Alumnae Quarterly

Summer 2005

Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly
 

Summer 2005 Issue

Features

Rx for Success
How Mount Holyoke Educates Scientists
by Jill Elizabeth Westfall ’93
Some in America still wonder if “women can do science,” but that’s never been a question at MHC. With a proud history of producing scientists and an abundance of mentors and opportunities for hands-on science, MHC continually refills its prescription for success.


Chasing Hollywood
One Producer's Search for “Material with a Message”
by Carol Sliwa ’80
Debra Martin Chase ’77 is a Hollywood heavy hitter. This two-time Emmy-nominated movie and television producer’s latest project, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, opens at a theatre near you this summer.


Conservatives on a Liberal Campus
Do We Have Political Diversity at MHC?
by Maryann Teale Snell ’86
Right-left, red-blue, conservative-liberal, Republican-Democrat—what difference does it make in academia? The answer depends on who’s talking.


Ripple Effect
The Liquid Visions of Janice Lovelace ’74
by Emily Harrison Weir
Writer/photographer Janice Lovelace ’74 travels the world, but says beauty can be found everywhere if people will just notice what's close at hand.


Departments

Viewpoints
Your comments on past Quarterly articles


Campus Currents
Commencement, student and faculty award winners, this fall's “common read” book, spring sports wrap-up, and more campus news


Alumnae Matters
Reunion in participants’ own words, alumnae award winners, and alumnae clubs' news


Off the Shelf
Books by alumnae and professors on “discoveries in poetry and history,” the joys of sloth, surviving parenthood, theoretical physics, Rome’s enchantment, Stalin’s folly, the philosophy of film, and other topics


Last Look
In Session: Reading and Writing in the World
by Faye Wolfe
Join students enrolled in Reading and Writing in the World—a team-taught course offered jointly through English and environmental studies—as they reconsider nature studies in the midst of springtime splendor.

 

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

Ella T. Grasso ’40, former governor of Connecticut; first woman to become governor of a state in her own right
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