chang ’93 In 2010 and 2011, after ten years of architecture work in New York, I decided to focus on my art. I applied and was accepted for three art residency fellowships. In 2010, I went to Jentel Art Residency in Banner, Wyoming, followed by the Glen Arbor Art Association Art Residency in Glen Arbor, Michigan, (after which I stayed on for a month to work on an organic farm and to make goat cheese at the neighboring farm). In March 2011, I traveled through Europe (Rome, Sicily, the Balkans, Budapest, Vienna and Munich). From April through June 2011, I spent time in Alajärvi, Finland, on an art residency fellowship at Nelimarkka Museum with short visits to Helsinki, Tampere, Estonia, Germany, and England. Besides avidly exploring and taking in the landscape at each art residency, I created solarplate prints; monotypes, a printmaking method that yields unique one-off prints; and ventured on my first explorations into watercolor. Two important things that I learned on this amazing adventure are that I am more resourceful and resilient than I thought I was and I crave interaction with others more than I thought I did. While in Alajärvi, a new, small art project sprouted from my firsthand experience of xenophobia in this small Finnish town. In Alajärvi and in some other European cities, I was consistently aware of people staring at me, wherever I went. For this project, I baked 12 loaves of Finnish rye bread (a staple in Finland) in one night and sold them at an outdoor market in Alajärvi. I wore a local native dress to draw attention to the contrast between the ideas of local and foreign. The project invited interaction with townspeople (no one had ever approached me on the streets or anywhere else before), and allowed me to see their reactions to a foreigner making Finnish rye bread as well as their reactions to sampling and buying fresh-baked bread (all the bread at the supermarkets there are packaged, and there are no bakeries in Alajärvi). To see travel photos and examples of my art work, please see: http://www.gracechangstudio.com Amelia Gray ’03 My boyfriend, Yan, and I and our friend, Olivia, spent a week in her parents' absolutely charming old townhouse in the little town of Beaucaire on the Rhone river. The town has not only it's own Chateau, but it's own monster, the Drac! We went to a festival with live music on the quay, swam beneath a Roman aqueduct, and visited the wild horses and flamingos on the beaches in the Rhone Delta National Park, known as the Camargue. We saw tiny old stone towns perched up in the hills and hiked to an Abbey surrounded by lavender fields. We were even able to visit a Wellesley friend who happened to be vacationing outside the nearby city of Avignon, where we also saw the magnificent Palais des Papes, now a museum. I highly recommend this lovely area, and if anyone is interested, we might be able to arrange a rental for the home in Beaucaire. Next we set off for Italy, for the wedding of another Wellesley friend. We stopped on the way in Antibes, where we took in the boardwalk scene of the Cote d'Azur; in Genoa, we stumbled on a wonderful neighborhood restaurant and enjoyed some amazing pasta; and finally Riomaggiore, in the beautiful Cinqueterre national park. There we stayed at a lovely little place called the Borgo di Campi, staying in a little cabin clinging to the side of the mountain over the sea, surrounded by flowered terraces. The wedding was a tiny town in Chianti called Montegrossi, and we stayed with a big group of Wellesley friends in an apartment at an eleventh century Abbey where they make their own wine! The Abbey is called Badia a Coltibuono, and if you want to get a true taste of Tuscany, you can sample some of their delicious olive oil, found in the North End, at Salumeria. Kwan Kew ’74 For the summer I am currently volunteering at the Clinic in Nakivale Refugee Camp near the borders of Congo and Rwanda with Medical Teams International for a month. I am taking care refugees from Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Ethiopia...as well as Uganda Nationals. After that I am heading to Ethiopia to visit the tribal regions and the historical north, meeting up with my son who is a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone. My blog: http://nakivalerefugeecampkwankew.blogspot.com/ Harriet Feinberg Segal ’53 I'm spending my summer on Cape Cod, in Woods Hole, where my family has spent every summer since 1973. My three daughters and their seven children will be here for part of the time. At the moment, we have 10 adults, 5 children (2 are away at camp), 3 visitors from India, and 3 canines. It is a madhouse! At the same time, I have just released my fifth novel as an e-book. The Expatriate will be published this week and sold through the Amazon Kindle Store, Apple iStore, Barnes & Noble, and Sony, plus 20-some other e-reader vendors. This is the first time I've published a book independently for electronic readers. Eventually, it will be in print, but not for the moment. My year-round home is in Dedham, where I've been living for a little over a year. I moved from New York to NewBridge on the Charles, a senior community. There are twelve Wellesley graduates there and we meet for lunch occasionally. After all these years, it's nice being back in the Boston area, near the Wellesley campus. WCAB SPRING GATHERING FEATURING PROFESSOR SUSAN M. REVERBY
Sunday, May 22, 2011 from 2:00 - 4:00pm
Dear Boston area Wellesley alums,
I am writing to say hello and to ask for volunteers to represent Wellesley at upcoming college fairs in the Boston area this fall. Eight fairs are scheduled this fall:
One to two volunteers are needed for each fair.
If you are able to help, please send me your name, mailing address, and the fair(s) you will be able to attend. I will then send this information on to Caryn Wood at Wellesley, who will register you for each fair and send a college fair packet to you. Thank you for representing Wellesley at these important events!
Best regards, Cynthia Carlson Beckham ‘79
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