Mary Lyon Tea (Boston)
2013-02-24 | Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 776 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02199, United States
It’s that time of year again when we celebrate Mary Lyon with a formal tea in her honor, just like when we were students. Please join us again this year for a wonderful tea service and an afternoon with MHC alumnae.

Mary Lyon Brunch (Chicago)
2013-02-24 10:30 (America/New_York) | Unnamed Venue, Chicago, IL, United States
Please come to the city Mary Lyon Brunch at Elizabeth Harding’s (’99) apartment at 10:30 AM on Feb 24th! Our menu will include an assortment of quiche and a make-your-own-pancake-bar, plus any other goodies you bring… toppings for pancakes are especially encouraged!
Channel your Breakfast Bar memories from MHC. We’ll have coffee and tea available, as well. Email elizabeth.harding@gmail.com for directions and information. Her apartment is accessible by Red Line, bus 147, 151, 92 & others. Parking is available, both residential and metered. She has room for 10-15 people.
If you are interested in hosting a brunch in the suburbs, please contact mhcchicagoclub@gmail.com

Mary Lyon Birthday Celebration (NYC)
2013-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Unnamed Venue, Rector & West Street, New York, NY, 10006 , United States
In honor of the 175th anniversary of Mount Holyoke College, come celebrate the birthday of the woman who started it all, Mary Lyon. We’ll serve tea, sandwiches, and sweets, including Emily Dickinson’s very own Coconut Cake recipe.
Email margmurray@gmail.com for more details.

Three College Luncheon (Hartford)
2013-03-13 12:00 | Pond House Cafe, West Hartford, CT, United States
Join Smith and Wellesley alums to hear our Mount Holyoke professor, Joe Ellis, speak on his book The Long Affair: Abigail and John Adams. Buffet luncheon and cash bar. $40 per person. RSVP to aperrin@metlife.com.

March Meeting (Sarasota, Florida)
2013-03-16 11:30 | Sara Bay Country Club, 7011 Willow St, Sarasota , FL, 34243, United States
This joint program with the Smith Club will feature Ginetta Candelario, professor at Smith and author of Not Just Pin Curls and Perms: The American Beauty Shop and Women’s Community.
Because we are guests of the Smith Club, we will not be able to accommodate anyone after the deadline. So please be sure to sign up by March 11. Contact skillbuilder@comcast.net

Alumnae Writing Workshop (South Hadley)
2013-03-23 10:00 | Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
This writing retreat/workshop is organized by Sara Hyry Barry (’94) and Rebecca Gold (’95).
The plan is to meet at MHC at 10am on Saturday, March 23rd, but we encourage you to come on Friday for a special dinner together. People are encouraged to bring a few writing prompts/exercises, write (and eat) throughout the day, stay over at Willits, and then write (and eat) a bit on Sunday morning.
All levels of skill and confidence are welcome. If you are interested in only coming for the day on Saturday, that’s welcome as well.
Contact rebecca.gold@alumnae.mtholyoke.edu for more information

Book Club Meeting (Chicago)
2013-04-06 11:00 | Unnamed Venue, Chicago, IL, United States
Join us at 11:00 am for a discussion of A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martin Johnson Heade by Chris Benfey. We encourage members to read this book by MHC professor Chris Benfey in preparation for the April 25th MHC event at the Ritz Carlton Chicago with President Lynn Pasquerella and Gender Studies Professor Martha Ackmann. RSVP for location to Alexis Lewis Trocki ‘05 alexis.trocki@gmail.com

PBS Telethon! (Seattle)
2013-04-09 19:00 - 22:00 | OR
We’re working the PBS telethon!!! KCTS comedy tribute to Carol Burnett.
RSVP to mountholyokeclubofpugetsound@gmail.com ASAP, if you’d like to volunteer. Dinner will be provided. Limited spaces, please act quickly!

Lecture by Professor Donald Weber (Chicago)
2013-04-13 | Unnamed Venue, Chicago, IL, United States
Keep this date saved on your calendar. Professor Weber will join us for a lecture and conversation. We’ll also be hosting area students who have been admitted to Mount Holyoke. If you are interested in helping host Professor Weber, email goldberg.naomi@gmail.com. In particular, we’re looking for a place for Professor Weber and his wife to stay Friday night as well as a location for the event on Saturday.

