Local Smith Clubs

TheDad
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:22:37 +0000

D and I went to the summer meeting of the local Smith Club today. After a year off campus, she felt great to be connecting with her Smithieness, talking to both current students and some '11’s that were there with their parents. I mainly spent time talking with some of the alums but I got a chance to talk to several of the incoming first-years and I found them articulate and interesting as Smithies generally are in my experience.

The board proposed and the club membership approved a change to the by-laws allowing for a new class of membership for parents of current or former Smithies. I look forward to being one of the first to join.

We’re lucky to have a strong, local club, that organizes everything from Smith alumnae being at high school college fairs to prospective student parties to funding scholarships for local students to organizing social, cultural, and business-oriented events.

SoCal has a decent base to draw from…as of this fall, there are 98 Smith students from the Los Angeles/Pasadena area.

If your area has an active Smith Club, great. But if not, I hope there are Smithies out there who will grab the reins and start one. In some parts of the country one might have to encompass a larger area to get the same volume of participants, but I think it would be doable. From my point of view it’s a chance to be part of something special.

And then there’s the entertainment value, like the alum from the early 70’s today who talked about the required Smith posture class that included lessons on how ladies were to exit from a gentleman’s sports car.