Golf MHC Invitational. Home.
Critiques January Internship Programs (formerly Career Exploration Projects [CEPs]). Career Development Center (CDC), 10 am-noon.
Family Weekend Registration 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 10 am-10 pm.
Exhibition 1897: Mount Holyoke Rebuilds is a collection of photos, documents, and information about Brigham, Safford, Porter, Pearsons, the original Rockefeller, and Mary Lyon Halls, which were all dedicated in 1897. On view through November 10. Archives lobby, Dwight Hall, Monday-Tuesday, Thursday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm; Wednesday, 9 am-9 pm.
Exhibition Looking Inward: Contemporary Haitian Painting. On view through October 26. Art Museum, Tuesday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 1-5 pm.
French Lunch Table Come join us for relaxed conversation in French. All levels welcome. Venez nombreux! Abbey private dining room, 11:45 am.
Japanese Tea Ceremony Nobue Socho Yamashita. Sign up at the Family Weekend registration desk. Wa-Shin-An, Eliot House, 2-3 pm and 3-4 pm.
Drop-in Hours for scholarships and fellowships. CDC, 2-5 pm.
Information Meeting January Internship Programs (CEPs). CDC, 3-4 pm.
Orientation CDC open house for parents and alumnae. CDC, 4 pm.
Cross-Country MHC Invitational. Home, 4 pm.
Twelve-Step Retreat Room 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 6 pm-2 am.
Film Society The English Patient. Admission $2. Gamble Auditorium, 7:00 and 9:30 pm.
Dance/Music Performance Voices and Movements. Admission $2, $3 for this event and theater performance to follow. Blanchard Campus Center, 7-9 pm.
Meeting Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Speakers, singing, and prayer; all are welcome. Tower Room, Clapp Laboratory, 7:30- 9:00 pm.
Speakers Bureau Panel with a question-and-answer session. Leah Blatt Glasser, dean of first-year studies. Open to the MHC community and their families. Sponsored by the Alumnae Association. Morrison and Andreola Rooms, Willits-Hallowell Center, 7:30- 9:30 pm.
Theater Robert Rivest Mime Theater. Admission $2, $3 for this event and previous Voices and Movements performance. Blanchard Campus Center, 9-11 pm.
APAU Party DJ. Association of Pan-African Unity. Betty Shabazz Cultural Center, 11 pm- 4 am.
Golf MHC Invitational. Home.
Riding vs. Smith College. Away.
Family Weekend Protestant Service with the Right Reverend Jane Holmes-Dixon, Suffragan Bishop of the Washington, DC, diocese, and Larry Schipull, minister of music. Abbey Chapel, 10 am.
AA Meeting 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 10-11 am.
Family Weekend Registration 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 10 am-5 pm.
Field Hockey vs. Wellesley College. Home, 1 pm.
Soccer vs. Wellesley College. Away, 1 pm.
Information Session for study abroad. New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, 2-3 pm.
Meeting Alumnae Association Board of Directors. Faculty Dining Room, Willits-Hallowell Center, 2-5 pm.
Japanese Tea Ceremony Nobue Socho Yamashita. Sign up at the Family Weekend registration desk. Wa-Shin-An, Eliot House, 2-3 pm and 3-4 pm.
Tea President Creighton, the faculty, and the administration are holding a social tea to welcome the families of MHC students on campus for Family Weekend. Chapin Auditorium, 3 pm.
Film Society The English Patient. Admission $2. Gamble Auditorium, 7:00 and 9:30 pm
Capitol Steps A bipartisan show of musical political satire. Admission $10 for adults, $5 for children, $5 for students with ID. Tickets should be purchased in advance in Blanchard Campus Center or using the Family Weekend registration form. If there are tickets available at the time of the show, admission is $15 per person at the door. Chapin Auditorium, 8-10 pm.
Theater Mary Lyon of Mount Holyoke portrayed by Kate Carney '58. Sponsored by the Alumnae Association. Rooke Theater, 8:30-9:30 pm.
Meeting Alumnae Association Nominating Committee. Alumnae Association office, first floor, Mary Woolley Hall, 9 am-4 pm.
Bagel Brunch sponsored by the Jewish Student Union. RSVP x2054. Eliot House, 10:30 am.
Family Weekend Roman Catholic Mass Abbey Chapel, 11 am.
Meeting Alumnae Association Board of Directors. Executive Board Room, Willits-Hallowell Center, 2-8 pm.
Meeting College Democrats. Women in Politics Room, Williston Library, 7 pm.
Workshop "Life beyond Spell-Check: Proofreading Your Way to Perfection." 202 Skinner Hall, 7-9 pm.
Meeting Debate Team. 210 Skinner Hall, 7:30-8:30 pm.
Film Coming-out Special. Join us for a classic coming-out TV episode. 202 Skinner Hall, 9-10 pm.
