JULY 2014

PRESIDENT'S LETTER Hello everyone,

Happy Independence Day! Our nation celebrates its 238th birthday on July 4. Marching bands will parade down Main Street and flags will wave.Fireworks will light up the night sky.

July is the real start of Summer. The days are long and breezes are warm. Many of us find time to re-charge ourbatteries with a well-deserved vacation, relaxing at our Summer home or journeying to a place we enjoy. We'll slow down a bit and operate on "summerhours" for the next couple of months.The Club transitions to summer hours, too. Second Tuesday Bridge (this month meeting on Monday July 7) andMah Jongg will meet as usual, but our other on-site events are on hiatus through August. In Summer, College Clubevents go on the road.

We will sponsor our fifth season of day trip excursions, to be held on Saturday July 12; Wednesday July 30; andThursday August 14. Sailing and the sea are day trip themes this year. Guided tours of two grand historic houses await us in Providence on July 12, followed by dinner at a nationallycelebrated restaurant and a boat ride on the river and through the fires that are the Waterfire installation. At our next outing on July 30, we'll enjoy a guided tour of the sensational exhibit of J.M.W. Turner seascapes

Turner and the Sea, on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, and end our day with dinner at a lovely Pickering Wharf restaurant. August 14 will be our season finale. We'll travel to Portland for a fun and casual lunch of the freshest seafood and a scenic cruise on Casco Bay. Please RSVP for all day trips through the Club office at least 5 days in advance of the departure date. Some, but not all, activities will be billed tohouse accounts. I am happy to report that a new Club activity is in start-up mode. For the first time, a golf outing for members and guests will be held this month at theFurnace Brook Golf Club in Quincy. Lunch at Furnace Brook will follow the 9-hole round. Please see this issue of the newsletter for more information. I hope to see you at one or more of our Summer activities this month or next. All the best,

Kim

IN COMMITTEE What: Marketing and Public Relations Committee Who: Kim Clark, Chair, Emma Rozantes, Co-chair, Linda Cline, Sunne Savage -Neuman and Elizabeth Tyminski Mission: Publicize Club activities and events to the membership and when appropriate, to the general public. Work with all committees to extend thefacilities and services of the Club to businesses and professional groups within Metro Boston. There shall be a Sub-Committee devoted to theproduction and publication of the Club newsletter. Activity: Internal marketing continues to be the major focus of the Committee and the results have been very encouraging. The newsletter is ourprimary internal marketing tool and we are pleased that it has received positive feedback from members.

Editor-in-chief Emma Rozantes and Copy Editor/Art Director, member Jeff Myers, recently received approval from the Board to publish the newslettermonthly. We are happy to announce that there will now be ten standard issues and special-edition issues in June and December. Summertime day trips continue to be a popular member activity and the Committee is happy to present this year's excursions. On Saturday July 12,

we will return to Providence and tour two historic house museums: the Governor Henry Lippitt House, which is a superior example of 19th century

Renaissance Revival architecture; and the John Brown House, an elegant 18th century Georgian mansion that was the home of an original benefactorof Brown University. Dinner at the nationally acclaimed Al Forno Restaurant will follow and we will conclude our visit at the extraordinary Waterfireexhibit. We've arranged a riverboat ride that will carry us through the heart of this breathtaking installation. Wednesday July 30 will find us in the lovely seaside town of Salem. We will visit the Peabody Essex Museum, famous for its magnificent collectionof important works from the China Trade and East India Company. A guided tour of Turner and the Sea, the special exhibit of magnificent seascapesby J.M.W. Turner, will be a highlight. We'll round out the day with a stroll through nearby Pickering Wharf and dinner at the highly regarded 62Restaurant. Maine is a favorite summer destination for a number of Club members and we will return to Portland on Thursday August 14. First, we'll gather for awelcome lunch at East Ender Restaurant. Next, we will have a real treat, a two-hour cruise on Casco Bay. Our scenic cruise of the Inner Bay will takeus past Victorian cottages along the shorelines of Little and Great Diamond Islands and Peaks Island. For your convenience, all of our summer excursion destinations are accessible by Amtrak train, MBTA Commuter Rail, or commuter ferry.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: KATHLEEN SHINNERS

Kathleen was raised and educated in Millinocket, Maine, a town on the Penobscot River best known for the paper mill that thrived there in the mid tolate-20th century. It is there that her father worked. Kathleen's sense of community, an important theme running through much that she has done,began with her family and the Girl Scouts. At Camp Natarswi, Kathleen earned her Junior Maine Guide license and recalls the experience as a greatchallenge. The core of the Guides' philosophy, taken from the Maine natives, the Abenakis, is "The Earth is a sacred place. Leave it like you foundit."

