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REUNION 2017

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, May 26 – Sunday, May 28

FRIDAY, MAY 26

10:00am Registration and Dorms Open – Campus Center

Be sure to visit Campus Center to pick up your registration packet when you arrive!

12:00pm – 1:30pm Welcome Lunch – Wyndham Terrace and Lawn

Kick off Reunion 2017 with an outdoor lunch on Wyndham Terrace and Lawn

1:00pm – 5:00pm ***SOLD OUT*** Barnes Museum Self-Guided Tour – Bus leaves from Pem Arch

promptly at 1:00pm

Begin with a 30-minute introduction to the collection and Dr. Barnes’s displays before taking a self-guided

tour through the world-class art collection of The Barnes Foundation, located in Philadelphia. Limited

space is available and tickets are reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis via reunion registration, so

please register early if you are interested in attending. Supplemental fee applies. This event is now sold

out. To add your name to the wait list, please call the Alumnae/i Relations front desk at 610-526-5227.

1:00pm –2:00pm “Evolving Cities – Physically, Socially, Culturally” panel discussion featuring Alice Rivlin

’52, Dan Rose, and BMC Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Jeffrey Cohen –

Dalton 300

This riveting panel discussion, sponsored by the Class of 1952, is open to all reunion attendees and guests.

Please note that this event will be video and audio recorded.

Alice Rivlin ’52 is a senior fellow in Economic Studies and the Center for Health Policy. Rivlin,

an expert in monetary, fiscal and health policy, served as Director of the Office Management

and Budget (OMB) in the first Clinton Administration (1993-96) and Vice Chair of the Federal

Reserve Board (1996-1999). She was the Founding Director of the Congressional Budget

Office (1975-83) and served as chair of the District of Columbia Financial Management and

Assistance Authority (1998-2001). She was director of the Economic Studies Program at

Brookings (1983-87). She also served at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as

Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (1968-69). She is currently a visiting

professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown.

In 2010, Ms. Rivlin was named by President Obama to the Commission on Fiscal

Responsibility and Reform and also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the

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Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Debt Reduction.

Ms. Rivlin received the Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policyfrom the National Association

of Business Economics (2015) and the President’s Medal from Indiana University). In 2015 she also received the

Leadership Award from the Economic Club of New York. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship in

1983 and the Moynihan Prize in 2008. She was named one of the greatest public servants of the last 25 years by the

Council for Excellence in Government in 2008. In 2013 she is received Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding

Achievements in Social Insurance from the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has taught at Harvard, George

Mason, and The New School Universities. She has served on the boards of directors of several corporations, and as

president of the American Economic Association.

Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates, Inc., a New York-based 89-year old real estate

organization, has pursued a career involving a broad range of professional, civic and non-

profit activities. Professionally, he has developed such properties as the award-winning

Pentagon City complex in Arlington, VA and the One Financial Center office tower in

Boston, MA. As an institutional consultant, his credits include the creation and

implementation of the “housing for the performing arts” concept for New York’s

Manhattan Plaza.

Winner of a number of national Cicero Speechwriting Awards, he has been awarded

Honorary Doctorates In Humane Letters, Engineering and in Science; and he has been

elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A volume of his talks,

Making A Living, Making A Life, was designated by the Kirkus Review as a 2015 “Book of

the Year.” Mr. Rose has served as “Expert Advisor” to The Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

Development and as “Expert/Consultant” to the Commissioner of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education

and Welfare; and he has served on a number of New York State and City of New York panels and advisory boards on

taxation, housing and economic development.

Mr. Rose has served with distinction on many charitable Boards and has received many professional, academic and

civic awards, including the NYC Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture and the Association of Fundraising

Professionals designation as Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year.

2:00pm – 3:00pm Mindfulness and Spirituality panel discussion featuring Liana Donahue ’12, Ekaterina

Vlasova ’15, Jessica Winslow ’77, and BMC Professor of Chemistry Michelle Francl –

Thomas 110

Liana Donahue '12 is a certified Usui and Shamanic Reiki Practitioner that has studied

under Margarita Alcantara and Jonathan Hammond. Liana utilizes breath work and

sound healing in her private practice to silence the mind and induce a transcendent

state in her clients. Liana’s journey to spirituality was guided by sacred journeys with

the Santo Daime Church and Peruvian shamans. She has led private and public events in

New York City, such as monthly Women's Circles at World Yoga Center, and recently a

