Friends+&+Alums

Include your name, college, affiliation -- and what your bear has been doing?
7/1/15 -- Michael Clark Wonson's Duck-Bear rides around and around on vinyl. 5/25/15 -- Josie Verchomin's bears go to the Old Globe Theatre in London and to the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland!

4/12/15 -- Josie Verchomin's bears got to go to Italy! (famous Duomo in background.) 4/11/15 - Allison Smartt gets a MOHAWK Bear from the MHC Student Concert Crew

4/3/15 -- Josie Verchomin's "Bears' Semester Abroad" -- in Scotland in Glasgow, and in Edinburgh

4/1/15 -- HC Taco Cruz has his TEN BEARS! 3/25/15 - Josie Verchomin's bears in Budapest -- at the Bradyn St. Marie station and at a picnic.

3/16/15 - Josie Verchomin's bear (actually a penguin) in England Hi Jean The Bears ventures to England again and one came on a hike with me in Dartmoor National Park.

3/16/15 Lisa Ivins (Sherman) MHC'98 Hi Jean! You might not remember me- I graduated in '98- right after Nancy Spoor, Lynette Rizzo, Kristen Young.... My sister- Tina attended mhc too. Anyway- you always said one day we'd pull these out and tell the story of our stage crew days and today I did just that!!! //COULD NEVER FORGET LISA !!//

3/16/15 Lynette Rizzo MHC'97 -- part of Artists Challenge! Crew bears (and santas, and dinosaurs, oh my)! [|Jean]'s way of commemorating each MHC / Five College Dance production. And the pink glitter wrench with googly eyes that she gave me for graduation.

3/2/15 -- Nancy Spoor (Gunter) MHC'97 sends her love. I'll be taking my company to perform at the Olympia Dance Festival today... thanks for the "paddle" Jean and for so much more (not to mention all the crew bears)! What I learned from you has served me well. FCDD will not be the same without you!

2/25/15 -- Cathy Hwang SC'15 ups the ante! TWELVE bears! 2/21/15 -- Josie Verchomin proves her TEN bears, and sends pix from London!!

12/9/13 -- Carol Wang earns MHC 10 Bonus points for posting this graduation photo on facebook. // "Adding this precious little graduation bear to my crew bear collection! I'm gonna miss working at the dance office and powering through concert weeks. Thank you all for the great learning experience, bonding moments and warm hugs! [|Gwendolyn], [|Jean], Allison, Rose, T, Joan, [|Lindsey] and [|Brittany."] //

10/23/13 -- Martha Plotz Ingols -- SC '01J sends us this flash from the past

5/21/11 at MHC Commencement Concert Jill Thorsen: Me: "So, Ava, did you like the dance concert?" Ava: "My favorite part was the bear."

6/1/11 Lynette Rizzo -- MHC alum sent in these pix and a note. (and earned a genuine plastic crystal crew bear.) "It's Take Your Crew Bears to Work Day! Here are some of mine hard at work on a new marketing campaign for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The rest were last seen making a run for the nearest subway station, so who knows where they'll turn up next."