Alumnae Association

Club of Piedmont Spring Meeting (Seagrove, NC)
2013-04-06 10:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | North Carolina Pottery Center, 233 East Avenue, Seagrove, NC, 27341, United States
A Day at Seagrove with MHC Professor Christopher Benfey, author of the acclaimed book Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival, with special guests, North Carolina potter, Mark Hewitt, and pottery expert UNC professor, Terry Zug.
Preview of the Day’s Events:
10:30 – 11:00 am Pottery demonstration with potter Chad Brown
11:00 – 12 noon Private tour of the NC Pottery Center
12 – 1:30 Box lunch and campus update with MHC Professor Chris Benfey
1:30 – 2:30 pm “Exploring NC Pottery” – Remarks by Prof. Chris Benfey, in conversation with NC potter Mark Hewitt and UNC Prof. Terry Zug. Open to public. Book signing to follow.
2:30 pm Visit Seagrove area potters on your own, such as Jugtown, Ben Owen III, Westmoore, Bulldog, and McCanless. Go to: www.discoverseagrove.com for full list of potters.
Carpooling will be made available
Questions? Contact lcarlemail@gmail.com

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

Paint Nite (Boston)
2013-04-07 14:00 | Clerys Bar, 113 Columbus Ave, Back Bay, Boston , MA, United States
Check out the Paint Nite Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/paintnite to see who is having fun at Paint Nite.

WHAT: Paint Nite – a new way to enjoy art while socializing with your friends in a comfortable atmosphere.
HOW MUCH: Tickets are $35 through Paypal (click on the link below) and $40 at the door. RSVP now – space is limited!

PBS Telethon! (Seattle)
2013-04-09 19:00 - 22:00
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
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.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (Boston)
2013-04-14 15:00 | Jordan Hall at the New Englad Conservatory, Boston, MA, United States
You may be familiar with the BSO, but did you know that Boston also has a vibrant YOUTH symphony orchestra? This is a group of talented young musicians who are able to perform at high levels and practice musical excellence.
Join us for a concert by the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra on April 14, 2013 at 3:00 pm. This is a fun way to hear wonderful music and spend time with your MHC friends.
Click here for the information about the BYSO and to purchase your tickets. We’ll gather in the lobby before the performance and can also walk to a local coffee shop for refreshments afterwards.
RSVP: Once you purchase a ticket, please email Olga Banis to let her know you’ll be coming. We’ll meet you there!

April 17 Third Wednesday Dinner (Genesee Valley)
2013-04-17 18:30 | Bistro 135, 135 West Commercial Street, East Rochester
The menu is Euro/Italian with an Asian fusion twist. Appetizers run from Manchurian cauliflower at
$7 through crab cakes at $9 and grilled calamari at $11 to lobster risotto
at $14. Entrees include chicken french at $20, teriyaki salmon at $24,
paella at $31, strip steak at $32 and rack of lamb at $34. Entrees are
usually served with rice, mashed or sweet potatoes and a vegetable. Soups
are available at $6-$7 and green or argula salads at $8-$9. Caesar salad at
$8 can be dressed up with salmon, shrimp, chicken or calamari for an
additonal $4-$6. Vegetarian and gluten-free selections are available.
There is also live music--jazz and blues. Parking is across the street next
to the post office. Yelp gave the restaurant three stars and opentable,
four and a half stars.

If you can come, please RSVP to gvmhc@yahoo.com or
alreber@rochester.rr.com--or leave a message for me at (585) 342-1825--by
Tuesday, April 16, 2013. 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.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,

Lindsey Reber
alreber@rochester.rr.com

Annual Meeting (Seattle)
2013-04-20 14:00
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
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.

Accepted Students Night (Boston)
2013-04-21 14:00 | Kings Bowling, 50 Dalton St, Boston, MA, United States
Last year’s Accepted Students event at Kings Bowling was such a great success, they have asked us to return! This year, we will be bowling again with the newly accepted students and their families. (Later in the spring, we’ll have a “makeover” event with Shellee.)
Bowling at Kings is a ton of fun and a great way to spend time with the newly Accepted Students. We’ll have pizza, bowling shoes for you, snacks and lots of great company. Please RSVP below and let us know if you’d like to come. The more the better. This is a free event.
RSVP: Please email Freya if you’d like to join us.
As always, spouses, friends, and family members are welcome too!

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

OR

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
