Category: Alumnae and Development
Sweet Briar Names 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 Tomlinson 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 [...]
UCLA Honors SBC’s Tania Azores ’59
The Pilipino Alumni Association of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced that Fortunata “Tania” Azores Gunter, Sweet Briar Class of 1959, is the recipient of its Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award. Azores will accept the honor at the 2012 UCLA PAA Fundraising Benefit, themed “One Family. Isang Pamilya,” on Saturday, April 21. Azores [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
Jan Ype Osinga Dies at Age 85
The Sweet Briar community mourns the death of Jan Ype Osinga, who passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at the age of 85. Osinga worked at Sweet Briar for more than 40 years. He was born in Woudsend, in the Netherlands, to the late Ieke Kampen and Johannes Osinga on Feb. 25, 1927. Osinga [...]
Vote for People Power, Vote for Alumna’s ‘Field of Stars’ on National Mall
The point of an ideas competition is to explore all possibilities and spark discussion about use of a public space, outside the constraints of cost, existing features or previous plans. The National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds imposed no limitations other than an entrant’s imagination, provided the proposal met the competition’s objectives. It [...]
For Wildlife Specialist, Summer’s Dog Days are Good Times
Kimberly Leach Burge says Sweet Briar stoked her love for “all things reptiles and amphibians,” but lately she’s developed a fondness for Boykin spaniels, too. The 2000 biology graduate is a wildlife education specialist for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The spaniels have become an important asset to her work with a statewide project [...]
How the Class of ’99 Rules in ‘The King and I’
Sarah Kingsley ’99 is performing in “The King and I” with Lyric Opera Virginia at venues in Richmond and Newport News between Jan. 20 and Jan. 29. She is cast to dance as well as sing in the chorus.Performing in the children’s chorus are Virginia Ames Tillar, age 8, and Claudia Tillar, 4, daughters of [...]
U.S. Hunter Jumper Association Honors ’66 Alumna
Katharine “Kit” Baker Sydnor ’66 has received the U.S. Hunter Jumper Association’s Jane Marshall Dillon award for teaching beginning riders in the hunter jumper discipline. Read more in The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger online at NJ.com: “Recognition for a Teacher and Mentor.”
’09 Grad Takes Wheel as Founding Head Coach
Meredith Newman ’09 likes to be in life’s driver’s seat, even if the road occasionally takes an unexpected turn. After two years as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Kenyon College she was actively looking for opportunities in nationally ranked Division III programs or maybe a Division I school. She’d been successful coordinating Kenyon’s offense, [...]
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