Among the Robots Beyond the “Liberal Bubble” PAAC’d Calendar Eric Krotkov ’82 Ken Stern ’85 journeys Connecting the curriculum to local turns science fiction into reality through America’s red states artists and organizations

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Editor Contributing Writers Eils Lotozo Karen Brooks DEPARTMENTS Charles Curtis ’04 Class News Editor Brian Glaser 2 Inbox Mara Miller ’10 Lini S. Kadaba View From Founders Natalie Pompilio 4 Giving Back Editor Anne Stein Pat Laws 6 Main Lines College Communications editorial COVER STORY: Renewing the Arboretum Photography Editor assistants: Tyler McCarthy ‘19, Katie Rodgers ‘18, Caroline Tien ‘20, Patrick Montero 14 Academix Michael Weber ‘19 22 Mixed Media Graphic Design Contributing Photographers Tracey Diehl, Matts Backer 29 Ford Games Eye D Communications Zachary Bako Roads Taken and Not Taken Director of News Chad Batka 50 and Social Media Holden Blanco ’17 Webb Chappell 51 Giving Back/Notes From Rebecca Raber Greg Kahn the Alumni Association Assistant Vice President for Brian Tietz 57 Class News/Obituaries College Communications College Communications photography team: Claire Blood-Cheney ‘20, Justin Chris Mills ’82 77 Then and Now Brendel ’18, Monique Byars ’20, Dexter Vice President for Coen Gilbert ’21, Lev Greenstein ’20, Institutional Advancement Alexandra Iglesia ’21, Sarah Jennings Ann West Figueredo ’84 ’21, Jenna Medeiros ’18, Victoria Merino ’20, Cole Sansom ’19, Claire Chenyu Wang ’20, Wanyi Yang ’20, Rae Yuan ’19

On the cover: A few of the more than 5,000 trees in the Haverford College Arboretum. Photo by Holden Blanco ’17. See our story about the Arboretum on p. 6.

Back cover photo: Patrick Montero

Haverford magazine is printed on recycled paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste fiber. winter 2018

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32 INNOVATORS: Among the Robots 40 Discovering the “Other” America From self-driving cars to in-home electromechanical helpers, Lifelong Democrat Ken Stern ’85 left his “liberal Eric Krotkov ’82 is turning science fiction into reality. bubble” for an odyssey across America’s red states. By Joel Warner ’01 The year he spent getting to know “the other side” changed his view of politics entirely and inspired a book that’s attracting controversy. 34 Tell Us More By Natalie Pompilio and Anne Stein Harsimran Kaur ’97: Civil Rights Advocate By Anne Stein 44 HOW TO: Manage Your Memory Tips from neurologist Andrew Budson ’88, 36 PACC’d Calendar co-author of Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory: The Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives, a new What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What to Do About It. program out of the VCAM building, facilitates classroom By Karen Brooks connections to local artists and organizations. By Lini S. Kadaba 45 Tastes of the Fords Haverford alumni are feeding the world (and slaking its thirst) with an impressive array of food- and beverage-related ventures. By Eils Lotozo

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with which I am thoroughly acquaint- College Facebook page. She did just that, ed. Reading Haverford I have to seriously and closed her post with the query: restrain myself from sending in an appli- “Do you still have your freshman cation for admission as a freshman to the plant? Tell us the story.” fall class! —Burton Pike ’52 As it turned out, Meghan’s Facebook post got loads of likes, shares, and quite a FRESHMAN PLANT SAGAS few replies. Here are a few: I was sitting and eating my dinner Ben Flynn ’99: I planted my plant in tonight when one of my houseplants the woods at Haverford when I would caught my eye. I remarked to my family leave for the summer and then repot it that the plant next to our table was one when I got back. I also grew some other that I received as an incoming freshman plants from cuttings. Too many moves at Haverford in 1992. How cool is it that and too much travel led to its demise this plant survived my Haverford life, circa 2007 but what a wonderful gift it then medical school, then residency (on was! both East and West Coast) and is now Rachel D. Jaffe ’99: I received a still living strong 14 years into my career coffee plant as a Gummere frosh and FAN MAIL as a family doctor in Western Mass? it baked to a crisp on the radiator that I think Haverford is a terrific magazine, It made me wonder how many other winter. it does a much better job of explaining Fords have their freshman plants. Cristian Clothier ’19: Mine’s still all the activities at the college than the —Meghan Cadwallader Gump ’96 alive! 3+ years old! journals of other colleges and universi- Sara Bornstein ’09: Mine died ties I am familiar with. Congratulations! The editors respond: Meghan’s note made before the end of freshman year. Still Having spent my career at a number of us wonder too, so we suggested she post terrible with plants. colleges and universities, teaching and her story about her beloved and highly Scott Schnur ’10: My coffee plant as chair of departments, it is a world resilient Thai Palm plant on the Haverford from 2006 is going strong! I even got

THE ALUMNI SPEAK From the editors: ■ what our students are majoring in these days and why Last fall, following the close of the Lives That Speak campaign, ■ more stories about Fords in business and our many more than 2,000 alumni responded to a College survey about alumni entrepreneurs the effectiveness of Haverford’s alumni outreach strategies. ■ alumni involvement in sustainable energy We are pleased to report that 79 percent of respondents ■ alumni involved in rescue/humanitarian aid projects cited Haverford magazine as their primary source for learning after catastrophic events like wildfires, hurricanes, about the College. floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes The survey also asked: “What would you like to see cov- ■ a look at the college ratings game ered in future issues of the magazine?” While many respon- ■ how digital technology has changed student behavior dents gave a strong thumbs up to the magazine’s existing and culture mix of coverage, our alumni (not surprisingly) also had no ■ more stories about alumni who work at hard and shortage of ideas for topics they’d like to see reflected in important—but not glamorous—jobs like social future pages. workers, nurses, and teachers Here are just a few of the story suggestions we’re planning Want to share your own suggestions? We’d love to hear to put on our to-do list. from you. Send a note to [email protected].

2 Haverford Magazine some (read: 2) beans and had the world’s I would appreciate a correction. runs in every issue, endowed an internship smallest cup of coffee. —Laura Lomas SC ’89 fund at the Center for Peace and Global Laurie Prober ’00: I still have my Citizenship named for his late wife, Linda first-year plant from 1996. I named The editors reply: The reference to Allende Dunbar Knox (Kravitz). him Eugene. I also have the plant I as a “dictator” was a mistake introduced saved in the snow during the fall of in the editing process. We regret the error. CORRECTION: In the Class News section my second year. … Both stayed with in the fall issue we printed some incorrect me at Haverford and part of vet school. information about John Mikhail ’56, They lived a few years in my mother’s an international student who became a second-grade classroom when I moved peace activist and went missing during to Michigan for residency. My parents the Israel-Lebanon conflict in 1976, never lovingly brought them up to Rochester, to be heard from again. Due to an error N.Y. As we were leaving N.Y. to move in the alumni database that we rely on back to Philly in 2011, Eugene was taller to fact check Class News, we edited our than I was. My husband was not happy class correspondent’s submission to read about moving him as he was so big. that Mikhail “was known to his family We got into a big fight about it but I and friends by his middle name, Hannah.” informed him that Eugene was coming In fact, his first name was “Hanna,” an with us. We ended up renting a pickup Arabic form of “John,” the name he used truck with Eugene wrapped in a blanket as a Haverford student. in the back. He looked like a dead body, he was so big. Eugene and his partner plant continue to live with us and bring TALK TO US us joy over 21 years later. If something you read in this issue inspires a question, a comment, a polite NO DICTATOR rebuke, or a paean, send it along. What I was dismayed to read in the fall 2017 THEN AND NOW would you like to see more of in the edition of the Haverford alumni magazine I received [the fall issue of] Haverford magazine? What would you like to see less of? Let us know. Have you got a a reference in the article “In the Gallery” magazine and lo and behold my wife great idea for a story? Tell us about it. [about the exhibition Futureproof] to is shown on the inside back page Do you have a question you want to ask Chile’s democratically elected president (lower right) decorating for the 1965 about Haverford history or Haverford [Salvador Allende], whom new evidence Tri-College dance. So, a nice surprise. I now? Ask away. … suggests was assassinated in a coup knew nothing of her days at Swarthmore, d’etat led by Augusto Pinochet, who other than she didn’t like them, nor that Send us an email at: [email protected] indeed proved to be a brutal dictator. she ever came to Haverford. I didn’t meet Your article references “archival doc- Linda until 1971 through the good aus- Or send a letter to: uments from the government of Chilean pices of Harriet Barlow BMC ’64, so I Haverford magazine dictator Salvador Allende,” which sent a knew nothing of her Haverford connec- College Communications chill up my spine. For indeed, the United tions. —Hugh Knox ’62 Haverford College States collaborated in or instigated the 370 Lancaster Ave. toppling of the Allende regime, which From the editors: Hugh, who is referring Haverford, PA 19041 was committed to building a true democ- to our “Then and Now” photo feature that racy, redistributing access to cultural cap- ital, which may have irked U.S. corporate Check out the digital edition of Haverford magazine at interests, but did not amount to the dic-  haverford.edu/magazine. tatorial practices of Augusto Pinochet.

WINTER 2018 3 view from founders

Transition at a Time of Strength

s the Board of Managers recent- And I’ve thought extensively about you, our ly announced, I have reaffirmed phenomenal alumni, parents, and friends, who my commitment to continue as shine with a common passion for ethical action Haverford’s president until June that binds you across differences of generation, 30,A 2019, at which time I will step down and vocation, and political affiliation. No commu- return to the faculty. While I have greatly nity could be worthier of one’s devotion, nor enjoyed the privilege of serving the College could any community offer a more discern- in my current role, I feel that we have reached ing sensibility than that which has blessed my an auspicious moment for a successful presi- efforts as president. dential transition. So my departure from Haverford’s presiden- As a purely personal matter, this was a very cy is necessarily wistful. I will miss having this difficult decision that rekindled the many satis- special vantage point from which to observe factions I’ve known while occupying one of the everything that makes us great. At the same most exciting and fulfilling liberal arts college presidencies in time, having reflected so closely on the state of the College, the country. With profound gratitude I’ve reflected on how our I find us in every respect enjoying the strength and readiness Board is unusually supportive and harmonious, unified in its required to welcome an outstanding new leader for the next determination to advance Haverford as a place where dynamic phase of our evolution. We have arrived at an ideal moment for learning is bound to character and integrity. I’ve thought of how joining with a fresh presidential voice to define how Haverford strong we are in our senior staff, people of exceptional talent, should chart its course for the coming decade or more. dedication, and creativity who ensure that the College will be When I assumed the role of president, I set a number of brilliantly stewarded for years to come. I’ve observed how our goals as the foundation for the College’s becoming not only world-class faculty embodies our mission through visionary an exemplar but also a defining voice for 21st-century liberal research and brilliant teaching, turning our extraordinary stu- arts education. Those goals encompass curricular enrichment; dent body into collaborators in a shared quest for knowledge. enhancement of physical space as a partner in intellectual and I’ve reflected that our staff is the heartbeat of this never-resting social development; intensified connection of student activity place, tirelessly sustaining both its people and its environment. to career aspiration; invigoration of organizational and tech-

SAVORING THE VIEW FROM FOUNDERS: (from left) cutting the ribbon on a totally renovated Sharpless Hall; signing the Real Food campus commitment; making a Dorm Olympics entrance; enjoying the Lives That Speak celebration in October.

4 Haverford Magazine nological infrastructure; enlargement of co-curricular support ■ And––underwriting and fueling all these endeavors–– and opportunity; and widened access for an ever more diverse completion of Lives That Speak, our most successful population of students, faculty, and staff. These aims are being comprehensive fundraising campaign ever, which hit all actively met through major initiatives such as: specific targets while finishing at 20 percent beyond its ■ Establishment and expansion of programs including overall objective. Environmental Studies; Health Studies; Visual Studies; All these initiatives cohere in their effort to blend intellectual Computational Studies; and Peace, Justice, and Human rigor with ethical attunement. Individually and collectively, Rights. these elements of a Haverford experience are preparing students ■ Transformation of Founders Green: completed renovation for lives of service and leadership in a fast-changing, culturally of Sharpless as a state-of-the-art research and teaching diverse, and multifariously challenging world. Once again, space for the Biology and Psychology Departments; the Haverford is ready to welcome a president who can join our creation of the Visual Culture, Arts, and Media building community in making a positive difference to that world. for multimodal creativity; the construction-in-progress of Right now, though, I continue to savor the view from the Lutnick Library as an innovative hub for collaborative, Founders. I want to assure you that I am energized as ever; interdisciplinary scholarship; and the planned renovation there will be no let-up in my attention, focus, and enthusiasm

CELEBRATION); PATRICK MONTERO of Roberts as a sparkling home for our outstanding Bi-Co during the remaining period of my presidential tenure. We Music program. have a lot to accomplish yet before summer 2019, and our LTS ■ Establishment of the Steere Professorship in Quaker commitment to a broad range of strategic initiatives carries on Studies and the multi-pronged Initiative for Ethical with vigor. You will hear more about that work over the next Engagement and Leadership. year and a half. ■ Increased financial aid, which continues to meet the full Thereafter, I will leave the second-best role in academia for demonstrated need of every admitted student. the best one of all: that of Haverford professor! ■ Design and activation of institution-wide strategic plans Finally, I want to say that I feel incredibly indebted to you for Sustainability and Diversity. all for your unstinting generosity to the College and to me ■ Adoption of the first formal Memorandum of Under- personally. I hold close to my heart your love of Haverford standing between Haverford and Bryn Mawr, which and your multifaceted wisdom, which has helped guide me in advances an unprecedented level of cooperative engage- expressing my own love for this special place. ment between our institutions. Onward! ■ Movement toward financial equilibrium on a full-accrual

PHOTOS: DAN Z. JOHNSON (COMMENCEMENT, (RIBBON CUTTING); CALEB ECKERT ‘17 (SIGNING); HINA FATHIMA ‘15 (DORM OLYMPICS) accounting basis.

