Smith Alumnae Quarterly
“I think, at times, individuals expect for you to solve all of their problems when some of the problems may not be city council at all, it may just be a private citizen’s issue. But when people have that trust in you, they see you as more than just a councilmember, they see you as an ally.”
Capturing Global Encounters
Students’ award-winning photographs offer a glimpse into lives around the world.
A hillside of houses glimpsed through a scrim of barbed wire; the visual architecture of subway cars in motion; a crowd waiting to board a ferry across a river on the last night of Ramadan. These are among the winning images in the annual Global Encounters Photo Contest sponsored by the Lewis Global Studies Center. This year’s contest drew 70 submissions from Smith students of photos taken in 37 countries around the world. The visual encounters in cluded close-up images, views from afar, “aha! moments” of discovery, cultural juxtapositions, and scenes of daily life captured in locations ranging from Japan to Jerusalem. Judges for this year’s submissions were Charlene Shang Miller, educator for academic programs at the Smith College Museum of Art, and Fraser Stables, associate dean of integrative learning and professor of art. Here are the winning images.
—BARBARA SOLOW
“The spotlight is on women’s basketball and our players. It’s not shared with a men’s team. The resources here—our weight room is geared toward women. Our weights are for the grip of a woman’s hands. Our gym, we don’t share it with the men; we get to practice whenever we want when the times work within our team schedules. Everything is geared toward giving our female athletes the best experience possible.”
Smithie Lives
A Doggone Good Time in Western Massachusetts
Dawn Smith ’77 has been an animal lover for as long as she can remember. At 5, after some begging, she got her first dog—a collie named Lassie—who was later joined by a cocker spaniel mix named Pixie. Since the 1990s, Dawn has been participating in American Kennel Club field trials with field-bred English cocker spaniels, including her 9-year-old dog, Toula (pictured). “Toula is a sweet and affectionate dog, and at the same time is very fast and animated in the field,” says Dawn, who’s also the proud dog parent of Squeak (5), Rosie (4), and Hank (1).
Photographed by Lynne Graves on January 30, 2024, at the Southampton Wildlife Management Area in Massachusetts, where Dawn regularly goes to train her dogs.
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