Francesca Huemer Kelly has sent this memorial in honor of the 10 anniversary of her sister’s, Christine Huemer, our classmate, death. We are happy to post it for all those that remember her.
November 12, 2020, marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Christina Huemer, MHC class of 1969. An art librarian and historian who earned a master’s degree in Library Science from Columbia and a master’s degree in Art History 
from Cornell, she worked in New York and Oberlin before moving to Italy, where she lived for more than 20 years. Chris was active in the Mount Holyoke European Alumnae Council and organized a very successful Alumnae Symposium in Rome several years before her death. Her dedicated work as the Drue Heinz librarian at the American Academy in Rome from 1993-2008 earned her a named lecture series in her memory. She also founded the Friends of the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, where she regularly gave tours, and where a small plaque by a cypress tree now honors her memory in that verdant and historic place.
The picture I sent you is a happy memory…we had worked hard at our meeting and celebrated the Saturday night. On Ile Saint Louis: good food, good wine, and good friendships.
My warmest regards and thank you for awakening my memory of these good times.
Marcia Lebre
In addition to various scholarly articles on art and architecture, Chris also authored the definitive brief treatment of the history of the AAR Library (in the International Dictionary of Library Histories, 2001), and edited Spellbound by Rome: the Anglo-American Community in Rome, 1890-1914, and the Founding of the Keats-Shelley House (Palombi Editori); and (with Pierluigi Petrobelli) Remembering Oliver Strunk, Teacher and Scholar (Pendragon Press).
Christina Huemer was proud of her alma mater and we, her family members, will always be glad she found a college that challenged her and which she loved. We miss her, but her spirit is still alive in every woman, young and old, who relentlessly pursues her dreams with humor and verve.