"When I think about my philosophy, two things come to mind. The Abenaki Indians are the People of the Dawnand on Mt. Katahdin, Maine's highest mountain, they celebrate the dawn. The window in my bedroom as a childfaced Katahdin. In the winter dawn, the mountain was pink at sunrise. In the summer rain, it was pink and purplefrom the color of the granite. In the fall, the pink and purple of dawn reflected the shadows thrown by the brightfoliage. When the dawn hits the mountain, it is dramatic. You're alive and the dawn is here. Those things burninto your mind and are there when you feel you're not sure in life. You take inspiration from those vivid images. Ifeel I was very lucky to grow up in tiny Millinocket, on the edge of the wilderness, in the shadow of themountain." Kathleen attended Salve Regina in Newport, Rhode Island, where she majored in history. She also earned aMaster's Degree in American Studies at Boston College. The job she landed as a technical writer with Boston'sStone & Webster engineering firm was not quite what Kathleen had in mind, but she found that she loved it.With responsibility for on-site specification and drawing inspection as far as she could see, she was one of thevery few women, out of a workforce of thousands, wearing a white hard hat. Following graduation from B.C. in 1972, Kathleen had the opportunity to join friends on a safari. Terrified at theprospect, she called her father: "I can't do this, can I?" she asked. His response: "Who's stopping you?" Familiar with at least one family of the othertravelers, he continued, "If your sense of the other people is good, I would take this unique opportunity." Kathleen and her friends packed the Land Rover and drove to Nairobi from Casablanca. She was struck by how the wilderness can provoke a similarresponse, no matter where you are. "We crossed the Sahara by hand-pushed barge into the Congo (Zaire). We encountered Pygmies and drovealong back roads (barely). When we arrived in Nairobi, we decided to keep going, so we drove on to Cape Town." Looking for a way in which she might best contribute to the community, Kathleen went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, followed by theDoctorate program in Organization and Leadership at Columbia Teachers College. Many of the projects Kathleen now puts together are communitypartnerships created to enhance educational services in public schools. They involve college students, women's club members, senior citizen groupsand others. Kathleen has, by her own description, a very pragmatic, community-based philosophy. Kathleen joined The College Club in 1988 and was sponsored by Catherine Dauber. "Catherine's mentorship meant so much to me. I was given anunderstanding of the purpose, philosophy, and history of the Club by women who exemplified its values. These ladies recruited me for the facilitiescommittee during the brownstone renovation in 1989 or 1990 and I became a Club officer at that time." "With encouragement from Club members, including Elsbeth Percy and Catherine Dauber, and members of the Church of the Covenant, I started aliteracy outreach at the Women's Lunch Place (WLP). We had the director of the New England Foundation for the Humanities (Nan Stalnaker) trainus at the Club. We created a schedule and members proceeded to volunteer weekly to read to children while their mothers enjoyed a meal served tothem in the church basement. "Club members were also generous with donations of clothing and books to the WLP. We once commandeered the WLP van and took a donation ofthe butt end of a newsprint roll (lots of newsprint!) and used it so the children could trace and draw themselves, resulting in an exhibition for themothers. I could go on, but those days were rewarding and instructive for all members involved. I left for California to teach after my first year, but theeffort continued under committed Club members." She served as first vice president and resigned from the office in 1992,when she moved toCalifornia.

Kathleen's current activities are mainly project-based. "I'm working on a project now with the Naval War College Museum, developing a curriculumaround artifacts. History is really stories told through artifacts, yet history education is not as artifact-based as it needs to be. Studying history hasalways been a passion and certainly the way I teach it is to require students to consider what it was like in a particular place at a particular time. Putyourself there." She is also helping to initiate the Club's new golf group.

KATE DIMANCESCU WRITES OF HER COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND ROOTS

Katherine (Kate) Dimancescu has recently published The Forgotten Chapters: My Journey into the Past. Herdebut narrative offers readers a window into the lives of some of her well-known and also little known maternalancestors who helped shape the New England communities they called home. Her narrative details unexpected discoveries that arose when researching her colonial American roots. Thosediscoveries included slave-owning ancestors in New England; 17th and 18th century diary keepers, whoseoriginal diaries are intact and available in archives; persecuted Quakers, including Mary Dyer (wife and motherof six children), who was hanged on Boston Common in 1660; and one ancestor who was accused ofmanslaughter and another who was forced to wear a scarlet "D". Katherine hopes to inspire her readers to rediscover and appreciate the often overlooked chapters of NewEngland's rich colonial history. Publication of this book is the realization of an 18 yearlong dream. The Forgotten Chapters: My Journey into the Past is a must for New England history buffs and genealogistsand it is available on Amazon.com, author name Katherine Dimancescu. The book can also be purchased by"shopping locally" at The Concord Bookshop in Concord, Massachusetts, Titcomb's Bookshop in EastSandwich, Massachusetts, and Willow Books in Acton, Massachusetts.

