In preparing the Campus Master Plan, participation was encouraged by the campus community. Below are some responses gathered in various venues.
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These responses were gathered from the discussion page on this web site. The questions are as follows.
Where are the spaces on the Wellesley campus that you consider
sacred, or important for their ceremonial significance?
What areas of campus need more attention?
Where in the Wellesley landscape did you go to take a stroll when you
were a student? Where do you stroll when you visit the campus
now?
Where did you go in the Wellesley campus to daydream and think?
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Lake Waban |
Founder's Parking Lot |
Lake Waban |
Same as stroll |
Staff |
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Tower Court courtyard-view of lake, stone pillars |
Physical plant parking lot |
Along the Lake to the topiary gardens |
Tupelo Point |
current student |
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Lake Waban and path, spoon holders, breach, dorm courtyards |
All the parking lots which should be removed off campus |
Tupelo path then and now |
Tupelo point, Shakespeare House, Farnsworth Art Museum |
Alumna |
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Lucy Plimpton Memorial |
More benches would be nice. More people would sit and enjoy being out. |
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Claflin living room, Arboretum, Lake Waban, Houghton Chapel, Great Hall |
Area between Lake House and Claflin, Schneider Center |
Around Lake Waban, Arboretum, Paramecium Pond |
Green Beach, Bench on lake in front of TZE, Paramecium Pond, Bench on Lake Waban near Claflin, Paint Shop Pond |
Staff |
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All of the campus! |
The recent development that has marred the campus |
Around Lake Waban and Arboretum |
Few spots that were not beautiful |
Alumna |
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Entire campus |
Parking |
Christmas Tree Alley |
Anywhere, windows from Green Hall and Founders |
Alumna |
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Benches and decks around the lake, dorm courtyards, "indoor" steps from Green Hall to College Road, Paramecium Pond, original college hall pillars, the boathouse |
parking lots |
around the lake, arboretum, walkways near library and academic quad, tupelo point |
The arboretum, the lake, paramecium pond, Munger courtyard |
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Entire campus |
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Lake Waban, Severance Green |
Severance Green, Comfy chairs in library overlooking the "point" |
Alumna |
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Grotto in arboretum, terrace of old College Hall, columns below Tower Court, built-in benches on the lake shore, specimen trees, the woods |
Trees need repair, trimming area around Davis museum needs rethinking, replanting some of the foundation plantings need spiffing up around buildings, wooded areas need to be studies and looked at for new weeks crowding out native or original plants |
Around the lake, in the woods, arboretum, meadows |
Under the trees by the lake, on the benches in arboretum |
Alumna |
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path around Lake Waban, Severance Green, amphitheater |
area near boat house |
path to the Vil, path around Lake Waban (then and now) |
path around Lake Waban, library |
Alumna |
At this presentation Michael Van Valkenburgh asked
the members of the audience to respond to the following
questions.
What places on the campus do you feel are "sacred"?
What places do you find "profane," or needing change?
The participant's answers are recorded below.
Sacred Views of Campus:
ACADEMIC QUAD
• walk from Davis up the steps of Jewett, "thrust out into the
academic quad, as if you are going back in time. I see this walk as a
time passage: The archaic quality of the quad, and the progressive
modernity one feels as they walk toward Jewett and then Davis."
• View of Galenstone Tower from Severance Green
• "I think that it is beautiful and exquisite that the trees hide the
architecture during the summer and fall, and then once the trees lose
their leaves, the magnificent architecture is revealed. Now it is a
hidden, magical kingdom - please don't cut down the trees!"
• Stone steps at corner of Founders near El Table - "worn steps speak
of generations of
women."
• Road in from Rt. 16 approaching the quad - approaching view of
Galenstone Tower
• Paths and drive behind Green Hall and between Founders Hall
• Little bench near Founders with view of Severance and Library
• "Beautiful, peaceful, sense of wow when coming up from pedestrian
ramp from College Road"
• Founders: "because it's old and hallowed and echoed and
beautiful."
