W. Rochelle Calhoun to Resign as Executive Director of the Alumnae Association

In February, W. Rochelle Calhoun ’83 announced her resignation as executive director of the Alumnae Association. The Alumnae Association has enjoyed Rochelle’s excellent leadership for the past five years. She has made a tremendous mark on the association and on alumnae and students, and she will be missed as she moves on to become the dean of student affairs at Skidmore College. Prior to taking on the executive director position at the association, Rochelle held a number of administrative positions at Mount Holyoke, including director of diversity and inclusion and acting dean of the college.

Rochelle will be part of all the association's spring reunion events, and will depart for Skidmore in early June after Reunion II, 2008. This will give the Alumnae Association time to fête her accomplishments and provide an appropriate farewell tribute. Meanwhile, the board of the association will commence a search to fill the executive director position, with the goal of having a new director in place this fall.

The Alumnae Association will pay tribute to Rochelle and her impact on the college and on the association in the summer Alumnae Quarterly.

Call it destiny, purpose, a higher order or higher power. Call it self-knowledge that can only be revealed through living. It will have different names for each of you. In this moment of stillness, I want to assure you that the deeper current is there, that if you are quiet enough you can hear it or feel it. — Amy Martin, assistant professor of English, baccalaureate address, 2003