Meditation & Self-Care Workshop for teens at the Schomburg Center's Black Lives

Matter Youth Conference. Liana is passionate about bringing mindfulness practices to

people of all ages and backgrounds. You can learn more about her work at

www.liananaima.com

Ekaterina (Katia) Vlasova ’15 is a former Thomas J. Watson fellow (2015-2016) who

studied healing practices which focus on the mind-body connection over the course of

her Watson year in Germany, India, Thailand, Japan, and Peru. During her journey, she

learned about, experienced, and practiced Ayurveda, Ashtanga yoga, Reiki, mindfulness

meditation, community healing programs, traditional Thai massage, acupuncture, and

traditional Shipibo Shamanic healing rituals. Currently, Katia is a healthcare innovation

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fellow with the Health for America Fellowship at MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. and plans to defer her

matriculation into Thomas Jefferson University’s medical school to pursue an additional year of independent research

and apprenticeship with Shamanic healers in Peru.

Jessica Winslow ’77 has practiced Buddhism for the past 25 years and is a student

of the Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, a Tibetan Kagyu lama. After successful careers

in the high-tech and government sectors in New Jersey and Texas, she now works

with non-profits, including roles as director of a large urban meditation center and

board chair of Austin’s Sustainable Food Center. For over 10 years she has taught

Buddhist meditation to inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice

system. She also developed curriculum and led classes in contemplative

photography for incarcerated youth. Jessica was an instructor in English as a

Second Language to adult immigrant communities. Her graduate degrees are in City and Regional Planning from

Rutgers University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Michelle Francl, Ph.D. is professor of chemistry at the College, where she has been

on the faculty for more than three decades, and a scholar at the Vatican

Observatory. She is a theoretical chemist, interested in the structures of molecules

that break the rules, and a writer interested in the intersection between science

and culture and in the contemplative life. Her essays on science, culture and policy

have appeared in the journal Nature Chemistry, in Slate magazine and Distillations,

as well as in several print collections, most recently, The Oxford Companion to

Sugar and Sweets. Michelle's reflections on living a contemplative life in the midst

of the everyday chaos can be found in a number of print and online venues; a book

of her essays, Not By Bread Alone, is due out this fall from Liturgical Press.

2:00pm – 3:30pm Step Sing Rehearsal – Goodhart Music Room

Class songmistresses should attend this rehearsal led by the head songmistresses to prepare for Friday

night’s Step Sing. All alumnae/i and guests are welcome to attend this open rehearsal.

2:00pm – 5:30pm Taylor Society Coffee Kiosk – Campus Center lawn

Stop by the Taylor Society’s Coffee Kiosk on Merion Green outside of the Campus Center for a

complimentary beverage. You’ll get the energy you need to traverse our 40-acre campus, generously

donated by Dr. Joseph Wright Taylor in 1878. The Taylor Society honors and recognizes alumnae/i and

friends who have created a future gift for Bryn Mawr by establishing bequests, trusts, gift annuities, and

other planned gifts.

2:30pm – 3:30pm 1962 Step Sing Rehearsal – Goodhart Common Room

Members of the Class of 1962 are encouraged to attend this step sing rehearsal to practice their original

song, which will be performed in Friday night’s Step Sing.

2:30pm – 3:30pm “Black at Bryn Mawr” Walking Tour – Meet in Enid Cook ’31 Center Courtyard

Building on the important work done by the project’s co-founders, the current Black at Bryn Mawr

Student Archivist has updated the original walking tour to include new sites and stories, drawn from

research in the College Archives as well as in-person discussions with community members. The tour

highlights sites of racial conflict and conversation on campus in order to illuminate the experiences of

Black students, faculty, and staff at Bryn Mawr from 1885 to the present.

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3:00pm – 4:00pm Aging and Retirement panel discussion featuring Marie Bernard ’72, Jennifer W.

Campbell, Ph.D., GSSWSR, and Patricia Rizzo ’77 – Dalton 300

Marie Bernard ’72 is the Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the

National Institutes of Health, serving as the principal advisor to the NIA director,

working closely with the director in overseeing over $1.5 billion in aging research

conducted and supported by the Institute annually. She co-chairs two Department of

Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 objectives: 1) Older Adults, and 2)

Dementias, including Alzheimer’s Disease. Within NIH, she co-chairs the Inclusion

Governance Committee of the Extramural Activities Working Group, chairs the Women

of Color Committee of the trans-NIH Women in Biomedical Careers Working Group,

and serves on the Diversity Working Group.

