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Departments L e t t e r s 3 Controversial debate

Collection 4 Expanded news and more voices Features Alumni Digest 40 Vital Connections I n v i t a t i o n t o P l a y 1 6 Class Notes 42 P r o f i l e s Pig Iron Theatre Co. leaps onto Personal stories from classmates national and international stages. Second Skin 46 By Mark Lord ’84 D e a t h s 4 9 Robert Turner ’36, a leading Noted passings 20th-century ceramicist, gives D i v e r s i t y : the 2002 Heilman lecture. Then and Now 22 Books&Arts 72 By Andrea Hammer One of the College’s African- Siberia Bound and recent works American pioneers remembers. Beautiful Math 64 By Maurice Eldridge ’61 I n M y L i f e 5 2 David Bayer ’77 writes My Football War Hollywood’s equations. TotheStars 26 By Dick Burrowes ’45 By Dana MacKenzie ’79 James Freeman’s ensemble makes music at the Kimmel Center. BackPages 80 The Marrow of By David Wright ’69 Swarthmore’s Magazine: theMatter 70 The Bulletin turns 50. A lifesaving transplant changes Constructing By Jeffrey Lott life for Brian and Naomi KenGergen 30 Zikmund-Fisher ’91. Professor of Psychology By Audree Penner Kenneth Gergen carves his own path. By Jeffrey Heckelman ’02

C i t y B e a t 3 6 Lively Philadelphia balances Swarthmore’s suburban calm. By Andrea Hammer 2 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN PARLORTALK I setdta the that asserted www.swarth- at available the also more.edu/bulletin/mar02/heacock.html.) as is news article the The in Arafat. Yasir recently of most headquarters town besieged a Ramallah, in University his- Zeit teaches Bir Heacock at that tory remember last will Palestine” the in in “Professor appeared of that ’62 (Readers issue. 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I and mine live lit- neighbors to be ignorant of the fact that it tle more than 14 miles south in Jerusalem. is they who send suicide bombers into These days, it is not easy to travel back and shopping malls and hotels and buses to forth between our homes because the murder and maim and terrorize Israeli Israeli army has been searching for Pales- civilians. He seems to believe that the occu- tinian terrorists who have come into Israeli pation of the West Bank is the sole source cafés, hotels, markets, malls, and discos of tension in the region. and killed whoever had the bad luck to Nothing could be further from the enjoy themselves there that day. Many have truth, and Swarthmore has done an injus- been youngsters, some have been survivors World tice to Israel—and to us all—in featuring of the Holocaust, and others were Arabs or Vision this misguided man and his family. workers from China and the Philippines The Photographs of JOHN WORLOCK ’53 who came to help their families back home. Daniel Aubry ’57 Salt Lake City The young Palestinians who blew them- selves up in order to murder Israelis have NASTYSHOCK been lauded as martyrs, assured they would It was a nasty shock to see the Bulletin fea- be met in heaven by 72 virgins, and prom- turing Professor Roger Heacock ’62 in an ised that their families would receive Israelis want to live side by side with a article that suggested that the Palestinian $25,000 from one of the world’s most democratic Palestinian state, one that has Authority, the havoc they have visited on vicious despots, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. never existed but that Israel is ready to live Israel, and their betrayal of those who Heacock describes himself as a next to when the price is not Israeli blood. might have once imagined a nation some- “birthright Quaker.” I am a Jew by birth, a Arafat, recipient of the Nobel Peace where in the Middle East for “Palestinians” citizen of Israel, and a citizen of the United Prize, has desecrated the name of peace, were worthy of anyone’s work or witness. I States. He says that he came to live in impoverished his people, trampled their thought that Quakers were peace loving on Ramallah to witness “the struggle and the human rights, burdened them with his cor- principle. Why is this man attempting to hardships of the Palestinian people.” And ruption, poisoned them with hatred of act out some sort of “solidarity” with those he concludes that “the current violence will Israel, and deluded them with expectations whose every breath is dedicated to destruc- never end until the occupation ends.” that Israel would give up its land under an tion and murder? And why does our maga- By “current violence,” I understand he onslaught of Palestinian terror. zine choose to provide a frame for Hea- means the terrorism launched immediately The Palestinian people deserve better. I cock’s venom? after Yasir Arafat refused Prime Minister hope Roger Heacock and his family know BART TEUSH ’64 Barak’s offer of a Palestinian state on 97 some brave and forward-looking Palestini- New York City percent of the land under dispute. (Al- ans who may one day, when Arafat is long ready, the Palestinian Authority controlled gone, emerge as the leaders of a democratic A PLACE CALLED PALESTINE? all its major cities and towns.) Using the and peaceful Palestine. We wait and pray I was quite surprised to find a blatant fac- visit of Ariel Sharon to the Temple for that day. tual error in the article “Professor in Pales- Mount—approved in advance by the Mus- SUZANNE FRIED SINGER ’56 tine” (March Bulletin). Where on maps of lim authorities on the Mount—as an Jerusalem the 1980s is there a place called Palestine? I excuse to launch a new outbreak of terror- can only surmise that the author of the ism, Arafat has made it clear to all of us INJUSTICETOISRAEL article was identifying with Roger Hea- here in Israel that he will not be satisfied Somehow or another, Israel must survive, cock’s [’62] position about a most con- without destroying the Jewish state. Hav- even though at this moment, in early tentious geopolitical situation. Why not be ing virtually everything in his hands to spring 2002, the path to peace and security honest and call this article an editorial? make a viable Palestinian state, Arafat is not evident. Israel, a tiny country, is sur- RUTH HOCHMAN FRIEDER ’60 threw it away and, with it, threw away the rounded by Arab neighbors who are teach- Great Neck, N.Y. hopes of most Israelis that the Oslo peace ing their children that Jews are evil and process would lead to full acceptance and that they should be exterminated. With MORETHANADISAGREEMENT recognition of Israel in the Arab world. this in mind, it is shocking to read in the After reading the March Bulletin, I feel I Today [April 24], Israel still controls March 2002 Bulletin that Roger Heacock must respond with more than just an edi- part of the West Bank and Gaza because it ’62 and his family have chosen to live in torial disagreement with its anti-Jewish must protect its population from terrorism, “solidarity with the occupied Palestinians” content. I have chosen to divert my annual because it cannot reward terror, and be- in the West Bank town of Ramallah. contribution to Swarthmore—which I cause there is no Palestinian who can be a Professor Heacock must have forgotten haven’t missed in 15 years—to the Magen negotiating partner. The vast majority of that the reason for the “occupation” of the Please turn to page 78 J U N E 2 0 0 2 3 Land-use plan looks ahead

What will the College be like 50 years from now?

long-range land-use plan that Three key areas are the closely spaced about a future growth assumption that addresses growth, change, and flexi- north-campus plateau, which includes Par- planners had based on historic trends. Ability for the College over the next rish Hall and most academic buildings; the Since the College’s founding in 1864, half-century has sparked a spirited conver- historic and more open central campus, Swarthmore’s student body has grown at a sation about where and how the College which includes Parrish lawn, residence linear (not compounded) rate of about 1 Amight find new room for expansion—and halls, and the Sharples Dining Hall, making percent a year. The committee used this fig- whether such change is desirable. up the College’s most visible interface with ure to project potential future growth, Prompted by a request from the Bor- the borough; and the lower campus, a more although Schall emphasizes that this COLLECTIONough of Swarthmore, a committee of open space south of the railroad tracks, assumption is “purely hypothetical”— administrators, faculty members, Board which is largely recreational. meant only to preserve options for the members, and students was formed a year • Additional College-owned property future, not to commit the College to any ago to create the plan, which was made includes much of the near-north residential particular growth strategy. In fact, he says, public in February. The College hired area adjoining the campus along Whittier program growth, not increased enrollment, Boston campus planners William Rawn Place and Elm Avenue; the Cunningham has been responsible for much of the Associates to assist the committee in study- Fields, bounded by Chester Road, the rail- expansion of Swarthmore’s facilities in ing the campus and presenting options to road tracks, and College Avenue; the far- recent years. Since 1970, the College has the College community and town officials. south residential area along Harvard added 450,000 square feet of new build- “The planning process is a way of Avenue, stretching to the Mary Lyon resi- ings—a 50 percent increase—and enroll- informing decision makers both at the Col- dence hall; and the Crum Woods plateau, a ment has increased by about 30 percent. lege and in the borough,” says Larry Schall largely undeveloped natural resource across Schall says that concerns about the plan ’75, vice president for facilities and services. Crum Creek from the main campus. have largely focused on areas currently con- “It’s also a good exercise for the College, to • Green spaces, more than architectural sidered to be “off campus”—even though look 50 years out and see what might hap- style, define the character of the campus. much of the land in question is owned by pen to the campus.” Preserving flexibility is Swarthmore is a pedestrian campus, and its the College. These include the near-north a paramount concern, according to Schall. lawns, gardens, vistas, and woods are the neighborhood, the Crum Woods plateau, “It’s not our job to impose a size or a pro- unifying elements of its environment. and the “hinge block.” (See map.) gram on the people who will be running the • Many campus buildings are integrated Associate Professor of Religion Mark College in 2050,” he says. Still, Schall within this landscape through a series of Wallace, who served on the committee, dis- believes that the fundamental character of three-sided open spaces. Collections of sented from the group’s conclusions. Wal- the College will remain the same: “Swarth- buildings such as Wharton and Worth halls lace is most critical of the plan for the near- more is a small residential liberal arts col- are the most successful examples of this north neighborhood, which comprises fac- lege, and it will stay that way.” concept, which should be consciously con- ulty homes along Elm Avenue and Whittier Four fundamental values were put for- tinued. (The Rawn firm is also designing Place as well as some other nearby College- ward in the document: Swarthmore’s new dormitory. See p. 12.) owned properties. The plan designates this • The natural environment is a funda- • Pedestrian pathways on the campus area for future “residential scale” institu- mental component of the campus. are “definitively more important” than tional use such as “small administrative or • The College is a residential community vehicular access. Vehicle circulation and academic functions.” Wallace, who lives on for students and faculty members. parking are consciously limited to the Elm Avenue, asserts that such uses would • The health of the College is inter- perimeter of the campus in order to pre- threaten the “easy give-and-take among twined with the health of the Borough of serve the landscape. townspeople, faculty members, families, and Swarthmore. • Buildings at the perimeter of the cam- the College.” • Informal interaction is fundamental to pus naturally align with the residential Schall says that the College will main- the culture of the College and must be sup- streets that surround the College, creating a tain “roughly the same amount of faculty ported by the physical environment. cohesive relationship with the borough. housing as currently exists within walking Additionally, the committee identified Each area of connection has its own charac- distance [of the campus],” pointing out several organizing principles for under- ter, from the faculty neighborhood in the that it has bought “about a dozen” nearby standing and planning Swarthmore’s future near north to the business district interface homes and apartments in the past decade land use: near the train station. to further this goal. • The topography of the campus is When the plan was presented at campus Wallace also raised questions about the organized into zones with different uses. meetings in February, questions were raised use of the Crum plateau, which the plan SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 4 Key to Plan A new College land-use plan identifies several areas where Swarthmore might expand in the future. According to the plan, some are within the current confines of the campus, and others are designed to “connect seamlessly with the neighborhood beyond.” The plan acknowl- edges that “in order to develop on some of these sites, the Borough [of Swarthmore] must agree to slight land-use adjustments at certain of the perimeter sites.” The list of pos- sible development sites includes the following: A. Future expansion of McCabe Library. B. Expansion of the former Tarble Social Center, half of which was destroyed by fire in the 1980s. C. The southwest perimeter of the main lawn, near Sharples Dining Hall. D. The academic north campus, which is already “institutional scale.” E. The near-north neighborhood along Whittier Place and Elm Avenue. F. The “hinge block” bounded by Chester Road, College Avenue, Cedar Lane, and Elm Avenue. Except for two properties, the block is owned by the College. WILLIAM RAWN ASSOCIATES G. The Chester Road area south of the identifies as “the most appropriate area” for ness district of the borough. railroad station, currently used for ath- future expansion of College athletic fields. The current plan would have the College letic fields. The question has been referred for study lease land to an independent developer who by a separate Crum Woods Stewardship would build and operate the facility. H. Property along Harvard Avenue. Committee, which Wallace praised as “a The land-use plan avoids mention of a I. The Mary Lyon site. thoughtful, protracted academic process hotel, saying only that this lower campus The plan addresses the scale of possible build- through which to make these politically site “would best be used to enhance the ings, which would be carefully calibrated to charged decisions.” connection of the College to the commercial “assure the integration of faculty residences in Associate Professor of Engineering Carr center of the borough.” Schall says flatly the life of the College.” These are indicated by Everbach, who co-chairs the land-use com- that Swarthmore is “not about to get into mittee with Schall, believes that environ- the hotel business” but must continue to colors: mental concerns are just one factor that “pay a lot of attention to how we meet the College planners should consider. “I take a borough.” Borough officials continue to Institutional use, more pragmatic view,” he says. “We have to study the hotel proposal, and no decision institutional scale weigh a lot of different factors to make the about it has been made by the town or the best decisions for the long-range best inter- College. Institutional use, ests of the College and the borough.” Everbach believes that “the best outcome residential scale In fact, says Everbach, a proposal to of the current discussions is the increased build an 80-room inn and restaurant on flow of information and fluid dialogue that Institutional use, contextual scale College property near the railroad station is has developed between the College and the (responds to site topography and a more important—and potentially con- borough. We’re all neighbors here, and neighborhood scale) tentious—public issue for both the College working together is in the best interests of and townspeople. The inn is part of a larger both the College and the borough.” View the entire land-use plan on the Web at plan being considered to revitalize the busi- —Jeffrey Lott www.landuse.swarthmore.edu. 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CELEBRATE WRITING WITH US ular change in the mid-1980s that The Writing Associates Program implemented invites alumni to submit a piece of required primary expository writing for an upcoming distribution cours- publication that will showcase the es designed to give quality of writing at Swarthmore and students both show how that tradition continues exposure and a good foundation among alumni. Submissions (maxi- for writing in a mum of 4,000 words) may be sent by variety of disci- e-mail to [email protected] or plines. to Jill Gladstein, director, Writing “The WA Pro- Associates Program, at the College. gram addressed The deadline2 is Aug. 1, 2002. one of the goals of the College—