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Renewing the Arboretum

averford College’s arbore- is now known as the Haverford College decaying, or otherwise failing ones will tum—encompassing the Arboretum Association) dedicated to its be removed. campus’ 400 species of trees preservation. For a place that defines itself in many and shrubs, the 3.5-acre The latest chapter in the arboretum’s ways by its physical landscape, the HDuck Pond, gardens, and wooded history began last year with its first-ever numbers involved in the tree revitaliza- areas—has been part of the College’s comprehensive tree assessment, con- tion project can be hard to hear; but for history since the beginning. English gar- ducted by Rockwell Associates. That every tree removed, two will planted. dener William Carvill arrived on cam- assessment identified a number of risks As a result, Haverford will be more than pus in 1834—a year after Haverford’s to the safety of the campus community 800 trees richer when this project is first students were admitted—and and threats to the long-term health completed, and a safer place after the created what would become the oldest of the College’s arboreal landscape, clearing of trees that are sick or in dan- planned college landscape in America. including invasive species and a signif- ger of falling. Care for this beloved landscape was icant number of trees in deteriorating “People grow very attached to trees, always part of the College’s mission. condition. Of the roughly 5,000 trees and the arboretum staff is no excep- But it took a devastating 1902 ice storm on campus, 1,500 were included in the tion,” says Arboretum Director Claudia that almost destroyed the maple allée on survey. Of those surveyed, 408 trees on Kent. “We’ve planted hundreds on College Lane to prompt the creation of a the inner campus and along the Nature Haverford’s campus over the last few campus club (a nascent version of what Trail will be pruned, and 406 defective, decades. We’ve taken care of them,

6 Haverford Magazine we’ve pruned them, and we’ve fought now, but it is in service of having a cam- 27. A new plant nursery also is being for them during construction projects. pus that will still feel like Haverford into installed, and students from nearby We consider them friends. Like any the future.” Friends School Haverford will nurture friend, we mourn the loss when it’s None of this will happen overnight. its whips and small trees over the next determined they need to come down. The work on the Nature Trail has few years for eventual planting on For this reason, we felt we needed to begun, and will continue during win- our campus. hire an outside consultant for the assess- ter months over the next three years. The revitalization project has other ment. He has no emotional attachment Pruning at the center of campus will be components. Vehicles and thousands of to our collection and was able to be completed over a five-year period. And footsteps have compacted soils on cam- impartial concerning its overall health.” replanting efforts, which should take pus, so a process called “air spading” “Trees that are declining, consid- five to 10 years, are already underway. of root zones will help relieve compac- ered a risk, or that have pre-existing In the fall, 80 new trees were planted tion. And expanding the mulched area defects are removed to ensure the along the stream bank. In March, the around trees will protect shallow roots safety standards are being met,” says replanting of the Red Oak allée along from feet and from mower damage. John Rockwell Hosbach Jr., the urban College Lane began with the delivery of “One of the responsibilities of being forester who conducted the assess- 40 trees—a selection of five species of a perpetual institution is that you have ment. “This, in turn, allows the College White Oak that will be less susceptible to think not just about the current gen- to replant with a diverse palate of to the Bacterial Scorch disease that has eration, but of future generations too,” trees, implement new best management compromised the allée. The new trees says Lytle. “Because of this revitalization practices, and to ensure that the health will be planted in between the original effort, we’ll have a more vibrant campus of the College’s urban forest is better Red Oaks and 10 feet further back, and with a more robust, healthy tree canopy prepared for the future.” the Red Oaks will be removed gradu- in the future. Haverford’s identity is There are sustainability issues to ally, as they succumb to the disease. intertwined with our natural beauty, consider as well. Due to climate change, A number of volunteer tree plantings and perpetuating that is something that land-based plant and animal species are are in store for the spring, including has to happen intentionally. This is a migrating poleward—away from the a weeklong plant-a-tree-a-day mara- critical step in that direction.” equator, toward cooler latitudes—at a thon leading up to Arbor Day on April —Rebecca Raber rate of 15 feet per day. That means that 100 years from now, some of the core species of trees found on campus, such ON CAMPUS as sugar maples, may no longer thrive in southeastern Pennsylvania. Jesse Lytle, Philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public the College’s chief sustainability officer, intellectual Cornel West spoke to a packed audience in says that this massive replanting project Founders Hall. West, a professor at Harvard University provides an opportunity to ensure that and the author of 20 books, including Race Matters the College chooses specimens more and Democracy Matters, posed the question: “How do you apt to thrive in the changing ecosystem. pass on the best of the traditions of criticism and critique “We are in the position of being able and resistance to a new generation in a moment of spiritual to think ahead about how to maintain blackout?” He defined “spiritual blackout” as “the eclipse Haverford’s sense of place while under- of morality and spirituality and generosity in a time of great standing the realities of our changing national decline,” a state that “naturalizes mendacity, makes environment,” he says. “The campus injustice part of the natural order of things.” West went on has looked different over different peri- to urge his listeners to “take a stand, because you only have ods of its history. This will be a period one life to live, and the question will be not how smart you when there is more new tree growth, are … but how fortitudinous you are.”

PHOTOS: RAE YUAN ’19 (ARBORETUM); LEV GREENSTEIN ‘20 (WEST) and that may be an adjustment right

WINTER 2018 7 IN THE GALLERY The Club Life @ How did Europe’s museums become treasure troves of heirlooms and antiquities appropriated from around the globe? How were those museum collections constituted, and how did international artifacts travel to become a part of them? These are just a few of the questions raised by Black Atlas, an exhibit by artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyê˜n that ran through March 9 at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. First displayed in 2016 at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, Sweden, Black Atlas shifts attention away from prominent European world travelers and collectors to the deployment of the local labor that made their travel and collecting possible. A selection of photographs and documents from the Swedish museum’s archive, presented in the form of installations, exposes the infrastructure behind the accumulation of artifacts and the labor required for BI-CO GYMNASTICS CLUB bringing them to Europe. The exhibition features WHAT: The Bi-Co Gymnastics Club was founded as an outlet for famous Swedish collectors both experienced and novice gymnasts of all genders to practice such as Eric von Otter, the sport in a safe and supportive environment. Gymnastics is both Eric von Rosen, Gerhard a graceful and daring sport, which hones strength, balance, and Lindblom, and Gösta Montell, flexibility through a variety of movements on vaults, bars, beams, as well as the nameless and even the floor. porters and caravan workers WHO: Micaela Gold ’19 and Liana Thomason BMC ’19 are the cur- who carried their burdens. The College welcomed the rent co-heads of the club. Stockholm-based Nguyê˜n WHEN: The club members drive to Upper Merion Dance and for an on-campus talk, and Gymnastics Center in King of Prussia every Monday and Thursday the artist also took part evening to work out with a coach for an hour and a half. A typical in “Crating the World,” a meeting starts off with a warm-up, stretching, and basic floor-skill round-table discussion with drills led by either the coach or one of the co-heads. At the end of scholars and curators about A Turkish Porter, Guillaume each workout, everyone reconvenes for conditioning. the colonial legacies of Berggren (1835–1920); DID YOU KNOW?: The club’s regular attendees have a wide collecting, documenting, and Medelhavsmuseet/National range of gymnastics experience. Some members have competed Museums of World Culture, display practices in Western Sweden. museums. at a high level, while others had never practiced gymnastics before coming to college.

Friend in Residence PHOTOS: WANYI YANG ‘20 (GYMNASTICS); SARAH JENNINGS ‘21 (TUOMANEN)

Mary Tuomanen, a Philadelphia-based playwright and performer whose 2017 play Peaceable Kingdom was nominated for seven Barrymore Awards, was Haver- ford’s spring semester Friend in Residence. During her time on campus in February, Tuomanen led two innova- tive theater workshops and invited community members to workshop early scenes of When Eve Span, a new col- laborative theater project about the English peasant up- rising of 1381. She also gave performances of two of her one-woman shows, the dark comedy Hello! Sadness! and This Is On Record, which utilizes projections, live audio, and online elements to examine the ways media is used to construct and perpetuate cultural narratives.

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An architect’s rendering of the new library, as seen from Morris Infirmary. Though not shown in the drawing, the beloved “climbing tree” near the library ramp will be retained. Library Renovation Update

ollowing the end of the fall semester, the Magill Library staff went into tightly orga- nized action, crating books and Fother materials, and swiftly redeploy- ing staff and resources among several locations on campus that will continue to serve the needs of students, faculty, and staff as Magill Library undergoes a major renovation. The library as seen from Chase Hall and the Dining Center. The Carvill Arch will be When construction is finished, the preserved. building will reopen as the Lutnick Library, with the historic portion space throughout the library for pop-up puters, collaborative and shareable wall retaining the Magill name. While parts events and short-term exhibits curat- monitors, and 3-D printers. of the original structure (the facade on ed by classes. A Digital Scholarship The Lutnick Library will also feature Founders Green, the Carvill Arch, and Commons will become a hub of digital- two outdoor spaces, a patio outside the Phillips Wing) will be preserved, ly informed research and scholarship, the cafe and an events terrace at the new spaces will allow for an infusion with group study rooms, computers northwest corner of the building. The of natural light and an increase in and other technology, a flexible open Arboretum is working closely with functionality. programming area, and librarians with landscape architecture firm OLIN to Included in the design: a new tem- research and technical expertise. ensure full protection of important trees perature- and humidity-controlled The Magill ramp will remain as a and plantings. space for Quaker & Special Collections, main entrance, but the new design adds Perry Dean Rogers Partners of two technologically infused seminar additional entrances to provide access Boston, a firm that specializes in rooms with storage cases to hold rel- for those coming from Stokes, Chase, educational and academic buildings, evant Special Collections materials, and the Dining Center. are the architects for the project, and and a multi-purpose events space. The Other enhancements include the College is pursuing sustainability renovated library will also feature a self-checkout kiosks, tablets for study standards that align with LEED Gold café, 11 group study rooms, and two room scheduling, improved wi-fi to reflect Haverford’s commitment new exhibit spaces, plus additional access, high-end video processing com- to sustainability.

HAVERFORD HAS AGAIN been named a Fulbright top producer. Five Fords from the Class of 2017 earned Fulbright Student FYI Awards, putting the College in the company of fewer than 50 undergraduate liberal arts institutions in the country with the highest number of student grants.

WINTER 2018 9 GOING GREEN

■ Haverford’s first-ever Student Farmer Symposium took expanding to include a spring share that will run from April 2 place in February, welcoming students, farmers, and educators to May 14. The Haverfarm is donation-based and there is a from the Philadelphia area (and beyond) to Zubrow Commons sliding-scale membership fee to join the CSA. to learn about permaculture, farming, eco-activism, and more. Haverfarm fellow Jahzara Heredia ’16 worked with a team ■ The College’s resident of Haverfarm interns to plan the event, which drew students apiarist Eli St. Amour extracted 60 from several area schools and from as far away as Johns pounds of honey from the campus Hopkins. “We wanted to draw connections to students from hives in August. Haverford’s different campuses,” said Alison Love ’18, one of the farm four honeybee hives are located interns who worked on the planning. “We also wanted to get near the retention pond behind faculty involved and help students that are unfamiliar with the Haverfarm. The Haverford farming to learn more about it.” BeeKeeping Club, formed by The symposium featured a talk by Mellon Postdoctoral Alanna Matteson ’15 and Dana Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Ducombe ’17 in 2015, proposed Studies Rafter Sass Ferguson on permaculture, climate change, the hives as part of a larger national effort to restore the U.S. honeybee population.

■ The Dining Center has replaced individually wrapped novelty ice creams with locally sourced Urban Churn brand ice cream from Lancaster County, featuring interesting flavors like Lavender Honey.

■ Haverford is partnering with PennEnvironment and the Sierra Club on a renewable energy campaign, “Ready for 100-Montgomery County,” which aims to encourage municipalities to make a pledge to transition to 100% renewable energy. In March, the College cohosted a screening of the documentary Saving Snow as a community event to farming movements, and grassroots efforts. There was also a raise visibility for the campaign. panel on campus farms and community gardens, and a poster session and networking event allowed attendees to learn ■ The College is one of four collaborating organizations that about the work of fellow students from different institutions. received a grant for “Trees to the Rescue,” which will Other guests included North Philly Peace Park founder provide programming on climate change and trees for the Tommy Joshua, who spoke about food and environmental Student Conservation Association (SCA) at Philadelphia’s justice, and Krystal Garcia, an ecological wellness specialist. John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. The lessons created The day concluded with a tour of the Haverfarm and dinner in by the partnership also will inform the College Arboretum’s the greenhouse. programming throughout the year. The grant comes from the Climate & Urban Systems Partnership (CUSP), a group of ■ Two years ago, the Haverfarm launched a Community informal science educators, climate scientists, and community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, offering weekly partners in four Northeast U.S. cities, funded by the National shares of farm-grown produce over the summer months Science Foundation to explore innovative ways to educate city to students, faculty, and staff. Now the CSA program is residents about climate change.

