Jeronimo started all 16 games as a freshman, playing every minute of every contest, a streak that spanned her first 1,480 minutes as a collegian.

"I'm glad she was recognized for her commitment and hard work," said Gators coach Cory Kinsella.

The midfielder logged one goal on 14 shots on the season, her work ethic serving as an example to her teammates, eight of whom, like Jeronimo, are freshmen.

"She is what we want to build on," said the second-year coach. "I feel very proud of Kasey and all she has accomplished this season.”

"It’s a big accomplishment to be Rookie of the Year," said Segal-Bator (Bow, NH/Bow), who credited her teammates for their inspiration, as well as the seventh-place finish. "I'd really like to thank my teammates, because they're amazing and they keep my hopes and pride alive on the course, no matter the situation."

Sophomore Kelly Pirzl (Dalton, MA/Wachonah) placed second among Gators at 25:54, good for 61st overall. Closely behind were Patty Pabon (Bronx, NY/Townsend Harris) at 26:13 and Courtney Wallace (Steep Falls, ME/Bonny Eagle) at 26:22, finishing 68th and 69th, respectively.

Segal-Bator becomes the first Pine Manor runner to earn either All-GNAC or Rookie of the Year distinction. The four-time GNAC Rookie of the Week has finished no worse than sixth in any of her six meets.
Said coach Bill Stargard, "This was a great team effort. I'm extremely happy with moving up in the GNAC this year." With an average finish of 25:28 on Saturday, his Gators moved up four spots after finishing 11th a year ago. "I'm very happy with Lindsey's third-place finish and for her All-Conference and Rookie of the Year recognition," he said. "I'm very proud of all of five runners."

The host Monks won today's meet with an average time of 21:51, placing four runners in the Top 10. Emmanuel's Cat Lariviere paced the women's field at 19:46.

Segal-Bator now moves on to the Division III New England Regional Meet on Saturday, November 15 at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.

Pine Manor (49 points) ran to its highest finish of 2008, taking second behind the host Blue Jays (33 points). Sophomore Kelly Pirzl (Dalton, MA/Washona) and senior Patty Pabon (Bronx, NY/ Townsend Harris) placed eighth and ninth, respectively, at 26 minutes, 30 seconds and 26 minutes 36 seconds.

The reigning GNAC Cross Country Rookie of the Week, Segal-Bator finished nearly a minute ahead of the second place finisher.

A $574,000 grant to Pine Manor College from the National Science Foundation will be used over the next four years to implement the BioScholars Program, providing financial aid, special support and extra assistance to about 20 students of promise in the Biology program to help them be successful in their field. 

The BioScholars program will begin serving approximately 10 students this fall and continue for four years, admitting a second cohort of 10 in the fall of 2009 and following them through to graduation in the spring of 2012. These students will be enrolled in an Honors Colloquium in Biology designed to deepen students’ understanding of what it means to study science in a liberal arts context, as well as to introduce them to the range of career possibilities in the sciences through readings and interactions with successful women scientists employed in a variety of venues. In addition, a Biology tutor will be hired in the College’s Learning Resource Center to serve their academic needs. Workshops will also be provided to the PMC BioScholars to assist them to obtain scientific internships, admission to graduate schools and/or employment in one of the life sciences. 

Perhaps most importantly, each participant will receive a scholarship to help close the gap between their existing aid and the cost of attending—an amount that currently averages $8,333 per Biology student per year.  This award will be adjusted annually (to a maximum of $10,000) and follow each BioScholar through to graduation as long as need and eligibility continue.

“We are thrilled to announce our first federal grant,” said Pine Manor President Gloria Nemerowicz. “Not only will the funding from the National Science Foundation allow some of our promising young women to reach their full potential, but we believe it will also enhance our communities when these young women – made up of groups underrepresented in the sciences: minority and low-income women – advance to help to diversify the scientific workforce and bring new perspectives to research, teaching and commerce in the fields of biology and biotechnology.”

