Chronicling the Spanish Flu

Renowned physicist, Mildred Allen, taught at Mount Holyoke from 1918 to 1959. She was infected with the Spanish flu—along with more than a quarter of the student population—within weeks of arriving on campus her first year of teaching. During her quarantine she wrote letters to her mother chronicling the outbreak. Listen to Mount Holyoke’s Susan Daniels ’79 read the letters aloud.