In the News

• The October 24 release of a twenty-cent postage stamp honoring Dr Virginia Apgar '29 received widespread coverage, including stories in the Alliance (OH) Review, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Westfield (NJ) Courier News and Leader, and the West Chester (PA)Local News. On October 26, the Worcester (MA)Telegram and Gazette reported that a Worcester library has been rededicated to Frances Perkins, another alumna honored with a stamp.
• New York City police chief and Crime and Punishment aficionado John F Timoney's visit to Professor Susan Scotto's Russian literature class on November 11 won notice in the Rockland (NY) Journal News and the New York Daily News.
• The premiere (Nov/Dec 1994) issue of Civilization, the Magazine of the Library of Congress leads with cover story, "American Sphinx: The Contradictions of Thomas Jefferson," by history professor Joseph J Ellis.
• The "Studies in Success" conference, hosted on campus November 4-6 by the College and the Women's College Coalition, was covered by the Springfield Union News, the Lowell Sun, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and WFCR.
• Sociology professor Richard Moran continued to receive attention for his views on incarceration and crime in a November 13 story in the Seattle (WA) Times and an October Scripps Howard News Service column.
• Provost Peter Berek, history professor Harold Garrett-Goodyear, and Mount Holyoke News editor Catherine Grundy were all quoted in a November 27 Boston Sunday Globe story on admissions at women's colleges.