September
12 , 2003
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Prized Alumna
Sabina Murray ’89 received the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for
Fiction for The Caprices, a collection of short stories
set against the backdrop of the Pacific campaign of World War
II. The PEN/Faulkner is the largest peer-juried prize for fiction
in the United States. Murray, currently the writer in residence
at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is also the author
of Slow Burn.
Community
Service Kudos To recognize October as Domestic Violence
Awareness Month, Womanshelter/Compañeras of Holyoke, Massachusetts,
will honor MHC for its commitment to the prevention of intimate-partner
violence and advocacy on behalf of victims. “We have trained
countless student volunteers who have served victims in many capacities
within the organization,” said Karen Boyle Cavanaugh, executive
director of Womanshelter/
Compañeras. “The sense of community purpose and responsibility
that Mount Holyoke instills in its students is reflected in their
willingness to give of their precious time to help us provide
services to victims of intimate-partner violence and their children.”
Star-Studded Poetry Martha Ackmann, senior lecturer in
women studies, teamed up with Amherst College astrophysicist George
Greenstein to present “First Poets—The Sun,”
a talk on Emily Dickinson and astronomy, at the Amherst College
Observatory on Sunday, September 7. “The talk brought together
two of my major interests, space and Emily Dickinson,” noted
Ackmann. “The poet wrote a lot about the moon and the sun
and took astronomy at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1848, when
there was much interest in solar eclipses.” The talk, sponsored
by the Emily Dickinson Museum, hoped to conclude with an opportunity
for participants to view Mars through the Amherst College telescope.
Unfortunately, only clouds were visible.
Steadman’s Story On September 23, Bernice “B”
Steadman, one of the Mercury 13 members included in Ackmann’s
book The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women
and the Dream of Space Flight, will speak to Ackmann’s Introduction
to Women’s Studies class. Steadman will discuss her experience
confronting sexism at the highest levels of American government
and why she was willing to wage such a difficult battle. The class
is open to all members of the MHC community and will be held in
the New York Room from 2:35 to 3:50 pm.
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