• Galenstone Tower - "central vision"
- "a constant reference point in changing perspectives"
• Academic Quad - "self-contained, at reach, yet spacious,
comfortable distance"
• Quad "reminds me of a convent in Bruges"
• Archways
• The Way Green Hall goes over the road (with hidden steps)
• Ivy
• Concrete steps from Green Hall parking lot down to in front of
Science Center -
indentations in the middle of steps from wear; "carries history of past students/faculty"
• has "womb-like feel"
• "View from Founders to Clapp Library is wonderful"
• Route through the wall of Green Hall from the parking lot going
upwards
• Norembega Hill
• Terrace by Founders that faces the library
• Basic Gothic of some buildings, but also the variety
JEWETT/DAVIS MUSEUM
• Views from top of Davis Museum framing buildings
• Davis Plaza
LAKE WABAN
• Lake View - between College Club and Stone Davis Dorms
• View from small bridge at pond leading to President's house
• Opening view of lake from Stone-Davis, Severance, and Claflin
• Views of the campus from the lake
• Dock outside the boathouse at night. "The black late and black,
star-sparkled sky let
me, and as you said, 'Get lost in the immensity,' and recuperate from the day."
• Path and forest around the lake "many beautiful views and a good
long walk."
• Benches and trees lining Lake Waban
• "'Spoon holders,' those 3-sided seats on the lake between the 2
beaches; a wonderful
resource! - great places that are part public, part intimate; nice
place to hold classes."
• "Open area behind Stone-Davis in front of the lake is special to me
for the tranquility it
offers as an escape from the daily grind of classes."
• Steps coming down from Tower courtyard to the lake, with the
original columns from
GREAT HALL
• Cove between President's lawn and topiary garden
• Avenue of trees leading toward lake in between College Club and
Stone-Davis
• Hunnewell Estate's gardens
• walk lined with trees between the chapel and the College Club (near
tennis courts)
• "The path around the lake for the smells, the quiet, the herons,
the time for reflection. I
love that it encircles the whole lake."
• Lucy Anabel Plimpton site on the lake
• Rose garden and sundial as one looks up at the President's
House
• Middle of the Lake looking back at the campus
• Maples lining road/lake near College Club
ARBORETUM
• Arboretum - from the edge of Munger Meadow to Fiske House, between Rt. 135 and
the Science Center hill. "The planned beauty and rich flora make it a refuge from the
heavily trafficked, less varied environments in the center of
campus."
- Biblical Garden; Rhododendron Alley; bowl-shaped enclosed space
• Stream in arboretum
• Waterfall on the path behind the observatory
• "A learning laboratory"
PARAMECIUM POND
• "I was married there."
• "because a heron lives there."
• "a beautiful area that brought me peace when I was a student
here."
• "small scale of this area makes it most welcoming; nature seems to
be running her own"
• "After a morning of work, the Pond takes [me] back to nature and
briefly out of the
intellectual realm. There vistas lift my spirit or remind me why it's
wonderful to be alive."
LIBRARY
• View toward Clapp Library across rhododendron hollow
• Fountain west of Clapp Library
• Rhododendron bushes in front of the library
• Back way from the Tower Complex to the library; "I feel as if I am
the sole person
experiencing the beauty."
SEVERANCE GREEN
• Severance Green "because everyone sprawls in the sun there on beautiful days and
when you walk by it lifts you up."
• the swings in the big tree
• "colorful, vast, bold, calm, peaceful"
• "for ceremony and frolicking"
SCIENCE CENTER
• Science Center: "combining old and new."
• Wild grassland in front of Science Center "provides spaces for wild
flowers and habitat
for insects and small animals, as well as relaxing the rigid control our
society feels it needs over the natural environment."
• Path along the meadow between Green Hall and the College Club
• Walkway from the new dorms to the back of the Science Center
• Hills in front of Science Center
TOWER COMPLEX
• Roof line of Tower Court and Claflin in the middle of the night against the sky
NEW DORMS
• "Christmas Tree Lane" leading up to Freeman, Bates, McAfee
• Walk back from the Vil along the road near the new dorms
• Path between Homestead and new dorms up to Rt. 16 - large trees
• Cherry blossoms in front of Dower
CHAPEL
• Area around the Chapel with the big oaks
• Inside of Chapel, "rich, vast, spacious, empty"
• Tree planted for the Class of 1948? outside the back of the Chapel.
"It's on a small hill
and it's branches reach to the ground."
• open space around Chapel and plants surrounding the building
• Space under the stained glass skylight in the chapel
TUPELO POINT
• stone bench there
• water lily area
• TZE House
• "diverse, quaint, slightly winding"
MISC.
