How to get to campus
Local lodging
Parking behind the Life Science Building and pick up
parking permit at registration.
Registration
email
There is no registration fee but there will be a charge
for Sat. night dinner. If you think
you will be attending, please send an email to jbinnes@amherst.edu with your name(s)
so that we can plan for events and meals. Thanks.
Who'll be there:
we will be posting a list of participants for 2008 soon.
Seeley Mudd
Building
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SSP Reunion
Friday, April 4
Early arrivals can register at the Q Center, 202 Merrill
and are invited to:
3 pm Chemistry Department seminar with SSP Alumna Allegra Eroy-Gonzalez
01, from UC, Santa Cruz. In Merrill 4, Development of Manganese Nitrosyl
Complexes and Materials for the Light Controlled Release of Nitric Oxide.
Saturday, April 5
Note: This weekend has a number of important events going
on (a Trustee meeting and debate featuring Gen. Wesley Clark) and we will
share some events with Black Alumni weekend.
All
morning:
Registration at the Q Center (202 Merrill Science).
Breakfast: Valentine Dining Hall (7:30 10:00 am, Brunch 10:00 11:00 am)
10:00 11:00 am Breaking Barriers:
Alumni Career Panel (Fayerweather Lecture Hall)
including SSP alumna Marvalyn DeCambre.
Kimberlyn Leary Ph. D 82 Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School,
Director of Psychology and Psychology Training, Cambridge Health
Alliance, Amherst College Wade Fellow
Marissa Horne 00, Sales Operations Manager for the Northeast
District of Microsoft, Waltham, Massachusetts
Shelly Dugas-Thomas 91 Therapeutic counseling
(children and families), Mediation (family and community), Education
(training and consulting to school systems), Davidson, North Carolina
Stephen Jackson 92,
Digital Kidz, Inc., Laurel, Maryland
Marvalyn
DeCambre M.D. 91,
Pediatric Urologist, San Diego, California
11:15 a.m. - noon Arts of Africa and the
African Diaspora at Amherst
Director
and Chief Curator Elizabeth Barker will introduce the Mead's growing
collection of African art, formed with generous support from Herman Copen,
Gilbert and Roda Graham, Ambassador Ulric St. Clair Haynes '52 and Yolanda Toussaint Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Marks '56, Barry D. Maurer '59 and
Drs. James and Gladys Strain and Jamie Strain '90.
11:30 Noon Curator of European Art Carol Solomon Kiefer will discuss
the special exhibition
The Third
Space: Cultural Identity Today with two of the featured
artists: French Algerian Zoulikha Bouabdellah (artist in residence) and
Ghaniaian-German Daniel Kojo (Copeland Fellow).
12:00 Lunch and Discussion: Access and Opportunity: The Summer
Science Program a discussion of the future of Summer Science in the
Octagon.
1:15 Summer Science tour: new Earth Science Building and Natural History Museum.
3:15 A Conversation with
President Anthony W. Marx
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall
4:15 Race,
Place and Amherst: A Glimpse of Black Student Life at Amherst College from Past to Present
Moderated by Blair
Taylor '85, Amherst College trustee, with SSP alumna Stephanie
Sneed. Pruyne Lecture Hall,
Fayerweather Hall.
- Ameerah Phillips '10
- Denicia Cadena '10
- Stephanie Sneed '08
- Dionne Thomas '98
- Jean Fugett '72
6:00 pm Reception and Cocktails
6:45 pm Dinner
with Black Alumni weekend (reservation required)
Demisha
W. Lee, Associate Dean of Admissions
and
Director of Diversity Recruitment at Amherst College, Lewis-Sebring Commons
Lewis-Sebring
Dining Commons in Valentine Hall
Possible evening activities:
8 pm Senior projects in
Choreography, Kirby Theater.
10 pm Movie at Campus Center: Atonement. Keefe Campus Center Theater
Sunday,
April 6
11:00
12:30 pm Brunch
for Alumni. Location to be
decided!
1 pm Hermenia T. Gardner Bi-Semester Worship
Service (Chapin Chapel)
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