WRITING ASSOCIATE REIKO TESHIBA ’02 to have students become competent (RIGHT) REVIEWS A PAPER WITH SUSIE ANSELL academic writers,” ’02 IN KOHLBERG HALL’S COFFEE BAR. Blackburn says. The program now consists of course WAs, a staffed Writing Center that is open Sunday through Thursday evenings, an on- line writing lab, WA mentors, thesis WAs, and workshops. In fall “ W A i n g ” 2001, 585 papers were “WA’d” at the Writing Center, in addition to more than 500 papers through course “WAing.” In spring t u r n s 1 5 2002, there were 64 WAs, with 22 courses being served by the ELEFTHERIOS KOSTANS program. “The idea now is that support for writing at Swarthmore is he Writing Associates (WA) Program is celebrating nearly more than just the WA Program,” Gladstein says. “I think we’re 15 years of supporting student writing at Swarthmore. starting to see more diverse requests than we’ve had before. We’re TLaunched by Thomas Blackburn, professor emeritus of Eng- hearing from departments we haven’t heard from in a while.” lish literature, the program is now directed by Jill Gladstein, “You forge academic relationships through the program,” assistant professor of English literature. agrees Gaskell. “I see students becoming more conscious of the To celebrate the anniversary, Writing Program intern Matt importance of writing to the Swarthmore experience.” Kutolowski ’99 and Student Outreach Coordinator Joanne “I take every paper that’s finished before 2 a.m. to the Writing Gaskell ’03 conducted a faculty panel in April. Faculty members Center,” says Sarah Bryan ’04. She sometimes brings visiting from different disciplines talked with students about the process, prospective students who stay overnight to her conferences with challenges, and risks they encounter in their own writing. In WAs. Bryan believes the WA Program has helped her make the addition, the coordinators are planning a publication featuring important transition from high school to college writing. student, faculty, and alumni writing (see box above). Yen Pham ’03 has also been a frequent visitor to the Writing The WA Program was originally based on the Writing Fellows Center since her freshman year. “The WAs are helpful because Program at Brown University, which was developed there by Tori they look at my paper with a fresh pair of eyes,” she says. “Their Haring-Smith ’74. Blackburn consulted many other college peer comments help me polish my paper.” tutoring and writing programs when designing English/Educa- “Writing is a process. It’s something that you can always tion 001C, The Writing Process, the mandatory training course improve and enrich through discussion with your peers,” for WAs. Kutolowski says. According to Blackburn, the WA Program grew out of a curric- —Reiko Teshiba ’02 J U N E 2 0 0 2 7 8 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN COLLECTION

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JIM GRAHAM ONEQUESTION IN MEMORIAM: TRANSITIONS BERNARD In February, Allison Dorsey and Bruce I read about the “Dash for Cash,” MORRILL Dorsey (the two are not related) of his- which raises money for the men’s and Bernard “Betz" Morrill, tory, Philip Everson of mathematics and women’s rugby teams. Is this some- Henry C. and J. Archer statistics, Keith Reeves ’88 of political HALCYON thing put on by the Development Turner Professor Emer- science, Adrienne Shibles of physical 1958 Office? itus of Engineering, education and athletics, and Elizabeth ANSWER: No, the professional died on March 3 at the age of 91. Morrill Vallen of biology received appointments fund-raisers cannot take credit for the began teaching at Swarthmore in 1947,the with tenure. Except for Reeves, who “Dash for Cash”—nor would they same year he graduated from the Massachu- came to the College already an associate want to. Since the late 1980s, mem- setts Institute of Technology. He received a professor from the Kennedy School of bers of the rugby teams have run Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Government at Harvard, all will be pro- naked through the halls of Parrish, 1959 and retired in 1975. A specialist in moted from assistant professor to asso- collecting bills from onlookers. In thermodynamics, he was the author of the ciate professor. Full professorship was earlier years, the Dashers were all books Mechanical Vibrations and An Introduc- awarded to associate professors Lynne male, and almost all ran with paper tion to Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He was a Molter ’79 of engineering, Robert Wein- bags covering their faces. In the mid- co-designer of the world’s first supercritical berg of history, and Lee Wimberly of ’90s, women joined the biannual run, steam power turbine, the most efficient tur- physical education and athletics. and as the millennium approached, bine of its kind in the world at that time. At Retiring at the end of distinguished the bags were abandoned. Swarthmore, he is remembered partic- careers on the faculty are The fund-raiser is not without its ularly fondly for his concern for Professor of Statistics critics: Writing in The Phoenix in Jan- minority and international MATH WHIZZES Gudmund Iverson, uary, faculty member J. William Frost students, to many of Swarthmore’s student math Susan Lippincott called the event “a form of sexual whom he and his late team finished among the top 10 in this Professor of exploitation.” Nonsense, fired back wife, Bernice, opened year’s William Putnam Mathematical Com- Modern and nine members of the women’s rugby their home when cam- petition. Swarthmore’s 8th-place finish among Classical squad: “Rugby gives us pride in our pus housing and food more than 300 teams is the College’s best in its Languages bodies. The Dash is not an objectifi- services were closed. last 20 years of participation in the event. Gilbert cation of our bodies but rather an The Morrills set up Benjamin Schak ’03 scored in the top 20 of Rose, and extension of this pride.” an endowment, the nearly 3,000 students from 453 colleges. Senior Professor of This spring’s Dash, held during Dorothy S. Leikin Amy Marinello placed in the top 200, and Biology Family Weekend, netted $280. Fund, to provide food freshman Yijun Li was in the top 500. Eleven Timothy Send your question to bulletin@- and accommodations other Swarthmore students took the 6- Williams ’64. swarthmore.edu. We’ll try to answer it. for these students. hour math exam in December. —Carol —Jeffrey Lott —Carol Brévart-Demm —Alisa Giardinelli Brévart-Demm

College’s Committee for Socially Responsi- only one of the many companies in which PROXYFIGHT ble Investing (CSRI). The 4-year-old com- Swarthmore holds stock, but Simon says it his spring, Swarthmore used its posi- mittee is chaired by Harvard University was chosen because of the potentially large Ttion as a stockholder in the aerospace Business School faculty member Samuel impact of a policy change at such a promi- firm Lockheed Martin to urge the company Hayes III ’57 and includes students, college nent firm. to bar discrimination on the basis of sexual administrators, and members of Swarth- According to Simon, more than half of orientation in its equal employment oppor- more’s Board of Managers. It prepared the Fortune 500 companies and many of Lock- tunity policy. Although the resolution filed resolution in consultation with the Equali- heed Martin’s competitors, such as Boeing, by the College was defeated at the compa- ty Project, a nonprofit organization in New Honeywell International, and Raytheon, ny’s annual meeting in San Diego on April York devoted to securing equality in the already have such a policy in place. “We 25, it garnered 5 percent of proxy votes, workplace for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and hoped that our actions would not only lead ensuring that it will be reconsidered at next transgendered employees. to change at Lockheed Martin but also year’s annual meeting. Morgan Simon ’04,an honors econom- exert pressure on other Fortune 500 com- This resolution—said to be the first in ics major and a CSRI member, represented panies to update their policies and encour- the country solely initiated by a college or the College at the stockholder meeting age other colleges to use their power as university since the anti-apartheid move- along with Paul Aslanian, vice president for shareholders for social good in the future.” ment in the 1980s—was the work of the finance and planning. 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SWARTHMORE PLAYERS AND COACHES CONGRATU- LATE THEIR RIVALS FROM FRANKLIN & MARSHALL SPRING SPORTS ROUNDUP COLLEGEASTHESUNSETSONACOOLAPRIL Baseball (6–21–1, 5–13) Jared Leiderman controls. Hart, a goaltender, led the con- AFTERNOON. THE GARNET TOOK AN 8–5 LEAD ’05 and Scott Kushner ’02 earned All- ference with a .574 save percentage and INTO THE LATE INNINGS, BUT F&M SCORED 7 Centennial Conference (CC) honors. Lei- was third with a 9.87 goals-against aver- RUNS IN THE NINTH TO WIN THE GAME 13–8. derman, a pitcher, was named to the sec- age. Biss was second on the team in scor- ond team, and left-fielder Kushner was ing with 38 goals and seven assists for 45 tabbed as an honorable mention. Leider- points. man posted a 2–8 record with a 3.39 ERA Women’stennis (9–8, 7–3) Anjani Reddy in 12 games. Kushner hit .288 and led the ’04 ran her CC singles record to a perfect conference with four triples. Center-field- two-year total of 30–0, as she captured er Brandon King ’05 led the team with a her second consecutive conference singles .308 batting average, 33 hits, 18 runs championship, earning the CC Player of scored, and seven doubles. the Year award. Reddy also teamed with Softball (2–24, 2–14) The Garnet Kristina Pao ’04 for a third-place finish in snapped a 24-game losing streak with a doubles play. doubleheader sweep of Haverford. Short- Men’stennis (9–8) The Garnet made its stop Pam Lavallee ’03, who closed the sea- 24th consecutive trip to the NCAA Divi- son with a 13-game hitting streak, earned sion III Tournament, falling 4–1 to Wash- All-Centennial Conference second-team ington in the first round. Frank Visciano honors. ’04 was the lone winner at No. 4 singles. BRUCE TROUT Golf (5–0, fifth of seven at CC Champi- Women’strack and field (2–2, sixth of 10 IN THE SWIM—TWICE onship) Matt Kaufman ’02 closed out an at CC Championships) Imo Akpan ’02 Three senior members of the women’s outstanding career with a CC Champi- (see p. 10) was named Outstanding Per- swimming team celebrate Swarthmore’s onship and Co-Player of the Year honors. former of the Meet at the Centennial second Centennial Conference champi- Men’slacrosse (6–8, 1–5) Blake Atkins Championships. Njideka Akunyili ’04, onship in as many years. Co-captains ’02 was named to the All-Centennial Con- Elizabeth Gardner ’05, and Claire Hover- Lisa Ladewski and Allison Lyons and Amy ference second team. Atkins scored 14 man ’03 joined Akpan on the relays, which Auerbach (left to right) were team lead- goals and added 14 assists on the season were both run in school record times. Jes- ers last year, when Swarthmore unex- for 28 points. John Murphy ’03 led the sica Rickabaugh ’02 earned a silver medal pectedly upset perennial conference team in scoring, with 23 goals and 12 in the high jump, clearing 5–0.25. champion Gettysburg College. Expected assists for 35 points. Men’strack and field (1–2, ninth of nine to be underdogs again this winter, the Women’slacrosse (9–6, 4–5) Katie Tarr at CC Championships) Justin Pagliei ’02 Swarthmore women surprised the confer- ’02, Heather Kile ’02, and Jennifer Hart earned the lone medal for the Garnet, fin- ence by taking a second consecutive ’03 were named to the All-Centennial ishing third in the discus (130–9). championship. Conference first team, and Mavis Biss ’02 Auerbach, who has twice been named Hood Trophy: This year’s Hood Tro- earned second-team honors. Tarr led the to the conference all-academic honor phy went to Haverford by a score of 10–8. conference with 66 goals and finished her roll (she is an honors biology major, Swarthmore won men’s and women’s ten- career with a conference-record 260. Kile, planning a career in medicine), holds nis and softball but split in baseball and a defender, led the Garnet with 75 ground College records in the 1,000 freestyle lost in men’s and women’s track. balls, 44 caused turnovers, and 36 draw and the 800 and 400 freestyle relay. —Mark Duzenski —Jeffrey Lott J U N E 2 0 0 2 11 NEWDORM ON PLANSADVANCE

TI or more than 18 months, FSwarthmore’s campus has been on the minds of a group of archi- EC tects from the Boston firm of William Rawn Associates. The national-award–winning firm was LL selected in September 2000 to design a new 150-bed dormitory and last fall was asked to consult CO on a long-range land-use plan for

the College (see p. 4). WILLIAM RAWN ASSOCIATES The new residence hall will be funded from The Meaning of Swarthmore, rish lawn is really one of the truly memo- THE NEW 150-BED RESIDENCE HALL WILL RISE the $230 million capital campaign currently rable spaces in American colleges. The new BETWEEN MERTZ HALL AND ROUTE 320, ANCHOR- under way at the College. It will initially residence hall will reinforce this space by ING THE SOUTHEASTERN EDGE OF PARRISH LAWN. accommodate current residents of Parrish strengthening its eastern edge." Hall, which is slated for major renovations The architects have met frequently with Designed as a three-sided structure with as a part of the campaign. Once students landscape architects from Olin Partnership an open fourth side—similar in ground are moved back into Parrish, the new dorm Inc. and a College steering committee head- plan to Worth and Wharton halls—the dor- will help relieve crowding in other residence ed by Vice President for Facilities and Serv- mitory will have two buildings of three and halls. No increase in the College enrollment ices Larry Schall ’75. After considerable four stories, respectively. Each building will is currently being contemplated. research into Swarthmore’s residential cul- have a main lounge and kitchen area near The new residence hall will be located at ture, including late-night hours spent with its entrance, smaller floor lounges on each the southeastern end of campus between students in the existing dormitories, com- story, a laundry, and group study space on Mertz Hall and Route 320, serving as an pany owner and principal William Rawn, the ground floor. The buildings will be sur- anchor to the south end of Parrish lawn. Gayley, and designers Peter Reiss and Kevin rounded by landscaped areas, designed by Emphasizing the need to respect and even Bergeron have proposed a residence hall Olin. defer to the campus’s landscape, Rawn’s that they believe will be in keeping with the On the corridors, where the use of natu- associate principal Cliff Gayley says, “Par- unique nature of of the College. ral light will be maximized, students will be housed in 41 double and 78 single rooms on halls accommodating about 25 individuals Cash.” On March 2, hundreds of stu- each. “We spent a lot of time finding the dents in homemade costumes descend- right balance for a properly social corridor ed on Sharples Dining Hall to find and one that lets you study," says Gayley. their companions for the evening. “For example, we believe that the width and Elaborate meetings arranged by friends character of the corridor have a lot to do with hall life. We determined that 7 feet is and roommates were played out as the ideal corridor width for Swarthmore bees searched for flowers, human College. Five feet is too narrow and 8 feet piñatas were whacked by blindfolded

THE DAILY GAZETTE too wide. Understanding those physical

ʼ 03/ suitors, and Burger King searched the nuances particular to Swarthmore has been room for his Dairy Queen. In this an important area of learning for the archi- photo, Aladdin (Sam Breckenridge ’05, tects and the building committee." right), asks his princess (Jessica Mar- With a construction budget of $15 mil- lion, according to committee member and JEREMY SCHIFELING tin ’05) if she will take a magic carpet ride. Associate Vice President for Facilities Man- MAGIC CARPET RIDE The evening continues at an all- agement C. Stuart Hain, the project is cur- As Swarthmore traditions go, the annu- campus party at which the “dates” rently in the latter part of its design devel- al blind-date fest called “Screw Your (archaic these days) celebrate the opment phase. A date for the beginning of construction will be decided by the Board of Roomate” is as well established as the bizarre and ridiculous. “McCabe Mile” and the “Dash for Managers in September. —Jeffrey Lott —Carol Brévart-Demm SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 12 H u s h arly this semester, the List Gallery exhib- Eited the landscape photography of Harry Kalish, Richard Kagan, and Brian Peterson. The black-and-white photographs in this exhibit framed shifting patterns of light, texture, airiness, and regeneration. Kalish began his photography career in 1984 and has work in the permanent collec- tions of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art. “My involvement with landscape photogra- phy grew out of an early but unrealized interest in the formal beauty of the world,” he says of his work about structure and form. When he first moved to the area 30 years ago, Kalish was introduced to the College and the Crum Woods by a group of students and alumni with whom he became friendly. He has covered events and photographed campus grounds—particularly new gar- dens—for the Scott Arboretum since 1988. “My personal photography is mostly of the landscape, with some deviation from this highly contemplative genre. For in- stance, I have a series of images made by running the same film through the camera © HARRY KALISH two or more times,” Kalish says. “To me, month. “I wanted to contribute a share of ONEOFTHELANDSCAPEPHOTOGRAPHSINA these pictures have a dreamlike quality that the manual effort required to maintain the LISTGALLERYEXHIBITEARLYTHISSEMESTER is about the overlapping of segments of time.” grounds that I have been admiring over the WAS PLAY OF LIGHT, A TONED SILVER PRINT Kalish has also worked during the last years and to learn about Scott’s landscaping CREATED BY HARRY KALISH IN 1998. three years with the other 100 Scott volun- and gardening strategies,” he says. teers who garden at least two mornings each —Andrea Hammer

