Past Events

Fourteen classmates gathered at Barbara Elden Scavullo's house in San Francisco on October 30, and they agreed that regular Bay Area minis are worth planning.

On a visit to campus in November, Linda Wyatt Gruber presented President Paula Johnson with a copy of Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea, about our Wellesley poet of “American the Beautiful.”

Melinda gave a book talk on Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea at the August 18 meeting of the UK Wellesley Alumnae Club, at the London home of an alumna.

Attention classmates near Santa Fe, New Mexico, or interested in traveling there:  plan your visit for mid-October this year. 

Margret Carde will be exhibiting her oil paintings from May 22 through June 12 at the Agora Gallery, 530 W. 25th Street, NYC.

A great group of classmates gathered at the 3 West Club in Manhattan on March 26 for Melinda Ponder's discussion of her biography, Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea.

Eleanor has been named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), in recognition of her service to the association and her contribution to group psychotherapy in general.

We've been holding biannual lunches in the fall and spring at the College Club with attendance ranging as high as 16. 

Fifty years after our own commencement, one of our classmates gave the commencement address for another Wellesley class.

Seven classmates gathered on Long Island for a visit, some cultural edification, and a few meals July 30-31 at the homes of Alice and John Tepper Marlin and Joan Barkhorn Hass.

This April, Barbara Bywater Creed, Eleanor Frey Counselman and Mary Baughman, and their husbands cruised the Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans, under the auspices of Road Scholar.

Jeanne Lindholm Palleiko hosted a lovely lunch at her house on Lake Sunapee on June 19, a wonderful way to welcome summer. 

From September 26 to October 10 Jane is leading a tour through Archaeological Tours.

From September 26 to October 10 Jane is leading a tour through Archaeological Tours.

On Tuesday, February 6th at noon, our classmate Gigi Brady Barnhill will be speaking at the Boston Athenaeum about American luminist painter and printmaker Fitz Henry Lane, the subject of her current exhibition, Drawn from Nature & On Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, at the Cape Ann Museum.
 

Ever think “America the Beautiful” should be our National Anthem? I certainly do. Come meet Melinda Ponder (Class of ’66), coordinator emerita of English and Women’s programs at Pine Manor College, who will discuss her fabulous new biography, Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea. Bates graduated from Wellesley in 1880, and went on to teach English at Wellesley. She wrote the poem that became America the Beautiful.

Melinda Ponder will be launching her biography, Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea, about our Wellesley poet of “American the Beautiful”.

On March 21st, Susan Crystal Kohn invited Boston-area Pomeroy classmates to a dinner to get together with Pam Price. 

Our class president Barbara Bywater Creed hosted a mini reunion at The Sea Ranch on the northern California coast. Five classmates enjoyed walks on the bluff over the ocean, tide pool exploration, wildlife sightings and much more! 

Remember the interviews as we first arrived at reunion--and the video made from those interviews that was shown Saturday night, with our memories and reflections about Wellesley?

I started writing our family´s history 50 years ago in Costa Rica, with the family name written in Western alphabet. I eventually visited our home town in Canton, where I discovered that the few remaining members.

The Eat, Drink and Be Merry Committee, chaired by Marji Siegel Greenberg, has been working hard to make this a memorable evening.

Three classmates from the Boston area (Sue, Susan and Susan) traveled to California for a few days of vacation and on Friday, May 4th, gathered with classmates from the west coast for lunch at One Market Restaurant in San Francisco.

July 25, 2014, was the designated date for gathering classmates from the Rocky Mountain Time Zone, specifically Colorado and New Mexico.

Libbet Dunlop Richter hosted the October 13 meeting of the Chicago Wellesley Club, at which Melinda Ponder presented a slideshow illustrating the importance of both Wellesley and Chicago in the life of Katharine Lee Bates.

In October, class and club officers attended the Alumnae Leadership Council (ALC) on campus.

Marc Tetel, holder of the Class of 1966 Associate Professorship, recently published an article in the journal Endocrinology about working at a liberal arts college as a career option for research scientists. 

Spring lunch on campus at the Wellesley College Club

On Saturday, October 13, Libbet Dunlop Richter is hosting the Chicago Wellesley Club at her home, from 2:00 to 4:00. Melinda is the featured speaker, talking about her new biography, Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea.

In remembrance of Armistice Day, Melinda Ponder will present an illustrated lecture in the Library of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.

’66 meets ’99

Anne Hanford hosted a delightful get-together

On Sunday afternoon, October 19, 2014, at the conclusion of Alumnae Leadership Council, Jeanne Lindholm Palleiko, Linda Almgren Kime, Susan Forbes Martin, and Gigi Barnhill hosted an afternoon gathering at TZE on the campus

Remember the Birthday Tables in our dorm dining rooms every month?

We met at Barbara Creed’s retirement community, The Sequoias Portola Valley, for lunch and Barbara’s program on the US Supreme Court

Eleven Bay Area classmates gathered at Ellen Varmus Bloch’s house in Berkeley on September 11 for a potluck lunch and conversation. 

Classmates from New England gathered at the Wellesley College Club on October 22 for the semi-annual lunch on-campus lunch. 

On Thursday, May 24th, a group of classmates gathered at Alice Tepper Marlin's apartment in the Chelsea section of Manhattan and then walked to the nearby Agora Gallery, to attend the opening of a a group show called "Life is But a Dream" which includes paintings by our classmate Margret Carde.
 

We are so excited that our 50^th reunion is right around the corner.  We hope everyone can come to share this unique time together.

Reunion welcomed a near-record crowd with 2,147 alums and over 1,000 family members and guests. Attendees hailed from 47 states, 22 countries, and 2 territories.

One of the most meaningful events of the 50th reunion is traditionally a memorial service in honor of classmates who have passed away.

Six classmates from Caz met in France in late September for a wonderful get-together in Paris and a cruise on a barge on the Marne.