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May 2014

Monthly News Highlights
	>	A Picturesque Commencement A perfectly sunny, mild morning greeted Mary Baldwin College’s 371 graduates and their families and friends May 18 for Commencement.	In the News ASC actor Rick Blunt (MFA ’06) crafts bigger-than-life characters Full of stories, he regales about working at a butcher shop as a teenager, climbing telephone poles during a job in his 20s and being a bouncer at Luigi's on North Augusta Street while in grad school at Mary Baldwin College.
	>	Online Day of Giving Raises $74K Mary Baldwin College’s one-day social media fundraiser engaged 541 donors and raised $74,000 for the Baldwin Fund.
	>	Class of 2014 Dedicates New Sign Faculty, staff, and students joined Class of 2014 officers May 16 to dedicate the senior class gift, a curved brick sign and planting bed marking the Frederick Street entrance to the college.
	>	Community Mourns Loss of ‘Bright Star’ Mary Baldwin College, the Heifetz International Music Institute, and the greater Staunton community were shocked to learn that Russian cellist Dmitry Volkov — who was nearing the end of his yearlong, successful classical music outreach — passed away May 10 from a heart attack.
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