REAL WORLD INTRUDES with rape in connection with an sumed in mid-January after winter Three recent criminal investiga- alleged sexual assault on a female break, the woman decided to press tions—an embezzlement arrest, a student in December. The victim, charges. A preliminary hearing was set rape charge, and the search of a stu- whose name has been withheld, for May 13. dent’s computer on suspicion of child reported the incident to local police In the third case, a student was pornography—have brought the Col- in late January, prompting mild criti- arrested after members of the Delaware lege a little closer to the “real world.” cism by borough police chief Brian County Criminal Investigation Division, In April, former McCabe Library Craig, who said he was concerned using a warrant, searched his computer financial administrator Antoinette about “losing details and evidence.” in March. Ivan Boothe, a 20-year-old Selby-Hobbs was arrested by Delaware The woman involved reported the sophomore, was charged in late April County authorities for approving pay- incident to College officials within with possession of child pornography ments of more than $64,000 to hours. Associate Dean of the College for and related offenses. The investigation dummy suppliers. She was charged Student Life Tedd Goundie said that began when New Hampshire authorities with theft by deception, criminal Swarthmore policy is to “do options were alerted by the parents of a minor. conspiracy, and forgery. Selby-Hobbs counseling with students.” Reporting an College spokesperson Tom Kratten- was released on her own recogni- incident to police is just one of those maker said that, if true, “the student’s zance, and a preliminary hearing was options, explained Goundie. Others activity is upsetting and offensive to scheduled for May. include dealing with the attacker direct- Swarthmore College. The activity Also in April, a 20-year-old Navy ly, handling charges against another stu- described in the charges violates our man stationed at the New London, dent through the College judicial system, principles and our rules.” Conn., submarine base was charged and doing nothing. 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JIMGRAHAM Mister adds: “Other questions have included just about all top- ics, from housing to food to why the exterior of Clothier Hall looks like a church. In all the tours I’ve given, the Board of Managers’ decision to cut the football team came up just twice.” (For his “Top 10 Tour-Guide Questions and Answers,” see box.) To keep a tour fresh, Mister learns about participants’ interests. This interaction “requires getting to know the participants a bit,” he says. “I find out what they’re interested in academically and extracurricularly and speak to these areas when I get to those points in the tour.” Rather than “selling” the College, guides are encouraged to dis- cuss their personal experience and explain what they like about Swarthmore. “A candid conversation about campus atmosphere and a description of the guide’s own experience and friends is more valid,” says Kingham. Both Mister and Kingham agree that a campus tour has a strong impact on a prospective student’s final choice. “A tour is different from accessing Web information,” Kingham says. “Sometimes a tour is the only contact with a current student.” Similarly, the tour guide is also enriched by tapping into his or her enthusiasm for Swarthmore, says Kingham, who has enjoyed her work with “lots of quality students who give a valuable sense of the College and represent it well because of a personal investment.” Mister adds, “Personal experience is much better than statistics. When you get a tour guide who really cares about Swarthmore, it reflects on the quality of life at the College.” —Andrea Hammer

TOP 10 TOUR-GUIDE JIMGRAHAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 7. How does the Tri-College Consortium work? Students at By Dave Mister ’04 Swarthmore can take classes; go to parties, concerts, lec- 1. How many volumes are in the library? There are approx- tures, and social events; and generally take advantage of all imately 800,000, including books, reserves, and journals as the resources of Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr. The well as recordings and scores in Underhill Music Library. libraries are interconnected, so finding the materials you need is as easy as a computer search; if it’s at one of the 2. What’s the College’s enrollment? Last fall, the College other two colleges, the library shuttle will bring it here opened with 1,467 students, 1,373 of whom were studying within a couple days. on campus. 8. Do people actually take advantage of the Tri-Co sys- 3. Do students enjoy being here? Definitely. There’s an air tem, or is it just for show? As with any college program, of pride among the student body—they’re proud that they there will be a certain number of students who will take go to such an amazing school. advantage of it. I’ve heard that roughly 30 to 50 Swarth- 4. What impact do fraternities have on the social scene more students take classes at Bryn Mawr or Haverford each of the campus? The College’s two fraternities contribute to semester. it without dominating it—it’s nice to have the option to go 9. Can you have a car on campus? You can, though not as to a fraternity-sponsored party on the weekend, but it’s by a freshman. After your freshman year, you can put in a park- no means the only thing to do. ing application, though priority is typically given to seniors. 5. How accessible are the professors? In my experience, 10. What are the performing arts and extracurricular they’ve just been incredible. They always keep their office opportunities here? They’re plentiful and varied—from hours, and they’re more than willing to sit down and talk music ensembles to a cappella groups. We have more than with a student about almost anything—even if they’ve never 140 extracurricular groups, including publications, activism, met the student before. club sports, and Student Council. If you’d like to see some- 6. Where else did you apply to college? I also applied to thing here that’s not represented, you can start it—only Brown, Amherst, Tufts, William and Mary, and University of three participants and a charter from the Budget Committee Maryland at College Park. are necessary to receive funding from the College. J U N E 2 0 0 2 15 Invitation to Play

The innovative Pig Iron Theatre Co. leaps onto national and international stages.

By Mark Lord ’84 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 16

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IN 1998, CASSIE FRIEND, DITO VAN REIGERSBERG, SULI HOLUM, JAMES SUGG, AND TREY limpsed for a moment in rehearsal LYFORD (LEFT TO RIGHT) APPEARED IN THE TRAGEDY OF JOAN OF ARC. for Shut Eye, the working dynamic Gof the Pig Iron Theatre Co. articu- begins to receive direction from the entire are sometimes communicated sharply. The lates itself. Dan Rothenberg ’95, co-artistic ensemble. ensemble’s collaborative process is like an director, announces to the group that they’ll Members of the company discuss con- eight-person marriage in which the furniture be running through the first nine scenes of cepts as if they were collaborating aspects of in the apartment is perpetually being the still-evolving play but with one adjust- a single mind—not that there’s any single- rearranged. ment: The entire play should be performed mindedness involved here. Ideas are tossed from the viewpoint of Clark, one of the char- out, challenged, conflated with additional ounded in 1995, the Pig Iron ensem- acters. “This exercise,” Rothenberg suggestions, chuckled over, altered, teased, Fble—emerging in the world of modern announces, “is for you to play as much as tested, and discarded. All with a peculiarly theater—continued to return to Swarthmore possible.” gentle quality, with both rigor and grace. The as artists-in-residence each summer until His invitation to play is met with the discussion ends, not because the actors are 2001. It was at Swarthmore that members of reaction you might expect from a group of finished preparing but because Rothenberg the company first encountered the work and seven artists, including company members doesn’t want to let the experiment be too writing of Joseph Chaikin in Professor Allen Cassandra Friend, Suli Holum ’97,Geoff fully developed. The play he’s looking for will Kuharski’s class. Chaikin’s blatant anticom- Sobelle, and James Sugg. They stand quietly come, in part, from forcing the actors to make mercial stance particularly struck Rothen- in a circle, deep in thought. No one sits. connections on the fly, to discover sponta- berg, and the physical nature of Chaikin’s Obstacles are identified. They ask each other neously a way of fitting all the pieces togeth- projects intrigued the rest of the group. So questions. Since the discussion in the er from a specific, improvised perspective. Kuharski introduced Pig Iron to Chaikin. rehearsal room centers on the reinterpreta- Although joyous, the process of collabo- The importance of Joseph Chaikin’s tion of the play from the viewpoint of the ration and discussion is not always sweet. work, first as an actor with the renegade Liv- character played by van Reigersberg, he When there are differences of opinion, they ing Theater and then as a director and leader SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 18 of the Open Theater, was not lost on the Iron,” says Chaikin, “because of their sense says Rothenberg. students who would become the Pig Iron of humor, and they are terrific physically.” Chaikin inaugu- ensemble. Chaikin’s legendary ensemble Rather than grounding his company’s rated the Shut Eye productions have won him virtually every theatrical explorations in the realm of psy- collaboration with accolade possible, and his sphere of influ- chology—as virtually all theater practition- a simple provoca- ence ranges from Sam Shepard to My Fair ers had done since the advent of Stanis- tion. “We started Lady. Second, Kuharski, who was just begin- lavski at the dawn of the 20th century— with four words:

ning as resident director in the Theatre Chaikin worked out a system of sound and © 1995 JEAN CLAUDE VAN‘night,’ ITALLIE ‘con- Studies Program at Swarthmore when the movement exercises that were designed to JOSEPH CHAIKIN scious/uncon- core Pig Iron ensemble members were stu- make it possible for his actors to approach scious,’ and dents, is a particular champion of Chaikin. abstract and poetic texts. ‘dreams.’ We’ve never started with as little “He made sure that Joe got to see our For Pig Iron, working with Chaikin—a source material as this,” Rothenberg recalls. work whenever we showed it in New York,” landmark on their Swarthmore syllabus and After a month’s residency at Swarthmore Quinn Bauriedel ’94,the third co-artistic a legend in contemporary drama—is analo- last summer, the piece was further devel- director, remembers. After Chaikin had seen gous to students in philosophy being invit- oped with the ensemble paying frequent vis- enough of their early work to be as smitten ed to sit down with Emmanuel Kant and its to Chaikin in New York, where he with the ensemble as many critics, Kuharski hash out a fourth critique. “Chaikin’s work reviewed their progress with Rothenberg, helped to put together the collaboration with the Open Theatre was one of our his co-director. “Joe would give us a direc- that would become Shut Eye. “I like Pig inspirations, a model for our own work,” tion like: ‘Go and make music,’” van

The ensemble’s collaborative process is like an eight-person marriage in which the furniture in the apartment is perpetually being rearranged.

Reigersberg remembers; at first, it was diffi- cult to know how to respond to such a broad invitation. Bauriedel chimes in, “What was great about working with Joe was learning to trust ourselves more. People who have seen a lot of our work have said that Shut Eye has more of us in it. I think Joe really enjoyed bringing out our idiosyn- cracies.” The result of this collaboration pre- miered at Swarthmore in September 2001 and has been seen at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland; it will play at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia during the end of July and at Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival during August. In the hands of more tradi- tional artists, the content of Shut Eye could be both familiar and maudlin. A man (Mat- thew) has been seriously wounded in a car JESSE VASQUEZ accident and lies in a coma, hovering be- SULI HOLUM, DITO VAN REIGERSBERG, AND QUINN BAURIEDEL (LEFT TO RIGHT) PERFORMED IN tween life and death. His sister Judy, a busy THE 1999 PRODUCTION CAFETERIA. junior executive, tears herself away from her hectic life to spend time with him. The pressures of her work never leave her alone, J U N E 2 0 0 2 19 and the fast pace of the hospital allows her sleepless woman wandering the hospital careen helplessly and silently onto the stage. no respite; she’s never able to resolve for halls (and the corporate offices of Pil- April ascends the ladder as Judy puts on her herself what his life in a coma is like. She lowtech) in search of the sleep lab. She tries shoes and wishes the cleaning woman a spends the night with him in his room. She to solve her sleeplessness with Sleepy- good night. “Good morning,” the woman sleeps. During the night, he dies. time tea, ambient music, herbs, and advice replies. “It’s morning.” Transformation is the essence of Shut from consulting experts. Pig Iron lampoons Eye’s structure. This notion of Chaikin’s, these experts in an irrational explosion of ig Iron’s creativity exemplifies the mys- which is seen in his Open Theater work, is rhyme that speculates on everything from Pterious connections that a mind can perhaps at its most seminal in Pig Iron’s col- the doctor’s choice of graduate schools to make between disparate pieces. Their work laboration with him. the diagnosis: cataplexy or narcolepsy? The can seem to be heading off in many differ- The theatrical trick of a transformation is scene dissolves the audience into fits of ent directions, yet the artistic output of this simple: The actress uses her body in one laughter but solves nothing for April. talented young group is a coherent unit. In moment to incarnate one thing and in Matthew, a nonstereotypical victim, is a addition to Shut Eye, they have collaborated another to represent something (or some- selfish and egocentric alpha-guy whose fam- on more than a dozen new theater works,

“We wanted to see whether we were afraid of having an emotional impact on the audience, to find out if we were capable of making people weep.”

one) new. The implications for the represen- tation of the shiftiness of consciousness are more elusive; an ensemble of actors versed in transformation techniques does not rep- resent consciousness as a coherent “charac- ter.” Instead, the directors can choose to reassign roles; to double or triple the num- ber of actors standing in for any given per- son in a moment; or to represent or project consciousness onto objects, colors, or ideas. In the Shut Eye script by Deborah Stein ’99, developed in collaboration with Chaikin and the Pig Iron ensemble, life is breathed from a dazzling number of perspectives into what could have been an ordinary story. The primary scene—in which Matthew hovers between life and death, and Judy lingers between waking and sleep—establishes the landscape of the play: night, consciousness/

unconsciousness, and dreams. But this JESSE VASQUEZ unstable reality repeatedly explodes into fantasies, songs, and double-visions. QUINN BAURIEDEL, DITO VAN REIGERSBERG, AND SULI HOLUM (LEFT TO RIGHT) PERFORMED IN For instance, Judy’s hospital room vigil ANOTHER SCENE FROM CAFETERIA. transforms into a business meeting, and Matthew rises from his coma to take center ily connections have all withered. His car including Anodyne, Gentlemen Volunteers, She stage in the meeting. In Shut Eye, unwieldy accident is not tragic; late in the play, the Who Makes the Moon the Moon, and Flop, business meetings break out at the drop of scene is essentially comic. which have earned applause from audiences a hat; at the conclusion of one particularly The inevitable crash happens in silence, both locally and internationally. During the unruly meeting, Clark resuscitates a coding as a relief from comic tension. All that’s left past two years, Pig Iron has received 15 Bar- co-worker, using two telephones for cardiac behind are the crumbs of a muffin on the rymore nominations, Philadelphia Magazine’s paddles. stage floor. After Matthew passes on, office Best of Philly Awards as “Best Theatre Judy’s fitful sleep is doubled by April, a chairs, the hospital bed, and privacy screens Troupe” of 1999, and the “Spirit of the SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 20 JEFF SUGG

IN THE TRAGEDY OF JOAN OF ARC (1998), CLOWN-NOSED EMMANUELLE DELPECH WIELDED HER SWORD WHILE DREAMING IN A FIELD.