• dorm courtyards - "so secluded and restful"
• seeing dorms' towers from Main Road
• Longfellow pond
• Winding roadways and walkways
• Street Lamps - "unique, classy"
• North Forty - leave it intact, a "green lung" for all
• Entrance - "feels like entering magical world"
• Old gate and cobblestone path
• Path toward Munger and dorm quad from academic quad - flowering
trees and bushes
on either side
• Munger Courtyard
• Archways - between Claflin and Tower; Caz and Pom
• Natural areas - "feeling of the wooded land; the escape from
structures, walls,
confines"
• Vistas - "colors: the shrubs in spring, the trees of falls and the
contrasts of white and
green of winter"
• Open spaces
• "A spot equidistant from the Chapel, the Library and Founders Hall
where you can also
see Severance and Tower Court. You are surrounded there by
buildings representing the heart and soul and mind of this
campus."
• View from Acorn House terrace
• Amphitheater
• Residential Quad
• "Sense of privacy - when you come on campus, sense of unity, a
world unto itself.
The lake as center, winding paths, tiny stairways in old brick buildings, tucked-away
arboretum - along with vistas and views of buildings that seemed distant as we went
about on foot."
• Whole romantic landscape style; wonderful variety and number of
trees, shrubs, and
flowers
• Placement of modern art sculptures
• Views of surrounding countryside as setting for college
SUGGESTIONS: "Keep the mystery of the campus by not labeling streets and buildings."
At this presentation participants were asked what parts of campus they felt are "sacred" and what parts are "profane." Their views are stated below.
Sacred Views of Campus:
• LAKE WABAN
-path in front of TZE
-benches
-overlooks
-lakeside path below Tower and the spoon holders
-maple trees near College Club
-path between College Club and President's house
-small terrace overlooking the lake by TZE - "to let the beauty seep in, to contemplate life and what Wellesley means"
• Views of surrounding countryside as setting for College
• Tower Court quad
• DC Lot
• Alumnae Hall
• Chapel
• Old main gate
• Old gas lights
• Cherry blossoms in front of Dower
• Schneider Center
• Variety and number of trees, shrubs, and flowers
• Vistas
• Placement of art/modern art sculptures
• Whole romantic landscape style
• Maintenance of walks
• Feeling of immensity, limitless - "parallels the feeling that our futures and goals as
Wellesley women are limitless."
• Approach to main entrance of Green
• Christmas Tree alley from Washington St.
• Coming from new dorms with meadow in foreground
• Arches and stairs, almost secret places, on the east side of Founders/Green
• Rhododendrons in front of library
• Meadow, pond between quad and Jewett
• Tupelo Point
-"diverse, quaint, slightly winding"
• Galenstone Tower
• Academic Quad
-"something special about the buildings' massing and the delicate foliage above"
• Severance Green
-for "frolicking and ceremony"
• Arboretum - "a learning laboratory"
-plants labeled
-peaceful
-Paramecium Pond
• Sense of privacy - "when you come on campus, sense of unity, a world unto itself. The lake as center, winding paths, tiny stairways in old brick buildings, tucked-away arboretum - along with vistas and views of buildings that seemed distant as we went about on foot."
• Basic landscaping - open spaces
• Basic Gothic of some buildings, but also the variety
Profane Aspects of Campus:
• Open up views of the Lake
-miss prominence and informal use of Lake: swimming, skating, canoeing, sailing
• Erosion of Green Beach
• Too many cars - no longer a walking campus
-plant trees on dividers in parking lots
-parking intrudes on beauty of vistas - underground parking would help a lot
-no more blacktop!
