Sweet Briar College Magazine - Spring 2016

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When One Award Won’t Do … The 2015 Distinguished Alumna Award goes to the ‘Saving Sweet Briar seven’ The women of the Saving Sweet Briar Inc. board of directors personify every description of a Sweet Briar woman. They are leaders. They are unafraid. They are women with integrity. They are savvy businesswomen, community pillars and caring family women. These alumnae used their vast and varied experiences to help save the very thing that binds them together — Sweet Briar College. They were inspired by mothers, professors, classmates and, especially, the thousands of alumnae sisters who worked beside them to save the College. There was no playbook in the Saving Sweet Briar movement, but that never slowed them down. They gave their all — and then some — and prevailed to save a place worth saving. It is fitting that the Alumnae Alliance bestowed on this team of women the 2015 Distinguished Alumna Award. By giving this award to such a dynamic and diverse group of leaders, the Alumnae Alliance and the College symbolically recognize the equally dynamic and diverse alumnae who assisted in saving Sweet Briar — not just in the past year, but also those who have supported Sweet Briar for generations and are working to save Sweet Briar today and in years to come. This article can never fully capture and commend the efforts of so many. This year, we award this honor to applaud the individual contributions of the “Saving Sweet Briar seven,” but recognize that it is a tribute to all of our alumnae, who brought distinction to Sweet Briar in the fight to save her. Magnolia “Maggy” O’Donnell ’18, in collaboration with the Office of Alumnae Relations and Development, interviewed each member of the Saving Sweet Briar Inc. board to find out what enabled her to meet the challenge of fighting closure, and what she learned in the process. Story by Magnolia O’Donnell ’18 with Jane Dure ’82 and Clélie D.D. Steckel 22 SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE
Christine Davis Boulware ’77 Before putting her efforts into Saving Sweet Briar Inc., Christine Boulware’s top priorities were her consulting business, an executive search service for nonprofit, public and private sectors, and her short-film website. Positivity was key when it came to her approach to the Saving Sweet Briar movement. “From day one, I never doubted that this was going to work out,” she says. That positive thinking was born of her experiences at Sweet Briar, including her January term in Washington, D.C., and two European tours as a political economy major. She remembers thinking: “There is a great big world out there, and all you have to do is think about what you want to do and you can do it.” For Boulware, alumnae now have a duty to Sweet Briar beyond financial contributions. Boulware continues to lead this effort, reaching out to high school guidance counselors in her community and sharing her results with the alumnae relations and development and admissions teams. Her insights were the inspiration in adding a high school tracking field to the admissions advocate software program that the alumnae admissions recruiters (AARs) are using. “It is so important to never disengage from the College. Every year, everybody should do three things,” Boulware says. “They should send a check. They should recruit a student. Also, I think we should maintain our community. We should stay connected to our younger alumnae. We need to help people in any way that we can. We need to come back to campus for more than just Reunion. We need to come back for engagement. “Without alumnae engagement, there is no future. I think that is a distinguishing mark of Sweet Briar College in general. For a school the size of Sweet Briar, and our ‘in perpetuity’ mandate from Indiana, it’s all about our community.” The idea of community has always driven the Sweet Briar experience, and it was vital in the Saving Sweet Briar movement. With that in mind, Boulware challenges the Class of 2016 and young alumnae: “Connect yourself to the Sweet Briar network and specific alumnae. Do not lose touch. Any ideas that newly minted alumnae have about what we can do, they should pursue.” SBC.EDU | SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 23
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