• A one-day diversity training for our coaches by an outside facilitator.
• A service learning project for all student-athletes and coaches centering on diversity (topic to be determined by student-athletes and coaches).
• A January 2005 overnight retreat for all student-athletes and coaches with diversity exercises centering on fall team experiences and the service learning project; the coaches will implement what they learned from working with the outside facilitator in the fall.
• An annual award to be given to someone who has made a significant contribution to promoting diversity in athletics (with day-long roundtable discussions, lecture, and subsequent discussion).
• Diversity assessment questionnaires (and subsequent team discussion) to be conducted at the beginning and end of each team’s season.

New Mac G5 work stations in the Graphics Lab. Reusing some older displays allowed better use of our funds. With the new machines we have also been able to update our graphics software to Adobe’s new Creative Suite*. These inter-related applications are the industry standard much like Microsoft Office and allow students to manipulate images for Digital Photography, set and layout high quality type for Graphic Design, and experiment with shapes and colors for basic design courses. As we move further into the 21st Century it becomes more and more important that students realize the dominant role of computers in the design professions.

Students today have higher expectations about computer equipment and it plays a role in college choice. If you have been using computers since grade school you are aware of what is current and do no wish to take a backward step when selecting a college. This update will avoid conflicts and compatibility issues with student’s dorm or home computers and clearly demonstrates the college’s commitment to providing our students with a quality educational experience.

*Adobe PhotoShop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive CS, and Adobe Acrobat Professional.

In addition to Daughter Of, Kathleen Aguero is the author of two previous volumes of poetry: Thirsty Day and The Real Weather. She has also co-edited two volumes of multicultural literature, A Gift of Tongues and An Ear to the Ground, and edited Daily Fare: Essays from the Multicultural Experience, for the University of Georgia Press. She has been a Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a Professor of English and Director of the College Composition Program at Pine Manor College.

Blurbs about Daughter Of

Daughter Of is a rich and compelling book by a poet at the height of her powers. Kathleen Aguero doesn’t waste words, writes with feeling, and knows how to deliver a kick-in-the-teeth surprise. Her gift for seeing sharp, unexpected resemblances kept me saying Yes--—that’s exactly right. Her account of the bitter post-Tempest married life of Shakespeare’s Miranda is alone worth the price of admission; but the book abounds in other accomplished poems, evidently drawn from myth, dream, longing, family lore and memorable experience.
X.J. Kennedy

In Daughter Of, Kathleen Aguero documents, with devastating precision, the private and public lives of girls and women. Inflected by feminism and post modernism, these poems—couplets, free verse, litany, prose poem, rhymed quatrains, crowns of sonnets, villanelle—deliver many sonic pleasures as they detonate pieties. The poet deploys figures from religion and mythology to illuminate, with canny intelligence, western constructions of body, gender, relationship: in a dramatic monologue, a contemporary Persephone admits I mistook/his appraisal for praise. There’s no mistaking Aguero’s linguistic nimbleness or her searing insights in this heartbreaking and tough-minded collection.
Robin Becker
author of The Horse Fair

The Miranda of the brilliant opening sequence in Kathleen Aguero’s new collection, Daughter Of embodies Deleuze and Guattari’s radical insight, from Anti-Oedipus, that “the unconscious is an orphan and creates itself out of nature and man.” Forged of equal parts will and insight, the Miranda who abandons her fate for the dark lore of her mother and brother is the mind and heart that course through all the poems of this collection. Wide-ranging and masterful in form, they wed sheer lyric gorgeousness with discursive gravity. The woman’s voice in American poetry that was only dreamed of thirty years ago has been realized in this collection that excavates and polishes finds from the landscape of female life in myth, literature, religion and integrates them seamlessly and inevitably with the pantheon of a lived contemporary and domestic life.
Linda McCarriston

Kathleen Aguero's schedule of readings from her new book:

