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Sunday, October 19
8:30-10 am
Continental Breakfast
Residential Dining Locations
9 am-4 pm
Plant Sale
Bring a little piece of Mount Holyoke home! Plants
from the greenhouse, campus gardens, and grounds will be available.
T-shirts and sweatshirts will also be on sale; proceeds benefit the
Botanic Garden/Talcott Greenhouse.
Botanic Garden, Talcott Greenhouse,
Lower Lake Road
9 am-5 pm
Open Hunter Show
Open to the public at no charge. Come watch riders
test their skills in hunter and equitation classes on the flat and over
fences.
Mount Holyoke College Equestrian Center
9:30 am
Roman Catholic International Mass
Join Father Richard Bondi and Anita Magovern,
chaplain to the College, advisor to the Catholic community.
Abbey Memorial Chapel, Gateway Road
10 am
Jewish Student Union Bagel Breakfast
Meet Amelia
Ender, chaplain to the College and advisor to the Jewish community, and
members of the Jewish Student Union for bagels and conversation.
Eliot House
Lounge and Patio, Gateway Road
10-11 am
Equestrian Center Information Session
Jennifer Wilda, stable manager, will give a brief
description of the Equestrian Center programs and then give a tour. Please
gather in the lobby area of the Equestrian Center by the office and Jen
will take you to the lounge. Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes;
part of this tour is outdoors.
Equestrian
Center, Off Park Street adjacent to Ham and MacGregor Halls
10-11 am and 11-noon
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Remove your shoes, sit on the floor of our teahouse,
and enter the ceremony of tea. Limited seating; preregister at the Welcome
Center, Mary Woolley Hall lobby.
--Nobue Socho
Yamashita, Japanese tea mistress
Wa-Shin-An Japanese Meditation Garden
and Teahouse, Eliot House, Gateway Road
10:30 am
Catholic and Protestant Communities: Light
Refreshments
Meet with students from the
Catholic and Protestant communities and Anita Magovern, chaplain to the
College and advisor to the Catholic community, and Sherry Tucker, chaplain
to the College and advisor to the Protestant community.
Abbey Memorial Chapel Narthex
11 am
Protestant Worship Service
Join the Protestant community for Sunday Service.
--Rev. Sherry
Tucker, chaplain to the College,
advisor to the Protestant community
Abbey Interfaith Sanctuary, Gateway Road
11 am-1:30 pm
Brunch Dine-Around
Residential Dining Locations
1-5 pm
Art Museum
Stop in to see inspiring exhibitions and selections
from the College's comprehensive teaching collection of more than
14,000 objects ranging from antiquity to the present, including strengths
in Asian art, nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American
paintings and sculpture, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, Medieval
sculpture, early Italian Renaissance paintings, and an extensive
collection of prints, drawings, and photographs. This fall's
special exhibition, Two by Two: Lines, Rhymes,
and Riddles, features the prize-winning Mount
Holyoke College poet Brad Leithauser's upcoming book of poetry Toad to a Nightingale: Drawn-Out-Riddles, illustrated by his brother Mark, artist and chief designer at
the National Gallery of Art. The installation will feature all the original
artwork related to this book and their three previous collaborations.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Lower
Lake
2 pm
Jazz Concert "Screen Gems"
The MHC Big Band, Chamber, and Vocal Jazz Ensembles
present familiar themes from TV and film, with music by Henry Mancini, Lalo
Schifrin, and John Williams.
--Mark
Gionfriddo, director
McCulloch Auditorium, Pratt Hall, Lower
Lake Road
2 - 5 pm
Skinner Museum
A five-minute walk north of campus, the museum is
housed in a former Congregational church and contains the eclectic collection
of Joseph Allen Skinner. More than 5,000 objects are featured, ranging
from native American artifacts to books and historical documents; furniture,
armor, and weapons; and ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Roman objects. The
items are presented in very much the same way as they were in the 1930s.
Route 116, 2 blocks north of campus
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