Pine Manor College is proud to announce that it has been ranked Number One for campus diversity among BA liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report America's Best Colleges 2009. The ranking is based on the statistical likelihood of any student interacting with other students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

For the 2007-2008 academic year, upon which this ranking is based, PMC students identified themselves according to the following racial/ethnic classifications:

47%	Black/Non-Hispanic
18%	White/Caucasian
14%	Hispanic/Latina
6%	International
5%	Asian or Pacific Islander
1%	American Indian
9%	Other or Unreported

2009 U.S. News Rankings for Campus Diversity

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Through a camp facilitated by Multicultural Village, the young people, who were between the ages of 12 and 19, were given lessons on conflict resolution, dealing with violence and how to be socially responsible and culturally competent citizens. Multicultural Village provided an environment where they could learn about one another, themselves, and their environment, exchange experiences and grow together.

The 17-day camp was spearheaded by founder of Multicultural Village, Trinidad-born political scientist Michelle Cromwell, a professor at Pine Manor College, a liberal arts college for women in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She holds a Master of Science degree in Dispute Resolution from Nova Southeastern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

Cromwell explained that the camp allowed participants from diverse backgrounds to interact with each other while obtaining skills in conflict resolution, cross cultural relations and leadership.

By VERDEL BISHOP Thursday, August 28 2008
This article originally appeared in Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday

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Pine Manor College is proud to announce that it has been ranked Number One for campus diversity among BA liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report America's Best Colleges 2009. The ranking is based on the statistical likelihood of any student interacting with other students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

For the 2007-2008 academic year, upon which this ranking is based, PMC students identified themselves according to the following racial/ethnic classifications:

2009 U.S. News Rankings for Campus Diversity
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PMC is pleased to welcome Vanessa Shannon to the College, who has joined us as the new Associate Dean of the College for Foundational Learning. Vanessa comes to us most recently from Westchester Community College where she was the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, occupying previous administrative and teaching positions at Roxbury Community College and Middlesex Community College. Vanessa holds an EdD from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and has worked in a variety of capacities to promote success. Her recent publications included College: The First Two Years (Simon and Schuster), Reading, Writing and Library Research (Kendall Hunt) and Parenting, Minority Students and College Persistence (in press). Vanessa will be facilitating the First Year Seminar Program and also working closely with faculty and student life staff to help frame a coherent and integrated two year foundational experience for our students.

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Deep in the pine woods of Smithfield, two dozen Providence youngsters are getting a taste of what summer is like for their more privileged peers.

A camp counselor explains a game that involves passing a small ball in between a spider web of ropes without touching any of the lines.

“Imagine,” the counselor says, “that an electric current is flowing through here.”

The children are intrigued. There are giggles as the first few attempts to successfully pass the ball from one side to the other fail. Although the game is fun in its own right, the underlying lesson is about the value of team work.

A couple of hundred yards away, another bunch of kids are jumping into a pond. The novice swimmers stay in the shallow end while the more experienced swimmers venture out in deeper water and play tag.

With its pine-scented air and fresh water, Camp Shepard, a YMCA facility, is a far cry from the macadam playgrounds of Providence and offers a welcome reprieve from the blistering heat.

This is the first time that the Providence After School Alliance has offered a summer program for middle school youth. The three-week pilot program gave about 300 students the opportunity to swim, bike, cook and practice filmmaking in a variety of settings.

“This age group needs a safe place to explore,” says Hillary Salmons, executive director of the Providence After School Alliance, known as PASA. “They need a structured place to test themselves.”

Children can visit the zoo and learn about environmental issues at Roger Williams Park, take sailing lessons at the Community Boating Center or try archery at Camp Shepard. The activities have been offered in partnership with the YMCA of Greater Providence, the John Hope Settlement House, the City Parks Department and other local community groups.

Now in its fourth year, PASA has organized a network of neighborhood after-school activities for middle school students, who have historically been left to their own devices between the time school ends and the time their parents get home from work. The goal is to provide children with structured activities under the supervision of trained adults. Plans are now under way to expand PASA to include high school students.

At Camp Shepard, the children were having a field day splashing in the lake and climbing on the ropes course.

“It’s keeping me active,” said 13-year-old Divine Smith. “I’d be home watching television if it wasn’t for this.”

Another middle school student, Dustin Isom, said he’s having fun making new friends and trying out new activities. The swim test, he said, was particularly challenging: “They made us tread water for 30 seconds and the water was really cold.”

