OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
None this month
UPCOMING
Oct 18-Volunteer with other Oberlin Alumni for New York Cares Day
TBA - Oberlin Authors Book Club resumes with The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross ‘89
OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
• Sept 11, 14 - Jeffrey Young announces performances
• Sept 20 - John Hunka ‘85 invites you to participate in the International Coastal Cleanup
UPCOMING
none now
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
•Roommate Wanted by Megan Whitman ‘05
• Offer an Oberlin Student a Winter Term Internship
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ALUMNI CLUB EVENTS IN THE CITY THIS MONTH:
None this month
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UPCOMING
OBERLIN AUTHORS BOOK CLUB
Please join us once again for the Oberlin Authors Book Club!
This October we are featuring a book by Gwendolen Gross, class of '89 called The Other Mother.
We are lucky to have Gwendolen joining us. Her book, The Other Mother, has had much acclaim.
Here's a website link: www.the-other-mother.com
“an electrifyingly complex and explosively gripping portrait of contemporary, have-it-all motherhood.”— Booklist
“The book was amazing. ... As the story continues we truly get to know both Moms. OMG – I loved them both. I hated them both. I wanted to hug them both. I wanted to shake them both. I wanted to crawl into the pages and bang THEIR heads together. There was so much of ME in both of them.”
— My Life As It Is book review of The Other Mother
Featured in the USA Today, the New York Daily News, the Toronto Star, Redbook, OK! Magazine, and on National Public Radio, the selection of four national book clubs including the Book of the Month club, with a 5-star review from Amazon.com. Read more mom blog book reviews here.
The Other Mother is a best Jersey book of 2007 by Jersey Writers, a best book of the year by the RoleMommy blog, a book of the week on Amazon, and is on the Amazon bestsellers list (Women’s Friendship).
The time and place for the book club meeting will be announced shortly.
Gwendolen says Amazon is the easiest and the least expensive place to buy the book.
If you have any questions about the book club, or would like to be put on our separate book club mailing list, please contact me directly at KJK11B@aol.com
Many thanks,
Katherine J. Kornblau
Oberlin Alumni Regional Coordinator
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Volunteer with other Oberlin Alumni for New York Cares Day on
Saturday, October 18, 2008!
WHAT: Oberlin College NYC Alumni are forming a team for New York
Cares Day and we want you to participate! Be one of 8,000 New Yorkers
to paint a brighter future for New York City students. In just one
day, Team Oberlin will help perform vital tasks to create great
learning environments for students. This event is planned and
managed by New York Cares, New York City's leading volunteer
organization.
WHEN: Saturday, October 18, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Please
register by Friday, October 10, 2008!
We will be helping to complete hundreds of tasks including:
*paint colorful murals;
*add bright new line games to playgrounds;
*organize school libraries;
*plant flowers;
*perform other tasks that will directly impact over 88,000 NYC
public school students.
The day will be fun and productive, and when all the hard work is
done, we'll celebrate our accomplishments with some pizza at a pizza
place yet to be determined.
WHERE: The location will be assigned to us by New York Cares closer
to the day of the event.
HOW to join Team Oberlin:
1. Go to http://www.newyorkcaresday.org.
2. Click "Join an existing team"
3. Select our team name "Team OBERLIN" from the pull-down menu.
Please register by Friday, October 10, 2008!
COST: There is no cost to participate. If you would like to donate to
New York Cares you will be given that opportunity during the sign-up
process. You can also solicit others to donate, as the event is also
a fund-raising event for NY Cares.
If you have any questions, please contact Mei Song at meiysong@gmail.com
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OTHER ALUMNI RELATED EVENTS IN THE CITY:
September 20
John Hunka ‘85 invites you to participate in the International Coastal Cleanup
I’m leading a volunteer effort to clean up the shoreline at East River State Park in Brooklyn on September 20, 2008. Every Oberlin graduate who cares about the environment is cordially invited to join me.
