Calendar 2005-06
June
07 Wednesday
Alumni/ae Day: "Beyond Boundaries: Inspiration, Courage, and Progress"
Capping a yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of women at HDS, Alumni/ae Dinner and Alumni/ae Day 2006 celebrate pioneering graduates who have broken new ground in issues of politics, race, social justice, and global welfare. These graduates illustrate the power of rigorous theological education, and the ability to utilize an interest in religion for the betterment of humankind, through action and example.
9-10:15 am, Sperry Room
A Question of Courage: Who Will Be My Sister's Keeper?
Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv '97
Melinda Weekes, MDiv '05
White-Hammond, co-pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, and Weekes, director of Program Development for the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association, co-founded My Sister's Keeper (MSK) with fellow alumna Liz Walker, MDiv '05, in 2002. MSK is a women-led humanitarian group involved in girls' education projects in southern Sudan and advocacy for the rights of women in its troubled western region of
Darfur.
10:25-11:15 am, Sperry Room
To Dare Mighty Things
Tori Murden-McClure, MDiv '89
Murden-McClure was the first woman and first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first woman and first American to travel overland to the geographic South Pole, skiing 740 miles from the ice shelf to the pole. An avid mountaineer, she was the first woman to climb Lewis Nunatuck summit in Antarctica. She is vice president for external relations, enrollment management, and student affairs at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.
11:25 am - 12:25 pm, Sperry Room
The First Women Students at HDS
Letty Russell, BD '58; Constance Parvey, BD '63; Judith Hoehler, BD '58; Joyce Mann Mazur, HDS '58; Marianka Fousek, ThD '60
The pioneering women who entered Harvard Divinity School in 1955 have led dynamic and varied careers since they left the School. They share their recollections and reflections on HDS and the world then and
now.
12:30-1:30 pm, Andover Lawn
Living Lovingly in a Culture of Fear
Lunch with Keynote Address by Margaret Miles
Miles became Harvard Divinity School's first tenured woman faculty member in 1985, and taught on the faculty until 1996. She served as dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, from 1996 until her retirement in 2002. Her books include The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2004), Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999), Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1996), and Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West (1988).
