NEWSLETTER NEWS:
We’re very excited to announce that starting in July, Kari Wethington, OC ‘03, will be taking over as newsletter coordinator. Let’s give her a warm Oberlin welcome to this position! Submissions should still go to the same address above. I will still be around in a consulting role, but after ten years of publishing this newsletter, it seems like it is time to pass the torch and move on to some other projects. Many thanks to all who have contributed in the past! Keep sending us your event notices and announcements!
-Peter Flint, ‘92
CONTENTS:
OFFICIAL CLUB EVENTS
June 20 - Oberlin Club Summer Picnic in Central Park
June 30 - Alumni Happy Hour in Midtown
UPCOMING
July 28 - Oberlin Authors Book Club Returns in July!
July 13 - Oberlin Club of Western New England Tanglewood Picnic and Concert with Oberlin President Krislov!
July - Oberlin Alum Sports Teams forming!!!
OTHER ALUMNI EVENTS
June 6 - Jacob Wise curates music performance at DRWR Gallery
June 8 - Joanna Smith Rakoff reads from her new novel about Oberlin grads
May 21-July 13 - Julia Vogl, ‘07 has public art project in Fort Greene Park
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Oberlin Club looking for venues for events
ALUMNI CLUB EVENTS IN THE CITY THIS MONTH:
June 20
Oberlin Club Summer Picnic
The Oberlin Club of New York invites you and your family to a byo Summer Picnic on Saturday, June 20th!
Sponsored by the Oberlin Alumni Association and the Parents Executive Committee the Summer Picnics offer a great opportunity to meet local Oberlin alumni, parents, current students and incoming freshman for a fun filled casual picnic before the start of the school year.
All around the country, incoming freshman and their families can meet and mingle with the students of today and yesterday without having to travel further than their hometown!
Join fellow New York area Obies, parents and friends on
Saturday, June 20th from 1 - 4 p.m.
Ross Pinetum (C84-86)
Central Park
New York, NY
www.centralpark2000.com/database/ross_pinetum.html
For more information please contact Mathilda McGee-Tubb ’07 at mathildasage@gmail.com.
Bring your own picnic or something to share as well as family members, kids, significant others, Oberlin memorabilia, pictures and summer games.
RSVP to the Alumni Office at:
www2.oberlin.edu/alumni/oberlinClubs/picnics.html
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June 30
Oberlin Alumni Happy Hour in Midtown!
Date: Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:30ish
Place: Hibernia Bar
401 West 50th St.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 969-9703
Come kick off summer with your fellow Obies at Hibernia Bar, where we have reserved a private outdoor patio for the occasion! $4 Blue Moon, Coors Light, Yeungling on tap; $5 well drinks; $5-$6 all other draft beers; and a surprise special Oberlin drink! So drop by, grab a drink (or maybe even a board game—they have many), and mingle!
To check out the extensive beer offerings, bar menu, and for more information visit: http://www.hiberniabar.com/home.
See you all there!
UPCOMING
July 28
OBERLIN AUTHORS BOOK CLUB RETURNS!
After a year hiatus, we are back in action!
TUESDAY, JULY 28th
7 PM SHARP
Place - To be announced. (I am looking for an Obie owned or run cafe or restaurant in Mid-town! - will gladly take suggestions!)
This is not your average book club, this one is very special. We invite the AUTHORS and Oberlin Alumni to be part of our discussion.
Please join us whether it be for one discussion, or for all of them.
My intention is to have this group meet quarterly as long as book submissions keep coming!
Our first novel, SIGNIFYING NOTHING, was written by Clifford Thompson, class of '85.
I have already started reading the book and am thoroughly enjoying it. Here is a brief description by the author:
Lester Hobbs, nineteen years old, is mentally retarded and mute ― until the day he suddenly begins to rap at the top of his lungs about life with his parents and older siblings. The members of his family struggle to figure out what it means, for Lester and themselves. Lester’s wise-cracking brother, Greg, protective of Lester yet jealous of the attention he gets, tries with a spectacular lack of success to profit from his brother’s new ability. Lester and Greg’s sister, Sherrie ― bright, pretty, responsible, and aloof ― tries to learn the medical explanation for Lester’s condition. That leads her to an affair with George Greer, a brilliant, married, womanizing neurologist. Meanwhile, Lester’s mother, Maddie, tries to adjust emotionally to the change in her son, and Pat, the father, works to figure out the right course of action once the cause of Lester’s rapping is revealed.
The book can be purchased at Amazon.com. It is short and quick reading so I hope you will all have a chance to enjoy it before you come to discussion.
Please RSVP to Katherine at KJK11b@aol.com
Best wishes,
Katherine J. Kornblau
Oberlin Alumni Coordinator, NYC
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July 12
Oberlin Club of Western New England
Tanglewood Picnic and Concert with Oberlin President Krislov!
The Oberlin Club of Western New England invites you and your family to join President Marvin Krislov at our annual afternoon at Tanglewood!
Boston Symphony Orchestra - Tanglewood
Sunday, July 12th
2:30 p.m.
Koussevitzky Music Shed
Lenox, MA
www.tanglewood.org
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
It’s our 7th Annual Tanglewood picnic and concert! Bring a picnic lunch and join President Krislov and fellow Obies from all around the New England area! We always have a wonderful turnout and this is a great chance to call your friends and plan a mini Oberlin reunion.
Order reserved Section 18 & 20 shed tickets ($28/each) from the Oberlin Alumni Office well ahead, as this event usually sells out quickly.
REGISTER at:
http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/OBL/eventcal/eventcal.cgi
You may also buy lawn tickets from the box office when you arrive. Even if you are buying lawn tickets, please let us know that you are coming, so that we may plan for the reception. Call us at 440-775-8692 or e-mail alumni@oberlin.edu.