-path from Gray Lot to town: deterioration, intrusion of road, water tower
-Alumnae Hall "parking lot" in place of grassed quadrangle
-difficult to find parking
-"parking is not for beauty but deters alumnae from coming here more often"
-need for more short-term parking (10 minutes)
• Miss swings by Chapel and Severance Green
• Miss Farnsworth Museum and its view down to the lake
• Davis Art Center "is a hideous blank/aggressive face that attacks and stops the flow"
• Planting of similar trees too close together
• Sports Center
• Miss view/feel afforded by old College Road: "open feeling along College Road
drastically blocked by 'in your face' facade of Davis Museum (which otherwise I like a
lot)"
• Too many outside users of the campus - sense of community lost
• Foundation plantings seem sparse in new construction plans
• "Abrupt" entrance of College
-miss sense of arrival as one came through old main gate
• Miss open spaces
• Signage and explanation of why "meadow" was planted would help those who think it
looks "messy"
• Do not put up any more buildings - especially around lake
• General maintenance level
-flowers/shrubs - there used to be more variety
-fuschia colored rhododendron near Sports Center clash with color of bricks
• Continue to disguise the outside of the Science Center building to better blend into the landscape
• Miss Biblical History Garden
• Lost: courtyard at site of Science Center addition
• Triangle off main road leading to Science Center
• 300 year old oak topped by astronomy on hill above
• Need for more benches/tables across campus to study/talk to friends outdoors
• Consider putting administration in less central part of campus, bring light in there, a
student center at night?
Alumnae were asked the following three questions. Their responses are compiled by class year.
1. Where are the spaces on the Wellesley campus which you consider sacred, or important for their ceremonial significance?
2. Where in the Wellesley landscape did you go to take a stroll when you were a student? Where do you stroll when you visit the campus now?
3. Where did you go in the Wellesley campus to daydream and think?
1929 (2 alumnae)
1. Severance Green
2. Around the Lake, botanical garden especially the artificial brook designed by Helen Davis-Prof. of Botany
3. Usually looking out my dorm window, the old orchard
1932 (2 alumnae)
1. Along the Lake, Tower Court
2. Around the Lake, Path along the Lake
3. Along the Lake
1934 (1 alumna)
1. The walks from the library to the Lake
2. Left of the little bridge
3. Right towards the Tower
1937 (3 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, Paramecium Pond, the daffodils and the other various flowers that bloomed in the spring time, the huge beautiful tree at the edge of Tower Court down toward the Lake
2. Lake Waban,the glorious yellow maple (last when Jewett was created)
3. Lake Waban, pockets at the edge of the Lake and past the sorority house, with a bench, and a Lake walk from the club to Schneider
1938 (5 alumnae)
1. Chapel, Lake shore--spoon holders, Severance Green, Chapel Steps (old step singing) and the rhododendron bed in front of it, President's House, Daffodil walk behind Homestead and Dower, Arcade at Green Hall
2. Around the Lake--the Lake below Tower Court, Along the Lake,the walk from the quad to the library, to Sage and to other classrooms was very special in terms of clearing the mind, renewal of effort and for the emerging self, all through the campus
3. In the dorm room, by the Lake, Request: Please keep the beautiful old trees
1939 (5 alumnae)
1. Severance Green (Tree Day), Lake Waban, the Chapel, Chapel Steps, Alumnae Hall, Tupelo Point
2. Rustic seats down by the Lake--below Tower and Tupelo Point, Christmas Tree Alley, Up and Through the Green Hall Archway, Academic Quad
3. The Lake, walking around the Lake, dorm room, rhododendrons by the library, a spot below Tower Court and the Tower Court steps
1942 (6 alumnae)
1. Ballroom and the Greek Theater, Chapel, Severance Green, Tower Court Quad and the steps leading toward the Lake, Alumnae Hall, Paramecium Pond, the Meadow walk, Green Hall and the Academic Quad
2. Around the Lake and in front of the Library, Botanical Gardens,Hunnewell Gardens
3. By and around the Lake, dorm room in Severance, a corner in the library, the old and new pool, Tupelo and the seats below Tower Court
1944 (1 alumna)
1. Chapel steps and Severance Green
2. Lake Shore
3. Library and Lake
1945 (1 alumna)
1. Chapel, Greek Theater and the slope near Green Beach
2. Around the Lake
3. Spoon holders
1946 (2 alumnae)
1. Tower Court looking toward the Lake,Rhododendron in front of the library, Pond at bottom of Munger Hall
2. around the Lake
3. grove of trees (evergreens) on way to village--Behind Pendleton
1947 (1 alumna)
1. The chapel steps, the arch, the tower, Founder and Green Quadrangle
2. Beside Lake Waban and the arboretum
1948 (2 alumnae)
1. Chapel, Library, Billings, Tupelo, walk around the Lake, the meadow between Stone-Davis and the science building
2. Severance Green, up by the societies, up the road to the Green House
3. Down by the Lake, in the library by a window
Request: Feel free to grow tall trees to block out the sight of the science center
1949 (9 alumnae)
1. The Lake, Pond below Munger, the Chapel & Chapel steps, Severance Green
2. Lake, walk to the Lake, path to Tupelo Point, meadow on Severance building, Honeywell, the back of Founders Green Hall and Pendleton past the Paramecium Pond toward Munger
3. The bench beside the Lake just beyond the Point- ZA's open porch, the library especially the room with all the President's portraits, Tower Court, walk below Davis & Stone, bike rides toward Natick
1950 (1 alumna)
1. The chapel, alumnae hall
2. by the Lake, near TCE
3. the Lake, the golf course, the great outdoors
1952 (5 alumnae)
1. Greenhouse, Chapel steps, Severance Green, open spaces just around the whole campus, Rhododendron behind Stone/Davis
2. around the Lake, arboretum
3. one of the Lake benches, the overlook area of Munger, anywhere by water
1953 (2 alumnae)
1. walk along Lake Waban from College Club to Tower Court, Tupelo and steps down to Lake behind Tower Ct.
