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Decisive Decade
Joanne Creighton Marks Ten Years
as MHC President
By Avice A. Meehan ’77
The Quarterly looks back at how our president and the
institution she’s led for a decade have changed. And the
president offers her own retrospective comments.
The Green
House Effect
Alumna Heads Drive to Create ‘America’s
Greenest School’
By Maryann Teale Snell ’86
An alumna “completely self-taught in philanthropy”
is well on her way to raising $6 million to build an environmentally friendly school with the highest rating
established by the US Green Building Council.
Left Behind, Moving Forward
Coping With Widowhood
By Diana Bosse Mathis ’70
No one would choose to join the “Widows Club”; perhaps
that’s why widowhood is so rarely discussed. Here, alumnae
widows break the silence to discuss how to cope and then
thrive in this common state for uncommon women.
Web Extra
Additional resources, including suggestions for
managing the stress of bereavement, discussing crucial
end-of-life wishes, and a reading list.
A Dorm Is Born
Campus Poised to Build First Student
Residence in Forty Years
By Emily Harrison Weir
Trustees are expected to approve a plan to build new
housing for 176 students that preserves what students
love about MHC’s oldest dorms in an energy-efficient
(and beautiful) new package.
Making Money Work
Financial Basics
By Mieke H. Bomann
We begin a multipart series with advice on financial basics
from an alumna financial planner. Eleanor Hotchkiss
Blayney ’73 gives Faizun Kamal ’97 a money makeover.
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Departments
Viewpoints
Comments on “late bloomers,”
“bragging rights,” how to
pronounce the college’s name,
and other topics
Campus Currents
$300 million fundraising campaign launched, hip-hop goes academic,
student interest in Chinese—and
China—grows, fall sports preview,
and more campus news
Alumnae Matters
Association offices refurbished,
Mount Holyoke club contacts list,
Vespers in New York turns seventyfive,
and alumnae clubs’ news
Web Extra: Renovation photos
Off the Shelf
Poetry, short stories, novels,
and nonfiction by alumnae on
Dolley Madison, finding your
perfect career, osteoporosis,
and other topics
Last Look
Life Lessons
Everything you need to know you
can learn from class notes.
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