Summer 2014

Life Blood

Dr. Marvin Mitchell actually met Madeleine Stout ’13 in person last fall, but he first encountered her twenty-three years ago in the form of one of the thousands of blood… ... » Read more

Summer 2014

Investing in Opportunities for Reinvention

When Kay Althoff FP’84 arrived at Mount Holyoke in 1982, she was forty-one and the mother of three school-age children. She had started college after high school in Ohio but never… ... » Read more

In 1961 the amphitheater was constructed as just one part of an ambitious campus improvement plan implemented by Richard Glenn Gettell, the College’s thirteenth president. In its earliest years Pageant… ... » Read more

Summer 2014

From Vet Tech to Scientist

Lorelle Pye FP’13 Awarded NSF Grant At Lorelle Pye’s FP’13 high school in central Florida, students were rarely encouraged to pursue higher education. So upon graduation, Pye began working full… ... » Read more

My Voice: Where are the Women’s Voices?

In 1977, when I was the only woman teaching full time at the newly formed Yale School of Management, I attended a community meeting of students, faculty, and staff that…... » Read more

A Brewery Blowup

The Beer Explosion of 1972 In the spring of 1972, students in Microbiology 301 were studying the process of fermentation when their professor was struck with an idea: Why not…... » Read more

The Female Gaze: Summer 2014

Oil on Canvas The children in Jude Harzer’s ’87 paintings seem to stare boldly from the canvas, as if refusing to be objects of a viewer’s gaze. Through depictions of…... » Read more

Ten Minutes with Ellen Perrella

Certified Athletic Trainer All About Strength For thirty years Ellen Perrella has been head athletic trainer and lecturer in physical education and athletics at Mount Holyoke. With more than 300…... » Read more

Connections: Summer 2014

Pancake Study Break Late on May 1—the first day of final exams—a line of hungry Mount Holyoke students assembled at the All Saints’ Episcopal Church in South Hadley for a…... » Read more

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