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

Lucy Brodman Lehman ’63

  • 1960s

Vivien Davis Tsu ’69

  • 1960s
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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 selfie of a professor and her student smiling at the camera.

Jennifer Ruffin ’25

  • 2020s
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

Suzanne Storey Speaker ’66

  • 1960s
A woman sits in profile, wearing sunglasses, holding binoculars.

Christine Osborne ’69

  • 1960s
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
A collage of four photos. Each photo has two women smiling at the camera.

Ashley Dumas Davis ’98

  • 1990s
Three women wearing formal dresses and head turbans each hold their hands up to form a W.

Funlola Osinupebi ’10

  • 2010s
A woman smiles at the camera while standing near a classroom blackboard.

Kay Lehman Schlozman ’68

  • 1960s
Three students wear winter clothes and smile at the camera. Snow falls around them.

Caroline Min ’27

  • 2020s
A crowd of alums during reunion dressed in white.

Ruth Li ’13

  • 2010s

Phoebe Kazdin Schnitzer ’60

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

Diane Planer Lovejoy ’78

  • 1970s
A mom and her daughter stand in front of a case of baked goods, smiling at the camera.

Trudi Lipson Benford ’91

  • 1990s
Woman with short blonde hair and glasses smiles at the camera. She is in front of a blue background.

Claudia Newcorn ’81

  • 1980s
A headshot of a woman with chin length hair and dark-rimmed glasses.

Susan Z. Robins ’84

  • 1980s
A young woman with long hair and wearing glasses and a graduation mortarboard smiles at the camera.

Dagmara Bastik ’72

  • 1970s
Four women and a little girl dressed in white pose for a photo during reunion

Georgia Murphy Johnson ’75

  • 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

Margaret Reeve ’71

  • 1970s
Two young women smile for the camera.

Linh Dinh ’26

  • 2020s
A woman sits on her desk, her legs crossed, wearing a striped tank top and with short, dark hair.

Sandra Shapiro Guryan ’69

  • 1960s
Kate and Claire smiling while holding copies of Kate's book Greenwich

Kate Broad ’06

  • 2000s
Erin stands against a stone wall

Erin Fina ’27

  • 2020s
An archive image of Galen Stone Tower.

Arlene Cohen ’94

  • 1990s
Headshot of Laurie Wilson who has short brown hair, glasses and wears a black sweater with a pendant.

Laurie Wilson ’62

  • 1960s
A black and white image of College Hall.

Jayne Crosby Giles ’78

  • 1970s
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 head shot of a woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a pearl necklace and a plum-colored jacket.

Ann Gilbert Wylie ’66

  • 1960s
The classes of 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 form a human W on Severance Green.

Diane Speare Triant ’68

  • 1960s
Low rock wall and the remnants of the foundation of a small building in the middle of the forest

Aurora Daniel ’23

  • 2020s
Grace and Bryn as students, reflected in a full length mirror

Grace Ramsdell ’22

  • 2020s
Barbara Bush sits smiling in regalia and flanked by two women smiling at each other.

Sumaira Chowdhury ’98

  • 1990s
Winter scene with bare trees and snow cover in foreground of Lake Waban

Jessica (Planos) Sirizzotti ’10

  • 2010s
Three students pose for a photos wearing their graduation gowns at convocation.

Emily Brydges ’26

  • 2020s
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
A woman with long dark hair takes a selfie on a coastline with a large rock in the background.

Jessie Fan ’94

  • 1990s

Carolyn A. Kerr ’80

  • 1980s
A collage of images from the archives representing a variety of students from different class years.

Liz Hoveland

  • Staff

Natalie Jin ’18

  • 2010s

Kristine Wilson

  • Staff

Risa Goldman McDade ’77

  • 1970s
Four women gather together outside for a group photo.

Laura Wood Cantopher ’84

  • 1980s
Two women lean their heads together for a selfie.

Sarah Hitchner ’15

  • 2010s
A woman looks at the camera and smiles. She has shoulder-length hair that frames her face and wears glasses.

Stephanie Peek ’61

  • 1960s
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
Yearbook spread of black and white portraits

Johanna Lee ’26

  • 2020s
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
Nine women pose for a photo with the bride in the center holding a Wellesley banner.

Melody Pao ’11

  • 2010s
A mother stands flanked by two daughters and they smile at the camera.

Luella Gross Goldberg ’58

  • 1950s
Lucy Brodman Lehman poses with one of her daughters for a photo at commencement.

