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E-Trail: January 2016

Announcements

College's 12th President begins his tenure in March 2016

During a special meeting held on January 19 at the offices of the Department of Higher Education in Boston, the State Board of Higher Education unanimously approved the MCLA Board of Trustees' recommendation that Dr. Jaimie Birge be the College's 12th president. He is scheduled to begin his tenure at MCLA in March 2016.

To read more about Dr. Birge, please click here.

 

Ways to Engage

As we welcome 2016 and begin to think about where we have been and where we are going, what better way to start the new year than reconnecting with friends and your alma mater. There are many ways to do so and some are just a click away.

Sign up to become a member of the Online Alumni Community, where you can have access to great features like our alumni directory and class notes. The August 2016 MCLA Alumni Magazine will feature class notes, so sign up and submit your updates today!

Also, visit our social media channels to find out about upcoming regional events, College news and happenings, view photos, watch videos, and share memories.

Reconnect here:

     

 

Spring Phonathon to Begin

Spring Phonathon is around the corner! Support students in their effort to raise funds for student scholarship aid (the College’s area of greatest need) when they start calling on Monday, February 8. Every gift, of any size, makes an impact. Your donation helps make students' liberal arts educations possible.

Don’t want to wait? Make your gift today. Your support is truly appreciated!

 

Month-In-Review

Levitt AMP Grant Winners 

Thanks to your votes, the MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center's Levitt Amp North Adams grant proposal landed in 3rd place and has won up to $25,000 in matching funds to present our own Levitt Amp North Adams Music Series to take place in Colegrove Park this summer.

To view more about the MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center's Levitt Amp North Adams grant, please click here. 

 

Athletics update

The winter athletics season is in full swing and both basketball programs are competing in conference play. The women's basketball team got off to a nice start beginning the season at 8-3 prior to opening MASCAC play. January also marks the start of preseason practice for three spring programs: baseball, softball, and women's lacrosse. All three programs will begin play over spring break in Florida. View full schedules at athletics.mcla.edu.

MCLA will continue its tradition of hosting a National Girls and Women in Sports Day celebration, which is entering its 26th year in existence! This year's celebration is being held on Saturday, January 30 and will culminate with the basketball doubleheader featuring the Trailblazers battling the Worcester State Lancers.

Although the Trailblazers' fall season has ended, the awards continue to come in. Volleyball head coach Amanda Beckwith '03, M.Ed. '13 was selected as the ECAC New England Coach of the Year, and junior Allison Clark was named All New England. In women's soccer, head coach Deb Raber's team was honored with the Silver Award for Ethics by the NSCAA, and senior Alexi Anderson was named to the All New England team for her on field efforts in 2015.

For everything athletics, visit their website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

 

Upcoming Events

Nashoba Valley Ski Area Alumni Social

Please join the MCLA Alumni Association for an alumni social on February 11, 2016, from 5-7 p.m. at The Outlook Restaurant at the Nashoba Valley Ski Area, 79 Powers Road, Westford, Mass.

We will be joined by special guests faculty emeriti Dr. Steve Green and Dr. Bob Bishoff, and faculty emerita Bonnie Bishoff.

$5 per person (All proceeds to benefit student scholarship aid)
Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar 

R.S.V.P. by February 4, 2016
advancement@mcla.edu or (413) 662-5224

To learn more visit our Facebook event.

 

MCLA Presents!
The Blind Date Project
Co-presented with Williams College

February 5 & 6, 8 p.m.
Hops & Vines
Williamstown, MA

The apprehension of going on a blind date is suddenly compounded when a group of people — you, the audience — gather to witness an improvised meeting between two complete strangers in a karaoke bar. Guided only by text messages and phone calls and interspersed with random songs, each performance promises to be as unpredictable as it is dangerous. 

To read more about The Blind Date Project, click here.

Click here to view other MCLA Presents! performances coming this season.

Thank you to our premier sponsors for the MCLA Presents! 2015-2016 Season:

  

 

#FollowMe

Kenneth Rivera '19

Aspiring Activist

MCLA freshman and new member to the Phonathon team, Kenneth Rivera is ambitious about his education and is eager to explore all that the College has to offer. Currently involved in clubs and activities such as Dance Company, Kenneth is a natural when it comes to establishing connections. He used this skill combined with his determination to run for and be elected as vice president of the graduating class of 2019. To read more about Kenneth's first semester at MCLA, click here.

