Holiday Greetings, Classmates!
Around the country with many of you…
Once again, I have been delighted to be able to reconnect with some of you…after more than 50 years!… as I have traveled for business, board or volunteer work this fall. A couple of these fun events from Cleveland, OH and Sarasota, FL are highlighted below. The most recent was this past weekend in New York City at the MHC Vespers performance. We can all be very proud of students from the classes of 2019 and 2020, who gave a beautiful concert before a packed audience at St. Bartholomew’s Church. The city was all dressed up for the holidays and the cold winter air added to the merriment!
I would love to see more of you in the remaining 18 months before our 50th reunion and will reach out as I have promised in my class letters. And be sure to click on the photos I am attaching to see old friends…
Recent highlights: For photos, click here….
• Cleveland in October with Judy Harris Rawson at the Museum of Art. We had a great discussion about how our class would define “uncommon” in our lives today, a conversation worth having in South Hadley in May 2020!
• San Francisco in October at the reception for new President Sonya Stephens, hosted by the MHC Club of Northern California. It was an impressive turnout and a special pleasure to see Carol Verburg, Barbara Cooke Monks and Jamie Wirene Schwarzfeld there as well as many younger and older Bay Area alums.
• Sarasota, FL in November with Georgia Grimm Walters and Elizabeth Marcus Russell. Both of these classmates were in different majors in college than I was and we had fun sharing stories of life then as well as now. Elizabeth and I also discovered that our paths had crossed in the bottled water industry 20 years ago with no idea that we had been college classmates! Unfortunately Elizabeth had to leave our meeting before I thought to pull out my phone for a photo, so please check out her photo on her personal profile on the Alumnae Association database and “photo shop” her into this picture in your minds!
• New York City in December with the 4 of us who attended the Vespers concert: Helen Disenhaus, Charlotte Church, and Katy Hart. Our version of a “mini mini” reunion at a festive time of year!
I hope looking at these photos reminds us all of the friends we made during our time at Mount Holyoke and will inspire you to reconnect with classmates in the months ahead. And then there is our reunion weekend itself….!
Still Uncommon After All These Years:
We have our reunion theme (above!) and now we have DATES! Please mark Thursday, May 14 to Sunday, May 17, 2020 on your calendars…paper and digital…as the red letter days for our 50th reunion in South Hadley.
More information will be forthcoming with our February/March class letter. In the meantime, your 3 reunion co-chairs, Barbara Cooke Monks, Jane Hiller Farran, and Yvonne Watford-McKinney have been engaged in organizing the committees needed for our weekend events, recruiting volunteers and developing a compelling list of 50 reasons to attend this once-in-a-lifetime event. Barb has designed unique Reunion Volunteer T-shirts (yes, in red!), in case you need a reason to get more involved! More volunteers are definitely needed so please reach out to one of our co-chairs to offer your services.
Barbara Cooke Monks: bcmonks@gmail.com
Jane Hiller Farran: jane.farran@gmail.com
Yvonne Watford-McKinney: ywmck@bellsouth.net
Our reunion weekend starts on the Thursday afternoon before commencement weekend when we don the graduating seniors, who are also our Connections Class, with scarves in their class color (a ritual known as “scarfing”) and hold a reception in their honor. That evening, our first dinner together will be in the new Dining Commons, which is now part of Blanchard. The food is varied and excellent. Be prepared to be treated like a rock star! We even have on-campus transportation to convey us to events!
Special thanks to Yvonne Watford-McKinney…
who was back on campus in November for the first time since graduation to attend the Black Alumnae Conference, and shared her thoughts for this class letter.
And the bottom line remains… We may all have mixed emotions from our college years, but sharing reunion with the women who were part of our lives then can bring us new connections and perhaps new possibilities as we reconnect through experiences and lives…each uniquely uncommon!…in the 5 decades since 1970.
