by huntera2 | Apr 12, 2019 | Giving Back
Vera Gordon ’47 This year the High School Alumnae/i Association was the beneficiary of a very generous bequest and IRA distribution from Vera Julia Gordon ’47, who passed away last August. Vera Gordon’s gift will have a lasting impact on our...
by huntera2 | Apr 12, 2019 | Giving Back
1934-2015 The HCHS Alumnae/i Association recently received a generous bequest from the estate of Deborah Dorfman, a longtime resident of Bennington, Vermont, who passed away in 2015. Representing our largest gift to date, we are grateful to Deborah for her foresight...
by huntera2 | Mar 19, 2019 | Alum Highlights
Marie Maynard Daly, Jan. ’38 is one of five African-American women that have been commemorated for Women’s History Month with a digital portrait for their achievements in STEM. Daly was the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in...
by huntera2 | Mar 19, 2019 | Alum Highlights
Filmmakers Jonathan Bogarín ’96 and Elan Bogarín ’00 have released their family memoir, 306 Hollywood, on iTunes. The film opened nationwide to significant acclaim and was cited on over ten “Best of 2018” lists. In case you missed...
by huntera2 | Feb 1, 2019 | Giving Back
Donor Profiles section of AlumNotes Spring 2019, a feature in which we interview alums who have supported programs at the school. Our first interview is with Esther Rose’71, M.D. a physician who does research for Janssen Pharmaceuticals. AN: Why did you want to...
by huntera2 | Jan 22, 2019 | Latest Books by Alums
Susan Robeson ’71Grandpa Stops a War (Jan 22, 2019)The true story of Paul Robeson’s visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War is a tale of courage and activism told by his granddaughter, Susan Robeson. Grandpa Paul was a world-famous actor and singer...
by huntera2 | Jan 9, 2019 | Alum Highlights
Lin-Manuel Miranda ’98 grew up loving the theater from his earliest years. While a high school student at Hunter, it is reported that he spent time reading scripts in the aisles of the Drama Book Shop when he was too young to have money to buy them. Now, the Grammy,...
by huntera2 | Dec 12, 2018 | Alum Highlights
Eve KANNER Kugler, Jan. ’49 was one of several alumnae interviewed in What’s What about their experiences as children of families fleeing the Nazi regime. As a ten year old, she came to New York as a refugee from France. She was accepted into Hunter four...
by huntera2 | Jun 26, 2018 | Latest Books by Alums
An intimate portrait of women’s lives is depicted in the book My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism (Columbia University Press 2019). Nancy KIPNIS Miller ’57 writes of her close bond with three lauded feminist scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun,...
by huntera2 | Jun 21, 2018 | Latest Books by Alums
“In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain...
