Alumnae Association

Three-College Luncheon (Hartford)
2014-04-29 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Town and Country Club, Hartford, CT, United States
Your friends from Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley invite you to the Annual Three Women Colleges Luncheon and Lecture on Tuesday, April 29 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Town and Country Club in Hartford.
Architect and Wellesley grad Ann Beha will be the featured speaker. Please RSVP by April 25 to attend. For more information and to view the RSVP flyer, please click here.

Strawberries & Champagne (MHC)
2014-04-28 16:30 - 17:30 | Pageant Green, South Hadley, MA, United States
Toasting and welcoming the senior class to the worldwide alumnae community. By invitation only. If you have questions, please contact Luisa Tavares.

Potluck (Atlanta)
2014-04-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Unnamed Venue, Decatur, GA, 30030, United States
Please join your fellow Mount Holyoke alumnae in the Atlanta area for a potluck dinner. Come socialize, meet alumnae, make new friends, network, enjoy spring, and discuss revival of the Mount Holyoke College Club of Atlanta.
Please bring finger foods to share. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Terri Kruzan.

Accepted Students Reception
2014-04-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Apollonia Greek Bistro, Costa Verde Center, 8650 Genesee Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92122, United States
The Mount Holyoke Club of San Diego invites you to their 2014 accepted students reception. Come share your experiences with students interested in attending Mount Holyoke. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. RSVP appreciated, but not required, to Kelly Nilsson ’88.

Queen Moremi Folk Opera (MHC)
2014-04-26 20:00 - 2014-04-27 14:00 | Rooke Theater, South Hadley, MA, United States
Enjoy a performance of Queen Moremi, an African folk opera, on Saturday, April 26 (8 p.m.) and Sunday, April 27 (2 p.m.) at Rooke Theater. Directed by Five College Ethnomusicologist, Bode Omojola, the production features student performers, master drummers, and a choreographer from Nigeria.
Directed by Five College Ethnomusicologist, Bode Omojola, the production features student performers and master drummers and choreographer from Nigeria.
Tickets—$5 general admission, $3 seniors and students—are available in the Mount Holyoke Music office, 413-538-2306, and at the door.

Bowling with Accepted Students (Chicago)
2014-04-26 14:30 - 17:30 | Timber Lanes Bowling Alley, 1851 W Irving Park, Chicago, IL, United States
Join alumnae admissions volunteers in welcoming students accepted into the class of 2018! Two Chicagoland students have already been accepted Early Decision and we hope for a large Regular Decision group too! Share your memories of MHC and help answer their questions. Kids and partners are welcome—this is a family event and is completely free (shoe rental and refreshments included). For more information, email Tamar Westphal ’12 at westp20t@mtholyoke.edu.

Class of ’88 Mini-Reunion (Cape Cod)
2014-04-25 16:00 - 2014-04-27 14:00 | Unnamed Venue, Cape Cod, MA, United States
Join the class of ’88 for a mini-reunion weekend on Cape Cod! Friday, April 25, 4 p.m. to Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m. Located near Nickerson State Park. Come for the day, or stay for the weekend!
It would be helpful to know if you are coming by Thursday, April 24, by 10 a.m.
Questions? Details? Reservations? Yes, you’re coming? Great! Please contact Stephanie Gant at stephgant@gmail.com.

Walla Walla Winery Tour
2014-04-25 08:00 - 2014-04-27 17:00 | Cadaretta Winery, 315 E Main St, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
The MHC club of Puget Sound will be touring Cadaretta Winery, owned by the family of Edie Middleton ’54 and will have a special gathering at the new Glass House on the property which provides a view of the valley. They’re negotiating one- and two-night hotel packages and transportation. Trip fee will include dinner on Saturday (breakfast provided by the hotel) and optional fee for transportation. A $50 deposit is required. More details are forthcoming.

Class of ’72 Mini-Reunion
2014-04-24 - 2014-04-27 | Unnamed Venue, Wilmington, DE, United States
Class of 1972 mini-reunion in Wilmington, DE, from April 25-27. For more information, please contact Mona Gubow, class president, by email.

Change-Makers: Innovative Women in Tech
2014-04-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Hacker Dojo, 599 Fairchild Drive, Mountain View, CA, United States
This event will feature Jennifer Rochlis Zumbado ’94 as the keynote speaker and a panel of MHC alumnae who are doing innovative work in the world of technology. The event will highlight the work of alumnae and demonstrate what the College is now doing to prepare students for careers in tech. There will be opportunities for networking and time to meet and speak with current trustees living in the area.
For more information, please contact Sarah Adragna, 413-538-2638.

