Wellesley in 150

Wellesley in 150

Welcome to Wellesley in 150—a collection of 150-word stories that capture the unique spirit of Wellesley through memories of friendships, classes, professors, staff, and places on campus.

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A mom and her daughter stand in front of a case of baked goods, smiling at the camera.

Trudi Lipson Benford ’91

  • 1990s

Val Mahar DS ’24

  • 2020s
A head shot of a woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a pearl necklace and a plum-colored jacket.

Ann Gilbert Wylie ’66

  • 1960s
Grid List

Julie Parker

  • Staff
A Wellesley College poster showing a part of a residence hall, a lantern and balloons. Inset photos show a student and a sports scene.

Rachel Mann Gould ’01

  • 2000s
Two women wearing matching jackets and tops pose for a picture, with one holding the shoulders of the other and leaning in.

Deborah Brody Hamilton ’84

  • 1980s
School portrait of a young girl labeled with Chung, Deborah

Deborah Chung ’74

  • 1970s
Two students dressed in Halloween costumes

Katherine Stabile ’26

  • 2020s
A collage of images from the archives representing a variety of students from different class years.

Liz Hoveland

  • Staff
Soha and friends

Soha Khan ’28

  • 2020s
A mom and her daughter stand in front of a case of baked goods, smiling at the camera.

Trudi Lipson Benford ’91

  • 1990s
Four women group together for a photo.

L. Jasmine Kim ’86

  • 1980s
A young woman wearing her commencement gown and mortar board looks up at the camera as she processes during graduation. Behind her is a line of alumnae dressed in white.

Katherine Hall Page ’69

  • 1960s
Two students sit on a lavender electric scooter, looking at the photographer.

Kendall You Mak ’20

  • 2020s
A black and white image of College Hall.

Jayne Crosby Giles ’78

  • 1970s
Two students stand on the roof of Tower Hall.

Fran Decker ’80

  • 1980s
Students in black dresses pose while holding CD cases

Katie Colaneri ’10

  • 2010s
A black and white photo of a woman seated, looking at the camera and holding a book in her lap.

Barbara Furne Simmons ’69

  • 1960s
Two photos combined into one. On the left is a woman, her young daughter, and an elderly woman. On the right is a photo of a chickadee stuffy.

Ayesha Tariq ’24

  • 2020s
A woman in a green dress stands in profile with her hands in front of her dress showing her pregnant belly.

Caitlin Roberts-Donovan

  • Staff
A student kneels down behind a light-colored dog and holds its neck in their hands. They smile at the camera and the dog has a treat balanced on its snout.

Iris Zhan ’27

  • 2020s
A black and white photo showing a woman in graduate regalia facing a man in regalia. In between them is a woman wearing a hat with a veil over her face and a dark dress.

Maria Cooper Ward ’56

  • 1950s
A woman looks at the camera and smiles. She has shoulder-length hair that frames her face and wears glasses.

Stephanie Peek ’61

  • 1960s

Samantha Cameron

  • Faculty
Campus trees changing to fall color. Between them hang a banner over a road that says “welcome."

Allison Weinberg

  • Staff

Ruth Tanner Carleton ’51

  • 1950s
Winter scene with bare trees and snow cover in foreground of Lake Waban

Jessica (Planos) Sirizzotti ’10

  • 2010s
A woman sits on her desk, her legs crossed, wearing a striped tank top and with short, dark hair.

Sandra Shapiro Guryan ’69

  • 1960s
Four women gather together outside for a group photo.

Laura Wood Cantopher ’84

  • 1980s
An action shot of two women inside a cardboard box, surrounded by classmates who are preparing to push them down a hill.

Haley Harris ’12

  • 2010s
A woman in a yellow dress with a green sweater takes a selfie while sitting on a bench near Lake Waban.

Kwan Kew Lai ’74

  • 1970s
A woman dressed in white and holds a red umbrella. Behind her are others dressed in white with red hats or flowers.

