Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve sent an e-blast and I hope you are all doing well and staying safe. During this winter season, your classmates are working diligently on several fronts and I wanted to give you all an update:
From Your Reunion Chairs
We are so pleased to remind everyone that our 45th reunion will be taking place during the weekend of May 27th – 29th, 2022. Our reunion committee has been hard at work planning many lovely and fun events to celebrate being back together and reconnecting with each other. We hope to see many of you there! If you would like to join the fun of helping out with reunion, please contact our Reunion co-chairs – Susan Granahan Colgan or Janet O’Neill Connell
Social Media
Do you use Instagram? If so, our class is now on Instagram @mhcclassof1977. Search for us and FOLLOW us so you will get all the latest class news on your Instagram feed. If you post items relative to our class, make sure to list the hashtag #mhcclassof1977 so others can find them.
And we are asking everyone to share any pictures you may have from your college years, reunions, and any get-togethers you’ve had over the years! We are now on Flickr. at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhcclassof1977/. Click the big white FOLLOW button to follow us. If you have a bunch of pictures you want to share, you can let us know at mhc77communications@gmail.com and we will give you the login to upload a bunch of photos.
If you just want to share one or two photos, look up the Group MHC Class of 1977 in the Search Bar at the top and click the JOIN button. Once you are accepted as a member, you will be able to upload photos. (just be aware groups have 30 pictures.)
And please remember to visit our fabulous web site often, as we continue to update it and provide lots of information about our class: https://new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/1977/
From Your Class Agents
As of today, our class has donated or pledged just over $86,000 towards our goal of $300,000, with 16% of our classmates have donated so far (with a participation goal of 45% for our 45th reunion year). And it is easy to donate since there is a link right on our website (https://new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/1977/ ). So I hope we can reach these goals.
Recent Class Zoom Call
I want to thank our wonderful classmates, Ellen Boyle, Christie Horn Barnes and Karen Klussman Lewis who facilitated our very interesting class Zoom call, IMAGINATION: Where It Can Lead And The Creative Writing Process to Capture It. We had 24 classmates join the call, where we learned how Ellen, Christie, and Karen each approach writing in 3 different formats: Fiction, Poetry, and Non-Fiction. We even did a short imagination exercise before ending the call where everyone took a shot at writing a paragraph using a dozen or so nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It really was a lot of fun.
Final Thoughts
And I want to send a special shout out and thank you to the following classmates:
Class Officers
- Merry Galassi Hampton: Vice President
- Susan Saxe: Secretary
- Susan Pardo Hardy: Treasurer
- Susan Schofield Graves: Head Class Agent
- Susan Rittenhouse Sokoloski: Head Class Agent
- Nancy Herman Jarrett: Class Scribe
- Andrea Popik Taber: Class Scribe
- Lisa Perreault Ireland: Nominating Committee Chair
- Susan Granahan Colgan: Reunion Chair
- Janet O’Neill Connell: Reunion Chair
Communications Committee
- Alex Woody – Chair
- Merry Galassi Hampton
- Nancy Herman Jarrett
- Susan Saxe
- Avice Meehan
- Nancy Mathiasen
- Kim Martin Cogswell
And if anyone would like to volunteer for any of these positions, please reach out to Lisa Perreault Ireland (lisa@lisapireland.com ) to learn more about the position and discuss it further.
And finally, I want to wish everyone a happy holiday season….I know it started earlier this month for some of us, and won’t end until well into January for others of us, but it’s a special time to rest and reflect, and I want to personally thank each of you for the support you have given me for all these years. I consider it an honor to be your President, and I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our 45th Reunion May 27th-29th.
With wishes for a happy and healthy New Year,
Liz