Staying Connected
Our class webpage: new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/1970
Facebook: Keep up with news of your classmates! We have our own class Facebook page: Mount Holyoke Class of 70. You can also contact Jill Vollmer Blackwood at jblackwood48@gmail.com to join.
Deadline for Class Notes in the Quarterly: January 25. Please send your news or even your holiday letters to Diane Mayer Murphy (dmurphy@cminc.com) or Ellen Cochran Hirzy (ellenhirzy@gmail.com)
Alumnae Association website: Check out “Find Your People” and update your own profile! alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/directory
Wishing you special moments of joy during the holidays and good health throughout the year ahead,
Happy Holidays to all of you!
Ann
Ann Richardson Berkey
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Class Letter July 2010
Dear Class of 1970,
It was a glorious spring weekend on campus as the brave souls of 1970 gathered in Ham Hall to celebrate forty years of time since our graduation from Mount Holyoke College.
We had informal cocktails, a short class meeting and then our class parade and general alumni meeting in Mary Woolley Hall and Chapin Auditorium to hear about the end of the tenure of President Joanne Creighton and the inauguration of our new leader, Lynn Pasquerella, Class of 1980, who will be inaugurated into office on September 24, 2010
With our white suits, red Pashmina shawls, and psychedelic visors, we were a spiffy addition to the parade which was preceded by Scottish bagpipes and ended with our dear sisters from the class of 1945 both on foot and in golf carts. Let’s hope we can rally for our 65th and be in such good shape to make the entire circle of Skinner Green on two feet!!
We had an attendance of 76 classmates and 19 spouses and were able to raise $176,828 in cash, $2730 in pledges, $1725 in matching gifts with 53% participation from 197 donors. Class dues of $20 per year or $100 for five years until our next reunion in 2015 are to be sent to Jill Brethauer, 4046 Dickey Rd., Gibsonia, PA 15044 payable to Mount Holyoke College Class of 1970. These monies pay for our reunion planning and class management with the Alumnae Association.
One of my favorite parts of the weekend was the tour of the art museum. In addition to the permanent collection, our guide told us about the show of early Renaissance art which had been borrowed from Middlebury College and augmented by some College holdings. Explanations of restoration and conservation were very enlightening and showed the breadth and depth of the expertise at the art museum at Mount Holyoke which produces art historians at the top of the field in the United States.
Ann Thurber read us the list of 23 members of our class who have passed away and those names will be posted on our website under our class of 1970 designation.
As your newly elected President, I am asking two of our classmates to add to this letter, as they were lively participants in the weekend and their thoughts will add to mine to round out the experience for us all: Pam Stuart and Becky Egle Brittain.
Pam Stuart: “Friday’s back to class program featured Agnes Scott Classics Professor Sally MacEwen, 1970, on Super Heroes and Greek Tragedy. Libby Tucker, 1970, author of Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses told tales of ghosts in the residence halls and led a site tour. I gave a class on estate planning entitled, “You Can’t Take It With You.” The cocktail hour in Ham Hall preceded a dinner with Professor Vincent Ferraro talking about the Middle East, and his talk prompted a spirited discussion. The Sunday morning service in the chapel was accompanied by a choir performance with many members of our class in participation.”
Becky Brittain: “Our 40th reunion weekend was an inspiration for me. We are still in the middle of the alumnae parade line! I realized that we are uncommon women, still young, fun and smart, poised to make creative choices for our inner joy and greater good. Many of us have had long term careers. I thank those who came to my alumnae talk. I am now devoting myself to the profession of training young people to be better mothers. We, as women, can and must continue to mother ourselves, our children and our Earth to promote the change that we seek in the world.”
You will hear from us often and we look forward to hearing from you.
Sharon Murray Lorenzo, President
Barbara Cooke Monks, Vice President
Jill Brethauer, Treasurer
Diane Mayer Murphy and Karen L. Myers, Secretary /Scribe
Diana Bosse Mathis, Web Coordinator
Arleen McGrath Heiss, Helen Disenhaus, Pam Stuart, Nominating Committee
Reunion Co-Chairs to be announced.