Rebecca Sher DS ’00

  • 2000s
A woman smiles at the camera while standing near a classroom blackboard.

Kay Lehman Schlozman ’68

  • 1960s
Two women sit next to each and smile at the camera.

Kerry MacNeil ’93

  • 1990s

Anna Despoena Seraphimidou ’61

  • 1960s
A woman runs with snow falling around her.

Margaret Green Wheeler ’78

  • 1970s

Phoebe Kazdin Schnitzer ’60

Jennifer Phillips ’73

  • 1970s
A woman leans over and pretends to kiss her friend who is leaning away from her and smiling.

Diane Planer Lovejoy ’78

  • 1970s

Val Mahar DS ’24

  • 2020s
A young woman poses next to a large observatory telescope.

Rebecca Danos ’98

  • 1990s

Laurie Breitkopf ’75

  • 1970s
A section of the Davis museum building.

Mary Hammond Norton ’54

  • 1950s
A young woman wearing a red spaghetti-strap dress stand next to a young man dressed in a tuxedo and wearing a red bow tie. He has his arm around her and they both smile at the camera.

Heather Corbett Etchevers ’92

  • 1990s
Black and white image of two young women standing, looking at camera. One has her arm on the shoulders of the other. Both wear hats.

Faye Sinclair ’72

  • 1970s
Lucy Brodman Lehman poses with one of her daughters for a photo at commencement.

Lucy Brodman Lehman ’63

  • 1960s
A mother stands flanked by two daughters and they smile at the camera.

Luella Gross Goldberg ’58

  • 1950s
A group of young women cluster together in ball with their arms around each other. One face is visible in the center, looking at the camera. One face is visible in profile, looking to the left.

Marianne Montgomery ’99

  • 1990s
A selfie of a professor and her student smiling at the camera.

Jennifer Ruffin ’25

  • 2020s
A headshot of a woman with chin length hair and dark-rimmed glasses.

Susan Z. Robins ’84

  • 1980s
A group of women stand together next to a 5K sign with details about the race. They each have a racing bib on and a photo of two people taped to their shirts.

Angelina Del Balzo ’11

  • 2010s
A young woman with long hair and wearing glasses and a graduation mortarboard smiles at the camera.

Dagmara Bastik ’72

  • 1970s
Two women lean their heads together for a selfie.

Sarah Hitchner ’15

  • 2010s
A woman with short gray hair, glasses and wearing a gray cardigan smiles at the camera.

Linda Pessar Cowan ’66

  • 1960s

Vivien Davis Tsu ’69

  • 1960s
A collage of four photos showing two women at various points in their lives and friendship, including one of them as college students.

Karen Body Brennan ’89

  • 1980s
Two women pose for a photo and smile. One woman drapes her arm around the other.

Karina Verma ’14

  • 2010s
Araceli and her neuroscience peers sit around a table display their decorated brain cookies

Araceli Munoz ’25

  • 2020s

Margaret Reeve ’71

  • 1970s

Kristine Wilson

  • Staff
Headshot of Laurie Wilson who has short brown hair, glasses and wears a black sweater with a pendant.

Laurie Wilson ’62

  • 1960s
A headshot of a woman with short-cropped hair, glasses, long earrings with a large circular element at the end, wearing a hot pink cardigan sweater.

Tamara Susan Nash ’79

  • 1970s
Three women from the class of 1949 sit together on Wellesley’s campus.

Joan Saltman Levy ’49

  • 1940s
Three students wear winter clothes and smile at the camera. Snow falls around them.

Caroline Min ’27

  • 2020s
Students carrying banners for Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Swarthmore participate in a march for suffrage in Philadelphia in 1915.

Anne-Marie Soulliere ’69

  • 1960s
Student sitting cross-legged on bed with notebooks.

Wendy Harlan ’90

  • 1990s

Jacqueline Menn Erwin ’73

  • 1970s
Looking through a window at trees, flowering bushes, and a brick building (Founders Hall)

Sarah Moazeni ’10

  • Staff
Yearbook spread of black and white portraits

Johanna Lee ’26

  • 2020s
An archive image of Galen Stone Tower.

