University Guild Program: American Beauty - 100 Years of Cosmetics

Please attend the University Guild program…..American Beauty:  100 Years of Cosmetics, with Leslie Goddard on Monday, March 17, 2014, at 1:30 pm in Scott Hall, Guild Lounge, 601 University Place, on Northwestern University’s beautiful campus.  Tea, coffee and cookies are served after the program. 

From squeezing into hoop crinoline skirts to spackling their skin with make-up, American women have gone to amusing and sometime horrifying lengths in their quest for beauty. Travel through more than a century of magazine ads, patent illustrations and artifacts to learn the fascinating stories behind such feminine enhancements as the push-up bra, the rubber girdle, chip-proof nail polish, dusky mascara, and kiss-proof lipstick. This talk is both a nostalgic look back at the beauty industry and a fascinating exploration of the cultural meanings of American beauty ideals.

Leslie Goddard has been presenting history lectures and performing first-person programs in the Chicago area for more than ten years.

She holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University specializing in American studies and U.S. history, as well as master's degrees in theater and in museum studies. Leslie has worked in the museum field for ten years and is the author of two books on Chicago history.

Her nationally-recognized programs have been presented for Illinois Humanities Council sites, Chicago’s Navy Pier, WBEZ-Chicago Amplified, Questers International, the Victorian Society in America, and scores of schools, universities, retirement centers, libraries, historical societies, businesses, conferences, and fund-raisers. 

Leslie returns to the University Guild after being a previous successful speaker.  More information can be found on Leslie’s web site:  http://www.lesliegoddard.info/Home_Page.html

Next University Guild Program:  A Music Program with Dr. Stephen Alltop, on Monday, April 7th, at 1:30 pm, following a brief annual meeting of the University Guild.    THIS MEETING IS BEING HELD AT ALICE MILLAR CHAPEL, 1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 847-491-7256. 

Dr. Alltop is Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University, Director of Chapel Music.  His program will be on "Vive la France - Glories of the Organ in France" - Nowhere has the pipe organ enjoyed a more storied history than in France. Stephen Alltop will perform and guide you on a tour of some of the greatest music composed for "The King of Instruments," from the ornamental gems of the French Baroque to the symphonic splendor of the French Romantic age.

The University Guild’s Annual Membership is $50.  Membership is open to all in the community.  Guests are welcome and cost is $2.00 per program. The purpose of the University Guild is to bring to the membership of the Guild the intellectual resources of the University, to promote the interests of the University, to work for the collection and exhibition of the objects of art, and to advance the development and appreciation of the fine arts in the University and in Evanston.  The University Guild also gives scholarships to students at Northwestern University.