Vista • Mount Holyoke College • Fall/Winter 2011 • Vol. 16 No. 2

 Vista is published twice a year by the Mount Holyoke College Office of Communications. Vista is produced for prospective Mount Holyoke students; alumnae; faculty and staff; parents of current students; and other friends of the College.

Creative Director and Editor: Tekla McInerney

 Writers: Christopher Benfey, Michelle Ducharme, Taliesin Nyala, Bonnie Sennott

Copyeditor: Bonnie Sennott

Executive Director of Communications and Marketing: Patricia VandenBerg

Cover photo by Michael Malyszko

©2011 by Mount Holyoke College. Portions of Vista may be reproduced with the permission of the Office of Communications, 50 College Street, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075-1459; 413-538- 2989; email: tmcinern@mtholyoke.edu. Third-class postage paid at South Hadley, MA 01075 An electronic version of Vista is available at www.mtholyoke.edu/admission/publications.html

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