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected. East River State Park is a seven-acre waterfront park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
WHERE:
East River State Park
90 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211
WHEN:
September 20, 2008
10:30 am
(Rain date is September 21)
REGISTER: Please email John Hunka at jkhunka@ix.netcom.com
DIRECTIONS:
By car: Brooklyn Queens Expressway to Metropolitan Avenue exit; west on
N. 8th Street to park entrance on Kent Avenue.
By subway: L line to Bedford Avenue exit; walk 3 blocks west to Kent
Avenue, one block north to N. 8th Street entrance
Walking: Head to Kent Avenue at the East River waterfront. The park
entrance is at N. 8th Street.
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UPCOMING
none right now
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GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
ROOMMATE WANTED
From Megan Whitman
Megan Whitman '05 is looking for a roommate to join her in a newly gut-renovated 2-bedroom apartment in the lovely Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan starting September 1st. Rent is very affordable and less than 20 minutes subway ride to midtown! Please email megan.whitman@gmail.com for details.
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OFFER AN OBERLIN STUDENT A WINTER TERM INTERNSHIP
Sponsored by the Office of Career Services
Please consider offering a Winter Term internship to a current Oberlin student. A Winter Term internship (the month of January) presents an opportunity for you to share information about your profession, provide career mentoring, and offer exposure to an occupational field of interest. In return you get an eager assistant to help out with substantive projects for a month!
New York City is Oberlin’s most popular destination for Winter Term interns and the students’ experiences reflect their diverse professional and personal interests. Last year over 50 students excelled in fields such as art, music, theater, law, finance, education, social service, public policy, and publishing. We hope you will consider offering an internship of your own!
Nathan Elton, Associate Director in the Office of Career Services, will support you through the entire internship process and is available to answer any questions that you may have about drafting an internship description, developing intern roles and responsibilities, and selecting an intern. He can be reached at: Nathan.elton@oberlin.edu or 440-775-8847. Please contact him at your earliest convenience, or, if you are ready to submit a Winter Term internship visit:http://www.oberlin.edu/career/WT/wtinternshipform.html
One final note, the Office of Career Services is always interested in sharing your summer internship and post-graduation opportunities with students. If you have a position that you would like to post please visit: http://www.oberlin.edu/career/Employers/post_position.html
Thank you!
- Nathan Elton & the Office of Career Services, Oberlin College
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GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
ROOMMATE WANTED
From Megan Whitman
Megan Whitman '05 is looking for a roommate to join her in a newly gut-renovated 2-bedroom apartment in the lovely Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan starting September 1st. Rent is very affordable and less than 20 minutes subway ride to midtown! Please email megan.whitman@gmail.com for details.
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OFFER AN OBERLIN STUDENT A WINTER TERM INTERNSHIP
Sponsored by the Office of Career Services
Please consider offering a Winter Term internship to a current Oberlin student. A Winter Term internship (the month of January) presents an opportunity for you to share information about your profession, provide career mentoring, and offer exposure to an occupational field of interest. In return you get an eager assistant to help out with substantive projects for a month!
New York City is Oberlin’s most popular destination for Winter Term interns and the students’ experiences reflect their diverse professional and personal interests. Last year over 50 students excelled in fields such as art, music, theater, law, finance, education, social service, public policy, and publishing. We hope you will consider offering an internship of your own!
Nathan Elton, Associate Director in the Office of Career Services, will support you through the entire internship process and is available to answer any questions that you may have about drafting an internship description, developing intern roles and responsibilities, and selecting an intern. He can be reached at: Nathan.elton@oberlin.edu or 440-775-8847. Please contact him at your earliest convenience, or, if you are ready to submit a Winter Term internship visit:http://www.oberlin.edu/career/WT/wtinternshipform.html
One final note, the Office of Career Services is always interested in sharing your summer internship and post-graduation opportunities with students. If you have a position that you would like to post please visit: http://www.oberlin.edu/career/Employers/post_position.html
Thank you!
- Nathan Elton & the Office of Career Services, Oberlin College
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