Dear Alumnae,

Over half the 311 students arrived back on Mount Ida under clear blue skies on August 20 for preseason sports practice. Campus is again alive with excited voices, cheers, and laughter at the start of Emma Willard School’s 195th year. In the Alumnae Relations office, we are putting the finishing touches on Reunion 2008, September 26–28, and invite all alumnae back to campus for A Day on Mount Ida on Saturday, September 27.

The start of the school year brings the launch of three blogs, Emma Everywhere by Head of School Trudy Hall, Emma Now, a campus and alumnae news blog compiled by the student news group and the Alumnae Relations office, and Weird on the Heights of Ida (also known as Emma Then), a blog by Trudy Hanmer about her research on the history of Emma Willard School. I hope you’ll subscribe if you are interested, visit them often, and post your thoughts.

Best,

Molly Price, Director of Alumnae Relations

Reunion 2008 and A Day on Mount Ida

You are invited back to campus in September! The 3s and 8s will celebrate Reunion 2008 at the end of this month. For more information and to see who’s registered visit the Reunion pages.

If you are not a 3 or 8, you are invited back to A Day on Mount Ida on September 27 for the book discussion on Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, the symposium Women, Power, and Possibility, a 2 mile Fun Run around campus with Trudy Hall and symposium speaker Erin Sprague, an organ concert featuring internationally acclaimed concert organist Gail Archer, and a toast and tribute to Mr. Jack Easterling, among other things. We hope you can join us.

Brown paper packages tied up with string

Linda Remington Dietel ’48, P’76, ’81 and former principal Bill Dietel P’76, ’81 will be featured speakers and hosts of the Salzburg Global Seminar’s Thanksgiving Festival, which will focus on the future of philanthropy. In one unique weekend with the Dietels, you can spend four days and nights at the Schloss Leopoldskron (the setting for The Sound of Music), participating in seminars, touring Salzburg, and sharing an American Thanksgiving dinner served in the Marble Hall of the Schloss. Families welcome. If you’d like to be a part of it, visit the website for detailed information.  

Alumnae in the Blogosphere

Rev. Natalie Shiras ’69, P’04 is on a three-month sabbatical, visiting churches in Europe, Asia, and Africa with daughter Annie ’04. Follow their travels here.

The Capital District Emmies and faculty member Sabra Sanwal participated in a Women’s Build day at a Habitat for Humanity site in Hudson, NY. Their day was chronicled online.

(More) Open Positions at EW

Since last month’s e-newsletter, an additional position has opened up at Emma Willard for a Major Gifts Officer. In addition, Emma Willard has two key administrative openings for a director of enrollment management and director of communications. For further information an each position, please look here.

EWS Alumnae Group on Facebook at nearly 700 members,
Linked In network over 150

Join the Emma Willard School Alumnae group on Linked In and check out photos, videos, and events at the Emma Willard School Alums group on Facebook.