March
22, 2002
Quidnunc
Board News
The College's board of trustees met the weekend of March 9. The
trustees approved the tuition, room, and board rates for next
year, setting the tuition rate for 2002–2003 at $27,540 and
the room and board rate at $8,100, for a total fee of $35,640.
This represents a 4.9 percent increase from last year and continues
the College's recent practice of keeping annual increases as low
as possible, given increases in costs. The board also voted to
grant tenure and promote to the rank of associate professor Joseph
Smith (art), Mary Renda (history and women's studies), and Eleanor
Townsley (sociology). Their promotions will become effective July
1.
Hail to the Chief
Patricia Albanese Pitkin has been appointed to the position of
chief information officer and executive director of Library, Information,
and Technology Services on the Katherine Johnson Hatcher Endowment.
She comes to MHC from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT),
where she has been director of libraries since 1981 and a pioneer
in technology. She was described by the RIT provost as "the
best director of libraries at any university in the country."
Says Donal O'Shea, dean of faculty, "Pat Pitkin brings a
wealth of experience, vision, and spirit to Mount Holyoke."
She will begin her new position June 15.
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The
Destiny of an Island
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Peripatetic Painting
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Leandro Soto's The
Destiny of an Island, a painting that reflects its creator's thoughts
and feelings about the future of his native Cuba, really gets
around. An MHC faculty grant enabled the painting to be exhibited
at the Florence Biennial in Italy last year, and it can be seen
through April 15 in the lobby of the College art museum. The piece,
which is based on a performance piece titled Liborio Wants to
Escape, was created by Soto after visiting Cuba in 1999.
Poetry in Motion William Cullen Bryant: Poemas de Espana, a volume
of translations by MHC Professor of Spanish R. Alberto Castilla,
was published in fall 2001 by Lola Editorial-Libros de Berna in
Zaragoza, Spain. The Spanish translations of poems written by
William Cullen Bryant on visiting Spain in 1857 and 1867 are presented
side-by-side with the English-language original. The book also
contains Bryant's translations of poems by Fray Luis de Leon,
Carolina Coronado, Rodrigo Caro, and other poets of Spain. William
Cullen Bryant was a native of western Massachusetts.
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Alice
Fisk MacKenzie
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Photo Finish
La Frontera: paisajes humanos y naturales (La Frontera: Human
and Natural Landscapes), an exhibition on view this month at the
Eliana Ortega Cultural Center and presented by La Unidad, features
photographs of the United States/Mexican border by Alice Fisk
MacKenzie.
Grant Granted The College received a grant of $447,180
from the Freeman Foundation to fund a new faculty position in
Chinese philosophy and religion. It is hoped that the new professor
will teach some courses in English, which will be open to all
students, and others in Chinese, which will be for third- and
fourth-year Chinese language students. The funds will also allow
the College to expand the East Asian Studies program by developing
a network among its 250 alumnae living in East Asia to provide
greater opportunities for MHC students to study and conduct internships
in East Asia. The grant will also fund the creation of a number
of curricular and cocurricular opportunities for students to learn
more about East Asian cultures through lectures, exhibits, film
series, workshops, library and multimedia acquisitions, and other
cultural studies programs. It will also fund student travel to
Asia for study or internships.
New Classic
Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydide's
Spartan Debates by Paula Debnar, associate professor and chair
of classics, has been published by the University of Michigan
Press. In the book, Debnar analyzes twelve speeches involving
Spartans in Thucydides's History.
Phi Beta Poet
MHC English Professor Robert Shaw has been invited to serve this
year as the Phi Beta Kappa Poet at Yale. This will involve his
appearing and reading one of his poems at a ceremonial dinner
for the new inductees and other members of the Yale Phi Beta Kappa
chapter.
In Memoriam John F. Hulse, an employee of the College for twenty-seven
years in the Office of Facilities Management, died February 25
at the age of fifty-eight. Born in Pittsfield, he had lived in
South Hadley most of his life. Hulse was a United States Navy
veteran and was a member of South Hadley's volunteer fire department.
He is survived by three brothers and two sisters.
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