Vista • Fall 2009 • Volume 14 • Number 2

News

• Emily Yates ’11 took first in the 2009 Kathryn Irene Glascock ’22 Intercollegiate Poetry Competition, vying against top poets from five other schools including Smith and Yale.
• In a record year for the organization, Teach for America is the top employer of MHC’s 2009 graduates.
• The Washington Monthly ranked Mount Holyoke second in the nation among liberal arts colleges in a survey measuring what colleges are doing for the country.
• Mount Holyoke cyclist Emma Bast ’09 won the 2009 Division II USA Cycling Collegiate Road Nationals, which took place in Fort Collins, Colorado.
• Harriet Weissman ’58 and her husband Paul Weissman were honored at a spring “birthday bash” marking the tenth anniversary of MHC’s Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kirstin Downey was on campus to discuss her new book on MHC alumna Frances Perkins, class of 1902, FDR’s secretary of labor.
• Kathryn Jones ’10, an international relations major, spent her summer internship writing for the Daily News in Cairo, Egypt. Each year, hundreds of MHC students do internships all over the world.
• MHC’s fourth annual Senior Symposium, a daylong celebration of intellectual achievement, featured 126 student presentations on a wide range of subjects.
• The MHC Art Museum hosted Faith Ringgold: Works on Paper and What Can a Woman Do: Women, Work, and Wardrobe News 1865–1940.

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