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“Mount Holyoke was within the world. It wasn’t walled off from what was going on socially at the time,” she said. “But it was also a sanctuary — a place where people could experiment with their identity and find who they were, safely.”
Mount Holyoke College welcomes Assistant Vice President Elyssa Kelly and Director of Discovery Lauren Grabowski to its College Relations office.
Ann Hewitt Worthington ’72 sees parallels between today’s political and societal unrest and that of her campus years. “We don’t know how the current upheavals will play out,” she said. “Students need the flexibility to prepare for the unknown.”
As a certified financial planner and a loyal Mount Holyoke alum, Anne E. Bolton ’72, the incoming chair of the Mary Lyon Society, walks the talk.
“I turned out to be a different kind of a person because I went to MHC,” said Anne Marsh Fields ’71. Her bequest will help future students to experience their own transformations at the College.
After receiving a generous Mount Holyoke Fund scholarship, Anne Vittoria FP’05 was asked to write a thank-you note to the donor. She credits that request with inspiring her career path, as well as her own legacy gift.
“Mount Holyoke raised me,” said Carly Bidner Basile ’16. “It’s where I figured out how I wanted to engage the world.” Now, she has named the College as a beneficiary in her employer-provided life insurance policy to leave a legacy that will impact future students.
Having a mother whose first job after graduating from Mount Holyoke was working for Eleanor Roosevelt inspired Catherine Russell Hammond ’65 to a career of public service. She gives back via her IRA and a legacy gift.
Cornelia “Connie” Griffin Farmer ’67’s career has taken her from one coast to another, and wherever she relocated, it was Mount Holyoke alums who made it feel like home.
Though they didn’t know each other as undergraduates, Debby Hall and Jane Zimmy now share a bond forged through more than a decade as co-head class agents for their class. With the long-term in mind, both established deferred charitable gift annuities with Mount Holyoke.
