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6 unusual facts about Mount Holyoke


Contemplative education

It has inspired networks of higher-education professionals for the advancement of contemplative education at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Smith College and University of Massachusetts Amherst and in Colorado, with the Rocky Mountain Contemplative Higher Education Network (RMCHEN), which launched in September 2006 with an event hosted by Naropa University; and with the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University.

Jeremy King

Jeremy King is an American historian, Professor of History at Mount Holyoke.

Mount Holyoke

The mountain was named after Elizur Holyoke, an early resident of Springfield, Massachusetts who first explored the mountainous region that came to bear his name.

The Summit House is open weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through Columbus Day.

Sean M. Decatur

On the faculty at Mount Holyoke, he helped establish a world-class research program in biophysical chemistry.

The Oxbow

I have already commenced a view from Mt. Holyoke—it is about the finest scene I have in my sketchbook & is well known—it will be novel and I think effective—I could not find a subject very similar to your second picture & time would not allow me to invent one.


Raphael Pumpelly

He led the 1635 settlement of Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, which was named after his home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England; and Captain Elizur Holyoke, the namesake of the mountain, Mount Holyoke, and (indirectly), of the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts.


see also

Blatt

Leah Blatt Glasser, American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College

Cornelia Clapp

Clapp completed the equivalent of an undergraduate program at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (the forerunner of today’s Mount Holyoke College) in 1871 before spending one year as a Latin teacher at a boys' boarding school in Andalusia, Pennsylvania.

Helen Pitts Douglass

A descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Alden, who sailed to America on the Mayflower, Pitts graduated from Mount Holyoke College (then called the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1859.

Sarah Ann Dickey

After the American Civil War, she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), graduating in 1869.

Shonisaurus

In a 2011 lecture to the Geological Society of America, Mark McMenamin and Dianna Schulte McMenamin, geologists from Mount Holyoke College, put forward the controversial hypothesis that the large assemblage of remains were placed in deep water by an unidentified, gigantic, squid-like predator they referred to as a "kraken".

South Hadley, Massachusetts

Joseph Brodsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian poet and essayist, began teaching at Mount Holyoke in 1974.