From our Reunion Scribe:
It may just be that the high point of my 40th Reunion was a hot and heavy bathroom discussion on Saturday night in Ham Hall, our 1970 Class headquarters. I had already savored an intergenerational seminar on Friday – a sensitive book discussion of Mary Lyon Writings in Shattuck Hall, followed by a challenging presentation by Professor Vincent Ferraro in Hooker Auditorium on “the biggest problem facing the World today.” (No small issues, please.) We had dipped our toes into “catching up” during a cocktail reception at Ham Hall. After my quiet, personal stroll through the Talcott Greenhouse on Saturday morning, the Alumnae Parade bonded our raucous Red with the Green, Yellow, Blue, and (Glory be!) new Purple classes erupting all around us. I truly welcomed our new Purple Sisters – the Francis Perkins alums. I met a gracious 82-year-old alum sporting a purple scarf and hat band. She had just completed her MHC studies. What a gift she is to us. At the close of the Parade (which one alum accomplished on stilts!), we funneled into Chapin Auditorium for the Alumnae Association meeting. The electricity of “tradition” was ramping up strongly. Seeming rivalries with the classes of 1965 and 1955 dissolved in a heartfelt appreciation of everyone’s love of and devoted work for the college. Our own Merrill Wasserman and Barbara Cooke Monks received special awards.
A lazy, humid afternoon, touring the new Joanne Creighton dorm and having our class photo taken, and then the class dinner brought so many opportunities to speak openly with classmates – with Susan, who has worked for us all for so many years; with Danielle who ran our language labs; with Danna, a dear dorm-mate from freshman year; with Holly, Diane, Karen, Jill, Jill, Libby, Laurie, Boots, Maureen, Pam S, Ann, Ellen, Jane, Twila, Judy, Linda, Jane, Becky, Daisy, Sharon, and Betsy – who wants to start a cancer support network in the MHC community. (Unfortunately I’ve left out many of the 80 or so Class of 1970 alums who returned to campus. I apologize.) As we found one or two points of intersection in our lives, our bonds strengthened. I knew that no matter what one’s relationship was in college, each of us felt an underlying appreciation of the other. We knew we would be received with kindness and interest from everyone, and we would all hear things worth hearing.
But to get back to that “hot and heavy” discussion on Saturday night – see in your mind’s eye four of us in the 3rd floor bathroom at 11:00 PM, picking up a discussion about continued discrimination against women. We felt that much of the discriminatory language and behavior emerged when people felt threatened, a “fight or flight” emotion. You have to stop and name the behavior and deal with it, we agreed. We all felt that this kind of “pick up” discussion of important and fascinating issues is what MHC is all about. We could see that our Class of 1970 represented a paradigm shift: we had experienced the change in parietals, the demise of Saturday classes, the introduction of men into the dorms, the student strike against the Vietnam War, the assassination of M. L .King and Robert Kennedy and so much more. We are truly at a pivotal point, we said, when we can become more interconnected, or more radicalized. Blowing people up did not look like an effective or human course of action to any of us. In the 40 years since our graduation so much had changed on campus and in the world – and yet nothing had changed in the essentials.
Class Letter Fall 2009
Dear Members of the Class of 1970,
It’s almost time for our 40th Reunion – can you believe it? In some ways it seems like we just left the Amphitheater, diplomas in hand.
I had the pleasure of being on campus for both Reunions in May, and enjoyed the energy and enthusiasm of a wide range of alums. It was apparent to me yet again how special Mount Holyoke was to us as students and continues to be for us as alums.; I am really looking forward to our get together in May
HOLD THIS DATE! Please put this weekend on your calendar, in your day timer, in your Blackberry….
