Golden Sages
The Golden Sages is an affinity group of Bryn Mawr College alumnae/i who have celebrated their 50th reunion or are graduate school alumni over the age of 72. Under the organization of a planning committee, this cohort gathers several times a year for lectures and special outings—often with Haverford Scarlet Sages and Swarthmore Garnet Sages.
2022-2023 Planning Committee
Kit Burns ’66 (co-chair)
Terry Newirth Hirshorn ’67 (co-chair)
Fytie Ludington Drayton '53
Jane Ettelson Drucker ’48
Caroline Kemmerer, Ph.D. '62
Virginia (Ginny) Rivers ’57
Jane Miller Unkefer ’55
Ann Harrison Van Arkel ’58
Past Speakers
- Fall 2023 (Virtual) " Reading Archives Against the Grain", presented by Allison Mills, Bryn Mawr College Archivist.
- Spring 2022 (Virtual): "Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director," presented by Gary Vikan
- Fall 2021 (Virtual): "A Brief History of Water in the Universe," presented by Michelle Francl
- Spring 2021 (Virtual): "What we owe to the history of Spain," presented by Dr. Roger Allen
- Fall 2020 (Virtual): "Abraham Lincoln and the Question of Greatness," presented by Dr. Roger Lane
- Spring 2019: "The Aging Brain," presented by Dr. Jay Pomerantz.
- Fall 2018: "Let’s Act Like the Majority We Are," presented by Lynn Yeakel, Director, Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine.
- Spring 2018: "Environmental Concerns: Differing Approaches in China, Germany, and the U.S.," presented by Prof. Robert Dostal, Rufus Jones Professor of Philosophy and Religion.
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Contact Us
Alumnae/i Relations and Development
Helfarian
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Phone: 610-526-5532
Fax: 610-526-5228
bmcalum@honforjapan.net