Three of the Smith women featured in Vanity Fair's "200 Legends, Leaders and Trailblazers" were on campus for trustee meetings in October. They include President Ruth Simmons, Ogilvy & Mather CEO and Smith trustee chair Shelly Lazarus and activist and writer Gloria Steinem. Photo by Dick Fish.   ............................   Smith Receives Record Gifts   Scholars Gather to Discuss Queer Studies, Activism   Students Who Lead   Conference: Looking for 32 Good Students   No Writer's Block Here   ............................

Vanity Fair List Studded With Smith Women Among "America's Most Influential Women: 200 Legends, Leaders and Trailblazers" in the November 1998 of Vanity Fair were many with Smith connections. The 200 women, photographed singly and in groups by Annie Liebowitz and 30 other top photographers--and in some cases caricatured by illustrator Risko--include practically everyone you might expect, from Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright to Madonna and Ann Landers. Chief (in more ways than one) among the Smith-connected group was President Ruth Simmons, who was photographed with the other "Seven Sibling" presidents. Other Smith connections include alumnae writer Sally Quinn, Ogilvy & Mather CEO and Smith trustee chair Shelly Lazarus, "French Chef" Julia Child, feminist activists and writers Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, Scribner publisher Susan Moldow and Sotheby's CEO Diana Brooks. Also pictured were several women who have received honorary degrees from Smith: Elizabeth Dole, playwright Wendy Wasserstein, chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post Company Katharine Graham, chairman of the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research Mathilde Krim, president of Duke University Nannerl Keohane and writers Toni Morrison and Eudora Welty (the latter of whom also was Neilson Professor at Smith in 1961-62). Others have more tenuous connections to Smith: Ruth Bader Ginsburg received the college's first Sophia Smith Award in 1996; Katie Couric has a sister, Emily, who graduated from Smith in 1969; Nina Totenberg, NPR's legal affairs correspondent, spoke here during the Sophia Smith Award celebration; Helen Gurley Brown, former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, has given her papers to the Sophia Smith Collection; Ruth Whitney, former editor-in-chief of Glamour, presented Ruth Simmons with the Glamour Woman of the Year Award in 1996; and correspondent Andrea Mitchell interviewed Simmons for an NBC Nightly News segment on inspiring women.

..............................................................................................................................................................

NewsSmith is published by the Smith College Office of College Relations for alumnae, staff, students and friends.
Copyright © 1999 Smith College. Portions of this publication may be reproduced with the permission of the Office
of College Relations, Garrison Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063. Last update: 1/18/99.

Made with Macintosh