May 28-30, 2010
It is time to begin building the slate for our next set of class officers. Please send your suggestions for class officer nominations to Arleen McGrath Heiss (contact information below.) Listed below is a link to the area on the Alumnae Association web site that contains the Class Officer Handbook, where you will find more information on the duties of the various Class Officers. A successful class has a diverse Class Board, so don’t be shy! It’s OK to step forward yourself….
www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/volunteers/res/classres/
From now until Reunion you’ll be hearing primarily from Pamela Thiele and Nancy Affleck McKenzie, Reunion Co-Chairs, and from our two Head Class agents, Charlotte Church and Linda Phelps Graves. So read our class communications closely, go to our web site often to get the latest news about Reunion plans, respond with generosity, and most important of all, COME join in the fun!
From Pamela Thiele and Nancy Affleck McKenzie, Reunion Co-chairs:
The summer of ’69: A man on the moon. Woodstock. Stonewall. And then we started our senior year and the times kept changing. We will sing of ourselves and celebrate ourselves — and each other — at our 40th Reunion. From carbon sets to Twitter, from Christmas letters to Facebook, we have adapted to, embraced, or put up with the accelerating pace of our world. Come to Reunion. Catch up with old friends, make new ones, honor the young woman you were in 1970 and the woman you have become. If not now, when?
From our two Head Class agents, Charlotte Church and Linda Phelps Graves:
This is a very exciting year for the Class of 70 as we approach our 40th(Wow!) reunion. We want to thank in advance our continuing and new volunteers. They will be contacting you by phone, notes or emails to encourage both participation and generosity in your gifts to the Alumnae Annual Fund, especially during this reunion year. The personal connection really makes a difference.
Whether you are a consistent giver or have never before done so, please join your Mount Holyoke sisters in supporting our alma mater; and come to reunion! You will have a great time. Our 35th was wonderful; our 40th will be even better. See you in May.
Your scribes, Diane Mayer Murphy and Karen Myers, love to hear from you and share your news in our Class Notes in the Quarterly, so send them a note/email soon! No need to wait until Reunion to give each other an update!
With warm greetings from your Class Board,
Susan Swart Rice
Stephanie K. Williston
Jill M. Brethauer
Diane Mayer Murphy
Karen L. Myers
Nominating Committee
Helen E. Disenhaus
Arleen McGrath Heiss
Pamela B. Stuart
Susan Ellis
Beverly Butler Walker
Class Letter Fall 2008
Dear Members of the Class of 1970,
Wow, another year has passed. Time seems to be whizzing by these days – does it seem that way to you, too? It will be time for our 40th Reunion in no time at all!
I’ve recently enjoyed being on campus as a representative for our class at the Reunion Planning Workshop. The campus was sparkling after the downpours that were the remnants of Hurricane Hanna. The lakes were full, the waterfalls roaring…can’t you just hear them?
This year RPW was held at the same time that the Development Office brought their volunteers to campus, so we were able to hear a State of the College update from the senior staff as well as from Joanne Creighton.
RPW yielded a lot of useful information and suggestions. It was a treat to have Linda Phelps Graves and Barbara Cooke Monks there. We put our heads together, listened to other classes’ ideas, “borrowed with pride,” and had a great time talking about lots of possible activities during our weekend on campus at the end of May, 2010.
No excuses! Please put this weekend on your calendar, in your day timer, in your Blackberry…. May 28-30, 2010
The date is still tentative, as the Five Colleges have to firm up graduation times for all concerned. However, we’ll know for sure soon, and we’ll let you know as soon as we have the firm date!
From Pam Thiele, our Reunion Chair:
The theme for our 40th Reunion is Surviving and Thriving! Absolutely Reunion is a time for reminiscing, but as the leading edge of the Boomers we have always looked forward. So let’s make this Reunion the perfect opportunity take some well-earned pride in ourselves and our accomplishments.
For me personally, just living through the past 40 years seems worthy ofcelebration — and at our class Reunion of women who have had many of the same challenges and experiences seems like the perfect place to do so.