Until October 2008, she was the endowed professor and founding chairman of the

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Oklahoma

College of Medicine, and associate chief of staff for geriatrics and extended care at the

Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She has held numerous national leadership roles, including chair of

the Clinical Medicine Section of the Gerontological Society of America, chair of the Department of Veterans Affairs

National Research Advisory Committee, board member of the American Geriatrics Society, president of the

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and president of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic

Programs. She has lectured and published widely in her area of research, nutrition and function in older populations,

and on issues related to geriatric education. She has been recognized for her leadership in geriatrics; in 2013, she

received the Clark A. Tibbits Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and in 2014 was

awared the Donald P. Kent Award by the Gerontological Society of America.

Dr. Bernard received her undergraduate education at Bryn Mawr College and her M.D. from University of

Pennsylvania. She trained in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital, where she also served as chief resident.

She has received additional training through the AAMC Health Services Research Institute, the Geriatric Education

Center of Pennsylvania, and the Wharton School Executive Development program.

Jennifer W. Campbell, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College AAEB Representative, GSSWSR,

Jenny holds a Ph.D. in Social Work and Social Research from Bryn Mawr College, as

well as a Master’s degree in Social Work from the State University of New York at

Stony Brook and a Master’s in Education and Gerontology from the University of

Michigan at Ann Arbor. She completed her undergraduate work at Sarah

Lawrence College. A 35-year professional advocate for older adults, Campbell has

led the evaluation of numerous aging-demonstration programs, including ones

funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Atlantic

Philanthropies, the Administration on Aging, The Pfizer Foundation and Margaret

A. Cargill Foundation. She is currently evaluating projects that help regions

become more age-friendly. After Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Campbell served as the Director of the Hurricane Fund for the

Elderly, an initiative of Grantmakers In Aging (GIA). The Fund was a vehicle for directing philanthropic dollars to

reestablishing the older adult services system after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Dr. Campbell is a lecturer at Bryn Mawr

College’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and she also consults for nonprofit organizations.

Patricia L. Rizzo ‘77 is an attorney with the law firm of Imperatrice, Amarant & Bell,

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Following her graduation from Temple University

School of Law, she completed a clerkship with Hon. Alex Bonavitacola, Philadelphia

County Court of Common Pleas, and worked at firms in and around Philadelphia

doing medical malpractice litigation and handling fiduciary matters. She formerly

worked as an attorney for SeniorLAW Center in Philadelphia, a legal services agency

for low-income seniors, directing its program which provided fiduciary services.

Following that, she was the manager of the unit at Philadelphia Corporation for Aging

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which handled guardianships and other fiduciary litigation. After obtaining an M.A.in Religious Studies from Villanova

University, Pat began teaching the law component in the Master of Science in Church Management program at the

Villanova School of Business. This program is designed to equip professionals who work in churches with the special

business skills needed for their work in ministry. She also serves as a board member of the Delaware County Literacy

Council.

3:30pm – 4:15pm 1967 Step Sing Rehearsal – 1967 Hospitality Suite, Rhoads Living Room

Members of the Class of 1967 are encouraged to attend this step sing rehearsal to practice their original

song, which will be performed in Friday night’s Step Sing.

3:30pm – 4:30pm Campus Grounds Horticulture and Landscape Tour – Meet at Benham Gateway Porch

Dawn DiGiovanni, Associate Director of Facilities for Grounds, will lead a vigorous walking tour of the core

campus. Learn about our inventory of more than 3,000 trees and the challenges the College faces in

providing long-term health and ultimate replacement. Visit the numerous gardens on campus, the

labyrinth, and the pond affectionately known as “Lake Vickers.” The tour will traverse our many hills and

stairs, so be sure to wear comfortable footwear. Subject to cancellation in the event of rain.

3:30pm – 5:30pm “Mirrors & Masks: Reflections and Constructions of the Self” Student-led Tours –

Canaday Library, Rare Book Room

Student curators in a recent 360 course cluster produced the current exhibition in the Rare Book Room.

The exhibition and accompanying student-authored catalogue considers the role of mirrors, masks,

makeup, and masquerade in expressions of the self across the centuries and cultures represented in the

College's Art & Artifacts Collection. Student curators are available to guide your visit of the exhibition.

