Join the Scavenger Hunt!

MHC85 30th Reunion Scavenger Hunt

Welcome to the hunt! To begin, please send an email to MHC85hunt@gmail.com with your list of team members/classmates. There will also be a sign up at Reunion, but you won’t have the headstart 😉

  1. Give your team a name (to help us keep track of points).
  2. Please keep your group to no more than 8 classmates.
  3. One classmate may participate virtually (not attending reunion) on each team.
  4. Save this email addressMHC85hunt@gmail.com to send photos to.

The team with the most points overall wins, provided you earn some point in each of the following three categories:

I. Memorabilia: 5 points each

(Note these are photos of objects, not objects themselves.) No duplicates except t-shirts.

  • Junior Show program 
  • Used MHC spiral notebook. (Bonus 2 pts if it shows the course name and number on the cover.)
  • Parade costume/accessory from a previous reunion
  • Any Pangy poster from 1981 to 1985 
  • Freshman welcome mug with green MHC logo 
  • Any printed weekly calendar from 1981 to 1985
  • Commencement program 1985
  • Dorm T-shirt (multiples allowed, but must be different dorms)
  • MHC keychain with the “old” logo (circa 1981)

II. Divide & Conquer – 5 points each

Classmates take and send selfies from the following locales/with the following people. Each must be by a different team member. Remember YOU must be in the photo.

  • Stinson Room, Library (not the main reading room)
  • Talcott Greenhouse
  • PO Boxes in Blanchard
  • Natatorium (aka pool) 
  • College Archives
  • Art Gallery by Albert Bierstadt’s Hetch Hetchy Canyon
  • With a professor (bonus 5 pts if from our era)
  • With President Lynn Pasquerella ’80

III. Group Activities– 10 points each

  • Video your entire campus group (minus 1 virtual member) singing the MHC drinking song
  • Photo of your entire campus group at Mary Lyon’s grave
  • Video of you entire campus group jumping into the college pool
  • Photo of your entire campus group next to a Five College Bus

Deadline to email your photos/videos is 5pm Saturday.  Results will be announced at Saturday’s class dinner party.

MHC85hunt@gmail.com

About Julie Sponagle Reiff

A history major with a concentration in French, I spent my junior year in Strasbourg. I lived in Safford, Buckland (3rd floor, go Tri-Bucks), and 1837. Since graduation I have spent most of the last 30 years at a boarding school, editing the school's quarterly alumni magazine and handling most of the school's other communications. I am now working full-time on a novel.
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