February
27 ,
2004
Take
the Lead Program Seeks Nominations by April 12
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Photo: Ben Barnhart
Former Take the Lead participants
enjoy an energizing West African dance workshop. |
Mount Holyoke is seeking nominations for
bright, idealistic high school sophomores who want to make a
positive difference in the world. Forty young women will be selected
to participate in the fifth annual Take the Lead, the College's
leadership program for high school students, which will run September
30 through October 3, 2004.
Participants will build their leadership skills by attending workshops, working
with MHC student mentors, and listening to successful women leaders. They will
also develop action plans to address issues of concern to them.
Past programs have inspired significant accomplishments by Take the Lead participants.
Ballet dancer Anna Boatwright '07, for example, left the 2001 Take the
Lead program with a plan to share her talents with underprivileged children in
her community of Charleston, South Carolina. She was featured in the January
2003 issue of Seventeen magazine for the results of that plan--a program
of free, weekly dance classes at a local YWCA. Another Charleston Take the Lead
participant, Anne Rhett, developed a plan in 2003 for an after-school arts program
for elementary school students. Caitlin Gorski of Hopkinton, Massachusetts,
a 2002 participant, worked with social agencies and employers in the Boston area
to create the city's first job fair for the homeless. Kara Schnabel of
Barrington, Rhode Island, cofounder of her high school Latin Club and a
member of the Brown University Friends of Egyptology and the Archaeological Institute
of America, devised a plan at the 2003 Take the Lead conference to create an
armchair travel club at her school.
Members of the MHC community are invited to nominate up to three women who are
now in their sophomore year of high school. President Joanne V. Creighton will
write a letter of congratulations to each nominee and invite her to apply. The
MHC community received Take the Lead brochures and nomination forms this week.
The completed
forms should be
sent to Maryann Reno in the
Office of Communications by
April 12. Nominations can also
be submitted electronically at www.mtholyoke.edu/go/takethelead.
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