Fringe” Award for Gentlemen Volunteers at took shape beyond its parental warning translator. The audience was driven in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999. A label. In a series of weekend workshops, the buses to a hill about 20 minutes outside $50,000 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, award- company auditioned actors to participate in Sibiu, where they hiked to a church and ed to Bauriedel, Rothenberg, and van this work and began a yearlong investiga- memorial. “Against one wall of the build- Reigersberg, announced in early June, was tion of the themes of the dark world they ing,” Posner recalls, “were rows and rows of “a vote of confidence for us and for the cate- wanted to create. The production that small plaques, memorials to fallen German gory of performance art,” Rothenberg told resulted from these workshops was perhaps soldiers from World War I.” It was in this the Philadelphia Inquirer. the most talked-about play of the season in chilling environment that Pig Iron staged The last year has been a busy one for Pig Philadelphia. the play. “It’s hard to imagine a better set- Iron. After the success of The Snow Queen, a Similarly, after creating a range of ting,” Posner says. children’s play commissioned by the Arden remarkable and rigorous works of physical His translator happened to hate theater Theater Co., Pig Iron met to discuss the theater, they took up the material that and had been embarrassed by the work that ensemble’s next work. Recognition of The would become Gentlemen Volunteers in 1998. Aaron had made him sit through—up to Snow Queen intensified pressure on compa- They did this, recalls Rothenberg, in order that point. Watching Gentlemen Volunteers, ny members to build on this success, which to test themselves. “We wanted to see which uses Lecoq-style storytelling devices allowed them to pay themselves and their whether we were afraid of having an emo- of simple gesture and character type, “the collaborators salaries to meet basic living tional impact on the audience, to find out if entire audience was held rapt by the play. I expenses for the first time in their history. we were capable of making people weep.” could see [my translator’s] surprise during Laughing, van Reigersberg recalls that the Gentlemen Volunteers tells the story of vol- it that [even] he was engaged and enter- first decision they made about their next unteer ambulance drivers during World War tained. It was a tremendous joy to introduce project, which ended up on every poster and I and remains in the company’s active reper- him to Pig Iron after the show and to hear handbill that advertised it, was: “Anodyne tory. Pig Iron performed the play at the him tell them, openly, honestly, and sincere- contains material not suitable for children.” Sibiu Festival in Romania last summer. ly, that this was the first play he had ever This ensemble-driven decision—and the While on a tour of arts festivals in Eastern enjoyed.” T tenacity and will to explore and experiment Europe, Aaron Posner, who helped found that it represents—is vintage Pig Iron. In the Arden and still directs there frequently, Mark Lord is the theater director at Bryn Mawr between jaunts out of the country, Anodyne saw the production with his Romanian College. J U N E 2 0 0 2 21 Diversity:

“To those who idealize the campus community of their day, I will say only that you remember it differently from the way I do,” says one of the College’s African-American p i o n e e r s .

By Maurice Eldridge ’61 JIM GRAHAM SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 22 H TDNSADFACULTY.” AMONG AND ALLIES STUDENTS THEIR THE AND CONTRIBUTIONS PIONEERS THE IS THESE TO THIS OF AND MEASURE AGO, LARGE YEARS IN 40 DUE PLACE WAS IT BETTER A THAN IS NOW COLLEGE TO—THE THE HOSTILE COLLEGE…. EVEN SOMETIMES AMBIVALENT DEEPLY ABOUT—AND FEEL DIVERSITY EXPERIMENTATION WITH THREE EVER-BOLDER OR OF TWO DECADES FIRST THOSE SWARTH- DURING MANY EXPERIENCED MORE THAT WHO SURPRISE STUDENTS NO MINORITY IS “IT SAYS: ELDRIDGE H ergtdMsispi n fa nertn egbrodin neighborhood integrating an of of D.C.; and Washington, Mississippi; hometown, segregated brought segregated I my 14, of age experiences at it School to Mountain Windsor come. the had entered I pro- I which the When from of school that boarding as England diverse New as gressive not was population student discover the to that disappointed and surprised was I career, undergraduate mater. alma our at misconcep- today of diversity number about world. a tions larger are the memories in blurred was these it from as Springing just College the institu- in and work individual tional—at racism—both the of current unaware Some seem diverse. the critics times, than recent homogenous relatively more until rather that was forget College have to may easy it is went, it experience But been. own their as far as and community, socie- matters. and racial College in the made that have progress ty the is vision their affecting lens hnadNow and Then ot-ieyasao hnIcm oSatmr obgnmy begin to Swarthmore to came I when ago, years Forty-five inclusive and generous, ideal, an as Swarthmore recall Many iyIbgnt upc htoesuch one that suspect to begin sity—I diver- that accommodate to devised have been that support of methods various the of especially College—and of the state at current diversity the of critical are who alum- ni from hear I When our vision? blur backward decades ensuing of lenses do or accuracy, with historical them and objectivity, see clarity, we do back, think we days? When College our remember we do ow hlho visit childhood last my after year one Till Emmett did they as me, kill haps per- uppity—and me find not would they that so people white to talk to how me told grandmother Mississippi My lessons. different me taught had parents grand- of sets two N.Y. Brooklyn, h oe fmy of homes The nwhwIsodi rhwIcudfriehradters four of rest the and her forgive could I how or it stood I how know faculty. and students the of among contributions allies the their to and ago, measure, pioneers years large these 40 in was due, it is than evolution now this place and better be a to is striving College always The was better. received really we’d Swarthmore education that the recognize of to value and the appreciate to many years took us It of College. to—the hostile even sometimes ambivalent about—and deeply ever- feel of diversity decades with three experimentation or bolder two first those during Swarthmore enced Swarth- harder. of much work learn—that true to the and made study only more—to It expectations large. and at views community stereotypical the the of defeat and meet constant- to have to draining ly human emotionally and and difference difficult was of or elements It remark commonality. to a them in sensitizing racist of is or what action majority the of members to explaining a carry teach. to to had and they study found to load: they me, double Like life. class- student the in level—in and institutional room racism and was individual there the that not both believe was at to that afoot ready college not a them—and found for they me, ready Col- Like yet the ’70s. integrate and to ’60s helped the who in those lege to cost without not but days “do” not could blacks that told was example. once I for philosophy, was that I was intellectually. third it A to time. up who the not being all sexual ease a enviable primarily with was score an I could was that I was that Another expectation jazz. the on was expert favorite wanted My or us. then) about Negroes believe were to (we blacks about they knew what they represent thought others—to by imposed identities wear to exten- an school. be high would my college of my sion that expected Swarth- naively were I well. alumni, wife as more his so and do headmaster school’s to the students both its Because of to abilities working and society, instincts larger the the to foster ready of community prejudices school the a oppose found and I confront There leader. in a adapted—and became happily I and which readily I inte- which an to joined community I Mountain, grated Windsor my at made Then, friends. I lived, white grandparents first other my where Brooklyn, In there. redfo ycasrmre om eetyta h didn’t she that recently me to remarked class my from friend A experi- who students minority many that surprise no is it So of burden the about students from complaints hear I today, Even those since institution an as way long a come has Swarthmore having myself found I reality. different a found I Swarthmore, At 23 J U N E 2 0 0 2 cohort. I have stories to tell, of course, and At Swarthmore, By then, there was a larger popula- some of them still bring tears; others, tinged tion of black students, and the College with irony, amuse. One year, when I lived in was working in earnest to further the Preps, I was approached by one of the I found a broaden the spectrum of its diversity. cigarette vendors who frequented the cam- The community was learning through pus in those days. I refused his offer of free different reality. difficult and painful experience to com- Winstons, telling him that they were the bat racism within the institution and product of a racist company. He went away build more consciously on the lessons injured but returned to me eagerly a week I found myself of the previous 20 years. Primarily later to tell me that my remark had inspired through the Dean’s Office, Swarthmore investigation, and he was happy to tell me began to create programs and mecha- that his company had just recently donated a having to wear nisms to develop and sustain a more new hospital for “coloreds” in Winston- diverse community. Salem. The irony escaped him; I simply told We do a better job now of welcom- him I preferred another brand. identities imposed ing and including a diverse population When I received anonymous hate mail through campus organizations like one spring, our dean, William Prentice ’37 by others. Swarthmore African-American Stu- scoured the hand-written registration cards dents Society, the Swarthmore Asian until the culprit was found and expelled. Organization, the Hispanic Organiza- Softhearted even then, I urged counseling rather than expulsion. Yet tion for Latino Awareness, and many other support groups. These it was I who truly needed counseling and who found no one to sug- groups not only provide settings in which students who feel isolated gest or offer it. During a visit to campus, my mother found the text from or excluded by the majority can gather strength from one of the hate letter in my dorm room. When I discovered her there, another but also develop within them the tools they need to become crying over it, I cried too and do so even today when I picture that fuller members of the larger community. The groups also undertake scene. to educate the College as a whole about diversity, lifting some of the I took a year off after that spring. When I returned to Swarth- burden to teach from the shoulders of individuals. more, I was determined to make it on my own terms. I chose my The success of the College in creating a diverse community is friends and associations outside of existing cliques across the range gradually changing the role of such groups. Members learn about of students and focused on my academic work with a vision of their own individual differences and begin to appreciate the com- becoming an English teacher. I continued my involvement in the plexity of creating community. They learn that racial and ethnic integration movement and, by the time I graduated, became an identities are not monolithic. Our support organizations are learn- activist in the Philadelphia chapter of the Congress of Racial Equali- ing to respond creatively to the more diverse needs of their own ty. Eventually, I returned to the Windsor Mountain School as a membership while expanding their educational outreach to the rest teacher of English and became assistant headmaster, continuing the of the campus. Increasingly, some members of minority groups are progressive work there that had inspired my first engagement with finding less of a need to participate in the support centers as larger Swarthmore College. In 1979, my continuing commitment to edu- numbers of students, consciously or unconsciously, simply inte- cating for a better world led me back to Washington, D.C., to be- grate. In admissions, we have moved from the “we’ll consider them come principal/director of its inner-city magnet school for the arts. if you students recruit them” posture that I and my fellow crusaders heard from administrators in the late ’50s to an organized outreach hen I came back to Swarthmore as associate director of and recruitment program that has achieved and sustained the high- development in 1989, I was dismayed to discover that black est degree of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in the histo- Wstudents not only continued to experience racism—and, ry of the College—without sacrificing Swarthmore’s quality and its therefore, to perceive it even when it was not there—but also that it commitment to rigorous intellectual pursuit. followed much the same yearly pattern that I had experienced three Relatively new events such as Black Alumni Weekend or Hispanic decades earlier. It seemed that every spring, near exam time, there Alumni Weekend came into being at the request of minority alumni would be an incident against a member of the black community that who asked the College to facilitate. These events help draw back to exploded in their midst and distracted them from focus on study— campus those pioneers who are still struggling with the bitterness of forcing them to, once again, become teachers and healers in the their undergraduate experience. When they return to the contempo- community. rary campus, they discover a changed and better place and begin to SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 24 COURTESY OF MAURICE ELDRIDGE

