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November 11, 2005

Career Advancement

This summer, Smith College announced the appointment of Patricia “Trish” Jackson ’82 as vice president for advancement.

Barbequed Sagehen

The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas volleyball team served up a sumptuous feast of fried Pomona-Pitzer Sagehen Friday night, scorching their cross-campus rivals in a 3-0 victory.

Scripps Lends Helping Hands to Habitat for Humanity

Each month staff members of Scripps College Residential Life participate in a development workshops or projects. In October, the group helped the Claremont Habitat for Humanity project, building six single-family homes in six weeks.

Molly Ivins Honored

Molly Ivins ’66, known for her acerbic and refreshingly honest political columns, received the International Women’s Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award this October.

College Kick

Nicole Smith is a busy Scripps junior; she not only manages a full-time class load, a part-time job at Pomona College’s Coop Fountain, and rehearsal and performance obligations as a member of both the Claremont Concert Choir and Chamber Choir, she is also a certified kickboxing instructor at The Claremont Colleges.

Rebuilding Lives, One Tree at a Time

Karen Rollet-Crocker ’66 has been a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for more than 20 years. The Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association was founded in part by Rollet-Crocker, and she has been active in developing the Peel Mansion Museum and Garden and the Compton Gardens. Rollet-Crocker has been a notable contributor to her community, and early this year, she was given the opportunity to reach out beyond her community.

Medicinal Art

Beverly Shieh ’09 donated two original works of art to the American Medical Association Foundation. Her acrylic paintings, commissioned by Guam’s American Medical Association Delegation, were auctioned off at the foundation’s annual silent auction this past June.

A Wholesome Merger

With construction of the new Student Health Services building completed this past summer, the Wellness Center, Monsour Counseling, and Health Education Outreach are now in the same building. This logical consolidation means that students can go to a single center for any health-related concerns.

Athenas Soccer on the Move

Move over women’s soccer teams everywhere, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas are ready to play!

Vanguard of Student Investors

A Christian Science Monitor (Oct. 24, 2005) article on women’s attitudes regarding investing featured comments by Stacy Klein ’08, vice president of the Scripps College Student Investment Fund.