Letters to the Editor

Volume CIX, Number 3 (USPS 349-900) Spring 2020

President Elizabeth L. Hillman Vice President for Institutional Advancement Jeff Jackanicz Senior Director of the Annual Fund and Alumnae Relations Nikole Hilgeman Adams Managing Editor Allison Rost Design and Art Direction Nancy Siller Wilson Editorial Assistant Lila Goehring ’21 Contributors Nora Aoyagi Susan McCarthy Angelica Navarro ’21 Kate Robinson Beckwith, MFA ’13

Editorial Advisory Committee Angela Bacca, MBA ’12 Sheryl Bize-Boutte ’73 Melissa Bender Henley ’99 Dawn Cunningham ’90 Myila Granberry ’05 Sarah Lehman ’86 Mira Mason-Reader ’15 Mari Matoba ’03 Livi Perez ’14, MA ’17 Mason Stockstill, MFA ’09

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I just read (cover to cover) the fall 2019 issue of Mills Quarterly and felt so proud of the direction the College is taking. The fact that you have adjunct professors who truly feel connected to their departments is encouraging—in my observations at community colleges, they are dreadfully exploited. That seems not to be the case from the testimonials in the magazine, and I was happy to read that the College is hiring a lot of tenure-track folks as well.

I was also quite moved by the article “Building Community, Building Leaders.” Confidence building, especially when you can’t quite believe how you arrived in such a special place, is something I did as a young lawyer. At that point, there were not a lot of women lawyers in my community. The Summer Academic Workshop as presented now seems well crafted, and I’m thrilled that it is not only academically rigorous but also empathetic to the

feelings of young women not groomed by their high schools or families to attend an elite college.

Keep up the good work. I’m impressed at how the College is evolving when I had previously been very concerned for its future.

–Margaret Fawcett ’63, Sausalito, California

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