• Sept. 30, 7:00 p.m. - Andover Bookstore, 89R, Andover, Mass.
• Oct, 6, 7:30 p.m - Chapter & Verse, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave. Jamaica Plain, with Jean Flanagan
• Oct. 14, 7:00 p.m. - New England Poetry Club, Central Sq., Library, Cambridge, with Richard Hoffman
• Nov. 3, 7:00 p.m - Quincy Public Library, Quincy, Mass., with Jean Flanagan and Richard Hoffman
• Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m - Arlington Center for the Arts, 41 Foster St., Arlington, with Steve Cramer
• Nov. TBA - Bedford Public Library, Bedford, Mass.
• Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m - Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St, Newton, Mass., with Dan Tobin
• Dec. 19 - Cornelia St Café, NYC, with Dan Tobin
• Wed. Jan. 26 - MacIntyre and Moore Bookstore, Davis Sq., Somerville, Mass., with other readers (to be announced)
• April 1, 2005 - Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle
• Spring 2005 - University of Cincinnati, specific date to be announced.

The methodology for the diversity ranking was created by Philip Meyer and Shawn McIntosh and published in 1992 in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. It identifies colleges where students are most likely to encounter undergraduates from racial or ethnic groups different from their own. U.S. News factors in the total proportion of minority students - leaving out international students - and the overall mix of groups, and uses a formula that produces a diversity index that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0. The closer a school's number is to 1.0, the more diverse is the student population. PMC's diversity index improved to 0.68, up 0.04 from last year's assessment, and pushed the College even further ahead of other colleges at the top of this year's rankings.

For the Fall 2003 semester, PMC students identified themselves according to the following racial/ethnic classifications: 30% White/Caucasian; 30% Black/Non-Hispanic; 11% International; 10% Hispanic/Latina; 7% Cape Verdean; 4% Asian American; 1% Native American; 7% Other or Unreported.

The diversity of the population greatly assists the College in achieving its mission to "prepare women for inclusive leadership and social responsibility in their workplaces, communities and families". Few colleges and universities enjoy the rich diversity that exists at Pine Manor College. The PMC community is uniquely preparing young women for the challenges of an increasingly diverse society.

U.S. News & World Report America's Best Colleges 2005 Diversity Ranking

In attendance were President Gloria Nemerowicz, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Susan Webber, Sociology Professor Christa Kelleher, History Professor Kristen Petersen, Financial Resources Counselor Sophia Henderson, Special Events Director MaryJane Walsh, and students Rachelle S. Camille ‘03, Nadege Manigut ’05, Katiana Noel ’06, and Ashley Randall ’05.

12-Year-Old Daughter of PMC Alumna Speaks at Democratic National Convention

Twelve-year-old Ilana Wexler, daughter of Jonathan and Heidi Neipris Wexler ’82, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, in July, at the invitation of Teresa Heinz Kerry, who had met the unabashed Kerry supporter during a campaign stop in Oakland, California. As a result of her speech, Ilana was invited to appear on both the David Letterman and Jay Leno shows.

Seventh grader Ilana caught political fever last spring and founded kidsforkerry.org. She converted her birthday party in March into a Kerry fundraiser. With 15 of her friends, Ilana raised more than $1,000 for the campaign in less than four hours. Her chocolate birthday cake read, “A vote for Kerry is a vote for kids.”

Since the end of school in June, Ilana has been working eight hours a day, five days a week at the local Kerry campaign headquarters. Ilana was introduced to campaigning by her politically active parents when she was only ten months old.

Ilana’s mother, Heidi, is a drama therapist working with senior citizens with dementia, and her father, Jonathan, is an accountant. She also has an eight-year-old brother, Mori.

The Met is nationally acclaimed for its innovative educational design and exceptionally high retention, graduation, and college acceptance rates. It was chosen as one of six public high schools in the United States to participate in the Pathways to College Study for its extraordinary ability to get traditionally underserved urban students through high school and into college.