Career Change Panel (NYC)
2014-04-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall, at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Please join the Mount Holyoke Club of New York and the Barnard Career Development Center for the 2014 Career Change Panel on April 22, 2014, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
In college, we learned how to conquer change—switching majors, working on behalf of social justice issues, adopting new technology. In our careers however, the prospect of change can be more daunting. How can we embrace change in the professional arena? Hear from dynamic Mount Holyoke alumnae from a variety of fields who have sought out new directions by changing their careers. Whether you are considering a new job search, starting a new business, pursuing an advanced degree, or are just curious to know about the professional paths of other MHC alumnae, please join us for an informative and inspiring evening.
Light Refreshments will be served. Time will be available at the end for networking. Please see our website for panelist biographies and to register.

Book Club (Chicago)
2014-04-22 17:30 | Rosebud Theatre District, 70 W. Madison, Chicago, IL, United States
The MHC club of Chicago’s next book club meeting will be held on Monday, April 22, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. at the Rosebud Theatre District on 70 W. Madison. We will be discussing Rachel Maddow’s book Drift. Please RSVP to Jen Cobb ’12 at jencobb17@gmail.com if you plan on attending!

Cookie Baking for Graduating Seniors (WA)
2014-04-19 18:30 - 20:00 | TBD, WA, United States
The MHC club of Puget Sound invites you to join them in baking cookies for graduating MHC seniors. Location and further details to be announced.

Five Colleges Book Sale (New Hampshire)
2014-04-19 09:00 - 2014-04-20 16:00 | Lebanon High School, Lebanon, NH, United States
April 19 and 20 mark the fifty-third Five Colleges Book Sale in Lebanon, NH. The purpose of this sale is to raise money for scholarships for NH and VT students at Mount Holyoke, Simmons, Smith, Wellesley, and Vassar. Last year, we donated $10,000 to each college.
We invite you to be a part of this fun and profitable venture. All books (usually 30,000 to 40,000 volumes) are donated and need sorting into categories, pricing, and packing. If you’d like to donate books, please send (or bring) them to Whitman Communications Building, 10 Water Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 by March 30. For directions to the sorting site, please click here.
Volunteers (like yourself) work at the site and at the actual sale. The site is open every day (except Sunday) from 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., and Wednesday until 7 p.m. We hope to attract those who are employed to join us Wednesday evening or Saturday.
Mount Holyoke will be hosting the sorting site on Saturday, April 12. If you can come then, even for a couple of hours, it would be a plus for Mount Holyoke. We also hope to make this an occasion to reconnect with fellow alumnae and enjoy some fun. I’ll bring a coffee cake. Other donations of goodies are welcome. You are welcome to come any time and stay for as long as you like on MHC day or any other time. How-to-do-it instructions are provided.
We welcome donations of books, manuscripts, prints, maps, memorabilia, CDs, DVDs, videotapes, and audio books. Donations are tax deductible and receipts for them are available at the donation site. We do NOT accept or sell textbooks, encyclopedias, Reader’s Digest condensed books, Harlequin romances, ex-library books, magazines, vinyl records, or audio cassette tapes (with the exception of audio books). We also cannot accept or sell home recordings made on videotape, CD, or cassette.
The sale will be at Lebanon High School on Saturday, April 19 from 9 a.m–5 p.m. and on Sunday, April 20 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (ALL items are half price on Sunday.) Your help is needed at the sale too; cashiering, shelving books, floating for general assistance, and security. If you could do a two-hour shift or more, please let us know. The whole process is a marvelous enterprise, from the obvious goal of raising money, to the less obvious (but important) benefits of socializing with fine people and the opportunity to purchase good used books at reasonable prices.
Please visit our website www.five-collegesbooksale.org (note the hyphen) for further information, updates, and, just before the sale, lists of exceptional books to be sold. You may also email Martha Doolittle (mdoolittle@alumnae.mtholyoke.edu).

Happy Hour (Portland, OR)
2014-04-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Quimby’s, 1502 NW 19th, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Happy February! The MHC Club of Portland continues its A-Z tour of Portland bars and restaurants with a happy hour at Quimby’s on Thursday, April 17, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The address is 1502 NW 19th, 97209. For more information, please email this address.