FROM THE DISTANCE THAT HE OFTEN FELT AS A then, we can only hope that those who STUDENT, MAURICE ELDRIDGE ’61 LOOKS ON AS direct these activities will continue to accept OTHERSPERFORMIMPROMPTUFOLKMUSIC. Perhaps in our the challenges they face on this much- THEYARE(LEFTTORIGHT)PETERSCHOENBACH changed campus—and to find new and dar- ’62, ELIZABETH LADD GLICK ’61, REBECCA ADAMS ing approaches to building community. To those who idealize the campus com- MILLS ’61, CAROLYN GOLDBERG BURKE ’61, AND future, there will munity of their day, I will say only that you (STANDING) ROGER HEACOCK ’62. THE PERSON IN remember it differently from the way I do. THESOMBRERO (ABOVERIGHT) ANDOTHERS be a time when What we share, however, is a vision of an REMAINUNIDENTIFIED. ideal Swarthmore that is not only inclusive and generous but realistic about what kind support groups, of effort is required to create and sustain a feel more positive about Swarthmore. Many truly diverse community. Even though our desire to reconnect more broadly at Alumni admissions struggles against racism as a college and a Weekend in June or through Swarthmore nation are far from over, I am proud of what Connection events in their local communi- has been accomplished here. T ties. They also begin to network with current outreach, and students who want both to understand the Maurice Eldridge ’61 is vice president for Col- experiences of their predecessors and to take lege and community relations and executive their own measure of the College’s commit- counseling will assistant to President Alfred H. Bloom. Before ment and progress. joining the College staff in 1989, he was a Perhaps in our future there will be a time teacher, school headmaster, and principal/ when support groups, admissions outreach, not be needed. director of the Duke Ellington School for the and counseling will not be needed. Until Arts in Washington, D.C. 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JIM GRAHAM nedd’ iethem." audi- like the didn’t and ence to, listen to tough were They 1976. in bicentennial [American] the for works new several commissioned Orchestra Philadelphia the that remember I and ’70s. ’60s the in music contemporary relationship to bad a had country “This says: 1988. in 2001 Orchestra of founding the and 1980 Con- around Penn Players the temporary called group a of fading the between years the during especially hit-or-miss affair, a be to used Philadelphia music in new of performance that says in 1966, faculty Swarthmore the joining since the area in musician active an Freeman, James n vno ia nCrumb’s in sitar on even bassist, and pianist, as decades, two for music Crumb’s of recordings first and mieres ensemble. the for especially written and tunes mountain Appalachian on based work new a Woods, Crumb’s premiere will orchestra October, the In Pa. Media, in works and lives who composer celebrated most the other things, among is, Crumb George world. around the admiration as well as many honors and other Prize Pulitzer a him brought has music colorful and evocative whose Crumb, George father, Crumb’s David is 2001 owrsb one opsr.Crumb’s composers. younger by works it to linking Earth")—and the of Song (“The Mahler’s Gustav with his pairing exam- ple, roots—for its out points that other music with it programming depth, in music building. parliament the and of streets shelling the in fire rifle amid occurred which 1993, October memorable in a concert in Moscow and CD on both heard been has that performance 2001 Orchestra an T cn ol edfiutt exaggerate. to difficult be would scene h occasion. for the written all composers, other by seven pieces of premieres world and works er’s compos- the of three featured Philadelphia, downtown in and Hall Concert Lang at concerts with 1999, October in birthday 70th Crumb’s of celebration orchestra’s The disk. all-Crumb one including CDs, orchestra’sfour the of three on appears music okn itefrhrbc,Freeman back, farther little a Looking ae rea a atcptdi pre- in participated has Freeman James rhsr 01hsepoe Crumb’s explored has 2001 Orchestra rhsr 01t h hldlhaarts Philadelphia the to 2001 Orchestra eiprac fa nebelike ensemble an of importance he nin ocso Children of Voices Ancient a idvndrErde der von Lied Das u Aeterna, Lux nothe Unto in 27 J U N E 2 0 0 2 During that era, the name of Milton Bab- with Orchestra 2001’s performance of the bitt, the Princeton-based composer, became Freeman believes symphony. synonymous in the public mind with knotty Freeman’s goal is to take his guerrilla and challenging modern music. Babbitt has that listening to new ensemble and liberate the Kimmel Center often visited the Swarthmore campus to give with new music. He says he lobbied to have talks and teach. In 1994, the Philadelphia music should be Orchestra 2001 named one of the Center’s Orchestra commissioned his Transfigured constituent organizations, along with the Notes but after repeated attempts gave the as pleasurable and Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pennsylvania piece up as “unplayable." Orchestra 2001 Ballet, and other major players. “It’s where played it. Babbitt wrote to Freeman, rewarding as reading important things happen, so it’s where you expressing his “gratitude for ... your high have to be," Freeman says. professionalism, your extraordinary sensi- a new book or But Kimmel Center’s management pre- tivity to every aspect of the performances." sented him with the Catch-22 of aspiring This incident was a sign of changing watching a new movie. artists: You don’t give enough concerts for times. Musicians have better chops now, us to invite you to give concerts. and audiences have better “ear chops." Peter Dobrin was reviewing the Kimmel Cen- Dobrin, music critic of The Philadelphia ter performance of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, his was not the answer for Jim Free- Inquirer, wrote last March in a review: a mesmerizing, quasi-minimalist piece that Tman, who during the 1980s, while trav- “Orchestra 2001 has had a lot to do with is better known as a million-selling hit eling on summer tours as a double bassist in the city’s evolving sophistication with con- record of a few years back (with the Balti- the Boston Pops, wrote an estimated 150 temporary music. James Freeman has a more Symphony Orchestra and soprano grant proposals per year to get Orchestra canny way of finding holes in the local Dawn Upshaw) than as a staple of the 2001 started. “Write grants all day, perform music scene that didn’t seem to exist until orchestral repertoire. On March 2, Maureen at night," he says of those summers. the ensemble came along to plug them with O’Flynn, who has sung at the Metropolitan So he hit on the all-American solution to invigorating programs." Opera and La Scala in Milan, was the soloist the Kimmel Center problem: Buy your way SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 28 MEZZO-SOPRANOSUZANNEDUPLANTISREHEARSES Orchestra 2001 has even ventured into MAHLER’S DASLIEDVONDERERDE FORPERFORM- staged opera—beginning with the world premiere of The Black Swan (text and music ANCESINPHILADELPHIAANDSWARTHMORE. by Swarthmore faculty members Nathalie events, open to everyone at no charge. So Anderson, professor of English literature; now Freeman will have to oil up his grant- Thomas Whitman ’82, assistant professor of writing fingers again and rehearse a lot of music; and stage direction by Sarah Cald- music to justify his band’s new prominence. well) in September 1998, and followed last He has recently been in negotiations October with two more premieres: another with the College to reduce his teaching load Whitman-Anderson opus, Sukey in the Dark, by half. In personal terms, it’s like giving up on a double bill with Naomi in the Living your day job. “Sure, it’s a risk," says the 62- Room by Jonathan Holland and Christopher year-old Freeman. “You’re cutting your Durang. Lou Camp in the City Paper found income in half. But when you get older, you “rich rewards" in this program and conclud- find yourself having to decide: Am I really ed: “We have a treasure in Freeman and his going to do this or not?" colleagues." Freeman is hoping to be able to spread ll orchestras depend on star soloists to that treasure around a bit through what he Ahelp sell tickets, and Orchestra 2001 is calls “mini-residencies," one- or two-day no exception. People who might not be campus visits that combine performances enticed out of the house to hear “an evening and chamber-music coaching or classroom of music by present-day composers" might sessions. Orchestra 2001 did something just be motivated to hear, say, the glam- like that at Dickinson College several years orous, Grammy Award–winning Sharon ago, and last April they went to West Isbin play her guitar. Chester University to play music by Larry ʼ 67 Isbin made her Orchestra 2001 debut Nelson, who is a Ville resident and profes- last Sept. 22, amid a national crisis. Like sor of music there. most people, she was stunned by the events The Chinese composer-conductor Bright of Sept. 11; yet she was also scheduled, just Sheng led Orchestra 2001 in his Two Poems

STEVEN GOLDBLATT 11 days later, to play the well-known Concier- From the Sung Dynasty at concerts in to de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo and the November 2000. He will be back next in. Some eyebrows were raised on the board new Concert de Gaudí by Christopher Rouse, March, and again the following year, with of Orchestra 2001 when he proposed leav- at Lang Concert Hall and Trinity Center in works inspired by the Silk Road Project, an ing their nonunion, three-figure rentals in Philadelphia. “I said to myself, ‘How can I East-West musical dialogue masterminded downtown Philadelphia for the Kimmel prepare such difficult music at a time like by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Center’s Perelman Theater, which could set this?’ I just forced myself to practice and to But, for all his glowing notices and high- the orchestra back as much as $6,000 a remember that there is a world beyond all profile projects, Jim Freeman knows what concert. Freeman won the vote, however, this," she says. “Jim Freeman was very sup- he’s up against. “A while ago," he says, “I and the orchestra made its Kimmel Center portive. It was a healing experience for all of was in a meeting with a man who does the debut on Feb. 2, with the program of Crumb us. We focused our energies on making advertising for a lot of musical organiza- and Mahler. “It had soul," wrote Dobrin, beautiful music, and we played to two tions. He said, ‘There are several words that reviewing that concert in the Inquirer. packed houses." are anathema. You must never use them in “[Freeman] bet that [the pieces’] shared Freeman always keeps an eye out for ad copy. They are “contemporary,” “20th musical material ... and the theme of re- soloists with audience appeal. A perform- century,” and “American!”’ That about took birth would build upon each other to form ance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony featured care of us." a greater emotional experience. He was the noted early-music soprano Julianne On the other hand, guitarist Sharon right." Baird in an inspired bit of “casting against Isbin said, “I have to commend Jim, in these The all-Polish program at the Kimmel type." It shared the bill with the award-win- times when so many orchestras are cutting Center followed on March 2, and three con- ning violinist Pamela Frank in the Philadel- back and just trying to survive, for creating certs are planned there for the 2002–2003 phia premiere of the Violin Concerto of Ellen such a successful new orchestra." season. “It will give us a major presence Taafe Zwilich. Don’t count him out. T downtown, and our concerts at Lang will In May 2000, Peter Schickele ’58 re- continue to serve the suburban and college turned to Lang to lead the orchestra and Journalist and pianist David Wright writes audiences," Freeman says. soloists in a performance of the recently dis- about music from Wellesley, Mass. He was for- He also notes, however, that the concerts covered opera by P.D.Q. Bach The Stoned merly program annotator of the New York Phil- at Lang are, like all on-campus College Guest. harmonic. J U N E 2 0 0 2 29 CONSTRUCTINGKENGERGEN SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 30 yJf ekla ’02 Heckelman SELF. Jeff By CONTINUES SHIFTING A PSYCHOLOGIST REINVENT TO MAVERICK THE N aawudalwbodgeneralizations. broad allow would the data and studies, research conduct could behavior. 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JIM GRAHAM ananm oiin wrhoehsa has Swarthmore position. my to maintain order in grants secure to have didn’t I Swarthmore, at But in overhead. keep research your earn to have you schools, many “At development: his to essential G omwsalive.” class- was the room and there, energy there creative but a silly, was quite seem did I things the rela- of tionship. patterns the altered change the discuss how would We darkness. total swimming in the or in pool, or light, red with lit class- room a in met he tree,” we times, a “Other of explains. branches the in or in circle sit a and outside meet would experiment. we day, an “One as itself class the Ger- used dynamics, gen group on course a in ment environ- learning the by changing instance, constantly For 34.) to grown had that 1973, number by major; psychology a with graduat- ed students seven only Col- 1963, the (In at lege. majors popular most the of one psychology make helped that style teaching job. the took Gergen psychology, tradition in its and ethos Swarthmore the with impressed Deeply reputation. international its continuing and revitaliz- department of the job ing the do could he that con- vinced was he Gergen told Smith then-President Courtney résumé), his off age his conveniently left he says (he youth his Despite years. recent size in in shrunk and dwindled had program the Köhler, Wolfgang theorist Gestalt and Asch Solomon psychologist social as field such the of giants by dominated though Al- Program. Psychology legendary lege’s Loigbc, esy o,“oeof “some now, says he back,” “Looking unorthodox an him with brought He time. the at old years 33 just was Gergen o wrhoegat t aut was faculty its grants Swarthmore dom free- academic the that believes ergen WRHOESNE1967. SINCE SWARTHMORE AT TAUGHT HAS WHO GERGEN, KENNETH SAYS BETTER,” THE FOR WORLD THE CHANGE TO SOMETHING DO TO FELT HAD I I DREAMER; A WAS “I 31 J U N E 2 0 0 2 very reflective atmosphere—perhaps deriv- Kenneth Gergen collaborated with within communities and become concerned ing from its Quaker tradition—and in the Swiss artist Regine Walter on a with the ways in which the dominant orders 1970s, critical reflection on what you were series of works that they call “rela- suppress or obliterate minority visions of doing was nearly as important as doing it. tional art”—text and graphics that the real and the good.” For me, this was a wonderful time. There work together to express their con- It’s never easy being an outsider in your was exciting ferment—a sense of revolution cern with human relationships. The field, though Gergen seemed to wear the for the better.” works have appeared in the Journal role well. Still, about 15 years ago, he says That ferment, plus Gergen’s reflections of Social and Personal Relation- his wife, Mary, helped him move to a new on his career and his field of study, eventu- ships and will grace Gergen’s forth- phase of inquiry. She chided him for being coming book Relational Being. ally came together in his 1973 article “Social Signed copies of the prints and too critical and pessimistic. “She essentially Psychology as History,” published in the poems are available from Gergen. told me that I would do little good for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology world if my major message is simply nega- (JPSP). Criticizing the prevailing wisdom of “My colleagues—many of them close tive.” his field, Gergen argued that the search for friends—were furious,” recalls Gergen. “The Gergen says that Mary, a feminist scholar overarching generalizations about human JPSP received dozens of responses but chose and social critic in her own right (he calls behavior is misleading. In the natural sci- to publish just one,” he says. “It was consid- her his “partner in crime”), wished for more ences, one can make such generalizations erably longer than my original article and light at the end of the tunnel. “Social con- because the patterns under observation are was extremely critical. After that point, the structionist ideas set the stage for enormous generally stable across time. But, wrote Ger- senior editor declared that he was closing liberation from traditional assumptions gen, the same can’t be said about human the book on this discussion.” Even Gergen’s about knowledge,” says Gergen, “but the real challenge was in locating new direc- tions.” For Gergen, one of these directions With the publication of a single article, Gergen’s career was to break the barrier between the schol- arly and what he calls the “secular” world. as a mainstream psychology torchbearer was over. The major outcome of this new explo- ration was his 1991 book The Saturated Self. “It was an attempt to reach a broader pub- beings and their likes, dislikes, tendencies, thesis adviser at Duke, Edward Jones, was lic,” Gergen says, “and to take up the ques- behaviors, and traits. hurt by this son’s rebellion. Jones went on to tion of how the major technologies of the He argued that in describing and ex- dismiss his former student in a handbook of century were affecting our lives together. At plaining such patterns, the social sciences social psychology by quoting the Kahlil a more subtle level, however, the book took a actually bring about change. “Not only were Gibran poem, lot of the social constructionist ideas and fields like social psychology charting history The dogs bark set them into a cultural context. It focused in the name of universal laws,” he says, “but And the caravan moves on. on how technologies foster multiple and they were active participants in the process conflicting realities and moralities. It chal- of historical change.” ergen’s career as the next in a long line lenges us to use our technologies to gener- Jill Morawski, a colleague of Gergen’s in Gof mainstream psychology torchbear- the ’70s and now professor of psychology at ers was effectively over. Yet, although the Wesleyan University, says this kind of objec- years following the publication of “Social Here am I. tive questioning was going on in several dis- Psychology as History” became known in Standing before you ciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, academic circles as “the crisis in social psy- Singular and solitary. and history. “But social psychology is differ- chology,” they were actually a period of re- ent,” she said. “It’s always aspired to be birth for Gergen. Colleagues from around But don’t let appearances fool you. more scientific in its claims. Out of all the the world welcomed the opportunity to join writers of the time, Ken’s work was the most this new conversation, he says, and he be- Each word from my mouth intellectually troubling. He was in a field came a leading figure in the “postempiri- Each gesture that had committed itself to the scientific cist” dialogues of the 1980s. From these Is born of others. method. Given his challenges to this scien- conversations within his field, he began to tific commitment, many colleagues saw him generate an alternative to the long-domi- You see singularity as a threat.” nant view of universal truth and knowl- But reality is in multiples. The response to Gergen’s critique was edge—a view that came to be known as overwhelming, and its effect was magnified “social constructionism.” As we talk by the author’s identity. “That paper was “In the constructionist view,” Gergen You enter this world explosive,” he says, “in part because of who says, “the traditional emphasis on the indi- And I into another. I was—a full participant in the field. I vidual mind is replaced by a concern with wasn’t some critic coming from out of town; the relational processes from which ration- TEXT BY KENNETH GERGEN I was family.” ality and morality emerge. We focus on truth DRAWING BY REGINE WALTER SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 32 J U N E 2 0 0 2 33 ate productive dialogue as opposed to islands of truth, whereby small groups of people each claim their own local realities to be the ‘really real.’” Hear the story of my life— Gergen was gratified that The Saturated or at least one life Self reached people outside academia: “Ther- apists, in particular, resonated with the The kind of life ideas. They invited me to their conferences Told by folks like us and workshops and gave me yet another The way we tell stories these days. nesting place.” Organizational scholars Some stories are good for laughs were also drawn to the ideas. Some stories are tear jerkers As his ideas became an increasing fixture Where would we be without good stories? in his classes, some of Gergen’s colleagues Where would I be without my story? were unsettled. Barry Schwartz, Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and TEXT BY KENNETH GERGEN Social Action at Swarthmore and a depart- DRAWING BY REGINE WALTER mental colleague of Gergen’s for more than 30 years, thinks that undergraduate stu- dents may be the wrong audience for Ger- SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 34 gen’s message. “Intelligent adolescents are as I find them severely limiting.” ist thinking and theology. As a part of this very attracted to relativism,” he says, “but Gergen continues to enjoy teaching effort, he spoke last year on relational views they embrace it before they have the tools undergraduates, and he has maintained his of the sacred at Trinity Church on Wall with which to judge it. I think Ken’s per- unorthodox teaching style while embracing Street. spective is an important one for our stu- new avenues of learning. For example, he Applying constructionism to their own dents to grapple with, and they’re lucky to currently teaches a course called Technology, advancing years, Ken and Mary Gergen have him here in the flesh to present his Self, and Society, in which he invites stu- recently launched a newsletter called Positive views. I just wish that they came to Ken’s dents to help organize the classroom experi- Aging. “Society has always told us that aging approach with a stronger appreciation of ence. He explains that “Swarthmore stu- is all about going downhill; it’s a decline,” what the ‘other side’ has to offer.” dents are often enormously sophisticated in says Gergen. “But after all, that’s a social Although Gergen understands such sen- the use of new technologies. So we try to construction. Why do we have to look at it timents, he thinks some people misunder- share the knowledge to create cutting-edge that way? Why not look at it as a positive, stand the message he’s sending. “I’m not educational experiences.” Rather than enriching growth process—something to teaching a new truth,” he says. “I’m offering requiring a standard written term paper, look forward to?” The newsletter (www.- resources that can be incorporated or not Gergen invites students to develop or use all healthandage.com/html/res/gergen/entrance into one’s thinking and actions. Some of my of their communication skills. “It’s really .htm), which includes reports on news, colleagues actually do use some of these awe inspiring,” he says. “They create Web research, and therapeutic practices as well as ideas; others simply follow more traditional sites, generate videos, write poetry and book and film reviews, now reaches 12,000 paths. I am not so much against these paths plays, generate on-line experiences, compose subscribers. electronic music—there is no end to it. One Gergen has won many awards during his outstanding student even danced his term career—fellowships from the Guggenheim, paper for the class.” Fulbright, and Humboldt foundations; hon- orary degrees in the United States and ogic would dictate that Gergen should abroad; and even an honorary professorship Lbe slowing down at this point in his life. in Buenos Aires. However, his most recent To be sure, he has set aside more time for scholarly work may prove to be his most enjoying his grandchildren, tennis, and golf; groundbreaking. His recent article, “Psycho- reacquainting himself with the banjo; and logical Science in a Postmodern Context,”