HOLLEY MURCHISON, the author of Tell Me About Yourself: Six Steps for Accurate and Artful Self-Definition, gave a FYI workshop on communicating goals, stories, and visions for professional success. The event was part of the Mark and Lillian

Shapiro Speaking Initiative, which is focused on helping students improve their public-speaking skills. PHOTOS: SARAH JENNINGS ‘21 (SYMPOSIUM); CALEB ECKERT ‘17 (BEEKEEPER)

10 Haverford Magazine PHOTOS: COLE SANSOM ‘19 (STARTUP WEEKEND); PATRICK MONTERO (BIBLE) engaged inentrepreneurship. development andthosealreadyactively ous aboutentrepreneurialideasand that wouldsupportbothstudentscuri cational consultant,toplananevent counterpart, aswellanoutsideedu HIP joinedforceswithitsSwarthmore Haverford. Tonurturethisinterest, interested inentrepreneurship”at as an“activecommunity[ofstudents] HIP managerShaynaNickeldescribes ity inpartthroughtheeffortsofwhat Tri-Co StartupWeekendbecameareal and Leadership(CIL). Swarthmore’s CenterforInnovation out oftheVCAMbuilding—and (HIP)—a newprogramthisyearrun of theHaverfordInnovationsProgram was createdthroughthejointefforts Bryn Mawr,andSwarthmorecolleges, welcomed studentsfromHaverford, two-day seriesofworkshops,which Weekend inFebruary.Theimmersive business attheinauguralTri-CoStartup HelpsLaunch“StartupWeekend” HIP A leaf oneofthetreasuresSpecial Collections. of theoriginalGutenbergBiblesexist andonly21ofthemarecomplete,makingthissingle revolution, andtheProtestantReformation. PrintedinLatintwovolumes,todayonly49 sible therapidspreadofknowledge andhelpingtosparktheRenaissance,scientific and thedevelopmentofinternet inthewayitliterallychangedworld,makingpos books cheaperandmorecommon,canbelikenedtotheinvention ofthecomputer rare andexpensive.TheradicalnewtechnologythatproducedtheGutenberg Biblemade Johann Gutenberg.Beforethis,bookshadtobelaboriouslycopiedby hand,makingthem Europe, thefamousBiblewasprintedin1455usingmovablemetal typedevelopedby unless, ofcourse,it’sapagefromtheGutenbergBible.Thefirstmass-produced bookin Possessing justasinglepagefrombookwouldn’tseemlikesomething toboastabout— Held on Swarthmore’s campus, the Held onSwarthmore’scampus,the ing, running, and growing a ing, running,andgrowinga learn skillscriticaltostart neurs gottheopportunityto spiring studententrepre Spotlighting theholdingsofQuakerandSpecialCollections - - - - - ness venture. Attendees were divided ness venture.Attendeesweredivided and environmentalimpactofanybusi importance ofconsideringthesocial roots, thecurriculumemphasized in keepingwiththeTri-Co’sQuaker research tofinancialmodeling,and, from competitiveanalysistomarket presentations coveringeverything Brainstorming ideas at the inaugural Tri-Co Startup Weekend. Brainstorming ideasattheinauguralTri-CoStartupWeekend. Startup Weekend offered short Startup Weekendofferedshort COLLECTION IN THE

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11 mainlines Hackathon 2018 any Haverford students strive terface design and geographic informa- ing for an Apple-develop license. to change the world, but in tion systems (GIS). After dinner and a Though many of the participants MFebruary, at the 2018 Tri-Co talk by Vicky Tam, senior GIS analyst study computer science, the work they Hackathon, they saw how change can with the Healthcare Analytics Unit at did at the Hackathon was different begin close to home by simply altering Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, from their coursework. “A lot of what the availability of the Blue Bus sched- teams formed to brainstorm and design I was doing was far removed from the ule, creating a new course database, apps of their own, working late into computer science classes I’ve taken,” and preventing campus food waste. the night. On Saturday morning, they said Soulanille, “but my academic expe- A prelude to the Tri-Co Startup returned to complete the work and rience definitely helped with my gener- Weekend [see p. 11], the Tri-Co present it to the wider group and for al ability to code and to find mistakes in Hackathon, which first started in consideration by a panel of judges that my project.” 2014, was overseen this year by the included Haverford and Swarthmore Even students who already had Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), computer science professors, Haverford extensive technical skills learned new Digital Scholarship ones over the weekend. Soulanille, for librarians, and Sarah example, had never used the mobile Gray ’03, engineering application development software manager and senior Phonegap before, and was surprised software engineer at by how easy it made building apps for Promptworks. both Androids and iPhones. He also got Some of the projects the opportunity to experience the value developed during the of collaborating. Hackathon included “This has been a really good experi- “Dibs,” a text-mes- ence, working with other people,” said sage service that can Soulanille. “I haven’t had a lot of prac- inform people on tice with this skill, and it’s great to have campus about leftover more experience with collaboration.” food to prevent waste; —Katie Rodgers ’18 “Athena,” a project to help with class sched- uling; and a website that would help people A team shares ideas during the Hackathon. learn about their local politicians. SNAP a new initiative run out of the Visual The Best Overall Hack prize went SHOT Culture, Arts, and Media facility, with to the Blue Bus App team, a group of the help of Swarthmore Librarian for Haverford students who made a simple Digital Initiatives and Scholarship countdown timer to the next Blue Bus Nabil Kashyap and Bryn Mawr CLIR departure. Top 10 Humanities and Digital Scholarship “We all noticed that when we want Haverford Majors Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica Linker. to use the Blue Bus, we have to look The Hackathon fits into HIP’s mission it up because the schedule is different 1. Biology of providing extracurricular programs every day of the week,” said computer 2. Psychology and workshops that are focused on science major Matthew Soulanille ’19. 3. Economics human-centered design and prob- “Looking at a website takes a lot of 4. English lem-solving, and developing innovation time. So, we thought that an app that 5. Political Science and entrepreneurial frameworks. would just show you immediately 6. Chemistry The event kicked off on a Friday when the next Blue Bus is coming 7. Mathematics afternoon with a series of workshops would be helpful.” The team is still 8. History that gave Tri-Co students with varying working on the Blue Bus App and 9. Computer Science computer programming experience the plans to release it after finishing up 10. Physics chance to learn skills such as user-in- some final details and securing fund-

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The invention of photography was greeted with wonder when it was ai

first introduced in 1839, but it took until the 1930s for manufacturers m (Eastman Kodak in America and Agfa Gevaert in Germany) to devise a process that could produce full-color photographs. By the late 1950s, the technology to shoot in color had become widely available, yet the prevailing sentiment of the era was that it wasn’t artistic. In fact, recognition of color photography as an art form didn’t come until decades later with William Eggleston’s 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A Survey of Color Photography From Its Prehistory to the Present Day, a new exhibition that runs through April 29 at the Atrium Gallery in the Marshall Fine Arts Center, chronicles this story via 75 representative photographs and related material from the College’s extensive photography collection. A diverse group of photographers, photographs, and processes from the earliest days of the medium to today’s digital age takes viewers on a tour of color photography’s history, demonstrating how it has grown to become the norm when it was once the exception.

Passages- Family No. 3; Clarissa T. Sligh, 2002, color pigment print on watercolor paper.

Existence as Resistance

ne unique aspect tion, and then the travel ban was of residential life enacted, and I felt like I couldn’t at Haverford is the do anything.” option for students “There were all these attacks Oto create community houses based on communities that we are a on shared interests by applying to part of—marginalized communi- the Residential Life Committee. ties, communities of color—and And this fall, the College wel- we were so far from home,” says comed a new community house, Urquiza. But then a student at Existence as Resistance, which the ALAS meeting suggested that joins Quaker House, Nerd House, being at Haverford as Latinas, Music & Arts House, and Ehaus representing people from mar- Leslie Luqueno ‘20 (left) and Rosa Urquiza ‘20 are the on campus. cofounders of Existence as Resistance, the newest ginalized communities, was a Existence as Resistance, whose community house on campus. political action. The women were focus is intersectionality and social galvanized. justice, was organized by Leslie Luqueno ’20 and Rosa Urquiza “Our existence was a resistance,” said Luqueno. “That really ’20, in part as a response to the current political climate around stuck with us, we even got stickers with the phrase on it. And immigration and race relations in America. (The term “inter- [at the same time], we were figuring out housing, and then sectionality” refers to the complex way the effects of different we thought about the option of doing a community house.” forms of discrimination combine, overlap, or intersect.) “We Many people living in the house are also “first-gen,” or the came up with the idea when we were both at an Alliance for first in their families to attend college. “Their presence at this Latin American Students (ALAS) meeting,” says Luqueno, school as students is not only for them, it’s for their families, who, along with Urquiza, now also leads that campus group. it’s for their communities back home,” said Luqueno. “We were talking about feeling powerless while we were “We want to show that there is no right form of activism,

PHOTOS: CLAIRE CHENYU WANG ‘20 (HACKATHON); ALEXANDRA IGLESIA ‘21 (EXISTENCE) studying serious social issues. For me, I was studying migra- that all forms are important,” said Urquiza. —K. R.

WINTER 2018 13 academix

Alumni shared insights with students at the Liberal Arts Career Conference.

The Liberal Arts-Career Connection A conference brings alumni to campus to help students see the connections between their academic paths and the work world.

hat are some of the career sation with Jenny Bogoni ’88 and Mark anecdotes about how their specific aca- possibilities open to a liberal Naples ’84. Bogoni is executive direc- demic studies translated into career skills. W arts graduate? That was the tor of the Free Library of Philadelphia In all, the conference, which was question Haverford’s first-ever Liberal Foundation’s Read by 4th, a citywide organized by the Center for Career Arts Career Conference aimed to answer program that aims to double by 2020 the and Professional Advising, brought 15 for students at the daylong event in number of children reading at grade level alumni to campus and drew students January. And the answer? The possibil- by 4th grade. Naples is managing partner from all class years. Dean of Career and ities are endless. of strategic communications firm WIT Professional Advising Kelly Cleary said That was the resounding message Strategy. After students got the chance to this was the goal: to start conversations attendees heard from alumni working talk with alumni over lunch, they attend- between students and alumni. in a diverse array of fields who served as ed discipline-specific panels focused on “Alumni are the foundation of our speakers and panelists. the humanities, the social sciences, and career-education program and our The day started with a keynote conver- science, and listened to alumni share recruiting program,” she said. “An

14 Haverford Magazine important piece of almost every conver- Katie Van Aken ’12, a Haverford pany MAXSA Innovations. (West also sation we have with a student is encour- physics major who received her Ph.D. led a workshop on “Entrepreneurship aging them to talk with alumni who have from Drexel University, is now a lead and the Liberal Arts.”) The lineup of been through the process before or who engineer with Dragon Spectral, working alumni on that panel illustrates the work in the industries they’re interested on high-quality optical filters. A speaker wide range of careers represented: Brian in and can give them firsthand advice.” on the conference’s science panel, she said Guggenheimer ’16, a software engi- The conference was a culmination of she started early on practicing explaining neer; Gabi Winick ’13, a litigation assis- several years of brainstorming and exper- her work and studies to non-technical tant with the organization Earthjustice; imentation by the CCPA. Five years ago, people in her dorm and at meals in the Oscar Wang ’14, founder and execu- the office reorganized from a Bi-Co entity Haverford Dining Center. tive director of the education nonprofit to a Haverford-based career center that “I need to convince a venture capitalist Mentor for Philly; and Bridget Gibbons shares a recruiting program with Bryn to give me five million dollars so I can ’13, program coordinator for Benefits Mawr and Swarthmore. Since the change, make iPhones that last twice as long,” Data Trust. alumni interaction has expanded with she said, offering a theoretical example. The strong student response to the events like Fords in Finance and the “There are some nuances there in how Liberal Arts Career Conference ensures Women’s Leadership Tea, as well as the to explain that. … At Haverford, I think that it will be reprised next year. The Fords on Friday series, which give stu- you learn how to do this kind of thing CCPA, said Cleary, is hoping to contin- dents face-to-face time to discuss careers without realizing it.” ually improve the event, and others, to with alumni in different fields. The con- In addition to the discipline-specif- increase connections between students ference was structured as a smaller-scale ic panels, there was a Young Alumni and one of their best career resources: relationship-building event that gave Advisory Group panel moderated by Skip Haverford alumni. students a chance to practice network- West ’77, owner of manufacturing com- —Michael Weber ’19 ing skills in a low-pressure environment. It also featured short workshops led by CCPA staff on self-assessment; resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn; and conduct- ing job and internship searches. Throughout the day, alumni stressed the value of a liberal arts education and reiterated how important its focus on crit- ical and creative thinking, writing, and communication are to any profession. Though each alum’s story was unique, they demonstrated that few career paths are linear, and that passion and a willing- ness to talk to people across industries can lead students to places they might not expect. Letter to My Serbian Neighbor, an exhibition by Dita Cavdarbasha ’19, “If you stay fascinated with what explored her fraught connection to Kosovo, where war caused her Kosovar Albanian you do and you stay focused on service, parents to flee to the U.S. when she was two years old. The exhibit, which was on whether it’s helping a certain community display in the Visual Culture, Arts, and Media facility, utilized three screens, each or certain individuals … your career can with a different segment of video footage captioned with Cavdarbasha’s poetry. The project received support from the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities, do anything,” said Naples, who majored whose postbaccalaureate fellow, Kelly Jung ’17, helped organize the exhibition in religion, started his career as a school- and originally reached out to Cavdarbasha after encountering her poetry and teacher, and eventually ended up in com- documentary work.

PHOTOS: HOLDEN BLANCO ‘17 (CONFERENCE); DEXTER COEN GILBERT ‘21 (EXHIBITION) munications consulting.

WINTER 2018 15 Office Hour

As an undergraduate, Associate Professor of History Darin (dhayton.haverford.edu/blog), exploring such subjects as “the Hayton majored in chemistry, which kind of explains the schol- uses and abuses of Isaac Newton” in media reporting on Bitcoin arly path he eventually took as a historian of science. Hayton, and the misuse of one historian’s work by evangelicals to bolster who earned his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the claims for the “historical reliability” of the Bible. He also shared University of Notre Dame, teaches an introduction to the history a spec Superbowl commercial (unaired) that took an alchemist’s of Western science, as well as courses on the scientific revolution, approach to making your own Doritos. plagues and epidemics, and the history of museums. Haverford magazine editor Eils Lotozo spoke with Hayton in A noted authority on astrolabes, Hayton published An his Hall Building office, which displays some of the “weird stuff” Introduction to Astrolabes as an eBook (available from iBooks), he collects, including a phrenology head, unidentified mechanical which connects to his passion for bringing the history of sci- devices, an engraved 19th-century invitation to a hanging, and the ence to a broader audience. In that vein, he’s been a speaker rotary phone he brought with him when he arrived on campus in at public events such as the Philadelphia Science Festival and 2005 and used until recently, when a new campus phone system offers accessible writings on the history of science on his blog put it out of commission.