The PASA summer program has another component: training teenagers to be camp counselors. Mayor David N. Cicilline’s Substance Abuse Prevention Council, the YMCA and the Traveling Theatre Inc. have helped PASA recruit and train 39 high school students. Teenagers will also receive career and college counseling paid for by Workforce Solutions of Providence and Cranston.

In addition, two dozen college students have been trained as youth engagement specialists by the various community agencies and they provide guidance to the high school counselors.

“We’re trained to mentor the younger counselors and be goodwill ambassadors,” said Asia Smith, a student at Pine Manor College in Massachusetts. “I’m majoring in psychology and this job is helping me decide exactly what I want to do with kids when I graduate.”

Another Pine Manor student, 17-year-old Mitzi Martinez, said she is learning as much from the children as they are from her.

“I like spending time with kids,” she said. “I’m learning to be patient and to communicate with children.”

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Leadership Exploration camp boosts girls' self-esteem

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Scantily clad women fawn over a fully dressed man in an advertisement for hair products. There are many images like that sprinkled throughout the glossy pages of the gossip, teen, and fashion magazines being passed around.

But the young girls scrutinizing them are not impressed. In fact, they're a little miffed.

"I never really thought about how bad it was until today," said 12-year-old Sarah Grove, after spending about an hour examining magazines for both negative and positive images of women. "I would really look at them differently now."

Grove was one of about two dozen Framingham middle school girls participating in a session on "Beauty and the Media," part of a three-week camp to help girls build their self-esteem and their leadership skills.

The girls unanimously agreed that in the pages they examined, negative images of women were easier to find than positive images.

Officials at Girls Inc., a New York City-based nonprofit organization with programs all over Massachusetts, say educational programs aimed at boosting the confidence of young girls have become more popular in recent years, and are increasingly targeting earlier grade levels. The organization conducts programs for girls as young as 6, talking with them about self-esteem, the media's portrayal of women, and opportunity.

"From our research and from our experience, we are very aware that girls today are growing up getting a lot of conflicting information about what girls can be and should be," said Marcia Kropf, chief operating officer of Girls Inc.

They see that a woman can run for president but they also see - more often - women portrayed as sex objects, she said. And they are bombarded by media images that "celebrate self-destructive behavior among young celebrities," said Kropf.

The Framingham girls were taking part in a Girls' Leadership Exploration camp, held at Pine Manor College in Newton and funded largely through a federal Department of Education grant. The agency's 21st Century Community Learning Centers program supports school-based efforts aimed at lower-income students. Middle school students participate during the academic year, and those with good attendance are rewarded with the summer program. This is the Framingham camp's third year.

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Bad news for 40,000 families hit this week when the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority announced that it could not offer private student loans this year because it had failed to secure financing. Created by the state Legislature in 1982, MEFA provided more than $500 million in loans last year.

It was another tale of student loan woe sparked by the nation's troubled credit markets. And it will take more government action to make sure college students have the financing they need.

Losing MEFA hurts, says Adrienne Montgomery, the financial aid director at Pine Manor College, where 20 percent of students borrowed private loans from MEFA in the 2007-08 school year. Montgomery says that families with poor credit histories who couldn't get loans elsewhere could borrow from MEFA. And because MEFA works with borrowers, its net default rate on $2.5 billion in loan originations is less than 1 percent. The agency is still trying to raise money to offer loans, possibly for this fall. But Pine Manor and other colleges are directing families to other lenders.

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“Congratulations to the first class of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College,” said Dennis Lehane, one of the Program’s founding fiction faculty members. “I hope you’re as proud of yourselves and your accomplishments as we faculty are.” Mr. Lehane, who serves as the program’s writer-in-residence, is author of such best-selling novels as Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island.

The MFA Program features concentrations in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and writing for children & young adults. Two of the three MFA students who graduated from Pine Manor write for young people, while the third is a poet. Receiving their MFA Degrees were Kirsten Blocker of Massachusetts; Adam Eisenson of North Carolina; and John Theo, Jr., of Massachusetts.

