Upcoming Deadline for Quarterly Class Notes Submissions

Hi, Class of 1999!

Please be advised that the upcoming deadline for submissions to the Class Notes section of the Alumnae Quarterly is THURSDAY, MAY 17th. That said, if you’re interested in submitting an update to be published in the FALL 2007 ISSUE, please send in your updates to smithcollege99@gmail.com on or before that date.

Also, when composing your emails, please be careful with the use of uncommon abbreviations. It would be helpful if you were to err on the side of caution and disclose the full name corresponding with less familiar abbreviations. Thanks!

Best,
Ingrid A. Howard
Secretary, Class of 1999
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A Few Important Alumnae Quarterly Submissions Guidelines
1. The Alumnae Quarterly will not publish any references to engagements, plans for adoption, pregnancies, etc. or any references to contingent/future events. These notes will be omitted from submissions. Only events that have have already taken place will be published.

2. The Alumnae Quarterly will not publish classmates’ personal or business contact information, including website addresses, unless such information is related to official class business.

Guidelines for Submitting Photographs
1. All people in the photo must be identified by their undergraduate (and married names, if any), as well as their class year.

2. Photo submissions should include a brief caption describing the photo.

3. Should you wish to submit photographs along with your updates, they can either be sent to the smithcollege99@gmail.com address, or directly to the Smith College Alumnae Quarterly Associate Publications Editor, Cherly Dellecese, at cdellece@smith.edu.

4. The Alumnae Quarterly prefers e-mailed photos (JPEGS, ideally at 300 dpi).

Cute Squirrels and Sylvia Plath

Hello Class of '99
A few things of note this week. I didn't intend to save them all up, but it has been a crazy work week.

A few weeks back we were in Northampton for the day and stopped by the Alumnae House to check out the class locker. We are currently sharing the locker with the class of 1938. The photo is of the cute little squirrel/fish that graces our locker. Sadly, the only real thing we have in our locker is the orientation photo from first year. The class of 1938 on the other hand had some amazing scrapbooks, photo albums and banners. So I issue a call to arms. Is there anyone out there interested in being a class historian? If so, EMAIL me and lets talk!


A sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote while at Smith College, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby," has been discovered and is appearing the online literary journal, Blackbird. It was not discovered at Smith, but I think it is pretty amazing that they found previsiously unknown work. If you are ever back in Northampton and have never seen the Smith rare book room's Plath collection I would high reccommend a visit.


New York Times Article
Washington Post Article


More posts to come in the next week and have a great weekend!
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