4:00pm – 5:00pm “Education: Fostering Social Responsibility in the ‘Post-Fact’ Era” panel discussion,

moderated by Dean of the Undergraduate College, Jennifer Walters, and featuring

Jennifer Brown ’82, Gabrielle Farrell ’12, and Barbara Powell ’62 –Thomas 110

Jennifer Brown ‘82 is Dean and Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law.

After law school at the University of Illinois, she clerked for the Hon. Harold A. Baker,

U.S. District Court, and then practiced law in litigation at Winston & Strawn in Chicago.

Jennifer entered legal academe as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago, taught

at Emory Law School from 1990-1994, and then joined the Quinnipiac Faculty in 1994.

From 1997 until she became dean, Brown also served as Director of Quinnipiac’s Center

on Dispute Resolution. Jennifer has been a visiting law professor at the University of

Illinois, Georgetown, and Harvard, and for several years she served as a visiting lecturer

and senior research scholar at Yale Law School. Her writing focuses on alternative

dispute resolution, LGBT legal issues, and lawyers' professional responsibility. Until the

organization fulfilled its mission and happily went out of business, Jennifer served as

Secretary on the Board of Directors for Freedom to Marry.

Gabrielle Marie Farrell ’12 currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Boston Public

Schools in Boston, Massachusetts. In this capacity, she advises the Chief of Staff on key

issues and helps the Superintendent execute his vision for the district and its nearly

57,000 children and families. Immediately prior, Gabrielle served in the Office of

Boston's Mayor, Martin J. Walsh, as one of his press secretaries, where she advised him

on communications and managed social media and media relations. Before her time in

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Mayor Walsh's office, she served as a communications associate at Project Bread, Massachusetts' anti-hunger, non-

profit organization.

Before her communications career, Gabrielle received her B.A. in French and Political Science from Bryn Mawr

College, where she was a Posse scholar and an M.S. in Corporate and Organizational Communication from

Northeastern University. She is also a graduate Harvard University's Crimson Summer Academy, which taps local high-

achieving, economically disadvantaged students, from Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, to study at Harvard each

summer.

Barbara Schieffelin Powell ‘62 is an international consultant in curriculum

development, teacher education and evaluation. She has evaluated start-up arts

programs such as Yo-yo Ma’s Silk Road Connect, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s

program to bring Shakespeare to incarcerated girls, and a Young Audiences

program in which severely disabled and able-bodied students collaborate in art and

music. She has worked on several curriculum development and teacher education

projects from The Role of Women in American Society to Exploring Humanitarian

Law. She developed the teacher education program for Exploring Humanitarian

Law, a worldwide curriculum for youth ages 13-18, designed by the Education

Development Center and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Translated

into 19 languages, EHL has taken her to Jamaica, Thailand, Morocco and Malaysia. As a researcher she has studied

high school change for the Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University; Teach for America’s summer training

institute; and teaching for understanding in schools. Previously she taught secondary school English and history in

Malawi and the United States. She recently helped The Fabindia School, a pre K-12 school in rural India, move from

“by hearting” to teaching for understanding. After service as head of school at Dana Hall in Wellesley, MA, she taught

at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is co-

author of Looking Together at Student Work (third edition, 2015). She received her BA from Bryn Mawr and an MAT

and Ed.D from Harvard University.

Dean of the Undergraduate College Jennifer Walters arrived at Bryn Mawr from Smith

College, where she was Associate Dean of Community Life, Dean of Religious Life, and

co-director of the Women’s Narratives Project. Her first job after college was cleaning

exam rooms at a Boston health center. She left the center six years later as the Director

of Community Services, a department she created. (You never know where a first job will

lead you.)

She studied philosophy at Michigan State University and theology at the Episcopal

Divinity School, sparking an interest in social ethics and conflict mediation. Dean Walters

has served as the Ombudsperson for the University of Michigan and co-taught courses

there in health education and inter-group dialogue. She likes to get outdoors to hike,

snowshoe, or row. She is always open to an invitation to play a game of Scrabble.

4:30pm – 6:00pm 1982 Bi-Co Social and Welcome Drinks - Meet by the arch between Magill Library,

Chase Hall, and the Infirmary, Haverford College (rain site: Sharpless Rotunda)

All members of the Class of 1982 and their guests are invited to a Bi-Co social at Haverford with the

Haverford Class of 1982, followed by dinner on Founders Green.

5:30pm – 6:30pm Opening Reception – Pembroke East Green (rain site: Merion Green tents)

Celebrate the start of reunion weekend with beverages and light bites.