From the beginning, the Pine Manor/Met Partnership has been a top-down and bottom-up endeavor, with faculty and staff spending time on each other’s campuses, developing a rich and thoughtful dialogue on how best to work together. Five Met alumnae are currently enrolled at Pine Manor (with 16 applications from the current Met senior class). In addition, the partnership has grown to include opportunities for Met students to participate in Pine Manor’s Leadership Weekends; a mentoring component for Met alumnae in their freshman year at Pine Manor; faculty discussions and collaborations on college readiness workshops for all Met seniors; Summer Infusion for incoming first-years; and a picnic at Pine Manor for incoming Met students’ families.

Looking ahead, PMC faculty and staff are strengthening ties with Met Center teachers and counselors and working on new initiatives to further aid students with academic readiness, college preparation, first-year transition, and family engagement.

“President Ferry had great vision for what Pine Manor College might become and great courage to forge our independence,” said President Gloria Nemerowicz. “He also worked incredibly hard to build a fine academic program and to build relationships with our alumnae all over the world. I am personally grateful for the guidance and support he provided me during these past 7 years. It was obvious that his attachment to the welfare of the College stayed with him throughout his life. He will be missed, but never forgotten.”

Reflecting on Carl Ferry’s presidency, Professor of French Mary Gegerias said, “President Ferry was always most concerned with academics. He was sensitive, thoughtful, and full of encouragement. He worked with us to establish the PMC in Paris Program in 1964, even though he was very busy with the move from Wellesley to Chestnut Hill.”

Before becoming President of Pine Manor Junior College, President Ferry held executive positions at the Rhode Island School of Design and Bradford Junior College. He was a former president of the New England Junior College Council and a member of the board of directors of the American Association of Junior Colleges and of the School and College Relations Committee of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Hamilton College (N.Y.). President Ferry graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1931. He received his AB degree from Hamilton College and his MEd degree from Harvard University in 1951.

President Ferry was married twice. His first wife, Elizabeth, was well known in the PMC community. They had two sons, Frederick C. III and Jonathan. President Ferry was predeceased by both Elizabeth and his second wife, Carol.
President Ferry’s ashes were interred in his father’s plot in the cemetery of Hamilton College, where his father had been president from 1917 to 1938.

Condolences may be sent to the family through his son, Frederick, at 18 Leland Street, Grafton, MA 01519. Because President Ferry was an avid ice hockey player, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Charles Moore Arena, PO Box 1441, Orleans, MA 02653.

A scholarship is being established at PMC in President Ferry’s name. Contributions may be sent to the Development Office, Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

In making the announcement of the new program, President Nemerowicz said, “We are delighted with this new collaborative effort with Boston College. During their first two years at PMC, interested students will be able to take introductory nursing courses at Boston College, which is less than a mile from our campus. Working closely with their academic advisors, they will then determine whether a nursing career is what they really want.

“Students successfully completing the 2-year collaborative program will then have the option of transferring to BC’s School of Nursing for their junior and senior years to complete their degree,” Dean of the College Nia Lane Chester explained. “It is a win-win situation for everyone.”

To participate in the program students need to have taken a minimum of 2 years of high school science, including biology and chemistry, and 3 of math, including algebra I and II and geometry. While in the program they need to maintain of minimum 3.2 GPA at PMC and obtain at least a C+ in the three required courses at Boston College.

The idea for the weekend came from a number of Gibson’s pupils, including tennis greats Leslie Allen, Zina Sands, and the late Andrea Buchanan, who had participated in a similar event 25 years ago. The weekend was co-sponsored by the Sportsmen’s Tennis Club of Dorchester, the Leslie Allen Foundation, and PMC.

In welcoming the participants at breakfast, President Nemerowicz said, “We are delighted to be hosting the WIN4LIFE Tennis Weekend. We are in the business of preparing young women for lives of inclusive leadership and social responsibility, and the sponsors of this tournament seek to support young women athletes in envisioning their futures and setting goals by encouraging them to develop self-esteem and self-reliance. It is appropriate that we collaborate on this important undertaking.”