Spring Meeting (Central Ohio)
2013-04-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Bexley, OH, United States
Mark your calendars for the spring meeting—you won’t want to miss this one! Marie Ozanne, a double major in chemistry and statistics (currently pursuing a doctorate in statistics at OSU) worked with MHC astronomy professor, Darby Dyar, and NASA this summer. Their work was featured in the recent Quarterly. Our host, Liza Lee, is head of school at Columbus School for Girls. She is opening her beautiful home on campus for this meeting. We can park in the CSG lot on S. Columbia. The house is on the east corner of Powell and S. Columbia.
RSVP: Joan Stack ’74 at joanstack@gmail.com or 614-294-3931

Book Club (Seattle)
2013-04-14 14:00 | OR
Book Club – Poetry Day. Bring your favorite poem(s) – as many as you like – to read aloud and share with everyone. Reading will be followed by a discussion of what makes our favorite poems our favorites; what is it in poetry that grabs us so strongly. Don’t worry if you don’t have a favorite. Come anyway! Contact Jules Dickinson ’77 at jules_dickinson@live.com.

Annual Meeting (Seattle)
2013-04-20 14:00 | OR
We’re electing a new Vice-President and Treasurer. Please contact mountholyokeclubofpugetsound@gmail.com if interested. Job descriptions will be included in the newsletter.

Writers Group (Seattle/Redmond)
2013-04-21 14:00 | OR
Writers Group, Redmond – At this first meeting, we will develop the purpose and goals of the group, as well as set a schedule and meeting places that will work for all interested participants. Please contact Emily Dietrich, emily@magentic.org, with any questions.

Mary Lyon Dinner (Washington D.C.)
2013-04-24 18:30 - 21:00 | Kenwood Country Club, 5601 River Road, Bethesda, MD, 20816, United States
We hope you will join your friends and other alumnae Wednesday, April 24th at the Kenwood Country Club as we celebrate THE most uncommon woman of all, Mary Lyon! Our speaker will be John Stomberg, Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

John Stomberg has nearly two decades of experience in the teaching museum field before being appointed Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and Lecturer in Art in 2011. He teaches courses in the History of Photography, Modern and Contemporary Art, and American Art. His publications include monographic studies of photographers Margaret Bourke-White, Jules Aarons, Verner Reed, and Ulrich Mack; painters John Walker and Jon Imber; and thematic studies such as Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir. His curatorial work has included installations by Zhan Wang and Fiona Tan; one person exhibitions for Liu Zheng, Edward Steichen, Hendrik Werkman and Dorothea Tanning; and group shows Beyond the Familiar: Photography and the Construction of Community and Photography at the Frontier of Physics and Art. In 2007 Stomberg was co-curator and contributing author for Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain. Stomberg earned both his MA and Ph.D in Art History from Boston University and a BA in Art History from Georgetown University. His current areas of research focus on artistic collaboration and the role that teaching museums can have in fostering innovation and leadership through the study of art.

Mary Lyon Dinner and Annual Meeting (Hartford)
2013-04-25 18:00 | Tastebuds Banquet Facility, 1450 Main Street, East Hartford , CT, 06108, United States
Speaker : Elizabeth Markovits, Associate Professor of Politics
Topic: ”Leaning In, Opting Out: Transforming the Gender Division of Labor”
Cost: $25 for dues paying/honorary members, $32 for non-dues paying members or guests. Price includes buffet dinner (Salad, Pasta, Chicken, Vegetarian, dessert). There will be a cash bar.
RSVP information: by Tuesday, April 18 to Alison Perrin, aperrin20@comcast.net, 203-209-9259;
Please endorse checks to The Mount Holyoke Club of Hartford and ask for information about paying when you RSVP

175 Anniversary Celebration (Chicago)
2013-04-25 18:30 | Chicago Ritz Carlton, 160 E Pearson St, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
Celebrate the College’s 175th Anniversary with College President Lynn Pasquerella and Professor Martha Ackmann! Join us at the Chicago Ritz Carlton for this special evening. Prof. Ackmann, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, will speak on “Lessons in Independence: Mary Lyon and Emily Dickinson at Mount Holyoke.”

