Sunday, December 2, 2007
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Orsay Restaurant
1057 Lexington Avenue (between 75th and 76th)
New York
$20/ Museum entrance and tour
$25/ Museum entrance, tour, and reception
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York warmly invites all alumni, parents, and friends to a guided tour of Renaissance art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led by Michael Orr, Lawrence Professor of Art History.
Join us to visit the special exhibition of three panels from Lorenzo Ghiberti’s newly-restored Gates of Paradise. One of the most influential works of the Italian Renaissance, Ghiberti’s doors for the Baptistery in Florence were reputedly named “The Gates of Paradise” by Michelangelo and have never before been exhibited in the United States. Professor Orr will describe the doors and their significance for the Italian Renaissance and lead us on our tour of other Renaissance works in the Metropolitan’s permanent collection. Following the tour, gather for an informal hors d’oeuvres reception at Orsay Restaurant.
Since there is limited space in the Gates of Paradise exhibit, we have arranged for two viewings. Please specify your preferred viewing time when you respond, and we will contact you with more details.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Rain or Shine
7th Floor Rio Gallery
Broadway Housing Communities
Dorothy Day Apartments
583 Riverside Drive (135th Street)
New York, NY 10031
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York warmly invites you to a rooftop picnic honoring members of the incoming Lawrence Class of 2011. Gather with incoming and current students, alumni, and their families as we celebrate the newest members of the Lawrence community.
We hope you will join us for this opportunity to meet and greet Lawrentians of all ages. A picnic supper of salads and side dishes will be served. Bring the entire family!
Bring a book! The Alumni Association supports efforts to enhance youth literacy and is accepting donations of children’s books. Please bring one or more new children’s books and we will donate them to a local non-profit.
Please R.S.V.P. by Friday, September 7.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Posse Foundation Headquarters
14 Wall Street, Suite 8A-60
New York City
$15/person covers reception and presentation
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York invites all alumni, parents, and friends, to meet Lawrence’s first Posse students and to learn more about this groundbreaking program.
The Posse Foundation, Inc. is a national organization that identifies, recruits, and selects student leaders from NYC public high schools and sends them to top colleges and universities across the country. Student Posses are multicultural teams of ten students which act as a traveling support system to ensure each Posse Scholar succeeds and graduates from college. Lawrence joined with the Posse Foundation last year. In December our first NYC Posse was selected, and students now meet weekly preparing for their first trip to campus this fall. They look forward to meeting Lawrentians.
5:00-6:15 p.m. -- Meet and greet our first NYC Posse students and their parents at an informal sandwich & appetizer reception with LU's Dean of Students Nancy Truesdell, Director of Alumni Relations Jan Quinlan '74, and Director of Financial Aid Sara Holman
6:15-8:00 p.m. -- Learn more about the Posse program from Debbie Bial, Posse Foundation Founder and President, and Russell Langsam, Director of Posse New York
The Posse Foundation provides new links between Lawrence and New York City – so we hope you take this opportunity to learn more and meet these future Lawrentian leaders. This promises to be an inspiring evening so we hope you can join us.
Thursday, October 5, 2006
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Black Finn
218 East 53rd Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
New York, NY 10022
312-355-6607
Host: Ki-Tae Kim, '03
$5/person, payable at the event
Class of 2006 alumni are our guests
You are warmly invited to the seventh annual Welcome to New York. This is a great opportunity to catch up with old alumni friends, while making a few new ones! Appetizers will be served and a cash bar is available. Come enjoy Black Finn's $20 open bar happy hour special along with the company of other local Lawrentians.
Welcome to New York is one of eleven Welcome to Our City events across the country. All New York-area alumni, family, and friends are welcome to attend. Guests of honor for the evening are Class of 2006 alumni and other alumni new to New York.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
The Cocoa Bar, outdoor garden
228 7th Avenue (btwn. 3rd/4th Sts.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Recommended $10 donation for adults
Children free
All alumni, parents and friends are warmly invited to attend a performance by the Javier Arau New Jazz Quartet on Tuesday, May 23 at the Cocoa Bar in Brooklyn. The group is playing to help raise money for the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation, a group of hand doctors who volunteer in Guatemala every summer. All proceeds will go directly to the GHHF's July mission. Come early to catch magician Robert Strauch, performing at 6:00 p.m.!
