Schedule of Events

WED, OCT 1 | President Ricker's Birthday

Join us for cupcakes and zebra cakes as we celebrate President RIcker's birthday and kick off inauguration month.
Beneficial-Hodson Library and Learing Commons Cafe, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

FRI, OCT 3 - SUN, OCT 5 | Family Weekend

Visit the Family Weekend website for complete schedule.

MON, OCT 13 | Blessings in a Backpack
Inauguration Service Project

Join us as we stuff backpacks to provide weekend food for school-aged children in our community who might otherwise go hungry.
Whitaker Campus Center Commons, time TBD

WED, OCT 15 | Whitaker Wednesday: Project Linus
Inauguration Service Project

Come together to create no-sew fleece blankets for Project Linus, which provides blankets for children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need. 
Whitaker Campus Center Commons, 8 p.m.

FRI, OCT 17 | "The Half-Life of Marie Curie"

In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul Langevin. Weakened and demoralized, Marie agrees to join her friend Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, at Hertha's seaside retreat on the British coast. This two-woman play revels in the power of female friendship between these two brilliant women, both of whom are mothers, widows and fearless champions of scientific inquiry.
Hodson Auditorium, Rosenstock Hall, 7 p.m.
Joint production with Ardeo Theatre Co.

SAT, OCT 18 | The Inauguration of Deborah D. Ricker. Ph.D.

The ceremony to officially install the twelfth president of Hood College.
Hodson Outdoor Theater, 11 a.m. (weather back-up Coffman Chapel)

SAT, OCT 18 | Community Picnic

Join us for a community picnic, immediately following the Inauguration.
Residential Quadrangle (weather back-up Woodsboro Bank Arena)