News Releases (page 119)


June 13, 2000

Scripps College Receives $4 Million Hampton Bequest

Scripps College has received a bequest in the amount of $4 million from the estate of Alexa Fullerton Hampton, an alumna of the class of 1942, who died on December 5, 1997.

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April 28, 2000

Scripps College Seniors Give 100%

When Scripps College’s Class of 2000 broke the school record for philanthropy, they did it unanimously. Each of the 142 members of the graduating class contributed to the senior gift, which now stands at $12,500, and will support student scholarships. This is the first time in Scripps’ history any class-student or alumnae-has attained 100% participation in a given year.

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April 18, 2000

Richard Hull Speaks at Fine Arts Foundation

Richard Hull, professor of graphic arts, Brigham Young University, and illustrator of children’s books, will speak at the Fine Arts Foundation meeting, May 10, 1:30 p.m., in the Balch Auditorium at Scripps College.

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Scripps College Senior Art Exhibit

Fourteen student artists at Scripps College will exhibit their work in a wide range of mediums – computer art, video, photography, painting, sculpture, and installation – at the 2000 Scripps Senior Art Exhibition, Pulse, from April 28 through May 14 at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, on the Scripps campus.

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March 30, 2000

Psychohistorian to Give Girard Lecture at Scripps

Robert J. Lifton, M.D., psychohistorian and award-winning writer on issues of genocide and Nazi doctors who killed in the name of healing, will give the Marion Jane Girard Lecture at Scripps College on April 12 at 4:15 p.m. in Balch Auditorium.

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March 20, 2000

Naomi Wolf to Speak at Scripps College Commencement

Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer and social critic, will be Scripps College’s commencement speaker on Sunday, May 14, 2000, at 3 p.m., on Elm Tree Lawn, on the Scripps campus.

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March 13, 2000

Immigration Policy to be Debated at Claremont Conference

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and European Parliament member Mario Soares are among the policy-makers, activists and leading scholars from the United States and Europe who will address issues of citizenship, immigration, racism and policy at a major conference, “In Migration: Immigration, Racism and Policy in California and Europe,” to be held March 30 to April 1 in Claremont, Calif.

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Barbara Kruger to be Wiegand Artist in Residence at Scripps

Barbara Kruger, the highly acclaimed visual artist and media critic, will be the Wiegand Foundation Artist in Residence at Scripps College from March 29-April 1, 2000, and will give several presentations, free and open to the public.

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March 10, 2000

Claremont Students to Perform “Scripps Dance”

“Scripps Dance,” a program of dance works produced by the Scripps College Dance Department and performed by students of The Claremont Colleges, will be presented on Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15 at 8:00 p.m., in the Mudd Theatre at the School of Theology on Foothill Boulevard at Harvard Avenue in Claremont.

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Hand-Printed Books of Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Scripps College

The Clark Humanities Museum at Scripps College presents an exhibition titled “A Press of Their Own: The Hand-Printed Books of Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,” from March 10 through May 14, 2000.

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