May 6, 2005
Milestones
Bronzed
Kevin
McCaffrey, associate director of communications, and David LaChance
garnered a bronze
medal in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's
annual Circle of Excellence national awards competition
for their media
relations work on last summer’s U.S. Women’s Open. LaChance,
former media relations associate, has moved on to edit Hemmings
Sports & Exotic
Car, an automotive magazine.
Riding
Strong
Mount Holyoke’s dressage
team traveled to Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, for
the Intercollegiate Dressage
Association’s National Championship April 23–24.
The Mount Holyoke team, which has won the championship three
years in
a row, lost by one point to the host college, making them Reserve
National Champions. Overall, 12 teams of four riders competed
in the Saturday team event. MHC team members who competed Saturday
were
Nicole Mazzeo ’05 at first level, Asheley Ireland ’08
at upper training level, Nadine Krause ’07 at lower training
level, and Jaimee Steiner ’08 at introductory level. Mount
Holyoke sent five riders to Sunday’s individual competition.
Mississippi
Moviemaker
Katy Smith ’06, a film studies and
history major, recently entered two of her films in the Crossroads
Film
Festival in her hometown, Jackson, Mississippi. In Her
Stories,
Smith traced
the lives of her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother
through letters and diaries, putting together an alternative
female history
within the traditional patriarchal society. Her second film
is a music video titled Far Away, a song by Alexander’s
Dark Heart, a Jackson band for which she used to play bass.
One of
Smith’s
primary role models is her father, who first bought her a
video camera to document theatrical productions she worked
on from
an early age
and throughout high school. Her father, who also makes films
and had an entry in the festival, told the Jackson Clarion
Ledger, “She
taught me everything I know … if it weren’t for
her I wouldn’t have known how to shoot digital and
load the material … to
edit it.”
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