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viewing, the students asked more Bailey-Williams Honor Society
question about the time of the war, Induction assembly on October 25,
how they were treated, and the 2016. A total of 158 students were
lasting effects of their work. The honored: 58 from 10th grade, 43
girls were, as usual, very respectful, from 11th grade, and 57 from 12th
inquisitive, and highly interested. The grade. The guest speaker was Mrs.
session lasted until approximately Jurate Krokys, Assistant
4:00 pm. Mrs. Michini, Mrs. Baker, Superintendent of the Autonomous
Mrs. Renz, and Ms. Hahn were Region of the School District of
present. Philadelphia (aka Regional
Superintendent). Parents of the
Mrs. Catherine Michini, Faculty honorees and guests attended the
Sponsor, presided over the 39th ceremony.
News from Our Alumnae
By Dorothy G. Kapenstein
Dorothy G. Kapenstein (January and has served as a Cultural
1946) has gathered a garland of Ambassador to China. After
great news about a group of Girls’ graduating from Penn, she lived
High grads. They have gained abroad in several places for some
success in many areas. Dorothy years. Gayle described her career(s)
interviewed them by email and, in an email: "I spent a year after
wherever possible, their stories are earning my MA from Girton College
told in their own words. Dorothy had at Cambridge University working in
so much fun putting this together France on a French government
that she is thinking about doing it assistantship: I taught English in a
again! French lycee in Lille, and continued to
study at the University of Lille. When
Gayle Feldman (June 1969) has I returned to England, I worked in
played an amazing number of roles in publicity and then as an editor in
book publishing in London, then went
the literary on an exchange organized by the
world. She British Publishers Association and the
is or has Publishing Administration in China
been an and was based in Beijing and
author, Shanghai. After that, I came to New
editor, York, where I have been for 30
journalist, years. Here I became a journalist,
book and was on the staff of Publishers
reviewer, Weekly for many years. I went
and freelance and continued to contribute
consultant. to Publishers Weekly and wrote for
She is fluent The New York Times, The Nation, and
in French
and Chinese
