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Uncommon Women Changing the World
During this academic year, Hollins has affirmed its commitment to educating remarkable women with a yearlong celebration of uncommon women changing the world. We take our theme from the play by Wendy Wasserstein, herself the product of a women’s college, Uncommon Women and Others. The campus enjoyed a full slate of art, music, dance, lectures, and readings.
Our celebration continues with Reunion 2008 events, featuring many uncommon Hollins women who each do their part in affecting change in the larger world.
Uncommon Artist
Taisie Berkeley ’70, photographer and Fulbright Scholar
Berkeley excels in capturing the emotions of those she photographs and has won national recognition for her photojournalism of people. In 2006 she won a Fulbright Scholarship to India, where she documented, through images and interviews, the plight of India’s poorest women. Berkeley, who has an M.F.A. from the University of Delaware and teaches at the Holton-Arms School, is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Lewis Cocke, founder of Hollins. Explore Taisie’s artwork on display in the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
Uncommon Service
Jamaica Service Project 20th Anniversary
Since 1988, Jeri Suarez, associate dean for cultural and community engagement, has led more than 400 Hollins women to Jamaica to serve and to learn in the small impoverished community of Lucea. Suarez was inspired to embark on this labor of love by Hollins parents Dick and Betty Pyle (Kim ’91 and Katy ’02), who spent time in Lucea in the Peace Corps. All alumnae, regardless of class year, are invited to celebrate 20 years of Hollins in Jamaica at Reunion ’08 with a program by Suarez. Reunion will feature a special reception for alumnae who went on the project.
Hollins in Service Work
Hollins has a distinguished history of alumnae serving as volunteers after graduation, informally or formally with such organizations as the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. To celebrate this legacy, Reunion will feature a discussion with Kelley McElmurray Pruitt ’93, Hollins parents Dick and Betty Pyle, and Jeri Suarez.
Uncommon History
Hollins Women Save History: Panel Discussion by Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’68, Nancy Nash Campbell ’58, Brandy Culp ’98, and Stuart Lewis Smith ’58
Boyce Ansley recently was elected regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, the organization that owns and operates George Washington’s historic home, Mount Vernon. Ansley will lead the organization in its 150th anniversary celebration in 2008.
A leader in the national preservation movement for more than 30 years, Nancy Campbell has served as a trustee and chair of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She plays an active role in activities of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where her husband is president. She served on the Jamestown Commemoration Commission to help plan the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in 2007.
Brandy Culp is curator of the Historic Charleston Foundation in South Carolina. She has been an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Department of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stuart Smith is vice president of Stratford Hall, birthplace of Robert E. Lee, which is owned and operated by the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association. In the year marking the 200th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s birth, Smith is one of five Hollins alumnae serving on the association’s board.
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