Adam Eisenson, who concentrated in writing for children and young adults, spoke on behalf of his class, saying: “If you attend an MFA in Creative Writing program with an open mind and allow yourself the chance to be taught by established authors, take risks, and work hard, then there is no other place you should be than Pine Manor College. I learned more than you'll ever know.”

Pine Manor’s first MFA Commencement speaker was celebrated children’s book writer and illustrator Nina Crews. In addition to offering advice about nurturing and believing in their own creative endeavors, Ms. Crews let the graduates know that their work as students of the art of writing would not end when they received their diplomas. “I wish that you continue to grow as writers,” said Crews. “I don’t know that this ever really ends—I hope it doesn’t. I do believe that one does gain mastery of one’s craft, but good writers continue to seek new challenges. Through those challenges, they continue to grow.”  

Pine Manor College launched its Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in July 2006 and already boasts the most diverse faculty in the country, including Pushcart Prize winners Ray Gonzalez, Terence Hayes, and Dzvinia Orlowsky; Coretta Scott King Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson; Guggenheim winner Randall Kenan; and National Book Award Finalists An Na, Laban Carrick Hill, and Sandra Scofield, among others.

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 “Today is a great day!” Kennedy said. “Pine Manor College is setting an example for every school, college, and university in the country on how to fight back against out- of- control energy prices and vast quantities of our money going overseas to further enrich the OPEC countries.”  

Under the agreement, PMC becomes the first college in the country for which Citizens Energy will act as the energy services provider, assisting the College in using energy and water resources more efficiently across the campus.

“Pine Manor is proud to be the first college partnering with Citizens Energy,” said President Nemerowicz. “These efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and operate this institution in an earth-friendly manner reinforce the commitment of our faculty, staff and students, to our mission of social responsibility.”

Last year PMC spent $1.3 million on energy and water. With the help of Citizens Energy, the College will minimize the rise in energy costs, implement efficiencies in its operation, and ensure that operating standards incorporate environmental practices that lower its impact locally and globally.  Annual savings are expected to be $300,000.

“In confronting national educational challenges,” President Nemerowicz continued, “we have been strengthened by partnerships that include the Boston Public schools, The Home for Little Wanderers, Tufts University. In this new collaboration with Citizens Energy, PMC is striving for accountable stewardship in fulfilling our mission of social responsibility. We are working for the common good of our planet as well as the common good of our community.” 

“The rising costs of energy are devastating our communities, and the way we consume energy is deteriorating our environment,” Kennedy said.  “By partnering, we can find more efficient ways to consume energy, improve our business operations and move us toward a more sustainable future.”

“Citizens Energy and Pine Manor College will show that energy conservation is the only way to go,” Kennedy added  “Our individual behaviors created the crisis that our country now faces, and we now have to step forward and take responsibility. Our survival as a society, as a nation, as a planet, depend on it.”

Following remarks by Kennedy and Nemerowicz, PMC Biology senior Patricia Pabon ‘09 commented on the impact her Environmental Issues Biology course had on students. “We came to realize the true meaning of inclusive leadership and social responsibility -- that we had to take action or stand back and watch the massive negative changes take place in our eco system and in our world.”

The first phase of the project will include installation of energy efficient equipment and plumbing and state of the art building management systems designed to help reduce operating costs by saving on energy consumption. Energy and water efficient upgrades will include improvements to lighting systems; boiler and steam systems; heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems; advanced building controls; and plumbing systems.

These energy upgrades will be financed through ongoing savings, beginning next fiscal year, and through the College’s current fundraising campaign, Women of Promise: The Campaign for Pine Manor College. As part of the partnership, Citizens and Pine Manor are exploring additional ways to reduce the overall project cost through a series of state- and utility - based incentives and rebates, which will help the College continue to fulfill its mission of providing affordable higher education. Also on the agenda is assessing the integration of solar photovoltaic systems on several campus buildings---on-site alternative energy projects that provide clean renewable energy directly to campus buildings.

In the fall the entire PMC community will be involved in learning about and  implementing changes that will contribute to the project’s success. 

Thanks to the generosity of the Pine Manor community, the College not only met but exceeded the goal for the May Challenge. We would like to thank the 245 alumnae, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the College who contributed to the 2008 Annual Fund in the month of May. Your generosity has allowed us to receive $20,000 from an anonymous alumna in order to support our wonderful students in their pursuit of higher education. Many thanks for your support; we couldn’t have done it without you!

