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Go forward.
Attempt great things.
Accomplish great things.M A R Y L Y O N
T H E C A M P A I G N F O R M O U N T H O L Y O K E
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street· South Hadley, MA 01075-1485
800-MHC-GIVE · [email protected]
T H E C A M P A I G N F O R M O U N T H O L Y O K E
P A G E 2
From the President
P A G E 4
We Live Our Mission: The Case for Mount Holyoke
$ 3 0 0 M I L L I O N C A M P A I G N
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Endowment: $175 million
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Annual Fund: $50 million
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Facilities: $25 million
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Projects and Programs: $50 million
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Gift Opportunities
P A G E 2 6
Campaign Volunteer Leadership
T H E C A M P A I G N F O R M O U N T H O L Y O K E
W H Y N O W ? B E C A U S E W E M U S T .
We must honor the College’s recent successes and future ambitions.
We must continue to deliver the resources necessary for the future. Necessary for us
to continue to excel. We must build on our momentum—our legacy of leadership.
After all, Mount Holyoke’s proud history is rooted in bold moves!
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C H A I R O F T H E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S
F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T
From the time of our founding, Mount Holyoke has been dedicated to the
complementary goals of excellence in the liberal arts and purposeful
engagement in the world. Education here has never been a matter of pure
intellectual inquiry for its own sake; rather, there has always been a pull
toward employing that education for some larger public purpose. Mary
Lyon might not recognize much of what she would see on her parcel of land in South Hadley today, but she
would understand immediately that her dual legacy of education and outreach is alive and embodied in our
mission statement, which continues to be at the heart of our planning.
Building on the remarkable progress of the institution under The Plan for Mount Holyoke 2003, we propose now
to aspire higher. If The Plan for 2003 was the shoring-up plan, The Plan for Mount Holyoke 2010 is the soaring
plan: at this moment of escalating change, the new Plan challenges Mount Holyoke to educate all students for
global citizenship in the twenty-first century and to reassert its enduring role as a leader in the worldwide
education of women. It is about reimagining and revitalizing liberal arts education for contemporary realities.
In order to accomplish this ambitious work, trustees and College leadership will call upon our alumnae and
friends. Quite simply, we need your support; we need to increase the College’s resources so that we can continue
to attract and retain an outstanding faculty and a talented and diverse student body, supporting and sustaining
the important initiatives and projects we have begun under The Plan for 2010.
The Campaign for Mount Holyoke
Endowment $175 million
Annual Fund $50 million
Facilities $25 million
Projects and Programs $50 million
TOTAL $300 million
In May 2006, the Board of Trustees unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed The Campaign for Mount
Holyoke, a $300 million, five-year, comprehensive fundraising effort. Increasing Mount Holyoke’s endowment,
the lifeblood of the College, is the number one priority of this Campaign.
I invite you to join other members of the Mount Holyoke community in supporting the College as we
“go forward, attempt great things, accomplish great things.” The Campaign is the engine that will get us
there. We need your support. Please join us in making this crucial investment in the future of our College.
J O A N N E V . C R E I G H T O N , P R E S I D E N T
M I S S I O N : M O U N T H O L Y O K E C O L L E G E R E A F F I R M S I T S C O M M I T M E N T
T O E D U C AT I N G A D I V E R S E R E S I D E N T I A L C O M M U N I T Y O F W O M E N
AT T H E H I G H E S T L E V E L O F A C A D E M I C E X C E L L E N C E A N D T O
F O S T E R I N G T H E A L L I A N C E O F L I B E R A L A R T S E D U C AT I O N
W I T H P U R P O S E F U L E N G A G E M E N T I N T H E W O R L D .
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We live our mission.
T H E G R A N D I D E A O F M O U N T H O L Y O K E C O L L E G E
continues to inspire and compel our best efforts. That grand idea,
simply stated, is our mission, our dedication to embracing our
long-standing legacy as a diverse and international community of
women in which the liberal arts are powerfully linked to purposeful
engagement in the world.
Under The Plan for Mount Holyoke 2010,
the College is working to transform
the twentieth-century liberal arts
curriculum so that it can successfully
meet twenty-first-century realities: the
rapid advance of knowledge and the
radical transformations brought on by
technology and globalization. The Plan for
2010 builds upon the accomplishments of
the past decade and calls for an ambitious
effort to increase the College’s ability to
support outstanding professors and the
talented and determined students who learn and work alongside
them. Advancing Mount Holyoke’s living tradition of excellence is
the central purpose of The Plan for 2010 and this Campaign.