➊ His book The Crown and the position, always under threat from the ➋ Cups: Every Christmas I say to my Cosmos: Astrology and the Politics of local princes and dukes. But Maximilian kids, don’t buy me anything. Make me a Maximilian I (2015): It’s about the social was innovative in trying to subvert their coffee cup. So my son, Pierce, who’s now value and assumed intellectual authority resistance by enlisting broader swaths of 16, was into penguins, and he made the of the science of astrology, and how the the empire. The case I try to make is that coffee cup. As I recall, my daughter, Zöe, Habsburg emperor, at the end of the 15th in this process of expanding what it meant who’s 10, made the pen cup. I think it’s a century, used it as a political tool in the to be a political leader, astrology played a monster. [Hayton’s wife, Catherine, works Holy Roman Empire. His was an elected fundamental role. at a Center City executive recruiting firm.]

16 Haverford Magazine mix acade ➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ ➑

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➌ Print: That’s the Radcliffe Camera, keep a camera in my office, and period- ➐ Horoscope: This is a horoscope an iconic building at Oxford University. ically, when I’m motivated and I need a that one of my former students, James Before I came to Haverford, I had a break, I just grab it and wander campus. Truitt ’17, cast for me. He took the time research appointment at Oxford, and I to construct it in the form of what would worked just around the corner from there ➎ Fountain pens and ink: I do nearly have been a valid horoscope in, say, 1500. at the Museum of the History of Science. all my writing with fountain pens. My A modern-day astrologer would say there [Former Haverford history professor] fountain pens all have colored ink that are planets missing—those were the only John Spielman gave me that print. He was matches the barrels, and I have way too planets they knew of then. And they a good friend, and he’s now passed away. many of them. I have an Edgar Allan Poe might use different methods for dividing He also worked on the Habsburgs, and limited-edition pen that someone gave up the houses, but they would totally we had a lot in common intellectually me, and a wooden one that was hand- recognize it. and otherwise. Coincidentally, I now live made by a guy in Arizona There’s a real in John’s old house near campus because tactile pleasure in writing with a fountain ➑ Astrolabe: Astrolabes were the most he sold it to us. But I used to walk over a pen, and also my hand doesn’t get nearly widely used scientific instrument until couple of times a month to have coffee— as tired because the ink just flows out. the invention of the telescope; and they and really good finger foods in the after- could be used to tell time, to determine noon—and talk to him about Habsburg ➏ Books: Those are catalogs of manu- which stars were above or below the stuff. It was fabulous. script collections from European libraries. horizon, or help cast a horoscope. This is Most of what I need for my research is not a Gothic-style astrolabe made by a con- ➍ Photographs: The tree shot I took online. It’s not even cataloged online, and temporary craftsman in Switzerland for at Valley Forge, and the other was taken so I buy these catalogs—many of them me to use as a teaching tool. I use it a lot at Ridley Creek State Park. I spend a lot are reprints of 19th-century volumes— in my intro class. I hand it to students and of time hiking, backpacking—often out and thumb through them, looking for say, “Go out and find out the time.” It’s a West—and taking these photographs. I what I need. With these, I might find out nice exercise in thinking about how sci- spend way too much of my time outside where maybe a tenth of what I’m looking entific knowledge is actually so wedded wandering around with a camera—or, for exists. For the rest, I end up spending to objects, and it makes students think

PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO actually, not as much time as I’d like. I lots of time in archives. about time differently. —Eils Lotozo

WINTER 2018 17 dents with professionals in the field. “When reading a paper related to the project, we would actually invite the lead author in to come talk with the students,” said Charkoudian, an assistant professor of chemistry. The 2015 “Superlab” was focused on questions related to the reactions bacteria accelerate, or catalyze, to make molecules that humans use for pharmaceutical pur- poses—specifically in the interactions between enzymes that catalyze a reaction called “beta-hydroxylation.” The PLOS Biology paper covered the group’s findings alongside a detailed The 16 members of the 2015 “Biochemistry Superlab” course with their professors— and co-authors of a paper published in PLOS Biology in November—Rob Fairman account of how the class was structured (center) and Lou Charkoudian (third from right), in front of Sharpless. and run, which is unusual. In the world of academic journals, there are those that specialize in scientific research and others that report on educational pedagogy, but The Class That rarely does one do both. “We wrote to the editors in advance,” Publishes Together said Charkoudian. “We said, ‘We want to have a sort of hybrid narrative where here are many things a student It was designed specifically to encourage we discuss both our research findings can expect to take away from a students to generate their own hypothe- and the pedagogical findings under the T science course at Haverford: an ses and create their own experiments to umbrella of a single paper; would you be expanded interest in a subject, comfort test them; there are no “canned” exper- open to publishing this sort of paper?’ with unfamiliar lab techniques or experi- iments with expected results for the And we got the green light before sub- mental approaches, mastery of key skills students to perform, just an overarching mitting it.” and theories. But a co-author credit on a question created by the two co-teaching In fact, co-authoring the paper as a scientific publication isn’t usually one of professors to guide the research. Students class became an additional part of the them. For the 16 students in the inau- from across the sciences take the class— students’ scientific education. gural “Biochemistry Superlab” course, with preference given to biochemistry “We’ve taken them all the way through however, that’s exactly what they got. concentrators—and professors from the the process of submitting an article, “Uncovering protein-protein interac- Departments of Biology and Chemistry explaining the peer-review process, hav- tions through a team-based undergrad- team-teach it, addressing interdisciplin- ing all the students involved in reading uate biochemistry course,” which was ary interests. those peer-review comments and help- published in PLOS Biology in November, “The philosophy of ‘Superlab’ is that ing us form a rebuttal letter and revise featured contributions from every stu- it gets students to think independently, the manuscript,” said Charkoudian. “So dent in that 2015 class alongside those critically, and creatively about projects they really had the opportunity to ‘peek of their professors, Lou Charkoudian in ways that then feed into teaching behind the curtains’ and see how it all and Robert Fairman. In addition to its them how to do their own independent works.” entire class of co-authors (all Class of research, like the senior thesis,” said “The teacher-scholar model, which 2016 graduates), the paper is notewor- Fairman, a professor of biology. consists of teaching and research, is thy because it characterizes not just the The professors treat their students something I don’t think is valued as results of their biochemistry research, but like working scientists, demanding they much as it should be,” said Fairman, who also how the class that undertook that conceive their own hypotheses and hopes that the template laid out in their research was taught and organized. requiring them to practice communi- PLOS Biology paper will be replicated “Biochem Superlab,” launched in cating their findings via weekly group at other institutions. “We at Haverford 2015 by Charkoudian and Fairman and meetings, oral presentations, and the value that, and I think we are looking to taught by other teams of two since then, revision of manuscripts and proposals. take a lead in the scientific community integrates original research into the con- Charkoudian and Fairman even offered to make that part fully appreciated.” text of a junior-year biochemistry course. networking opportunities for the stu- —Rebecca Raber

18 Haverford Magazine Campus as Canvas mix or the final project in Naomi Safran-Hon’s “Sculpture: Her students selected locations around campus for their Materials and Techniques” class this fall, all of campus work, from established exhibition spaces (the library, VCAM’s

Fbecame a canvas. The 12 Bi-Co students—some of whom Create Spaces) to more unconventional ones (Founders Green, acade had never taken a college art course before—were asked to con- campus trees). And the community (and stewards of the differ- struct site-specific installations in a College space of their choos- ent locations) welcomed the different artworks into their spaces, ing to explore how unexpected objects or sculptural actions can allowing students to—for example—dangle something in the activate space or make a viewer sensitive to the space. middle of the KINSC Rotunda or take over a carrel in Magill. “With this assignment, I was hoping the students would start “My teaching philosophy is always to guide my students to considering the site of their work and environment—how does find what interests them in terms of the subject of the work,” the work relate to its surrounding, how does the surrounding says Safran-Hon. “The diversity of installations shows that each affect the work?” said Safran-Hon, an award-winning, interna- student found a personal way to relate to the project and create tionally shown artist and visiting professor of fine arts. a piece that found a form for their unique voice.” —R. R.

Site-specific art installations created by (clockwise, from above) Jessie Lamworth ‘18 (VCAM Create Space), Chris Bechen ‘18 (Magill Library carrel), Emily Haller BMC ‘19 (a felled tree in the Arboretum), and Jenna Medeiros ‘18 (Carvill Arch). PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO, JENNA MEDEIROS ‘18

WINTER 2018 19 COOL CLASSES

CLASS NAME: “Stress and Coping”

Taught by: Assistant Professor of Psychology Shu-wen Wang The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Here’s what Wang had to say Conference, hosted at Haverford, brought together attendees from six colleges. about the class: This seminar ex- amines the multiple factors and systems that impact stress and coping processes Diversifying the Curriculum— and how they are subsequently related to health and well-being (e.g., physical, emo- and Those Who Create It tional, cognitive, and interpersonal func- tioning). We cover topics ranging from the neurobiology of stress, to disease hat does it mean to diversify [a] curriculum?” asked Dean of Diversity, and mental illness, to the kinds of major Access and Community Engagement and Director of the Office of life events and daily or chronic stressors WMulticultural Affairs Theresa Tensuan to the gathered crowd at the 2017 that affect many people. We also look Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at how certain key program (MMUF). Those in attendance were positioned best to know the answer— factors shape the or at least have some ideas—as the MMUF seeks to diversify the faculty in higher experience of stress, for example, person- education by providing mentorship and financial support to academically promising ality, gender, and students from underrepresented minority groups who seek to pursue academic social support. In the careers. It supports fellows on 48 campuses and consortia across the United States and course, I aim to help South Africa, including at Haverford, where the program is coordinated by Tensuan students develop and Associate Professor of English Maud McInerney. a multifaceted and The November conference drew current undergraduate fellows and coordina- integrative under- tors to Haverford from Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University, Haverford College, standing of just how Princeton University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania to complex stress and coping is and how workshop works-in-progress, present new research, and discuss the challenges and many variables contribute to a person’s opportunities of a career in the professoriate and life in the academy. experience of stress and their subsequent The MMUF program, which Haverford became part of 15 years ago, helps prepare coping responses. The course has a unique experiential fellows to enter Ph.D. programs by underwriting time for research and writing, con- learning component in that we regularly necting students with faculty mentors, and creating opportunities such as these annual practice various evidence-based skills conferences to help fellows build support networks across schools, gain experience and techniques—mindfulness, diaphrag- presenting their own research, and learn from the projects and perspectives of others. matic breathing, cognitive tools—for Eight Haverford fellows presented at the conference on topics related to English better managing stress. One major as- literature, visual studies, history, and politics. The 31 other student presenters’ fields signment that students have responded included health studies, sociology, media, linguistics, and even astronomy. very positively to requires them to analyze The program has changed “how I see myself as a writer and as a scholar,” said a personal situation that they find to be Maurice Rippel ’19, who presented his research on black identity formation at the stressful, implement a coping plan, and conference, noting that MMUF has helped him to “take a more critical lens to my then report on the results. work and ask better questions.” What I love about the stress and cop- ing field, and this course, is that it is truly So how does a university diversify a curriculum? Partly by diversifying those who interdisciplinary. No one field has the create that curriculum, which is the point of the MMUF program. monopoly on understanding how stress “It matters who is represented on a faculty, a college staff, and a student body,” said and coping impact health. So we draw on Haverford Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies Terrance Wiley, who the methods, theories, and findings from gave the conference’s keynote address. “And so in many respects, MMUF’s promise rests multiple disciplines in pursuing a rich and in how it creates a vibrant intellectual community among undergraduates and posi- fleshed-out understanding of how these tions fellows to pursue postbac positions in academia and so impact how these institu- processes interact and work. tions are constituted, whether it be in terms of which research questions are privileged or which programs are established.” —Tyler McCarthy ‘19

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Assistant Professor of Psychology Laura Been attended the the science and the politics of the expected future detection

Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, of gravitational waves by the NANOGrav collaboration, and acade D.C., where she presented a poster on her research on the met students and faculty from all over the United States and effects of estrogen withdrawal on oxytocin in Syrian hamsters. Canada who are members of the collaboration. Lommen Co-authors included Been’s former students Claudia Amaral also gave a talk on the status of the Neutron Star Interior ’17, Clio Bodie ’17, Breanna D’Antonio ’17, and Rachel Lee Composition ExploreR (NICER), which is the X-ray telescope ’17. Been’s current students, William Foster ’18 and Elizabeth that was installed on the International Space Station in June. Heaton ’18, also attended the meeting and presented a poster (Haverford students are beginning to analyze NICER data.) with her on increased oxytocin immunoreactivity following  a hormone-simulated pregnancy in female Syrian hamsters. Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human  Rights Adam Rosenblatt was featured on The Academic Minute, Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo a production of WAMC Radio and the American Association completed his cycle of 13 piano miniatures, Cameos from the of Colleges and Universities, discussing his research. Over Quaker Domain, and gave the work its world premiere during fall break, Rosenblatt used a CPGC faculty travel grant the College’s Lives that to accompany volunteers Speak celebration. Five who work in two histor- other major new works ic black cemeteries in received world premieres. Richmond, Va., which Armed and Dangerous was have fallen into disre- performed at Haverford by pair due to the ongoing the Grammy-nominated displacement of black Italian pianist Emanuele families and the lack of Arciuli, and again at Bard state resources for preser- College. Also at Haverford, vation and maintenance. Cacioppo’s 6 Canti su Laura Been Andrea Lommen William Earle Williams He conducted interviews testi di Renzo Oliva, Piano with people who have Variations on “Hail to the Chief” – for ALL Americans, Fantaisie- family members buried in these cemeteries or are involved Sonatine (Souvenirs du Levant), and Bernini Elegy received in work there. The trip supported his research on commu- their first performances, with Cacioppo at the piano joined nities that care for neglected cemeteries, as well as planning by mezzo soprano Misoon Ghim, baritone Brian Ming Chu, for a future travel component for his “Human Rights and the Philadelphia Orchestra oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld ’78, and Dead” seminar. fellow pianists Charles Abramovic and Sara Davis Buechner.   Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Eric Stachura and Professor of Physics Suzanne Amador Kane gave a keynote Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier were awarded speech on biomechanics research at the Conference for a Mellon Tri-Co Faculty Forum Seed and Root Grant to sup- Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences at the University port the “Philadelphia Theoretical Chemistry Club.” Schrier of Nebraska-Lincoln. first launched the club in fall 2014 with colleagues from Penn,  Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr as a series of dinner meetings Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen and her to discuss research in theoretical chemistry with faculty and student collaborators—Sabea K. Evans ’18, Kathryn Goldberg students from the greater-Philadelphia area. BMC ’18, Julie Gonzales BMC ’19, Jaime Metzger ’19, Lyra  Piscitelli BMC ’18, Diamond C. J. Ray BMC ’18, and Conor Photographs by Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor Stuart Roe ’20—published a digital edition of pp. 97-117 of in the Humanities and Professor of Fine Arts William Earle Leonardo Levanto’s 1732 Arte de la lengua zapoteca. Williams were included in the group exhibition The Expanded  Caribbean: Contemporary Photography at the Crossroads at the Professor of Physics and Astronomy Andrea Lommen took Pearlstein Gallery-Drexel University. A recent Philadelphia the nine Tri-Co students in her “Gravitational Waves” Inquirer review of the show calls out Williams’ works in course to the fall meeting of the North American NanoHertz that show. He was also included in another group exhibit, Observatory of Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) at Lafayette Innovative Approaches, Honored Traditions, at the Ruth and

PHOTOS: LEV GREENSTEIN ‘20 (COOL CLASSES); HOLDEN BLANCO ‘17 (DIVERSITY); PATRICK MONTERO (BEEN, LOMMEN); LISA J. GODFREY (WILLIAMS) College. The group participated in discussions about both Elmer Wellin Museum at Hamilton College.

WINTER 2018 21 mixed media Books Q&A: Richard Wenzel ’61

Richard Wenzel has long known medicine was for him. When he was eight, he fell out of a tree and spent weeks in the hospital recuperating from a broken femur, followed by a serious staph infection. Of course, Wenzel became an epidemiologist. The pioneering microbe hunter is best known for his work on infection control in hospitals. He served on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine for a decade, and in 2001 was named the periodical’s first editor-at-large. In more recent years, however, the former chairman of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University has used his expertise to spin complex novels of intrigue and terror that feature medical mysteries. In Labyrinth of Terror (2010), the first book in Wenzel’s thriller series Terror Trifecta, epidemiologist Jake Evans teams up with an MI5 agent and a microbiol- ogist/IT expert in a race to stop a global pandemic. In the recently released sequel, Dreams of Troy (2017), the heroes reunite in Barcelona to combat cyberterrorism and its potential to hijack medical devices and hospital systems. At 78, Wenzel is retired, though he still lectures at VCU on infectious diseases. Recently, the good doctor took a break from imagining terror plots to speak with Lini S. Kadaba from his White Stone, Va., home.

Lini Kadaba: How do you can invade a host and take LK: You have a long history RW: Jake and I share our ded- come up with these terrifying over the “genetic code” of a of nonfiction writing, includ- ication to clinical medicine, nail-biters? computer program or chip and ing Stalking Microbes (2005), patient care, and skills in Richard Wenzel: I confess to a redesign the output so some- a collection of essays on your epidemiology. Thereafter, our passion for epidemics. They thing new is produced. There experiences as an epidemiol- value systems and commit- arrive suddenly and unex- are ways to hide this. People ogist; seven textbooks; and ments diverge. pectedly, are life-altering, talk about a Trojan horse [a more than 500 scientific publi- and demand urgent investi- type of malware]. I started cations. Why the jump to medi- LK: Your biology studies at gation and control. Early in reading about it. cal thrillers? Haverford prepared you for my career, I was witness to RW: The transition to writing medical school. But you also the devastation of smallpox LK: Could such mayhem thrillers involving man-made pursued your love of writing and cholera in [what is now] really happen? biological or cyber terror seems through the student newspa- Bangladesh, cholera and den- RW: There is no sci-fi in my natural, and I enjoy introduc- per. In fact, you gained a bit of gue in the Philippines, and books. The storylines are a ing disparate characters whose notoriety, didn’t you? later many clusters of hospi- brief leap ahead of reality. lives intersect at ground zero. RW: At Haverford, I did write tal-associated infections in Bioterror and cyber terror I like people to pay attention some columns for the news- the U.S., Europe, and Latin are current threats in parts of to ideas that I have. I thought, paper, off and on. I was doing America. The interaction of the world. Nevertheless, our maybe I could influence more a genetics experiment in one people and microbes is so response should not be fear. people with fiction. of my biology courses, and frequent. Most of the time we Our country needs above all we were breeding fruit flies. I do fine. Occasionally, results to recognize the possibilities LK: How much like you is your wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece are devastating for one reason and develop robust systems for renowned Stanford University about, basically, sex on cam- or another. early detection and plans for epidemiologist character Jake pus. A lot of people reading it, Cyber terror has similarities responses, including periodic Evans, his wandering eye and the alumni, thought there was to infections: a virus or worm testing and rehearsals. affairs aside? a huge scandal going on. They

22 Haverford Magazine called the President’s Office. Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous plots. I am beginning to sketch I had to explain that I’m a bio Lives of the Philosophers by a few ideas for introducing new major, that this was tongue- Costica Bradatan; The North characters with many conflicts in-cheek, and that I’m talking Water by Ian McGuire; Why for each. about fruit flies. Homer Matters: A History by It had a happy ending. But I Adam Nicolson; and At the LK: Where in the world will realized, this was kind of fun. Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, the plot thicken? People took me seriously. Being, and Apricot Cocktails by RW: I love anything Italian. If I Sarah Bakewell. can think about the right plot LK: What reading material is and right terror thing, I’d love currently on your nightstand? LK: Have you started to be in Tuscany in the next RW: An odd mixture of books writing the third novel in the book. But I’m not sure. is on the table: Earthly Remains: Terror Trifecta? Regular contributor Lini S. Kadaba is A Commissario Guido Brunetti RW: I am only now beginning a former Philadelphia Inquirer staff Mystery by Donna Leon; to think about the next terror writer based in Newtown Square, Pa.

More Alumni Titles

AHMED ABDULLAH Press). Bates, the Eaton Professor of the evaluated and working with your doctor; ’81: Simple Skincare, Science of Government at Harvard, tips on medicines, therapies, diets, and Beautiful Skin: examines the tension between prosperity exercises for improving memory; and A Back-to-Basics and security in late-18th-century France strategies for managing a failing memory. Approach (Greenleaf and England. He combines those insights Budson is a neurologist whose career Book Group Press). with fieldwork done in Zambia and Kenya, combines education, research, and clinical Abdullah, a plastic and uses data from around the globe to care. [For more on the book, see p. 44.] surgeon, offers the demonstrate how the past can help us to scientific facts about understand the performance of nations in MACKENZIE skincare with the today’s developing world. CADENHEAD ’98: aim of empowering Deck the Malls! consumers to make smart choices about ANDREW E. (Marvel Press). the products they use and the practices BUDSON ’88 and The first in a they employ. He is a clinical professor of Maureen K. O’Connor: series, this chapter plastic surgery at the University of North Seven Steps to book by former Dakota, an internationally recognized Managing Your Marvel Comics researcher on aloe, and the founder of a Memory: What’s editor Cadenhead line of skincare products. Normal, What’s chronicles the Not, and What to adventures of Spider-Man and his arachnid ROBERT H. BATES Do About It (Oxford ally Spider-Gwen as they battle the alien ’64: The Development University Press). This menace known as Venom. Cadenhead’s Dilemma: Security, comprehensive book previous books include the middle-grade Prosperity, and a helps readers recognize when age-related novel Sally’s Bones and the young- adult Return to History forgetfulness becomes true cognitive novel Sleeper. (Princeton University impairment. It offers advice on getting continued on page 24

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CHARLES CURTIS other subjects (including a chapter on Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at ’04: The Impossible Haverford professors and Quaker leaders Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Pitcher (Month9 Rufus Jones and Douglas Steere). Macort explores the latest findings of neurothe- Books). The second argues that “Christianity in its ‘mainstream’ ology, the multidisciplinary field linking book in Curtis’s form must be completely reinterpreted and neuroscience with religious and spiritual Weirdo Academy differently communicated.” phenomena. Newberg’s previous books series chronicles the include Why God Won’t Go Away and How further adventures ROCCO MONTO God Changes Your Brain. of Alex and Dex, ’82: The Fountain: A two middle-school Doctor’s Prescription DAVID W. RUDLIN boys who suddenly to Make 60 the New ’80: Trade-Off discover they have superpowers. As Alex 30 (Rodale Books). In (CreateSpace). In joins the baseball team and becomes a for- his anti-aging guide, the eighth install- midable pitcher, he find his powers grow- Monto, a national ment of his mystery ing more difficult to control, while Dex health expert and series featuring sees his abilities disappear after he starts board-certified Inspector Ian spending time with a girl. Meanwhile, orthopedic surgeon, McLean of Scotland dark forces keep watch on the pair. Also, explains why we age Yard, Rudlin sends the first book in the series has been rere- so poorly now and how the latest break- McLean and his leased with a new title (The Accidental throughs in science and medicine can help team to Hong Kong, Quarterback) and a new cover. change this. Focusing on the four pillars where they become entangled with a crime of science, diet, exercise, and medicine, boss in possession of damaging photos of BRUCE FLEMING his findings interlace the clinical and the a heroin-addicted member of the Royal ’74: Saving Madame cultural and suggest that simple choices Family, and are charged with finding the Bovary: Being provide profound results. murderer of one of his henchmen. Rudlin Happy With What is a business executive based in Tokyo. We Have (Frederick LAURIE MORRISON C. Beil). Inspired by ’03 and Cordelia BARRY SCHWABSKY Flaubert’s perpet- Jensen: Every Shiny ’79: Heretics of ually dissatisfied Thing (Abrams). Language (Black tragic heroine Emma This middle-grade Square Editions). A Bovary, Fleming novel set at a fiction- poet, and the art offers chapters titled alized Philadelphia critic for The Nation, “Predictable Is Good” and “The Everyday Friends school Schwabsky offers Mysterious” that explore how we can— follows two sev- literary and cultural indeed, must—learn to appreciate the enth-grade girls— criticism in his latest ordinary. Fleming is an English professor Lauren, who comes collection. Wrote at the U.S. Naval Academy who has pub- from an affluent family, and her new one reviewer: “Through an eclectic land- lished more than a dozen books. neighbor Sierra, who is in foster care—as scape of European literary modernists and they team up to enact a Robin Hood contemporary ‘heretics’ in their tradition, JOHN MACORT scheme to right some societal wrongs and he guides us with companionable verve. ’60: A Seeker’s learn lessons about justice, family, and Schwabsky’s wit … [makes] this trip from Theology: Christianity friendship in the process. Mallarme to Hell (Richard) provocative Reinterpreted as and fun.” Schwabsky’s previous books Mysticism. In texts ANDREW NEWBERG include Opera: Poems 1981-2002 and taken from lectures ’88: Neurotheology: Words for Art. delivered previously, How Science Can Macort, a retired Enlighten Us About FORD AUTHORS: Do you have a new Episcopal-priest- Spirituality (Columbia  book you’d like to see included in turned-Quaker, dis- University Press). More Alumni Titles? Please send all relevant cusses Jesus, God, mysticism, moral theolo- Newberg, director information to [email protected]. gy, the realm of the “numinous,” and many of research at the