Meeting Alumnae Association Board of Directors. Executive Board Room, Willits-Hallowell Center, 9:00 am-12:30 pm.
Open Class Master class in Bharata Natyam dance technique and history by renowned Indian Bharata Natyam dancer, scholar, and teacher Sucheta Chapekar of Poona, India. Studio Theater, Kendall Hall, 1:00-2:30 pm.
Seminar "Eye-Head-Hand Coordination in Astronauts, on Earth and in Space." Susan Barry, biological sciences. Fall 1997 Seminar Series. Sponsored by the biological sciences department. Refreshments served in 126 Clapp Laboratory, 4 pm; lecture in 120 Clapp Laboratory, 4:15 pm.
Works-in-Progress Talk "Culture War: The Battle over Sex in Nineteenth-Century America." Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College. Sponsored by the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Dickinson living room, 4:30 pm.
Joan Goldstein Spiro '54 Lecture "Good Design Is Forever." Murray Douglas, interior designer, Brunschwig and Fils, New York. Gamble Auditorium, 5 pm.
Japanese Language Table Are you interested in Japanese and Japanese culture? Join us at our table. Sign up on sheet on first floor of Ciruti Center. South Rockefeller private dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Spanish Language Table Come speak Spanish with us! Everybody welcome! Ham dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.
CDC Information Meeting People's Bank. CDC, 7 pm.
Workshop "Note-Taking." Study Skills Corps. Mead Hall, 7-8 pm.
Lecture John Grayson, interim dean of the chapel, associate professor of religion. Pasts and Presences I-114. Hooker Auditorium, 7:30-9:00 pm.
Open LBA Meeting Lesbian Bisexual Alliance. Open to all women in the Mount Holyoke community. Location to be announced, 8:30-10:30 pm.
Meeting WMHC. 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 10:00-11:30 pm.
CDC Workshop "Cover Letter Writing." CDC, 1:30-3:00 pm.
President's Office Hours Office of the President, 203 Mary Lyon Hall, 2:00-3:30 pm.
Field Hockey vs. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Home, 4 pm.
Information Session An overview of Mount Holyoke policies on financial aid for study abroad and an introduction to identifying and applying for outside scholarships and other awards. Hilary Shaw, fellowship coordinator, and Joanne Picard, assistant dean of international affairs. Workshop room, 111 CDC, 4:30-5:30 pm.
Italian Language Table Do you know how to pronounce the word "precipitevelossimevolmente?" Come join us and you'll know. Ham dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Chinese Language Table MacGregor dining room, 5:30-7:00 pm.
Speech and Debate Practices 210 Skinner Hall, 6-9 pm.
CDC Workshop "Interviewing Skills." CDC, 6:30 pm.
Open Book Discussion Group Discussion of Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin, led by Robert Shilkret, psychology. Odyssey Bookshop, 7 pm.
Volleyball vs. Wellesley College. Home, 7 pm.
Workshop "Note-Taking." Study Skills Corps. Mead Hall, 7-8 pm.
Meeting Korean-American Christian Fellowship. 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 7-10 pm.
Meeting Student Government Association (SGA) Senate. Hooker Auditorium, 7-10 pm.
Inclusiveness Program Lecture "Homophobia: The Last 'Respectable' Prejudice." William Sloane Coffin. Cosponsored by the Office of Religious Life. Gamble Auditorium, 8-9 pm.
Meeting AIDS Awareness Coalition. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 8-9 pm.
Education Session "Women and Money," sponsored by Fidelity Investments. Fidelity will hold one-on-one meetings between sessions. Call human resources, x2503, to schedule an appointment. Andreola Room, Willits-Hallowell Center, 9:00 am-4:30 pm.
Critiques January Internship Programs (CEPs). CDC library, 11:00 am.
Photo ID Sessions Students and faculty should pick up temporary ID cards from the registrar's office; staff should pick up cards from human resources. Guest IDs available at Kendall Hall. Temporary IDs must be brought to the photo ID session. 117 Blanchard Campus Center, 11:30 am-12:30 pm.
Spanish Lunch Table ¡Qué aproveches! If you can't make it to the Spanish table for dinner, this event is for you! Everyone is welcome to come and speak Spanish; all levels are encouraged to attend. South Rockefeller private dining room, noon-1:30 pm.
Club Web Lunch discussion group to share information about the World Wide Web. View favorite Web sites, ask questions, and discuss Web-related topics. Open to anyone with Web access. For more information, check out the Web site: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~dwilga/clubweb. 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 12:00-1:30 pm.
Workshop "To Cite or Not to Cite: Locating and Documenting Research Materials." 422 Williston Library, 1-3 pm.
Tennis vs. Springfield College. Home, 3:30 pm.
CDC Workshop "HTML Web." CDC, 4 pm.
Stimson Room Tea No pearls required. Stimson Room, Williston Library, 4 pm.
