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Six long-serving faculty members have retired from Mount Holyoke College.
Rising Mount Holyoke College senior Phoebe Baskin ’26 is spending her summer working in the lab of William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology Katherine Binder, studying reading comprehension.
It is with much sadness that I share news of the passing of Mount Holyoke College’s fifteenth president, Elizabeth Topham Kennan ’60.
In an editorial for the Globe, Mount Holyoke College Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics Robert Darrow said the bill prioritizes fossil fuel interests over climate action, making it nearly impossible for the U.S. to meet critical climate milestones.
In the Berkshires, D. Caleb Smith, assistant professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, hosted a reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.”
Mount Holyoke College rising junior Lily Rood ’27 discusses her Pride Month 2025 activism and advocacy.
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.
