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"A Queer Love Story" Reading
2013 Fall Potluck and Inauguration Celebration
2013 Summer Theater Plans!
2014 Annual Report
2015 Summer Theater Outing Planned for July
2017-2018 Annual Report
2019 Annual Potuck Today in Walnut Creek
2019 Potluck Pictures
2019 Summer Theater Outing
2019-2020 Annual Report Now Available!
2021 Book Club Opportunities
25th Anniversary Book Club Meeting
2nd Annual Volunteer Afternoon at the Alameda County Food Bank: Saturday, December 3, 2005 1-4pm
5/19 RSVP Deadline For Our Theater Outing
Alameda County Community Food Bank, Saturday, February 5, 2011
Annual Potluck is around the corner, 11/6 in Walnut Creek
Another "A Queer Love Story" Reading
April 23 is Earth Day! Volunteer with the EBSC
Book Club-"ish" Summer Social - August 15
Cal Women's Basketball and Other Upcoming Events
Cal Women's Basketball Event
Care Package Party: Wed, Dec 5th 7:30 - 9:00pm
Check out the Annual Report
Climate of Change featuring Jess Phoenix ‘04
Don't forget to RSVP for the October 18 potluck!
Emotional Creatures - Ticket Information
Facebook Page Going Away
Fall Potluck 2018
February 27: The Board Match
Food Bank Volunteering, Saturday, December 15, 2007
Happy Graduation, Class of 2020!
Happy Mountain Day!
Is it Mountain Day yet?
Ivy Alliance Night@SF Opera - Magic Flute (Wed, June 27, 2012)
January 20, 2018: Women's March Oakland Meet-up
Join Us At The Oakland Women's March
JSTOR Access for Alumnae
June 1 2016: Smith+Mills+Julia Morgan at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
March 12: Smith in the City Details
March 12: Smith in the City, San Francisco
March 13 Self-Advocacy Event and Networking Opportunity
March 13: Perfecting the Pitch, Draper Business Plan Competition
March 19: Kathleen McCartney in San Francisco
March 19: Perfecting the Pitch | a Bay Area alumnae event
March 27 Faculty Visit - French Cinema
New Seven Sisters Online Community
New Smithie Welcome Party
New Smithie Welcome Party
Nov 5, 2017: Save the Date for the Fall Potluck
Oakland Museum of California, February 24, 2013
October 20, 2012: Fall Potluck!
October 29, 2016: Fall Potluck in Berkeley
Our Annual Report is Here!
Photos from Julia Morgan Event
President McCartney in SF
Private exhibition tour at SFMOMA
Read our 2018-19 Annual Report!
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Berkeley Rep
Resources from Smith: Scholars in Studio Videos
RSVP now for the November 5 Potluck
Save the Date - March 19 2014: Kathleen McCartney in SF
Save the Date for the East Bay Smith Club Fall Potluck: Sunday, November 3!
Save the Date! Fall Potluck: October 18
SAVE THE DATE: Annual Potluck October 29, 2016
Save the Date: President McCartney in San Francisco
September 21: Join the Smith Club at CalShakes
September Smithie Tea
Show Your Love for Smith: January 28 - February 20, 2015
Smith Fall 2017 Alumnae Webinar Series kicks off soon!
Smith in the City: San Francisco March 23, 2013
Smith in the City: Saturday, March 23, 2013
Smith Lawyers Networking Tea
Spring Faculty Speaker
Summer Theater 2012: Eve Ensler @ Berkeley Rep June 20
Summer Theater Outing
Sunday November 9, 2014: Fall Potluck!
Tea with Women's Initiative for Self-Employment (2004)
The EBSC volunteered at the Alameda Country Community Food Bank on December 4th, 2004
Theater Outing: Emperor Jones 2pm Matinee Oct 2, 2016 at Tao House in Danville
Ticket Information: A Chorus Line: August 10
Upcoming Event - A Tale of Two Gardens
Upcoming Virtual Events
Volunteering at the Alameda County Food Bank!
Water for a Changing World (faculty visit in SF)
Website organization
Women's March This Saturday!