Spring Event: Mary Lyon Luncheon (Cape Cod)
2013-05-05 12:00 - 12:30 | 400 East Restaurant & Bar, Harwich, MA, United States
Join us as we welcome MHC Professor of Astronomy Darby Dyar to our Mary Lyon Luncheon in May. Dr. Dyar was a participating scientist on the NASA Curiosity Mission to Mars in 2012, and together with a group of Mount Holyoke students, she helped analyze the composition of rocks and soil found on the surface during the mission, using instruments that she and her students spend years developing and building in her lab at MHC. Dyar chairs the Astronomy Department at Mount Holyoke, and she is widely regarded as one of the college’s most passionate and dedicated teachers and mentors.

RSVP by April 27. Suggested Donation: $20.

Email: Melissa Russell mlanders@mtholyoke.edu

OR

Register Online www.mhcccc-spring.eventbrite.com

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Mail Registration from Spring Newsletter

Put Your Best Foot Forward (Boston)
2013-05-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Salon Monet, 176 Newbury Street, Second Floor, Boston , MA, United States
Do you make the best first impression?

Like it or not, with just a glance, people have judged your social and economic status level, your level of education and your level of success. In today’s challenging world, making the best first impression is more important than ever.

Join your friends from the MHC of Boston and Shellee Mendes, Director of Salon Monet, Inc. on Sunday, May 5 from 2-4 pm. Let her help you design your best look for getting your point across. She’ll show you how to manage your hair and skin care to your best advantage. Meanwhile, we’ll have snacks and drinks and other goodies to enjoy!

RSVP: Email Freya (And don’t wait – space is limited to 30!)

Happy Hour (Washington, DC)
2013-05-08 17:30 - 20:30 | Public Bar, 1214 18th St NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us for an informal happy hour at the Public Bar in Dupont Circle.
$3 domestics, $4 micro-brews
$5 rail drinks, $6 glasses of wine

Book Club (Chicago)
2013-05-11 11:00 | OR
Join us at 11:00 am for a discussion of alumna Wendy Wasserstein’s playUncommon Women. RSVP for location to Alexis Lewis Trocki ‘05 alexis.trocki@gmail.com

Potluck Dinner (Genesee Valley)
2013-05-15 18:30 | OR
Bring a dish to pass to Sara Hartman’s home in Fairport on Wednesday, May 15
at 6:30 p.m. Good food, good company and the chance to hear Jennifer Kyker
’02 speak about organizing her charity, Tariro, which, in partnership with
Fadzi Muzhandu ’07 from Zimbabwe, provides school supplies to adolescent
girls in Africa. Jennifer and her work are featured in the Spring 2012
issue of the Alumnae Quarterly. We will also take this opportunity to
offer congratulations to Co-contact Person, Judy MacKnight ’68, on the
Loyalty Award for service which she will receive from the College at her
Reunion later in May.

Please RSVP by Friday May 10 to gvmhc@yahoo.com or alreber@rochester.rr.com
or leave a message for me at (585) 342-1825. Guests are most welcome, but
please indicate if you will be inviting one (or more) and indicate too what
dish–main dish, salad, dessert, etc.–you plan to bring to help us
coordinate the menu. Please also let us know if you need transportation to
the dinner. Directions to Sara’s house will be sent to all who RSVP.
Looking forward to seeing you there.

