Mount Holyoke Mounts Interactive Announcement of New President

Oldest women's college uses newest methods: storms the datasphere through satellite and Internet in addition to conventional announcement methods

South Hadley, MA; Feb 16, 3:30 pm (EST)--In what may be a first for an American college or university, Mount Holyoke College is using both satellite transmission and the Internet today to announce its new president, Dr. Joanne V. Creighton, the seventeenth president in the long and illustrious history of the nation's oldest women's college.

As the college community gathers on campus Thursday afternoon to meet with the new president, who now serves as president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, a video clip of an interview with her made today is being made available through satellite feed and a full information presentation is being made available through the College's World Wide Web information server at: http://www.mtholyoke.edu:2780/csj/top.html

The video clip relating to the announcement made today will be available by satellite feed between 3:30-4:15 pm (EST), coordinates are: Galaxy K7 Trans 7 Audio 6.2/6.8 Mono. Slate will read: Mount Holyoke College Major Announcement, February 16, 1995, South Hadley, MA. Feed will contain: 30 NAT SOT Video Mt Holyoke Campus and Soundbites with new president. Tape will repeat 6-8 times within the satellite window. At beginning of feed, text of name and background will be provided.

Creighton has been a teacher, literary scholar, and an academic administrator for the past thirty years. Dr. Creighton is currently Interim President of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.

Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees chair, Mrs. Barbara M. Rossotti, described Dr. Creighton's appointment as "a felicitous matching of the Mount Holyoke community's aspirations for meeting the educational needs of young women with Dr. Creighton's experiences as a scholar, teacher, and leader of institutions."

The college offers its more than 1900 students a contemporary interpretation and application of the classic liberal arts education, exploring the breadth and depth of arts and sciences through forty-four majors and a variety of interdisciplinary programs. Its graduates have increasingly attained leadership positions in many professions, most impressively in the fields of science and mathematics.

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