Friday, June 8th, 2007

RADCLIFFE DAY

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study cordially invites you and your guests to the Radcliffe Commemorative Service, Awards Symposium, and Annual Luncheon on Friday, June 8, 2007. Please come celebrate this special day with fellow alumnae.

7:45 am

RADCLIFFE CHOIR REHEARSAL

Memorial Church

A rehearsal for all alumnae wishing to sing at the Radcliffe Commemorative Service

9:00 am – 9:45 am

RADCLIFFE COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE

Memorial Church

Marlene Rahkamp ‘82, JD ’85 will be the speaker for this year’s service .

10:15 am – 12:30 pm

RADCLIFFE AWARDS SYMPOSIUM

Loeb Drama Center

“Women Shaping Power: From the Grassroots to Head of State”

Speakers include the following award winners:

Megan Marshall ‘77, RI ‘07
Award-winning historian; author of a biography twenty years in the making, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
Ruth Wyler Messinger ‘62
Former Manhattan borough president; 1997 mayoral candidate, New York City; and president, American Jewish World Service.
Lynne Perry Bottinger ‘82
President and CEO, Clinical/Interventional Cardiology PLLC; faculty, Columbia and Cornell universities, clinical and interventional cardiologist

GRADUATE SOCIETY AWARDS

Martha C. Nussbaum AM ‘71, PhD’75, BI ‘81
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Law School, and Divinity School, University of Chicago; author, Frontiers of Justice; Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Harvard University Press, 2006), Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Harvard University Press 1997).

JANE RAINIE OPEL ‘50 YOUNG ALUMNA AWARD

Serena K. Mayeri ‘97

Assistant professor of law, University of Pennsylvania Law School; 2004—2005 Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, New York University School of Law.

Moderator—Drew Gilpin Faust
Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and president-elect of Harvard University

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS

Frederica Shoenfield Brenneman ‘47, LLB ‘53
Ann Eldridge ‘57, MAT ‘59, BI ‘69
Lucia Stein Hatch ‘57
Barbara Newman Krazitz ‘52, EdM ‘53
Ellen Guild Moot ‘52
Marlene V. Rehkamp ‘82, JD ‘85
12:45 pm

RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE ANNUAL LUNCHEON

Radcliffe Yard Tent

  • All Harvard and Radcliffe alumnae/i and their guests are invited to a festive luncheon.
  • Advance registration required.
  • Remarks by Drew Gilpin Faust.
  • Keynote address by Toni Morrison, novelist, Robert F. Goheen Professor Emeritus in the council of the Humanities at Princeton University, and 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal recipient