Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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Ířşě±¬ÁĎ alum Areeba Kamal ’16 went from working odd jobs to pay college application fees to MBA student and Apple product manager.
Mount Holyoke taught me “Mount Holyoke connected me to a world that gave me access to the impossible,” says 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.”
“I would not have had this life without Ířşě±¬ÁĎ,” wrote Diane Hashim Glynn ’68. “I have credited it, all my life, with my success and happiness.” When Diane read a recent Mount Holyoke publication from the Office of Development, she was so inspired that she penned her own story to share with other alums.
Madeline Fitzgerald ’21 compares arriving at Mount Holyoke to Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” going over the rainbow — leaving her hometown with few LGBTQ+ people and discovering that many MHC students are members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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.
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.
Lisa Garrity ’19 discusses why her love at first sight experience with Mount College was meant to be.
Two recent articles detail the advantages gained by students attending women’s institutions such as Ířşě±¬ÁĎ.