Please plan to join us. Please feel free to let me or Nancy know of any suggestions you have for Reunion (and if you’d like to volunteer to help, that would be swell.)
We’ll be updating you periodically by email, on our class website, and in our class notes in the Quarterly. We look forward to seeing you in May, 2010.
From our two Head Class agents, Charlotte Church and Linda Phelps Graves:
The next two years (leading up to our 40th) will be important ones for our Annual Fund efforts and we hope everyone will do what they can to boost our contribution total. Later in the year Charlotte and Linda will also be sending out information about what kind of giving opportunities exist and “what counts” toward our class total at Reunion.
Your scribes, Diane Mayer Murphy and Karen Myers, love to hear from you and share your news in our Class Notes in the Quarterly, so send them a note/email soon! No need to wait until Reunion to give each other an update!
With warm greetings from your Class Board,
Susan Swart Rice, Stephanie K. Williston, Jill M. Brethauer, Diane Mayer Murphy and Karen L. Myers
Nominating Committee: Helen E. Disenhaus, Arleen McGrath Heiss,
Pamela B. Stuart, Beverly Butler Walker
Reunion Co-chairs: Pamela Thiele and Nancy Affleck McKenzie
Head Class Agents: Charlotte N. Church and Linda Phelps Graves
Class Letter Fall 2007
How can it be a year since I last wrote you? My sincere hope is that this message finds you well, busy, and thriving. Fortunately, that is my state (crazy busy would more accurately describe it.) One of the things that keep me out of mischief is my volunteer work for Mount Holyoke. As you may have seen in a recent Quarterly, I am now also serving as the Chair of the Classes and Reunions Committee for the Alumnae Association, so I am getting to campus fairly regularly. Here’s some news from South Hadley.
I attended the Development Weekend a few weeks ago and delighted in meeting alumnae from a wide range of classes. Once again I was struck with how many women, from the very young to the rather senior members of our constituency, give of their time to support the Alumnae Association and the College. We are an impressive, vibrant sisterhood, no matter what the chronological age!
I heard about the improvements to the physical plant that are in the works or are planned. Among them is the yet to be named new dorm that is rising from the ground next to Pratt, with lots of steel beams in evidence. Scheduled to open in the fall of 2008, it will house 176 students in clusters and will be our third “green” building on campus (in addition to Blanchard and Kendade.) Once the new dorm is open the College will start taking one dorm offline at a time, to do extensive renovations.
I also had the pleasure of hearing Jane B. Brown, VP of Enrollment speak. She told the group that admissions have almost doubled from 1993 to 2007, from approximately 1,800 applications to close to 3,200 per year! In large part that is thanks to alums like us, who tell the special young women we meet about this wonderful college in Western Massachusetts.
The Alumnae Association is always busy planning events for alumnae, both on campus and abroad. On October 4-7 the European Alumnae Symposium was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The weekend of October 12-14 found the newly elected Class Officers gathering at MHC to attend Alumnae Council, and on November 9-11 those classes starting their Reunion planning cycle will gather at the Reunion Planning Workshop. On November 2-4 the Alumnae and Student of Color Conference was held on campus. This year the conference included attendees from Black, Asian, and Latina groups at the same time. Of course, the Association is always involved in Reunion planning. Our own Reunion is not that far off – remember to save late May, 2010 for a trip back to South Hadley!!
The Association is in the midst of a big data conversion project, which they hope to have fully functional by the end of 2007. This will greatly enhance their data capabilities, and will enhance your ability to connect as well. One way to do that now is to go to the MHC website (Alumnae section), and use MHConnect to find other alums and to take advantage of the password protected online services that are offered solely to alumnae. It’s cool and useful. Check it out! While on the subject of the web, the Association is changing the way they support our class web pages, so look for some changes in the 1970 class web page soon. Thanks to Diana Bosse Mathis for taking on this volunteer work on behalf of the class.
