Highlights from the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin Fall 2000 issue

A CIRCLE CLOSED By Katya Bowers, Ph.D. '79
While working with a non-profit foreign aid organization in the newly independent Ukraine, the author revisited her home village and heritage.

EAST MEETS WEST By Judith Baer '68
A year as a visiting lecturer at Bogazici University in Istanbul tests the author's character and offers valuable cultural lessons.

MY FATHER'S DANCE By Penny Chang '85
After teaching in Korea for two years, the author begins to understand the cultural roots of her father's behavior, which split her family when she was 16.

FAST FORWARD Photos by Paola Nogueras-Balasquide Tagliamonte '84
In addition to celebrating May Day, Reunion 2000 included faculty lectures and panel discussions on Election 2000, the future of higher education, gender stereotyping in preschool children, and humans as agents of geological change.

Plaiting Past, Present and Future by Susan L. MacLaurin '84, President of the Alumnae Association

'The future is bright. The past is unpredictable.'
A trialogue on higher education by Hanna Holborn Gray '50, president emeritus of the University of Chicago; Mary Patterson McPherson, Ph.D. '69, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr; and Nancy J. Vickers, president of Bryn Mawr.