Happy New Year, Classmates-  Wishing you all happiness, peace, prosperity, and health in 2024!  This year, we will kick off our class activities for the year with a Trivia Night on January 30, at 8p.m. Eastern Time.  Holly Hughes will be back by popular demand, hosting another evening of trivia fun, and we hope to see you virtually on the 30th!  Please note that for this event, advance registration is required.

When: Jan 30, 2024 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-qtrzIrEtKTtY3Ey11FHCo1oYDptvas

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Thank you to all class board members who have been volunteering for you behind the scenes.   In November, the board networked with current students in a virtual meeting with the Class of 2025 Class Board.  The current MHC juniors were very interested in learning what the Class of ’75 did for Junior Show!  Board members have also been reaching out to classmates on behalf of the Development Office, and in January,  will participate in initial Alumnae Association reunion planning.

We are now seventeen months away from our 50th Mount Holyoke Reunion. To reintroduce you to your board,  read on…

Co-presidents:  Elizabeth Stone, elizabethmstone2712@gmail.com  and Sandi Carbonari Welsh, sandiwelsh12@gmail.com Contact the co-presidents for general info or to inform MHC of serious illness or death of a ’75.

Reunion Co-chairs:  Judy Karlen Stein, judystein13@gmail.com and Linnea Wiltenberg Grealish, linnea1027@comcast.net  Write the reunion chairs for suggestions about the 50th reunion or to host a mini reunion in your area.

Co-treasurers:  Alice Maroni, ac108@gmail.com and Coral Grout, cmgrout@comcast.net. If you haven’t already, please send a check for class dues of $50 to Alice at 15 Franklin St., Alexandria, VA 22314.  Class dues are not a donation to MHC, but will be used for 50th Reunion activities specific to our class.

Head Class Agents:  Ruth Dillingham, ruthdillingham@gmail.com and Sandy Fotiades sfotiades@comcast.net.  Our head class agents can help you make a generous gift to MHC.  Remember, a gift in any amount given this year is applied to our class 50th Reunion gift.

Nominating Committee:  Elaine Coutanche Minor, elainemilnor@hotmail.com  Dale Bonner Murphy, dbmotr@aol.com  Denise Schutzenberger Terrazas, deniseol@aol.com   To nominate anyone for a future class board position, please contact any of these alumnae.

Website:  Rhonda Berney,  berneymd@sonic.net  Rhonda maintains the class website at alumnae.mtholyoke.edu  Past newsletters are available on the website.

Zoom administrator:  Coral Grout, cmgrout@comcast.net  Coral keeps us in touch virtually by setting up and moderating our class Zooms.

Class Scribe:  Eileen Leahy Epstein, batescolby@gmail.com  Eileen not only writes about class news in the Alumnae Quarterly, but also maintains online class news available at alumnae.mtholyoke.edu. Write Eileen anytime you have anything to report about your life.

Again, best wishes for 2024,

Elizabeth  Stone, Co-president

Dear Classmates,

     This is a reminder to kick off the holiday season with Mount Holyoke ’75 friends this Thursday, Nov.30, at 2p.m. Eastern Time!  Join panelists Mary Jane Cowles, Nancy Bourne Haley and Eileen Leahy Epstein for their program, “Experiences and Adventures in France”.  Besides having some French food & drink with you, you might also want to have a map of France to consult as the speakers identify different areas in the country.  Hope you can attend and share some of your favorite destinations in France!  Here is the link:

     For French speakers in the Class of ’75,  Kim Hunter invites you to join a French language Mount Holyoke Zoom group hosted by  Mèryem Puill-Châtillon ’80.  The group meets virtually every other week for an hour of French conversation and fun.   Are you eager to practice your French and connect with Francophile alums from all over the world?  Then send Mèryem an email at meryem.puill@wanadoo.fr

     Tonight, November 27, your 1975 Class Board is having an online meeting with the MHC Class of 2025 Class Board.  The Class of 2025 is our Connections Class, the students who will graduate as we reunite for our 50th Reunion.  We look forward to chatting with these engaging young women to find opportunities to interact with them between now and May 2025.  

     Last week, as my husband and I drove home to Michigan after Thanksgiving in Massachusetts, we stopped briefly in South Hadley.  I expected Mount Holyoke’s lawns to be torn up from construction related to the geothermal energy conversion project, but that was not the case…the campus looked beautiful, even in late November.  I walked my dog along one of the newly creating walking trails on Prospect Hill, and saw parts of the College grounds that I didn’t know existed.  Did you know that the entire MHC campus has deservedly been designated as an arboretum?

     Lastly, I am sorry to inform you of the deaths of two classmates, Anyse Storey and Fontaine Tebo.  Anyse was a urologist in Toledo,OH and Fontaine was a middle school counselor in Kansas City, MO. Here are links to their obituaries:  For Anyse, https://www.houseofday.com/memorials/anyse-storey-taylor/5266006/ and for Fontaine, https://www.souderfamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/FONTAINE-Frances-Tebo?obId=29655791

It is often months after an alumna passes away that her heirs send the College a death notice, but to inform you of deaths more promptly in the future, I will send out separate emails to the class upon receipt of a death notice.  Please contact me if you hear of a classmate who is seriously ill or who has passed away.

With best wishes for your health and happiness this holiday season,

Elizabeth Stone, Class of ’75 Co-president

elizabethmstone2712@gmail.com