The Alumnae Association is always on the lookout for alums who would be interested in getting involved in the work of the Association (there’s a lot to do, and a place for all willing hands!) Take a look at the volunteer opportunities on the MHC Alumnae website. There is even a list of 100 things you can do in support of MHC even if you do not have time right now for a volunteer role. Being involved comes in many forms, one of which is supporting the Association and the College with whatever amount of financial support you are able to share. Did you know that every student who has ever attended MHC is underwritten to some degree? The College depends on the many ongoing fundraising efforts to support the incredible young women who attend/have attended Mount Holyoke. We need to lend our hand, just as alums in the past did so for us, don’t you agree? After all, we are alums of the OLDEST WOMEN’S COLLEGE IN THE WORLD (sobering thought), with a current student population from 70 countries and 48 states. We need to keep this legacy thriving!
Charlotte, Linda and our class agents will soon begin reaching out to you as a follow-up to the Annual Fund Fall Appeal which was sent out last month. Our class goal this year is $100,000 with a participation rate of 50% — we know we can achieve that because last year we contributed $91,634 with 47% participation and, with just a little more stretch, we’re there! Thanks so much for the great support from all of you who participated. We ask again this year that each of us consider a gift of whatever amount we can do and respond positively to our class fundraising efforts to help support the very talented MHC women.
Diane and Karen would love for you to take a few minutes to send in your personal news for the Class Notes. that is the first place I turn to when a Quarterly arrives, don’t you? Please get in touch with our scribes Diane Mayer Murphy and Karen Myers. No need to wait until Reunion to give each other an update!
Reunion Planning will be starting soon, so if you would like to be involved, please get in touch with Pam Thiele, Nancy Affleck McKenzie or me. Thanks!
With warm greetings from your Class Board,
Susan. Stephanie, Jill, Karen and Diane
Class Letter Fall 2006
Dear Class of 1970,
Forty years ago this summer we were all making our plans to embark on our college experience at Mount Holyoke College….in some ways it feels like yesterday, doesn’t it? How fortunate we have been to enjoy the friendships we made there for so many years, and look forward to for many more years to come. The 35th reunion was a lot of fun, as those of us who were able to attend can attest. Stephanie and I would like to thank all of the wonderful women who pitched in to make the reunion successful.
2005 Reunion Committee Members
Susan Swart Rice, Stephanie Williston, Pam Thiele
Hospitality, Honoraries, Cleanup: Karen Myers
Costume: Arleen McGrath Heiss
Parade Signs, Reunion Booklet and Questionnaire: Susan Swart Rice
Friday Social: Sharon (Sam) Jackson
Sunday remembrance: Ann Thurber
Saturday Social and Dinner: Jane Goodman Pollak
Saturday p.m. discussions: Informal
Nametags: Jane Gates Sabatini
Reunion Scribes: Boots Whitmer, Caroline Wheeler Jacobus
Two of our classmates shared their impressions:
“Reunions are like cycles and spirals – transforming the journeys of our lives as we intersect with others.” Ann Thurber, ’70, provided these thoughts during a moving gathering to celebrate and give thanks for the lives of Donna Claytor, our Class President who died just weeks ago, and 15 other members of our class who have died since graduation. A new word entered my vocabulary – “necrology.” What lingers in my memory of our 35th Reunion weekend is the joyfulness of being together with uncommon women who had shared common experiences during four pivotal years of our lives. Led by Stephanie Williston, Susan Swart Rice, Karen Myers, Diane Mayer Murphy, our Saturday Night Social Chair Jane Goodman Pollak and a host of generous workers, the 48 returning classmates took part in an “Open Mike” event, sharing their wisdom, comedy, quirkiness, and nurturing thoughts. All of the contributions highlighted the value of our MHC friendships, experiences, and values. Having dear fellow Francophiles Diana Dearth and Lynn Wallisch-Cohn at Reunion, finally, was the icing on the cake! — Caroline Wheeler Jacobus
There’s something about a red feather boa, our parade accessory, which brings out not only the Gypsy Rose Lee in all of us, but fuels our creative juices. A handful of ‘70s created the new fractured Alma Mater and presented it at the Alumnae Association meeting. Beware the boa, however: it’s lethal when combined with luggage, zippers. First-ever reunion attendees Lynn Wallisch, Diana Dearth, Jenni Dieter Buhr and Ann Thurber mixed with veterans who reached a consensus that, while all reunions are marvelous, Reunion IIs are our favorites, given their quieter pace and greater coffee klatsch- ability. Even as we mourned our departed Donna Claytor, Stephanie Williston stepped up to inform the fifty-plus of us present that we are now archival! The College wants our college correspondence. So all you women of letters, scrounge your attics and cough them up. — Boots Whitmer
Please get in touch with Pam Thiele and Nancy Affleck McKenzie or any one of the other Class Board members to share your ideas and suggestions for the next reunion.
