Wellesley NY Club 125th Anniversary

Wellesley Alums Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy ’88 and Ana Ramos ’12 at New York Wellesley Club 125th Anniversary Event – November 14, 2015

New York Wellesley Club 125th Anniversary Event – November 14, 2015

On Saturday, November 14th, 2015, I attended the 125th Anniversary event for the New York Wellesley Club (NYWC). The NYWC’s first meeting took place on December 13, 1890, just eleven years after Wellesley College graduated its first class of eighteen women. Today, the Club serves 2,700 alumnae in the city’s five boroughs. NYC’s First Lady, Charlene McCray ’76 kicked off the day with NYWC President Brooke Bryant ’03.

There were extraordinary speakers from various classes such as:

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ’91 – Chief International Correspondent for CNBC

Laurel Cutler ’46 – a director at Foote, Cone & Belding Communications and the first woman to be named advertisting’s “Man of the Year”

Heather Long ’04 – report for CNN and CNNMoney

Diane Ravitch ’60 – former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from ’91 to ’93

Lulu Chow Wang ’66 – CEO of Tupelo Capital Management L.L.C.

Barbara Goldsmith ’53 – author of five award-winning best-selling books

Maybel Marte Hodelin ’95 – SVP of PIMCO

Susan Rosenthal ’78 PHD, ABPP – Vice-Chair of Pediatric Faculty Development at Columbia University Medical Center

Marcia Stein ’61 – Founder of Citymeals-on-Wheels

Erika Symmonds ’02 – co-founder of Green City Force

Deeba Zivari ’11 – Director of Engagement at MetroPT

Aisha Christian ’95 – General Counsel of Rent the Runway

Julia Curtis-Burnes ’07 – Founder of Initiative Space

Katie Eyring ’14 – doctoral student in Neuroscience at New York University

Mildred Glimcher ’61 – Co-founder of Pace Gallery

Patricia Shevlin Holmes ’71 – Executive Producer of the Evening News with Scott Pelley

Lindsey Boylan ’06 – VP of Business Development at Empire State Development

Amy Tsui Luke ’90 – Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers ’57 – Founding President of Central Park Conservancy

Robin Sparkman ’91 – CEO of StoryCorps

Nicki Newman Tanner ’57 – former director of the Oral History Project at UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York

I am so proud to be a Wellesley woman and a part of such an accomplished and passionate group of women. I was a Sociology and Studio Design double major and graduated magna cum laude. Here’s a painting I did of one of the lakes on the beautiful campus. Wellesley set the course of my life. In addition to being chosen as a Top Ten College Women by Glamour Magazine, I was obviously on the radar of top institutions. Harvard Business School recruited me to be one of the first non-Ph.D. Research Associates at the school. I never would have gone in that direction but Harvard found me because of my Wellesley background. Thank you Wellesley!!