Arlene Cohen ’94

  • 1990s
A child with a headscarf rides her bike on Wellesley’s campus.

Caroline Bruzelius ’71

  • 1970s
Six women gather for a group photo and all smile at the camera

Sandra Kulli ’68

  • 1960s
Four women and a little girl dressed in white pose for a photo during reunion

Georgia Murphy Johnson ’75

  • 1970s

Carolyn A. Kerr ’80

  • 1980s
Two young women smile for the camera.

Linh Dinh ’26

  • 2020s

Judith Goslin Hall ’61

  • 1960s
A group of nine two students and two faculty members pose together for a photo.

Neha Lund ’22

  • 2020s
Two women face a camera, one is wearing her graduation gown. The other is an older woman wearing glasses and a white coat.

Chris Santos ’74

  • 1970s
Low rock wall and the remnants of the foundation of a small building in the middle of the forest

Aurora Daniel ’23

  • 2020s
An archive photos of a woman standing straight, hand on her hip and holding a rolled up piece of paper. Her hair is pulled back.

Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99

  • Staff
A crowd of alums during reunion dressed in white.

Ruth Li ’13

  • 2010s
Six women from the class of 1991 pose for a group photo in a photo booth during their 25 year reunion. They wear boas of varying colors and the backdrop is gold.

Amy (Ford) Fitzgerald ’91

  • 1990s
One woman stands with her foot on the belly of another woman lying on the floor. Four women sit on a couch looking serious and some of them look at the camera

Pamela Price ’66

  • 1960s
A womans laughs as a person in a poncho and sombrero and mask sits on her lap.

Jeannie Kim Harden ’05

  • 2000s
Three women sit together on a couch. Two look at the camera while the woman in the middle looks off to her right. Another woman crouches in the corner of the photo and only her forehead and eyes are visible.

Pamm McNeil ’82

  • 1980s
A woman wearing dark rimmed circular glasses with her hair in two buns on each side of her head holds her hand with her index and pinkie fingers extended in the horns symbol and pokes her tongue out at the camera.

Toy Lei ’88

  • 1980s
Headshot of a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and glasses.

Laila Schulmeisters Partridge ’86

  • 1980s
Woman with short blonde hair and glasses smiles at the camera. She is in front of a blue background.

Claudia Newcorn ’81

  • 1980s
Two young women smile at the camera. Photo appears to be taken in the 1980s.

Gianna Zuccotti ’88

  • 1980s
A woman sits in profile, wearing sunglasses, holding binoculars.

Christine Osborne ’69

  • 1960s
A hand holds a small plastic bag with a gum wrapper inside. On the bag is written WCHAP 1002-1 9/30/2017 gum wrapper f17-1002

Caylee Pallatto ’21

  • 2020s

Judith Margolis Katz ’66

  • 1960s
A woman stands, smiling at the camera, dressed in white with yellow gloves, yellow hankie around her neck, yellow leis, a yellow scarf around her hips and a yellow hairband. She wears a Wellesley visor.

Mari Myer ’83

  • 1980s

Joan Prichard Cudhea ’54

  • 1950s
A group of people stand together holding a Wellesley banner and in the background is a mountainous scene from Peru.

Irena Choi Stern ’80

  • 1980s
Soccer net on a soccer field.

Megan Turchi ’13

  • 2010s
A headshot of a woman with shoulder length blonde hair.

Beverly R. Correa ’91

  • 1990s
Kate and Claire smiling while holding copies of Kate's book Greenwich

Kate Broad ’06

  • 2000s
A black and white photo from 1979 convocation showing a crowd of women standing around with one in the center standing in profile but looking over her right shoulder at the photographer.

Lisa Braun ’80

  • 1980s

Cynthia D. Shapira ’77

  • 1970s
A student stands at a lectern and speaks into a microphone.

QiQi Li ’27

  • 2020s
The classes of 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 form a human W on Severance Green.

