Suzie Ellis Stoyer was the an active MHOC member in her time and chair of the Outing Club’s annual song contest. The song contest was a campus-wide competition in which each dorm could enter a “short, catchy, tune with words about Mount Holyoke, suited to singing around campfires and in dormitories.” In winter 2021 Suzie […]
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Astrid Hancock ’56
Memories from Astrid’s time in the Outing Club… “I entered MHC Fall 1952, was OC sect soph year, vice president jr year, president senior year. Should be OC photos in the yearbooks. I went on an OC trip probably every other weekend but it’s hard to separate memories of actual trips and going off with […]
Anne Raphael ’62
“MHOC played a huge part in my life at the college and from then on through friendships made in the Intercollegiate Outing Club Association (IOCA.) I met my husband on an MIT Outing Club winter trip, and am still close to the folks who taught rock climbing at the Shawangunks and winter climbing at the […]
Bibi Momsen ’58
“I spent most of my time with Outing Club. It was the opposite of sock hops to meet men, or weekends away by invitation to men’s colleges for football games and booze. As an OCer, if interested, you would start off as a Heeler. MHOC badge (blue and white, of course). You would be in […]
Ava M. Gurekian ’15
Share a memory you have from your time with the Mount Holyoke Outing Club? ” We hiked Mt Mousilauke and stayed overnight in a very tiny Dartmouth Cabin. A mouse died in the sink (that had no running water) and I had to dispose of it before everyone woke up. I don’t know if this […]
Kimberly Blake ’72
” I’m a member of the class of 1972; I don’t recall whether I joined the Outing Club in my first year, but I definitely recall that the president’s name was Jeannie Mountain, which I though was so appropriate. I know that I signed up ahead of time for Mountain Day trips, in 1969 hiking […]
Sharon Shirely Francis ’59
” I was an experienced mountaineer when I journeyed three days on the train from Seattle to Holyoke in September 1955. I had been trained in the leadership climbing course of the Seattle Mountaineers, and had ascended many rock, snow, and ice peaks in the Cascades, Olympics, and the Coast Ranges of British Columbia. Negotiating […]
Charlene van Dijk ’07
“Some of my strongest and longest lasting Mount Holyoke friendships were forged during a fall 2004 canoe camping trip to Lake George with the outing club. Charlene van Dijk, Amy Cagulada, Summer Martin, Margaret Conway, Diane Crenshaw, Sheila Vennell, Gretchen Sminkey, and Stephanie Albero all spent one lovely fall weekend together with other club members, […]