2. Around the library and walk, below academic quad, around Lake Waban,
3. From Hammermill Gardens to the Boat House
1954 (3 alumnae)
1. The chapel, alum hall, Tower Court Dining Hall, Shoreline
2. Paramecium Pond, strolled around the Lake to the gym around Green hall quad, along the Lake
3. Music room at Billings when it was the music building, the shoreline and the Lake because the views there encompasses all the angles and perspectives of the colleges history, beauty and purpose.
1955 (2 alumnae)
1. Rhododendrons, Severance Green, Academic Quad
2. Along the Lake, Tupelo Point
3. No ideas
1956 (1 alumna)
1. Severance Green
2. Arboretum, Society Row
3. Arboretum
1957 (3 alumnae)
1. The Lake, Severance Green, the library, green space, buildings, Chapel, little chapel, amphitheater
2. Lake, Paramecium Pond, arboretum
3. library, spoon holders, chapel, Paramecium Pond
1958 ( 1 alumna)
1. Severance Green, Academic Quad or around the Lake, various green spaces
2. none
3. to the Lake
1959 ( 10 alumnae)
1. Chapel, the pathways, walks around the architecture of Green, Founders etc., the tower, the tower court interior, Rhododendron Hollow, Severance Green, academic quad, Paramecium Pond, amphitheater, walk behind Stone Davis, walk around the Lake, anywhere on Wellesley Campus
2. the Lake, botanical gardens, TZE, meadow,science center (old), the whole Lake front, just everything, Tower hill, greenhouse
3. the Lake, Paramecium Pond, the library, the foundation sculpture of the far side of the Lake the path which shows the golden autumn leaves
1960 ( 1 alumna)
1. Lake Waban, library to boathouse, meadow below the Science Center
2. none
3. Hunnewell Arboretum to Paramecium Pond
1962 (7 alumnae)
1. quad, meadows/open spaces, Severance Green, Academic quad, Greek Theater, Paramecium Pond, Great Hall, Tower Court, amphitheater, alumnae hall
2. all of Wellesley--around the Lake, Tower Court Hill, path between old navy and presidents home, arboretum, greenhouse
3. walks around the Lake, visit spoon holders, Library
1964 (3 alumnae)
1. Chapel, academic quad, Green Hall, the campus landscape, library, archway leading to founder lot
2. by the Lake at TZE, arboretum,
3. by Lake Waban, main reading room of the library
1965 ( 2 alumnae)
1. Houghton Chapel, Great Hall, Tower Court, Tupelo Point., Severance Green and paths around Greek Theater
2. Along the Lake,up to Sage and the observatory, to Rec. building
3. sculpture court, Lake Waban, rec. building/pool, Jewett Art library
1967 ( 4 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, Chapel, Arboretum, the Lake especially toward the boat house and Tower Court, the stairway leading down from Green Hall to the Science Center
2. around the Lake, Paramecium Pond, boathouse, arboretum, the lamp posts across campus and inside the wonderfully conceived Science center building
3. library, greenhouse, Lake
1968 ( 1 alumna)
1. Chapel, tower court, Severance green
2. path by the Lake
3. Observatory hill
1969 ( 3 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, Lake
2. along the Lake with all its paths, botanical gardens
3. along the Lake, botanical gardens,spoon holders
1970 (2 alumnae)
1. The chapel,the Lake, Severance Green
2. around the Lake, the college club, Severance Green, arboretum
3. lawn by the Lake behind the college club, along the path by Schneider, amphitheater behind Alumnae Hall
1971 (2 alumnae)
1. all lawns, rhododendrons, the Lake, amphitheater
2. around the Lake
3. library
1972 (3 alumnae)
1. the lawn below Severance Green, arboretum
2. path along the Lake from library to boathouse, area in front of the science center (the old duck Pond), dorm room
3. Greenhouse, arboretum, Lake
1973 ( 5 alumnae)
1. the walks around the Lake, Tupelo Point, Paramecium Pond
2. academic quad, around the Lake, spoon holder below Tower Court, Founders parking lot along Severance Green
3. Severance Green, Longfellow Pond, down by the Lake, the library, dorm room, the upper Pond, small waterfall stream
