Category: Summer 2012
What Ceiling? Sweet Briar Women In Force in D.C.
Sweet Briar women across the country know what it means to be part of the Sweet Briar network. Ask any alumna, from Palmetto, Fla., to Battle Ground, Wash., and she’ll tell you that Sweet Briar College is more than just a community. It’s family. Yet, few places are as strong in numbers and as tightly [...]
Teaching Art
Sweet Briar’s teaching program is all about practical experience. After getting a feel for it her senior year as an undergrad, Ashley Winters ’11 (M.A.T. ’12) was ready for the real deal. She spent the past academic year at E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg student-teaching for Kimberly Gibson-McDonald ’05 (M.Ed. ’08) in Kimberly’s art [...]
Q & A with President Parker
President Parker explains the strategy behind recent program reductions in relation to sustainable excellence. Sweet Briar has historically been proud of its very low student:faculty ratio. Why is it so important to reach 10 to 1 now? The current student-faculty ratio is about 6-to-1. Most of the colleges that we compare ourselves to, both for [...]
Mutual Admiration Brings Alumnae Together on Opera Project
Joan Vail Thorne ’51, two years behind Dorothy Rouse-Bottom at Sweet Briar, knew the older girl mostly through mutual friends and by reputation. “I was in total awe of her,” Joan says. Nearly 60 years later their paths crossed again, this time when Joan’s work drew Dorothy’s admiration. They became friends and collaborators long enough [...]
2012 Outstanding Alumnae
Sweet Briar College has honored Nancy Hudler Keuffel ’62 (pictured second) and Diane Dalton ’67 (pictured first) with the 2012 awards for Outstanding Alumna. The awards were presented during Reunion in May, when Nancy and Diane celebrated their 50th and 45th reunions. Nancy graduated with a degree in American studies and is the owner and [...]
Distinguished Alumna of 2011
Teresa Pike Tomlinson graduated from Sweet Briar in 1987, the same year the College established its Distinguished Alumna Award. Twenty-five years later, Sweet Briar announced that Teresa is the Distinguished Alumna of 2011. Given out by the board of the Alumnae Association, the award honors alumnae, preferably graduates, who have brought distinction to themselves and [...]
One Challenge at a Time: Lacrosse Magazine Features Sweet Briar Grad
Before coming to Sweet Briar in the late 1990s, Jessica Livingston ’00 hadn’t planned on playing lacrosse at all — much less becoming an All-American player and ending up on the cover of Lacrosse Magazine. Yet that’s exactly what happened. Maybe, the magazine speculates in its January issue, it is because “she can’t resist a [...]
‘A Writer’s Gotta Have Nerve’
Since graduating from Sweet Briar five years ago with a degree in English and creative writing, Shavonne Wei-Ming Clarke ’07 has made quite a name for herself. Last fall, her short story “Third Wife” was published in the Bellevue Literary Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Set in Singapore, the narrative pays homage to [...]
A Fringe Landscape
In February, Sweet Briar’s art community celebrated its third biannual Fringe Festival. Centered on the College’s “landscape for learning,” the festival featured several outdoor events, as well as a number of music and dance performances, a puppet show and stand-up comedy. Highlights included Sweet Briar’s first concert musical, “Baby,” and a poetry reading set against [...]
Empowering Elementary and Middle School Girls
In May, Sweet Briar partnered again with Girls on the Run to bring more than 300 regional elementary and middle school girls. “Sweet Briar and Girls on the Run share some core values — values about empowerment and achievement for girls and women,” says President Parker. “It’s moving to watch the runners cross the [...]
