Mary Lyon Dinner (Washington D.C.)
2013-04-24 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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

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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
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
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
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

Cocktail Reception (London)
2013-06-04 18:30 | The Home of Paul and Carol Hoffmann Collins ‘63, London, United Kingdom
Cocktail Reception with Special Guest John Stomberg, FLORENCE FINCH ABBOTT DIRECTOR, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ART MUSEUM.
PLEASE RSVP FOR YOURSELF AND A GUEST
BY MAY 24 TO KIMBERLY ROY
kroy@mtholyoke.edu or +1 413-538-2499

Celebrate 175 Years of Mount Holyoke College (Philadelphia)
2013-06-05 18:30 - 20:30 | The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
You and a guest are cordially invited to
Celebrate 175 Years of Mount Holyoke College
with President Lynn Pasquerella ’80
and special guest
Anthony Lee, Professor of Art History
“The Joy of Life”
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
INVITATION TO FOLLOW
For more information, please contact
Karol Cooper at 413-538-3156 or 800-642-4483.

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

Mount Holyoke Club of Ann Arbor Spring Potluck
2013-06-18 18:00 - 20:30 | Unnamed Venue, MI, United States
Join fellow Ann Arbor area alumnae for a pleasant June evening, and make new Mount Holyoke friends of all ages! We will socialize, network, get an update from our alumna admissions representative Diana Sherman ’03, and hear from alumnae who have been back to MHC for Reunion.
Please RSVP to president Liz Stone: elizabethmstone@hotmail.com or 734-663-7545

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

Dalmation Coast Alumnae Trip
2013-06-20 08:00 - 2013-06-28 17:00
Explore the Adriatic Sea’s stunning, island-dappled Dalmatian Coast on this seven-night cruise aboard the exclusively chartered, deluxe small ship MS L’Austral. Visit four countries and seven UNESCO World Heritage sites with this comprehensive itinerary, including Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia; the medieval fortifications of Kotor in Montenegro; Dubrovnik’s perfectly restored Gothic and Romanesque quarters; and the Stari Most bridge in Mostar.
To further enhance your cruise, enjoy an exclusive village forum with local residents, a folk-music performance on board, and a specially arranged lecture on the restoration of Dubrovnik. Experience the art and romance of Venice on the two-night, precruise option.
Prices start at $3,795, plus air. For more information, or to make reservations, call Gohagan & Company at 800-922- 3088.
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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.

Black Sea and the Crimea Alumnae Trip
2013-06-25 08:00 - 2013-07-03 17:00
This exclusive, nine-day cruise aboard the all-suite, 540-passenger ship MV Silver Spirit showcases the Black Sea’s most intriguing destinations: Istanbul, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and the Crimean Peninsula. Unpack only once and explore Istanbul, Odessa, Nessebur (a UNESCO World Heritage site), and the historic Crimean Peninsula, featuring Sevastopol, Khan’s Palace, and Livadia Palace, site of the famous 1945 Yalta Conference.
Savor delights created by international chefs in partnership with the prestigious Grand Chefs Relais & Châteaux in six dining venues throughout the ship. Refresh your mind and spirit at the spa and fitness center. Istanbul precruise option and Cappadocia postcruise option are offered.
Cruise and air prices start at $4,999. For more information, or to make reservations, call Gohagan & Company at 800-922-3088.
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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.

Mount Holyoke Club of Washington DC Annual Meeting
2013-06-27 17:00 - 20:00 | 14th & Q, 1441 Q St NW, DC, United States
Don’t miss the Annual Meeting of the Mount Holyoke Club of Greater DC. We will elect new committee members and chairs to the board. Please read the proposed Slate: http://mtholyokedc.com/membership/annual-meeting/
The Annual Meeting is also a friendly reminder that it’s time to pay your dues for the coming year!
Due to security regulations at the meeting site, you must RSVP no later than 24 hours in advance: http://june27annualmeeting.eventbrite.com/

Portland Book Club Meeting: Mink River by Brian Doyle
2013-07-21
On Sunday, July 21, we will be meeting at the home of a local book club member Cape Meares to discuss Brian Doyle’s Mink River, a novel by an Oregon author set at the Oregon coast. If you have not notified Debbie Olsen that you intend to participate, please do so right away (dolsen@linfield.edu). We will be sending most information out via email rather than evite to ensure that everyone who is interested stays in the loop. Please remember to let Debbie know if you are planning on attending! Those participating in the Cape Meares gathering will be receiving additional information from Debbie soon after July 4.

Annual Picnic (Seattle)
2013-07-21 12:00 - 15:00 | Magunson Park, Seattle
ANNUAL PICNIC, Magnuson Park, Seattle.

MHC Club of Chicago: Salon Series
2013-07-24 17:30 | Argo Tea, 1 N. Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, United States
Hello Chicago! At this meeting we will be discussing two articles surrounding gender identity and politics, specifically through the vehicle of clothing. The two articles are: “What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” and “The Balancing Act of Being Female or Why We Have So Many Clothes.”

Concert: From Ravinia to South Hadley
2013-08-03 17:00 | Ravinia Park, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL, 60035, United States
Hello Chicago! Come join current and incoming MHC students, parents, and alumnae for an evening of music, picnicking, and fun. Family and friends are welcome.
To attend: Purchase a ticket via the Ravinia website: www.ravinia.org ($10 or free for students) and then RSVP to Amae Kurre ’03: amae.kurre@gmail.com.
Please bring a dish to share; last names A-M bring something “sweet” and N-Z bring something “savory.”
Gates open at 5:00 pm; show begins at 7:30pm.

Cherry Blossoms to Laurels
2013-08-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, VA, United States
The Mount Holyoke Club of Greater Washington DC is pleased to invite you to help welcome
the Class of 2017!
Cherry Blossoms to Laurels: A Send-Off Potluck for Admitted Students will take place on Sunday, August 4th, 2013 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Arlington, VA.
Please bring a small appetizer or dessert to share. We also ask that you let us know how many guests you plan to bring and what dish you plan to share so that we don’t all show up with the same thing.
Click here to RSVP for the event and tell us your potluck item.
Questions? Contact Alumnae Admissions Rep: Ann Lyles MacPhail ’91

Summer Event - Garden Tour & Picnic at Heritage Museums & Gardens (Cape Cod)
2013-08-07 16:00 - 20:00 | Unnamed Venue, 67 Grove Street, Sandwich , MA, United States
4:00 Arrival

4:15 Garden Tour with Heritage’s Director of Horticulture, Les Lutz

5:30 Summer Picnic

6:30-8 Enjoy the collections and gardens
Suggested Donation: $20
RSVP by August 2

Email: Melissa Russell mlanders@mtholyoke.edu

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Register Online www.mhcccc-summer.eventbrite.com

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Mail Registration from Summer Newsletter

MHC from A to Z Happy Hour (Portland, OR)
2013-08-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Mother’s Bistro, 212 SW Stark Street , Portland, OR, United States
As we continue our A to Z tour of Portland happy hours, please join us on Wednesday, August 7th from 5:30-7:30pm at Mother’s Bistro and Bar, 212 SW Stark Street (at the intersection of 2nd and Stark). We will be in the lounge/bar area to the right of the entrance.