24 Haverford Magazine PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO (WONG) I is the main ingredient,” says Wong. “I want our audiences to see a is themainingredient,”saysWong.“Iwantouraudiencestoseea and NewJerseyschoolseachyeararen’theavygoingforkids.“Fun teaches hip-hopcultureasamodelforpositiveyouthempowerment. volvement inthestrugglesforfreedom;and“PrinciplesofHipHop” Rights Movements”touchesonracism,segregationandstudentin bodies todescribethemolecularpropertiesinstatesofmatter;“Civil programs. “Breaking: The Laws of Physics” utilizesdancinghuman group that usesbreaking and hip-hopasteachingtoolsinschool vania’s RhythmicDamage. Gathering andyearlycompetitionssuchastheUniversityofPennsyl or parks.TheyorganizemonthlyeventslikeSecondSundae The versities anddancestudiosaswellinsecretsessionstrainstations derground breakingscene,wheredancersmeetforpracticesat uni says. “Thatwasapivotalandinspiringmomentforme.” was thefirsttimeIeversawprofessionalhip-hopdancersonstage,”he renowned hip-hopdance company Rennie HarrisPuremovement.“It enced a revelation when he went to a showatBryn Mawr featuring time practicingwithfriendsandattendingcompetitions,experi ing.” Hestartedabreaking club on campus, spentmostofhisspare international writers.“ButIsupposeyoucouldsayalsostudiedbreak sible ways. ing isallaboutjoiningthebodyandrhythminseeminglyimpos to asoundtrackofhip-hop,funk,andotherbeat-heavymusic,break in withwindmillingflipsandjoint-poppingdance.Usuallyperformed can involvespinningonasinglehandorthetopofhead,mixed ’80s andbeyond,breakdancersexecutegravity-defyingmovesthat Bronx andpopularizedwiththeriseofhip-hopmusicthroughout with thebodyinnear-constantmotion.Pioneeredmid-1970s and create.” the youngpioneersofhip-hop,havepowertoinspireothers gravity. Iwantstudentstojoinusonstageandrealizethatthey,like group of diversebreakers genuinely getting alongwhiletheydefy D have aone-wordanswer:breakdancing. erment. Ifyouasked history ofthecivilrightsmovement,andstrategiesforself-empow magine beinganeducatortaskedwithteachingbasicphysics,the He also discovered a great source of training inPhiladelphia’sun Wong majoredinEnglish literature with afocusonminorityand Breaking isadancestylethatrequiresseriousfocusandpractice, But theprogramsHHFbringstoapproximately100Pennsylvania Wong isco-ownerofHipHopFundamentals(HHF),aneducational ance Mark Wong’05 how to get it all done, he’d howtogetitalldone,he’d ------wasn’t presentinthebreakingworld:Althoughbreakdancingandhip- they get that precious move.” says. “There will always be the next kid who won’t stop practicing until confidently saythatnomatterwhat,[breakdancing]willneverdie,” he generations ofB-boysandB-girls.“I’vebeenaroundlongenough to interesting tome,”hesays. and publicperformancestodancetheatertheavantgarde,is forward. “Everywayinwhichbreakingcanfunction,fromeducation Wong isactivelykeepingthebreakdancingsceneandculturemoving hip-hop dancegroupBounce. also returnedtocampusregularlygiveworkshopsforHaverford’s Arts, which offersclassestoadults.Overthelastseveralyears,he’s kids’ danceeducationprograminCenterCity,andUrbanMovement his workwithHHF,heteachesbreakdancingatMovemakersPhilly,a recognizes real.” He foundthathewassimplyjudgedonhisskillsanddedication:“Real very wellrepresentedinthePhilly,national,andinternationalscenes.” muda wantingtobeaB-boy.“Infact,breakersofAsiandescentare there waszeroissuewithaguyofAsiandescentwhogrewupinBer hop culturearepredominantlyAfricanAmericanforms,Wongfound company HipHopFundamentals. Mark Wongusesbreakdancingasateachingtoolinschoolswithhis There was one barrier that he was pleasantly surprised to learn There was onebarrier that he was pleasantly surprised tolearn And he especially wants to keep the traditions alive for the next And heespeciallywantstokeepthe traditions aliveforthenext Through theclassesandHipHopFundamentalsprograms, Wong livesinWestPhiladelphiawithhiswife,andadditionto

—Brian Glaser - mixed media art

learn about morals and life through narrative tales or fables read to us as children, and animals frequently take on a central role, because it can be easier for humans to understand and examine their own emotions and actions through the guise of animals.” In fact, Cavener has described the vignettes she creates with her ceramic figures as “morality plays.” The daughter of an art teacher and a scientist, she says it was her molecular biologist father who inspired her sense of inquiry and interest in the natural world. “My father taught me from a really early age to ask questions over and over again, and that it was an intelli- gent way to dissect the world,” Cavener says. “I might take an emo- tion like fear or aggression, and I’ll spend a whole two-year period designing six or eight different characters that are dealing with fear and aggression in their own private ways.” That persistence extends to Cavener’s labor-intensive studio practice. “The process I’ve created is something that I love,” she says. “It’s intense and it’s over the top, but it is how I enjoy thinking and working through the questions that are the basis for the pieces.” Cavener’s animal forms start out as small models, which are then photographed, and the photographs blown up. That oversized image becomes the basis for a sculpture, which can require putting as many as 1,000 pounds of clay on a metal armature, cutting the figure into dozens of sections, hollowing out each part, and then reassembling the pieces before firing. Intricate surface painting and decoration come after the pieces are fired. Cavener, who was a fine arts major at Haverford, earned an M.F.A. e will never know for certain in ceramics from Ohio State University. She has the motives of the artists who had 12 solo exhibitions, and her work has been created the Paleolithic cave featured in numerous group shows and is in the W paintings of animals at sites collections of major art museums, including the like Altamira and Lascaux more than 30,000 Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of years ago. But the sensitivity and verisimili- Art and Design in New York, and the Smithso- tude of those images is evidence of a primor- nian American Art Museum. Previously based dial urge in humans to depict the fauna we in eastern Washington, after a series of art- share the planet with. ist-in-residence programs in the United States, While sculptor Beth Cavener ’95 is China, Italy, and Japan, Cavener relocated to frank about the motivations for her own an- (top) Beth Cavener at work in her studio. Helena, Mont., which she got to know and love imal forms, the results leave plenty of room (above) “Tribute.” Cavener has described the during a residency at the town’s pioneering Ar- life-size or larger ceramic sculptures she creates for interpretation. Cavener’s ceramic creations as “morality plays.” chie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. In are often life-size or larger, and sculpted with 2014, she and fellow ceramic artist and partner surfaces that can feature elaborate decorative patterns. Her unsettling Alessandro Gallo (the couple has a 3½-year-old son) teamed up with menagerie includes a monkey shackled to a wolf, an elegantly tat- two other artists to launch a collaborative studio in an old distillery tooed serpent sinking its fangs into a rabbit, and a potbellied hare building in downtown Helena. The space, called Studio 740, is not reclining in a louche pose. “I use animal bodies to encapsulate some only home base for the four founders, it also offers studio space for art- sort of human emotion or idea,” says Cavener. “These are portraits ists in transition, sponsors artist residencies and internships, and runs of people, and there are collarbones, belly buttons, and human gen- workshops. “I love teaching and mentoring,” says Cavener. italia—parts of bodies that don’t belong on animals. Along with the Besides appreciating the inspiring community of ceramic artists gestures and the way they are expressing themselves, they are off-kil- that have been drawn to Helena by the Bray Foundation, Cavener ter and primal.” has grown to love the town for another reason: “It’s the history be- Using animals as surrogates for human emotions or dilemmas is hind it. It’s got that old Gold Rush feel to it. There’s still a sense of something we’re all familiar with, says Jason Busch, director of the making a discovery.” Jason Jacques Gallery in New York City, which mounted The Other, See more of Cavener’s work at followtheblackrabbit.com. a solo exhibition of Cavener’s work that closed Dec. 5. “We often —Eils Lotozo

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Dummy caption a layout for her video installation, A Precipice, dummy caption.

Tatoo artist Justin Turkus with the tools of his trade. (below) One of his creations.

he first time they operate a tattoo tattooing,” using inks and aware it was possible to make machine, aspiring tattoo artists pigments that are vegan tattoos look like that.” often use synthetic skin, pigskin, and nontoxic, and giving Turkus also frequently or even citrus peels as their can- close attention to the pursues non-tattoo projects Tvas. Justin Turkus ’08 preferred to prac- client’s experience, from involving calligraphy and tice on himself. the planning and design graphic design, crafting things “Thighs and ankles are the easiest plac- phase through the after- like brand logos, business es to start,” says Turkus, who began by care and healing processes. signage, and album covers— inking a utility pole and power lines above Beyond just decoration, but working at Frequency his left knee. Turkus sees tattooing as a Tatoo Co in the East Falls Turkus earned a political science degree potentially profound and neighborhood of Philadelphia at Haverford but took many art classes meaningful act. “All of our consumes most of his days. along the way, and after graduation he actions impact and define Clients seeking large pieces sought a career that satisfied his need to who we are,” he writes in usually sit for two to three create. A friend tipped him off to an appren- a statement on his website. hours at a time, although ticeship opportunity at a tattoo shop in “With a tattoo, one has the opportunity some stay for longer sessions. (Regardless of West Philadelphia, and a tattoo artist was to actively and deliberately change her or a tattoo’s complexity, Turkus’ preparation born—gradually. his body with art. We witness an almost ritual includes “coffee, a deep breath, and a “For eight months or so, it was a lot of instantaneous transformation, the result few moments of meditation.”) cleaning, watching, listening, and drawing, of which may help you become the person One of his repeat clients? Sister and no tattooing at all,” he says. Slowly, his you want to be.” Sarah Turkus ’10, an urban farmer in mentors allowed him to use their equip- While there still may be some stereo- Providence, R.I., and organizer for The ment on himself, then on them, then on types about serious tattoo enthusiasts, Young Farmer Network. He has tattooed his friends. He started to take paying clients Turkus brushes them aside, observing her on three “profound and nerve-wrack- almost halfway through his three-year that within the industry, tattoo artists are a ing” occasions. apprenticeship, which culminated with his diverse lot who have mastered a challenging “Sarah is a powerful and wise woman, artist’s licensure in winter 2013. and technical medium. “Different people and when I tattooed her, my senses were a Since then, Turkus has become a highly have different perceptions of tattoos, often bit heightened,” he says. “Each time, I took sought-after tattoo professional with a loyal due to generational or cultural differences,” an extra moment of meditation beforehand, following and a rapidly growing waitlist. He he says. “The opportunity there is when got super focused, and felt gratitude that we works in a variety of styles but specializes people are exposed to the potential of the could share such a deep experience.” in lettering and fine-line black and gray art form—when they see a really well- For more information: justinturkus.com.

PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO (TURKUS) tattoos. Turkus offers what he calls “holistic done piece—they often tell me they weren’t —Karen Brooks

WINTER 2018 27 Music

he music bass guitarist Greg Greenberg ’05 makes with there, Greenberg and drummer Russell Hudson build on Howard’s

media the Austin, Texas, band Seven Circles can get pretty heavy, rock-heavy foundation and keep the psychedelic instrumentals mov- but none of it is as heavy as Greenberg’s main gig as an ICU ing forward and skyward. T bedside nurse. “It’s the most complicated patients, the sick- The band’s live performances, mostly at small Austin clubs, also est people in the hospital,” he says. “The music is therapy, it’s release. feature a choreographed light show. “We have LED lights in all of

mixed It’s a way to keep myself sharp, but in a manner that has nothing to do the drum shells and speaker cabinets, and all of the time-signature with dire clinical situations.” changes and tempo changes are reflected in the lights,” says Green- Greenberg started playing with Seven Circles in 2014, just as he berg. “Even if an audience member isn’t a music nerd, they can watch was moving to a new home in Austin and starting a new job in a the lights for a visual hook.” local ICU. A coworker pointed him in the direction of Seven Circles’ Seven Circles is currently keeping a light schedule while Greenberg leader and guitarist Robert Howard, who needed to fill the band’s finishes a master’s degree to become a nurse practitioner, but he’s bass slot. “It was perfect timing,” Greenberg says, and “the music not exactly taking a musical hiatus. Greenberg also plays with Instar, was so striking.” a recording-only project that features spoken-word vocals. His work The music Greenberg makes with Seven Circles is compelling with Instar can fit around his hospital shifts and school schedule, as it both in its simplicity and the way it builds to an almost-overwhelming involves musicians contributing parts from far-flung locales and there complexity. The trio’s music fits primarily into a genre that’s been is no onstage component. (Instar’s most recent release, The Ex Nihilo dubbed “post-rock” (think Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky, or Mog- Cycle, is based on a science-fiction story suite by Tel Aviv-based writer wai), and the nine tracks that make up its most recent release, Retro- Eden Kupermintz.) grade Parade, move through shifting time signatures and dynamic Greenberg’s music has brought him under the umbrella of the expansions and contractions with a loose energy that can make it Southwest Post-Rock Collective, a supportive network of bands that easy to miss how carefully controlled the playing is. make instrumental music, and both Seven Circles and Instar take ad- Along with Greenberg’s bass, Seven Circles features guitar and vantage of the Bandcamp platform for digital distribution. Greenberg drums, but no vocals. The lack of a singer and lyrics allows the trio is content for now with playing local shows and not printing up CDs or to play as big and loud as it wants. “No vocals means we can push LPs. “This is not a business,” he says. “It’s not a way for me to secure the volume up, because we’re not going to drown anyone out,” my prosperity. This is something I do because I love to do it.” says Greenberg. Retrograde Parade is available to stream and download on Band- Most Seven Circles songs begin with Howard playing his guitar camp at sevencircles.bandcamp.com/album/retrograde-parade; In- through a series of sampling/looping pedals, manipulating and stack- star recordings are available at instar1.bandcamp.com. ing his parts into what Greenberg calls “tidal waves of noise.” From —B. G.

