From Merrybelle Guo, Campus Coordinator at Oberlin Shansi:
If you are unfamiliar with Shansi, our mission is to encourage understanding and communication between Asians and Americans through educational and community initiatives. We offer our Fellowships to graduating seniors and alumni who have graduated from Oberlin within the last three years of their application.
Selected Fellows spend two years teaching or working with one of our partner institutions in China, India, Indonesia and Japan. Along with stipends, paid airfare, insurance and several other benefits, Fellows are also given time and money to travel during their breaks.
These Fellowships are truly wonderful and exciting opportunities for Oberlin graduates interested in genuine exchange in Asia. If you are interested, please free to contact me at mguo@oberlin.edu, or our Associate Director Deborah Cocco (deborah.cocco@oberlin.edu) or our Returned Fellow Anne Lowe, who has just finished two years in China, (anne.lowe@oberlin.edu). Please note that the deadline for fellowship applications is November 1 at 4:30pm.
More information about Oberlin Shansi can be found here.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Lisa Tracy '67 book reading and signing
Join Lisa Tracy '67, author of Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family's Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time, at the Oberlin Bookstore for a book reading, signing and refreshments, on Saturday, September 25, from 1:30-3pm.
After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister Jeanne were left with several households’ worth of belongings. After 10 years of paying storage fees, the sisters reluctantly decided to take them to auction. The result is a captivating personal memoir that captures why Americans are so obsessed with our things—and why we find it so difficult to let go.
Oberlin Bookstore
37 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
440.774.7722
After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister Jeanne were left with several households’ worth of belongings. After 10 years of paying storage fees, the sisters reluctantly decided to take them to auction. The result is a captivating personal memoir that captures why Americans are so obsessed with our things—and why we find it so difficult to let go.
In Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family’s Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time (A Bantam Hardcover; March 23, 2010), Lisa Tracy invites us into the rich history of a military family characterized by duty, hardship, honor, and devotion—qualities embodied in the very items she chronicles. Here she shares with us a collection unlike any other: silver gewgaws, mismatched cake plates, silk tapestries, dueling pistols that once belonged to Aaron Burr (no, not those pistols), a stately storage chest from Boxer Rebellion–era China, even a chair in which George Washington may or may not have sat. Dating back to the American Revolution, the furniture and other artifacts Tracy lovingly describes were collected over the course of centuries by ancestors posted all over the globe, cherished and passed down to her generation as an emblem of who her forebears were, what they had done, and where they had been.
A paean to the pack rat in us all, Objects of Our Affection offers an offbeat and intriguing mix of cultural anthropology, Antiques Roadshow Americana, and military history. In this engaging and deeply moving book, Tracy chronicles the wondrous interior life of those possessions and discovers that the roots of Americans’ passion for acquisition often lie not in shallow materialism but in our innermost desire to possess the most treasured commodity of all: a connection to our past.
Oberlin Bookstore
37 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
440.774.7722
Friday, September 17, 2010
OBIEAdventures Colorado Canoeing Trip August 2010
Charles (my dear husband) '91/'92 and I were fortunate enough to participate in the recent OBIEAdventure trip to Colorado to go canoeing on the Colorado River with other Obies. We had an absolutely amazing time, and hope to go again on a future trip.To encourage you to think about going sometime, a few photos!
Sorry for the poor formatting!
Obies Night Out at the Market Avenue Wine Bar
A very late picture, but better late than never! We had a fantastic time at the Wine Bar. Good food, great wine and even better conversation! We had a fantastic mix of alumni years - it was wonderful to meet everyone!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Winter Term 2011
OFFER AN OBERLIN STUDENT A WINTER TERM INTERNSHIP OR TEMPORARY HOUSING
Sponsored by the Office of Career Services
Please consider offering a Winter Term internship to a current Oberlin student. A Winter Term internship (during the month of January) presents an opportunity for you to share information about your profession, provide mentoring, and offer exposure to an career field of interest. In return you will have a motivated assistant to help out with substantive projects for a month!
Since many students complete Winter Term internships away from home, there is also a great need for temporary housing for students during the month of January. Housing opportunities with alumni have made it possible for many students to have access to internships that would not otherwise have been financially feasible. If you are interested in providing housing for an Oberlin student during Winter Term, please indicate this in your OBIEweb profile.
Liz Lierman, Associate Director in the Office of Career Services, and Jonas Wisser, Departmental Technician, will support you through the internship or housing process and will be available to answer any questions that you may have about drafting an internship description, developing intern roles and responsibilities, and selecting an intern. Liz and Jonas can be reached at: internships@oberlin.edu or (440) 775-8060.
For more information about Oberlin's Winter Term internship program visit:
http://www.oberlin.edu/career/alumni/alum_wt_intern_about.html
For more information about temporary housing for students visit:
http://www.oberlin.edu/career/alumni/housing.html
To update your OBIEweb profile:
http://www.oberlin.edu/alumni/Default.html
Sponsored by the Office of Career Services
Please consider offering a Winter Term internship to a current Oberlin student. A Winter Term internship (during the month of January) presents an opportunity for you to share information about your profession, provide mentoring, and offer exposure to an career field of interest. In return you will have a motivated assistant to help out with substantive projects for a month!
Since many students complete Winter Term internships away from home, there is also a great need for temporary housing for students during the month of January. Housing opportunities with alumni have made it possible for many students to have access to internships that would not otherwise have been financially feasible. If you are interested in providing housing for an Oberlin student during Winter Term, please indicate this in your OBIEweb profile.
