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EVENTS

Boston Tall Ships Event
Date: June 16, 2009 to July 08, 2009
The "Westfield State College at the Tall Ships" event is planned for Wednesday, July 8 at The Chart House in Boston! Cocktail hour with cash bar begins at 6pm and dinner at 7 with fireworks following (pending good weather).

3rd Annual Owl Club Golf Tournament
Date: August 04, 2009 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Join us for the 3rd Annual Owl Club Golf Tournament at The Ranch Golf Club in Southwick, Massachusetts.

Summer 2009 Alumni Events
Date: June 07, 2009 to August 30, 2009
Mark your calendars and save the dates for some fun events for alumni, parents and friends of WSC for the summer of 2009!

WSC at the Boston Red Sox!

Sunday, August 30 (Toronto Blue Jays)

To purchase our "Westfield State at the RED SOX" game tickets for August 30, please call 866-567-4576. Each alumnus may purchase up to 2 tickets per phone call.  This is verified by giving the company your class year.  This means others in your family may purchase for you but will need to have your name and year of graduation when purchasing.  If two alumni are in the same household, you will be required to do two separate transactions to avoid any appearance of favoritism.

Tickets cost $75 each.  Your ticket purchase includes entry into the game in Section 37.  It also includes a pre-game lunch at Jillian’s in Boston across from Fenway park.  (Please see the menu listed below.)  This event begins at 11am and ends at 1pm.  There will be a cash bar at the event and use of pool tables in the venue.

If you are interested in a pre-event tour of Fenway park and/or if you are from the Western MA area and would like information about a possible bus from the campus, please contact Kathi once you have purchased your tickets.

Menu for Jillian's
August 30, 2009
BITE SIZE MAC & CHEESE BITES
CALIFORNIA CHICKEN BITES
HAMBURGERS, HOT DOGS AND CHICKEN BREASTS
CREAT YOUR OWN NACHOS
SALAD and DRESSING

We have doubled our order of tickets as we hated to disappoint alumni last year when we sold out so quickly!!  Please share this news with other WSC Alumni!

Berkshire Summer Event

 
The Summer Berkshire Event will be either late July or early August!  Nancy Woitkowski, our Berkshire County liaison for the Office of Alumni Relations, is coordinating this event. 


WSC Foundation, Inc. Scholarship Golf Tournament

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Crestview Country Club, Agawam, Massachusetts
For more information, including sponsorship, contact Brent Bean.


NEW! Alumni Weekend Scholarship Ride
"Destined to be a Fall Classic"
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Homecoming 2009
Date: October 23, 2009 to October 24, 2009
Westfield State College presents Homecoming 2009!  Visit this page often for updates on this year's event.  Registration will open soon!

Alumni Weekend Scholarship Motorcycle Ride
Date: October 24, 2009 10:00 AM
Alumni Weekend Scholarship Motorcycle Ride
"Destined to be a Fall Classic"
Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Departs from WSC at 10:00 a.m.
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The Jerry Gravel Track Dedicated
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Westfield State College celebrated the naming of the “Jerry Gravel Track” on Saturday, April 25, as the track dedication in the name of the college’s longtime head coach preceded the current team’s victories in the MASCAC Championship meet.

Attention graduates after Dec. 1, 2007!

We want to take this opportunity to let you know about a loan forgiveness program administered by State Treasurer Cahill's office.

The Commonwealth Covenant Fund (CCF) provides loan forgiveness to low income students who completed their undergraduate studies at public institutions of higher education after December 1, 2007 in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM).

This program rewards students who stay in the state to work, or teach, in the STEM field after graduation with up to $5000/year of loan forgiveness up to a cumulative amount of $15,000. For details on this program, please visit their web site at www.mass.gov/covenantfund .