Javier Arau, '98, tenor sax
Mike MacAllister, guitar
Ike Sturm, bass
Jonathan Mele, drums
For more information on the Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation, visit www.guatemalahands.org
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Grace
114 Franklin Street
Tribeca
Host: Joanna de Plas, ’94
$5/person payable at the event
Class of 2005 alumni are our guests
You are warmly invited to the sixth annual Welcome to New York. This is a great opportunity to catch up with old alumni friends while making a few new ones! Hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar is available.
Welcome to New York is one of 14 Welcome to Our City events across the country. All New York-area alumni, friends and family are welcome. Guests of honor for the evening are Class of 2005 alumni and all alumni new to the New York area.
Grace is located on Franklin Street between West Broadway and Church Street. Subways near Grace: 1,9 – Franklin Street; Q,N,R,W – Canal Street/Broadway; A,C,E – Canal Street/6th Avenue
Sunday, May 22, 2005
2:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall
Isaac Stern Auditorium
881 Seventh Avenue
New York
Stephen Edwards, '85
Composer Stephen Edwards was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to a musical family. At the time
his mother was teaching private flute and piano lessons as well as conducting choirs and
playing in orchestras as a flutist: his father ran a family printing business called
Edwards Brothers that was started in 1893. Growing up, Mr. Edwards was exposed to all
kinds of music and musicians because of Ann Arbor's rich musical heritage and the
University of Michigan Music School. In high school, he attended Interlochen Music
camp for three summers and played in various jazz and rock bands along with pursuing his
classical piano studies. He attended Lawrence University which allowed him to
earn a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with a minor in Economics, and was awarded
"Outstanding Classical Soloist" by Down Beat magazine. Before graduation, he won a national
talent search to be the keyboardist in the All-American College Orchestra at Disney World.
Guest artists included Carmine Coppola, Johnny Green, and Mike Post -- who invited Stephen
to move to California and try his hand at the entertainment business.
Upon his arrival in California in 1986, Mr. Edwards enrolled in the Dick Grove School of Music -- a commercial training school for composers to learn the craft of writing for orchestras and bands, and the craft of film scoring. While studying, he became an active session musician, performing on TV programs such as "LA Law," "Magnum PI," "Wiseguy," "Hunter," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and movies such as "Flatliners." His first movie was a small independent production called "Midnight Fear" starring David Carradine, which director Quentin Tarantino called one of his favorite Carradine roles.
In 2000, he was commissioned by Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, to compose a Mass for choir and orchestra. The premier took place in early 2001, and a special recording was made in London, England in June of 2001. After 9/11/01, the Mass was dedicated to the victims of these atrocities, and since then over 30,000 copies of the CD have been distributed all over the world. There have been several live performances since then, and more are planned for Naples, Florida; Queensland, Australia; and Carnegie Hall in New York on May 22, 2005. Also included on the Carnegie program will be a new piece "Revelation: Battle, Peace in Heaven and Warning on Earth" for 170 voices and orchestra.
Mr. Edwards has scored over 60 movies, from comedy to action to martial arts to documentaries. He is also active in commercials, and in 2002 founded Source in Sync, an independent Music Library that licenses music to NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, WB, Paramount, Miramax, and several others. In 1995, he married Paula Auger, and has two daughters -- Isabella Rose (6), and Adelaide Pearl (3). The family resides in Pacific Palisades, CA along with five Steinway pianos, two dogs, and lots of music in the house!
The Lawrence University
Alumni Association of New York
And the Board of Trustees
Cordially invite you
To meet President Jill Beck
Thursday, March 31, 2005
6:00 p.m. - Reception
Performance by Melissa Kelly, '00, soprano
and Paul Speiser, '98, baritone
6:45 p.m. - Remarks by President Beck
University Club
Council Room
One West 54th Street
New York
$20 per person
($15, members of the Classes of 2000-04)
Appetizers, wine, and soft drinks will be served.
Please be advised that the University Club kindly requests that guests wear a jacket and tie, ladies in business or evening attire.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Grace
114 Franklin Street
Tribeca
Hosts: Joanna de Plas, '94, and Lori Cromwell, '00
$5/person payable at the event
You're warmly invited to the fifth annual Welcome to Our City, a special young alumni event that takes place in 14 cities across the country. Please join us and catch up with old alumni friends while making a few new ones! Hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar is available.
The guests of honor for the evening are Class of 2004 alumni. Many of them have recently relocated to new cities and this event is designed to help them meet local alumni.
Grace is located on Franklin Street between West Broadway and Church Street. Subways near Grace: 1,9 - Franklin Street; Q,N,R,W - Canal Street/Broadway; A,C,E - Canal Street/6th Avenue
Members of the Board of Trustees
Barbara Bryant Hiller, John Luke, Jr., and Campbell Scott
Cordially invite you to join
Richard and Margot Warch at
A reception to honor Rik
During his 25th and final year as Lawrence University President
Saturday, February 28, 2004
6:00 p.m.