Diane Speare Triant ’68

  • 1960s
A headshot of a smiling woman looking at the camera.

Dawn Kramer ’67

  • 1960s
A woman sits in a chair surrounded by trees and plants. She wears a pink bucket hat and smiles at the camera.

Linda Mascetti ’68

  • 1960s
A woman in a black dress stands in front of an exhibition showing comic-style art work.

Heide Abelli ’88

  • 1980s
A professor and four students pose with Trader Joe's tote bags

Lubeyda Lopez Lopez ’28

  • 2020s
Three students pose for a photos wearing their graduation gowns at convocation.

Emily Brydges ’26

  • 2020s
A students wears a greeen top hat, a large green bow and a bathing suit top over her t-shirt. She shakes hands with a student wearing sunglasses, a lei, a bathing suit top over her pink t-shirt and a pink floaty around her waist. They both look at the camera.

Alexandra Solimano ’10

  • 2010s
Grace and Bryn as students, reflected in a full length mirror

Grace Ramsdell ’22

  • 2020s
A collage of four photos. Each photo has two women smiling at the camera.

Ashley Dumas Davis ’98

  • 1990s
A head shot of a woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a pearl necklace and a plum-colored jacket.

Ann Gilbert Wylie ’66

  • 1960s
A woman with long dark hair takes a selfie on a coastline with a large rock in the background.

Jessie Fan ’94

  • 1990s
Nine women pose for a photo with the bride in the center holding a Wellesley banner.

Melody Pao ’11

  • 2010s

Linda Riebel ’67

  • 1960s
Sigurd's gravestone

E.B. Bartels ’10

  • Staff

Melissa Dunphy Gooley ’89

  • 1980s

Doris Ablard Perl ’54

  • 1950s

Suzanne Storey Speaker ’66

  • 1960s
Erin stands against a stone wall

Erin Fina ’27

  • 2020s
Woman wearing yellow jacket and holding a yellow flag with 2003 written on it.

April R. Randall ’03

  • 2000s
Barbara Bush sits smiling in regalia and flanked by two women smiling at each other.

Sumaira Chowdhury ’98

  • 1990s

Barbara Morry Fraumeni ’72

  • 1970s

Natalie Jin ’18

  • 2010s
A family photo showing five men, three women, and two children

Barbara Elfman DS ’05

  • 2000s
A toddler stands on a the Wellesley campus with a red brick campus building in the background.

Sara Squeglia

  • Staff

Risa Goldman McDade ’77

  • 1970s
A woman with dark hair lies on the floor, facing the camera. She holds a notebook in her left hand, and she holds a pen with her right hand and part of the pen is between her teeth. Her eyes look upward as if she is deep in thought.

Nassim Assefi ’91

  • 1990s
Three women stand together with their arms around each other, smiling at the camera

Salema Jenkins ’04

  • 2000s
Duygu and Inci Atrek ’10 smiling and cheek to cheek

Inci Atrek ’10

  • 2010s
A portrait of a woman in a blue button-up shirt, turned to the side and looking toward the camera. She wears glasses, short, curly hair, and a purse slung across her shoulder.

Marjorie Sussman ’88

  • 1980s
People seating on couches and chairs around a low table full of beverages

Kendra Tanacea ’88

  • 1980s
Three women wearing formal dresses and head turbans each hold their hands up to form a W.

Funlola Osinupebi ’10

  • 2010s
Members of Dead Serious pose for a photo after their last show in 2024.

Elizabeth Ray ’24

  • 2020s

Molla Donaldson ’66

  • 1960s
Digital art piece showing a head with half a human face. The neck is made of twisted tree roots and the hair is made of tree limbs. At the bottom of the image are rolling waves.

Corinne Whitaker ’56

  • 1950s
A woman in a red vest and long sleeve shirt smiles at the camera. Her hand rests on a geometric poster hanging on the wall behind her.

Mani Ardalan Farhadi ’84

  • 1980s

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