Author Lecture (Chicago)
2013-05-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Winnetka Community House, 620 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, IL, 60093, United States
Join the Club and the book club for The Art of Constructing a Thriller: Cocktail Party and Book Lecture with Author Gillian Flynn. In preparation of our June book club meeting in which we will be discussing Gone Girl, guests are invited to enjoy cocktails and appetizers, mingle with New York Times bestselling author Gillian Flynn and have the opportunity to win a private book club party with the author. Tickets also include reserved seating to the book lecture, which will start at 7:30 PM in Matz Hall of the Winnetka Community House. To purchase tickets go to http://www.onebooktwovillages.org/adult-calendar.html. After purchasing your tickets, RSVP to Carrie C. Ruzicka ’99 at cruzicka77@yahoo.com.
Following the discussion, books will be available for purchase courtesy of the Book Stall at Chestnut Court.
(If you wish to attend only the lecture and not the party, tickets are $10)

Accepted Student Celebration (Boston Western Suburbs)
2013-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Alumnae Home, Weston, MA, United States
The Mount Holyoke Club of the Western Suburbs of Massachusetts is delighted to invite area accepted students and alumnae to our M&Cs event! Parents are welcome to attend. An MHC alum will also display pictures and share stories about her community service and travel journeys overseas. Light refreshments will be provided.
RSVP: By May 15 to Kristina Peduto at (978) 502-0058 or kristina.peduto@gmail.com

Baseball with MHC President (Chicago)
2013-05-21 19:00 | US Cellular Field, 333 W 35th St, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Come watch the Boston Red Sox take on the Chicago White Sox in the evening while schmoozing with President Lynn Pasquerella. Details are still being finalized, but we’ll be purchasing a block of tickets in the $65 range with a $30 range ticket option for young alumnae (Classes 2008-2013). For more information, contact Carrie Ruzicka ’99 cruzicka77@yahoo.com.

Annual Open Meeting and 175th Birthday Party Wine and Cheese Reception with Special Guest Speaker (Westchester)
2013-06-02 15:00 | OR
Carole Shmurak, MHC ’65 “Holyoke’s Scientists, 1837-1965”

To many of us, the names of Clapp, Shattuck, and Carr bring up images of buildings. But these were three very vital women and distinguished scientists, whose lives reveal much about women in science in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Please RSVP by May 27 to Linda Whitehead at 591-4251 or Lwhitehead@mgslawyers.com

Book Club (Chicago)
2013-06-08 11:00 | OR
Join us at 11:00 am for a discussion of Gone Girl. RSVP for location to Alexis Lewis Trocki ‘05 alexis.trocki@gmail.com.

Genesee Valley Club Dinner (Rochester, NY)
2013-06-18 18:30 | Pier 45, 1000 North River Street (off Lake Avenue), Rochester , NY, 14612, United States
If you can come, please RSVP to gvmhc@yahoo.com or alreber@rochester.rr.com
by Tuesday, June 18. Guests are welcome but please also indicate if you
plan to bring one (or more). Dinners are usually scheduled at 6:30 p.m. and
final details of the dinner will be confirmed after reservations are made.

Pioneer Vally Club Campus Cookout & Annual Meeting
2013-06-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Help put our leadership in place and don’t miss the exciting plans for fall!
Agenda:
Election of Officers
Presentation of Directors
Adoption of new bylaws
Preview of 2013-2014 Club Season
Discussion of dues options
Suggested donation: $5
We will meet at Blanchard patio, by Lower Lake. You may park in any faculty, staff or visitor space in the evening.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12mUcNaNOocRjZsbOvffjr461-Yft2nKyRfSyIafF_s0/viewform

Mount Holyoke Club of San Diego Planning Meeting
2013-06-23 15:00 | Extraordinary Desserts, 2929 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92103, United States
If you’ve considered taking a more active role in the club or you simply want to share ideas, this is the meeting for you. It’s sure to be a scrumptious and engaging afternoon with uncommon women!
RSVP to Kelly Nilsson, Club President, at kbnilsson@yahoo.com.

Seven Sisters College Consortium of Chicago Twilight Tour
2013-06-27 16:30 - 20:00 | Chicago Botanic Gardens, IL, United States
The Seven Sisters College Consortium of Chicago is set for a Twilight Tour, Dinner and Concert at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. This complete evening experience included parking (just mention ‘Seven Sisters’ when you arrive), tram ride, dinner bugget and a private seating section for the concert.
Cost: $40 per person – reserve your place by returning your check and form (attached in email) no later than June 25, 2013.
