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Sharing with the competition--Although their colleges compete to place graduates in plum jobs, from June 11 to 13 a group of elite liberal arts schools will convene at our Career Development Center (CDC) to discuss collaboration, increased use of technology, and ways to improve the level of service to students. Hosted by CDC director Phil Jones, the Liberal Arts Careers Network meshes twenty-five schools such as Hamilton, Carleton, and William and Mary so that these small institutions can share career development resources. Originally, the group was called the Barterbase Consortium and shared expertise in areas including law, marketing, and the environment. That group changed its name at last year's meeting at Hamilton College.

'Tis better to receive and give--Graduating seniors received many gifts from proud families and friends last month, but they also gave a substantial present of their own to the College. This year's senior giving program yielded $4,698, which was donated by 72 percent of the class of 1997. The senior gift will support the Summer Internship Fund for undergraduates, supplementing student salaries for approved internship projects. Senior donors voted by ballot on which project to support, choosing from five options recommended by the development office. The senior giving program has been planned and run each year by students for at least the last quarter century, with the goal of giving something of lasting value back to Mount Holyoke as a gesture of thanks for the experiences and opportunities available to women here.

Personnel changes--These people recently left Mount Holyoke: Lois McCabe, development office; Robert H. Taliaferro, buildings and grounds; and Gertrude A. Fredette, buildings and grounds. There are no newly hired employees to report at present.

Phi Beta Kappa inductees--The following members of the class of '97 were elected to Phi Beta Kappa on the basis of six semesters' work at Mount Holyoke: Wei Ding, Teodora Vassileva Gouneva, Jorjeta Gueorguieva Jetcheva, Yihua Jing, Anna Paszczuk, Kimberly Anne Patten, Sarah Marie Principato, Preethi Ramani, Irena Tumová, Lulin Xia, and Jiayin Xiang. The following students were elected on the basis of eight semesters' work: Tahmima Anam, Yarrow Larue Axford, Lynette Ann Baker, Yeran Bao, Natividad Beltrán, Monika Borbély, Candace Stewart Brown, Sarah Elizabeth Buckley, Valorie Elizabeth Burkholder, Holly Amber Case, Danyue Chen, Florence Helene Daviet, Beth Glenna Demain, Heather Louise Edwards, Geneviève L. Ellison, Bilyana Petrova Georgieva, Maryse Dilanee Jayasuriya, Alison Lyn Jones, Dilnawaz Sohrab Kapadia, Nancy Robin Karpf, Susanne E. Kastler, Vicki L. Kucia, Shannon Lea LaDeau, Mary Duncan Lawrence, Candy Michelle Lawson, Sally Anne McFarlane, Ruth Austin Miller, Linda Connie Moffa, Marla Marina Moffa, Salma Basanti Monani, Irene V. Porokhova, Ana Cristina Ribeiro Santos, Mary Elisabeth Schwartz, Choon Peng Tham, Jelena Trkulja, Victoria Lucinda True, J'aime Arron Wells, Heidi Williamson, Eunice Wong, Yiyu Xie, and Zsofia Zvolenszky.

Faculty's wishes have been granted--The following faculty members recently received grants to further their work: Pianist Kathryn Ananda-Owens (music) will be traveling to compete in international music competitions; Paul Anis (French) will be doing research in France on the topic of orientalism; Jeanne Brownlow (Spanish and Italian) will travel to Spain to attend a conference and do some research; Floyd Cheung (English) will be presenting a conference paper, "Beyond Questions of Authenticity;" George Cobb (statistics) will work on "Reshaping Statistics Education;" Gabriele Wittig Davis (German) received funding for research travel and student assistance to do work on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; Joyce Devlin (theatre arts) will study music at Berklee College of Music during a leave in which she will develop a performance piece; John Durso (physics and computer studies) will study nuclear matter at high density; Charles Flachs (dance) will work on a multimedia workshop in dance; Jean Grossholtz (women's studies) will do intensive Spanish language training; James Hartley (economics) received money for a summer research assistant to do data entry; and Gail Hornstein (psychology and education) will be working on patient narratives of mental illness.

Girma Kebbede (geography) and Thomas Millette (geography) will travel to Laxenburg, Austria, to the open meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Change Research Community; Kavita Khory (politics) will travel to Karachi, Pakistan, to study democracy and economic liberalism in Pakistan; Catherine LeGouis (French) will travel to Seattle, Washington, for the twenty-ninth national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Keng-Fong Pang (anthropology) will do a research project in Vietnam; Indira Peterson (Asian studies) will coconvene a panel on "Sanskrit Literature and the Regional Traditions" along with colleagues in Europe; Robert Schwartz (history) will travel to France for eight weeks of research; Robert Shilkret (psychology and education) will do a follow-up study on his assessment of student plans for college; Beverly Tatum (psychology and education) will attend the national conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education; James Trostle (anthropology) will do research in Latin America on politics and health; Nicole Vaget (French) will attend the International Conference of Francophone Studies and the Calico '97 Conference; and Lucas Wilson (economics and African American studies) will spend two weeks in Amsterdam for a research seminar titled "The Value of Culture."

Two for two--The book review section of the May 14 Christian Century features books by two MHC alums--Martha Whitmore Hickman '47 explores how a family deals with the death of a child in her novel Such Good People, while Susan Hill Lindley '67 has written a definitive history of women in religion in the U.S. Her comprehensive study is You Have Stept Out of Your Place: A History of Women and Religion in America.

A Vision Realized--The College Bookstore reports that the new College picture book, complete with an introductory essay by Joe Ellis, has set a new record for nontextbook sales. Over commencement weekend 115 copies of A Vision Realized were sold, sending bookstore manager John Bowen scrambling for more copies for Reunion II. If you would like a copy of the book, call the College Bookstore at 538-2111 or the Alumnae Association at 538-2300.

Getting closer to Wall Street--On Wednesday, May 28, three representatives from Goldman, Sachs & Co.--Robin Neustein '75, managing director; Carla Skodinski '72, vice president, principal investments; and Nancy Shera '78, vice president, human resources--were back on campus for reunion, creating stronger ties with the College and in particular with the CDC. In a meeting with Phil Jones, CDC director; Candy Schuller, director, employer relations; and Fred McGinness, director, internship programs; the Goldman Sachs representatives and the CDC discussed hosting an information session in October, submitting senior resumes to Goldman Sachs, having on-campus follow-up interviews, and the possibility of the investment firm sponsoring career exploration projects (CEPs) in New York and Boston. Also discussed were venues for introducing more Mount Holyoke women to the Wall Street experience, career options there, and having representatives of Goldman Sachs lecture in the course Complex Organizations and the Liberal Arts.

And the band played on--The Moppets, an MHC band from the late '60s, were back on campus last week rehearsing in Chapin Auditorium. Playing together for the first time since 1967, the five-woman band devoted to good ol' rock 'n' roll played Friday night, May 30, for reunion. Breaking new ground as female rockers, the MHC group as undergraduates received national media attention from the New York Times and Look magazine. They also signed a record contract. After graduating, several of the band members went on to become Ariel and the Deadly Nightshade, a well-known feminist rock band.

While students, the group never played at MHC. Instead, they traveled in their Cadillac hearse to play fraternity parties at schools such as Cornell, Amherst, and Dartmouth. Beverly Rodgers '66, Alice Damon Kinzie '66, Gretchen Pfeifer Lucchesi '68, Kathie Ross Campbell, and Pamela Robin Brandt '69 said it was great to receive MHC's support and play on Skinner Green during reunion. They played with another reunited college band from Wesleyan, the Wombats.

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