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The stained glass window hanging in Grafton library was presented to the college in
memory of Mary Julia Baldwin by the Alumnae Association in 1901. It features the
Baldwin coat-of-arms, from which the college's squirrel mascot is derived. Originally,
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Summer Slowdown? Not at MBC
Special Event: Join our guest instructor for Storytelling: A Pathway to Curriculum Integration, Donald Davis, for a special storytelling presentation July 9. The event takes place at 7 p.m. at the Frontier Culture Museum pavilion in Staunton, and tickets are available at the door. Please contact Tamra Willis at twillis@mbc.edu for more information.
Spending your days composing stories on the Chesapeake Bay or touring a coal mine and exploring Appalachian handcrafts in Beckley, West Virginia might not sound like schoolwork, but adult and graduate students at Mary ... [full story]
Special Event: Join our guest instructor for Storytelling: A Pathway to Curriculum Integration, Donald Davis, for a special storytelling presentation July 9. The event takes place at 7 p.m. at the Frontier Culture Museum pavilion in Staunton, and tickets are available at the door. Please contact Tamra Willis at twillis@mbc.edu for more information.
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Beyond E-Mail: MBC's Communication Calls on New Tools of the Trade 
Connection. The world today — and the frontier of higher education — is all about it. If you’re not Tweeting, Facebooking, watching videos on YouTube, posting photos on Flickr, or networking via a combination of these and more, valuable information is passing you by.
Denise Kinsinger ’08 signed on to Facebook about a year ago to keep in touch with college friends who were graduating, and the graduate-school-bound English major has since adopted it ... [full story] |
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Scott 'Catches Comet by the Tail' as Interim Dean
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Images from Commencement 2009 
Includes Slideshow
Graduates in Mary Baldwin College’s Class of 2009 were greeted by a warm spring Commencement morning May 24, the humid air punctuated again and again with proud shouts and applause. When it wrapped up more than 330 undergraduate and graduate degrees had been conferred, including the college’s largest graduating class, 51, ... [full story] |
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Da and Da Get Fresh Coats 
Take a drive by Deming Hall on the corner of Prospect and Deming streets and check out the fresh paint on Da and Da, the dog statues that remarkably resemble Ham and Jam (the two dogs on the front pillars of the Administration Building).
Seniors in the Mary Baldwin College art department took advantage of a recent sunny Spring afternoon to update the statues. They laughed over ... [full story] |