COURTESY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
	Frances Perkins.

In celebration of the centenary of the graduation of Frances Perkins from Mount Holyoke in 1902, the Weissman Center for Leadership, the Frances Perkins Program (for women of nontraditional age who wish to earn a baccalaureate degree at MHC), and the Alumnae Association will present a symposium, Frances Perkins and Her Legacies: Labor, Women, and the Unfinished Business of the New Deal, March 8-9. The forum will include discussions on her impact on current debates about welfare reform, health care, Social Security, and working women. Speakers and panelists will include historians Linda Gordon, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jennifer Klein; political scientist Gwendolyn Mink; sociologist Jill Quadagno; writer Barbara Ehrenreich; author Penny Colman; and others. Present and former Frances Perkins scholars will participate in a closing roundtable on women and work. The symposium will be open to the public, and current and previous Frances Perkins scholars are especially welcome.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Susan Sontag.

Susan Sontag, who won the 2000 National Book Award for her novel In America, will visit the campus April 12-13. The distinguished novelist, critic, essayist, and public intellectual will read from her work April 12 at 7:30 pm in Gamble Auditorium and will meet with faculty and students during her two-day visit to the campus. Sontag will visit the College as part of the Mary Lyon Lecture Series, cosponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Office of the President.