Mays will educate us on Wagner’s divas and The Flying Dutchman, which is currently on stage at the San Francisco Opera House. Join us on Saturday, November 9th at 3:00pm at the home of Anne and Ken Vosti on Campus. Refreshments will be served. RSVP by November 7th to Patty Huggins at (650) 843-0613 or patriciahuggins@mac.com.

Visual Arts has arranged for a private tour of the Stanford Memorial Church on November 21st. The docent-led visit will focus on the impressive art pieces. Space is limited to 20 guests. Please click to get RSVP instructions and event details.

Join us at 11am for coffee and treats. At 11:30 there will be a docent-led tour of several splendid sculptures including Andy Goldsworthy’s Stone River (shown here) and Richard Serra’s Sequence, which is on loan here for a limited time. We’ll hear some little-known facts about the works and admire several. RSVP by October 10th to Lucky Harrison (650) 857-0807 or walt@stanford.edu.

If you didn’t make it to the first Chop Chop cooking class, you can see how much fun we had. This is a photo from the overhead cooking mirror. Click on the photo gallery to the left to see more. We are all chicken experts, now! If you’d like to know more about the next Chop Chop class, join our list!

Our new cooking skills group, Chop Chop, will be signing up for area cooking classes. Whole Foods, Sur la Table, Draeger’s, you name it. If food and fun are involved, we are there!  To receive an email about the next class, click here. To quote Julia, “Bon appetit!!!”

We are looking into starting a Cooking Group! Hone skills, get menu ideas, have fun, eat! What’s not to love?

Stay tuned for more details.

SUWC can be proud of the SWEET group (Stanford Women Empower Everyone, Together). Below is a note of gratitude from Gayla W., the SWEET group leader. What a special day at the Stanford Ronald MacDonald House. If you’d like to help with the next charitable event, please click here.

Thank you so much for making our first event a success. Whether you donated food, time or money, it all added up to making the resident’s stay at Ronald MacDonald House much better. The amazing fresh fruit salads were really appreciated as were the delicious homemade muffins. Many of the resident’s were grateful for a nutritious meal. A special thanks to the two Dianes for their extra effort in organizing this event. Let’s hope this is the first of many events to come.

Roy Lichtenstein, 1985.

The Visual Arts Group will host its 2nd Annual Campus Collectors’ Viewing on Thursday, May 16th. To join the tour, please meet at 1pm sharp at the campus home of Ann Kay at 792 Santa Maria Avenue. You will receive tour information, maps and directions at Ann’s house. To respect the privacy of hosts, we are not publishing the tour route online. The Viewing will be partly a walk-about and partly a drive and then car-pooling to the last place for a wrap-up talk with Judith Kays at the end of the afternoon. If you have questions, please contact Barbara Baxter at (650) 854-7278 or Danièle Archambault at (650) 208-9095.

Author’s Coffee is one of SUWC’s most popular groups. They gather each month in a home near the campus and listen to a local author discuss his or her work. Then there are sales and book signings. Joan Hancock, who has done a fantastic job, will be passing the torch. She coordinated several wonderful authors talks as you can see from the list below.

If you’re interested in heading up Author’s Coffee in the 2013-14 year, please contact Audrey Gold (audreygold@gmail.com). It’s doesn’t take much: You choose an author from a designated list; choose a location from a designated list; and request refreshments. Easy.

Nancy Packer – “Old Ladies” (A Collection Of Short Stories), Zoe Klippert – “An Englishwoman In California”(1871-1876 Letters), Ann Ranieri & Joe Gurkoff – “How Can I Help?”, Herant Katchadourian – “The Way It Turned Out” (A Memoir), Marilyn Yalom – “How The French Invented Love”, Stephen Haber – “Mexico Since 1980”, Bill Carter – “Causes And Spirits – Five Decades”