Alumni Events

Please join us at Young Alumni Homecoming. We are delighted to welcome home alumni and alumni parents from the classes of 2012-2019!

We welcomed alumni from the Class of 2009 for a ten year reunion at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s! 

They were given a tour of the school before a cocktail reception in the Alumni Center. It was wonderful to have everyone back home!

Alumna author Rabeah Ghaffari ’89 offered a reading from her recently published novel, To Keep The Sun Alive, in the C.V. Starr Library at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's on May 23. The event, sponsored by the school’s Alumni Association, was attended by current faculty and teachers as well as alumni from Ms. Ghaffari’s years at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s.  

The novel takes place in 1979. Telling the story of one Iranian family and their idyllic luncheon gatherings, Ms. Ghaffari captures the building tensions of the Iranian Revolution.

Ghaffari was born in Iran and left the country months before the uprising began. She joined the St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s community in elementary school and graduated in 1989. She currently lives in New York City and is a filmmaker and writer whose work has appeared in the Tribeca Film Festival.

Ghafarri’s collaborative fiction with artist Shirin Neshat was featured in Reflections on Islamic Art (Bloomsbury/Qatar). Her documentary, The Troupe, featured Tony Kushner; the film received funding from the Ford Foundation and Lincoln Center. Ghaffari’s most recent feature-length screenplay, The Inheritors, was commissioned by producer/costume designer Patricia Field. To Keep the Sun Alive is her first novel.

Back by popular demand, the alumni studio art class with legendary St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's artist and faculty member, Ms. Cirigliano. Alums came from all over to create their own fish print masterpieces!

Thank you!

A very heartfelt thanks to all who helped make Giving Tuesday a resounding success! Parents, alumni, alumni parents, grandparents, faculty, and friends donated $886,987 making November 27th the single largest day of giving in St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's history!

Our alumni rallied in the eleventh hour and made their challenge match with 151 alumni donors, unlocking $5,000 in grants. 

On behalf of the faculty and students, thank you