GOLFING GROUP LAUNCH EVENT We are excited to announce that the first College Club golf outing will be held at the Furnace Brook Golf Club 20 Reservoir Road in Quincy, a 9-hole,semi-private course in the Wollaston neighborhood. Either Wednesday or Thursday July 16 -17 will be chosen according to member preference andtee time will be early morning (8:00 AM - 9:45 AM). Pricing for 9 holes is $39.00 with golf cart and $25.00 without. Lunch at the Furnace Brookclubhouse will follow. Golfers of every level are encouraged to attend and guests are welcome to join the fun.

College Club member and golfer Kathleen Shinners is coordinating the golfing group launch event. Please RSVP to Kathleen with a preferred date andtee time no later than Monday July 7 kds13@hotmail.com. Those who would like to suggest additional golf outing dates in July or Augustare also welcome to contact Kathleen. Learners and more advanced players who would like to refresh technique are invited to participate in a small golf clinic that has been penciled in forAugust, date TBA. The clinic will be held at a Boston-area course.

As we build our golfing group, we are actively seeking the support and participation of members.Those of you who would like to invite College Club members to your golf club to play a round, orrecommend favorite courses for future outings or a clinic, are invited to contact Kathleen.

SUMMER OUTINGS!

Saturday, July 12PROVIDENCE, RI

We'll visit the two best-known historic house

museums in Providence, the John Brown House

and the Governor Lippitt House. Following that,

we'll have dinner at Al Forno, one of the best

restaurants in the country. We'll end our day with a

visit to Waterfire and a boat ride that takes us

through the heart of the exhibit. Amtrak has

service to Providence from Back Bay Station at

11:45 AM, arriving in Providence at 12:20 PM and

return service departing Providence at 10:35 PM ,

arriving at Back Bay Station 11:20 PM.

1:00 PM

Governor Lippitt House

Tour $8.00/pp

3:00 PM

Wednesday, July 30SALEM, MA

Spend a day in historic Salem and visit the

renowned Peabody Essex Museum, where the

stunning exhibit Turner and the Sea features

paintings by J.M.W. Turner and important objects

from the East India Company and the China Trade

are in the permanent collection. Stroll Pickering

Wharf and have dinner at the 62 Restaurant. MBTA

Commuter Rail service from North Station at 12:20

PM arrives in Salem at 12:50 PM and return service

departing Salem at 8:24 PM and arriving at North

Station 8:54 PM.

1:30 PM

Tour of Turner and the Sea, 18.00/pp

5:30 PM

62 Restaurant (reserved) $60.00/pp estimate

Thursday, August 14PORTLAND, ME

Lunch at a harborside seafood restaurant, followed

by a 2 hour cruise of Casco Bay Inner Harbor

aboard the Casco Bay Lines. Amtrak Downeaster

departs North Station at 9:05 AM and arrives in

Portland at 11:35 AM and will depart Portland at

6:50 PM, returning you to North Station at 9:20

PM.

12:00 PM

Seafood restaurant TBA

3:15 PM

Casco Bay Inner Harbor Cruise /Diamond Pass

Run $15.00

Take me to Portland!

John Brown House

Tour $10.00/pp

4:45 PM

Al Forno Restaurant (reserved) $75.00/pp estimate

9:00 PM

Providence Riverboat ride -- 30 minutes

(reserved) $20.00/pp cash only at dock

Take me to Providence!

Take me to Salem!

STANDING COMMITTEESFinance Committee

Margaret Stapleton andDennis Butler, ChairsHouse Committee

Paula Jo Kemler, ChairMembership Committee

Judith Shea, ChairProgram Committee

Jennifer Kolchinsky, Chair

COLLEGE CLUB BOARD

OFFICERSPresident Kim Clark

Vice President Christine Chamberlain Recording Secretary Emma Rozantes

Treasurer Kathleen Norgaard Assistant Treasurer Cate Faddis

Corresponding SecretaryAngie Foss SPECIAL COMMITTEES

Development CommitteeAnita MacKinnon, Chair

Marketing/PR CommitteeKim Clark and Emma Rozantes,

ChairsStrategic Planning Committee

Catherine Faddis, Chair

Ad Hoc COMMITTEESNominating Committee

Ruth Hunter, Chair125th Anniversary Committee

Kim Clark andElizabeth Tyminski,

Chairs

DIRECTORSYumiko Honda

Judith JoyceLinda Lentini

Elizabeth TyminskiJayne Young

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