As the College builds a science center for the 21st century, it has gone to great lengths—and heights—to preserve the building’s past. More
Wellesley has a long tradition of sending its graduates into the classroom. How, we wondered, are these professionals meeting the demands of the pandemic? This winter, we sought out seven Wellesley early childhood and elementary… More
The Golden Girls and other old favorites transport me back to a time before COVID, but also before the internet and the myriad technological advances that have enriched but also complicated our lives. More
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In recent months, my 1930s dining room table has become very 2020. This round, mahogany behemoth (and its hefty sideboard) was purchased by my grandparents following a house fire that destroyed most of their furniture…More
WCAA
The Wellesley College Alumnae Association has found new and creative ways to engage during the pandemic.More
In the fall of 2016, the class of ’77 reunion planning committee held a conference call to discuss its upcoming 40th reunion. “Emotions were running really, really high,” remembers Michele Tinsley Leonard ’77.More
Coursework doesn’t generally go directly to the boardroom—but that was exactly the goal of ECON 199, Casey Rothschild’s Fossil Fuel Divestment class last fall.More
Wellesley’s new Camilla Chandler Frost ’47 Center for the Environment will be a space where everyone on campus working on environmental issues—whatever their disciplines—can come together to support each other, to work together, and to make connections.More
Nowshin Arif ’23, an academic success coach (ASC), has been offering other students a virtual helping hand as she attends Wellesley remotely from her family’s home in Queens, N.Y.More
Shelf Life
Arrow, a mature and self-assured debut collection of poetry by Sumita Chakraborty ’08, offers poems that are fierce in both emotion and intellect as they wrestle with grief, familial violence, and an existential drama that takes on cosmic proportions.More
In Last Night at the Telegraph Club, the latest young adult novel from Malinda Lo ’96, a night at a San Francisco lesbian bar in 1954 changes Lily Hu’s life.More
With a syndicated column in the Washington Post , Judith Perlman Martin ’59, known as Miss Manners, has offered advice on how to conduct oneself in polite society for decades. Her latest book is a guide to modern manners.More
End Note
When COVID closes her neighborhood bakery, making her own challah every week brings this writer a kind of comfort.More
In Memoriam
Alice Birmingham Robinson ’46, a much-beloved member of the Department of History for some 46 years, died peacefully at the age of 95 on July 8, 2020, in Leeds, Mass.More
Sally Engle Merry ’66, formerly the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and professor of anthropology, passed away on Sept. 8, 2020.More
