Oakland, CA - Mills first-year students from the class of 2010 rocked the San Francisco Giants on to a 5–0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday, August 21, 2006. Attending the baseball game at San Francisco’s AT&T Park as part of orientation activities, they joined approximately 38,000 people in the stadium and millions of viewers at home who saw two Mills-related messages on the Giants’ Jumbotron.

In the third inning, the scoreboard flashed “THE GIANTS WELCOME RENEL'S* ALMA MATER, MILLS COLLEGE, AND THE CLASS OF 2010. MILLS WOMEN ROCK! GO GIANTS!” Then, in the fifth Inning the Jumbotron display read “WELCOME JANET HOLMGREN, PRESIDENT OF MILLS COLLEGE.”

In addition to enjoying pitcher Noah Lowry’s first shutout of the season, Mills women saw left fielder Barry Bonds hit a splash hit into McCovey Cove in the fourth inning, for career home run #725.

*Mills alumna Renel Brooks-Moon, Class of 1981, is the Voice of the San Francisco Giants and a pioneer in sports broadcasting.

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently recognized as one of the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills currently ranks 16th for diversity among the country’s liberal arts colleges.

This year, the Washington Monthly College Rankings (September 2006) named Mills a leading liberal arts college based on community service, research spending, quality of preparation for graduate education, and social mobility. In addition, The Princeton Review’s annual guide, The Best 361 Colleges (2007) included Mills for the second year in a row among top U.S. institutions offering students an outstanding undergraduate education.

Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity.

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