Social constructionism set the stage for liberation from traditional assumptions about knowledge, but Gergen’s real challenge was in locating new directions.

chasing his “blurred genre” dog, Phisto, in The American Psychologist in 2001, carries across the campus. Although he still enjoys Mary’s positive voice to the extreme. He teaching and has no plans to retire anytime argues that the constructionist orientation soon, Swarthmore has allowed him to teach opens new and exciting vistas of scholarship half-time this past year, so that he can and practice in psychology, nurtures new devote more time to other ventures. theories and methods of research, and Ten years ago, Gergen helped found the invites the development of more communal- Taos Institute (www.taosinstitute.org), ly oriented teaching, writing, and social which he describes as “a group of scholars change. Gergen says that although he doesn’t and practitioners exploring the idea that want to abandon traditional practices, he is through our relationships we construct our nevertheless more excited than ever about realities and futures together.” The group the emerging potentials. It seems as though conducts conferences and workshops, pub- he has set out on another quest. T lishes books, offers on-line continuing edu- cation, and even co-sponsors a Ph.D. pro- Jeff Heckelman received a degree in a special gram with Tilburg University in the Nether- major of sociology/anthropology and psychology lands. on June 2. The first draft of this article was Although he long ago gave up being a written for Journalism Workshop, a course Southern Baptist, Gergen is attempting to taught by then–Visiting Professor Ben Yagoda forge a new dialogue between construction- in fall 2000. J U N E 2 0 0 2 35 City

Lively Philadelphia balances Swarthmore’s suburban calm.

wo diverse worlds enrich the lives of Swarthmore students: a lush Tsuburban retreat and a metropoli- tan cultural feast. In early April, one clan of seniors—Justin Kane, Erika Kottenmeier, Olga Rostapshova, Kevin Setter, and Judy Chen—set out on a spring jaunt into Philadelphia before graduation. During one of their last weekends together as students, they packed a Saturday full of good food and fun in the far corners of the city. Just 23 minutes away on the SEPTA R3 Media/Elwyn line, Philadelphia offers students a rich blend of neighborhoods to explore. From the Italian Market to South Street, the colorful sights of fresh CLOCKWISEFROMFARRIGHT: JUSTINKANE,KEVINSETTER, produce to orange-and-purple spiked OLGA ROSTAPSHOVA, AND ERIKA KOTTENMEIER (LEFTTO hair mesmerize passersby. Stopping for RIGHT) WATCH SEPTA’S R3 MEDIA/ELWYN TRAIN ARRIVE IN a Moroccan food fest, visitors can settle SWARTHMORE. SETTER AND ROSTAPSHOVA CHECK OUT onto plump floor cushions—enjoying GENO’S STEAKS. IN A CHINATOWN GROCERY, SETTER EYES the gifts of triple-jointed belly dancers between the eight courses of their meal. MOCHI, BALLS OF SWEET RICE PASTE. THE GROUP FACES THE Philadelphia’s size, cultural offerings, GREAT EXPANSE OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PARKWAY, quality, and character especially impress STANDING ON THE STEPS OF THE PHILADELPHIA ART MUSE- Kottenmeier, who is from a suburb of UM. ROSTAPSHOVA TRIES TO SELECT ONE OF THE DESSERTS Honolulu. “In Hawaii, we don’t have AT THE PINK ROSE PASTRY SHOP NEAR SOUTH STREET. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 36 Beat htgah yJsi ae’2adJd hn’02 Chen Judy and ’02 Kane Justin by Photographs Hammer Andrea By 37 J U N E 2 0 0 2 such high buildings, nor such large cities," “Philly is like she says. “Philly was a bit intimidating, but I really like the idea of living in a place an amusement where everything is available in a fairly small radius. I also think the city has so much park for character in University City versus South Street and Center City versus Rittenhouse Swarthmore Square: It’s all so different in such a relative- ly small space, and it’s all available." students From Maryville, Tenn., Kane is particu- during the weekends.” SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 38 larly enthralled by Philadelphia’s architec- is much less artificial, much more organic. Ukraine (see June 2001 Bulletin), considers ture. “Sometimes, I don’t really have a desti- The whole city has the feeling of being very herself a “city person." She says: “Just hav- nation in mind, and I just walk around," he old and having been developed in stages." ing a train station at the bottom of campus says. “It’s a beautiful city, with some unique He adds: “For me, one of the most captivat- makes the college experience seem less ‘bub- architecture and public spaces that are per- ing sights in Philadelphia is the factories ble-like’ and allows students to have access fect for just idling. The architecture gives lining the Schuylkill River. They look so to a much wider variety of activities and Philadelphia its character, its distinct neigh- monstrous and surreal—bizarrely lighted, interact with people from many different borhoods, its moods." belching smoke—that I just stare at them as walks of life. I have lived in several cities, Setter, raised in Arlington, Va. (near I cross over the river." and it was wonderful to discover Phila- Washington, D.C.), finds that “Philadelphia Rostapshova, who grew up in the delphia, a city so unique and full of its own life." Born and raised in Reno, Nev., Chen now wants to live in a city in the near future because her “experience at Swarthmore has made me appreciate city life," she says. Chen visits Philadelphia two or three week- ends each month, enjoying South Street, eating in restaurants, going to Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, or seeing movies at the Ritz with friends. “When we are eating or spending time in the city, we are usually more relaxed and better able to focus on spending time with one another rather than worrying about impending assignments," says Chen. After a week crammed with classes, papers, exams—and suburban calm—the city beat entices students away from campus for a weekend romp. T

CLOCKWISEFROMBOTTOMRIGHT: THE GROUP PASSES FRESH FRUIT IN THE ITALIAN MARKET. CHEN AND KOTTEN- MEIER SEE WHICH MOVIES ARE FEATURED AT THE RITZ. SETTERFAVORSTHEACADEMYOFMUSIC,WITHHIS FRIENDSRIGHTBEHINDHIM.KOTTENMEIERASSUMESTHE CLASSICROCKYPOSEONTHESTEPSOFTHEPHILADELPHIA ARTMUSEUM.KOTTENMEIERASSUMESTHECLASSICROCKY

POSEONTHESTEPSOFTHEPHILADELPHIAARTMUSEUM. J U N E 2 0 0 2 NEAR CARPENTER HALL IN HISTORIC INDEPENDENCE PARK, 39 THE FRIENDS SPELL OUT “SWAT.” 40 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN ALUMNIDIGEST remi [email protected]. e-mail 328-8404, or (610) at phone by Office the Alumni in Maloney Tricia Contact details. other and costs, mailing invitations, with can help Office Alumni the hometown, your in Gulf. the to area Jacksonville and the border from Georgia the to Ocala from invited alums Sally point, central the as Gainesville Using places." favorite our about of “talk one and aquainted get to home her elwausi the in alums fellow happen. it for making Stephanie to thanks Many low- event. this key at gathered alums 50 than More tSac o omnGon nWashing- in Ground Common for held Search event at informal recent a at turnout with the pleased very was ’95 Ganguli Sampriti DC/Baltimore: Metro event. the planning for ’88 Moskowitz Jim Chair Connection Philadelphia to Thanks work. to her uses create she technique the of explanation and an tour private a gave who ’63, Comarow Wood- Read Austine by created View, titled exhibit an to enjoy Art of S Museum G Philadelphia N the I R visited E H T A G Philadelphia: R E H T O y t i S C r u o Y s n o i n t I c e n e n r o o C m h w t e r N a w S g n i k a M er iigi the in graduating living and years ages all of alums for hour attended. and guests alums 50 than More a band. by bluegrass entertainment for arrange to and country club his at gathering a for make arrangements to enough kind was Ernie together! Swarthmore in of alums gathering a have to it time that was him struck it and grad,” a Swarthmore is who student graduate lonesome a “young, with up met ’44 Smith “Ernie" Ernest fyuaeitrse nhsiga event an hosting in interested are you If aa“al"GtreGes’6invited ’56 Guthrie-Geers “Sally" Sara tpai ish’2ognzdahappy a organized ’92 Hirsch Stephanie ingopt eal ogttogether. get to able be to group tion Connec- “established" an with area an in live to have don’t alums warthmore ole,Colo. Boulder, nMrh wrhoealums Swarthmore March, In Boston/Cambridge ansil,Fla., Gainesville, at:APolarized A Earth: oncinChair Connection oh u one put he So rato area area. CIGDRCO EHABAA,ADIA EE ’95. PEREZ IVAN AND BHAGAT, MEGHNA DIRECTOR ACTING VNSICUE OKHP NEUAIN OTY AC,AT N OILJSIEA ELA A AS WELL AS JUSTICE SOCIAL DAY’S AND THE ART, CELEBRATION. DANCE, “CELEBRATING POETRY, ANNIVERSARY THEME 10TH EDUCATION, THE IC’S IN WITH RECEPTION THE WORKSHOPS 6, OF PART APRIL INCLUDED WAS ON EVENTS TOMORROW” GATHERING ALUMNI BUILDING (IC) GROWTH, CENTER INTERCULTURAL AN aoAt event. the Alto arranging Palo for ’85 Klein Thomas to event; and Francisco San the arranging for ’86 Finkelstein Neal Chair Connection to Seattle event; the for arranged who ’87, Read rah alumni. to Swarthmore" of to taste way “a one bring are world the around and try coun- the around talks Faculty discussions. interactive highly in participating the College of friends other and students, current of parents alumni, majors—with psychology former by attended—particularly talks well The were Alto). Palo and Berkeley (in tion the for events two the for Why" and Suffers Who Choices: Many a “Too gave titled He talk Coast. West the on lectures giving three break spring spent Action, Social and Theory Social of Professor Cartwright P. Dor- win the S Schwartz, E Barry R paperwork, U T on C up catching E were L members faculty other Z While T R A W H C S tion exhibi- the attended also group connection This mitigation. conflict to pertaining tion tradi- Quaker Swarthmore the and on resolution reflected conflict of area the in learned lessons key discussed Alums D.C. ton, n o hs raieevents. creative these for ing arrang- for Sampriti to Thanks Institution. aytak oCneto hi Debo- Chair Connection to thanks Many u xadn Universe Expanding Our LF ORIGHT): TO (LEFT Seattle a Francisco San oncinadat and Connection AINTZN’3MTCRSINMRN’6 UI EILN’3 IC ’93, PERILLAN LUCIA ’96, MARÍN CHRISTIAN MET ’03 TIZON MARION tteCarnegie the at Connec- T Snyder Susan Remembering remi [email protected]. 328-8142, e-mail (610) or at cele- Professor James this contact in Charles join Please to bration. alumni like from would who interest of invites expressions department reminis- The and con- cences. to recollections invited tribute are alumni ing, Renais- and Shakespeare distinguished of a teacher Saturday, Snyder, on late 5. the Snyder Oct. of Susan honor Professor in reception and uei lnigaremembrance a Litera- planning is English ture of Department he apsgather- this of campus part a As fall. last death her until D.C., in Washington, Library speare Shake- Folger The at dence resi- in scholar a was 1993, to 1963 from literature sance

PATRICIA MALONEY BACKTOCLASS fter more than 40 years away from Swarthmore, Roger ’53 and ADULTLEARNERSHAVEENJOYED THE ALillian Frank Youman ’57 find themselves back in a Trotter Hall OPPORTUNITYTOSTUDY WITH SWARTHMORE classroom. Decades removed from essays and exams, the Youmans PROFESSORS SUCH AS GILBERTROSE have relished their return to academia: “It’s been fun,” Lillian says. (RIGHT), WHOTAUGHTHOMERIC MODELS “And fun is not exactly the word I would have used for many of the OF HEROISMINTHE COLLEGE’SNEW LIFE- courses I took 40-some years ago.” As students in the pilot semester of Swarthmore’s Lifelong LONG LEARNING PROGRAMTHISSPRING. Learning Program, the Youmans, along with 26 other alumni and local community members, had the opportunity to revisit the aca- demic arena by taking no-credit, nongraded seminar-style courses designed especially for adults. Offerings this spring included Homeric Models of Heroism, taught by Susan Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages Gilbert Rose; and Aristotle, Galileo, and Einstein: Space-time, Gravity, and Black Holes, taught by Professor of Physics John Boccio. “I think that there’s a real desire on the part of adults to resume their education,” says Rose, who initiated the Lifelong Learning Program. Rose explains that many adults tend to move away from their academic experience when they begin raising families and developing careers. Many of those enrolled in the program, he says, “feel as though they are being challenged in ways they haven’t been challenged in years.” “My last academic experience was in 1947,so that tells you something,” said Pat Terwilliger, a graduate of Oklahoma State PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELEFTHERIOS KOSTANS University and resident of Swarthmore. Although she says return- professor of English literature; Medicine and Society: The Ameri- ing to an academic setting has been challenging, she considers it to can Case, taught by Steven Piker, professor of anthropology; and be entirely worthwhile. “My idea is to keep my mind stimulated for History and Memory: Perspectives on the Holocaust, taught by the rest of my life,” she says. Robert Weinberg, professor of history, and Marion Faber, professor Courses last for eight weeks, and tuition is $500. Next fall’s of German. For more information, contact the Lifelong Learning course offerings will include As Imagination Bodies Forth: English Program at (610) 328-8696. Classics From Beowulf to Twelfth Night, taught by Craig Williamson, —Elizabeth Redden ’05

Lax Conference means business PHOTOGRAPHS BY PATRICIA MALONEY

ore than 150 students and alumni Alumni panelists who shared their attended this spring’s Lax Confer- ’76 described his business experiences to entrepreneurial experience included Eric Mence on Entrepreneurship. Pic- Dmitriy Shchelokov ’02 (middle left). Adler ’86, Richard Barasch ’75, Caroline tured at the annual event are keynote Nicole Perez ’04, Orhan Edali ’04, Curry ’90, Kevin Hall ’89, Ethan Klemper- speakers Tralance Addy ’69 (above left) Ken Leith ’81, and Chirag Chotalia ’04 er ’94, Arnold Kling ’75, Emily McHugh and Mickey Herbert ’67 (above right), (above far right, left to right) engaged ’90, Seth Murray ’98, Robin Shapiro ’78, chatting with with Andrew Lax ’77. in one of the many discussions at the Timothy Sibley ’98, Brian Smiga ’76, and Panelist Brian Smiga (middle right) conference. Thomas Snyder ’72. J U N E 2 0 0 2 41 42 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN CLASSNOTES

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JEFFREY LOTT. My Football War MEMORIESOF“BLAKE’SBEARCATS”RECALLTHEWARYEARS.

