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On Move-In Day, Meredith’s Office of Alumnae Relations started a new tradition by hosting a legacy pinning ceremony and reception. The event celebrated students whose mothers or grandmothers attended Meredith.
Acclaimed author Tracy K. Smith, whose memoir Ordinary Light is Meredith’s 2025 Summer Reading Program selection, will visit campus in September. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and memoirist will come to campus to present a public lecture on Thursday, September 18 at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium.
Meredith College welcomed new students on its annual Move-In Day on Saturday, Aug. 16. The College expects 417 new students, including first-time freshmen and transfer students, when the new academic year begins on Wednesday, Aug. 20.
The Meredith College community is saddened by the loss of Kevin Walker, director of the Print & Copy Center, who passed away recently. He was a longtime staff member who also served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Avenging Angels basketball team.
Two recent graduates of Meredith College, Aniston Sennett, ’25, and Claire Jacoby, ’24, have been selected for prestigious Fulbright programs. Sennett will be participating in the Binational Business Program in Mexico, while Jacoby has received a Fulbright Research Award to Italy.
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