Reception with Mary Graham Davis ’65
2014-04-13 17:00 - 19:00 | The Rocks at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, 9801 International Drive, Orlando, FL, 32819, United States
The Alumnae Association cordially invites you to a reception with Mary Graham Davis ’65, chair of Mount Holyoke College’s board of trustees, at the Rocks in the Hyatt Regency Orlando (9801 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32819, 407-284-1234).
Sunday, April 13, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, April by completing a very brief response form, which you can access by clicking here.
For questions, please email Maya D’Costa at the Alumnae Association or call her at 413-538-2066.

V8s in Concert (Westport, CT)
2014-04-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Unnamed Venue, Westport, CT, United States
Sunday, April 13, 2014 (4–6 p.m.): Join the MHC club of Fairfield Villages for the V8s in concert at the home of Catherine Onyemelukwe ’62 in Westport. This will be a potluck (appetizers, desserts, drinks), and guests are welcome. $15 donation per person to help offset the costs for the V8s. If you have questions about this event, please contact Eloise Killeffer ’68 (eloisehpk@gmail.com).

Admitted Student Tea (Houston)
2014-04-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Houston, TX, United States
Join the MHC Club of Houston for a tea welcoming newly admitted MHC students. Eleven young ladies from the Houston area were given acceptance letters from Mount Holyoke; five of them have confirmed their attendance for the event on Sunday. Come and show these ladies why MHC is the best!
For more information and to RSVP, email Nicole Shanklin.

Labyrinth Discussion with Beth Burnham Mace ’79 (Weston, MA)
2014-04-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Weston Scout House, 86 School Street, Weston, MA, United States
Walking an Ancient Path in the Modern World: My Life-Changing Journey with the Labyrinth
Please join us (the MHC Club of the Western Suburbs) as Beth Burnham Mace ’79 takes us on an incredible journey! She will present the history of the labyrinth, share her own story of discovery with it, and lead a group walk on a labyrinth. The labyrinth is an ancient path that has been around for thousands of years. It has been revived as a spiritual, meditative, and healing tool in the last twenty years and is used today in church, prison, school, college, hospital, and outdoor settings. It’s quite marvelous—in fact, Mount Holyoke now owns its own painted canvas labyrinth. We invite you to bring a friend and come with an open heart. For more information about labyrinths, please check out the Labyrinth Guild of New England.
RSVP by Friday, April 11, to Kristina Peduto at 978-502-0058.

Book Club (Portland, OR)
2014-04-13 13:30 - 16:00
The April book club meeting for the MHC club of Portland, OR, will take place on April 13, 2014 from 1:30–4 (book discussion beginning at 2). The book discussed will be Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss.
Note: To avoid Easter Sunday, we selected a date only two weeks after our March gathering and purposely chose a short work.
For more information about this event, please contact mhcpdxclub@gmail.com.

Spring Event at the Art Museum (Cincinnati)
2014-04-12 11:00
Join the MHC Club of Cincinnati on Saturday, April 12, at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Lucille Blocksom ’49 and Carolyn Clodfelter ’59 will guide a tour of the jewelry exhibition, “From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith.” They will meet in the lobby of the museum at 11:00 a.m. For anyone interested, they will meet for lunch in the cafe immediately thereafter. Please let Amber Kershaw know if you (and guests) are able to attend.

Informal Social Hour (Columbus)
2014-04-08 17:30 | The Chocolate Cafe, 1855 Northwest Boulevard, Columbus, OH, United States
You are invited to an informal social hour discussion at the Chocolate Café on Tuesday, April 8 at 5:30 p.m. A current Mount Holyoke student wrote a blog post entitled, “Mount Holyoke College, A College for White Men?” and the MHC Club of Central Ohio would like to discuss it.
For more information, please contact Marie Ozanne ’12.

Tea and Panel Discussion (MHC)
2014-04-06 15:00 | Willits-Hallowell, South Hadley, MA, United States
To all members of the classes of 1967 and 2017: You are invited to tea and a panel discussion on April 6. The class of 1967 will demonstrate to the class of 2017 how tea was served in their time.