Art and Westfield State College

Mystery of important missing abstract impressionist painting

solved at Westfield State College alumni art show

During a recent opening for an alumni art exhibit at the Westfield State College Downtown Art Gallery, the mystery of a missing painting was solved and a noteworthy piece of artwork was gifted to the college. The work of abstract expressionist artist Nevartte Bedrossian was featured in the exhibit Past Presence, and the late artist’s sister-in-law attended the opening after seeing the announcement in the Springfield Republican newspaper.

Hazel M. Bedrossian of West Springfield was skimming the paper when she saw the announcement for the art show.

“I still can’t believe that my mom saw the artist’s name in the newspaper that day. She usually just breezes through it and then works on the crossword puzzle. But, for whatever reason, the name Bedrossian popped out at her,” said Janet E. Beach of Hampden, Mass.

“I always admired her for her way of being able to express herself so well,” Bedrossian said of her sister-in-law. She added that the artist’s siblings were all creatively inclined. “I was just amazed at how wonderful it was that they had all developed individual artistic feelings.”

Bedrossian, who celebrated her 92nd birthday on the night of the opening on Oct. 18, brought a long-sought painting to the gallery. The oil painting, entitled Mama Bedrossian, had been hanging in Bedrossian’s living room for many years.

Darrel M. Razdow, curator of the Nevartte Bedrossian Project, said that the whereabouts of another of the artist’s works remained unknown. At the opening, Razdow learned that the second missing painting is owned by another member of the Bedrossian family. “It’s wonderful to know that they ended up with family,” she said.

Hazel Bedrossian donated the Mama Bedrossian painting to the project. The painting won first place in a contest sponsored by the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1938.
Bedrossian also donated a linoleum cut print done by her sister-in-law to the Westfield State College permanent art collection. The print is entitled Grand Old Man.
"We sincerely appreciate the gift of this artwork, especially since it represents the work of one of our esteemed alumni," Evan S. Dobelle, president of Westfield State College, said. "Nevartte Bedrossian has made a very significant contribution to art history and we are also proud to join the region's Armenian community in celebrating her work."

“It was a wonderful gesture on behalf of Hazel Bedrossian to donate this piece to the Westfield State College Downtown Art Gallery's permanent collection,” said Faith Lund, the curator of the college’s art gallery. “It was fitting that one of her works become a part of her alma mater. We are honored to acquire one of her works of art.”

Nevartte Bedrossian’s stepdaughter, Michele A. Goldfarb of Philadelphia, also attended the opening of the show.

“Hazel Bedrossian had not seen Michele since she was a very young child,” said Razdow. “Michele did not know that there were any family members still living in the
area. This was also a reunion of sorts for them. Hazel wanted Michele to have the painting. It is a very important painting in the chronology of Nevartte's story.”

Nevartte Bedrossian was a Springfield-born artist of Armenian descent who is known for her abstract expressionist paintings. She graduated from the then Massachusetts State Teachers College. Her brother, Aram Bedrossian, taught music at the college and was the husband of Hazel Bedrossian.

Nevartte Bedrossian also attended the Massachusetts School of Art (now the Massachusetts College of Art) in Boston.

Bedrossian went on to study at the Art Students League in New York City in the early 1950’s. The abstract expressionism movement came to the forefront of the contemporary art world at the end of World War II. Male artists in the movement, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, gained prominence. Female artists Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler only received recognition several decades later.

“Nevartte felt that she was a great abstract expressionist artist who had been overlooked. So now she’s having her turn,” Razdow said. “We’re going to have another large show here at Westfield State College in 2010 and it’s going to be devoted to Nevartte Bedrossian’s work. From there we hope to be showing the work in other venues in Massachusetts and New York. So it’s just the beginning.”
“The show in 2010 will be a retrospective of her work chosen from archives of over 300 pieces. This show will be in the new Westfield State College art gallery in the Ely Campus Center upon completion,” said Lund.

Of her sister-in-law, Hazel Bedrossian said, “It’s wonderful that she’s going to be recognized.”



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