WINTER 2025

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

The College’s new BEAM initiative focuses on business, entrepreneurship, and money management offerings for students and alumnae

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.’”

This year marks an extraordinary chapter for our community as the Wellesley College Alumnae Association officially merges into the College.

If you read carefully, says The Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson ’71, Jonathan Edwards’ sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is about spiders.

Tributes to members of the Wellesley community

The five years Kathryn Harvey Mackintosh ’03 spent as executive director of the Alumnae Association, and then assistant vice president for alumnae relations and global engagement, were eventful.

Jodi “JJ” Hanousek Larson ’90 was inducted into the Wellesley Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 26, 2024, for her role on the basketball, lacrosse, and soccer teams.

Kimberly Eaton ’11 was inducted into the Wellesley Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 26, 2024, for her role on the golf team.

Jenna Harvey Sinclair ’08 was inducted into the Wellesley Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 26, 2024, for her role on the softball team.

Randelle L. Boots ’13 was inducted into the Wellesley Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 26, 2024, for her role in cross country and track and field.

For K.C. Skeldon ’17, grief is a familiar companion. “My dad died from pancreatic cancer in 2019,” she says.

On paper, Robin Siddall ’20 spent most of her time at Wellesley as a math major and astronomy minor.

Thirty Wellesley faculty and research members from across the College came together in November for the first Faculty and Researchers Symposium, organized by the Wagner Centers for Wellesley in the World.

Jenny Fung Brandemuehl ’85 Forever Fly Free: A Memoir About the Power of Hope and Love After Loss (nonfiction), Regalo Press

The Davis Museum and Wellesley College Library Special Collections collaborated on Better on Paper, an exhibition celebrating a decade of acquisitions that reflect Wellesley’s dedication to inclusive excellence.

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.

The students in THST345 Practicum: Theatre Production had some help mounting the fall mainstage production, The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, in November 2024.

“We talk about the Newhouse as a home,” says Lauren Cote, the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities’ event and program manager.

Empire Waist, the debut teen comedy written and directed by Claire Ayoub ’11, is about loving yourself and your friends.

If you’re among those reading this on your smartphone or laptop, you’ll have noticed that the magazine website looks quite different.

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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.

Last semester, I took part in a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) and the leaders, past and present, who made that milestone possible.