Mount Holyoke’s faculty are the heart of our mission. They are
intellectually adventuresome, pedagogically creative, exceptionally
diverse, and genuinely collaborative and collegial, across disciplines
and across generations. We must provide faculty with competitive
salaries so that we continue to attract and retain the best and the
brightest. We must provide them with the resources they need to
launch and sustain their careers as outstanding teachers and
The Case for Mount Holyoke
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Comparative Endowments 2004–2005ENDOWMENT SOURCE: CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
MILLIONS ENROLLMENT PER STUDENT
Williams $1,350 2,027 $665,207
Wellesley $1,280 2,223 $573,787
Amherst $1,150 1,640 $704,006
Smith $1,040 3,115 $332,347
Oberlin $700 2,799 $251,636
MHC $450 2,108 $213,049
Trinity $380 2,140 $177,232
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The Plan for Mount Holyoke 2010Educating Uncommon Women for the Common Good
Academic Excellence
Mount Holyoke’s living tradition of academic excellence
is at the heart of The Plan for 2010. We will privilege
academic priorities, and invest in the people and resources
necessary for their realization.
Liberal Arts
We will reflect self-critically upon the shape of the
curriculum and its relationships to what students need
to know to live useful and meaningful lives in the
twenty-first century.
Purposeful Engagement in the World
We will emphasize the links between leadership and the
liberal arts, diversity and community at home and abroad,
environmental education and social justice, technological
innovation, and creative research and teaching.
Diverse Community
Diversity enhances the education of our students and
also represents our commitment to social justice, and to
thinking deeply about issues of difference, pluralism, and
community. We will continue to embrace diversity as we
build community.
Residential Learning
We will continue to enhance and renew the campus,
recognizing how deeply a sense of space and place
distinguishes this extraordinary college.
Women’s Education
We will reassert our leadership role in the education and
advancement of women around the world.
scholars. We must support their
efforts as they design curricula and
programs that both renew and cut
across traditional disciplines to
provide students with the skills
they will need to understand and
navigate a changing world.
Approximately 65 percent of
current students receive financial
assistance from the College. Our
financial aid is our most costly
investment and among the very
highest of our peers.
We must increase our scholarship
funds to provide a top-notch liberal
arts education to these gifted young
women. In addition, we seek to
enhance our students’ opportunities
for purposeful engagement by
increasing funding for study
abroad, internships, and research
experiences on and off campus.
Supporting our extraordinary
faculty and students is expensive,
but it is the most important
investment a donor can make in
Mount Holyoke.
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of the institution, ensuring its continued vitality
and providing a substantial flow of funds to the
annual operating budget that supports our entire
enterprise. Mount Holyoke’s ability to excel is inextricably
linked to the size, sound management, strong performance,
and continuing growth of our endowment. Sustaining the College’s competitive
position as one of the nation’s top undergraduate colleges requires that we
increase our endowment, both for unrestricted use and to support specific
programs and purposes, including faculty salaries and student financial aid.
The most recent comprehensive campaign, Advancing Our Legacy of
Leadership, raised $257 million. Of that total, $135 million went to the
College’s endowment. It is time now to build on that success. For while the
current level of Mount Holyoke’s endowment—$521 million (May 2006)—is
substantial by many standards, it is just half that of some of our closest peers.
An excellent liberal arts education is expensive and labor-intensive. We do
not have the economies of scale of large universities, yet we must meet the
accelerating costs of laboratory sciences, of new technologies, of facilities
and infrastructure. Our greatest investments, however, are to support the
people at the center of our enterprise: our faculty and students.
The Campaign will seek endowment gifts for four purposes: faculty and
academic support, student financial aid, programmatic initiatives, and
unrestricted endowment.
EEndowment
S A F F O R D H A L L
Student Financial Aid
Gifts to student financial aid support our historical
commitment to attracting and providing access to
the very best students. Approximately 65 percent
receive some form of financial aid. The class of
2010—selected from the largest applicant pool
in the College’s history—reflects the College’s
commitment to recruiting talented, diverse, and
engaged students.
Faculty and Academic Support
Faculty and academic support, whether endowing
a faculty chair, or contributing to a departmental
fund, is highly valued. Mount Holyoke’s hallmark
is world-class teaching and scholarship, and
our faculty’s commitment to challenging and
mentoring students is renowned. Donors
contribute to and create funds that enable the
faculty to do this important work. Associate
Professor of Astronomy and Geology Darby
Dyar brings her experience as a NASA researcher
and the nation’s leading expert in Mössbauer
spectroscopy of minerals into our classrooms
and labs.
