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.

Walla Walla Winery Tour
2014-04-25 08:00 - 2014-04-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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 ’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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three-College Luncheon (Hartford)
2014-04-29 11:30 - 13:30 | 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.

Stewardship Event (MHC)
2014-04-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Smith Dining Hall, Willits-Hallowell, South Hadley, MA, United States
Stewardship event for alumnae, faculty emeriti, and friends of MHC who live at Applewood and Loomis communities, as well as donors in the immediate South Hadley area from classes of 1935—1955.
RSVP to Wanda Mauran, 413-538-2637.

Pangy Day at Toscanini's (Cambridge)
2014-04-29 18:15 | Toscanini’s Ice Cream, 899 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Treat yourself to ice cream with the Mount Holyoke Club of Boston as they celebrate Pangy Day! For more information, send an email to this address.

Seven College Book Club (London)
2014-04-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Unnamed Venue, London, United Kingdom
Live in the London area? Interested in joining a book club? Members of the Seven College book club started their spring semester on January 29, reading together for their twentieth year! All meetings are held from 12–2 p.m. and cost £4. Please bring your book and a sandwich with you!
The book for the meeting on April 30 is Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. For more details or to RSVP, email Maria Bell-Salter.

Special Fundraising Event (Bridgeport)
2014-05-03 18:00 | Unnamed Venue, Easton, CT, United States
Please plan to join the MHC club of Bridgeport on May 3 for a special fundraising dinner featuring MHC English professor and acclaimed author, Christopher Benfey.
A prolific journalist, Benfey served as the longtime art critic for the online magazine Slate, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and New Republic, among many other publications. He is a well-known scholar of Emily Dickinson and author of four highly regarded books about the American Gilded Age. These include A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade, which won both the 2009 Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Ambassador Book Award. He is also the author of The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992); Degas in New Orleans (1997); and The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (2003).

Mary Lyon Brunch (DC)
2014-05-04 13:30 - 16:00 | The Hamilton DC, 600 14th St NW (Metro Center), Washington, DC, United States
Join the MHC Club of Washington, DC for a Mary Lyon brunch, featuring a talk by Professor Constantine Pleshakov of the Russian and Eurasian studies and critical social thought departments. Professor Pleshakov will give a talk entitled, “Russia, Ukraine, Crimea: American Foreign Policy Options.”
Professor Pleshakov has been teaching at Mount Holyoke since 1998, and in 2012 was named one of Princeton Review’s 300 Best College Professors. He is the author of numerous books, including There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, Stalin’s Folly: The First Ten Tragic Days of World War Two on the Eastern Front, and The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga.
Parking is available in the PMI garage on G Street between 13th and 14th streets. A discounted rate of $10 is offered for the whole day–just ask at the Hamilton’s host stand to have your parking ticket stamped.
RSVP by clicking here. For more information, please contact Janet Rabin Satter ’04.
Cost
Young Alumna* dues-paying: $35
Young Alumna* non-dues-paying: $40
Regular Alumna** dues-paying: $45
Regular Alumna** non-dues-paying: $60
* Young alumnae are defined as those having graduated within the last ten years.
** Alumnae who graduated more than fifty years ago are automatically considered dues-paying! Just specify your class year when purchasing your ticket.

Chamber Music in the Living Room (South Hadley)
2014-05-04 15:00 - 17:00 | The Mill, South Hadley, MA, United States
Join the MHC club of the Pioneer Valley for real “chamber” music with violinist professor Linda Laderach, chair of the MHC Music Department, and her piano accompanist, MHC professor Larry Schipull, at The Mill. Program to be announced. Address available upon registration. Attendance will be limited, so please reserve as soon as you get our invitation. Questions: Linda_OConnell@alumnae.mtholyoke.edu.

Celebrate Commencement 2014 (Chicago)
2014-05-04 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Chicago, IL, United States
Celebrate 2014 Commecement with champagne, strawberries, and other treats. The MHC Club of Chicago will be toasting two women from Chicago:

Karen G. Jennings Lewis ’74, who is receiving an honorary degree.
And their club president, Carrie Ruzicka ’99, who is receiving the Alumnae Association’s Young Alumnae Volunteer Leadership Award.

RSVP to Naomi Goldberg ’04. Address provided upon RSVP.

Capital Region Club Gathering (Troy, NY)
2014-05-08 17:30 | Unnamed Venue, Troy, NY, United States
Please join the MHC Club of the Capital Region on May 8 for their second 2014 Capital Region club gathering, featuring wine, M & Cs, and great conversation!
For more details on location, please RSVP to Karin (518-874-1303) or Candace.

Happy Hour (Boston)
2014-05-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Daedalus Restaurant and Pub, Boston, MA, United States
Chau Ly ’97 is organizing an informal happy hour on May 9 to meet other Asian alumnae and encourage them to get involved with MHC. Please RSVP using this Doodle poll. For questions or more information, please email Chau.

Book Club (Houston)
2014-05-13 | Unnamed Venue, Houston, TX, United States
The next meeting of the MHC Club of Houston book club will take place on Tuesday, May 13. They will be discussing The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. For more information, email Nicole Shanklin.

Reunion I (MHC)
2014-05-16 08:00 - 2014-05-18 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, South Hadley, MA, United States
Reunion for the following class years: 1944, 1964, 1974, 1989, 1994, 2004, and 2012. For more information, please contact Amanda Carr by email (acarr@mtholyoke.edu) or phone (431-538-2738).

