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Virtual Reunion
Despite the cancellation of in-person events, several yearly traditions continued online on October 1–3, 2020.
There There Faculty Panel The weekend’s festivities kicked off with a discussion about the first-year student common read, There There by Tommy Orange. The book, which takes its title from the famous Gertrude Stein quote, follows various indigenous Oaklanders as they prepare for a powwow. The talk was led by native members of the Mills community: Elder in Residence Patricia St. Onge; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies Natalee Kehaulani Bauer ’97, MA ’07; Kelli Rutherford ’21, leader in the College’s Indigenous Women’s Alliance; and Charlene Harrison ’96, MA ’08, who works with the Native American Health Center in Oakland.
“There’s beauty in writing down the sorrow.” –Patricia St. Onge
Writers’ Salon Five alumnae authors—Thea Orozco ‘03 (far left), Kathleen Dalton ‘70, Nicole Taghert Bergstrom ‘70, Kristen Baumgardner Caven ‘88, and Kathleen MacKay ‘70 (not pictured)—read from their works and answered questions on everything from the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Bob Dylan to the life of an introvert. Caven also showed off her short stop-motion animated film, The Dirndl Diaspora (left).
Convocation Read our roundup on page 4! 22
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