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5:30pm – 6:30pm Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting and Gathering – Thomas, London Room

6:00pm – 8:00pm 1967 50th Reunion Cocktails and Dinner with President Cassidy – Wyndham, Main

Dining Room

The Class of 1967 and their guests are invited for cocktails and dinner with President Kim Cassidy in honor

of their milestone 50th

reunion.

6:00pm – 8:00pm 1982 Bi-Co Dinner – Founders Green, Haverford College

The Haverford College Class of 1982 cordially invites the Bryn Mawr College Class of 1982 to dinner on

Founders Green at Haverford.

6:30pm – 8:00pm 1942 & 1947 Dinner – Wyndham, Breakfast Room

6:30pm – 8:00pm 1952 Dinner with honored guest Mary Patterson McPherson – Wyndham, Ely Room

6:30pm – 8:00pm 1972 Bi-Co Dinner – Merion Green Tents

6:30pm – 8:00pm All-Class Dinner – Merion Green tents

1957, 1962, 1977, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, & Guests

9:00pm – 10:30pm Reunion Step Sing – Taylor Steps

This special Reunion Step Sing celebrates a favorite Bryn Mawr tradition. Please bring your lantern.

10:30pm – 11:30pm Comedy Hour with Lauren Faber ’07, Eman El-Husseini, and Jess Salomon – Goodhart

Teaching Theater

All classes welcome!

In first grade, Lauren Faber ‘07 wrote that she wanted to be a stand-up

comedian when she grew up. Now she's all grown up and living the dream!

Lauren has yet to learn that you can make things up on stage, so get ready for

some unadulterated truth about her misadventures as a lesbian globetrotter

trying to get a date and save the world. When she isn't on stage, Lauren works

at a university with a justly reviled basketball team in Durham, NC doing all the

boring stuff so a brilliant economist can actually save the world.

In 2016 Lauren won the She-Devil Comedy Competition in NYC and the title of

Carolina's Funniest Comic in a competition hosted by Chapel Hill, NC's DSI

Comedy Theater and Greenville, SC's Alchemy Comedy Theater. Lauren has performed in festivals across the country

including the Hell Yes Fest, Cinder Block Comedy Festival, NC Comedy Arts Festival, Cape Fear Comedy Festival,

Scruffy City Comedy Festival, Charm City Comedy Festival (as headliner), and Highlarious Comedy Festival. Lauren has

featured for Chris Kattan and Chad Daniels, emceed for Godfrey and Jim Breuer, and appeared with Maria Bamford

on WUNC's the State of Things.

10:30pm – 12:00am All Class Bi-Co Party – Goodhart Music Room

Join returning Fords for a casual and relaxing get-together. All classes welcome.

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SATURDAY, MAY 27

7:00am – 9:30am Breakfast – New Dorm and Erdman Dining Halls

1942-1972 – New Dorm Dining Hall

1977-2012 – Erdman Dining Hall

Director of Alumnae Career Programs, Cori Ashworth, will be available for informal career counseling from

8:00am – 9:30am in the Erdman Dining Hall.

7:30am – 8:30am Indoor Cycling - Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center

8:00am – 9:00am “Black at Bryn Mawr” Walking Tour - Meet in Enid Cook ’31 Center Courtyard

Please see description on Page 3. This tour will end at Perry Garden for the dedication beginning at

9:00am.

8:00am – 10:30am Taylor Society Coffee Kiosk – Campus Center lawn

Please see description on page 2.

8:30am – 12:30pm Kids’ Camp Session I – Phebe Anna Thorne School

Led by camp director, Danielle Trucksess, and supported by a team of Bryn Mawr students, our Kids’

Camp sessions include games, arts and crafts, and snacks. While we do our best to accommodate all

requests, space is limited. Please book in advance. Supplemental fee applies.

8:45am – 10:00am Special Collections Showcase featuring Jessica Todd Harper ‘97 – Canaday Library,

Rare Book Room

Representatives from Special Collections demonstrate some of the ways they incorporate the College's

art, rare book, and archival collections into the new museum studies curriculum. One recent 360 course

cluster used the theme of mirrors and masks to curate an exhibition from across collections materials. See

their exhibition and hear from one of the exhibited artists, Jessica Todd Harper (Class of 1997) about her

art-making practices.

