News Releases (page 65)


October 10, 2007

NY Times Best-Selling Author to Speak at Scripps

Author and journalist Jeannette Walls will present her New York Times best-selling memoir The Glass Castle on Monday, November 5, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in Balch Auditorium at Scripps College as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series.

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October 8, 2007

Wall Street Comes to Claremont

Four Scripps students are helping bring the world of finance to The Claremont Colleges on October 12-13 during the first “Wall Street Weekend.”

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Economic Revolutionary Marjorie Kelly at Scripps

Marjorie Kelly, senior associate at Tellus Institute and co-founder of Corporation 20/20, will speak at Scripps College on Wednesday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater.

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September 26, 2007

Former Scripps President Howard Brooks Dies

E. Howard Brooks, former president of Scripps College, died on September 25, 2007, in his home in San Luis Obispo after a brief illness. He was 86.

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September 21, 2007

Professor Michael Lamkin Awarded Great Medal of Honor

Dr. Michael Deane Lamkin, the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at Scripps College, received the Great Medal of Honor (Grosse Ehrenzeichen) from the Government of Burgenland at the Opening Convocation of the 32nd Classical Music Festival on August 3.

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August 29, 2007

Millard Sheets: The Scripps Years on View at Williamson Gallery

Millard Sheets: The Scripps Years, is on view at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery from September 1 to October 14, 2007.

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August 20, 2007

Civil Rights Advocate Lani Guinier at Scripps

Lani Guinier, the first black woman to hold a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, opens the fall 2007 Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series, September 27, 7:30 p.m., in Scripps College Garrison Theater.

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June 22, 2007

Scripps College Joins Annapolis Group in Support of Better Information for Parents and Prospective Students

Scripps College joins peer institutions in the Annapolis Group in deciding to no longer complete the reputational survey used in U.S. News; World Report’s rankings exercise, and the College will not promote its showing in the magazine’s annual listing of America’s top colleges and universities on the College web site.

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May 29, 2007

Scripps’ Williamson Gallery Receives Grant to Conserve Chinese Paintings

The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College has received a two-year conservation grant of $108,676 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal agency. The funds will be used to restore 10 important Chinese paintings in the Williamson Gallery’s permanent collection.

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May 23, 2007

Five new trustees join Scripps College Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees elected five new trustees to the board, four of whom are alumnae of the College.

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