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For Diana Brassard ’90, establishing a deferred gift annuity not only benefited her retirement plans, but also allowed her “to pay it forward so that Mount Holyoke women get the support they need.”
A fourth-generation alum and distinguished social worker, Ruth Rotundo Whitney ’66 established a deferred gift annuity to provide income in her retirement.
Mount Holyoke boosted Ellen Archibald’s self-confidence and led her to new places. Her legacy gift will help future students to follow their dreams.
In late 1895, Mount Holyoke students decided to form a fire brigade. And in doing so, they made history. The New York Journal reported that theirs was the first all-women’s fire department in the nation.
“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.
Lisa Garrity ’19 discusses why her love at first sight experience with Mount College was meant to be.
Susie Beers Betzer’s husband, Peter, pulled off a special holiday surprise for his favorite green griffin.
When Diane Miller ’86 found herself finally earning a paycheck after years of medical school, one of her first decisions was to invest — in her future, and Mount Holyoke’s.
The year after graduating, Paula Furlong O’Hara ’66 gave five dollars to The Mount Holyoke Fund. The next year she gave ten.
“It means everything to me to give back to Mount Holyoke. I have always felt completely and totally in debt to the College,” says Zoe Hale ’67.