Programmatic Initiatives
Programmatic initiatives add tremendous value to
the Mount Holyoke educational experience. Gifts in
support of these initiatives—which include the
Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal
Arts, the Center for the Environment, the Science
Center, and the McCulloch Center for Global
Initiatives—will enable continued growth to
curricular and cocurricular excellence. Support
from the McCulloch Center helped students travel
to the Dominican Republic for a January Term
immersion in the Spanish language while building
housing for impoverished residents of Vallejuelo.
Unrestricted Endowment
Gifts to unrestricted endowment are the most
lasting and powerful gifts a donor can make.
These gifts give the College the flexibility to
establish priorities and allocate funds in ways
that respond to a rapidly changing world.
Technological enhancements, such as installing
wireless zones in the newly renovated Mead Hall,
are among the critically important projects that
enhance curricular and residential life.
The most important priority of The Campaign for Mount Holyoke is to raise $175 million in new gifts and pledges for endowment.
Endowmentgoal:
$175 million
2006 2007 2008T H E A N N U A L F U N D G O A L F O R T H I S C A M PA I G N I S T O R A I S E $ 5 0 M I L L I O N
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2009 2010 2011B Y 2 0 1 1 , A N D T O I N C R E A S E A L U M N A E PA R T I C I PAT I O N T O 5 0 P E R C E N T.
Annual Fund
Every gift to the Annual Fund is a gift to the Campaign.
The Mount Holyoke Annual Fund supports the College’s
ongoing operating costs. Approximately 10 percent of the
yearly budget comes from gifts to the fund, a standard
percentage among peer institutions. Each year, alumnae, parents,
and friends of the College are asked to make a gift to support the ongoing
academic and cocurricular programs on campus. Many alumnae choose to
make leadership gifts to the Cornerstone Program, a critical component of our
Annual Fund effort. In FY06, gifts totalling $7.4 million were made to the
Annual Fund. We hope to increase annual giving to $10 million a year by the
end of this Campaign.
To accomplish this ambitious goal, gifts of all sizes are needed and the
participation of all alumnae is crucial. Every gift really does make a difference.
Reunion giving is a time-honored tradition and a major contributor to the
Annual Fund. Gifts of $10,000 or more can now be directed to annual
support for scholarship aid, study abroad, and other important student and
faculty activities. Donors will receive reports on the specific uses of these gifts.
The Annual Fund has averaged 45 percent participation in recent years. Our
goal is to achieve and maintain at least 50 percent participation. Involvement
of young alumnae is especially important, as it represents the future of the
fund and the College.
Contributing to the Annual Fund each year is the way alumnae, of all ages
and financial abilities, can support the College and acknowledge its impact on
their lives. Every gift to the Annual Fund is a gift to the Campaign.
1 8 3 7 S O C I E T Y$1,837
Mount Holyoke’s founding year
H O RT E N S E PA R K E R S O C I E T Y$5,000
First known African American graduate, class of 1884
E M I L Y D I C K I N S O N S O C I E T Y$10,000
Poet, class of 1849
F R A N C E S P E R K I N S S O C I E T Y$25,000
First woman cabinet member, class of 1902
V I R G I N I A A P G A R S O C I E T Y$50,000
Developed Apgar Score for infants, class of 1929
M A RY W O O L L E Y S O C I E T Y$100,000
MHC President 1901–1937
Y O U N G A L U M N A E L E A D E R S H I P G I V I N Gup to 15th reunion
Years 1–5 $100Years 6–9 $500Years 10–14 $1,000
CornerStoneAnnual Fund Leadership Giving Program
Annual Fund goal:
$50 million
New Residence Hall
Our students’ education is not confined to the classroom and laboratories but is woven
through the fabric of daily life. Over the last decade, the College has undertaken the
most extensive building and renovation program in its recent history. In order to remain
competitive, we must continue this effort. Priorities for this Campaign are to raise
$15 million for a new 175-bed residence hall and $10 million to update athletic facilities.
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Facilities
F L O O R P L A N , N E W R E S I D E N C E H A L L
Boathouse
Crew has grown to one of the
College’s largest varsity teams
(80 students are on the roster
in a typical fall; 50 compete
in the spring). We need a
boathouse to provide space
for all these athletes, to
increase indoor boat storage
space for the entire fleet, and
to help recruit top students
to the program. Many
secondary schools and most
competitive college programs
have modernized facilities.
Photo: In the final race of the
fall 2005 season, MHC won
the Seven Sisters Regatta.