$20 per person ($15, members of the Classes of 1998-2003)
Cash bar
Grand Hyatt New York
Park Avenue at Grand Central Station
New York, New York
President Richard Warch
The second-longest serving president in the college's history, Richard Warch became
Lawrence's 14th president on September 1, 1979. Prior to that, he spent two years as vice
president for academic affairs and professor of history at Lawrence. From 1968 to 1977,
Warch was a member of the Yale University faculty in the history and American studies
departments and spent his final year there as associate dean.
In June, 1999, Warch was named to the Executive Committee of the Annapolis Group, an association of more than 100 of America's leading liberal arts colleges. In the 1987 study, "The Effective College President," a two-year project funded by the Exxon Education Foundation, Warch was named one of the nation's top 100 college presidents.
A native of Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J., Warch earned his bachelor of arts degree from Williams College in 1961, his bachelor of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1964 and his Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University in 1968.
He is the author of the book School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1710-1740, co-edited the volume John Brown in the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed Series and has addressed a wide variety of issues facing higher education in numerous published articles, reviews and commentaries.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
2:00 pm
Hilton New York - Grand Ballroom
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York City
The premiere performance of Fred Sturm's, '73, "Abstraktes Bild" ("Abstract Image"), the 2003 ASCAP/IAJE Commission in Honor of Quincy Jones, will be presented at the opening ceremony of the International Association of Jazz Educators 31st Annual International Conference at 2:00 p.m., January 22, 2004 in the Hilton New York and Towers Grand Ballroom. The work will be conducted by the composer and will feature New York City's Gotham Jazz Orchestra.
Free guest admission is available to Lawrence alumni and friends for this single, one-hour performance. Contact Cara Helmke, '00, at 920-832-6916 with the names of those who will be attending by Thursday, January 15. You must RSVP to get free tickets. Tickets will be held at the IAJE Conference Registration Desk (in the Hilton) and can be picked up just prior to the concert that day by requesting "Guests of Fred Sturm."
The Notre Dame Choir presents
Friday, December 5, 2003
8:00 p.m.
The Church of Notre Dame
405 West 114th Street
(one block east of the Columbia University main campus)
New York
Free admission
(an offertory collection will be taken)
Conservatory alumnus Chris Mueller, '94, invites Lawrence alumni, parents, and friends to enjoy this performance, which is a combination of scriptural readings and choral selections offered in joyful anticipation of the coming of Christmas.
Featured composers this year include Heinrich Isaac, Orlande de Lassus, Orlando Gibbons, Anton Bruckner, Herbert Howells, Francis Poulenc, and Morten Lauridsen.
Music at St. Paul's presents
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
6:00 p.m.
St. Paul's Chapel
on the Columbia University Campus
No admission charge
Chris Mueller, '94, Music Director for Catholic Campus Ministry, and Nathan Davis, Founder and Music Director of the Young New Yorkers' Chorus, invite you to their performance of contemporary music for piano and tenor. The concert will last one hour, with a brief reception afterward.
Directions
Take the 1/9 train to 116th St./Columbia University.
The chapel is at 117th and Amsterdam - walk east through the campus.
Program:
- selections from Excursions, Op. 20
- Three Songs, Op. 45
Samuel Barber
- selections from the Ludus Tonalis
- selections from Lieder, Op. 18
Paul Hindemith
- selections from Les Soirées de Nazelles
- C. and Fêtes galantes
Francis Poulenc
Friday and Saturday, September 26 - 27, 2003
8:00 p.m.
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street
New York
$15/person
reservations and info 212-334-7479
tickets available at the door
Ayako Kato (dance)
Jason Roebke, '96 (double bass)
with special guest Tim Barnes (percussion)
Art Union Humanscape is a project of Tokyo dancer Ayako Kato and Chicago bassist Jason Roebke, '96. The performance focuses on silence and stillness. Since 1998, they have done more than 50 performances in the United States and Japan.
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Grace
114 Franklin Street
Tribeca
Host: Joanna de Plas, '94
$5/person payable at the event
You're warmly invited to the fourth annual Welcome to Our City, a special young alumni event that takes place in 14 cities across the country. Please join us and catch up with old alumni friends while making a few new ones! Hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar is available.
The guests of honor for the evening are Class of 2003 alumni. Many of them have recently relocated to new cities and this event is designed to help them meet local alumni.
