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In 1837 Mary Lyon pioneered higher education for women in founding Mount Holyoke. And today, nearly 200 years later, we continue to embolden students to break boundaries, shake off limits, and take the lead. Our alumnae and students are the living embodiment of the power of not only the Mount Holyoke experience but of a women’s college in the liberal tradition. Individually and together, we can make a big difference in simple ways.
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Five Simple Ways You Can Promote Mount Holyoke:
1. Add Mount Holyoke College to Your Professional Biography
Example: Name graduated from Mount Holyoke College in class year with a bachelor of arts/science in academic major.
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2. Share Information about Mount Holyoke and Women’s Education on Social Media
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3. Add Mount Holyoke College to Your Social Media Profiles
Let your friends, network, and prospective employers know where you attended college by adding Mount Holyoke to your social media profiles, especially Facebook and LinkedIn.
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4. Show Your Mount Holyoke Pride
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Website badges:
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5. Bring up Mount Holyoke in Conversation
At a school event:
“Are you touring colleges yet with your daughter? You may want to consider looking at my alma mater, Mount Holyoke…”With friends:
“I was reading an article in Mount Holyoke’s alumnae magazine the other day that I thought would interest you…”At book club:
“My favorite professor at Mount Holyoke always said great literature helps you draw on ideas you already have, and I think that’s so true with this book…”In a meeting:
“When I was at Mount Holyoke I worked on a project that with similar challenges…”When volunteering:
“I really learned the importance of volunteering during my time at Mount Holyoke when I…”
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Why a Women’s College?
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In 2014 Gretchen Schmidhausler ’81 founded Little Dog Brewing Company, a four-barrel craft brewery in Neptune City, New Jersey, that specializes in handcrafted, small-batch brews. While opening her own brewing company fulfilled a longtime goal, her journey took a bit of a winding, yet serendipitous path. Read More
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Throughout the last five years, Cheryl Obedin Rivkin ’90, chief administrative officer and director of compliance at investment firm Muzinich & Co., has hired a Mount Holyoke alumna. Each of them came to Rivkin through either the Alumnae Association’s Career Directory, LinkedIn, or through a personal connection. Read More
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Deeply committed to furthering social justice and international perspectives through education as dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco (USF), Shabnam Koirala-Azad ’99 traces these passions across the globe to where her sense of identity and community were formed. Read More
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A member and captain of the Mount Holyoke swim team, Cathleen Pruden ’16 often found herself thinking more about the swim team and her involvement in the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee than about her academic achievements. “I would feel guilty that I was more excited about practice than about class,” she says. Read More
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“I have always loved both art and science,” Allie Miller ’11 says, adding that growing up she had a difficult time reconciling the differences between the two disciplines. Mount Holyoke gave her the space to combine her interests, and art professor Joseph Smith was instrumental in her growth. Read More
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Fay Kleiman Poles ’39, who arrived on campus during the Great Depression, was inspired to major in English after taking Latin during high school. “I was always interested in and appreciated the written word and the commonality between different languages. Libraries were always a very important part of my life.” Read More
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“Mount Holyoke is a place that encourages building your network with the purpose of serving others,” Birungi Mubirumusoke Ives ’96 says. “That is the exact mission of my work with Aligne.” Ives founded her consulting firm to facilitate strategic partnerships for brands and individuals and to teach “power networking skills.” Read More
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“It’s not about what others are doing, but about what you know you should be doing,” says Abena Opokua Foli ’10, regulatory food scientist at Saputo Dairy Foods USA in Dallas, Texas. At Saptuo, Foli’s work includes developing nutrition labels and ingredient information that are compliant with FDA regulations. Read More
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“We’re the first legal aid nonprofit to adopt this model of service, achieve universal access in one neighborhood, and prove that access to civil legal representation can make a dent on poverty,” says Virginia Taylor ’08, regarding the work of Bayview/Hunters Point Community Legal, which she cofounded in 2013. Read More
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In her role as corporate secretary and chief governance officer at Chevron, Mary Francis ’86 supports the board of directors in their work of overseeing and directing the company. “Whenever I’ve powered through . . . and taken a challenge where I didn’t know I’d be successful, I’ve never regretted it,” says Francis. Read More
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In 2006 Marilyn Bruno ’69 and Cynthia Bruno Burzell ’01 started the biotech company Aequor, which provides remedies for biofilm, a glue-like substance that helps bacteria attach to surfaces. Biofilm is, according to NASA officials, “the number one impediment to long-duration manned space travel.” Read More
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“Doing an extreme climb like Vinson has always been on my bucket list,” Catherine Gibson ’77 says. “Earlier [last] year I decided I wasn’t going to wait any longer and I decided to try for this elusive peak.” Her passion for climbing was ignited at Mount Holyoke, when she hiked in the White Mountains as a member of the Outing Club. Read More
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“I love learning about cutting-edge technology that can protect our war fighters,” says Colonel Lina Rivero Cashin ’88, a senior project engineer for The Aerospace Corporation. A STEM major at Mount Holyoke College, Cashin credits her dual-degree in math and physics for helping her enter the space operations career field. Read More
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