To help make opportunities available for other students, please support the Alumni Fund by making a gift today.  


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Paul J. Groff Jr. ’15

In 2015, Paul J. Groff Jr. ’15, of Mechanicville, New York, found himself on stage, about to sing one of two solos in front of hundreds of people at the International Competition for Collegiate A Capella (ICCA) in Boston. Perhaps best known for its inclusion in the Pitch Perfect movies, the ICCA invited MCLA’s a capella group, the Allegrettos, to perform.

“I felt like a natural. I wasn’t really nervous anymore. I gave it my all,” Paul said. “It was probably one of the best things I did at MCLA – besides research conferences.”

While at MCLA, Paul served as an admissions ambassador and as secretary to the Education Club. In addition, he co-founded and served as the president of the Sociological Society club.

Read more about Paul's experiences.

 

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This fall MCLA welcomed Jim Clemmer ’86 as Interim President of MCLA. He will continue in this role until the 12th President of MCLA is selected.
Clemmer served on MCLA’s Board of Trustees as its alumni representative for the last eight years and is a veteran executive with more than 25 years of varied business experience. Now retired, he is a member of the board of directors for Lantheus Holdings, Inc., of North Billerica, Mass. He most recently served as president of the medical supplies segment at Covidien plc in Mansfield, Mass., where he was responsible for managing operations and growth of a $2 billion global business, utilizing 15 manufacturing sites around the world. He has extensive experience in sales and marketing, manufacturing, and research and development. 
Jim is looking forward to spending time with our alumni community during the coming months. 
Click here to read more.
MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center is now in the running to bring a 10-week live music series to North Adams during the summer of 2016.
Sponsored by Levitt Pavilions, the national nonprofit behind the largest free concert series in America, MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center hopes to qualify as one of the 15 winning organizations competing in the Levitt AMP North Adams Grant Awards.
The Levitt AMP North Adams Grant Awards are an exciting matching grant opportunity created by Levitt Pavilions to serve small to mid-sized towns and cities up to 400,000 people. Fifteen nonprofits, or municipalities partnering with a nonprofit, will receive up to $25,000 each in matching funds to produce their own Levitt AMP Music Series—an outdoor, free concert series featuring a diverse lineup of professional musicians.
MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center submitted the proposal for North Adams. The proposed venue site is Colegrove Park. North Adams’s proposal is now posted on the Levitt AMP website for public voting. http://levittamp.org
A successful campaign for MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center depends on community participation to get as many online votes as possible to bring the concert series to town. Community support, as measured by the number of online votes received, will be one of the key factors when Levitt Pavilions selects the 15 winners. 
WE NEED YOUR HELP to choose the Top 20 finalists! Voting opens today November 2, so Spread the word and rally your friends, family, colleagues and neighbors to vote for 2016 Levitt AMP North Adams!
Supporters are asked to visit https://grant.levittamp.org/voter-registration-page/ to register and vote. Online public voting is now open and ends Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. The Top 25 finalists will be selected through online public voting. Levitt Pavilions will then review the proposals of these 25 finalists and the 15 Levitt AMP winners will be announced on January 5, 2016.
MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, the City of North Adams Office of Tourism and Community Events, and MASS MoCA want to expand access to high-quality, family-friendly music in North Adams.  We’ll use the Levitt AMP North Adams Grant to bring ten weeks of awesome music in August, September, and October 2016 to the newly renovated Colegrove Park in the heart of downtown North Adams.  
MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center asks supporters to start spreading the word to family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors and rally the community to sign up and vote for MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center’s proposal.
Learn more at http://levittamp.org.

 

Tony Dolan ’84  Service to the College Award; Sandra Jillson King ’65 Outstanding Educator Emeritus Award; Victoria Welch ’09 Young Alumnus Award; Sara Luczynski ’02 Outstanding Educator Award; Interim President James C. Clemmer ’86; Sharon and Carl Kingsley - the parents of Christopher Kingsley ’90 Distinguished Alumnus Award; and Cecelia Hamrock Kennedy ’78 Humanitarian Award.