1974 ( 10 alumnae)
1. academic quad, chapel, Severance Green,the Lake, Paramecium Pond, presidents lawn, tower court overlooking the Lake, bell tower, alumnae hall
2. walks through the academic quad and down through the archways behind to green parking lot, Tupelo Point, Lake Waban, library, arboretum
3. my room, looking out library window around the Lake, Paramecium Pond, arboretum, TZE, Tupelo Point
1977 ( 2 alumnae)
1. the Lake
2. the Lakeside
3. Schneider, dorm room
1979 ( 2 alumnae)
1. the chapel, Severance Green, Paramecium Pond, tower courtyard, with the view of the Lake
2. the Lake, Paramecium Pond, all the paths
3. tower court fountain, the Lake, Clapp library
1980 ( 2 alumnae)
1. Paramecium Pond, the Greenhouse, the hollow in front of the library, chapel grounds
2. by the Lake, the academic quad, the forest at the paint factory
3. purple chains overlooking the Lake in the library around the Lake, behind the science center by the Greenhouse, Green beach and the path by the back of Tower Court, Severance Green
1981 ( 2 alumnae)
1. Chapel, Academic Quad
2. gardens near Paramecium Pond, Paramecium Pond
3. Lake Waban, Paramecium Pond, Tupelo Point, near the Chapel and Stone Davis
1982 ( 4 alumnae)
1. the chapel, the galleon tower, Slater, 2. around and near the Lake, beaches below Severance Green and near the boathouse, Pond/fountain by the end of the library, the meadow by the science center
3. around or near the Lake especially below the Tower Court area, the arboretum, dorm room
1983 (3 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, Lake Waban, Paramecium Pond, the chapel and steps, alumnae hall, narrow covered outside stairwells at founders and Green hall, Greenhouse
2. Lake Waban, Severance Green, Greenhouse, academic quad
3. Lake Waban, purple chains in the library, the stacks in the library
1984 ( 5 alumnae)
1. the benches by the Lake, Severance Green, chapel lawn, arboretum, Paramecium Pond, area behind Schneider and president's house
2. the quad, up into Tower Court, past the new dorms, through the arch, to the Vil, arboretum
3. 1st floor library, by the comfy chair, view of the Lake
1985 ( 2 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, chapel steps, Lakeside, Tupelo Point
2. under the maples from Schneider to the college club, around the Lake, arboretum, Paramecium Pond, arboretum
3. Severance Green, Longfellow Pond, the Lake, Jewett, academic quad, Tupelo Point
1986 ( 2 alumnae)
1. chapel, Lake Waban, hillside between tower and library, Paramecium Pond
2. campus pathways, Lake trail, Vil,
3. Wellesley beach, library, science center lawn,academic quad lawn
1987 ( 2 alumnae)
1. the Lake, the waters edge of Green beach, academic quad, alumnae hall, Tower Court
2. the Lake, Tupelo Point, between the library and the academic quad
3. Green beach, Severance Green, the docks at the boat house, outside Tower Court and near the Lake, looking at the Lake from Clapp library, living rooms, Greenhouse, gardens
1988 ( 2 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, the Lake, chapel, the chapel steps, edge of the Lake
2. along the Lake, Paramecium Pond the arboretum
3. science center desks right by the window, tower court
1989 ( 2 alumnae)
1. chapel, bell tower, president's lawn, amphitheater, Severance Green, academic quad
2. by the Lake, Clapp library, near the tennis courts, Tupelo Point, rhododendron valley
3. Paramecium Pond, the Lake, museum, the "decks" over Lake Waban along the walkway between Sev. beach and the boat house, sports center
1990 ( 3 alumnae)
1. Chapel, Green hall, tower court courtyard, academic quad, Severance Green
2. by the Lake,student center, academic quad
3. student center, Tupelo Point, arboretum
1991 ( 4 alumnae)
1. Tupelo point, Severance Green, academic quad, the chapel, tower court terrace
2. academic quad, chapel, Lake , library, Severance Green
3. tower court yard, library lower level, the observatory
1992 ( 4 alumnae)
