The Dartmouth Women’s Club of Boston

 

Dartmouth Women’s Club of Boston

Building Friendships and Raising Scholarships since 1930


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History

The Dartmouth Women’s Club (DWC) of Boston was founded in April of 1930 by a group of spouses and mothers of students of The College for the purpose of furthering loyalty to and support for Dartmouth College.  Friendship, community, and celebration serve as the foundation of this membership club.

True to the founding of our organization, our members include mostly spouses and mothers of current and former students of Dartmouth College. We also welcome and have in our membership alumnae and other affiliates of The College.

The Club is a 501(c)3 dedicated to our mission of fostering friendships among Dartmouth affiliated women as well as supporting a Scholarship Fund.  Over the ninety plus years of existence, the DWC has accumulated a Scholarship Fund at the College currently valued over $1.3m. Income from this fund provides scholarships for several current students at Dartmouth who are from Massachusetts. 

Annual Events

October: New Mother’s Welcome Luncheon – We invite the mothers of all incoming Freshmen in the greater Boston area to a luncheon at a local country club.  A Dartmouth Professor joins us for an enriching lecture.  We enjoy lunch together and welcome back existing members and get to know the new mothers who join us. 

In October 2023, we met at the Country Club in Brookline. Our speaker was Professor Leslie Butler, Vice Chair of the Department of History. Professor Butler's topic was "Thinking about Women in the History of American Democracy." 

December: Holiday luncheon, live entertainment, auction/raffle to fund our scholarship fund - We invite all members and their guests to join us for a celebratory holiday luncheon at the Weston Golf Club. Entertainment and a silent auction are the pillars of the event.  Our December 2022 gathering was highlighted by the performance by the award-winning  Dartmouth Aires. Dollars raised at this event are 100% tax deductible and are funneled into our scholarship fund. 

February: In February we focus our meeting on the arts. Among the various museums we have visited include the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Peabody Essex Museum, and the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. In February 2023, we traveled into Boston to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where we enjoyed a delicious luncheon in their Cafe G and then divided into two groups to tour the museum. We were fortunate to have two outstanding docents who led our tours

March/April: Author’s night is one of the highlights of our programming and is an evening event. We have listened to Ty Burr of the Boston Globe, Melinda Lopez ’86 an award-winning playwright, and Marjan Kamali a local author.  In late March 2023, we were fortunate to have as our speaker, Tom French, a graduate of Dartmouth and husband of member, Jill French, who spoke about his outstanding accomplishment of climbing Mount Everest in the spring of 2022. He spoke to a packed house at the Lexington Historical Society building and shared slides which helped us all better understand the conditions and challenges that faced him.

May: Annual Meeting is a combination of tour and meeting. We have gathered at the Concord Museum and the Arnold Arboretum with a luncheon/meeting following the tour. May 2023, we held our meeting in combination with a tour of the Boston Ballet studios on Clarendon Street in Boston. This "Inside Look at the Boston Ballet" will featured a tour of the studios, a presentation by the Ballet's curator of costumes followed by lunch and rehearsal of Sleeping Beauty Ballet. We also presented honorary Membership to Sandy Bertetti's for her 38 years of continuous leadership and service to the DWC.


Club Leadership- 2023-2024

·        President: Nicole Babikian Hajjar P’21

·        Vice President: Erika Taylor P’21

·        Vice President: Barbara Peterlin P’20, P'24

·        Web Master: Patty Shepard ’83,  P’14

·        Recording Secretary: Lauren Troderman  P’12

·        Corresponding Secretary: Elise Rowley ’87, P’19, Clare Robinson P’13 

·        Treasurer: Surrinder Sandhu ­­­­ P’19

·        Assistant Treasurer:  Clare Robinson P’13 

Board of Directors/Committee Members 2023-2024

·        Sandra Bertetti P’88 - Reception

·        Mary Bradley P’92Friendship

·        Cherise Bransfield ’88, P’19- Communications

·        Eileen Casey - Membership

·         Karen Cohen P’94 - Auditor

·         Jane Gorham Connolly - Membership

·        Jill Cote P’23 - Membership

·        Jill French P’21 - Program

·        Ellen Guinee P’15 - Reception

·        Thuy Ha Ngoc - Nominating

·         Marie Johnson P’98 - Program

·        Anne Craige McNay ’80, P’16  -Nominating, Program 

·        Barbara Peterlin P'20, P'24 - Program

·     Janet Ready P’15 - Hospitality, Nominating

·        Clare Robinson P’13 - Membership

·         Mitra Sioshansi P’00 - Nominating

·        Christina Taborsky P’23 - Membership

·      Erika Taylor - Scholarship

·        Leah Tung P’23 - Hospitality

·     Jackie Wang P’10– Historian



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