• Volleyball Second Team: Amanda Dennis
• Basketball Second Team: Laura Cecil
• Lacrosse Second Team: Stephanie Ludwig
• Softball First Team: Samantha Tempe & Courtney Wallace
• Softball Second Team: Patty Pabon, Kelly Pirzl, Jackie Martinez & Nicole Vocaturo
• Softball Coach of the Year: Erin Van Nostrand

Pine Manor Awards

• Scholar Athlete of the Year: Patty Pabon
• "Gator Pride" Award: Stephanie Ludwig
• White Letter Awards: Nicole Doras, Patty Pabon & Veronica Vozzolo
• Peter G. Ellis Award: Diann Ramsey
• Henry K. White Award: Laura Cecil
• Athlete of the Year: Courtney Wallace

Multicultural Village is a simulated Village where a community of youth and adults or adults only from extremely diverse cultural, geographic, ethnic and social groups have the opportunity to engage in PEACE BUILDING by having meaningful contact.

During our Villages we partner youth with adults who are practitioners in the Peace and Conflict Resolution field so that they will live, learn, grow and experience new ways to address violence and be socially responsible. Youth are called Villagers and adults are called Village Elders to model a traditional Village setting where adults and youth experience mutual respect, cooperation, trust and positive interaction across multiple divides. We provide the opportunities where youth can discover that their strengths and courage go beyond national, cultural or global patterns and habits. The Village is a place where youth can take a chance to stretch their minds while making lifelong friends across racial and cultural divides, learn vital life skills, create a global impact and have tons of fun.

We also provide similar Villages for adult groups who want to experience new ways to address violence, resolve conflicts and learn to be socially responsible and culturally competent national and global citizens.

Summer 2008 TRINIDAD/ COSTA RICA August 1- 23

The Village experience is single session that lasts three weeks. The Summer of 2008 Village will be based in Cumaca, a small village in the Northern Range of Trinidad, West Indies. The community action project will be in San Jose Costa Rica. It will consist of 24 youth from two ethnic groups with historical animosities and 4 adults who are conflict resolution and peace practitioners. The three week program consists of:

Week 1 August 3-8: Conflict Resolution and Peace Building Workshops
Villagers will learn crucial life skills through interactive experiential workshops. They will have opportunities to do core workshops and also to choose from a buffet of workshops that are of interest to them.

Week 2- August 11- 17: Joint Venture Initiatives: Community Action
Villagers will travel together to another country to engage in a joint venture with an International NGO in Costa Rica with local schools working on Peace building with at risk students. It will enable them to explore a new culture and gain global insight while engaging in superordinate goals and creating a common identity.

Week 3 August 19- 23: Reflection through Facing History Facing Ourselves
On returning to home base in Cumaca the Villagers will use the tools they learned from the previous weeks to engage each other. Oral tradition and story telling are powerful tools which will be used to engage all Villagers in speaking the truth for reconciliation and healing. Exercises serve to break and point out stereotypes or erroneous assumptions we hold of others. It also addresses the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma that has been passes on through family, community and national stories.

To learn more about Multicultural Village and to help fund the cause, please visit www.multiculturalvillage.org

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Pine Manor College (PMC) conferred four Master’s Degrees, 70 Bachelor Degrees, and one Associate of Art’s Degree at its 96th commencement ceremonies outdoors on its Chestnut Hill campus on Sunday, May 4, 2008, at 11 AM. It also conferred honorary doctorate degrees on Dr. JudyAnn Rollins Bigby, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Constance Hess Williams ’64, Senator, 17th District of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Jacqueline Woodson, an award-winning author.

In her remarks to the graduating seniors, Pine Manor College President Gloria Nemerowicz described the occasion as a day to celebrate “the accomplishments of your College and of your Class of 2008. Your joy, pride, and exuberant spirits are well deserved and are both a celebration and an affirmation of your four long years of growth and achievement” She then went on to say: “However, at this festive time, it is also appropriate to remember those diminished by intolerance, inequality, exclusion, and greed. Over your time here at Pine Manor College you have learned to be inclusive and you have learned to engage with others. Now it is up to you to use this power of inclusiveness to make the world a better place.”