Grace is located on Franklin Street between West Broadway and Church Street. Subways near Grace: 1,9 - Franklin Street; Q,N,R,W - Canal Street/Broadway; A,C,E - Canal Street/6th Avenue
Sunday, April 27, 2003
5:30 p.m.
CAMI Hall
165 West 57th Street
New York City
$10/person (free for New York Flute Club Members)
You're invited to hear Joanna Messer, '01, winner of the New York Flute Club's 2003 Young Artist Competition, in a special performance at CAMI Hall. She will be joined by second prize winner Nathalie Joachim and third prize winner Daniel Grodzicki.
The New York Flute Club sponsors the annual competition for flutists ages 18 to 27. In March, a panel of artist judges selects first, second, and third prize winners. Each prize winner receives the certificate of the New York Flute Club, a cash honorarium, and a performance opportunity at the regular April concert of the Club. Past winners of the competition have achieved recognition in the music world with appointments to such organizations as the Boston Symphony.
Originally from Polo, Illinois, Joanna L. Messer began studying flute with Amy Faber Beard and Carlyn Lloyd-Ford. At the Lawrence University Conservatory in Appleton, Wisconsin, Ms. Messer continued study with Dr. Ernestine Whitman and Suzanne Jordheim. She was elected to the musical honorary society Pi Kappa Lambda in May 2001. Ms. Messer graduated from Lawrence with a Bachelor of Music in Performance magna cum laude in June 2001. After commencement, Ms. Messer moved to the Chicago area where she joined the University of Chicago's New Music Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra for 2001-2002 and studied with Molly Alicia Barth of the contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird. In May 2002, Ms. Messer performed Mozart's Concerto in G Major with the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra after winning the University's biennial Concerto Competition. This past fall, Ms. Messer began her Master of Music in Performance program at Carnegie Mellon University, studying with Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight
Cornelia Street Cafe (in the Village)
29 Cornelia Street
New York
$20/person; $15/person young alumni (Classes of 1998-2002)
Ticket prices include concert, hors d’oeuvres, and soft drinks. A cash bar is available.
Alumni, parents, and friends, are warmly invited to join Associate Director of Alumni Relations Andrea Powers, '94, in a celebration of Lawrence's acclaimed jazz studies program. The first set features John Carlson, '82, on trumpet, Associate Professor of Music Dane Richeson on percussion, and Ken Schaphorst, former director of jazz studies, on piano. Following an intermission, a number of alumni performers will showcase their talents in the second half of this lively program.
Dane Richeson, a versatile percussionist and jazz drummer, has performed with numerous noted jazz artists such as Lionel Hampton and Clark Terry. John Carlson, '82, a free-lance trumpet artist based in New York City, has recorded with the Charlie Kohlhase Quintet and is a Cornelia Street Cafe veteran. Ken Schaphorst, an acclaimed composer as well as performer, is currently the Chair of the Jazz Studies and Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.
September 4 - October 12, 2002
Opening: Wednesday, September 4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Daniel Silverstein Gallery
520 West 21st Street
New York
On September 4, we will open the season with an exhibition titled "Somewhere Between Good and Evil." This solo exhibition, Andrew Guenther's first, will consist of a single large sculpture, drawings, and paintings. The sculpture is made up of a custom made coffin, built by the artist to fit his individual proportions, mounted on top of a mechanical rodeo bull. The bull will buck, swing, and turn throughout the run of the exhibition. The paintings have a style that lies somewhere among artists like Milton Avery, Stuart Davies, and Gary Hume. Andrew's drawings reminds one of George Grosz, Ben Shahn, and Marcel Dzumas.
Andrew's crude paintings stand out because they are simple in their medium and style, and spiritual in their content. His drawings, which will be hung unframed throughout the room, act like studies in social satire, deep and meaningful.
Following in the spirit of Berkeley in the late '60s, Andrew has decided to invite a few special guest stars to each put a piece into his solo exhibition. Cameos include, Sol Sax, Kirsteine Roepstorff, and Simon Cerigo. These artworks will be identified by a large star placed over each piece.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Grace
114 Franklin Street
Tribeca
Hosts:
Joanna de Plas, '94, Priya Udeshi, '95, and Imran Husain, '94
New York alumni from the Classes of 1987-2002 are warmly invited to the third annual Welcome to Our City, a special young alumni event that takes place in 14 cities across the country. Please join us and catch up with old alumni friends while making a few new ones! There will be give-aways, plus a drawing for a Lawrence hat and t-shirt. Hors d'oeuvres will be served.
