Alumnae Travel Program Offering Trips to New York and France

Meredith's Alumnae Travel Program is offering two upcoming trips. Meredith faculty and staff are invited to take advantage of these opportunities.

Pre-Holiday Shopping Trip to New York City

Join Meredith alumnae on a pre-holiday trip to New York City this November 12-14. Plans include a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Museum, walking tour of Chinatown and Little Italy, a special reception to meet New York alumnae, and free time to shop, eat and see Broadway shows. The cost for this trip is $699/per person double occupancy or $599/per person, quadruple occupancy. A $300 deposit is due Sept. 1, and the balance is due Oct. 1, 2004. Price includes airfare, transfers, accommodations in a first-class hotel in a great neighborhood, and admission to museums and tours. Make checks payable to Meredith College.

Plan a French Vacation with Meredith Alumnae

Plans are being finalized now for an alumnae tour of France, from Provence to Paris, June 26-July 6, 2005. The tour is to begin in Nice, where the group will stay for several days, checking out the world of the impressionists. There will also be time to visit Cannes and Monte Carlo. Then the tour will travel north by private motor coach, through wine and cheese country, stopping to see the Caves at Lascaux, the great medieval church at Moissac, and the chateau at Chambord. The trip ends with four nights in Paris, accented by visits to the Louvre, couturier shows and a culinary extravaganza.

To sign up for the New York City trip, send payment to Blue Greenberg, Office of Alumnae and Parent Relations, Meredith College, 3800 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, N.C. 27607.

For more information on either trip, check www.meredith.edu/alumnae/travel-program.htm, or call Blue Greenberg at (919) 760-2860.

Nutshell Notes

• Dr. LeRoy Walker, former chancellor of N.C. Central University and past president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and Mr. Chuck Broms, former executive with ARCO, have been elected to serve a three-year term on the Meredith College Board of Trustees. Their terms run from July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2007.

• Hilary Allen, interim director of alumnae and parent relations, Catherine Maxwell, director of development and Connie Harris, vice president for institutional advancement, conducted roundtable discussions at CASE District III conference in Atlanta, Ga. Their sessions dealt with alumnae surveys, peer screening and parent programs.

• Doug Camp, director of advancement services, recently presented at a Datatel Users Group conference in Virginia.

Nutshell Notes con't

• This spring, Director of Development Catherine Maxwell and Marilyn Jones, director of research and prospect management, were a part of a panel discussion at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Cindy Godwin, director of corporate and foundation relations and a local APF board member, brought the group to Meredith for their first meeting on campus.

• James Fogle, professor in the Department of Music, will be conducting research this summer on musical activity in New York City during the 1920s, a time that Fogle calls "one of the most exciting and important decades of America's music history." The goal of the research is to produce both a program and lecture/paper focused on the piano music of this period. Research will take place both in Boston, while attending a conference on contemporary piano music at the New England Conservatory, and in New York, while attending a keyboard institute at Mannes School of Music.

• Meredith College will hold "Asia Week" September 27-October 3, 2004. Sponosred by the Mercer-Kessler Fund for Religion and Art, "Asia Week," with theme days including Asian Visual Arts, Music and Dance, Health and Medicine, and Environments of Harmony, will feature workshops, lecture-demonstrations and other Asia-related events. Faculty members are encouraged to incorporate "Asia Week" into their course planning for the fall. For more information, contact Pamela Winfield, assistant professor of religion and philosophy, at windfield@meredith.edu.

• Tony Bledsoe, associate professor of business, has been appointed to the board of the Entrepreneurial Village Project, a grant - funded initiative to develop an interdisciplinary program in entrepreneurship at Shaw University. Bledsoe will also present "Family Business/Entrepreneurial Studies -- A Small, Private Liberal Arts College Approach," at the 2004 European Applied Business Research conference, in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 14-18.

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