Senior Class Speaker Zakiyyah J. Griffin ’08 shard with her class that she was the first in her family to graduate from college and that she, and many like her in the class, felt the additional pressure to succeed because of the opportunity that had been given them. She told the class “we are all special in our own way,” and ended by admonishing them to “be strong, be proud, be bold.”

Honorary degree recipient Dr. JudyAnn Rollins Bigby welcomed the class to the world and told them that there would be many more doors and many more opportunities for them than they could possibly imagine now. She advised them to” Put aside doubts. Listen to mentors and ignore tormentors and to remember and live the American dream.”

Senator Constance Hess Williams ’64, of the 17th District of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alumna of Pine Manor College, and former member of the College’s Board of Trustees touched upon how things had changed since her own graduation from the school 44 years ago. She pointed out that life brings change and opportunity and that this year in the political realm the country had the opportunity to possibly see either its first African American president or its first woman president. She ended by advising the graduates to take advantage of every single opportunity that came their way, to grow, and not to hesitate.

Finally, award winning author Jacqueline Woodson advised the class to remember that they were who they were because of the fabulous people who had gone before them, their mothers, their fathers, their grandparents, their aunts, and uncles - everyone who had cared for them and gone out of their way for them.

This year’s women graduating from Pine Manor College received the following Master’s, Bachelor's, and Associate’s degrees: four Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Degrees, 18 Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Biology; nine in Business Administration; 11 in Communication; one in English; two in History; one in Psychology and English; five in Liberal Studies; eight in Psychology; nine in Social and Political Systems; four in Visual Arts, and two in English and Communication, and one Associate of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies.

Recharge your creative energies with award-winning authors at the 4th Annual Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference on the beautiful campus of Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, this coming June 22–28, 2008. Located just five miles from downtown Boston, Pine Manor College is situated on 60 wooded acres. The campus features an architectural blend of former estate buildings and modern facilities.

Our faculty for 2008 include: Francisco Aragón (poet, anthologist; poetry workshop); Marina Budhos (novelist of adult & YA fiction; writing for young adults workshop); Stephen Dunn (poet, essayist; poetry workshop); Eric Gansworth (fiction writer, poet, painter; the novel workshop); Julia Glass (fiction writer; the novel workshop); Richard Hoffman (memoirist, essayist, poet, fiction writer; creative nonfiction workshop); Barbara Hurd (writer & naturalist; creative nonfiction workshop); Lee Hope (novelist & short-story writer; short fiction workshop); Steven Huff (fiction writer, poet, publisher; short fiction workshop); Patricia Spears Jones (poet, anthologist, editor; poetry workshop); Cleopatra Mathis (poet, teacher; poetry workshop); and Tor Seidler (writer for children and adults; writing for children workshop).

The Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference welcomes writers of various genres and styles who want to expand their knowledge of their art. Admission is selective, but the Application Committee will accept writers whose abilities range from early potential to advanced. Acceptance is based on evaluation of a short manuscript.

Complete guidelines and a downloadable application form can be found at www.pmc.edu/solstice.

For more information, contact Program Administrator Tanya Whiton at whitontanya@pmc.edu or call 617-731-7697. Completed applications can be mailed to Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference, Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Karin Rosenthal has photographed nudes in the landscape since 1975, finding resonances between body and nature first in traditional black-and-white images, and now in digital color photography. The lecture was given in conjunction with Rosenthal’s exhibit in the Hess Gallery, which draws from a variety of series to convey the evolution and range of her ideas and explorations. Primarily using light and water reflection, Rosenthal has created abstractions that challenge us to see beyond the predictable.

A free-lance photographer since 1973, Rosenthal’s commercial work has included portrait, public relations, dance, and art reproduction photography. Since 1990, she has made her living primarily from the sale of her fine art prints.  She also teaches workshops in her studio and on location in Maine and Cape Cod.

Rosenthal’s photographs are in several permanent collections, including the Boston MFA, Brooklyn Museum, Boston Public Library, International Center of Photography, Polaroid, and the Fogg, Rose, and Santa Barbara Art Museums. She graduated from Wellesley College with a major in Biology and minor in Art History and also attended Rochester Institute of Technology and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.

