When: June 24, 2023 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Where:

In Person: Please RSVP for address
Zoom: https://mtholyoke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tdeuoqzwiGtQQqygEf7_jDITST6A_si6Z

Host/RSVP: Jonake Bose ‘86  (MHCPenClub@gmail.com)

Annual Meeting 

Join us for our always festive annual meeting, where we will confirm the elected members of the 2023-2024 club board, celebrate Nancie Fimbel’s appointment to Mount Holyoke’s Board of Trustees, and listen as Catherine Milton ’64, one of the key founders of AmeriCorps, tells about her public service career, the origins of AmeriCorps, and the book she has authored on the community service organization’s untold history. 

Our meeting will be hybrid. You can come in person and bring a potluck snack or beverage, or enjoy your snack and the program while participating on Zoom. If you’re coming in person, please RSVP and let us know what nibble or beverage you’ll bring to share.

Agenda

12:30 Meet and Greet
12:50 Business meeting – Board Announcement / Toast Nancie (start Zoom)
1:05 Presentation by Catherine Milton ’64
1:35 Q&A
1:50 Wrap-up
2:00 Adjourn

Our speaker Catherine Milton ’64, who has written a soon-to-be-published book on the untold history of creating AmeriCorps, discuss her work in public service. As founder and director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University and special assistant to Stanford President Donald Kennedy, Miller helped form Campus Compact, a national coalition of university presidents that encourages students to participate in community service. Leaders of this group advocated for legislation promoting voluntarism nationwide and leading to passage of the National and Community Service Act of 1990. Adoption of the act resulted in the formation of the Commission on National and Community Service, which Miller led for 3 years before helping create and launch AmeriCorps. As you may be aware, over 1.2 million Americans have participated as AmeriCorps members in the past 30 years. This work is focused on education, health, public safety, and the environment and provides grants for members to use for postsecondary education. AmeriCorps is also focused on creating opportunities for people from different cultural backgrounds to work together in teams to improve communities.