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Marygrove Minute Welcome to Marygrove Minute -- the e-newsletter with the latest information on Marygrove College. We hope you enjoyed the updates from last month and we look to you for feedback. Your input is essential to the success of this effort to stay connected with our friends. We look forward to hearing from you at dpuhl@marygrove.edu.
BOOK DISCUSSION Novel summary: The novel centers on the activities of the key character, Helga Crane, an intelligent, ambitious, beautiful, sensual, mixed-race woman, who seeks self-definition, social recognition and sexual expression. Helga’s quest takes her between black and white society, between the folk and elite cultures of the rural South and the urban North and even to Copenhagen, Denmark, where she spends two years searching for a space wherein all parts of her identity can coexist. However, by the novel’s end, Helga does the unexpected and she is caught in a web of exploits that threatens to erase her autonomy and agency. If you plan to attend, please contact Alumni Program Committee member
FOUNDER'S DAY CELEBRATION 2006 Save the date for a most unique Founder’s Day celebration. On Thursday evening, November 9, 2006, the “Have A Seat … and more! Chair Auction and Strolling Dinner” will commemorate the founding of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHMs) in Monroe, Michigan, in 1845, founders and sponsors of Marygrove, the founding of Marygrove in Detroit in 1927 and the founding of its predecessor, St. Mary College in Monroe in 1905. This exciting fundraiser will feature and the work of local and national artists who have transformed vintage Marygrove chairs and other items into collectible works of art. Over 40 items are up for auction, featured international artist include Dominic Pangborn, Nora Chapa Mendoza, Shirley Woodson, Gilda Snowden, Senghor Reid, Lenore Gimpert, Edith Jopich and many others. Marygrove’s own featured artists include Beverly Hall Smith, Rose DeSloover, Richie Campbell, Maureen Leonard, Graciela Juarez, Martin McNeeley and Lasbry Nwachuku, among others. Another unique chair is being provided by Smooth Jazz V98.7, which has the signatures of all musicians from the summer Smooth Jazz Fest in July. Dinner with our new president, Dr. David Fike, will also be auctioned. A special invitation to faculty, staff and students….. So SAVE THE DATE: November 9, 2006, 6:00 p.m. at Marygrove College. Tickets and sponsorships are available by contacting Maureen Leonard, (313) 927-1308 or mleonard@marygrove.edu.
DINNER/THEATRE: POLISH JOKE BY DAVID IVES The Marygrove College Alumni Association Program Committee invites you to enjoy the UDM Theatre Company Production of Polish Joke presented in Marygrove’s beautifully renovated and comfortable Theatre. The evening will begin with dinner in the Main Dining Room in Madame Cadillac at 6:30 p.m., followed by the play at 8:00 p.m. Polish Joke is a comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for “roots”. Jasiu, a 30ish Polish-American who has not been taught to value his own roots, decides to make his own roots, reinventing himself first as a sort of non-ethnic everyman, then as an “Irishman.” His adventures are alternately zany and heartbreaking. In the end, by trying to get away from his ethnic background, Jasiu finds out who he is and what it means to be “a Pole.” The cost for the event is $25 per person. Space is limited and reservations must be received no later than November 17, 2006. To make reservations, send a check made payable to Marygrove College, attention Elishama Ross, 8425 W. McNichols, Detroit, MI 48221-2599. To pay by credit card, contact Elishama at (313) 927-1572 or eross@marygrove.edu.
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR AND DETROIT NATIVE JEFFREY EUGENIDES READING AND BOOK SIGNING AT MARYGROVE ON OCTOBER 29 Eugenides was born in 1960 to Greek-American parents and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his MFA in creative writing from Stanford University. He has worked as a Detroit cabdriver, a busboy, a volunteer with Mother Theresa in Calcutta, a magazine writer, and a newsletter editor. His acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993), set in Grosse Pointe, became a major motion picture, directed by Sofia Coppola and released by Paramount Pictures in 2000. Eugenides has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1991, an excerpt from The Virgin Suicides was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for fiction, and in 2003 Middlesex received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “Expansive and radiantly generous…. Deliriously American” –The New York Times Book Review “A towering achievement…. [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review This is a Defining Detroit event of Marygrove’s Institute for Detroit Studies and the English and Modern Languages Department, an interdisciplinary series of public exhibits, lectures, performances, readings and discussions that explore different aspects of Detroit life. For more information, contact Dr. Frank Rashid at (313) 927-1448 or frashid@marygrove.edu.
COME AND ENJOY A YEAR FULL OF EXCITING VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS! October 23, 2006 November November 4, 2006 November 12, 2006 November 16, 2006 November 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 December 1, 2, 3 2006 November 20 – December 1, 2006 November 28, 2006 December December 8, 9, 2006 December 10, 2006 Student Events: October 31, 2006 • Music Department Recital November 28, 2006 • Music Department Recital December 7 – December 22, 2006
TRAVEL IN STYLE WITH ALUMNI SPONSORED TRIPS TO ITALY AND FRANCE French Impressions Space for each trip is limited and registrations are accepted on a first-come basis. When possible, we will include a member of the faculty and/or staff who will provide expertise in the area of the world we visit. Special accommodations can be made for people who need a departure city other than Detroit. If you have questions or need more information, contact Diane Puhl, Director of Alumni Relations at (313) 927-1443 or dpuhl@marygrove.edu.
HELP RECRUIT STUDENTS TO MARYGROVE AND THEY RECEIVE SPECIAL BENEFITS! You can become a very important member of our staff as a volunteer alumni admissions representative by telling others of your experiences at Marygrove College. Do not discount the value of your experience as an opportunity to help people choose wisely about the future of their education. Please use the Alumni-Referred Admission Application and feel free to make copies. If you know someone who would make a good addition to the Marygrove student community, give him or her an application to fill out and send in. Remember to include your name and graduation year in the “Referred by” line below so we know whom to thank! If you have questions, email info@marygrove.edu or call the Office of Admissions at (313) 927-1240. Thank you in advance for your continued support and commitment to Marygrove College. Here is the Alumni Referral Form (.pdf).
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