Second Annual Laurel Lunch (Britain)
2014-05-17 13:00 | NC
On Saturday, May 17, the graduating class of 2014 will participate in that loveliest of Mount Holyoke traditions — the laurel parade. Let’s cheer them on from afar! With the gracious help of alumnae throughout the UK, the MHC Club of Britain has organized a chain of laurel lunches to take place in the following cities:
Edinburgh
hosted by Elizabeth Small ’83
Howies
10-14 Victoria Street
EH1 2HG
Cambridge
hosted by Gail Bull ’68
Browns
23 Trumpington Street
CB2 1QA
Oxford
hosted by Virginia Ross ’66
Branca
111 Walton Street
OX2 6AJ
Brighton
hosted by Gabrielle Becking ’10
The Chilli Pickle
17 Jubilee Street
BN1 1GE
London
hosted by Anita Henderson FP’97
Carluccio’s
St Christopher’s Place
W1U 1AY
This event is a lovely way to connect with local alumnae while simultaneously reinforcing our connection to club members elsewhere in the UK and to the community in South Hadley. If you would like to join in the festivities, please RSVP to Stephanie Rose, not forgetting to specify which lunch you would like to attend! Everyone is expected to pay for her own meal and we ask that you please bring cash to make doing so as simple as possible.

Happy Hour (Providence)
2014-05-17 16:30 - 19:00 | Blaze Restaurant, 776 Hope Street, Providence, RI, 02906, United States
The MHC Club of Rhode Island invites you to happy hour on Saturday, May 17. The event costs $25 at the door, which includes appetizers and one drink ticket. Come socialize, meet alumnae, network, and make new friends! Please RSVP by May 10.

Seven College Book Club (London)
2014-05-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Unnamed Venue, London, United Kingdom
Live in the London area? Interested in joining a book club? Members of the Seven College book club started their spring semester on January 29, reading together for their twentieth year! All meetings are held from 12–2 p.m. and cost £4. Please bring your book and a sandwich with you!
The book for the meeting on May 21 is Rosie’s War by Rosemary Say and Noel Holland. For more details or to RSVP, email Emma Forbes.

Third Wednesday Dinner (Rochester, NY)
2014-05-21 18:30 | Restaurant 2 Vine, 24 Winthrop Street, Rochester, NY, 14604, United States
Please join the MHC Club of the Genesee Valley for their third Wednesday dinner at Restaurant 2 Vine. If you can come, please RSVP to this email or Lindsey Reber by Tuesday evening, May 20, 2014. Guests are welcome but please indicate if you plan to bring one (or more). Dinners are usually scheduled for 6:30 p.m., but final details will be confirmed after the reservations are made.

Reunion II (MHC)
2014-05-23 08:00 - 2014-05-25 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, South Hadley, MA, United States
Reunion for the following class years: 1939, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1969, 1979, 1984, 1999, and 2009. For more information, please contact Amanda Carr by email (acarr@mtholyoke.edu) or phone (413-538-2738).

Women in Public Service Opening Ceremony (MHC)
2014-05-26 10:00 - 12:15 | Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall, South Hadley, MA, United States
Please save the date for the Opening Ceremony of the Women in Public Service Project Institute to be hosted by Mount Holyoke, Simmons, and Smith colleges May 25–June 6, 2014.
Among opening-day speakers and panelists are Radhika Coomaraswamy, former special rapporteur on violence against women and United Nations under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict; Erin Ennis ’92, vice president of the US–China Business Council; Mona K. Sutphen ’89, a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Intelligence Board and former White House deputy chief of staff for policy; and Sonali Gulati ’96, an independent filmmaker, feminist, grassroots activist, and educator.
We hope you will join us. Please note that the opening ceremony will also be available via webcast. For travel directions and a campus map, please click here. And for more information, please contact Amy Nichols.

Networking Event at the Maharaja
2014-05-31 11:30 - 15:00 | The Maharaja, 57 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join the MHC Club of Boston to network and meet with other Mount Holyoke alums in the area while enjoying amazing Indian food! For questions, please email this address.

Book Club (Portland, OR)
2014-06-01 13:30 - 16:00 | Unnamed Venue, Portland, OR, United States
Join the MHC Club of Portland for their next book club meeting. They will be reading Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World. Veronica Paracchini has suggested that — if you have time — you also read The Education of a Woman, a biography of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn Heilbrun to complement the discussion of Sotomayor’s book.

Happy Hour (Boston)
2014-06-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Daedalus Restaurant and Pub, Boston, MA, United States
Chau Ly ’97 is organizing an informal happy hour on June 3 to meet other Asian alumnae and encourage them to get involved with MHC. Please RSVP using this Doodle poll. For questions or more information, please email Chau.

Cocktail Reception with Jon Western (London)
2014-06-03 18:30 | Unnamed Venue, London, United Kingdom
Paul and Carol Hoffmann Collins ’63 request the honor of your presence at a cocktail reception and talk on “The Failure of International Response in Syria” with special guest Jon Western. Jon Western is the Carol Hoffmann Collins ’63 professor of international studies and Five College professor of international relations. His teaching and research interests focus on US foreign policy, international security, human rights, and humanitarian affairs. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by May 27 to Roger Gove, 413-538-2259.