Greg Greenberg (far right) plays bass with the Austin, Texas, band Seven Circles when he’s not working as an ICU nurse. PHOTO: ISMAEL QUINTANILLA III

28 Haverford Magazine ford games

Achieving Lift

magine taking a can of soda, setting it on the ground, then bending over and worked harder, the thing flew longer. By wrapping one hand around it and lifting it to the point where you’re standing up the time I was a junior, I quit basketball, straight. Seems easy enough, doesn’t it? Now imagine doing that same drill, but and by my senior year I was all-confer- with more than 200 pounds attached to the bottom of a bar that has the same ence and captain of both the indoor and outdoor track teams. circumference as the soda can. Suddenly, it sounds much, much harder. IThat gives you an idea of what it takes to compete in arm lifting, a growing sport No pain, lots of gain: Coach Tom was in which Riccardo Magni ’96 has become an expert. He explains that the key to so encouraging. He said, “You’ll be good lifting objects like the aforementioned thick metal bar is “grip strength,” which at this. You’re just not good at it now.” is especially necessary when it’s nearly impossible to get your fingers all the way He saw something in me. I went from around some of the apparatuses. 180 pounds as a basketball player to Magni—a biology major who now teaches the subject to high schoolers in Santa 270 pounds as a shot-putter. I spent a lot of time in the Dining Center. I’d eat Maria, Calif.—spoke with Haverford magazine about the appeal of arm lifting, breakfast with cross-country guys and which has taken him to competitions around the world, and about how his time then eat a second one. When I moved as a College shot-putter set the stage for finding his way to the quirky sport. to California after graduating, I did power lifting and events like the World’s It all started on the basketball court: ic and I could jump high. Coach Tom Strongest Man competitions that you I played basketball my first two years Donnelly—who I still speak to once might have seen on television. at Haverford, but it wasn’t exactly what a month, he’s the greatest teacher I’ve I expected it to be. The team had just ever had—said, “You’re going to be a Arm lifting lifted him up: In 2014, I come off a long losing streak, and in the shot-putter.” I didn’t even know what a heard of something called a “grip con- spring of my sophomore year, I thought shot put was. It was super heavy and I test”—that was the name before it was

PHOTOS: ZACHARY BAKO I’d try track and field since I was athlet- hated it. But what I did like was that as I “arm lifting”—in Santa Cruz. I immedi-

WINTER 2018 29 ately knew it was something I could do, Russia (which had 60 athletes) and and it was more than just doing the same Ukraine (40). When the announcers exercises, like squats and deadlifts, over called my name and said I was from and over again. Team USA, I got goosebumps. There’s a movement in Finland to make arm It’s as challenging as it sounds: There lifting an Olympic sport, something that are events like the Saxon Bar: It’s a would be beyond a dream come true. I’ll 3-by-4-inch rectangular piece of metal be going to Finland this year to compete, with weights on each end that you have and I’m looking for sponsors to help me to pinch to pick up, like grabbing two fat travel to the 2018 world championships science textbooks by their binding. Then in Russia. there’s the Silver Bullet: You squeeze a gripper in your hand that’s attached by His day job is perfect for the sport: a string to a 2.5-kilogram weight plate. Teaching high-school biology provides You have to hold it until the weight rigid hours, so I train before school and falls. The crowd gets into that one. I’m after classes end in the afternoon. It real- a world record-holder in lifting a hub— ly helps having no commute to my gym imagine opening a doorknob with just in my garage. I apply what I’ve learned your fingertips. That’s the grip you need in the sport in the classroom. Many kids to pick up a heavy circular device. are sons and daughters of field workers, and I tell them, “It’s not how you start, How he trains for these events: I point. It also helps to film my training it’s how you finish. If you want some- actually lost weight to compete in the and put it on Instagram (@riccardo- thing bad enough, like going to college, 100-kg-and-under weight division, magni1), with fellow arm lifters around you can do it.” If you had told me five so I start the morning with cardio: a the world commenting on my form. years ago that I’d go to Russia and com- walk with my two dogs. Then I head Sometimes I’ll get together with other pete in arm lifting, I would have been to my garage, which has no cars and all lifters in Los Angeles or Thousand Oaks. like, “What are you talking about?” kinds of equipment for both traditional Arm lifting is a worldwide sport: I went —Charles Curtis ’04 weightlifting like bench presses and the to Russia with two other Americans to stuff used in [arm lifting] competition. compete in the world championships Charles Curtis is a sportswriter for USA Today’s Mostly, I focus on training for specific last year and finished fourth in the hub For the Win and an author of the Weirdo events. Since I’m not one of the bigger lift. Even though we had just three Academy series, published by Month9Books. competitors, my technique has to be on lifters, we finished third overall behind He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM traveled over winter break to Portugal, where they toured and played, including three scrimmages with the English National Team. In Monte Gordo, they held a clinic for boys from a local orphanage, and afterwards the participants, along with the orphanage’s directors, gathered for a picture with the team.

30 Haverford Magazine In the Majors games

Right after his junior year, Jeremy Zoll ’12 landed a summer internship in the front office of a major league baseball team, and it’s been a meteoric rise ever since. Today he’s director of minor league operations for the Minnesota Twins. ford

rowing up in Ridgewood, N.J., Jeremy Zoll ’12 played base- Gball throughout his youth; his father was a partial season ticket holder for the New York Yankees. But Zoll never dreamed he’d end up working for a major league baseball team. Yet here he is, just six years removed from his Haverford graduation—he majored in East Asian studies and minored in economics—with an abso- lute dream job for any diehard baseball fan: director of minor league operations for the Minnesota Twins. “I’m really excited for this next step,” says Zoll, who was named to the position in October. A catcher on the Haverford team, Jeremy Zoll in front of the Minnesota Twins’ spring training headquarters in Fort in his junior year he decided it would Myers, Fla. be intriguing to work in the baseball world. He consulted with coach Dave ing opponents and [note] pitches—like a er development, he was focused on the Beccaria about connecting with for- curveball in a certain location—and hits,” future, including designing developmen- mer Haverford alumni involved in the he explains. “That information would tal player plans with goals for young pros- Majors. With some help from Eric Lee be put into a database.” (That practice pects in the minor league system and test- ’04, now a director of baseball oper- is now antiquated thanks to innovations ing new technology such as bat sensors ations with the Cincinnati Reds, Zoll that show pitcher and position-player that can pick up vital information about a eventually landed a summer internship statistics at the touch of a button.) player’s swing. Although he’s tasked with with the team, followed by another job Zoll got to see how players and staff spreading the franchise’s overall philoso- with a Toronto Blue Jays minor league members digested and interacted with phy throughout the Twins’ minor league team in Vancouver. After graduation, those statistics. With the Angels, he filled organizations, Zoll says he also works to he got another internship with the Los a variety of roles, from traveling with the get input from coaches and staff members Angeles Angels, who eventually hired team to helping coaches determine mid- in the farm system and bring it up with him as a coordinator of advance scout- game when to challenge a play on the Minnesota’s front office. ing. Following that, he was an assistant field so that umpires would review it via It might sound daunting on paper, director of player development with the instant replay. “I kind of got thrown into especially for someone as young as Zoll, Los Angeles Dodgers. the fire,” he says. “It was a little bit sink but he doesn’t sound fazed at all. At the At just 27 years old, Zoll has seem- or swim, but it was super valuable for my end of the day, he says, he can’t imagine ingly had a lifetime’s worth of baseball career going forward.” anything cooler than working baseball. experience. The internships, he explains, It was with the Dodgers that he honed “A lot of times, as hard as you work,” exposed him to the inner workings of a the skill set he would bring with him to he says, “it doesn’t feel like work.” major league front office. He also had Minnesota. As assistant director of play- —C. C. an important role for Reds players and coaches: He was asked to “chart” oppos- Keep up with your favorite Haverford team at ing players. “We would sit there and  haverfordathletics.com.

PHOTOS: JUSTIN BRENDEL ‘18 (LACROSSE); BRIAN TIETZ (ZOLL) watch a bunch of recent games of upcom-

WINTER 2018 31 Eric Krotkov ’82 at the Toyota Research Institute, where he oversees a pioneering effort to develop human support robots that can assist with tasks in the home.

INNOVATORS Among the Robots From self-driving cars to in-home electromechanical helpers, Eric Krotkov ’82 is turning science fiction into reality.BY JOEL WARNER ’01

Eric Krotkov ’82’s workplace is the stuff of little kids’ dreams. In the sleek, modern office space, futuristic robots scoot around the furniture, and multi-jointed metallic arms gingerly pick up and manipulate television remote controls and cereal boxes. This is the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a $1 billion research initiative launched two years ago by the world’s largest automaker to integrate artificial intelligence and robotics into people’s everyday lives in ways that, until now,

have only been imagined. PHOTOS: WEBB CHAPPELL

32 Haverford Magazine As the research institute’s tioning nuclear reactors and perform robotics. “It aligned with my ideals and chief science officer, Krotkov oversees precise surgical procedures. Software my values,” says Krotkov of TRI. “We the pioneering effort. It’s the latest he developed helped the Sojourner have the opportunity to save many more accomplishment in a career spent at the rover keep track of its position after lives than I did with the tactical mobile bleeding edge of robotics. But despite it landed on Mars in 1997—helping robots at DARPA. The number of people the thrilling work, Krotkov admits it Krotkov to realize his childhood dream who die or are injured in car crashes wasn’t his first career choice. His dream of venturing to outer space. “I felt con- is astronomical, and I wanted to put a as a kid was to be an astronaut. nected to Sojourner in a very real way,” dent in that.” “I wanted to be an astronaut from says Krotkov. “It was like, ‘I am your Much of the attention and excite- an early age, but to do that, I realized grandfather.’” ment around TRI has focused on how I had to be a pilot,” says Krotkov, Once Krotkov felt he’d maxed the organization is faring against Google, speaking via video conference from his out his potential contributions to the Tesla, Uber, and other major automak- Cambridge, Mass. office. “And in order field of planetary rovers, he took a job ers in the race to perfect driverless cars. to be a pilot, you had to have good in 1997 with the Defense Advanced But the majority of Krotkov’s work at vision, and my vision has never been Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the institute has so far focused on a good. So from an early age, I realized, the Department of Defense agency different but equally important goal: ‘I am never going to be able to do this. responsible for developing new mili- Developing in-home “support robots,” How can I get [to outer space] using a especially those designed to help seniors proxy or a surrogate?’” age in place. He set his sights on outer-space “It is a gigantic problem for our robots, like the rovers navigating extra- world to have an aging society,” says terrestrial terrain that he doodled in Krotkov. “The Baby Boomers are about grade school and like HAL 9000, the to retire. The parents in China who live sentient computer in 2001: A Space in a one-child regime are soon retiring. Odyssey, a film Krotkov has watched It’s largely graying in Japan. It’s a huge multiple times. problem, and there’s a huge opportu- His interest in the subject deepened nity for robots that can help people in 1977 after enrolling at Haverford, with live in their homes rather than nursing which he’d fallen in love when he visit- homes, care facilities, or hospitals. If ed campus during a high school debate the robots we develop lead to a better trip. Majoring in philosophy, Krotkov quality of life for these people, that will A robotic arm whose enhanced dexterity wrote his senior thesis on machine epis- allows it to grasp and handle small allow Toyota to make a difference in temology, the idea that thinking itself is objects. many, many lives.” a form of computation. Since Haverford So Krotkov continues his pioneer- had no classes on artificial intelligence at tary technologies. While he was only ing work in robotics, this time not on the time, he took courses on the subject on staff at DARPA for three years, he machines that will venture into war at the University of Pennsylvania. His would later continue to work with the zones or the far reaches of space, but that studies there led to him pursue his Ph.D. agency as founder and president of instead could soon be assisting people in computer and information science Griffin Technologies, a consulting firm in homes all over the world. In truth, it’s from the university, where he focused specializing in robotics and machine a continuation of the trailblazing work on computer vision—the challenge of perception. He focused on developing he started so long ago. getting machines to interpret and under- tactical robots used in exploratory and “From A.I. to computer vision to stand images. life-saving procedures, including robots robotics, it’s the very same road I started After earning his Ph.D. in 1987, that defused roadside bombs in Iraq and down as a junior at Haverford College,” Krotkov landed a research faculty posi- Afghanistan. “To me, this was my single he says. “Other people had midlife crises tion at Carnegie Mellon University’s biggest professional accomplishment,” or have career changes. I feel like I have famed Robotics Institute, the first robot- he says. “I have had men and women been going in the same direction the ics department at a U.S. university and come up to me, buy me drinks, and say, whole time.” one that has churned out many of the ‘You saved my life.’” Joel Warner ’01 is a writer based in Denver. top luminaries in the field. Krotkov fit Near the end of 2015, Krotkov was He’s written for Esquire, WIRED, Men’s right in, helping the institute develop tapped to help spearhead Toyota’s bold Health, Popular Science, Bloomberg Busi- robots designed to infiltrate malfunc- new venture in autonomous cars and nessweek, and many other publications.

WINTER 2018 33 TELL US MORE

HARSIMRAN KAUR ’97: Civil Rights Advocate

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Sikhs, Muslims, “Sikh professionals around the coun- try were talking because everyone had people from the Middle East, and other minorities in the United States friends or family or knew someone who increasingly found themselves victims of an angry backlash. Alarmed had been assaulted or harassed,” says Kaur, who at the time was in her third by those attacks, volunteers including Harsimran Kaur ’97 formed The year of law school at George Washington University. “An elderly man was attacked Sikh Coalition to educate and advocate for civil rights and justice. Sikhs in Queens, and Sikhs were chased down originate from Punjab, India, and the most religious among them are the streets of Manhattan. Our communi- ty was feeling so much grief and trauma recognizable by turbans and unshorn hair. Though the religion arose because of the terrorist attacks, and it in South Asia, within a Hindu/Muslim culture, Sikhism is separate and doubled because of the [violence against us]. There was a real fundamental mis- distinct from both Islam and Hinduism. Despite that, Sikhs were (and understanding of who we were and our still are) targeted by those who claim to hate Muslims, or are simply articles of faith.” One of the coalition’s first goals was

looking for anyone they identify as “different.” getting the U.S. Senate to pass a resolu- PHOTO: CHAD BATKA