By Richard Burrowes ’45

he best of my football career all happened in the side yard. Kasprzak played, all right. He was strong, ran hard, scored several Maybe it should have stayed right there. In the yard, we five touchdowns, probably shaved frequently, and—I did survive. We Tchildren played endless games from tag and red-light to kick- improved a little over the season, but we never won a game. the-can and football. Because Mother liked her summer flowers, Other sports went off better, and I remember the joy of our first Father relished his vegetables, and we all liked picnic suppers on the win after about four games of basketball. In my senior year, there lawn, our ground rules were intricate to say the least. In season, we was no football team, but we did well in both basketball and base- INMYLIFEplayed touch football. Large trees shaded most of the area, but their ball. At graduation, our coach, Luke Ward, urged me to go right after canopies were high enough for young legs to practice punts and the football team at college. He said, “Swarthmore is small, Dickie. drop-kicks. I was the youngest child, and when my turn came, I had You’ll be on the team as soon as you get there. Make ’em see what a dependable gang of eight or nine boys to see how many touch- you can do."

HALCYON 1945

DICKBURROWES (BACKROW,SIXTHFROMLEFT) HUDDLED WITH SWARTHMORE’S JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM, THE BEARCATS, IN 1943.

downs we could loft through the tree branches or scoot around the That summer, I worked on a dairy farm in New Hampshire, hummocks. In the limited space, we ruled out blocking, but we did replacing hands who had gone in the draft. I pitched hay, lugged lots of running and dodging, with passes galore. At one point per grain, and cleaned stables. I felt strong—190 pounds—and, when touchdown, a typical afternoon’s score might be 39 to 37.As I grew, I Swarthmore invited me to preseason football camp at Avalon on the thought I was pretty good at our game—don't forget my kicking Jersey shore, I puffed up a little more, thinking they must need me. practice. Fall 1942 was a strange time—blackouts after sunset all along I never tried out for school teams, feeling much too shy, but then the Atlantic coast, pitch dark without the moon, not a soul playing I got a scholarship to the local boys’ prep school and found out that on the beach all day, empty cottages and shops everywhere. All was everyone there played on all the teams. Suddenly, as a high school barrenness. I was young, balmy, and not yet aware of my liability to junior in September 1940, I was the left tackle! At 160 pounds, I the draft. The gloomy scene and the girlfriend I had left behind in was the biggest kid on the team. I was scared when we traveled New Hampshire made me homesick. I watched the easy friendships across the Hudson River to New York City to play the Riverdale of the older guys and felt shy among the freshman prospects. I School in my first real game. We had heard rumors of Kasprzak, a brooded: These blustery guys? This Philadelphia accent? Is this the postgraduate ringer, being groomed for Columbia University. only music? Davy and Joe jitterbugging together—best I’ve ever SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 52 seen. Do I have to do that? What made me think I can play football “This is going to be a circus." The home team ran out on the field anyway? I hurt my shoulder in the very first scrimmage. doing a lot of yelling—getting up their courage, we supposed. They College opened, and I continued to work out with the team. Half looked small but well fed. One of the guys said, “They look like a the season went by before I could play, and I joined the leftovers of bunch of Porky Pigs!" We decided maybe we should go easy on them. the football squad. Avery Blake—excellent as the regular lacrosse What a shock! They ran my good kickoff back to our 45-yard line. coach and world-class as a forgiving mentor—assisted with junior Jumping quickly into position still standing, the quarterback called varsity football in his off season. Now, I was playing at the right out, “Fighting hearts!" The team roared back, “We can’t be beat!"; level. We had our own high morale as the duffers of the squad. We then, they squatted down and yelled, “One-two, one-two, one-two," all loved Ave and called ourselves “Blake’s Bearcats" in his honor. smacking us back a good 12 yards, straight on. Back into formation, Our schedule came from challenges by secondary schools in the the quarterback gave a few code numbers. “Ready!" he yelled, and area. We were always the visiting team, usually on their Home- with a few more “one-two, one-twos" they plunged into us again. coming Days. About four more of these, and they had a touchdown. Ave got results quietly by reminding us of the real importance of Well, it kept on with the farm boys always hitting fast and hard. our work. On game days, he would say blandly, “Nobody will be They varied the attack with open signal calling, usually in unison, hoping you’ll win, there won’t be any reporters, no scouts watching and often repeating their “Fighting hearts" exchange. At the half, you. These kids are excited. They want to beat you. They think you we were behind 14–0 and adjourned to the back of the little grand- are a college team. You’ll probably just mess it up the way we’ve done stand for a frigid rest. Someone said it was below 20 degrees. We struggled back with a touchdown, but I missed the extra point (did you forget my kicking practice?). We needed two more scores to win, but we never even got the first one. Near the end of the game, I took “I think you could a terrible kick from somebody’s cleats in the back of my right calf. In the cold, it stiffened immediately into the worst cramp I ever had. I couldn't stay in the game. go out and At last it was over. With “Fighting hearts—we can’t be beat!" still ringing in our ears, we put our Navy blues back on, stuffed our gear win it if you want to.” back into our duffles, and by bus and train rode back to Philadel- phia. I was hobbling badly on the dark streets as I tried to keep up And we did win—often. with my teammates on the walk from Reading Terminal down to Broad Street Station. The lights were dim, and the neon signs still off, somber at best. People noticed me limping. “They suppose I’m a veteran, back home from somewhere," I thought. I imagined a false all week, but you can pull together some of what you know. Well, go little war of my own. Soon two motherly women came on all dressed ahead out there, and have some fun." in black, with Christmas scarves against the cold. They stopped me, At halftime, he was sure to say, still gently, “Well, you really and one put her hand on my arm saying, “Oh, you poor dear boy!" didn’t do much, did you? Nobody cares, but I think you could go out I was ready. I groaned a patronizing, “Oh, I'll be all right, lady," and win it if you want to." And we did win—often—the only victo- and, with hardly a look at them, I hobbled on. As they drifted away, I rious football games I ever played in. We all wanted to give him our flattered myself with my cavalier fake disregard for them; applause to very best. a bruised football chump. But, as I write this, I wonder: Was that a One of our most memorable games was against the National real grief those women were trying to share? T Farm School up in Bucks County, Pa. A year had gone by, and now, in early December 1943, I had joined the Navy V-12 program at Class secretary Dick Burrowes and wife Jean recently moved from Bothell, Swarthmore. By then, I loved the College and a much more impor- Washington, to Evanston, Ill., to share more time with their grandchildren. tant girlfriend on the campus, but I was having a hard time continu- ing my engineering major and accepting the duties of an apprentice seaman. And I worried about me and the war. It was a cold day. We DICKANDWIFEJEAN rode the Reading Railroad from Philadelphia to Doylestown, where we boarded a white school bus. Somebody had painted it all over GIBSONBURROWES with big green hearts like an eighth-grade project. Inside, we saw a ’46, WHO BECAME HIS big green sign in scrawly letters: “Fighting hearts—we can’t be “MUCHMOREIMPOR- beat!" TANT GIRLFRIEND ON We got off at a bunkhouse sort of building, where we dressed for THECAMPUS,”STILL the game. In the bare, cold room we saw more green posters. Some HAVE STRONG MEMO- said, “Fighting hearts"; some, “We can't be beat"; or both. We scoffed, “What is this? Intimidation?" And the theme continued on RIESOFTHEIRCOL- every maple tree as we hiked up a long road to the field—hearts, slo- LEGEEXPERIENCEDUR- gans, even a couple of green skull and crossbones. We laughed, ING THE WAR YEARS. 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ELEANOR LEWIS Frontier Spirit SIBERIANLIFEINTHEHEADYPOST–SOVIETDAYS Alexander Blakely ’92, Siberia Bound: Chasing from the United States—namely, overcon- had recognized on my frequent visits to the American Dream on Russia’s Wild Frontier, sumption, crass materialism, mindless Russia at the same time—namely, that the Sourcebooks, 2002 advertisements, and the ostentatious display unfettered business practices resembled the of wealth. Xander found that his efforts to robber-baron era of 19th-century America. recall the first time I met Alexander apply the training in economics from Despite his realization that capitalism is not “Xander” Blakely. He arrived at my Swarthmore to the realities of Siberia in the the panacea for Russia’s problems, Xander Ioffice for advising and regaled me with 1990s did not always end the way he nevertheless believes that the free market is tales of rafting on the Ob River and trekking expected. As he notes: “For years I had been preferable to the planned economy of the by horse and reindeer sleigh in the Siberian promoting the market as Siberia’s salvation, communist era. By 1996, he had decided winter. He explained his desire to learn that he had accomplished what he had set Russian, along with his planned major in out to achieve and left Siberia for the United economics; so I was not surprised when I States, leaving Russian entrepreneurs to fig- learned that he spent a semester studying at ure out how to instill a sense of order, legali- BOOKS&ARTSthe University in Novosibirsk in 1991. Sever- ty, and ethics into the workings of the Siber- al students told me after Xander’s gradua- ian economy. tion in 1992 that he had moved to Novosi- A fascinating, coming-of-age story, birsk because he had fallen in love with a Siberia Bound is replete with interesting young woman there during his previous vis- observations of what it was like to experi- its. Over the next several years, I heard vari- ence post–Soviet life firsthand. Xander ous rumors about Xander’s fate—how he offers a glimpse of the trials and tribula- was living with his Russian girlfriend in her tions of daily life in Siberia some 10 years parents’ cramped apartment, how he was ago. His vivid and succinct prose also touch- importing jeans to support himself, how he es on other aspects of Russian life such as was running a successful restaurant in the pervasive role of alcohol, the annoying Novosibirsk, and how he was married with tactics of American missionaries who three children. seemed to be everywhere, the challenges of Fortunately, the appearance of Xander’s keeping your clothes clean and fresh, the memoir Siberia Bound has cleared up the menace presented by drunken drivers, and mystery of his life since 1992. Although it is ALEXANDER BLAKELY the life-threatening nature of falling icicles true that love enticed Xander back to during the winter thaw. He also offers com- Novosibirsk, the relationship did not last. Siberia beckoned Blakely pelling insights into how Soviet values and Nor did he strike it rich as a jeans importer. because he was tired of the ways of doing things affected the conduct of Rather, he and a Tatar friend built up a business after communism’s collapse. mini-empire importing cocoa beans and material comforts and The importance of personal relationships condoms, all the while gleaning insights in cementing deals, not to mention the into the nature of capitalism and the chal- overabundance in America— reliance on threats and violence to conduct lenges confronting Russian society as it but he found that cutthroat business, gave Russia’s fledgling market stumbled through the dislocations of the economy a particular flavor for which Xan- transition to a market economy. Siberia capitalism was alive and well der’s economics classes did not prepare him. Bound is a fascinating look at the heady days Just as valuable are the perspectives provid- of the first half of the 1990s, when the fron- in the Russian north. ed by Xander’s various Russian business tier spirit captured the hearts and minds of partners regarding business ethics, the pros entrepreneurs seeking to make their for- and now the market had become a monster. and cons of American culture and society, tunes in the former Soviet Union. So this is what Dr. Frankenstein felt like." and their hopes and aspirations for a post- Siberia also beckoned Xander because he Xander dishearteningly learned that the communist Russia. The text is marred by was tired of the material comforts and over- spirit of unbridled, cutthroat capitalism was incorrect transliterations, but on the whole, abundance of American life. Moreover, he alive and well in Siberia. Russia’s newly Siberia Bound engages the reader and offers was on a mission to aid in the building of a emerging capitalist class did not need les- plenty of food for thought. free market from the detritus of the planned sons on how to take advantage of the mar- And by the way, Xander did find true love economy of the former Soviet Union. Ironi- ket during the poorly regulated transition in Siberia. He married Natasha, a university cally, he quickly learned that market capital- from planned economy to market capital- student from Kamchatka, and they currently ism was bringing to post–Soviet Russia ism; they already knew how to wheel and live in San Francisco. many of the same problems that drove him deal. He ultimately acknowledged what I —Robert Weinberg, professor of history SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 72 OTHERBOOKS Jan (Burgess) Chozen Bays ’66, Jizo Bod- hisattva: Modern Healing & Traditional Bud- dhist Practice, Tuttle Publishing, 2002. A Zen teacher and practicing pediatrican, Bays explores the development of traditional Buddhist practices and ways to incorporate key philosophies into your own life through meditations, mantras, and chanting. Fred “Crash” Blechman ’46 and others, Bent Wings—F4U Corsair Action & Accidents: True Tales of Trial & Terror! Xlibris, 1999. This book includes 43 stories by 10 pilots who lived to tell about flying Corsair planes during World War II and the Korean War period. Grace Bulger ’88, The Enlightened Entrepre- neur: A Spiritual Approach to Creating and Marketing a Company, Marlowe & Co., 2002. Working with publisher Matthew Lore ’88, ©1999 MEGHAN KRIEGEL Bulger wrote this guide for creating both a NARCISSUS, APHOTOGRAPHBYMEGHANKRIEGEL Wind: Poetry and Art of the British Isles, Harry financially successful and spiritually fulfill- ’97, WAS PART OF AN EXHIBIT AT THE BLUE CLOUD Abrams, 2002. Sullivan has assembled a ing business. GALLERYINSOMERVILLE,MASS.,DURINGAPRIL. montage of words and pictures that pres- Elizabeth Burchard ’82 and Judith Car- ents the British Isles and their inhabitants lone, Torn From the Arms of Satan, Ace Aca- from various viewpoints. demics, 2000. This book, with an accompa- Stephen Henighan ’84, When Words Deny Kenneth Turan ’67, Sundance to Sarajevo: nying videotape, describes how Burchard the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing, Film Festivals and the World They Made, Uni- was hypnotized, brainwashed, and abused The Porcupine’s Quill, 2002. Fiction writer versity of California Press, 2002. A film crit- by a Manhattan psychologist and how Car- and literary journalist Henighan examines ic for the Los Angeles Times, Turan writes lone deprogrammed her. both Canadian fiction and Canada’s chang- about the most unusual as well as the most Jeff Berman, Fran Fleegler ’73, and John ing literary institutions during the 1990s, important film festivals, emphasizing the Hanc, The FORCE Program: The Proven Way when Canadian writing became a commeri- cultural, political, and sociological aspects of to Fight Cancer Through Physical Activity and cial enterprise. each event. Exercise, Ballantine Books, 2001. FORCE, an Sharon Bertsch McGrayne ’64, Prometheans Naomi and Brian Zikmund-Fisher ’91, acronym for Focus on Rehabilitation and in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Across the Chasm: A Caregiver’s Story, BMT Cancer Education, is highlighted in this Modern World, McGraw-Hill, 2001. This Information Network, 2002. After dealing book as a comprehensive lifestyle approach book highlights influential chemical discov- with Brian’s bone marrow transplant (see to cancer treatment. eries, the people who discovered them, and the profile on page 70), this book was devel- Jennifer Glancy, Slavery in Early Christianity, how they helped to shape the modern world. oped as a cathartic way to help other care- Oxford University Press, 2002. Drawing on Judy (Kazan) Morris, Writing Fiction for givers deal with similar challenges. various sources, Glancy situates early Chris- Children: Stories Only You Can Tell, University tian slavery in its broader cultural setting. of Illinois Press, 2001. A published author COMPACT DISK Laura Morgan Green ’85, Educating Women: of both fiction and nonfiction for children, Elizabeth Neiman ’82, Das Pierrot Projekt: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature, Morris inspires adults to use the solid build- Danse Contemporaine und Neue Musik, Konz- Ohio University Press, 2001. Green, assis- ing blocks of plot, character, and setting to ertmitschnitt, 1999. These works include tant professor in the English Department at shape engaging children’s literature. musical pieces for flute, clarinet, violin, Northeastern University and a writer for Robert Roper ’68, Fatal Mountaineer: The cello, and piano. Salon.com and Poets and Writers, analyzes the High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, conflict between the higher education move- American Himalayan Legend, St. Martin’s VIDEO ment’s emphasis on intellectual and profes- Press, 2002. Blending adventure with an Tariq Quadir ’87, Tawhid: The One in the sional achievement and the Victorian novel’s honest look at cultural background, this Many, shows how everyday Islamic religious narrative, in which women’s success is meas- book examines the pressures on moun- practices can nurture the awareness of one- ured by the achievement of emotional rather taineers during a period torn with conflict. ness of God, truth, and reality. For informa- than intellectual goals. Charles Sullivan ’55 (ed.), Dancing in the tion, e-mail him at [email protected]. J U N E 2 0 0 2 73 78 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN CLASSNOTES and where den, Swe- in Fulbright a completing Powell. Colin hear I Press. Associated the for works and roommates Latino great two Dan Georgetown. around strolling Marrin Dan into bumped I firm. consulting environmental an Consulting, ICF for works and D.C., ington, country. the about elsewhere scattered cation. 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Jewish of the criticisms harsh and unfair publishing account before into history take and Jews feeling toward true their do on will searching editors soul the some future the in hope I section). letters-to-the-editor a in entry word— out-of-place last an a (i.e., “reply” a with countered immediately was issue] December the in appeared which Ghannam, Farha Anthropology and Sociol- ogy of Professor Assistant with in interview expressed an opinions to object to wrote the [Fisher in piece anti-Israel previous a of discussion articulate [’79] Fisher’s David only neighbors.) his paci- with his philosophies share fist to than rather witness” “bear to merely chooses he that unfortunate is extremely (It civilians. Jewish targeting bombings Palestinians suicide by about say to nothing has but “occupation” Israeli protests who objector tious conscien- Quaker a our feature that would me magazine to shocking is occu- It the ends.” until pation end never will East] [in Middle violence the current “the passage the with which ends Palestine,” in “Professor article the of Cross). Red Israeli (the Fund Adom David ti lotligo u aaiesba that bias magazine’s our of telling also is It content the by aback taken especially was I h eihstate.” Jewish the of criticisms harsh and unfair publishing before account into history take and Jews toward feeling true their on searching soul some do will editors the future the in hope “I oigfo ait of variety a from Coming Bulletin. J ULIE F ELICE xod Ohio Oxford, M Bulletin ARCUS ’87 naeu opower. to avenue an as turmoil promote accom- leaders their Some as plishments. well as motives be their to by are judged Leaders power. of wielding and sition religion.” be in there compulsion “Let no find for did support I no but find activities, I terrorist Quran, the of study my avoided. In be to ought references Religious their faith. to renegades were perpetrators The Fisher does. as “Muslim,” as America on attacks ’79. Fisher David from one outstanding the includ- ing letters, many with arrived issue March (December “War issue the Peace” about and comment a on working PEACE was I AND WAR MORE situation the way be. the will is That theirs. the be and will restored, land be will they And But will! crucified. they they One rec- the not Savior will as still ognize Jews The god. false a wor- shiping in zealous are Muslims people. Palestinian local The the of gods false they the because worshiped exile into driven chosen Lord’s were the They still people. are Jews The Jews. promised the is to more and land This know things: I several ends.” occupation [Israeli] the until end never “will says, he which, Palestine,” “Israeli- occupied in violence of JEWS speaks Heacock THE Roger TO PROMISED ihrwsual olanfo e sw have. we as her from learn to unable was Mr.Fisher that regret of We part education. valuable Swarthmore a our are and classes person, her a that as feel and we scholar a as her for regard enormous have We viewpoints. all to respect and assumptions question to us who encourages teacher, fine a is individuals. Ghannam as Professor people all for respect and diver- sity values that community a as Swarthmore cherish we backgrounds, ethnic and religious S otne rmpg 3 page from Continued ONIA h omntra nhsoyi h acqui- the is history in thread common The the characterize to wrong is it believe I Bible. the reading by this know can Anyone K ATE J OHN M C E ARIANO P MILY HIKA ENROSE A D NDERSON ANIEL C W HAVEZ B ATANABE ’02, T ENDER 0,B ’04, F INK ’03, C AMARA ’03, A ENEDICT ’02, D B ’03, M ’02, P OLTON AITLIN LYSSA M hnthe when Bulletin) EBORAH AUL ELANIE ANIK aMrd,Calif. Mirada, La S D B CHWEIGERT E W AVIDHEISER ELL NGELHARD -P ULFSBERG H ERLMAN B ’03, G IRSCH ISHOV UNES ’02, ’02, ’02, ’03, ’03, ’03 ’34 In his introduction to The Quran Text: OAKSWITHQUAKERROOTS surest way to have decisions acceptable to Translation and Commentary, Addullah Andrea Hammer’s “Families Strong as the whole group.” She added that “the Yusuf Ali recounts the trials of Muhammad Oaks” in the March Bulletin provided evi- emphasis on the dignity and worth of the in delivering his message of peace to the dence of how our college years have made individual means at Swarthmore a concern warring tribes of Arabia. Ali writes, “Islam their way into our hearts and minds and for the development of the potential of meant the willing submission of [Muham- how Swarthmore’s influence continues to every person who is a student.” mad’s] will to God, the active attainment of be felt through the years by so many Unfortunately, the athletic decision of peace through conflict, and he gave that alumni. December 2000 was rushed. Not enough submission, not without effort, even as To the “117 with three or more genera- time was spent listening, discussing, and Moses did before him, and Jesus in the tions,” we want to add the story of our seeking the “sense of the meeting.” The Garden of Gethsemanae.” Muhammad’s family, which began in 1894 when Ida result is that many alumni are angry and own tribe was from time to time under the Palmer entered Swarthmore. With her sub- disappointed with the conduct of members influence of Jews, Christians, and pagans, sequent marriage to Charles Stabler and of the administration and the Board, who who sought his destruction. The latter were then four children, we now have five direct rushed a decision that dismissed a certain defeated by his followers, who pressed generations totaling 19 family members as category of students as being unworthy of Muhammad to become their temporal well as 10 in-laws who are Swarthmore the College’s resources, energy, and respect. leader. alumni. The youngest in this line will grad- Swarthmore College is legally a nonsec- For several hundred years, communities uate in 2003. tarian institution but one that proclaims to and individuals of the several religions In 1935, this association with the Col- be proud of its Quaker heritage. If a “com- apparently lived in peace and, in some mitment to essential values of the Quaker cases, prosperity. Strong leaders were able tradition” still exists, as expressed by Mar- to develop religious zeal to their own “The Quaker way of jorie Thompson Mogabgab ’74 in the advantage. Therefore, I believe it is wrong March Bulletin, and if a Swarthmore Col- to describe the conquests of the Ottoman doing business goes lege experience instills in each of us a sense Turks as Muslim conquests. beyond democracy, of personal values of tolerance, independ- In the past 200 to 300 years, pervasive, ence in spirit and thought, and respect for belligerent anti-Semitism has arisen and which is majority rule. others—as also mentioned in the article— regrettably was not completely eradicated The ‘sense-of-the-meeting’ then we must return to our Quaker roots with the defeat of Hitler. Religion is not a and believe that, as a College, we can con- sound explanation, despite past assertion procedure aims to find tinue to grow and change with the support of Christian condemnation for Jews at the a solution acceptable of all. crucifixion—and at present, Arab against Swarthmore College has been extremely Jew in the ethnic sense. The Arabs appar- to all concerned.” important to our family over many years. ently harbor resentment that Abraham’s But just as there was some strong disagree- blessing was bestowed on Isaac rather than ment and disappointment expressed about the first-born Ishmael. The age-old drive to lege led to the appointment of our mother the athletic decision in the article, so also acquire and wield power is alive and well. and grandmother, Eleanor Stabler Clarke has our branch of the family been dis- During this same period, a feeling of envy, ’18, to the Board of Managers. She was tressed. We hope the Alumni Council will jealousy, and resentment has arisen in the Board secretary from 1950 to 1967 and be the catalyst for the healing process by Eastern countries against the Western. became an emerita member in 1971. In spending time discovering creative solu- Such feeling is contrary to the teaching of 1972, she was awarded an honorary doctor tions to this crisis. When this has been the Quran but, in my view, is the principal of humane letters degree and spoke to the achieved, our family, among many others, basis for the present contention. Although graduating class about the history of can rejoin the larger alumni body with Islam has no hierarchy of priests, the Quakerism as it pertained to the College. tremendous enthusiasm and loyalty and judges of Islamic law have attained major As she pointed out, some customs of early once again be “strong as oaks.” influence along with professors of Muslim Quakerism have been long outdated, but CORNELIA CLARKE SCHMIDT ’46 history and local prayer leaders. This pro- the major Quaker influence, which is as Princeton, N.J. vides a favorable climate for extremist lead- meaningful and important today, is the ELEANOR SCHMIDT CLARK ’71 ers and hijackers of religion. The challenge Quaker way of conducting business. She Farmington, Conn. is to reorient the teaching of the young, remarked: “The Quaker way of doing busi- which may take several generations. ness goes beyond democracy, which is WRITETOUS In conclusion, peace is a state of affairs majority rule. The ‘sense-of-the-meeting’ The Bulletin welcomes letters concerning devoutly to be wished, but it is not a natu- procedure aims to find a solution accept- the contents of the magazine or issues ral state. To achieve and maintain it is a able to all concerned. The result is not a relating to the College. Address your letters never-ending task. compromise but a search for a better to: Editor, Swarthmore College Bulletin, 500 THOMAS SPENCER ’37 answer.” This consensus way of making College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081- Orlando, Fla. decisions can be lengthy, but “it is the 1390, or e-mail [email protected]. J U N E 2 0 0 2