Zazen Meditation Practice and discussion. "Being Here Now." Issho Fujita. Wa-Shin-An, Eliot House, 4:00-5:15 pm.
Information Session Dr. Kenneth Foreman, associate program director for the Marine Biological Lab (MBL), will speak on the semester program in environmental science at the Ecosystems Center, MBL. Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences Program. 224 Clapp Laboratory, 4:15-5:30 pm.
German Language Table Ham dining room, 5:30 pm.
Smoking Cessation "Last Smoke." Marilyn Huffman will lead the group using a variety of methods to help people quit smoking. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 5:30-7:00 pm.
Dinner and Interfaith Series "Spiritual Commitment and Social Justice: A Baha'i Perspective." Holly Hanson, history, African American and African studies. RSVP required, call x2054 or email lwaller@mtholyoke.edu by 2 pm Tuesday, 10/7. Eliot House, 5:45 pm.
Speech and Debate Practices 210 Skinner Hall, 6-9 pm.
CDC Workshop "Need Help Developing Your Own January Internship Program (CEP)?" CDC, 6:30 pm.
CDC Workshop "Interviewing for Graduate and Professional Programs in Health." 316 Reese Building, 6:30 pm.
CDC Meeting "On-Campus Recruiting." 302 Reese Building, 6:30-7:30 pm.
Meeting College Republicans. Blanchard Campus Center, 7 pm.
Slide Presentation "Croatia: Reconstruction and Ethnic Reunification." Jermar Inman '98, recipient of the MHC Summer Research Fellowship. 202 Skinner Hall, 7 pm.
Lecture "Is Western Medicine Scientific? A Look at the Value of Influencing Diagnosis and Treatment in France, Germany, England, and the U.S." Lynn Payer, medical journalist. Sponsored by the Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science. New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, 7-9 pm.
Meeting The Network. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, 7:30-9:30 pm.
Meeting Spectrum. 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 8:00-9:30 pm.
Russian Table All are welcome. Abbey private dining room, noon-1 pm.
National Depression Screening Day Participants will hear a brief talk on the causes, symptoms, and treatments of depression followed by a short video. Individuals will complete an anonymous written screening test and have an opportunity to discuss the results with one of the counseling center staff. 207 Blanchard Campus Center, noon-2 pm.
Luncheon "Integrating Prayer with Daily Life." Share daily concerns and how these can be integrated with prayer. These gatherings are biblically centered, not denominationally centered. Simple lunch provided. RSVP required, call x2054 or email lwaller@mtholyoke.edu by 2 pm, Tuesday, 10/7. Eliot House Lounge, 12:15 pm.
CDC Workshop "Resume Writing." CDC, 4 pm.
Dance Performance "Die Blatterfallen." Jim Coleman and Terese Freedman, dance. In conjunction with the exhibition How to Remember? Designing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Art Museum lobby, 4 pm.
Information Session on the Shakespeare Program, London. Tony Branch, director of the British American Drama Academy (BADA), will talk about the Shakespeare program offered each fall and other semester/summer study-abroad programs affiliated with BADA. 212 Blanchard Campus Center, 4-5 pm.
Coming-out Tea Blanchard steps and Skinner Green, 4-9 pm. Rain location: Blanchard Campus Center.
Lecture "From Molecules to Supramolecules to Extended Solids." Stephen Lee, University of Michigan. Refreshments served in 208 Carr Laboratory, 4 pm; lecture in 209 Carr Laboratory, 4:15 pm.
1997 John Lax Memorial Lecture "Ambiguous Power: Slave and Planter in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (A Dialogue)." Richard Graham and Sandra Lauderdale-Graham, history, University of Texas at Austin. New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall, 4:15-6:00 pm.
French Language Table Bienvenue à tous. Come speak French with us and relax! All levels of French welcome. French Club activities afterward. Ham dining room, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Photo ID Session See Wednesday. 117 Blanchard Campus Center, 6-7 pm.
Meeting SGA Executive Board. 215 Blanchard Campus Center, 6:30-8:30 pm.
CDC Information Session "Exploration in Travel Company." CDC, 7 pm.
Volleyball vs. Tufts University. Home, 7 pm.
Concert Sonny Rollins, a tenor saxophonist possessing a remarkable rhythmic intuition and melodic vocabulary. Rollins is an intriguing, invigorating, inventive artist, considered the greatest living jazz improviser. General admission $22.50. Chapin Auditorium, 7 pm.
The Ratt Coming-out Ratt. Nice Shoes a cappella jam. Blanchard Campus Center, 10:30 pm-1 am.
Golf at Rutgers Invitational. Continues through 10/11. Away.
French Lunch Table Come join us for relaxed conversation in French. All levels welcome. Venez nombreux! Abbey private dining room, 11:45 am.
Meeting Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Speakers, singing, and prayer; all are welcome. Tower Room, Clapp Laboratory, 7:30-9:00 pm.