Portfolios of her work have been featured in the Swiss Nikon News, the leading German photo magazine, Fotomagazin, and the major U.S. design publication, Print Magazine, among others. Her nudes are represented in several books including Eros, Male Nudes by Women, The Hidden Image, the ICP Encyclopedia of Photography, and several European books of nude photography.  A book of 40 B&W Nudes, entitled "Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs", was published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the Danforth Museum of Art in 2000.  Rosenthal was the recipient of the 2006 Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant for Figurative Photography.

For more information on Karin Rosenthal's exhibition, visit the Hess Gallery Page

For more information on Karin Rosenthal's work, visit www.krosenthal.com

Harvard made headlines recently by expanding financial aid, even for wealthier families. But such initiatives by the wealthiest schools affect only a small fraction of American students. For a great many promising low-income students, access to college depends on what nonprofits and smaller, lower-profile schools are doing to improve access to higher education. In Massachusetts alone, the variety and creativity of these efforts is impressive.

Financial aid isn't always enough, argues Deborah Hirsch, Mount Ida College's interim associate vice president of academic affairs. She says access also means helping students get to graduation. That means working student by student to remove barriers. To do this Mount Ida offers "intrusive advising," a model of fast help for struggling students.

At Pine Manor College, Sophia Henderson is the go-to person for financially worried students and parents, helping make sure that money woes don't knock students out of college. She helps with immediate problems and builds financial literacy through counseling and workshops, covering student loans, scholarships, bills, paperwork, and how to avoid defaulting on loan payments.

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Doing the Right Thing

There is a reason why Pine Manor College has been Ranked#1 for Campus Diversity for 4 years in a row by U.S.News - They get it! Gloria Nemerowicz, President of Pine Manor College feels “there is much value in being among people who are different from you- to
offer and learn and expect that from the rest of the world.”

Few schools can claim that they have a retention rate of 67% for students of color.

Top Reasons to Attend PMC

• An inclusive community that focuses on the student as an individual with personal attention from faculty (10:1 student to faculty ratio), staff and fellow students.
• A comprehensive portfolio program that will help you showcase student leadership skills and accomplishments to prospective employers.
• Seven varsity athletic teams competing in NCAA Division III in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference.
• The most diverse campus of any liberal arts college in the country according to U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges.
• Small class sizes—72% of our classes have fewer than 20 students.
• A beautiful suburban campus in a residential neighborhood with on-campus parking and a great location just minutes from downtown Boston by public transportation.

Over his thirteen seasons at the helm of the Gators Boffi has coached 10 All GNAC selections, 2 GNAC Rookies of the Year, 1 GNAC Player of the Year, 1 All-American, and 2 Pine Manor Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees. His career record at Pine Manor stands at 130-193.

Prior to his arrival at Pine Manor Boffi was the Assistant Basketball Coach at Bryant College for three years. Bill also spent one year as the Head Coach of the Freshman Boys Basketball team at Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick RI, and one season prior to that at Cranston High School, Cranston, RI.

In addition to his coaching duties Bill was the Director of Athletics at Pine Manor, until his promotion to Dean of Student Retention this August. During his tenure as the Athletic Director Bill increased the Gators athletics program to seven varsity sports. He also was instrumental in Pine Manor becoming a founding member of the Great Northeast Athletics Conference.

The annual Alumnae Career Roundtable was held on the evening of February 6th. Twenty-three students (sophomores, juniors and seniors) participated in a comprehensive and informative networking dinner held in the Founder's Room. Students had the opportunity to make connections with the following alumnae participated:

