E-NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2025

As autumn unfolds in all its glory on campus, the officers of the Class of 1960 recently gathered (on Zoom, of course) for the first time.  We are energized and enthusiastic about keeping our classmates in touch with each other and with the College.

Our co-vice presidents, Barb MacAdam Muller and Becky Whittlesy Brace are working on two fronts: finding classmates from each dorm to organize virtual dorm meetings and creating themed meetings to bring all classmates together for programs of interest.  We’re always eager to tap the creativity and talents of the many among us who are doing interesting work or exploring unusual fields.

You should all take a bow. Just shy of half (48%) of our class supports the College philanthropically.  That is the 6th highest participation rate out of all 81 alumnae classes! We have122 donors out of a solicitable base of 253, including 24 Durant level donors. Total gifts to The Wellesley Annual Fund for fiscal 2025 amounted to $292,125. Gifts to all other designations totaled $272,112.  (All other designations refers to gifts made to any other area other than The Wellesley Fund. That includes gifts to the class Scholarship Fund and Legacy Funds, but it also includes gifts made to other endowed funds, capital projects, Friends of Art, Friends of Athletics, Wellesley Centers for Women). 

This means that our total giving for the fiscal year just ended was $564,237. 1960 was also 13th highest overall out of 81 alumnae classes in terms of dollars to The Wellesley Fund. 

You might also be interested to know that, within those total numbers, we have generously supported   the  Class of 1960 Legacy Endowed Fund, to which we donated  $36,456.00 donated this year to support for WeLab engineering studies  program.   Because it has reached a hefty market value ($463,405.92,)  we could donate more than $18,000 this year to the WeLab.

Dr. Amy Banzaert came from MIT to develop a class introducing engineering principles applied with a liberal arts overview and an international outreach component. Her class has  been a huge success. An outstanding teacher and mentor, she has been gifted at incorporating engineering into the curriculum. The Class of 1960 has supported the WE Lab for years.

We also have a Class of 1960 Continuing Education Scholarship Endowment Fund  to which classmates donated $28,035.00, bringing the market value to $175,410.53. , enabling us to donate nearly $8000 in scholarship aid. The office of Student Financial Services makes all the decisions on distributing these funds, and it is based on need.  Awards have not yet been assigned for this year, but the two most recent award recipients were a Media Arts and Sciences major from the class of 2024 and an Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies major. 

Our love is not just expressed in red roses but also in dollars and sense (play on words intended), and we should all be pleased.

We’ll be sending out more of these eblast letters and feeding timely tidbits to Class Notes in Alumnae Magazine. If you’re not on Redglow, contact Redglow administrator Margot Topkins Tutun at gramto38@gmail.com, and she’ll get you connected.

Have a wonderful holiday season, and look forward to more news as we move into (gasp) 2026.

All best,

Margie and Andrea