{"id":47,"date":"2025-04-10T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:10:05","slug":"mount-holyoke-at-the-transcript-telegram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/mount-holyoke-at-the-transcript-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Holyoke at the <i>Transcript-Telegram<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2495_005-scaled-e1744823835246-1024x718.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students from Mount Holyoke sit on and at desks in the news office of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram newspaper.\" class=\"wp-image-19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2495_005-scaled-e1744823835246-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2495_005-scaled-e1744823835246-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2495_005-scaled-e1744823835246-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2495_005-scaled-e1744823835246-1536x1077.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/2495_005-scaled-e1744823835246.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mount Holyoke Girls T-T Reporters For A Day, Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, January 19, 1961.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the 1930s to the early 1960s, a select group of Mount Holyoke students, often staff members of <em>The Mount Holyoke News<\/em>,<em> <\/em>were invited annually to the offices of the <em>Holyoke Transcript-Telegram<\/em>, a local newspaper, to be guest journalists for a day. As guests of the newspaper, students had their articles published in the <em>Holyoke Transcript<\/em>&#8211;<em>Telegram<\/em>. These visits were an opportunity for students to see what working at a newspaper might be like after graduation. The tradition of the \u201cMount Holyoke day at the T-T\u201d was established by William G. Dwight, an editor and publisher at the newspaper and Trustee for Mount Holyoke College, and his wife Minnie Ryan Dwight, an editor and publisher at the <em>Holyoke<\/em> <em>Transcript-Telegram<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1953, the Minnie Ryan Dwight Prize for excellence in journalism was established. A prize of $25 was awarded to a Mount Holyoke student either in the English department\u2019s journalism class, Mount Holyoke College News Bureau, or the student newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 1930s to the early 1960s, a select group of Mount Holyoke students, often staff members of The Mount Holyoke News, were invited annually to the offices of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, a local newspaper, to be guest journalists for a day. As guests of the newspaper, students had their articles published in the Holyoke [&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-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}