The guests of honor for the evening are Class of 2002 alumni. Many of them have recently relocated to new cities and this event is designed to help them meet local alumni.
Grace is located on Franklin Street between West Broadway and Church Street.
Subways near Grace: 1,9 - Franklin Street; Q,N,R,W - Canal Street/Broadway; A,C,E -
Canal Street/6th Avenue
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York City cordially invites you to attend a reception featuring the presentation
$15 per person
includes appetizers, soft drinks and wine
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The Williams Club
24 East 39th Street, New York
Join the Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York in welcoming Dr. Richard Warch for an informative tour of the Lawrence campus - without the journey to Wisconsin.
Richard Warch has served as president of Lawrence since 1979. During his tenure, the campus has changed dramatically. Every major academic building has been constructed anew or renovated and more changes are yet to come.
Now, the Trustees and the president are poised to address residential life. Plans are being made for a new campus center, which will include food services and student union facilities, the construction of additional residential halls, and the renovation or conversion of existing buildings - an exciting era in Lawrence's history.
All alumni, parents, and friends are warmly invited to join President Warch, Vice President for Development Greg Volk, and Director of Alumni Relations Jan Daniels Quinlan, '74, for what promises to be a spirited and informative gathering.
Monday, June 4, 2001
5:00 p.m. - Optional guided tour of The New Amsterdam Theatre
6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:45 p.m. - Presentation
Tour - The New Amsterdam Theatre (renovated by Disney Corporation for
The Lion King)
Reception/Presentation - The New 42nd Street Studios, LuEsther T. Mertz Board Room (9th Floor)
$30/person - guided tour, reception & presentation
$20/person - reception & presentation only
Have corporations taken on the role as patrons of the arts? Is Disney CEO Michael Eisner a contemporary incarnation of Medici? Using Disney's activities on Broadway as a vehicle, Professor Kathy Privatt will discuss the benefits, limitations, and impact of corporations financing theatre arts.
The Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York warmly invites all alumni, parents, and friends to explore New York's revitalized theatre district and issues facing the arts. Following the optional guided tour of the New Amsterdam, the group will gather at the New 42nd Street Studios for a wine and hors d'oeuvre reception and presentation by Professor Kathy Dudley Privatt.
Professor Privatt joined the Lawrence theatre faculty in the fall of 1999. She received her PhD in Theatre from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Specializing in 20th Century American Theatre, her dissertation and ongoing research focuses on corporate influence on Broadway.
Thursday, September 14, 2000
7:00 p.m.
Art Bar
Hosts:
Margi Briggs-Lofton, '76
Brett Kroeger, '99
Joanna de Plas, '94
The Lawrence University Alumni Association warmly invites all young alumni (Classes of 1990-2000) to "Welcome to Our City." This special new event takes place in 15 cities across the country on Thursday, September 14, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. All events are casual, cash bar gatherings that provide an opportunity to socialize with other young alumni. There will be give-aways, plus a drawing for a Lawrence hat and t-shirt.
The guests of honor for the evening are Class of 2000 alumni. Many of them have recently relocated to new cities and this event is designed for them to meet local young alumni.
Each city's event has at least one local host that also serves as a contact person. Please call or email them if you have any questions. A formal RSVP is not required, but will be appreciated by hosts who plan to order food.
Thursday, March 23, 2000
6:30-8:30 p.m.
The Princeton Club
15 West 43rd Street
New York City
$15 covers appetizers, soft drinks, and presentation materials
Recent graduates (classes of 1989-99) are offered a reduced rate of $10.
Join the Lawrence University Alumni Association of New York City for a lively discussion of one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century. Although hard to believe, the 1960s are now part of our historical past. Were the '60s really unique? Was there truly a revolution, and if so, what difference has it made to our world today? If you've ever wondered how historians answer these questions, we hope you'll attend this event.
Professor Jerald Podair created the Lawrence history course entitled "Reconsidering the 1960s" and led a popular "rap session" on this topic at last year's 30th reunion. Dr. Podair, a graduate of NYU, Columbia School of Law, and Princeton University, joined the Lawrence faculty in 1998. A specialist in 20th century American urban history and race relations, Podair's doctoral dissertation at Princeton, "Like Strangers: Blacks, Whites, and New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis," was awarded the 1998 Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians for "literary distinction in the writing of history."
All alumni, students, parents, and friends are warmly invited to bring their own opinions and personal recollections of the '60s to this event. Spirited interaction is promised.