Pangy Day
Pangy Day
Mount Holyoke Bunny Loan
#MHC (Taken with instagram)
I am in love.
Pangy Day, Mount Holyoke College, 2012
THIS WEEKEND…
PANGY DAY 2012!
HOLI 2012!SO EXCITED!!!!
(these pictures are from 2011, btw)
Campus smells like horse manure everywhere you go.
Damn you, equestrian center!!!
What have I been up to in school? Reading ads for abortion clinics, of course. My Wasserstein seminar is dramaturging the MHC theatre department’s production of Uncommon Women and Others this semester. As part of our research, we’re been poring through the Wendy Wasserstein papers in the MHC archives in search of helpful and intriguing historical documents. I’m particularly fascinated by the old issues of the Mount Holyoke News. I read through the 1970-71 and 1971-72 academic years—there were some wild headlines and advertisements in the paper that revealed so much about what was going on at the time. Everything we’re researching supports the notion of the early 70’s as a huge transitional period for the college (and the other Seven Sisters), during which it moved from the white gloves “marry your Ivy League man” era of the 50’s and 60’s into its radical modern incarnation. Paradoxically:
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Besides the MH News, I’ve been reading many of Wendy’s notebooks, which range from her kindergarten writing and art projects to her graduate school papers. I now have intimate knowledge of her elementary school illustrated report on Mesopotamia. The book reviewer in me would call it an intriguing testament to her life-long creativity…but let’s be real: I basically had a fan-girl freak-out over her adorable drawings and loopy writing on the cover.![]()