by huntera2 | Jun 12, 2017 | Alum Highlights
Congratulations to Cynthia Nixon on winning a Tony award as Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes! Over 60 alums saw her performance during Reunion weekend in June 2017, and she graciously stayed after the Friday and Sunday...
by huntera2 | May 17, 2017 | Latest Books by Alums
Rafe Bartholomew has written a memoir entitled Two and Two: McSorley’s, My Dad, and Me . The book details the life and work of his father, a bartender at the famed McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan’s East Village; as well as the countless notable figures who have...
by huntera2 | Apr 18, 2017 | Latest Books by Alums
The fieldwork performed by Sheila Cosminsky has documented midwifery and birthing practices in Guatemala for over forty years. In her book, Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation (2016), she details the history, practice,...
by huntera2 | Mar 19, 2017 | Alum Highlights
Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts is an exhibition that highlights the many accomplishments of African Americans and other minorities who dared to overcome social norms and prejudices to pursue their passion and pave the way for future generations of world...
by huntera2 | Feb 28, 2017 | Alum Highlights
Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research into the fundamental properties of carbon helped transform it into the superstar of modern materials science and the nanotechnology industry, died on Monday in...
by huntera2 | Oct 28, 2016 | Alum Highlights
This Girl Scout from Flushing has a bright future ahead of her.Janice Wang ’17, was named the citywide 2016-17 Future Woman of Distinction by The Girl Scouts of Greater New York (GSGNY) on Oct. 25 at the organization’s annual Women of Distinction Breakfast in...
by huntera2 | Oct 25, 2016 | Alum Highlights
When Candace Nelson opened the first Sprinkles bakery in Los Angeles in 2005, she did not actually have any sprinkles on hand. “I liked the word, but I thought of them as a supermarket pick, waxy and fake,” she said. “Not elegant, chic and modern.”Rainbow sprinkles...
by huntera2 | Oct 12, 2016 | Alum Highlights
Deborah Tannen ’62 is a linguistics professor at Georgetown University and author of “You Just Don’t Understand” and “The Argument Culture.”Interruptions are a staple of modern-day political debates, as we saw in the first presidential and the vice-presidential...
by huntera2 | Oct 8, 2016 | Alum Highlights
“Hamilton” creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda will host an episode of “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 8, NBC announced Wednesday. To read rest of article CLICK HERE
by huntera2 | Oct 6, 2016 | Alum Highlights
Who is Ripley?Ripley is my 8 year old golden retriever. He’s a dog. Canus Lupus Familiaris. But he’s much more than that. The cliche of a dog as “man’s best friend” is overused. So I won’t say that’s what he is. In fact,...
