At the conclusion of the @mtholyoke Laurel Parade a song is always sung at founder Mary Lyon’s

At the conclusion of the @mtholyoke Laurel Parade a song is always sung at founder Mary Lyon’s grave, though the song of choice has varied through time.
In the early days it was often a song written by a class member or one of the College songs. 

The Class of 1978 decided to sing “Bread and Roses,” a song adapted by Mimi Farina from a poem written by James Oppenheim, which is said to have been a slogan for women during a 1912 textile mill strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Singing “Bread and Roses” has remained part of the Laurel Parade tradition to this day, and the words will ring out again this coming Saturday morning!

Pictured here are @mhcalums members of the Class of 1978 in their Laurel Parade, holding a banner with the words “The common woman is as common as a common loaf of bread and will rise.”