development at Caron Foundation, and Claudia Bove Valeani ’68, professor of English at Lycée Français in France, as well as their aunt, Madeleine D. Lorch ’26. For the photo shoot, pictures of the absent alumnae family members were specially placed on the bookshelves. Attending Barnard was the natural thing to do for most of these alumnae, whose parents, professor of Italian Maristella Lorch (far right) and professor of math Edgar Lorch, Lavinia says, “met in the elevator of Barnard Hall and immediately fell in love.” Madeleine Tramm first tried a year at a big university
and then traveled before finding her way to Barnard. Lavinia’s daughter, Fiamma Van Biema ’13 (far left), embraces the school as an extension of her family. And Donatella, who won a Distinguished Alumna Award at Reunion 2008, is promoting the Barnard experience: “With a 17-year-old step-daughter, I am now surrounded by young women preparing to apply to college and I don’t miss a chance to talk about Barnard and how it made me who I am today.”
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