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“Mount Holyoke connected me to a world that gave me access to the impossible,” said Mary Ann Villarreal ’94, the first in her family to attend college. “I give back because I felt like Mount Holyoke was my home and I want other people to find their home too.”
In her Mount Holyoke classes, Meg Harlor ’65, then known as Mickey Herz, always knew that her voice would be heard.
For former student-athlete Nancy G. Rosoff ’78, “being part of a team is magical.” She is helping to continue Mount Holyoke’s winning streak by supporting the Friends of Athletics Endowment in her estate plans and giving future students access to empowering opportunities.
Norma Barrett ’04 is determined to help Mount Holyoke continue to open doors for women who are defying the odds.
“For any career, in any job that I wanted, Mount Holyoke was certainly a selling point,” said Pat Kennedy Ascher ’60. One of her gifts to the College provides her a steady income stream and will help students explore careers in public service.
The year after graduating, Paula Furlong O’Hara ’66 gave five dollars to The Mount Holyoke Fund. The next year she gave ten.
Susie Beers Betzer’s husband, Peter, pulled off a special holiday surprise for his favorite green griffin.
“How do you keep someone engaged in the story — someone who may be sitting in the dark whom you may never see?” As a Mary Lyon Society member, Priyanjali Ghosh ‘09 is engaging with generations of Mount Holyoke College students whom she’ll never know but whose lives she will touch through her future bequest gift.
Thanks to a scholarship, Rhae A. Kennedy ’81 discovered the campus gates were the threshold to another world. “Mount Holyoke challenged me to think differently and make connections. It changed my life.”
Mount Holyoke prepared Robin Morse Edwards ’69 to hold her own in a male-dominated profession. In appreciation for her outstanding education, she established a tradition of giving back to the College and added to it with a bequest to celebrate her 50th Reunion.