Making Icons: An Alumna’s Passion (Springfield)
2014-04-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Springfield, MA, United States
This special event, led by Sarah Gorsky, will take a look at the fascinating craft of icon painting. A Medievalist at MHC, Sarah will touch on the dogma, history, methods, and materials of the practice. Sarah explains, “Several years after receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from UMASS Amherst, I decided I wanted indulge my deep interest in the Medieval society and art. I found Mount Holyoke’s Frances Perkins Scholar program for post baccalaureate studies and began my pursuit of a second bachelor’s degree in Medieval Studies, obtained in 2010. As part of this interest, I pursued an independent study on the medium of egg tempera and icon painting. While not an artist myself, I am fascinated by the egg tempera medium, the method and meaning of icons, and I’m working on building my skill on secular subjects in this medium.” Address available upon RSVP to invitation. Questions: Sarah Gorsky,gorsk20s@mtholyoke.edu

All Ivy Plus Cocktail (Britain)
2014-04-04 19:00 - 21:00
The Cornell Club of London is hosting the twenty-second All Ivy Plus Cocktail Reception on Friday, April 4, from 7-9 p.m. at the East India Club, located at 16 St. James’s Square, London, SW1Y 4LH. The nearest underground station is Piccadilly Circus.
Initiated in 1993, the purpose of this event is to welcome new Ivy League and Seven Sisters and other US college alumni to London, to make new friendships, to foster networking, and to provide a relaxed atmosphere for enjoyment by all in the center of London.
The East India Club was formed in the middle of the nineteenth century and its original members were servants of the East India Company and Commissioned Officers of Her Majesty’s Army and Navy.
This event costs £33 per person and includes a selection of wines, soft drinks, and hors d’oeuvres. The wine at the East India Club is top quality and these events tend to draw a very interesting array of guests. The deadline for booking the event is March 29 and late bookings are not accepted. If you do need to cancel, a full refund will be given if cancelled by March 31. To book, please send a check payable to the Cornell Club of London to Cornell Club of London, 4 Betjeman Mews, London N5 2NB. If you wish to pay by electronic transfer, please email Natalie Teich (nmt4@cornell.edu).

Cornerstone/Mary Lyon Society Event (Washington, DC)
2014-04-02 18:30 - 20:30 | The University Club of Washington, DC, 1135 Sixteenth St., NW, Washington, DC, United States
A Cornerstone/Mary Lyon Society event will be held on April 2, 2014, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sonya Stephens, vice president for academic affairs, will be the guest speaker. This event is by invitation only. For more information, please contact Karen Couture, 413-538-2569.

April Book Club (Houston)
2014-04-01 19:00 | Unnamed Venue, Houston, TX, United States
The next meeting of the MHC club of Houston’s book club will take place on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. They will be discussing the book Forever: A Novel by Pete Hamill. Please contact nicole.shanklin@chamberlainlaw.com for more information.

Book Club (Westchester)
2014-03-30 17:00 | Sam’s Restaurant, 50 Gedney Way, White Plains, NY, 10605, United States
The MHC club of Westchester book club’s next meeting will be held on Sunday, March 30, at 5:00 p.m. The meeting will again be held at the private dining room at Sam’s Restaurant (50 Gedney Way) in White Plains. The next reading is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. This is a story about a thirteen-year-old boy in New York City who miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. As he grows up, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the underworld of art.

There is no cost to join the group, but dinner and drinks are available for order. The group generally meets the last Sunday of every month. Please email Sunny Suh ’91 at sunny@e-suh.com if you are interested in joining us this time.

An Intimate Afternoon with Emily Dickinson (Chicago)
2014-03-30 14:00 | Glessner House Museum Coach House, 1800 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Join the MHC club of Chicago for a performance of “I Dwell in Possibility – An Intimate Afternoon with Emily Dickinson” at the Glessner House Museum coach house. The event is co-sponsored by the Greater Chicago Chapter of the Victorian Society of America. Tickets are $20. Please call 312-326-1480 to purchase tickets.
Note: This is not an official club event, but if you’re going, email Naomi Goldberg (goldberg.naomi@gmail.com) and she can connect you with other alumnae who plan to attend. More information here: http://www.glessnerhouse.org/Events.htm.

Book Club (Portland, OR)
2014-03-30 13:30 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Portland, OR, United States
Join the MHC club of Portland for their March book club meeting. The group will be discussing Isabel Fonseca’s Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey. The discussion will start at 2:00 p.m., but members are invited to arrive at 1:30 p.m. to catch up beforehand. Details about event location to follow in an Evite.