Wine & Cheese Reception!
We’ll precede the 2:30 p.m. concert with a 1:00 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception, so you can meet President Krislov and fellow Obies.
Look for the Oberlin College banner/table under the large tree to the left, just inside the main entrance.
Event Volunteers Needed!
We’re also looking for volunteers to help with this event! If you’re interested in volunteering please contact Regional Coordinators Marybeth Bridegam ’57 at bmarybeth@comcast.net or Harry Lavo ’61 at hlavo@verizon.net.
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Oberlin Alum Sports Teams forming!!!
Wanna play some sports with other Oberlin grads?
We are forming some Oberlin teams through Zog sports.
This is a FUN, SOCIAL league - you do not have to be a pro to play!!!
Here is the link to their organization: http://www.zogsports.org
If you choose to sign up you MUST note that you want to be on the OBERLIN TEAM - or they will not know where to put you!
Zog will put all the Obies that register for the same sport on the same team. If they do not have enough Obies registered to form a team they will add some people so we can still play. Therefore, if you have non - Obie friends that would like to be on your team, you can invite them too. Tell them to register for the Oberlin team as well.
I hope we can get some good teams together. I think I am going to join the Bowling team!
Best wishes,
Katherine Kornbalu
Oberlin Alumni Coordinator for NYC
OTHER ALUMNI RELATED EVENTS IN THE CITY:
June 6
Jacob Wise curates music performance at DRWR Gallery
Saturday, June 6, 6pm (that's right, 6/6 at 6 - be VERY TEMPTED to come)
DRWR Gallery
1254 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn (J Train to Myrtle)
DRWR Gallery has asked me to curate a night of music on my birthday! There will be cake with my family's very special icing recipe (no, not that kind of special, silly) and drinks, and everybody should come! This coincides with the opening of C.J. Reilly's "Drawing Stories from South America" and is part of the Bushwick Open Studios weekend.
Performances include:
- Ross Feller playing a set on curved soprano (it has come to my attention that I should clarify that he'll be playing a saxophone, not a voluptuous singer).
- Johnny Butler playing a solo saxophone and laptop set
- The Tatyana Tenenbaum - Dave Burgreen - Jake Wise song trio playing very beautiful songs with Zoe Barton, Hannah Verrill, and Ethan Cowan dancing!
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June 8
Joanna Smith Rakoff reads from her new novel about Oberlin grads
Joanna Smith Rakoff's novel, A Fortunate Age, is out this month from Scribner. The novel follows six Oberlin grads as they move to New York during the tech boom of the late 1990s and try to make their way in typically Oberlin-ish fields--theater, music, publishing, academia--and eventually find themselves living rather more bourgeois lives than they expected. The New York Times called it a "piquant view of her evolving generation" that "deserves a room of its own." The Los Angeles Times described it as "compulsively readable." The Daily News called it "“[A] richly drawn narrative…Smith Rakoff's social commentary remains both engaging and satisfying in its breadth and depth…A FORTUNATE AGE provides an expansive and elegantly executed time capsule of the dot.com generation finding its feet during a critical moment in history.”
Joanna has one remaining appearance in New York this spring:
June 8, 7:00pm, The 92nd Street Y. In conversation with Judith Warner (Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety), Patricia Bosworth (Diane Arbus), Sheila Weller (Girls Like Us), and Emily Gould (Gawker), about young women coming of age in New York.
Many, many thanks,
Joanna
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May 21-July 13
Julia Vogl, ‘07 has public art project in Fort Greene Park
Dear Oberlin Alums,
I am very excited to say that I will have a public art project up in Fort Greene Park this summer. Funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council and Hosted by the Parks Department, I hope all can come and picnic by the work at some point in late May, June, and early July.
A little description is below. It would be great if you could spread the word.
Thanks!
Leaves of Fort Greene, 2009
Julia Vogl
Plexi glas, wood, cement, grass and stain glass spray paint.
Fort Greene Park May 21st– July 13th 2009 (COME PICNIC and PLAY)
The enlarged blades of grass, which mimic the diversity of the park’s foliage, symbolically represent the diverse population of the Fort Greene community. The juxtaposition of the work in the park is an effort to spur dialogue in the community, prompting reflection and contemplation for the individual as well as the group.
This temporary site specific art installation relies on the movement of the sun. The project will be ever changing, inviting all to return to the work on more than one occasion. Leaves of Fort Greene is about light, space, color, change of perspective and experience. By abstracting the environment, and creating a participatory element, the work invites the community to experience the park in a new way.
Julia Vogl is a Brooklyn based artist and Fort Greene resident. She is a graduate of Oberlin College (2007) where she completed her first large scale public work, The Library Project. Julia currently works for Public Art for Public Schools a program part of the New York City School Construction Authority, as an arts project manager. In her work, she aspires to make the un-monumental, monumental, explaining “I am to crystallize the daily brief beautiful moments, and let them linger, like holding on to your own shadow.”
Leaves of Fort Greene is sponsored in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council Inc. Hosted by the New York City Parks and Recreation Michael R Bloomberg, Mayor and Adrian Benepe, Commissioner.
UPCOMING
Stay tuned!
GENERAL ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Oberlin Club of NYC is looking for venues for events:
The Oberlin Club of NYC is looking for Obies in the NYC area that own restaurants, bars, coffee shops, theatres, etc. that would be willing to host special alumni events. If you’re one of these Obies and you’re looking to promote your business and Oberlin College by bringing in fellow Obies and their friends and colleagues please contact Katherine Kornblau ’90 at kjk11b@aol.com.
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