Speaking of which, it is not too soon to put a note in your day timer (electronic or otherwise) that our 40th Reunion will be held in South Hadley, MA at the end of May 2010! (The date will be set in the Fall of 2008.) Come one, come all – whether you look as good as you did in 1970, or have participated in the “bettering” process since then, we guarantee you will have many terrific conversations, enjoy the beautiful campus, and forge new friendships with classmates you may not have even known while in college.
The Alumnae Association has launched a new and improved website recently. If you haven’t done so already, check it out! www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu
I highly recommend that you check out the global reunion link and take the website tour. Technology is really amazing
While we are on the subject of staying in touch, your scribes would love to hear from you. Please e-mail your news to Diane Mayer Murphy (dmurphy@cminc.com) and Karen Myers (myersk@georgetown.edu). Since it is probably the first part of the Quarterly you read, why not dash off an e-mail today?
We’d like to extend a great big thank you to our Head Class Agents, Charlotte Church and Linda Phelps Graves, who have been doing a smashing job, and who have graciously agreed to continue in this role for another term. Special thanks go out to our classmate, Katie Ray, who has been and continues to be so supportive of the fund raising efforts of our class.
Katie continued to offer her challenge to the class – every contribution made to the Class of 1970 Scholarship Fund was matched to Mount Holyoke’s Alumnae Annual Fund. Since inaugurated during our reunion year, close to $50,000 has been raised for the Class of 1970 Scholarship Fund. What a pride point for our class! Charlotte and Linda are thrilled to report that as of this writing the Class of 1970 has raised $92,699 from 43.6% of our class, surpassing this year’s Annual Fund class goal of $90,000. (WAY TO GO, Class of 1970!!). The Class of 1970 is a class of women who have led the way for our younger sisters in the many facets of our lives. Let’s continue to be leaders in supporting Mount Holyoke. It is not the amount of your support that matters, it is your participation.
Please consider supporting Mount Holyoke’s Alumnae Annual Fund, and if possible, our class scholarship fund. A gift to either will make a huge difference to the talented women who are now attending Mount Holyoke.
We would like to establish a class website, but we need someone to tend it now and then. If you have these skills and a little spare time, please get in touch with us so we can move forward.
This letter has been sent to all class members by snail mail and also by e-mail to those for whom we have current e-mail addresses. If you would prefer to receive your class letters by e-mail only, please advise Luisa Tavares at the Alumnae Association of your preference (ltavares@mtholyoke.edu). The more letters we send by e-mail, the lower the postage expense is for our class treasury. Thanks!
And what would a class letter be without a request for you to send in your class dues? It’s time to send in your dues to support mailings such as this one and to help fund our pre-40th reunion expenses and cash flow. Dues are $20 per year, or $100 for five years; for the period of July 2005 to June 2010. To those who have sent in your dues, a great big thank you, and to those who have been meaning to do so, it only takes a minute!
We hope you enjoy your summer, and that it holds some time for rest, relaxation, and renewal,
Susan, Stephanie, Jill, Karen & Diane