Jessica Todd Harper’s painterly, otherworldly photographs of family have won

praise from sources as varied as Oprah Magazine, CNN, The New Yorker, Book

Forum and the NY Photo Festival. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and

The National Portrait Gallery in London both name her as one of the best portrait

artists of her time. Her two books, the sold out Interior Exposure (Damiani 2008)

and her latest book The Home Stage (Damiani 2014) were both first place

prizewinners in the International Photography Awards. Harper received her BA in

THE BRYN MAWR FUND

Make a special gift to The Bryn Mawr Fund in honor of your Reunion. Gifts to The Bryn Mawr Fund count in Defy Expectation, the Campaign for

Bryn Mawr, and support every aspect of the student experience and the opportunities that make a Bryn Mawr education fulfilling and

transformative. Gifts to The Bryn Mawr Fund ensure that the College remains a strong and vibrant institution for today’s students and for

future generations.

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history of art from Bryn Mawr College and her MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She

has taught at The ICP, Haverford College and Swarthmore College and is widely collected and exhibited. Harper is

represented by Rick Wester Fine Art in New York and Galerie Confluence in Nantes, France.

8:45am – 10:00am Yoga - Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center

9:00am – 10:00am Campus Grounds Horticulture and Landscape Tour – Meet at Benham Gateway Porch

Please see description on Page 3.

9:00am – 10:00am Perry Garden Dedication – Perry Garden

Join us for the dedication of Perry Garden, established in honor of the former Perry House and the

generations of students of color who created, experienced, and sustained Perry House as a source of

sanctuary, inspiration, friendship, strength, resilience and hope.

10:00am – 11:00am State of the College with President Cassidy – McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart Hall

11:00am – 12:30pm Class Meetings – Various Locations

All alumnae/i celebrating a reunion year will gather with their classmates for meetings, discussions, and

class elections. All class meetings take place in class hospitality suites unless noted below:

1952 Eva Jane Romaine Coombe ’52 Special Collections Suite, Canaday Library

1957 Goodhart Common Room

1962 Quita Woodward Room

1967 Goodhart Music Room

12:30pm – 2:30pm Reunion Lunchtime Celebration – Merion Green tents

Gather on Merion Green for our annual reunion barbecue, complete with entertainment, games, and

activities for all ages, including a family fun zone.

2:30pm – 3:30pm Alumnae/i Travelers Gathering – Dalton 212E

Have you participated in one of the many trips organized by the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association Travel

Program? Or are you interested in learning more about one of our upcoming trips? Join fellow alumnae/i

travelers to share travel stories, photos, and experiences.

2:30pm – 3:30pm GOLD Kickball Game – Applebee Field

The Classes of 2007 and 2012 face off in an epic GOLD showdown!

2:30pm – 4:00pm Alumnae/i Authors Celebration – Bryn Mawr Bookshop, Campus Center

Join distinguished Bryn Mawr alumnae/i authors for brief presentations of their latest work and an

opportunity for one-on-one discussion. Featured alumnae/i authors to be announced!

2:30pm – 5:30pm Kids’ Camp Session II – Phebe Anna Thorne School

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See description on Page 5.

3:00pm – 4:00pm “Defy Expectation: Breaking the Glass Ceiling” with an introduction by Denise Hurley

’82 and featuring Fay Donohue ’72, Nancy Gellman ’67, Barbara Paul Robinson ’62,

and Natica von Althann ‘72 – Thomas Great Hall

This dynamic panel of alumnae will discuss their experiences working in historically male-dominated

businesses and professions. They will discuss their experiences in attempting to break the glass ceiling

and the perception of women in leadership positions. Our panelists will also explore ways that women

can help each other thrive in the work place.

Fay Donohue ‘72 is a 2017 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. Until her

recent retirement, Fay Donohue served as C.E.O. of Delta Dental of

Massachusetts/DentaQuest. DentaQuest is an oral health enterprise providing dental

benefits to 24 million people and direct dental care in 16 clinics in Alabama and Texas.

She serves as chair of the National Institute of Children’s Health Care Quality and is on

the boards of the Commonwealth Institute and Thrive Pediatric Home Care, and is a

Governor’s appointee on the Oversight Council of the Center for Health Information and

Analytics (CHIA). Prior Board service includes chair of the Massachusetts Taxpayers

Foundation, board member of American Dental Partners (ADPI), BMC Healthnet, and

Operation Able.

