Annual Metzger Series Kickoff

Dickinson featured four returning alumnae for the annual Metzger Series, which took place from October 21-24.The women, Mary Douglass Glasspool, Anne Hollister, Gina Weiner, and Joanne Wisor, spoke to various classes, attended a dinner with different campus organizations, and gave a panel discussion in Denny Hall about their careers and how the liberal arts and Dickinson contributed to that. Mary Glasspool graduated magna cum laude as a music major with membership in Omicron Delta Kappa and Wheel and Chain. She then entered the Episcopal Divinity School and currently worked as an ordained priest in Allston, Massachusetts. Anne Hollister graduated with degrees in English and political science, as well as being a member of Wheel and Chain. Hollister was a journalist for Time magazine, then earned her master's degree in Sociology from New York University, and worked for Life magazine and UNESCO. Gina Weiner was an English major and member of the honorary drama society, Alpha Psi Omega, before receiving her master's degree from New York University and becoming a free-lance author of children's literature with ten published books. Joanne Wisor was a biology major before doing cancer and hematology research at Duke University.