Kendall Sports and Dance
Complex Renovations
Up-to-date athletic facilities
are an increasingly important
demand of all students and
play a significant competitive
role in recruiting applicants.
To that end, we must update
our fitness complex. Photo:
champion cycling club
member Metzi Anderson ’08
There are currently 300 MHC varsity athletes and 170 competitive club athletes.
In 2005–2006, MHC students, faculty, staff, and alumnae used Kendall 101,169 times.
Facilities goal:
$25 million
New Residence Hall: $15 million
Residential living and learning continues to be a central element of
the College’s mission and adds an important dimension to a student’s
experience at Mount Holyoke.
Updated Athletic
Facilities: $10 million
Synthetic Multipurpose
Turf Field with Lights
To remain competitive and be
able to host NCAA and NEW-
MAC competitions in several
varsity sports, we need an
artificial turf field that can be
used for a longer season and
in more inclement weather
than a natural grass field.
The addition of lights will
make it possible to practice
and play during the late
afternoon and evening hours.
New Outdoor Track
The track and field program
has produced four All-
Americans and has sent
hundreds of athletes to post-
season competition. However,
the team’s last home track
and field meet was in 1996.
We cannot host track and
field events on the existing
six-lane track, which was
built in 1984 and has not
been resurfaced since 1989.
Photo: spring 2006 track and
field team practice
Building a new residence hall will address three issues: It will provide
today’s student body (2,100) with sufficient space; it will offer students a
greater variety of attractive living and common spaces; and it will create
“swing space” so that over the next two decades, we will be able to do
more extensive renovations of existing residence halls than we are cur-
rently able to do during the summer months.
The new residence hall is being designed in harmony with traditional
College buildings but also as an environmentally sustainable and
energy-efficient “green” modern facility.
The S/L/A/M Collaborative of Glastonbury, Connecticut, has been
selected as the building and landscape architects. (Pictured above:
the east entrance; architect’s rendering of the atrium’s interior.)
House 175 students from all classes
Enliven the southeast corner of campus adjacent to Pratt Hall
Provide swing space to permit renovation of existing residence halls
Projects & ProgramsWe will seek expendable funds to support innovative initiatives of
The Plan for Mount Holyoke 2010
including the following projects and programs:
Dorothy R. and Norman E. McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives
Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts
The Center for the Environment
Science Center
First-year seminars and programs
Summer research programs and internships
Diverse community programs
Art exhibitions and performances
Cocurricular and residential programs
Technology initiatives
Greening projects
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Top row, left to right: The Science Center, featuring Kendade Hall; EvaPaus, Carol Hoffmann Collins ’63 Center for Global Initiatives Directorand professor of economics; students participating in the new partnership between Mount Holyoke and the Beijing Language andCulture University; Sean Decatur, Marilyn Dawson Sarles, M.D. Professorof Life Sciences, professor of chemistry, and associate dean of faculty for science
Middle row, left to right: Environmental studies major and studentadministrative fellow for the Center for the Environment Michelle Moon’07; Sarah Bacon ’87, associate professor of biological sciences; studentsmeeting on the Blanchard Campus Center patio
Bottom row, left to right: Associate Professors of Dance Charles and Rose Marie Flachs; the Information Commons in Dwight Hall; KatieKraschel ’06, presenting on Of Mice and Men: Identifying Potent Inhibitorsfor CYPs in Rodent Microsomes for Use in Future In Vivo Studies at the2006 Senior Symposium
Projects &Programs
goal:$50 million
T H E C A M P A I G N F O R M O U N T H O L Y O K E
G I F T O P P O R T U N I T I E S
The Campaign for Mount Holyoke has specific opportunities for donors to
consider in support of its broad goals. Intended as guidelines for donors,
volunteers, and staff, these opportunities translate the highest priorities of
the College into tangible academic and cocurricular activities. Please see a
sample of available gift opportunities in the back cover pocket.
The Campaign offers a wide range of named opportunities at a variety
of giving levels for each of its priorities. Each amount is based on a gift or
pledge made over a period of five years or less.
For more information, please call 800-MHC-GIVE
or email [email protected].
Thank you!
