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JOIN US FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING!
SEPTEMBER 22 @ 2PM - 3PM
Come a little early, stay a little late!
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Its time for our Annual Meeting of the Smith College Club of the Peninsula! Every year, we gather to review the events of the past 12 months, review the financial stats of the club and of our endowment fund, introduce our newly elected executive board, and plan for the coming year.
Please join us and let us know your input!
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The official meeting will take place from 2-3PM, but come a little early and stay a little late while we hand out and visit with one another.
Coffee and tea will be served. Consider bringing a treat to share if you like.
Location: Channing House, 11th Floor
850 Webster Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
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If you don't get the Evite, please use this RSVP form to allow us to get a headcount: https://forms.gle/zPtxpXsLvifwcBGK9
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In addition to our annual meeting on September 22, we're looking forward to some great gatherings this Fall. Join us for any or all of the fun!
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Thursday, September 19 @ 7:30PM -- The Book Club is meeting to discuss the novel Mecca by Susan Straight. This epic tale examines race, history, family, and destiny through the interlocking stories of a group of native Californians.
This event will be hosted at the home of Diana McDonough.
All are welcome to join our monthly discussions, hosted at various members' homes. Get on the book club mailing list at www.peninsulasmithclubca.org/book-club to get details every month.
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Wednesday, October 16 @ 7:30PM -- The Book Club is meeting to discuss Solito, a memoir written by Javier Zamora in which the author relives a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border, leaving behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers.
All are welcome to join our monthly discussions, hosted at various members' homes. Get on the book club mailing list at www.peninsulasmithclubca.org/book-club to get details every month.
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Friday, November 15 @ 1:45pm -- Private tour of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. Our friends at the Smith College Club of the East Bay have invited us to join them at this excellent event. Unfortunately the museum only offers tours on weekdays, but if you can swing this one, it's sure to be amazing. For tickets and further planning, please email ebsmithclub@yahoo.com. | |
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Sunday, December 1 @ 2 - 4PM -- The Annual Cookie Exchange! We love a good cookie exchange. Put this beloved event on your calendar now! Bring something to share, and be ready to take some goodies home. If you have a great cookie (or anything else) recipe you would like to give folks, be sure to bring a few copies to distribute. Every year this is a Smith club favorite… don’t miss it! This event will take place at the home of Joy Silver in Los Altos. Details to follow as we get closer to the event. | |
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Annual Summer Tea, August 4
Each summer we take this wonderful opportunity to welcome newly matriculation students, students who who are home for the summer, and local alums. It's a special kind of magic to see our young local students connect and share their enthusiasm for heading off to Northampton. Thank you to Joy Silver for hosting!
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Send-off Care Packages, August 6
In recent years we have gifted our newly matriculating students with a club-unique Smith College mug and some tea to get them started on the right tea-lovin' path. We gave these packages to the students who were able to join us at the Summer Tea, and mailed off others to make sure each student had their mug in time to pack for Northampton. This year we leveraged the availability of Smith College tea bags!
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Coffee Meet-up, August 18
We had a lovely time just hanging out in Palo Alto at Blue Bottle Coffee. We do these little meet-ups a couple of times a year. You never need to RSVP, and we'd love to see you!
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Book Club, August 21
On Wednesday, August 21, eleven of us enjoyed a medieval-themed potluck and the movie “All Is True.” The movie followed nicely from our March book “Hamnet”—in the movie, we see Shakespeare back in Stratford, restoring relationships with his wife and daughters, and coming to terms with Hamnet’s death years before; he never properly grieved the loss. We all liked the movie, which features Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen and seemingly portrays life in an Elizabethan village authentically, including nighttime scenes lit only by candles and fires in hearths. Many thanks to Nisha Thatte-Potter for hosting this annual tradition once again.
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THE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IS ON!
Our fiscal year begins on September 1, and that new year ushers in our annual membership drive!
The Smith College Club of the Peninsula is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) charitable organization that sponsors social, cultural, and educational programs for the 600+ alumnae living on the Peninsula. We work to recruit prospective students and support current Smith students from the area. We do not receive any funding from the College and rely 100% on members’ dues and donations to fund our activities.
Please join us in supporting our ongoing efforts to connect Smithies in the Peninsula Bay Area by becoming a member of the club: https://www.peninsulasmithclubca.org/join-renew/p/membership/p/membership
This year, we've been able to partner with the Columbia Employee Store in Union City to get members-only access to the store where we get huge discounts on first-run items from Columbia, Prana, Mountain Gear and Sorel. Our access is time-limited, and we have negotiated access in November in time for holiday shopping! This is an opportunity only available to dues-paying members of the club.
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BE ON THE BOARD!
Next board meeting: Sunday, October 20 @ 2PM via Zoom
We need you! We need more people on the board to help us direct the club and organize events. There are opportunities for small efforts, and larger ideas. We're looking for folks to take on fun projects like Care Packages for On-campus Students, assistance in our Website Management, helping out with our annual Membership Drive, and anything else you want to bring to the group! Want to lead a hike? Great! Want to guide us in a philanthropic effort? You're on!
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Become a Member!
As a paying member of the Smith College Club of the Peninsula, you will get proactive evites to every planned event, and the following additional perks:
- Discounted admission to Club events, including lectures by faculty from the College
- Evite invitations to fun programs geared toward the varying interests of local alums
- The opportunity to meet and form lifelong connections with intelligent, interesting alums
- A sense of satisfaction knowing that Club funds help Smith attract outstanding young women from the Peninsula and provide scholarship funds to enable them to attend the College
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Suggest a Group Event
We're always looking for new ways to meet up and connect. If you have great ideas for group events, there's a way to make those suggestions: Go to our website under the Events tab, or just click here, and you will be presented with a Google form to guide you through your event suggestion. Please complete the form, including as much information as you can. After you submit the form, someone from the club's events team will contact you.
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