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April 2004: Lolita (Nabakov)
April 2005: White Teeth (Smith)
April 2006: Random Family (LeBlanc)
April 2007: Written on the Body (Winterson)
April 2008: Suite Française (Némirovsky)
April 2009: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Lewis)
April 2010: People of the Book (Brooks)
April 2011: The Glass Castle (Walls)
April 2012: Every Man Dies Alone (Fallada)
April 2013: Death Comes to Pemberley (James)
April 2014: The Moon Is Down (Steinbeck)
April 2016: Heading South, Looking North (Dorfman)
April 2017: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Böll)
April 2018: The Women In The Castle (Shattuck)
April 2021: A Woman of No Importance (Purnell)
August 2004: The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
August 2005: Middlesex (Eugenides)
August 2006 Theater Outing: Night of the Iguana (Williams)
August 2007 Theater Outing: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
August 2008: Sailing Alone Around the Room (Collins) & Native Guard (Trethewey)
August 2009 Theater Outing: Happy Days (Beckett)
August 2010: Half the Sky (Kristoff and WuDunn)
August 2011: My Fair Lady (at Woodminster Theater)
August 2012: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Mernissi)
August 2014: Men Explain Things to Me (Solnit)
August 2015: My Brilliant Friend (Ferrante)
August 2016: Between the World and Me (Coates) plus DOJ report on Ferguson PD
August 2019: Milkman (Burns)
August 2020: A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles)
Book Club Suggestions
Books We've Read
December 2003: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) & The Awakening (Chopin)
December 2005: Selected "Chick Lit"
December 2007: Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson & Relin)
December 2008: Call Me By Your Name (Aciman)
December 2009: As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
December 2010 - Cutting for Stone (Verghese)
December 2011: A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Solnit)
December 2012: Nothing Daunted (Wickenden)
December 2013: The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen (Ashford)
December 2015: All Our Yesterdays (Tarloff)
December 2016: The Arab of the Future (Sattouf)
December 2018: Poetry Night!
February 2004: Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Kingston)
February 2005: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (Hoffman)
February 2006: Bel Canto (Patchett)
February 2007: Persepolis (Satrapi)
February 2008: Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
February 2009: The Two-Income Trap (Warren & Tyagi)
February 2010: West of Kabul, East of New York (Ansary)
February 2011: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)
February 2012: Ghost Map (Johnson)
February 2013: State of Wonder (Patchett)
February 2015: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (Ivins)
February 2016: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze River (Hessler)
February 2017: Why I Wake Early (Oliver)
February 2018: Embers (Marai)
February 2019: A Pearl In The Storm (Murden McClure)
February 2020: Beloved (Morrison)
February 2021: Little Fires Everywhere (Ng)
January & February 2014: Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (Solomon)
January 2004: Some of Us Did Not Die (Jordan)
January 2005: Live, Laugh and Learn: Tales of Tumultuous Times (McIntosh)
January 2006: Runaway (Munro)
January 2007: Female Chauvinist Pigs (Levy)
January 2008: Water for Elephants (Gruen)
January 2009: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini)
January 2010: The Whole World Over (Glass)
January 2011 - Moloka'i (Brennert)
January 2012: The Distant Land of My Father (Caldwell)
January 2013: Madam Secretary : A Memoir (Albright)
January 2014: The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
January 2016: The Righteous Mind (Haidt)
January 2017: Hillbilly Elegy (Vance)
January 2018: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (Abbott)
January 2019: Being Mortal (Gawande)
January 2021: Born A Crime (Noah)
July 2004: Theater! The Good Body (Ensler)
July 2006: The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
July 2007: Autobiography of a Face (Grealy) & Truth and Beauty (Patchett)
July 2008 Theater Outing: An Ideal Husband (Wilde)
July 2009: Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Lakhous)
July 2010: Commencement (Sullivan) & The Group (McCarthy)
July 2011: Let the Great World Spin (McCann)
July 2012: Kabul Beauty School (Rodriguez, Ohlson)
July 2013: Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Kroeber)
July 2014: A Time of Gifts (Fermor)
July 2015: Detroit (Summer Theater Outing)
July 2016: A Secret History of Wonder Woman (Lepore)
July 2019: The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
July 2020: Commencement (Sullivan)
June 2004: Play it As it Lays (Didion)
June 2005: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Pollan)
June 2006: Housekeeping (Robinson)
June 2007: The Space Between Us (Umrigar)
June 2008: The Hummingbird's Daughter (Urrea)
June 2009 Faculty Visit: Looking Like the Enemy (Matsuda Gruenewald)
June 2010: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Fuller)
June 2011: Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective
June 2012: Living Islam Out Loud (Abdul-Ghafur, ed.)
