The Phi Beta Kappa Society
DELAWARE VALLEY ASSOCIATION
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Activities offered by members through other organizations, that may be of interest.
Gratz College Summer Adult Continuing Education Virtual Course to be given June 27-30 by PBK DV Member - Open to Public
PBK DV member Lance J. Sussman, PhD, will be teaching a 4 session, 2 hours each, virtual course on "Ukranian Jewish History and Culture" at Gratz College. The 4 sessions are from June 27-30, 2022, from 10:00 am - 12:00 p.m. EDT, for a single fee of $135. Not connected with PBK DV. Click here for more information and to register.
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PBK Delaware Valley Member News:
Jill Dennin Committed To Serve PA Senate District 24
Jill Dennin (PBK Goucher College and member of PBK Delaware Valley) is the Democratic candidate for the office of Pennsylvania State senator from District 24, comprising parts of Montgomery, Bucks, and Berks Counties. Candidate Dennin has lived in Pennsylvania for 33 years and is active in many aspects of her District.
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PBK's Toured Delaware Art Museum Special Rossetti Exhibition plus Contemporary Art & Illustrations Galleries
On January 27, 2024, PBK's, family, and friends enjoyed two tours at the Delaware Art Museum with good conversation over lunch from the museum's Kaffeina Cafe in between the tours. The first tour was of an exceptional visiting exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite artists & intellectuals assembled by the Tate Britain, which covered the work of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founder Dante Gabriel Rossetti, alongside that of his wife, artist Elizabeth Siddal, and his siblings, writers Christina and William Michael Rossetti, which complemented the museum's own strong pre-Raphaelite collection on view in the regular galleries. The second tour consisted of "slow tours" combining audience participation in analyzing pieces of art from the Museum's excellent collections of Contemporary Art and American Illustration.
October 7, 2024 - 7:00 pm
Annual Membership Meeting (Virtual)
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Delaware Valley will be held virtually on Monday, October 7, 2024, at 7:00 pm, to which all members are invited to attend and participate. During the Annual Meeting members will hear a recap of the past year's activities and finances, will give input to determine the coming year's plans, consider and vote on Bylaws amendments, and elect all officers and Council members for the open Council seats. The Annual Meeting agenda, the election slate, brief bios for candidates, and the link to join the virtual meeting will be e-sent 15 days in advance of the Annual Meeting to all members current with their dues.
October 17, 2024 - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Meet with Recent PBK Inductees: Key Connections - Meet & Greet Happy Hour + Quizzo team trivia; Philadelphia, PA
Enjoy great conversation and trivia fun with other PBK members from the SE PA, So. Jersey, and No. Delaware region! To introduce recent PBK inductees to each other and to their local PBK alumni association, our Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Delaware Valley's Young Professionals Advisory Committee (YPAC) is hosting a meet & greet happy hour with food and drinks, followed by an hour of team Quizzo trivia in small impromptu teams, with PBK logo mugs for prizes. YPAC has selected a private space in the local pub restaurant Victory Brewing Company, 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in Center City Philadelphia, convenient to regional transportation, for this event. Pre-register so we can plan appetizers and beer/wine/soft drinks for the happy hour, and have you pre-select your plated sandwich (which comes with sides) to enjoy during Quizzo. Fee: $7 for PBK members; $10 for up to one guest. Member's fee is refundable upon attendance at the event. REGISTRATION CLOSED.
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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Public Lecture at Swarthmore College
On April 11-12, 2024, the Epsilon of Pennsylvania Chapter at Swarthmore College hosted Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson, on April 11-12, 2024. Professor Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art History and core faculty at the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. She is the award-winning author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009), Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2027), and Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023). Professor Bryan-Wilson is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Andy Warhol foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian, and the Terra Foundation, among others. She is a widely published critic and adjunct curator at the Meseu de Arte de Sao Paulo. Professor Bryan-Wilson's public lecture on April 11th, was entitled, "Stitching Protest".
PBK's Enjoy Nature Walk at Pennypack Restoration Trust Reserve in Montgomery County.
On May 4, 2024, PBK DV Council member & YPAC Co-Chair Shea Sandifer led a 2-hour nature walk along the beautiful trails of the 825 acre Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust. The Trust is a private, non-profit ecological reserve started in 1970 and open to the public, located in Huntingdon Valley, PA, just over the northwest Philadelphia city line. The tour passed through meadows and forests, by a pond and along Pennypack Creek, and by stunning flowering wisteria vines draped over large trees. A wide and level former railroad right-of-way forms an excellent running trail through the Trust lands, that are also home to many birds which some of the group followed on the Merlin birdsong identification app and/or identified visually. Good conversations were a highlight of the event.
Phi Beta Kappa Delaware Valley Appoints Interim Treasurer
In keeping with the organization's Bylaws, the Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Delaware Valley governing Council appointed Ronald B. Anderson, MD, to the position of Interim Treasurer effective June 1, 2024, to fill out the unexpired term of departing Treasurer, Margaret Bacheler, Ed.D. Dr. Anderson will serve until the Association's upcoming Annual Meeting on October 7, 2024, at which time he has agreed to be on the slate for election by the membership to a full year term as Treasurer. Dr. Bacheler served with distinction for almost 3 years. She implemented noteworthy improvements to facilitate the organization's fiscal transparency, which are very appreciated. At the October 7th Annual Meeting, the Association will formally thank Dr. Bacheler for her excellent service as Treasurer.
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PBK's Toured Outdoor Murals in Philadelphia's Center City West
On June 29, 2024, PBK's enjoyed seeing the bold outdoor murals of Philadelphia's Center City West, on a 2-hour private guided tour. Even 2 hours could only include a subset of of Philadelphia's reputed 4,000 outdoor murals, which are championed by Mural Arts Philadelphia, the nation's largest public art program. The Mural Arts guide chose an interesting route to highlight a variety of new and old murals, and shared stories behind the murals, the artists, and their transformative impact on the City over the years. Tour revenues benefit the acclaimed social responsibility missions of the Mural Arts organization, which include post-incarceration work training, youth art education, and community engagement, to name a few. PBK's had more good conversation at the post-tour group lunch at the Continental Midtown restaurant.
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Private Guided Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art "Mary Cassatt" Special Exhibition
On July 20, 2024, PBK's, family, and friends had a very detailed private tour with an excellent guide of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's special exhibition, "Mary Cassatt at Work". The exhibition included over 130 diverse works that covered Cassatt's evolving practice, demonstrating her interest in the "serious work" of artmaking. New findings were noted about the materials she used and her advanced-for-her-era processes, coinciding with a detailed study by the PMOA of its significant Cassatt holdings. The first major showing of Cassatt's oeuvre in the US in 25 years, the exhibition considered her professionalism, her biography, and the wider Parisian art world which she inhabited to give a richer and more complex picture of her work. Following the tour, many of the participants ate lunch together and enjoyed good conversation in the museum cafe.