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Janet Falik Aserkoff ’65Barbara McClearn Baumann ’77*Barbara Moakler Byrne ’76Maria A. Cirino ’85*Ellen M. Cosgrove ’84Joanne V. Creighton, presidentMary Beth Topor Daniel ’82*Mary Graham Davis ’65*Nancy J. Drake ’73Claude du Granrut ’48Arleen McGrath Heiss ’70*Ludmila Schwarzenberg Hess ’67 Carole Corcoran Huxley ’60Anthony LakeMindy McWilliams Lewis ’75*Guy R. Martin P ’07*
Susan Bateson McKay ’76*Audrey A. McNiff ’80Divita Mehta ’04*Frances Hall Miller ’60Leslie Anne Miller ’73, chair*Richard E. NealDeborah A. Northcross ’73Kavita N. Ramdas ’85H. Jay Sarles S ’67*Carol Geary Schneider ’67Susan Bonneville Weatherbie ’72*
chair, Trustee Development Committee Harriet Levine Weissman ’58*Margaret L.Wolff ’76
*member, Trustee DevelopmentCommittee
C A M P A I G N V O L U N T E E R L E A D E R S H I P
Joyce Chaikin Ahrens ’62Jane A. Barth ’55Barbara McClearn Baumann ’77Susan Beers Betzer ’65Robin Wilcox Brooksbank ’78Eleanor Graham Claus ’55, chairCarol Hoffmann Collins ’63Mary Beth Topor Daniel ’82Mary Graham Davis ’65Barbara Dombkowski Desoer ’74Mary Dethloff Dryselius ’66Annemarie O. Farrell ’01Suzanne P. Franchetti ’91Elizabeth Cochary Gross ’79Mary Jean Ahern Hale, M.D. ’67Ludmila Schwarzenberg Hess ’67Mindy McWilliams Lewis ’75John L. Lewis S ’75
Chau Ly ’97Kathleen C. Maurer ’84Susan Bateson McKay ’76Edith Swanson Middleton ’54Leslie Anne Miller ’73Sarah G. Miller ’75Robin Chemers Neustein ’75Susan Abert Noonan ’82Marilyn Sarles ’67H. Jay Sarles S ’67Margaret Bloete Shilling ’61Susan Bonneville Weatherbie ’72Harriet Levine Weissman ’58Paul M. Weissman S ’58Margaret L.Wolff ’76Marilyn Morrow Woodhouse ’53John F. Woodhouse S ’53Jane A. Zimmy ’74
Campaign Steering Committee as of July 2006
Leslie A. Miller ’73 (left) and BarbaraBaumann ’77, Campaign cochairs
Jennifer A. Alley ’89Lael Stevens Carter ’66Melani S. Cheers ’02Catherine Conover ’71, P ’86Annemarie O. Farrell ’01Phyllis Carlson Freeman ’59, P ’83Jennifer E. Gieseking ’99Caroline Carosso Griep ’86
Susan Scherr Lloyd ’57Sabrina L. Maurer ’90Joan Ford Mongeau ’80Maria Mossaides ’73, P ’04, chairSandra Fulton Rosenthal ’79Sunny Park Suh ’91Jennifer A. Whyman ’84Cary M. Williams ’93
Annual Funds Committee 2006–2007
I give to Mount Holyoke because it provides a supportive, encouraging, and
provocative (in the best sense of the word) environment for young women to
become uncommon women—prepared to take whatever the world offers up
and transform it for the better, from the personal level to the policy level.
—Harriet Cone Baldwin ’88
Why do I give to Mount Holyoke? I owe everything to the foundation built
there. It is clear and undeniable and I recognize it every day.
—Donna E. Beardsworth ’78
My four years at Mount Holyoke could never be boxed up and put on a shelf.
The experience keeps coming back to me, whether it’s through alumnae
contacts for a job interview, or in everyday life. I look forward to remaining a
part of its fabric for many years to come.
—Alexandra B. Bishko ’00
The reason I support Mount Holyoke is simple: I believe in women’s education.
My continued financial support of the College, however modest, is an
expression of how much I appreciate the education I received, the confidence
I gained to pursue my goals, the friendships I made, and the open-mindedness
and sense of equality that I learned.
—Helen Mar Parkin ’69
I support MHC because it helped me gain the confidence and tools to take on
the challenges that my life and career have thrown at me. I give because I
believe that my gift will help other young women have this opportunity.
—Anne Hermalin Nemetz ’86
As a young college graduate, I donated to MHC out of a sense of duty. Then I
gave out of a sense of my own self-pride: I was making a decent income and
wanting to outwardly share my accomplishments. Now, I think my giving is
more a sense of giving back to another generation of young women. It is a
way of participating in a legacy that has true value to me.
—Mary Walker ’76
Board of Trustees as of July 2006
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“It is not an overstatement to say that
excellent and purposeful liberal arts education,
of the kind you find at this college, is our civilization’s best hope,
and no place does it better than Mount Holyoke.”
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