• Lorena Ramirez '02 reads with her daughter.

    The Power in Stories

    SPRING 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    Lorena Ramirez ’02 created WipalaBox, an adventure activity box for children ages 5 to 11. Each box comes with a book, stickers, hands-on activities, and a keepsake crafted by Indigenous women artisans.

  • Carol Clingan '63 and David Towler, the North Adams, Mass., native who told her about the mural, pose for a photo as a crew moves it.

    Forgotten Art Finds a Home

    SPRING 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    Carol Clingan ’63, through years of effort, saved a historic Jewish mural hidden in a disused synagogue in North Adams, Mass. It now hangs in the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass

  • Nancy Langen Steketee ’68 and team members in cycling outfits

    Ministrations: Cycling for a Cause

    SPRING 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    For nearly two decades, Nancy Langen Steketee ’68 has been riding a bike to raise funds for multiple sclerosis (MS) research and support.

  • A photo portrait of Lisa Lim '86

    A Landmark Dealmaker

    SPRING 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    Lisa Lim ’86 has had a legal career defined by landmark real estste deals that transformed New York City’s landscape.

  • Photo of a pedometer

    Stepping Up to the Challenge

    SPRING 2025

    Endnote

    Eighteen years ago, I became a grandmother, opening depths of emotion I had never experienced before. A year later, when I saw the announcement of a 10,000-step-a-day challenge in the Portland [Maine] Press Herald, I decided to apply, writing an essay explaining that I wanted to extend my life so that I could see my grandson grow up.

  • An illustration of hands of various skin tones cradling flowers, leaves, and grasses

    Nurturing Our Future

    WINTER 2025

    Feature Story

    One morning last fall, Anna Stine-Uchino ’27 stepped out of Pomeroy Hall to head to class. “The air smelled just like California,” she says. “I said to myself, ‘This is a wildfire that shouldn’t be happening here.’”

  • Portrait of Mfoniso Udofia ’06 sitting in The Huntington Theatre with the stage behind her

    Processing in Play

    WINTER 2025

    Feature Story

    Mfoniso Udofia ’06 returns to Massachusetts to launch the Ufot Family Cycle, an ambitious nine-play series about three generations of a Nigerian American family

  • Photograph of stamp for paperwork

    A Rogue and Necessary Kindness

    WINTER 2025

    Endnote

    For a while, I knew where they were. The flags, three of them, that were received when my parents and my older brother became naturalized citizens. I don’t know where they are now. I never had one, because I was born here.

  • Black and white photo of Anne Mitchell Morgan standing in her office in Green Hall in the 1980s

    Anne Mitchell Morgan ’57

    WINTER 2025

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    Anne Mitchell Morgan ’57, who served as the executive director of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association for 20 years, passed away on Oct. 17, 2024.