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Upcoming events
Trailblazers
Check out Trailblazer athletics for fall schedules, results, and information.
Through February 22: Woodshed II: The Next Hundred Hours; MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams.
Thursday, February 19: Gathering for Berkshire County alumni; 5:30-7:30 p.m., Taylor's Fine Dining, North Adams. Please RSVP to Lydia Benyo '05 at (888) 677-6252 or email.
Wednesday, February 18: Admissions Open House; 12:30 p.m., Venable Gym.
Friday, February 20: Accepted Student Day; 12:30 p.m., Campus Center Gym.
Thursday, February 26: Opening reception for Locus; 5:00-7:00 p.m., MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams.
Friday, February 27, 8:00 p.m.: MCLA Presents! Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble in collaboration with Williams College and MASS MoCA; 8:00 p.m., Williams College '62 Center for Theatre and Dance.
March 4-7, My Son is Crazy, but Promising, by Tim Kelly, the spring 2009 Main Stage Production; 8:00 p.m., Venable Theatre. |
www.mcla.edu
The College rolled out a new MCLA Web site. This new site is the result of many months of work on the part of a dedicated team on campus. Visit the site to read the MCLA Strategic Plan, see what's coming up for MCLA Presents!, check out the latest Athletics scores and highlights or make a gift to MCLA.
Become our fan on Facebook
The MCLA Alumni Association has a Facebook page. With over 200 fans, many alumni have joined. Go to the page to learn about upcoming events and see photos of alumni. Post your own photos and leave a comment.
Find us at the Berkshire Mall
MCLA will have a booth at the 2009 Berkshire Home Expo. This annual event sponsored by the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce provides an opportunity to promote the College to thousands of people alongside dozens of area businesses. This year's Expo runs from March 13-15 at the Berkshire Mall in Lanesboro, MA. Please stop by and say hello.
Enrollment update
More and more people are attracted to the quality and value of an MCLA education. For the spring semester, undergraduate enrollment is up seven percent over last year. Early indications are that our fall applications will continue to be substantially ahead of last year.
Inauguration Day
Classes were suspended briefly on Tuesday, January 20 so that students could gather across campus to watch the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama. In addition, a group of students traveled to Washington D.C. to take in the inauguration first-hand; an experience they'll remember for the rest of their lives.
National Girls and Women in Sports Day
For the 20th year, our athletics department held its annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Saturday, January 31 with sports clinics and activities for girls in grades 3-8. An addition to this year's program was a luncheon held on Thursday, January 29 with special guest Laurie Priest, director of athletics and chair of physical education at Mount Holyoke College.
Celebrating Modernity
2009 marks the 150th anniversary of an array of landmark events that influenced the modernization of global society, including the 1859 publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species, and the first commercial production of oil in Pennsylvania. MCLA will consider this threshold moment in modernity in a year-long observance of the sesquicentennial of 1859 entitled Is Modernity Sustainable?
Green Living series
On January 29, MCLA's Berkshire Environmental Resource Center (BERC) launched the 2009 "Green Living" seminar series.
Congratulations to:
- Matt Silliman and David Johnson for having received a publishing contract from Sense Publishing Co. in Rotterdam for their recently completed book, Bridges to the World: A Dialogue on the Construction of Knowledge, Education and Truth.
- Jen Wehner '12, who was named New England Women's
Basketball Association's Rookie of the Week for the week of January 12th through the 18th.
- State Representative Dan Bosley '76 who received the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston's 2008 Massachusetts Association of Jewish Federations/Jewish Community Relations Council Legislative Achievement Award.
- Cindy Borek Normandin '76 whose company, Braun's Express was named a Massachusetts "Energy Leader" by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources in recognition of their ongoing efforts to reduce fuel consumption and limit their impact on the environment.
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