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One 1999 graduate of Smith has already
made it into the selective world of professional sports. Christina
Hobson, an athlete of note during her two years on the Smith
basketball team, has been recruited by the Women's Swiss Basketball
Federation to play on the La Chaux-de-Fonds team in the national
B level league.
Her performance as a Smith athlete
was attention-getting. Hobson set records for the most points
scored during the 1997-98 season with 502 points, and for scoring
more than 1,000 points (1,619 total) in the two years she attended
Smith after transferring here in her third year. Other honors
bestowed upon Hobson in 1998 and 1999 included being named an
Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star and being
chosen for the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
(NEWMAC) All-Conference team both years.
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On February 1, Christopher Loring assumes his new post as director
of libraries at Smith College. Until his appointment here he
was team leader of reference and consultation services with the
university libraries at the University of Minnesota, where he
was instrumental in the creation of several research software
programs and in the organization of the university's public Web
site. As head of access services, he oversaw the automation of
circulation and led a major space planning and reorganization
effort and a project to improve access to the university's extensive
periodical holdings.
Said Provost and Dean of Faculty John
Connolly, "Chris has a distinguished record of library service,
and his colleagues both in the library and in the faculty at
the University of Minnesota praise him highly. His experience,
his calm and thoughtful approach and his considerable skill as
a team builder will stand the libraries at Smith in good stead
in the months and years ahead."
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A four-day student conference was held over Thanksgiving break
on the Smith and Mount Holyoke campuses. An annual celebration
of heritage and culture, the gathering enabled Latino students
attending East Coast colleges to come together to demonstrate
their support of the Latino student community. The meeting of
the East Coast Chicana/o Student Forum, which dates to a 1972
gathering at Yale University, drew students from Amherst, Barnard,
Boston, Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Smith and Wellesley
colleges. Participating universities included Brown, Columbia,
Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Michigan, Yale and the U.S.
Naval Academy.
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A Smith professor in the Russian language and literature department
traveled this fall to Russia to deliver a lecture. Professor
Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff spoke in St. Petersburg, at the
Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of the History of Science,
on E.R. Dashkova, the only woman to ever head the prestigious
academy. Woronzoff-Dashkoff spoke about his edition of Dashkova's
autobiography, Mon Histoire: Mémoires d'une femme de lettres
à l'époque des Lumières, which was compiled
and edited with Catherine Woronzoff-Dashkoff, a lecturer in the
Russian department, and Catherine Le Gouis, an associate professor
of French at Mount Holyoke College.
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Much to the delight of many Smith seniors, actress and filmmaker
Jodie Foster has agreed to deliver the Commencement address to
the Class of 2000. She also will be an honorary degree recipient.
The other honorees are Ann Winkleman Brown '59, chairman of the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission; Judy Chicago, artist
and writer; Johnnetta B. Cole, Presidential Distinguished Professor
of Anthropology, Women's Studies and African American Studies
at Emory University; and Memphela Ramphele, vice-chancellor of
the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Commencement will
be held this year on Sunday, May 14.
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Five new members joined the Smith College Board of Trustees in
1999. They include the former president of the college's Student
Government Association, Cherilyn Cepriano '99, who is a senior
staff assistant at the National Governors' Association in Washington,
D.C.; Phoebe A. Haddon '72, professor of law at Temple University
Law School; Jane Lakes Harman '66, former U.S. congresswoman
from California's 36th District; Barbara Alden Taylor '65, executive
vice president of Edelman, Public Relations Worldwide; and James
Wei, dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science,
and the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering
and professor of chemical engineering at Princeton.
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