1. the chapel, academic quad, Green hall, science center meadow, Paramecium Pond, Tupelo Point
2. around the Lake, academic quad, boat house, the library
3. chairs at the library overlooking the Lake, the chapel
1993 ( 3 alumnae)
1. columns overlooking the Lake, Severance Green, academic quad, stairway near Green hall
2. along the Lake, gardens, the beach
3. library, behind the Lake
1994 ( 6 alumnae)
1. Severance Green, academic quad, chapel, Tupelo Point, Green hall bell tower, the classrooms, tower court
2. the Lake, Severance Green, Paramecium Pond, academic quad, rhododendron hollow
3. Lake, walk along college road, boathouse, basement of the library
1995 ( 1 alumna)
1. Green beach
2. Schneider to college club
3. Green beach
1996 ( 2 alumnae)
1. Chapel, Paramecium Pond, the Lake and its view on the Hunnewell garden, long hours in the dining hall
2. president's house
3. by the Lake, library window's, spoon holders, Paramecium Pond
1997 ( 1 alumna)
1. Tupelo Point and the chapel lawn
2. Arboretum
3. spoon holders on the Lake, Paramecium Pond
Participants at Fairgrounds were asked "Do people feel a mixture of emotions about going to school, living, and working on the campus? What are these competing emotions? " Their responses follow.
Severance Hill: If the green is to be kept as a plush green carpet, don't neglect the hill and make it ugly and repulsive by contrast.
I love the benches by the pond, the lake, and behind Stone-Davis! Can we have more of these around campus?
Need more landscape art installations!
I love the colors of the trees.
The open spaces are truly lovely. I appreciate, on my daughter's behalf, the multiplicity of places where she can study an look up to ponder/digest her learning while gazing out at a lovely sylvan scene.
The path around the lake is a great respite, don't change it-that it feels NOT like Wellesley College is terrific!
Like most: I am so grateful for the quiet private spaces where I can collect my thoughts, overcome my noisy torturous emotions-the benches by the lake; the bench in the Arc; the steps behind Pendleton down to the road. it's wonderful to find ways to be alone with thousands of people nearby.
Like least: The formality and chill of the Plaza by the Museum. With such a landscape surrounding, why would people choose concrete?
I love the huge open spaces which allow for people to come together in a beautiful setting.
I love the many places for quiet reflection/introspection-places like the benches by Tower Court right near the lake, the swing on Severance Green, and the path to Diana's home. These places really fit with the goal of Wellesley to education strong, intellectual women that will make a difference.
Make room for rugby! Munger Meadow cannot fit a regulation sized rugby pitch; as a result, the rugby team has had to rent out fields elsewhere.
I love the Science Center meadow!! I love the lake path!
The view from the top floor of the Davis Museum.
I love the meadows in front of the Science Center. They make the birds and bugs happy, they're low maintenance, and they're beautiful. We should have more meadows like that.
Best: The vast greenness of meadow and Severance Green. Worst: Concrete desert of Davis Plaza.
The following responses were gathered from the Winchester, MA Alumnae Club.
What places on the campus do you feel are
"sacred"?
The rhododendrons, particularly the ones by the Library.
Paramecium Pond
Severance Hill
The big trees.
Path around the lake and Tupelo Point.
The large open slope and filed between Tower Court and library.
What places do you find "profane," or needing
change?
Paramecium Pond should be cleaned out.
Field in front of Science building.
Quads/Tower Court
More bike space/racks
The gypsy moths that live in the trees above the paths
Fix landscaping around science building and open areas leading up to
new dorms
Shuttle buses to/from campus--build parking garage
Area near new dorms
Remove parking from center of the campus.
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