Ms. Donohue has received the Boston College Distinguished Alumna Award, the National

Association of Dental Plans Gabriel Award, is a Boston Academy of Women Achievers

inductee, and has been listed as one of the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts. She holds an MBA from

Boston College, a master’s degree from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a bachelor’s

degree from Bryn Mawr College.

Nancy Gellman ’67 is one of the founders of Conrad O'Brien, a law firm in Philadelphia,

PA specializing in trial and appellate practice. She serves as the firm’s Vice Chair. Nancy

has extensive experience representing clients across a broad array of subject matters

including complex commercial cases, insurance coverage claims, antitrust, professional

liability and employment litigation. Nancy is a Fellow of the American College of Trial

Lawyers and is the current Chair of the Pennsylvania State Committee. She is also a

Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Law Institute, the

Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association, and the Law School Board of

the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She is a past president of the

American Civil Liberties Union Greater Philadelphia Chapter and currently a member of

its Board of Directors. Nancy has served as an Adjunct Professor in Temple University

Law School’s LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Program and at the University of Pennsylvania Law

School where she taught appellate advocacy. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and studied at the London

School of Economics on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Barbara Paul Robinson ’62 was the first woman partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, the

first woman President of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. As head of

the firm’s Trusts & Estates practice, she advised several major private foundations and

Universities and provided tax and financial planning to individual clients. Ms. Robinson

joined Debevoise in 1966 and became a partner in 1976. In 1967, Ms. Robinson broke

new ground by establishing the Debevoise flex-time program for child-rearing attorneys,

one of the first of its kind in New York City.

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She currently serves on the boards of the John A. Hartford Foundation, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, Uphill

Foundation, Panaphil Foundation, the American Friends of the British Museum and Wave Hill and is Trustee Emeritus

of Bryn Mawr College. She was Treasurer and board member of Catalyst, Inc., (now an honorary director), President

of the Board of Trustees of The Trinity School, Chair of the board of the Foundation for Child Development, on the

Mayors’ Commission on Women’s Issues as well as on several other non-profit organizations and foundations. Her

awards include The American Lawyer 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laura Parsons Pratt Award of the

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Partnership Award by Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A.

Ms. Robinson was a member of the Yale University Council and President of the Yale Law School Association of New

York. She received her A.B. magna cum laude with honors from Bryn Mawr College in 1962 and her J.D. from Yale Law

School in 1965, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Natica von Althann ’72 is the founding partner of C&A Advisors and a former financial

executive at Bank of America and Citigroup. Ms. von Althann is a Director of PPL

Corporation, one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the U.S. with approximately

18,000 megawatts of power generation and is a Director of TD Bank US Holding Company

and its two bank subsidiaries, TD Bank, N.A. and TD Bank USA, N.A. She was a founding

partner of C&A Advisors, a consulting firm for financial services and risk management from

2009 to 2013, following her retirement in 2008 as the Senior Credit Risk Management

Executive for Bank of America and Chief Credit Officer of U.S. Trust, an investment

management company owned by Bank of America. Previously she spent 26 years with

Citigroup in various leadership roles, including Division Executive - Latin America for the

Citigroup Private Bank, Managing Director and Global Retail Industry Head, and Managing

Director and co-head of the U.S. Telecommunications – Technology group for Citicorp

Securities. Ms. von Althann provides executive leadership experience in finance and risk

management including exposure to the banking and utility sectors.

3:30pm – 4:30pm LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group Gathering – Quita Woodward Room

3:30pm – 4:30pm Alumnae/i of Color Gathering – Enid Cook ’31 Center Library

3:30pm – 5:00pm Coffee with Cori – Dalton 212A

Do you have a career question or two to discuss while you’re here? Join Director for Alumnae Career

Programs, Cori Ashworth, and fellow alumnae/i for coffee, tea, and good discussion. Questions at past

“Coffee with Cori” events have been wide-ranging, from young alumnae/i reflecting on the next job to

mid-career alumnae/i considering new ways to work or volunteer. Drop by and join in on the

conversation!

4:15pm – 4:45pm 1962 Memorial Gathering – Jane Hess Flanders Poetry Nook (in the event of inclement

weather or severe heat, 1962 will gather in Goodhart Common Room)

4:30pm – 5:30pm President’s Reception for Slade and Taylor Societies – Goodhart Teaching Theater and

Atrium

In recognition of their support, Slade and Taylor Society members are invited to join President Cassidy for

a special reception at reunion. Membership in the Slade Society, Bryn Mawr’s leadership giving circle,

begins with an annual gift of $2,500 or more. For GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade), Slade

membership equals the number of years since graduation multiplied by $100. The Taylor Society honors

and recognizes alumnae/i and friends who have created a future gift for Bryn Mawr by establishing

bequests, trusts, gift annuities, and other planned gifts.