• Molly Marchant '73, Director, Program Management Office, Fidelity Investments
• Shannon Carroll Miranda '91, Visual Arts Major, Principal Designer/Design Project Manager, Woodcliffe Interior and Exterior Living Spaces
• Lisa Britt Jackson, '93, Biology Major , Lab Technician, UMass Medical
• Alfonsina Betancourt '99, Visual Arts Major, Photographer -Alfonsina Betancourt Fine Art Photography
• Devon Gevoni '05, Visual Arts Major, Service Manager, West Roxbury Day Habilitation Program
• Jewell Burke '05, SPS Major, Housing Advocate, Massachusetts Housing Partnership
• Danielle D'Amato '05, Psychology Major, Family Therapist (Blackstone Valley)
• Lisa Rodrigues '06, SPS Major, Program Coordinator, Women Express Inc., Teen Voices
• Devleena Ghosh '06, Biology Major, Environmental Scientist, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc (VHB)
• Kristin McMillan '06, Biology Major, Research Study Coordinator, Children's Hospita
• Suad Maow '06, Business Major, Sr. Technical Assistant, Liberty Mutual

In the second half both teams would hold the lead but either team could pull away. Norwich would take the lead with 7:25 to play on a jumper by Karissa Doyon. Pine Manor would regain the lead with 6:01 to play when Laura Cecil knocked down her third three pointer of the game. The Gators would extend their lead when Nicole Doras (Salisbury, MA) gathered an offensive rebound and assisted Amanda Dennis's jumper. Pine Manor's lead would not last for long, Norwich's Rate hit another three pointer to give the Cadets a 49-48 led with four minutes left in the game.

Norwich increased their lead to three on a jumper by Kylie Cowens with 3:09 left. Pine Manor cut the lead to one on a Nicole Doras layup off an offensive rebound.

Pine Manor took the lead for good 51-50 when freshman Enjolee Phillips (Hartford, CT) hit a three pointer at 1:16 off a Laura Cecil assist. Norwich's Rate was fouled with 7 seconds left but good only hit one of her two foul shots. Pine Manor's Crystal Colon (Dorchester, MA) collected the rebound and made one of her two free throws to secure the win for the Gators.

Amanda Dennis led all scorers with 23 points, she also collected 10 rebounds. Laura Cecil added 19 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. Norwich was led by Erica Rate who was the only Cadet in double digits with 16 points. With the win Pine Manor improves to 1-3, 4-9 overall while Norwich falls to 3-1, 4-11. The Gators return to action on Wednesday January 23 when the face St Joseph's College (CT) tip off is scheduled for 7:00 PM.

For more information on Karin Rosenthal's exhibition, visit the Hess Gallery Page.

For more information on Karin Rosenthal's work, visit www.krosenthal.com.

Students MUST RSVP for this event.

Friday, January 4 at 7:30 p.m. — Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (author of Miracle’s Boys and Locomotion, winner of the 2003 Horn Book Award)

Saturday, January 5 at 7:30 p.m. — Ray Gonzalez & Helen Elaine Lee

Ray Gonzalez (multi-genre writer and anthologist, author of The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape) & Helen Elaine Lee (author of Water Marked and the forthcoming Life Without)

Sunday, January 6 at 7:30 p.m. — Tanya Whiton & Michael Steinberg

Tanya Whiton (Program Administrator and fiction writer; published in numerous journals including Northwest Review; and Crazyhorse 63) & Writer-in-Residence Michael Steinberg (author of Still Pitching; founding editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction)

Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30 p.m. — Wyn Cooper & Marie Harris

Special Guests Wyn Cooper (author of The Way Back and Postcards from the Interior) & Marie Harris (multi-genre writer and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire)

Wednesday, January 9 at 7:30 p.m. — Meg Kearney & Sandra Scofield

Director and poet Meg Kearney (author of An Unkindness of Ravens and The Secret of Me) & Sandra Scofield (National Book Award Finalist for Beyond Deserving and author of seven novels)

Thursday, January 10 at 7:30 p.m. — Dzvinia Orlowsky & Sheree R. Thomas

Dzvinia Orlowsky (author of Except for One Obscene Brushstroke and the forthcoming Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones) & Special Guest Sheree Renée Thomas (fiction writer and editor the award-winning Dark Matter anthologies)

Friday, January 11 at 7:30 p.m. — Joy Castro & Laban Carrick Hill

Joy Castro (author of The Truth Book) & Laban Carrick Hill (author of Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance and America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s)

Saturday, January 12 at 7:30 p.m. — An Na & Randall Kenan

An Na (author of Wait For Me and the forthcoming The Fold) & Randall Kenan (author of Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century and The Fire This Time)