In the News
Mount Holyoke College faculty, staff, students, and alumnae continue to be
prominently featured in the news media. Here is a sampling of coverage during
the past six weeks.
- 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.
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