December 3,
2004
MHC
Milestones
In
Memoriam: Marion W. Craven ’36, 90, of Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, died Thursday, November 11, at her home. Mrs. Craven
had been a resident of Oak Ridge for three years, moving there
from South Hadley, where she had lived for 67 years. She graduated
from Mount Holyoke in 1936 with honors in chemistry. She was
the first woman analytical chemist at General Electric in Pittsfield,
working there from 1937–1939. From 1953 she worked in
the College’s
chemistry department, where she also served on the faculty and
as the director of the chemistry laboratories until 1979. Mrs.
Craven was married for 53 years to Alan Craven, who passed away
in March 1993. She is survived by a daughter, Nancy Craven Jacobus,
of Oak Ridge; a son, Robert Alan Craven, of Santa Barbara, California;
and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Memorial contributions
can be sent to St. Paul’s Episcopal, 485 Appleton St.,
Holyoke, MA 01040.
Poetry Prize Holger Teschke, visiting professor of theatre arts,
received this year’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from
the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany. Teschke has published
two volumes of poetry and is working on a third. His photo essay
book with the renowned photographer Karsten Bartel, Ruegen-Seasons
of an Island, will be published next spring. Teschke and Bartel
will participate in the Weissman Center for Leadership and the
Liberal Arts’ symposium on water next semester.
Winner by Design College
Street Journal designer Todd M. LeMieux
recently won a Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau
Tourism Marketing Award for the banners he designed for Citystage
and Symphony Hall in downtown Springfield. The winners are selected
by a panel of three judges from outside the Pioneer Valley who
are experienced in advertising/marketing, the hospitality industry,
and/or the tourism industry. The judges commented that the winning
entry “made great use of color to represent a variety of
shows. Each banner reflects the spirit of the show, and can be
displayed independently or as part of the collection.”
Web Kudos In a five-year study of 100 college
Web sites, Mount Holyoke’s ranked in the top ten. GCF Inc.,
a communications consulting firm in Baltimore, monitored the
development of college Web sites on Yahoo!’s 2000 list
of 100 Most Wired Campuses. The goal of the study was to determine
whether or not institutions continued to improve their efforts
to communicate effectively and to be at or ahead of the technological
curve. Bowdoin, Smith, and Bryn Mawr also were listed among the
top ten. For more information on the study, go to www.gcfonline.com/pdf/100.websites.year.4.pdf.
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