■Man Haters? This was one topic of discussion at yesterday’s Women’s Liberation rally at Amherst town common. Members of Women’s Lib groups have sometimes been accused of hating men, a charge they say is definitely not true.
■Don Matus of Northampton will serve as “Transfer Week” chairman as the orientation program for incoming students at Springfield College begins on Sept. 10. The Transfer Week Program is designed to better assist transfer students to the college in the transition process and college life at Springfield.
■The Franklin County Mental Health Association, a 40-year-old human service agency with a new office in Northampton, has changed its name to Clinical & Support Options Inc. Joyce Toth, chief executive officer, said the name was changed to better reflect the work of the agency.
■Margaret H. Riddle, who has served as a member of the Northampton School Committee, has been hired as a fifth grade teacher at the Bridge Street School. Riddle, of Leeds, who for many years taught fifth grade in the South Hadley schools, has been appointed to fill a vacancy left by Rebecca Cohen, who resigned.
■A University of Massachusetts communications student was named Miss Polonia Massachusetts in front of a crowd of nearly 300 spectators at Pilsudski Park in Holyoke last weekend. Pamela Migalska, 19, of Randolph, won a free round trip to her mother country, after beating out three other candidates in the Miss Polonia Massachusetts pageant.
■Bonni Alpert, of Florence, has been named assistant dean for student disability services at Western New England College. Alpert has served as director of the collegeÕs office of student disability services for the past 14 years.