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Cathy Barrow ’78 on creating a practical pantry Spring and summer are busy seasons for Cathy Barrow ’78, author of

Culinary historian Barbara Ketcham Wheaton ’53 turns to cookbooks to learn about the past. “Ladies and gentlemen,” announced Barbara Ketcham Wheaton

—By Olivia Lammel ’14 This article appeared in the fall 2014 issue of the Alumnae Quarterly.

Mary Lyon’s hair jewelry On the evening of March 5, 1849, Mary Lyon’s close friend Rebecca Fiske sat down to

Jacqueline Mosher FP’09 grew up amid her parents’ expansive collection of more than 1,000 rock and mineral samples. A few

Renowned physicist, Mildred Allen, taught at Mount Holyoke from 1918 to 1959. She was infected with the Spanish flu—along with

In the fall of 1918, Mount Holyoke endured the deadliest flu outbreak the world had ever seen In the weeks

According to Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE)—a nonprofit orgranization working to eliminate the toxic chemicals that harm our health and

A window into plant life of the past Until 1905, the creation and maintenance of an herbarium was a regular

The Pump House, and what was referred to as the “kissing bridge,” were familiar sights to Mount Holyoke women of