South Hadley

South Hadley
Blanchard Campus Center at Mount Holyoke
Site Information
College	Mount Holyoke College
Location	South Hadley, Massachusetts
Years of Operation	1999-2013
Avg. Number of Students	180
Courses Offered
Humanities	The Middle Ages | Colonial America | Worlds in Motion | Railroads: Connecting 19th Century America | Model United Nations and Advanced Geography
Writing	Writing and Imagination | Elements of Drama | Heroes and Villains
Math	History of Mathematics | Inductive and Deductive Reasoning | Math Sequence | Data and Chance | Introduction to Robotics
Science	Biology of the Senses | Examining the Evidence | Science and Engineering | Flight Science | Crystals and Polymers

South Hadley was a CTY site located in South Hadley, Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke college. It was for young students and a residential site for grades 5-6. Its site code was SHD. Any other information of the site would be gratefully appreciated.

Site Description

Mount Holyoke College was home to CTY's Baby CTY (or Young Students) program until 2013. It was founded in 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and today it is still an all-female college. Its most famous alumna is world renowned poet Emily Dickinson.

Main Building

The main building at South Hadley for CTY was the Blanchard Campus Center, where CTY offices were put and the bookstore was located to buy your books, and the dances were held in the basement of the building as they had a small dance place.

Dorms

Dorms (as of the last year 2013) were held in Rockefeller Hall for boys and Buckland and Abbey Hall for girls.

Whole Site Meetings

One of the things that happens at Baby CTY that is different to regular CTY is the whole site meeting, which was held every Sunday of the session for about an hour where the site director talked about the site in its past week. Personally, it was not needed because you sat there for an hour or two and just heard her talk or a class would perform something they did. It was a little odd. These site meetings were held at Chapin Auditorium, where the registration was held upstairs.

Meals

Meals were held in the same halls as the students ate, except when lunch happened when it would be with your class at the closest meal place.

Canon

Did Mount Holyoke really have a canon? Not really, but these are the songs I remember hearing at pretty much every dance:

• Shout, Pts. 1 & 2- The Everly Brothers
• Gangnam Style- PSY

• Cupid Shuffle- Cupid

• Cotton Eyed Joe- Rednex

• Cha Cha Slide- DJ Casper

And of course

• American Pie- Don McLean

Weekend Activities

The weekend activities I can remember were:

• Carnival Day
• Capture the Flag (Staff V. Students)
• Talent Show
• Casino Night

The Testing

During the times when outdoor activities were cancelled, students would go into Hooker Auditorium to watch a movie. To get everyone quiet, the SRA would read a book called "The Testing" by Joelle Charbonneau. It was really boring and made no sense, but it would get people intrigued at how bad it was. It actually came out the summer of 2013. As of now, no other site uses "The Testing" as a help to quiet kids down.

Students

• Mia Hotsuki, 13.1

• Luke Farrell 13.2

• Enyo Adoboe 13.2