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Gearing Up to Take the Lead Thirty-three MHC students
will get together this Saturday in a day-long series of workshops to
prepare themselves to be mentors to thirty-three high school juniors
who will be coming to campus for Take the Lead!, a three-day intensive
leadership summit for high school girls that MHC is offering for the
first time October 12–15. The MHC student mentors will cover a
lot of bases Saturday, including a session on team building with Rochelle
Calhoun, associate dean of the College and dean of students, and a workshop
on effective mentoring, led by Becky Packard, assistant professor of
psychology and education. No Shortage of Guidance Beginning this Friday,
September 15, and continuing through Sunday, forty-four guidance counselors
from all over the world will be on campus at the invitation of the admission
office. The counselors, who hail from six countries and twenty states,
will meet with select members of the community, take a master class,
learn about application reading, and take part in a consortium tour.
They will also have an opportunity to picnic with current MHC students,
as well as to explore the campus on their own. Music to His Ears Mark Gionfriddo, music department
instructor and director of the MHC Jazz Ensemble, is serving as musical
director of Always. . . . Patsy Cline at the Majestic Theatre in West
Springfield through mid-October. The acclaimed musical is about the
legendary country singer Patsy Cline, whose life was tragically cut
short in a plane crash in 1963. Gionfriddo directed a six-week run of
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Capital Repertory Theatre
in Albany, New York, this past summer. That show was extended until
the end of August as a result of rave reviews. He was musical director
of last spring’s MHC Department of Theatre Arts’ production
of Cabaret. What’s new with you? Send news for “New
& Notable” to Janet Tobin, Office of Communications, or email
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