Masquerade Ball brings 900 together into One Harvard
This year’s Masquerade Ball brought “the largest attendance for [an] HESA event ever!” to the March 4 event, Ian Jackson, the coordinator of student affairs at the Division of Continuing Education, told the Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) Board. The seventh annual ball was held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Graduate Council, it included special guests such as Grammy-nominated R&B singer Karina Pasian and Miss Boston 2017, Gabriela Taveras, as the mistress of ceremonies. With an estimated 900 in attendance, the ball reinforced the Graduate Council’s mission of One Harvard, bringing together students from the 12 graduate and professional Schools. This year, ball organizers expanded to include undergraduates from Harvard College, further fostering the One Harvard mission. Spearheaded by the HESA, with the support of the Graduate Council, the Harvard Masquerade Ball website stated: “Our goal is twofold: We hope to not only produce a memorable event experience, but...