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Hortense Parker Day Celebrated
April 12, 2010
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., April 12 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news release:

Members of the Mount Holyoke community, past and present, gathered in Chapin Auditorium on the evening of April 7 to celebrate the second annual Hortense Parker Day, honoring the first known African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College, in 1883.

Rochelle Calhoun '83 (right), who held many positions in her 23 years at Mount Holyoke including, most recentl . . .

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