SOF News – October 2015

SOF News October 2015
Anthony Doerr
SOF News October 2015
Robert Campbell

Irene Rosenzweig, FAAR 1930, Anthony Doerr on CD

Pulitzer-prize winner Anthony Doerr, FAAR 2005, reads his 2010 memoir, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World on a new audio version

Another Academy Pulitzer Prize winner, architecture critic Robert Campbell, RAAR 1997, gave a talk, "Architecture is the Art of Making Places," at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

 

The 2015 Irene Rosenzweig Juried Exhibition, which features works by artists in Arkansa and nearby states, opened in September in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The exhibition is sponsored by the Irene Rosenzweig Foundation, a legacy of Irene Rosenzweig, FAAR 1930. Rosenzweig, a Pine Bluff native, graduated first in the class of 1920 from Pine Bluff High School and received her Ph.D from Bryn Mawr in 1933.  A Fellow in Classics, she was reputedly fluent in French, German, Spanish, Latin, and  Greek,  and served as tutor to the family of Franklin D. Roosevelt during their years in the White House. She died in 1997.