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Annual Luncheon Meeting 2016 : Preparing Today for GHS Girls of Tomorrow

February 5, 2017 by

At this year’s Annual Luncheon, we wasted no time getting down to business. There was palpable energy and camaraderie among alumnae in the beautiful Sheraton Philadelphia convention center that demonstrated our readiness to meet the challenges ahead. Here’s the video that kicked off our meeting.  I opened with… “The class of 2028 has just entered the first grade. Are we preparing for their arrival?” With an eye toward the future, the prevailing themes were … Read More

US Consulate in Barcelona, Tanya Anderson
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Girls High Girls Are Everywhere

February 1, 2017 by

By Tanya “Rafika” Anderson, Posted April 13, 2015 U.S. Consul General Barcelona Girls High Girl – Class of 218 Dear fellow Class of 218 Alumnae, Mrs. Bea Batt-Behar, a Spanish teacher at Girls High wrote to me on February 25, informing me that she would be leading a group of students on a visit to Spain in March. The travelers spent a few days in Madrid, and then they landed in Barcelona yesterday, accompanied … Read More

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Introducing Three New Social Media Projects

February 1, 2017 by

The Communications Committee of the Alumnae Association is excited to announce the launch of three social media projects. Over the next three months, we will be introducing an interactive map, a social meme that will let the world know you’re a proud GFS graduate, and a monthly spotlight of an alum. “Where in the World” will add a visual highlight to a fact that every alum knows; Girls High Girls are everywhere!!! This interactive … Read More

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Successful Benefit Concert for GHS Music Department

February 1, 2017 by

It was a beautiful evening of shared music, warm memories, and sisterly fellowship in support of continued music education at Girls High. Here’s a photo of Marietta Simpson singing with piano accompaniment by her sister, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton. Photos taken are on our Facebook Alumnae Group page, and we welcome you to join our discussion there. Dimitri Kauriga, former Music Director, was joined by a brilliant group of Alumnae and friends to present a concert … Read More

Alumna Mary Schmidt Campbell, President of Spelman
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Mary Schmidt Campbell Named President of Spelman College

February 1, 2017 by

GHS’s own Mary Schmidt Campbell named new president of Spelman College Spelman College named Mary Schmidt Campbell its 10th president. Campbell is the dean emerita of the Tisch School of the Arts and university professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University. She starts Aug. 1, following Beverly Daniel Tatum’s 13 years as Spelman’s president, Spelman College issued the following release late Saturday afternoon: Today the Board of Trustees … Read More

Oberdorfer Minor gets head stone
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Girls High Graduate, Class of 1910, Recognized with Grave Stone

February 1, 2017 by

By Samaria Bailey Tribune Correspondent (excerpted) The Philadelphia Tribune, March 30, 2015 Pauline Oberdorfer Minor, a 1910 graduate of Girls High and Founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, was finally celebrated with a well-attended memorial Saturday March 28th at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, just outside of Southwest Philadelphia. Her whereabouts had remained a mystery for years until her history and contribution were uncovered in 2013 by members of the sorority she founded. Oberdorfer graduated … Read More

Girls High Alumna Ellen Goosenberg Kent
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Girls High Alumna Is 2015 Oscar Winner!

February 1, 2017 by

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 is a 2013 documentary film about the Veterans’ Crisis Line, directed by Girls High Alumnae, Ellen Goosenberg Kent. It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 87th Academy Awards. The film focuses on the employees who staff the United States Department of Veterans Affairs suicide hotline in Canandaigua, New York. The 44-minute documentary shows the emotional strain the job has on employees (many of whom … Read More

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