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By Jeffrey Lott

his year marks the 50th anniversary part of the col- of the Swarthmore College Bulletin, lege experience Twhich first appeared under this name and to promote in December 1952. a sense of The magazine evolved from Swarth- responsibility more’s original alumni publication, The Gar- for the future BACKPAGESnet Letter, which first appeared in 1935. Writ- of the College." ing in its inaugural issue, William Tomlin- The Garnet son ’17,then president of the Alumni Asso- Letter was pub- ciation, described The Garnet Letter as “an lished occa- effort to bring the College and her alumni sionally through into a closer relationship through a better the late 1930s understanding of the aims, objectives, and (it continues today as a newsletter and was activities of Swarthmore today ... [and] to last published this spring). It went to glossy develop a more closely knit alumni organiza- paper and added photographs in 1938, tion [that] can play a greater part in the beginning to look more like a magazine. In THE SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN (FIRST future success of Swarthmore." October 1939, it added its first Class Notes. ISSUE, DECEMBER 1952, ABOVE) EVOLVED This objective is remarkably consistent These included information on “senior FROM THEGARNETLETTER(ABOVELEFT),A with the mission statement under which we alumni" as far back as the Class of 1881— NEWSLETTER FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1935 BY publish the Bulletin today: “The Swarthmore the year that Parrish Hall burned and Sci- College Bulletin seeks to strengthen and ence Hall (now known as Trotter) was built. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. IT HAS HAD JUST extend the positive connections that are After World War II, The Garnet Letter con- THREE EDITORS IN THE PAST HALF-CENTURY.

THEGARNETLETTER FROM 1940 (LEFT) SHOWSNEWPRESIDENTJOHNNASON, WHOGUIDEDTHECOLLEGETHROUGH WORLD WAR II AND INTO THE 1950S. THE GARNETLETTER IN 1944 (BELOWLEFT) SHOWSUNIFORMEDSTUDENTSWITHOTH- ERS ON THE STEPS OF PARRISH HALL. A 1957 BULLETIN(BELOW) NOTED THE PASS- ING OF PRESIDENT FRANK AYDELOTTE, ORIGINATOR OF THE HONORS PROGRAM.

THE BULLETIN HAS NEVER BEEN AFRAID OF THE ISSUES OF THE DAY. IN THE COVER STORY FOR THE MARCH 1961 ISSUE (ABOVELEFT), THE LATE ROSEMARY COWDEN CADIGAN ’35 AND EDITOR MARALYN ORBISON GIL- LESPIEASKEDAGROUPOFALUMNAE“NINEIMPERTINENTQUESTIONS ABOUT THE RELATION OF A SWARTHMORE EDUCATION TO THEIR ROLES AS WIVES AND MOTHERS.” A 1977 COVER STORY EXPLORED RETIREMENT PLANNING. AND THE COVER OF THE AUGUST 1992 ISSUE (EDITOR JEFF LOTT’SFIRST)TOUTEDASTORYONCROSS-DRESSINGWITHAPROVOCA-

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J U N E 2 0 0 2 Philadelphia’s

Pig Iron Theatre Company,

started at Swarthmore in 1995, explores the

mysterious connections

that the mind can make

between disparate pieces.