The Sportsmen’s Tennis Club of Dorchester is the only African-American owned and operated, nonprofit, indoor tennis club in the country. Founded in the early 1960s, it annually serves more than 1,000 low-income, inner-city youth, teaching them the love of tennis, as well as the development of critical life skills, including discipline, perseverance, self-esteem, self-reliance, goal setting, a sense of healthy competition, and good sportsmanship.

The Leslie Allen Foundation was founded by the former world-ranked tennis professional. Its WIN4LIFE program attempts to teach both tennis and life skills to young, ethnically diverse, urban females to help them become valuable and productive citizens of the world. The program emphasizes four key “D” words: desire, determination, discipline, and dedication, and how they can be used to be successful both on and off the court.

It rained! For the first time in more than a decade. Not a warm spring drizzle, but a cold, bone-chilling downpour that was more like March than May. And it did not let up until early afternoon.

However, the indomitable PMC spirit rose the occasion, and more than 1,000 alumnae, faculty, staff, families, and friends of the graduating Class of 2004, with unfurled umbrellas gathered in the glad by the pond to witness the full pomp and circumstance of this year's Commencement.

Promptly at 11 a.m., the brass ensemble sounded out the processional, and the line of College officials, faculty, and 77 graduating seniors made its way out onto the field. I twas raining so hard the musicians had to struggle to keep the rain out of their instruments.

President Gloria Nemerowicz opened the festive ceremony, describing the occasion as a celebration of Pine Manor College's learning community of women and the completion of a task done well. For the graduating seniors, she added, "In spite of the rain we take time to honor you and your achievement and are proud of your accomplishments. We have high expectations for you and for the contributions that you will make to our common good. More than ever, our troubled world needs what you can bring - compassion for others and the ability to bring human connectedness."

President Nemerowicz was followed by honorary degree recipient Reverend Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., who delivered the invocation, and by seniors Yuki Asaka, who sang the Alma Mater, Neelanjana Sen, who gave the class farewell, and Kellie Maddigan, who sang "It's Time to Go."

Honorary doctorate degrees were then conferred on noted arts administrator, producer, and alumna Priscilla Dewey Houghton '44; social justice activist Barbara F. Lee; and co-pastor of the Bethel AME Church in Boston and pediatrician at the the South End Community Health Center, the Reverend Gloria White-Hammond, M.D.

In accepting her honorary degree, Houghton said tot eh graduates, "You are an awesome, diverse collection of the best, and you have endowed this fine inclusive college with a fabulous new look and an inclusive leadership model for women." She concluded by urging, "Hold on to your creative piece. Keep your creative talents hardwired, enhancing your profession, your career. They'll help you find your own true voice, discover what are good at, and develop a style that is unique, as you are."

Fellow honoree Barbara F. Lee told the graduates that they always needed to be conscious of the difference that they could make as individuals, as well as the collective difference that they could make as women.

"More than twenty-two million women who ave the vote didn't vote in the last presidential election," Lee pointed out. "We are the largest single group of nonvoters, and yet, paradoxically, when we hold public office, we are the most likely to vote for legislation that benefits society and propels social change."

"You can make a difference," she charged the graduates. "Envision yourselves as leaders, and go as far as you can."

Honoree White-Hammond reminded the students that many of them were first-generation college student like herself, and all of them were the embodiment of the voices, vision, dreams, and determination of generations of women in their own families.

"All of you have a responsibility to the women who have gone before you," she stressed. "Work for your dream, fight for your dream, be stubborn for your dream, an it he words of the negro spiritual, 'Don't let nobody turn you around, turn you around, turn you around. Keep on walkin', keep on talkin', until you get on the freedom trail.'"

After President Nemerowicz presented the faculty awards, student honors and awards, and the Distinguished Service Award, Dean Nia Lane Chester presented the graduating class for the formal awarding of their degrees.

At the end of the ceremony, President Nemerowicz called on the graduating seniors to jointly express their thanks to the faculty and to their parents for the support an encouragement that they gave them over the past four years.

