The countdown to our 50th Reunion has begun.  Our long-awaited campus reunion, will be May 22-25, 2025.  Save the date, and watch for further communications as the plans for our big event finalize.  Meanwhile, our class is having two summer activities as a kickoff.

     Join the class for our next Zoom on Tuesday, June 25, at 7p.m. Eastern Time.  Because we will have a vote on adopting our new class treasury management system, you will need to register in advance for this meeting.  If you wish to attend, please register here.  To ensure we can answer any questions you may have, we invite you to share them using this form.  Following the vote, there will be a virtual social gathering, where each participant can recommend a book for summer reading.  Here’s you chance to tell your classmates about a book you’ve read recently and couldn’t put down!

     Our second summer event will be another Class of ’75 mini-reunion in Connecticut, Tuesday, July 9 at noon, at the home of our reunion co-chair Judy Karen Stein, 56 Milbank, Unit A, Greenwich, CT.  Southern New England classmates, this mini-reunion’s for you, less than a mile from I-95! For any New Yorkers who’d like to take the train to this event, you can be picked up at the Greenwich train station, also less than a mile from Judy’s home.  Please RSVP directly to Judy Stein at judystein13@gmail.com if you plan to attend.

With best regards,

Elizabeth Stone

Co-President, MHC Class of ’75

elizabethmstone2712@gmail.com

Dear Classmates,

Spring has sprung throughout most of the northern hemisphere!  If you were in the path of last week’s solar eclipse, I hope you had fun watching it.  Our class secretary Jane Crosby drove all the way from western Massachusetts to western New York to view the eclipse in totality.  If anyone else traveled further for this celestial event, please post it to our class Facebook group, Mount Holyoke ’75!

Our next Class of ’75 Zoom will be Thursday, March 9 at 8pm ET.  This Zoom will be led by one of our ’75  authors, Susan Cartmell, whose book The Perpetual Pivot:  Ministry in the Pandemic and Beyond, was published earlier this year.  Susan and her coauthor Peggy O’Connor interviewed 53 clergy members, including classmate Joanne Brown, about how they responded to the pandemic.  Join us as Sue shares what she learned in a presentation which will involve audience participation.  Class Treasurer Alice Maroni will also address the class briefly during this Zoom about proposed Alumnae Association changes in the management of our class treasury.  

Here is the link to join in:

Topic: MHC Class of ’75 Book Discussion. Zoom Administrator:  Sandi Carbonari Welsh

Time: May 9, 2024 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89862988092

Meeting ID: 898 6298 8092

Passcode: 586503

A huge thank you to all who participated in the March madness that was the March4MHC! The Class of ’75 definitely rose to the occasion for this two-day fundraising event with 109 participants who raised $45,795, which included $11,500 in challenge funds.  The generosity and enthusiasm of our class is helping to propel Mount Holyoke into one of the top colleges in the country for percentage of alums who support their alma mater financially.  Head Class Agents Sandy Fotiades and Ruth Dillingham remind us that we are giving not just in appreciation for our own educations, but to ensure that today’s Mount Holyoke women have every opportunity to make the most of their college years.  Mount Holyoke forever shall be!

You should have recently received an online questionnaire about your interest in attending our 50th Reunion next year.  If you forgot to respond, but have suggestions or comments about reunion activities, please contact Judy Stein directly at judystein13@gmail.com.  For anyone who feels ambivalent about returning for next year’s festivities, I urge you to COME!  I admit that I was quite ambivalent about returning for my high school 50th reunion until I received a personal message from an old classmate.  I ended up having a great time, and am now in regular touch with people I never really got to know back in high school.  Another piece of advice- it’s never too early to start shopping for a white outfit for the alumnae parade!

 How many members of the Class of ’75 exist?  The answer is, it depends on how you look at it.  We have 491 living (or thought to be living) classmates, 484 in the US and 7 living outside the US.  However, 125 of these classmates have no email on file with Mount Holyoke, which means they miss out on our class communications.  The best way you can help with this situation is to look up an old classmate in the Alumnae Directory at alumnae.mtholyoke.edu. If that person lacks an email address, please phone or write her a note, urging her to update her profile in the directory.  Thank you for your help!

Hoping to see you virtually on May 9,

Elizabeth Stone

Co-president, Mount Holyoke Class of 1975

Dear Classmates,  

This note will be brief, as I will be sending out a lengthier newsletter later this spring.  Until then, there are two online events open to the whole college community that should be of interest to you:

March 26, 2024 7-8pm ET

Mount Holyoke in the World:  Understanding the Work and Mission of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives.  Presenters:  Assistant Director for the Center and Director of Study Abroad April Stroud ’99, plus current students.

When we were students, the McCulloch Center didn’t exist! Learn how the McCulloch Center supports Mount Holyoke as a global community through academic programs on campus, study abroad, and international student support.  If you ever wanted to study abroad but couldn’t, either due to finances or inflexible major requirements, find out how MHC students of today have more opportunities.  Advance registration is required through this link, which you may copy and paste.  

https://mtholyoke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoduisqD4uHtWfGj6MxCzMltlKIj1ICIcs#/registration

April 3, 2024 7pm ET

The Vitality of Botanic Gardens. Hosts:  The Alumnae Association and the MHC Class of 1970.

Did you know that the whole Mount Holyoke campus is treated as a botanic garden?  One thing that unites our class is Mount Holyoke memories of beautiful fall color, fresh snow covering the trees, and flowering trees and bushes in the spring, but I don’t think any of us thought of our beautiful campus as an academic resource. This presentation will highlight the ways in which today’s MHC Botanic Garden is used for academic programs, student and faculty research, conservation, and connecting students and others with the world of plants. Again, advance registration is required, through the following link, which you may copy and paste.

https://mtholyoke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudeqrpzIvHdChJxpEIpDHxLczae3vfTgx#/registration  

Thanks to everyone who participated in the March4MHC,  to ensure that “Mount Holyoke forever shall be”.  A final report on our class performance in the March4MHC will come in your next newsletter, along with information on our next class Zoom.

With best wishes for spring,

Elizabeth Stone

Co-president, Mount Holyoke Class of 1975