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Two feature films reference Mount Holyoke of the 1960s.

The first is the 1987 film Dirty Dancing which is set at a summer resort in the Catskills in the summer of 1963.

The protagonist Frances " Baby " Houseman ( named after Mount Holyoke graduate Frances Perkins ) plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the fall to study economics of underdeveloped countries and then to later enter the Peace Corps.

The second is the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House which is set in 1962.

It satirizes a common practice up until the mid-1970s, when women attending Seven Sister colleges were connected with or to students at Ivy League schools.

In the film, fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional Faber College ( based on Dartmouth College ) take a road trip to the fictional Emily Dickinson College ( Mount Holyoke College )-- in real life, Mount Holyoke and Dartmouth are unofficial brother-sister schools.