The women graduating from Pine Manor, including those who graduated in December, received the following Bachelor's and Associate's degrees: 15 in Biology; 30 in Business Administration; 19 in Communication; 3 in English; 1 in History and Culture; 3 in Liberal Studies; 13 in Psychology; 5 in Social and Political Systems; and 9 in Visual Arts.

The festival, which was organized by students Joan Rule and Kellie Maddigan, will feature the creative works of Pine Manor College students. A “Best of Festival” award will be given out to the film that best exemplifies originality and all-around superb work. Popcorn and soda will be provided during the festival.

The reception will feature readings by the three authors who all have extensive lists of publications and who are well known in local poetry circles.

• Kathleen Aguero will read from her latest book of poetry, The Body's Constant Changing, published by Cedar Hill Press this spring.
• Carol Hobbs' book manuscript is titled "New Found Lande". She was awarded the PEN Discovery Award for this manuscript and was honored with a reading at Emerson College in March 2004. Hobbs' manuscript is currently seeking publication and has been solicited by a Canadian publisher, Breakwater Books.
• Jean Flanagan is the author of Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press, 1993). Her work has appeared in numerous publications. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts – Boston. Flanagan currently teaches at Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA.

Ms. Red-Horse is an enrolled member of the Texas Band of Cherokee. A graduate of UCLA and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, she has extensive credits as an actress. Frustrated with the small and stereotypical roles available to Native Americans, Ms. Red-Horse turned to writing and producing. Her original screenplay, Lozen, based on the life of an Apache woman warrior, was honored by the prestigious Sundance Institute Writers Lab. In 1995, she created the story for the Emmy-winning CBS special, My Indian Summer. She also produced an American Film Institute project, Looks Into the Night, and served as a screenwriter and lead actress for the film.
The productions of her company, Red-Horse Native Productions, include Naturally Native, which deals with a contemporary Indian woman and True Whispers, a documentary about the Navajo code talkers.

Ms. Red-Horse is active in the Bel Air Presbyterian Church and its outreach ministries and youth workshops at Indian reservations nation-wide. She is the director of the Hollywood Access Program for Natives, which provides internships and career opportunities for Native Americans.

Ms. Red-Horse is the founder and chair of Native Nations Asset Management and Red-Horse Securities Inc., which is the first Native American owned securities brokerage investment bank in the country. With her husband, Ms. Red-Horse also owns an advertising specialty business.

Ms. Red-Horse is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild of America, and the Directors Guild of America. A Cherokee Medal of Honor awardee, she has received the Eagle Spirit award and the Producer of the Year award at the American Indian Film Festival.Previous recipients of the PMC leadership award, which was established in 1997, include Liz Walker, News Anchor, WBZ-TV4; Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Founder and Chair of the Board, The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Wendy Kopp, Founder and President of Teach For America; Mavis Nicholson Leno, Chair, Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls, Feminist Majority Foundation; Nell Merlino and Iris Burnett, Co-Founders of Count-Me-In for Women’s Economic Independence; Kathy Checci, Attorney and President of The Trusteeship; Alison Winter, Vice President, Northern Trust Bank; Jeanne Wolf, TV and Print Journalist; and Lynn M. Martin, Former Secretary of Labor.

Eyes on the Prize, an epic documentary about the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, was produced by Backside Films in Boston, an African-American film company headed by the late Henry Hampton, a well-respected member of the African-American community in Boston.

Crossley, a former TV network producer for ABC's 20/20, is now a contributing member of the WGBH -TV public affairs show Greater Boston, "Beat the Press" segment. She is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard and Fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard.
Crossley will show clips from her film, discuss how she made the film, and talk about the lessons to be learned from this era of African-American history. A dynamic speaker, she is especially interested in the concerns of minority women and media.

Crossley’s presentation is sponsored by Pine Manor College’s Anne P. Nicholson ’40 Distinguished Lecturer Series and the BA Program in Communication. The talk is free and is open to the general public. Ample free parking is available on the PMC campus.