May 13 Session Schedule

Begin your Reunion experience with an engaging academic program of mini-classes taught by Smith faculty.

How to register for Alumnae College

Classes are offered during two sessions on May 13 and May 20. Each session costs $50, unless otherwise noted. For full descriptions and to register, visit http://alumnae.smith.edu/cms/?events=alumnae-college-1. The luncheon and presentation following Session II on both weekends is $35. Indicate your class and luncheon selection(s) on your Reunion registration.

The Alumnae College luncheon is held at the same time as the All Reunion luncheon. Please select only one on your registration.

Check in begins at 8:30 a.m.

SESSION I
9–10:30 a.m.

Option A: Hoarding

Randy Frost, professor of psychology

Option B: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936) and Its Heritage

Patricia Skarda, Professor, English

Option C: How Poems Mean

Ellen Doré Watson, director, Poetry Center

Option D: Salvaging the Single Currency: Euro

Mahnaz Mahdavi, director, Women & Financial Independence: The Smith College Center for Financial Education

Option E: Experience in the Liberal Arts: A field trip to Smith’s Ada & Archibald MacLeish Field Station

(9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)
Reid Bertone-Johnson, field station manager and lecturer, Landscape Studies

OptIon F: The Making of Ford Hall

Thomas Litwin, director, Clark Science Center

OptIon G: “You’re History”: Women in the Archives

Susan Van Dyne, professor, Program for the Study of Women and Gender; director, Archives Concentration

OptIon H: Schooling in the 21st Century: Efforts to Close the National and Global Educational Achievement Gap

Sam Intrator, associate professor, Educa- tion and Child Study; Donald S. Siegel, professor, Exercise and Sport Studies

SESSION II
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Mini-classes in Session II are repeats of Session I

Option I: Hoarding

Option J: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936) and Its Heritage

Option K: How Poems Mean

Option L: Salvaging the Single Currency: Euro

Option M: The Making of Ford Hall

Option N: “You’re History”: Women in the Archives

Option O: Contemporary Artists’ Books

Martin Antonetti, curator, Mortimer Rare Book Room

LUNCH & PRESENTATION
12:45 p.m.

A Reporter’s View from New Delhi

Karen Russo ’96, bureau chief, Mumbai, India, American Broadcasting Company, Inc.