Sandy Rosenthal's Story

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Twenty-three years ago, after the birth of her first baby, Sandy Fulton Rosenthal ’79 wrote her first will. “I never looked at it again,” she says, “until last year. I had some pieces of jewelry I wanted listed and I wanted to put details about Mount Holyoke in as well.”  Sandy’s revised will contains a splendid $1 million bequest to the College. “You don’t have to be 80 to put Mount Holyoke in your will,” says the New Orleans resident and founder of Levees.org, a grassroots organization whose mission is to hold the Army Corps of Engineers accountable for the collapse of the levees and subsequent flooding in New Orleans.

According to Sandy, her desire to include Mount Holyoke sprung from a realization any alumna, of any age, can relate to.  “What if something totally unforeseen should happen to me? Something that is as likely to happen in your 20s as your 40s. How will my family know Mount Holyoke is a priority?

“People need to know how strongly I feel about Mount Holyoke,” Sandy notes. “My children naturally would be taken care of, but not necessarily Mount Holyoke; that had to be written down somewhere.  The bequest is my opportunity to make my wishes known.”