Serving Smith College Alumnae and Friends in the Greater Philadelphia Region
We will attend our third annual Phillies Game on
Sunday, June 23rd at 1:05 pm
versus the Miami Marlins at Citizens Bank Park.
Tickets are approximately $30 and financial assistance is available.
Please RSVP at phillysmithclub@gmail.com by Monday 6/17.
Guests and kids are welcome!
On Saturday, April 6th from 9am-12pm a group of Philly Smithies are going to volunteer at Share Food Program (2901 West Hunting Park Avenue Philadelphia). Share Food Program is a nonprofit organization that works to bring food to people in need throughout Philadelphia. Share brings food to over 505 Philadelphia food pantries. Share services 5,000 low-income households by distributing below-retail price monthly food packages. Last year Share’s on-site Nice Roots Farm harvested 15,000 pounds of produce which were distributed to neighborhoods that do not have adequate access to fresh affordable produce.
We’re hoping to get a great turnout of Smith Alums. Family members are welcome. To join us, please contact Pam Kim ’87 at phillysmithclub@gmail.com.
Join the Philly Smith Club for Smith Movie Night on Monday February 18th at 6:30 at the Ritz Theater at the Bourse. This year’s film will be the critically acclaimed Roma directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
The Bourse Market is located at 111 S Independence Mall E, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Adult movie tickets are $10.25 and senior tickets are $7.25. Please let the club know if cost is prohibitive; assistance is available.
RSVP to phillysmithclub@gmail.com and meet outside the Ritz theater at 6:30 p.m. on the 18th. Optional movie discussion to follow in the Bourse food court!
RSVP TODAY FOR THE SPRING FACULTY SPEAKER EVENT!
Sunday, March 10th 3:00-5:00 p.m. at Art Sanctuary
The Smith College Club of Philadelphia invites Philadelphia-area alumnae and their guests to our annual faculty speaker event! Professor Ginetta Candelario, Professor of Sociology and of Latin American & Latino/a Studies, will speak on Sunday, March 10th at 3:00 p.m. at Art Sanctuary (628 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146). Professor Candelario will present ‘From Pin Curls to Perms’ and her work on race and U.S. beauty culture.
You can also read about Professor Candelario’s current work as the Editor of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism in the Winter edition of the Alumnae Quarterly.
Admission for the Spring Faculty Speaker is Pay What You Wish (with a $10.00 suggested donation) via the PayPal Donate button on our Membership page or at the door. Your admission also includes tea, hors d’oeuvres, and desserts.
Please RSVP to phillysmithclub@gmail.com (and let us know if you are a former student of Professor Candelario).
Philly area Smithies!
Join the Smith Club on Monday, January 21st for the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service. This is the 24th year for the largest King Day event in the nation and this year the Philly Smith Club will partner with the Hawthorne Cultural Center to clean and decorate this community agency.
Volunteering will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Center at 1200 Carpenter Street. Space is limited so please RSVP today at phillysmithclub@gmail.comto join the team!
All Philly-area Smithies and their families are invited to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Tree-Lighting Ceremony at 5:30 on Wednesday Nov 21st. The free event takes place on the East Terrace at 6:00 followed by pay-what-you-wish admission at the PMA. The Tree-Lighting Celebration includes festive treats and music by York Street Hustle leading up to the 6:00 p.m. countdown. Warm (and adult) beverages and a live choir continue the celebration inside.
The Smith Club will meet at 5:30 at the Rocky Steps at the “Prometheus Strangling the Vulture” sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz.
Email your RSVP to phillysmithclub@gmail.com for the contact number or just come on by on the 21st!
Happy Fall, Smithies 
Thank you to all the Philly Smithies who have already donated to the the student initiated rebuild of the Kensington High School library!
The Philly Smith Club is still collecting books for Kensington High this month including:
– Young Adult Novels
– Graphic Novels
– Anime
– Comic Books
– Biographies
– Dictionaries (Spanish, English, French, Chinese, etc.)
– Technical (engineering, nursing, career books, etc.)
– Music books
What was your favorite book in high school or a book you wished you had read in high school? Give it back to the city!
Contact phillysmithclub@gmail.com to arrange a drop off or pick up.
Learn more about the Kensington High School Library project here:
http://www2.philly.com/…/kensington-high-sschool-library-er…
For this month’s On the 18th we will enjoy a Fall Happy Hour at Bud & Marilyn’s in Center City. Bud & Marilyn’s is located at 1234 Locust St and come meet Liz ’97 any time between 5:30-7:30 (Liz will be there at 5 if you want to get there a little earlier). Stay as little or as long as you like!
The Philly Smith Club is also collecting books this month for the student-initiated rebuild of the Kensington High School library. The Inquirer article on this phenomenal project lead by the Kensington High senior class can be found here.
They are especially looking for the following genres:
What was your favorite book in high school or a book you wished you had read in high school? Give it back to the city! Donations can be brought to the On the 18th happy hour or contact phillysmithclub@gmail.com for more details.
The class has also created several amazon wish lists:
Library Wish List:
Link: http://a.co/1H3ecc3
Mr. Cruz’s Engineering Class Wish List:
Link: http://a.co/eLFCOw2
If you can’t make it but would still like to donate books, you can drop them off at the school or send them to:
Mr. Eric Cruz
Kensington High School – Room 316
2051 E Cumberland St
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Enjoy the day with some fellow Smithies at 7pm at City Tap House, 2 Logan Square !!
The Smith College Club of Philadelphia 