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 · campaign@mtholyoke.edu

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We Live Our Mission: The Case for Mount Holyoke

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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

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Campaign Volunteer Leadership

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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 campaign@mtholyoke.edu.

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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