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4:30pm – 5:30pm 1967 50th Reunion Bi-Co Gathering – Cope Field & Cricket Pavilion, Haverford College

5:30pm – 7:00pm Bryn Mawr Beer Garden – Location TBA

Sample a variety of beer from local craft brewery, Sly Fox, while mixing and mingling alongside classmates

and friends.

5:30pm – 7:00pm 1977 Bi-Co Happy Hour– Enid Cook Center Community Center & Courtyard

The Bryn Mawr College Class of 1977 cordially invites Haverford College Class of 1977 for an informal

happy hour hosted in their class hospitality suite.

5:30pm – 7:00pm 1942 & 1947 Champagne Toast – Wyndham Terrace

5:30pm – 7:00pm Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting and Gathering – Thomas, London Room

6:30pm – 10:00pm Kids’ Camp Session III – Phebe Anna Thorne School

See description on Page 5.

7:00pm – 8:30pm 1992 25th Reunion Dinner with President Cassidy – Rhoads, Dining Hall

The Class of 1992 and their guests are invited for dinner with President Kim Cassidy in honor of their

milestone 25th

reunion.

7:00pm – 8:30pm Dinner – Merion Green tents

1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, & Guests

7:00pm – 8:30pm Dinner – Wyndham, Various Locations

1942 & 1947 Breakfast Room

1952 Private Dining Room

1957 Ely Room

1962 Main Dining Room

7:00pm – 8:30pm 1972 Private Dinner – Dorothy Vernon Room, New Dorm Dining Hall

7:00pm – 8:30pm 1977 Bi-Co Dinner – Merion Green tents

7:00pm – 8:30pm 1982 Bi-Co Dinner – Merion Green tents

7:00pm – 8:30pm 1987 Private Dinner with honored guest Dean Jennifer Walters – Cloisters

7:00pm – 9:00pm 1967 Private Dinner – Hosted by Beverly Lange ’67

Members of the Class of 1967 and their guests are invited to a 50th reunion dinner at the home of Beverly

Lange ’67. Transportation to and from campus will be provided. Directions are available upon request.

7:00pm – 10:30pm Teen Pizza Party & Movie Night – Campus Center Main Lounge

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Teens ages 13-17 are invited to mix and mingle for a casual pizza party followed by a screening of

“Jurassic World.” The movie will begin screening at 8:30pm.

8:30pm – 10:30pm Screening of “The Philadelphia Story” – Location TBA

This classic film, starring Katharine Hepburn ’28 and Cary Grant, is a May Day tradition.

8:30pm – 10:30pm Dance Party – Goodhart Teaching Theater

Back by popular demand, the Dance Party caps off a full day of celebrating with your classmates! Dance

the night away alongside alumnae/i of all ages.

9:00pm – 10:00pm GOLD Quizzo Tournament – Goodhart Music Room

Test your Bryn Mawr trivia skills and find out which GOLD class walks away with Reunion Quizzo bragging

rights. Alumnae/i from the Class of 2007 and the Class of 2012 and their guests are welcome.

SUNDAY, MAY 28

7:00am – 9:00am Breakfast – Erdman and New Dorm Dining Halls

1942-1972 – New Dorm Dining Hall

1977-2012 – Erdman Dining Hall

8:00am – 9:00am 1942, 1947, 1952 Breakfast with President Cassidy – Wyndham

Members of the classes of 1942, 1947 and 1952 and their guests are invited to cap off their reunion

weekend with a special breakfast with President Kim Cassidy.

8:30am – 9:15am Meeting for Worship – Wyndham Ely Room

9:15am – 10:00am Parade of Classes – Gather on Erdman Walk

March alongside your classmates underneath Pembroke Arch and through Bryn Mawr’s beautiful campus

to the cheers of family, friends, and fellow alumnae/i.

10:00am – 11:00am Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association – Thomas Great Hall

11:00am – 11:30am Farewell Reception – Thomas lawn

Bid a farewell to your classmates, friends, and Bryn Mawr with a reception on the Thomas lawn.

12:00pm Dorms close

**Please note that events and locations are subject to change.**