By Harper Montgomery ’94
Mount Holyoke alumnae are major players in the art world today. Making art relevant in a world where it’s becoming less and less visible is the difficult challenge that all of these women embrace. None of them could imagine doing anything else. But their passion for art is matched with the [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2008
BIG Picture: Alumnae Makers and Shakers in the Visual Arts
Keeper of the Dream, Instrument of Change: Katherine Butler Jones ‘57
By Leanna James Blackwell
It was a warm Sunday in August 1953, and Katherine Butler Jones ’57 (above) had one more person to visit before leaving her childhood home in Harlem for college. A family friend, Aunt Ida, was expecting her. Aunt Ida cooked her meals on a hot plate and worked in service, spending [...]
Finding the Courage to Change: Alcohol & Drug Program Helps MHC Women Move Beyond Addiction
By Susan Bushey ‘96
Kate* woke up from an alcohol-induced blackout her first month on campus with a student adviser handing her a telephone number, telling her to call it and ask for help. “I felt coerced into calling, but I later was happy for it,” she says. Ann* vowed never to become her father—an [...]
Government: More or Less?
“Instead of less government, in many areas we actually need more government.” –MHC politics professor Douglas J. Amy
Government Is GoodBy Douglas J. Amy
When was the last time you heard someone say something positive about government? Most of what we hear about this institution is relentlessly negative. The news media focus almost exclusively on the [...]
Inside the Global Classroom: MHC Launches Online Courses for Alumnae
By Hannah Wallace ’95
Online learning is one of the latest trends in higher education. Institutions such as Bowdoin, Duke, and Wellesley are offering downloadable lectures on iTunes U, while MIT is posting entire classes—exams and readings included—on its OpenCourseWare Web site. “Coursecasts,” such as the popular lectures of physics professor Walter Lewin, are not for [...]
New Track and Field the Stuff of Dreams
Coaches and athletes are giving the college’s new track and field two thumbs up. A synthetic, multipurpose field completed late last fall, it is lit and surrounded by an eight-lane track with a nine-lane straightaway. The new facility allowed the college to host a home track meet in April, its first since 1996.
“Our old [...]
Admission Holds Steady; Early-Decision Applications Soar
While the Office of Admission could report no record numbers of applications by mid-February, as it has done in recent years, it nevertheless had received 3,100 applications, its second-highest number, down about 1 percent from last year.
After a decline in early decision applications last year, Jane Brown, vice president for enrollment and college relations, [...]
Penny Gill Named Dean of the College
Penny Gill, Mary Lyon Professor of Humanities and professor of politics, has been appointed dean of Mount Holyoke, a three-year position starting in the fall. Gill replaces Lee Bowie, professor of philosophy, who will take a yearlong sabbatical leave before returning to his department.
Lenore Carlisle, assistant professor of psychology and education and chair of [...]
Local Highway Crossing Safer for Pedestrians
Crossing the state highway in front of MHC is less daunting thanks to revamped pedestrian crosswalks that are now highlighted by pavement markings and street lighting.
Traffic along Massachusetts 116 between Morgan and Park streets—the south and north ends of campus—is calmer due to blinking yellow lights installed this winter in the pavement of new [...]
Gorse, StonyBrook Consolidate Services
Director of Human Resources Lauren Turner announced in February that the college will integrate campus programs for children that “support child care and the needs of our psychology/education faculty and students for research and observation.” The move will consolidate services currently provided by the Gorse Child Study Center and the StonyBrook Children’s Center. The new [...]