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FICTION The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Cristina Garcia ’79 Scribner, 2010, $24
growing up barnard
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen ’74 Random House, 2010, $26
Daniella kahane ’05 There are legacies—and then there’s the legacy of Daniella Kahane. “In my Barnard application, I had to attach an extra page for the part about relatives who attended the College,” says Kahane. No wonder. Her great-grandmother, Millicent Lubetkin Aaronson ’15, started the tradition, followed by Kahane’s great-aunt, Grace Aaronson Goldin ’37, her grandmother, Alice Aaronson Zlotnick ’54, her mother, Tamar Zlotnick Kahane ’82, her aunt, Dena Zlotnick Felsen ’87, and her sisters, Talya Kahane Jacobs ’07 and incoming first-year student, Kelila Kahane ’15. Inspired by these multitudinous personal connections, Kahane, as a senior, decided to develop a project that became Growing Up Barnard, a 30-minute documentary about the College that was shown publicly at Reunion for the first time. “I was thinking of my family’s legacy at Barnard,” says Kahane, who was raised in New Jersey and graduated from Ramaz High School. Beyond her own family story, however, Kahane says she “realized it was a wider story. What is Barnard’s legacy in general; what can we learn about women’s colleges and the legacy of women’s colleges?” The documentary features footage from Barnard’s archives (including the Greek Games), interviews with such illustrious alumnae as former Chief Judge of the State of New York Judith Kaye ’58; former Chair of the Barnard
YOUNG ADULT The Lost Children by Carolyn Cohagan ’94 Simon & Schuster, 2010, $16.99
Photograph by Dorothy Hong
Board of Trustees Anna Quindlen ’74; Joan Rivers ’57; Suzanne Vega ’81; Dorothy Urman Denburg ’70, vice president, college relations; attorney Helene Finkelstein Kaplan ’53; NPR’s Susan Leavitt Stamberg ’59; Professor Rosalind Rosenberg; and Ellen Futter ’71, president of the American Museum of Natural History; as well as former Barnard President Judith Shapiro and President Debora Spar. There are also interviews with recent graduates and those who were first-year students in 2007, who confidently state that “women’s colleges empower girls to be better” and that “Barnard women speak up,” echoing their predecessors. “The confidence our students have is a confidence not mixed with arrogance,” says President Spar. “In my mind, that confidence is what differentiates Barnard students by the time they graduate. Barnard sees its role as transforming its students and nurturing them intellectually. I think we do that really well.” The documentary is as much a celebration of what women’s colleges offer as a distillation of what distinguishes Barnard women. Through the voices of alumnae, students, and college leaders, the documentary shows how, through the generations, Barnard students were characterized by “a distinctive combination of academic focus, social consciousness and ambition,” as Judith Shapiro observes. Kahane’s mother, Tamar, also notes in the documentary that Barnard was “an empowering and Continued on Page 53
POETRY The Lesser Tragedy of Death by Cristina Garcia ’79 Akashic Press, 2010, $15.95 NONFICTION Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives by Rebecca J. Cook ’70 and Simone Cusack University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, $49.95 The Toxic Substances Control Act by Miriam Vogel Gold ’71 and Jean Warshaw Oxford University Press, 2010, $195 You Are Not Alone: Families Touched by Cancer by Eva Grayzel (Cohen) ’86 Atlas Books, 2010, $9.95 Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC co-edited by Faith S. Holsaert ’66 University of Illinois Press, 2010, $34.95 The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 by Carol (Krepon) Ingall ’61 Brandeis University Press, 2010, $60 Breaking Ground: a Century of Craft in Western New York by Barbara Lovenheim ’62, Suzanne Ramljak, and Paul J. Smith Hudson Hills Press, 2010, $50 Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists edited by Courtney E. Martin ’02 and J. Courtney Sullivan Seal Press, 2010, $16.95 Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel by Meredith Sue Willis ’69 Montemayor Press, 2010, $20.21 PERFORMANCES Come Fly Away Choreographed by Twyla Tharp ’63 Marquis Theatre, New York City Complete listings online at alum.barnard.edu/salon.
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