Lucy Brodman Lehman ’63

  • 1960s
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
Two young women smile at the camera. Photo appears to be taken in the 1980s.

Gianna Zuccotti ’88

  • 1980s
A young woman poses next to a large observatory telescope.

Rebecca Danos ’98

  • 1990s
Two students stand on the roof of Tower Hall.

Fran Decker ’80

  • 1980s
A woman in a black dress stands in front of an exhibition showing comic-style art work.

Heide Abelli ’88

  • 1980s

Cynthia D. Shapira ’77

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

Joan Saltman Levy ’49

  • 1940s

Linda Riebel ’67

  • 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
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

Jennifer Phillips ’73

  • 1970s

Ruth Tanner Carleton ’51

  • 1950s
A professor and four students pose with Trader Joe's tote bags

Lubeyda Lopez Lopez ’28

  • 2020s

Joan Prichard Cudhea ’54

  • 1950s
Araceli and her neuroscience peers sit around a table display their decorated brain cookies

Araceli Munoz ’25

  • 2020s

Vivien Davis Tsu ’69

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

Jeannie Kim Harden ’05

  • 2000s
Headshot of a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and glasses.

Laila Schulmeisters Partridge ’86

  • 1980s
Two women sit next to each and smile at the camera.

Kerry MacNeil ’93

  • 1990s
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
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
School portrait of a young girl labeled with Chung, Deborah

Deborah Chung ’74

  • 1970s
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 toddler stands on a the Wellesley campus with a red brick campus building in the background.

Sara Squeglia

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

Karina Verma ’14

  • 2010s

Julie Parker

  • Staff

Melissa Dunphy Gooley ’89

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

Katie Colaneri ’10

  • 2010s
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
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
Sigurd's gravestone

E.B. Bartels ’10

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

Beverly R. Correa ’91

  • 1990s

Judith Goslin Hall ’61

  • 1960s

Judith Margolis Katz ’66

  • 1960s
A section of the Davis museum building.

Mary Hammond Norton ’54

  • 1950s
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
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
Campus trees changing to fall color. Between them hang a banner over a road that says “welcome."

Allison Weinberg

  • Staff

Samantha Cameron

  • Faculty
Duygu and Inci Atrek ’10 smiling and cheek to cheek

Inci Atrek ’10

  • 2010s
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
Student sitting cross-legged on bed with notebooks.

Wendy Harlan ’90

  • 1990s
Members of Dead Serious pose for a photo after their last show in 2024.

Elizabeth Ray ’24

  • 2020s

Anna Despoena Seraphimidou ’61

  • 1960s

Val Mahar DS ’24

  • 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 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

Laurie Breitkopf ’75

  • 1970s
Soha and friends

Soha Khan ’28

  • 2020s
Looking through a window at trees, flowering bushes, and a brick building (Founders Hall)

Sarah Moazeni ’10

  • Staff

Jacqueline Menn Erwin ’73

  • 1970s
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
Students carrying banners for Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Swarthmore participate in a march for suffrage in Philadelphia in 1915.

Anne-Marie Soulliere ’69

  • 1960s
Four women group together for a photo.

L. Jasmine Kim ’86

  • 1980s
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
A group of nine two students and two faculty members pose together for a photo.

Neha Lund ’22

  • 2020s
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
Six women gather for a group photo and all smile at the camera

Sandra Kulli ’68

  • 1960s
Two students dressed in Halloween costumes

Katherine Stabile ’26

  • 2020s
People seating on couches and chairs around a low table full of beverages

Kendra Tanacea ’88

  • 1980s

Barbara Morry Fraumeni ’72

  • 1970s
Woman wearing yellow jacket and holding a yellow flag with 2003 written on it.

April R. Randall ’03

  • 2000s
A child with a headscarf rides her bike on Wellesley’s campus.

Caroline Bruzelius ’71

  • 1970s
Soccer net on a soccer field.

Megan Turchi ’13

  • 2010s

Molla Donaldson ’66

  • 1960s
A family photo showing five men, three women, and two children

Barbara Elfman DS ’05

  • 2000s

Doris Ablard Perl ’54

  • 1950s
A headshot of a smiling woman looking at the camera.

Dawn Kramer ’67

  • 1960s
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 with short gray hair, glasses and wearing a gray cardigan smiles at the camera.

Linda Pessar Cowan ’66

  • 1960s
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
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

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