Liz Lierman, Associate Director in the Office of Career Services, and Jonas Wisser, Departmental Technician, will support you through the internship or housing process and will be available to answer any questions that you may have about drafting an internship description, developing intern roles and responsibilities, and selecting an intern. Liz and Jonas can be reached at: internships@oberlin.edu or (440) 775-8060.
For more information about Oberlin's Winter Term internship program visit:
http://www.oberlin.edu/career/alumni/alum_wt_intern_about.html
For more information about temporary housing for students visit:
http://www.oberlin.edu/career/alumni/housing.html
To update your OBIEweb profile:
http://www.oberlin.edu/alumni/Default.html
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Alumna Author Megan Snyder-Camp '99
Megan Snyder-Camp '99 will be reading from her first book of poetry, The Forest of Sure Things, at Visible Voice Books on Thursday, September 23 at 7:00pm. The Forest of Sure Things, a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, tells the story of a family whose daughter is the first child born in a hundred years in a remote Northwest village, and then traces the family's unraveling after the loss of their second child.
For more information, check out her website: www.snydercamp.com.
Come join us for a glass of wine on the patio following the reading!
Visible Voice Books
1023 Kenilworth
Cleveland, OH 44113
216.615.7571
For more information, check out her website: www.snydercamp.com.
Come join us for a glass of wine on the patio following the reading!
Visible Voice Books
1023 Kenilworth
Cleveland, OH 44113
216.615.7571
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Art Lectures featuring Oberlin Faculty
Please note that the time for Erik's lecture has now changed to 6:30pm.
Looking a bit ahead into the future, two Oberlin faculty members will be presenting art lectures at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Erik Inglis, Associate Professor of Art History at Oberlin College, and 1989 graduate, will present the annual Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art on Wednesday, 20 October 2010, at 6:30 P.M. in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art with the topic, “Objects of Memory: The Later Medieval Reception of Earlier Medieval Art.”
Christina Neilson, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, will give the annual Julius Fund Lecture in Renaissance Art at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, 17 March 2011 in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art, on the topic of, “A Harpy in the Workshop: Hybred Techniques for Awakening Statues in Renaissance Florentine Art.”
Looking a bit ahead into the future, two Oberlin faculty members will be presenting art lectures at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Erik Inglis, Associate Professor of Art History at Oberlin College, and 1989 graduate, will present the annual Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art on Wednesday, 20 October 2010, at 6:30 P.M. in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art with the topic, “Objects of Memory: The Later Medieval Reception of Earlier Medieval Art.”
Christina Neilson, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, will give the annual Julius Fund Lecture in Renaissance Art at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, 17 March 2011 in the Recital Hall of The Cleveland Museum of Art, on the topic of, “A Harpy in the Workshop: Hybred Techniques for Awakening Statues in Renaissance Florentine Art.”
Welcome to the new Obies!
It's that time again...Classes start in Oberlin next Tuesday, and you can see signs of it everywhere! Freshman Orientation began yesterday and town has become full again, with so many Obies and their families on campus.
And with this comes a full Oberlin events calendar over the next few months! A few highlights follow! For complete information, you can always visit the Events Calendar.
The Artist Recital Series has a great line up again this year, as always. Click here for more information on performers and how to buy tickets.
The Convocation Series starts off with Dan Chaon and Ishmael Beah '04 on Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30 pm in Finney Chapel. No tickets are required. For more information on this particular convocation and the rest of the series, click here.
And with this comes a full Oberlin events calendar over the next few months! A few highlights follow! For complete information, you can always visit the Events Calendar.
The Artist Recital Series has a great line up again this year, as always. Click here for more information on performers and how to buy tickets.
The Convocation Series starts off with Dan Chaon and Ishmael Beah '04 on Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30 pm in Finney Chapel. No tickets are required. For more information on this particular convocation and the rest of the series, click here.
Lisa Tracy '67 Book reading and signing
Join Lisa Tracy '67, author of Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family's Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time, at the Oberlin Bookstore for a book reading, signing and refreshments, on Saturday, September 25, from 1:30-3pm.
After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister Jeanne were left with several households’ worth of belongings. After 10 years of paying storage fees, the sisters reluctantly decided to take them to auction. The result is a captivating personal memoir that captures why Americans are so obsessed with our things—and why we find it so difficult to let go.
Oberlin Bookstore
37 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
440.774.7722
After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister Jeanne were left with several households’ worth of belongings. After 10 years of paying storage fees, the sisters reluctantly decided to take them to auction. The result is a captivating personal memoir that captures why Americans are so obsessed with our things—and why we find it so difficult to let go.
In Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family’s Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time (A Bantam Hardcover; March 23, 2010), Lisa Tracy invites us into the rich history of a military family characterized by duty, hardship, honor, and devotion—qualities embodied in the very items she chronicles. Here she shares with us a collection unlike any other: silver gewgaws, mismatched cake plates, silk tapestries, dueling pistols that once belonged to Aaron Burr (no, not those pistols), a stately storage chest from Boxer Rebellion–era China, even a chair in which George Washington may or may not have sat. Dating back to the American Revolution, the furniture and other artifacts Tracy lovingly describes were collected over the course of centuries by ancestors posted all over the globe, cherished and passed down to her generation as an emblem of who her forebears were, what they had done, and where they had been.
A paean to the pack rat in us all, Objects of Our Affection offers an offbeat and intriguing mix of cultural anthropology, Antiques Roadshow Americana, and military history. In this engaging and deeply moving book, Tracy chronicles the wondrous interior life of those possessions and discovers that the roots of Americans’ passion for acquisition often lie not in shallow materialism but in our innermost desire to possess the most treasured commodity of all: a connection to our past.
Oberlin Bookstore
37 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
440.774.7722
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