{"id":43,"date":"2025-04-10T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:08:56","slug":"a-tradition-begins-the-glascock-briefcase","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/a-tradition-begins-the-glascock-briefcase\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tradition Begins: The Glascock Briefcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katherine Irene Glascock, class of 1922, was the editor-in-chief of <em>The Mount Holyoke News <\/em>during her senior year. After Glascock\u2019s unexpected death in 1923, the MHN contributed towards the prize money for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/glascock\/\">Glascock Poetry Competition<\/a>, created in Glascock\u2019s memory in 1923. The same year, a briefcase with the initials of every editor-in-chief since 1918 engraved on it was dedicated to <em>MHN. <\/em>The editorial staff created a tradition of having each new editor-in-chief\u2019s name engraved on the briefcase until its donation to the library in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2493_006-scaled-e1744823473624-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"Six Mount Holyoke students standing around a desk. One of the students in the middle holds a leather briefcase out towards another student.\" class=\"wp-image-12\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2493_006-scaled-e1744823473624-1024x799.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2493_006-scaled-e1744823473624-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2493_006-scaled-e1744823473624-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2493_006-scaled-e1744823473624-1536x1199.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2493_006-scaled-e1744823473624-2048x1599.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photograph of MHN staff presenting the Glascock briefcase to new editor-in-chief, 1936.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Irene Glascock, class of 1922, was the editor-in-chief of The Mount Holyoke News during her senior year. After Glascock\u2019s unexpected death in 1923, the MHN contributed towards the prize money for the annual Glascock Poetry Competition, created in Glascock\u2019s memory in 1923. The same year, a briefcase with the initials of every editor-in-chief since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}