March
8, 2002
Quidnunc
Have a Ball The
founding board of the Michael E. Smith Endowment for Excellence
in Education will hold its first Education Ball in Chapin Auditorium
Saturday, March 23, at 7 pm. All proceeds from the gala, including
ticket sales and funds raised through a silent auction, will benefit
the endowment. The ticket price of $50 per person includes hors
d'oeuvres, a boutique of food stations, live chamber music led
by South Hadley's Mandy Provost, and dancing to the Reflections.
Black tie is optional. To purchase tickets, send a check payable
to the Michael E. Smith Endowment for Excellence in Education
to P.O. Box 847, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075. Tickets will
not be sold at the ball. This fund-raiser is the first communitywide
initiative of the board to raise funds for and awareness of the
Michael E. Smith Endowment. The endowment's mission is to augment
the public school experience by providing South Hadley's children
with unique and innovative resources, materials, and opportunities
for growth beyond that possible through the annual operating budget
of the school district. The board has carried on with a vision
and mission that was initiated by the late Michael E. Smith, former
superintendent of the South Hadley public school system. The board
plans to raise $185,000 for the endowment.
Chemistry Coup
Helen Leung, associate professor of chemistry, has received the
John S. Burlew research award from the Connecticut Valley American
Chemical Society for her work using Fourier transform microwave
spectroscopy to study intermolecular forces. Says Donal O'Shea,
dean of faculty, “In recent history, this award has gone
to researchers at universities or in industry, so it's a definite
coup that it went to a college researcher.
 An
Obvious Choice Italian Renaissance Ceramics, a book
commissioned for the occasion of the donation of the Howard I.
and Janet H. Stein collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics
to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and written by Wendy Watson,
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum curator, was published in December.
Dean Walker, senior curator at the Philadelphia museum, writes
in the preface: "For the choice of author of the book, the
obvious person was Wendy M. Watson. Responding to Anne d'Harnoncourt's
challenge to create a book useful to both neophytes and specialists,
Wendy has written an original text whose graceful accessibility
belies its command of the field and perceptive observations about
numerous individual objects."
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