Magazine

The 125th Anniversary Magazine is a magazine created by the Southern California Wellesley clubs (Santa Barbara, San Diego, Pasadena, and Los Angeles) to celebrate 125 years of Wellesley in SoCal.

The book will be broken into two parts.

The first part of the magazine will be focussed on the “lost years”, 1896 to 1920, which refers to our research and discovery that the Wellesley Club of Southern California was founded in 1896--25 years earlier than the college archives documented as the club’s start in 1920.  We will include what we learned about the earliest Wellesley alums in Southern California and the historical places where they met.

The second part of the magazine will include the stories of the Wellesley alums of today who live in Southern California. We will collect stories and experiences through this Google Form.

The Google Form allows you to submit 5 different options: 

• Record Book Page
  • If it was your reunion this past June, you can submit your record book page to the magazine as well. You can also take your record book page and tailor it to talk about your Wellesley experience in Southern California.

 

• Photograph and Description 
  • You can submit a picture of something from your every day life. Examples include your favourite place to go on walks, a restaurant you always go with your family, a recipe you cook with your children, and much more. 
  • In the submission form, you will be given the option to tell us more about the image -- where it was taken? who is in the picture? why is it meaningful to you. 

 

• Fun Wellesley Q/A
  • Share more about your Wellesley experience by answering the following questions in 260 characters or less! (Yes that is the same size as a tweet!)
    • How do you first find out about Wellesley? 
    • What was your favourite class or professor at Wellesley?
    • What flavour would you endow with the rumoured ice cream fund? 
    • What brought you to Southern California? 
    • What do you love about Southern California? 
    • Tell us about your most random Wellesley encounter in SoCal? 
    • Where can we find you on weekends (now)? 

 

• Letter or Personal Essay
  • Would you like to share your Wellesley alum experience with more words? Here you can do that! Sample writing prompts include: 
    • Write a letter to your future self or to a future Wellesley alum.
    • "Gosh, if anyone had just told me THAT, I might have done things differently..." 
    • "What surprises me everyday about my life is..." 
    • How has Wellesley's "non ministrari sed ministrare" been meaningful force in your life Wellesley?
  • We request that your letter or essay does not exceed 500 words.

 

• Other (Recipes, Restaurants, Music, etc)
  • This option gives you the opportunity to share the things you love. What are your favourite restaurants in SoCal? What books do you love to read? What music or podcasts do you listen to? 
  • If you want, you are welcome to create a YouTube/Apple Music/Spotify  playlist and share the link with us! That way we can share it with the rest of the community as well!

 

If you do not want to submit anything, then select "Nothing Additional" on the Google Form. 

 

To submit today, use the following link: Google Form.

Submissions for the 125th Anniversary magazine are open to alums who are from Southern California – from Santa Barbara to San Diego. 

For now, we request you submit only once. 

While the deadline was August 1, 2021, we have extended it to Monday, September 13, 2021.

No, there will only be a digital copy of the magazine. 

The magazine will be shared with only Wellesley alums and the Wellesley College Alumnae Association.

By submitting an entry, you grant us the permission to print the information in the magazine, which will be shared with the larger Wellesley community. 

If you have any other questions or ideas of what you'd like to include in the record book, feel free to email us at SoCalWellesley125@gmail.com.