June 2013: Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (Treuer)
June 2014: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
June 2015: The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson)
June 2017: The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
June 2018: Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann)
June 2020: The Power (Alderman)
June 2021: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Tokarczuk)
March 2004: Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi)
March 2005: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You: Stories (Drummond)
March 2006: Vineland (Pynchon)
March 2007 Faculty Visit: Stone Diaries (Shield)
March 2008 Faculty Visit: The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
March 2009: Economics (assorted readings)
March 2010: Carol Christ Visit
March 2011: The Lacuna (Kingsolver)
March 2012: French Cinema - Faculty Visit with Martine Gantrel-Ford
March 2013: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Worth)
March 2014: Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Todd)
March 2016: Season of Migration to the North (Salih)
March 2017: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos)
March 2019: Sing, Unburied, Sing (Ward)
March 2021: When No One Is Watching (Cole)
March/April 2015: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
May 2004: The Country of the Pointed Firs & Other Stories (Jewett)
May 2005: Don't Think of an Elephant (Lakoff)
May 2006: Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Franken)
May 2007: Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World (Orenstein)
May 2008: The Audacity of Hope (Obama)
May 2009: The Crystal Frontier (Fuentes)
May 2010: Doubt, A Parable (Shanley)
May 2011: Elizabeth and Her German Garden (von Arnim)
May 2012: The Buddha in the Attic (Otsuka)
May 2013: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie)
May 2014: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell)
May 2015: The Invention of Wings (Kidd)
May 2016: Chasing Che (Symmes)
May 2017: The Door (Szabo)
May 2020: The Overstory (Powers)
May 2021: Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders)
Nov 2011: The Tiger's Wife (Obreht)
November 2004: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)
November 2006: On Beauty (Smith)
November 2007: Emma (Austen)
November 2008: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver)
November 2009: My Stroke of Insight (Taylor)
November 2010: Olive Kitteridge (Strout)
November 2012: Hedy's Folly (Rhodes)
November 2014: Whistling Vivaldi (Steele)
November 2015: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Larson)
November 2017: Lab Girl (Jahren)
November, 2013: Orange is the New Black (Kerman)
November, 2016: Burial Rites (Kent)
Oct 2011: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)
October 2004: 9/11 Commission Report
October 2005: Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder)
October 2006: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq (Anonymous)
October 2007: The Omnivore's Dilemma (Pollan)
October 2008: Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
October 2009: Phantoms in the Brain (Ramachandran and Blakeslee)
October 2010: Nervous Conditions (Dangarembga)
October 2012: Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography (Conn)
October 2013: My Beloved World (Sotomayor)
October 2014: Americanah (Adichie)
October 2015: Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms and Survival in the Caribbean (Gardner)
October 2016: The Lady in Gold (O'Connor)
October 2017: Homegoing (Gyasi)
October 2019: Circe (Miller)
October 2020: Black is the Body (Bernard)
Sept 2011: The Map of Love (Soueif)
September 2004: The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Thúy)
September 2005: Kettle Bottom (Fisher)
September 2006: A New Life (Malamud)
September 2007: The Gastronomical Me (Fisher)
September 2008: Infidel (Hirsi Ali)
September 2009: Musicophilia (Sacks)
September 2012: A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother (Scott)
September 2013: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. (DeSanti)
September 2014: A Midsummer Night's Dream at CalShakes
September 2015: The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Oreskes & Conway)
September 2016: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold in the 1936 Olympics (Brown)
September 2017: The Book of Unknown Americans (Henriquez)
September 2018: From Krakow to Berkeley (Rabkin)
September 2019: How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate (Hoffman)
September 2020: Educated (Westover)
September 2021: Exit West (Hamid)
January 2022: The Friend
December 2022: Poetry Night
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