Class Notes

Mount Holyoke Fund News

Thanks to our dedicated Co-Head Class Agents and their wonderful team our class raised $175,566 for this year’s Mount Holyoke Fund — far exceeding our $130,000 goal.  With $2,850 in matching gifts and $15,805 from challenges, our grand total was $194,221!  And we came very close to meeting  our participation goal of 70% with a total of 68%!  Although classes close to ours have similar goals, they solicit far fewer classmates.  Nineteen fifty-nine does not remove women from our solicitation list unless they expressly request it.  Consequently we have lots of classmates who have not made gifts to the Fund, but we do want to maintain a connection — and thanks to the work of our Class Agents we can continue to celebrate the many values we do share.  Even under those circumstances only four classes had higher participation percentages.  We should be very proud and thank our class agent team for work well done!

KEEP US INFORMED

From now on our column in the Quarterly will be limited to under 420 words, due to rules set forth by the Quarterly editor. Scribe Chuckie Blaney says it’s amazing how little can be said in 420 words! So we’re going to use our Facebook page for any overflow. (It’s also much more up-to-date!)  We’d like you to know as well that your Class Officers and Leadership Team were concerned enough about this issue to write a letter to the Executive Director of the Alumnae Association and to the Editor of the Quarterly a few years ago expressing our belief in the importance of the Quarterly Notes and the connection the class column provides to the college and to one another. At least we are “on record”!

Join our Facebook group (MHC,’59) by emailing Chuckie Blaney.

Class Notes are submitted to the Quarterly 4 times per year by our trusty scribes. Please submit your news no later than the following dates:

  • January 20 for Spring
  • May 1 for Summer
  • August 3 for Fall
  • November 3 for Winter

If you don’t write in about yourself, we don’t know what’s happening — brag a little! Scribes are forced to write about their close friends over and over if they don’t hear from anyone else. How do you submit?


 

 

 

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