34 Haverford Magazine tion recognizing assaults against Sikhs public that it’s acceptable to discriminate al jobs, and they don’t want to burden as hate crimes. “Federal recognition was against the community. Our military is them. In the last three months we’ve important,” Kaur says, “so that police stronger if it looks like and reflects the had 12 school bullying cases come in, and prosecutors recognized the gravity rest of America. so that’s a huge jump in the numbers. of those crimes.” We’ve also represented a number of Kaur volunteered for the Coalition Sikh truck drivers who were disallowed How can Americans better combat while working on civil rights and race- jobs because they were told they had to hate and prejudice at home? based employment issues for a D.C. provide hair samples for drug tests, or It has to come from the top and bottom. legal firm, then joined the Coalition were told to remove their turbans. We Our elected officials need to speak out full-time in 2008. She served as legal support safety but there were alterna- clearly on what is and isn’t acceptable in director for eight years, handling cases tives, like fingernail testing. We filed a terms of the values our democracy holds ranging from hate crimes to workplace complaint with the EEOC and ultimately dear. After 9/11, for example, George W. discrimination and profiling. Today she settled the case. Bush stated that the Muslim community is senior counsel, based in Chicago and isn’t our enemy, terrorists are. From the splitting her time between raising two Do the incidents you hear about ever community perspective, we need to be young children and providing strategic discourage you? marching in the streets and making our consulting and support to the full-time I try to balance the day-to-day with the voices heard. legal staff of three that she trained and bigger picture. As an organization and a now mentors. She’s also a spokeswoman community, we have come a long way. What drew you to this area of the law? and nationally recognized expert on Self-care is also critical with a job like this. I was always interested in social jus- Sikh legal issues. The Coalition partners Once I had kids, it forced me to do self- tice, and my time at Haverford fostered with other advocacy groups fighting for care better because I couldn’t bring the that interest. After graduation I worked equal rights and justice, and their public trauma I heard about home to my family. as a paralegal at Philadelphia Legal relations team educates the public about Exercise and eating right is important, Assistance, which provides legal services Sikhs. “Sikhs have been here since the and you have to allow yourself time to to the indigent. I was always in a social turn of the 20th century, particularly on decompress. justice environment and went to law the West Coast, and not many people school with that interest. know our history,” Kaur says. Has your organization seen an uptick in hate crimes over the past year? How do you prepare your own children What has been the Coalition’s most In the three to four months leading up to (ages 4 and 7) to deal with prejudice recent, major legal victory? the November 2016 election, there was and discrimination? Since 2009 we’ve been working to inte- a very palpable increase in hate crimes. On the one hand you have to teach them grate the military and allow observant And in the past three to four months to be proud of who they are and what Sikhs to join, and in January 2017, the [late 2017-early 2018] we’ve seen an our values are: to be kind and live with U.S. Army changed its policy to allow unprecedented number of school bully- integrity. At the same time, I try to teach not only observant Sikhs, but also ing cases. We know it’s a huge problem them to be resilient. We nurture them, hijab-wearing Muslims, to join formally. because every time we survey our com- love them, and prepare them for what- If a religious Sikh wants to serve, they munity, we find that two out of three ever adversity may come their way in can, while maintaining unshorn hair and kids who maintain the Sikh articles of life. It’s a long-term process. wearing a turban. The new policy also faith (including turban or unshorn hair) permits a person of any religious tradition are being subject to bullying in school. What does the turban represent in to obtain an accommodation to maintain Still, we get very few official calls for help the Sikh religion? a beard, and allows African American about bullying. The turban signifies equality and sover- female soldiers to wear dreadlocks. That’s eignty. In South Asia in the 1400s, only not something we take credit for; African Why aren’t parents or children request- the nobility wore turbans, and society American service members have been ing more help? was entrenched in the caste system. Sikh requesting that change for a while. But We think parents might not realize that prophets spoke out against the caste when you push for the rights of some, bullying is a legal issue and also, kids system and preached that all people you force the institution to have broad- are hesitant to speak out and be seen as are equal. Wearing a turban is meant to er conversations about inclusiveness. If tattling. And for a lot of children whose reinforce this idea that all men are their the government discriminates against parents are immigrants, they see their own kings. No one is high- or low-born. us, it sends a message to the broader parents working hard, often with sever- —Anne Stein

WINTER 2018 35 A campus exhibition by two photojournalists who document refugees and immigrants was part of the PACC project “Who Belongs?”

The Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives, a new program out of the VCAM building, facilitates classroom connections to local artists and organizations. PACC’d BY LINI S. KADABA Calendar

What are the lessons and limits of resilience in communities of black and indigenous people? How can we bring about a better understanding of issues related to citizenship, belonging, and identity politics? How do we rethink the problematic term “outsider art” and reconsider how all of us move between “inside” and “outside”?

36 Haverford Magazine hese are just some of the thought-provoking and Practices of Neurodiversity,” taught by Adam questions tackled in three spring semester proj- Rosenblatt, a visiting assistant professor of peace, ects that are part of the Philadelphia Area Creative justice, and human rights. Also part of the col- Collaboratives (PACC). The new experiential-learn- laboration are artist Samantha Mitchell, and Lori ing initiative of the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for Bartol, director of the Center for Creative Works, the Arts and Humanities cultivates community which provides art training and supported employ- art projects that seek social and civic change, and ment opportunities for people with intellectual brings College faculty and students together with disabilities. artists in dialogue, advocacy, and active creation. “PACC enables a richly textured learning experi- Following two initial semester-long fall proj- ence for both students and faculty,” says Lindgren, ects—“Urban Ecology Arts Exchange” and Kristin Lindgren’s director of the College Writing Center. “One of the T “Critical Disability Studies” “Sounding the Archive”—PACC continues this class is collaborating articles we read in class is entitled ‘Sometimes We semester with explorations of “Origins In Place,” on “We’re In It.” Need to Get Uncomfortable.’ In my experience, “Who Belongs? Exodus and Arrival,” and “We’re some productive discomfort arises when theory and In It (Remaking the World).” practice meet and when academics collaborate with “Liberal arts colleges think a lot about how artists and community-based organizations. These to reach out to their surrounding communities,” moments of discomfort often lead to discovering says English Department chair Laura McGrane, new modes of collaboration. Our project brings who envisioned PACC along with colleagues and together, through making and writing about art, Haverford President Kim Benston. She also is direc- two communities that rarely interact: a community tor of Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM). of college students and a community of intellec- “But how do we create the space for those com- tually disabled artists.” munities to reach in—to teach us how better to “We’re In It” students are scheduled to discuss teach and create curricula, how better to evolve “Neurodiversity and Contemporary Art” with the an educational structure intimately connected to founders of Disparate Minds, which promotes advocates for justice, to learn from their experiences disabled artists; take class trips to explore printing making change, whether educational, environmen- techniques; and curate a campus exhibition along tal, prison reform, you name it?” The Sensory Lab with Center for Creative Works artists. exhibition, which came One answer is PACC. Funded through a out of last fall’s “This multilayered project exemplifies the $750,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, “Sounding the Archive.” kind of teaching and learning that I most want to the idea grew out of the Hurford Center’s nine years of programming with local artists and nonprofits under the Tri-Co Mellon Creative Residencies. According to McGrane, it became clear that partner artists and nonprofits needed to be at the planning table from the beginning to better build sustainable arts and activist collaborations with real and lasting impacts for the Philadelphia and campus communities. “PACC envisions collaborative models that support those nonprofits and artists in the work they want to do, while creating interdisciplinary opportunities for students, faculty, and commu- nity members to be together in that work,” she says, “and to carry that work forward beyond the temporal constraints of a single-semester class.” The “We’re In It” project, for example, brings Haverford students together with artists who have intellectual disabilities. Kristin Lindgren’s course, “Critical Disability Studies: Theory and Practice,” is tied to the proj-

PHOTOS: CLAIRE BLOOD-CHENEY ‘20 (PACC EXHIBIT); BRAD LARRISON (LINDGREN) ect along with “Thinking Differently: the Politics

WINTER 2018 37 PACC’d Calendar

well as Benjamin Hughes, program coordinator for that same office. “Our collaboration,” the website says, “will explore the roles … different types of organizations can play as custodians of sometimes competing histories, and as stewards for shared futures.”

tephanie Bursese, PACC program man- ager, an artist herself who investigates photography’s role in limiting perspec- tives, says PACC projects emerge out of conversations between her and a Ssingle faculty member and develop into ideas for partners both on and off campus. Then elements, such as class trips or invited guest speakers, are incorporated into the paired Haverford classes. Each project always includes an artist, but the definition is broad. “It could be a chef, a poet, a do,” Lindgren says, “but it requires logistical and The “Urban Ecology visual artist, a dancer, a writer,” Bursese says. The financial support and a framework that values Arts Exchange” included a nonprofits, she adds, also range from three-per- workshop at Bartram’s collaboration, risk-taking, and serendipity. PACC Garden in Philadelphia. son organizations in small offices to large, densely offers all of that.” staffed operations, such as the Village of Arts and Likewise in “Who Belongs?,” two Haverford Humanities. faculty members—Imke Brust, chair of the German “Through the process of uncovering our shared Department, and Zainab Saleh, an assistant profes- interests,” Bursese says, “we learn what is at stake sor of anthropology—are partnering with German for the artists, nonprofits, faculty, and students—in photojournalist Jacobia Dahm, who has document- this space the points of intersection and relevance ed refugees since 2015, and the nonprofit Puentes become clear.” de Salud (founded by physician Steve Larson Take last fall’s “Sounding the Archive.” ’83), which advocates for the health and wellness “The most significant aspect of the collaboration of Latino immigrants in South Philadelphia. was to help to create a space to process and to build The project aims to engage Haverford and the context around Native songs and rituals,” says Philadelphia community around migration both Thomas Devaney, a visiting assistant professor of in the European Union and in the United States. English. “For me, it was a start.” “We hope to bring about a better understanding The project included Devaney; colleague of issues related to citizenship, belonging, and Lindsay Reckson, an assistant professor of English; identity politics,” Brust says. To that end, Haverford interdisciplinary artist Jeanine Oleson; and Brian students and Latino high-school students who Carpenter, curator of Native American Materials participate in Puentes de Salud took in a February at the American Philosophical Society’s Center for campus exhibition of work by Dahm and docu- Native American and Indigenous Research. mentary photographer Griselda San Martin, and Through songs and rituals, students in Devaney’s also met with Dahm. class “In the American Strain: Music in Writing” Meanwhile, New York City-based artist Patrick explored issues around indigeneity, recording, and Hebert is an artist in residence at Haverford as part collective memory. of “Origins In Place,” which examines experiences At Haverford’s Sensory Lab exhibition, chants of “alienation and belonging, resilience and erasure, and ceremonial songs were available for explora- danger and delight, competition and collaboration,” tion through a playlist—curated by Devaney—of as PACC’s website explains. audio files from several Native American tribes. Others involved in this project are the Village Imke Brust The experience also included images from the of the Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia (top), is a collaborator on research center’s archives that Reckson selected to “Who Belongs?”; Thomas and Haverford’s Associate Dean Theresa Tensuan, Devaney was involved in address ethnographic efforts to map, document, who directs the Office of Multicultural Affairs, as “Sounding the Archive.” and visualize indigenous peoples.

38 Haverford Magazine Students tackled a host of questions that includ- in Atlanta in November. ed: How can we understand our relationship to Even though the project and funding for “Urban archives as instruments of preservation and mem- Ecology” is over, Moses has continued to work ory, but also as tools of the present? How do sonic with the nonprofits through his course “Place, technologies shape and/or distort the imagining of People, and Collaborative Research in the Urban Native American peoples? What are the appropriate Environment.” roles non-Native students can play as they study Senior Sara Ozawa of Denver praised the expe- indigenous materials? rience, which included creating a landscape plan at Young people need meaningful opportunities Mount Moriah and developing an environmental to use their creative energies beyond the class- curriculum. “I think that Haverford’s efforts to room, says Joshua Moses, an assistant professor Joshua Moses’ incorporate community engagement through part- of anthropology and environmental studies and a environmental studies nerships and collaborative fellowships is a positive collaborator in the fall semester’s “Urban Ecology senior seminar was shift from traditional academia,” says the growth part of the “Urban Ecology Arts Exchange.” Arts Exchange.” and structure of cities major who is minoring in “It’s pretty simple really, yet educators have been environmental studies. “I think innovative creativity hand-wringing and writing about this for decades,” should hold more space in the academic [world], he says. “How to do it? How do we become more and that contributing our skills and resources to engaged with communities? Well, you go out and community groups as an institution of higher edu- talk to folks whose work you admire, spend time cation is an obligation.” with them, ask them how you can support their In a reflection that Moses shared, another stu- work.” The project was tied to Moses’ capstone dent wrote: “[T]his is the first time in my academic senior seminar in environmental studies. (Assistant career that I can honestly say I forgot I was getting Professor of Biology Jonathan Wilson also was graded. I was never working for a grade, rather, I involved in the project.) was learning, collaborating, and creating something Students met with multidisciplinary artist Li that would benefit something and/or someone Sumpter and spent a full day visiting three PACC bigger than myself.” nonprofit partners: East Park Revitalization An “Urban Ecology Regular contributor Lini S. Kadaba is a freelance Alliance, which builds community gardens in the Arts Exchange” field trip journalist based in Newtown Square, Pa., and a Strawberry Mansion neighborhood; North Philly to historic Mount Moriah Cemetery, which former Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer. Peace Park, a community garden; and Friends of a community group is Katie Rodgers ’18 contributed additional reporting Mount Moriah Cemetery, which seeks to conserve working to preserve. to this story. the historic burial ground. PACC also provided small grants to the organizations. In November, students attended a master workshop at Bartram’s Garden on “Urban Ecosystem Justice” with Scott Kellogg, educational director of Radix Ecological Sustainability Center in Albany, N.Y., and co-author of the book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide. “They learned about the amazing things hap- pening in Philly, the remarkable community leaders working on shoestring budgets, educating them- selves without the advantages of elite institutions of higher education,” Moses says. “Courses like this, one hopes, bust down the walls a bit.” In addition to contributing to these groups, students learned about different organizational structures and “what causes people to care and struggle for land,” he says. With PACC’s sup- port, Moses, lead artist Sumpter, and Tommy Joshua, executive director of the peace park, all

PHOTOS: ALEXANDRA IGLESIA ‘21 (BARTRAM’S GARDEN); PATRICK MONTERO (PORTRAITS) attended the Black Urban Growers Conference

WINTER 2018 39 rouching in the woods on different from your own are not your ene- dency to look for the goodness in every- a ranch west of Houston mies. If you close your mouth and open one, he said. That’s especially important while anxiously awaiting his your ears, you’ll probably find you’re not in these divisive times. chance to shoot wild hogs that different. “To me, the thing we’ve lost in this wasn’t what National Public “When you get people together who country is the assumption of good faith in Radio’s former CEO pictured don’t agree with one another, it doesn’t the other side,” he says. “This is all about when he set out to discover take that much to find common ground,” listening to others.” It’s why he decided America’s “other” side. But says Stern, a frequent contributor to Vanity to write the book. “The big issues aren’t when Ken Stern ’85 asked Fox News Fair and president of Palisades Media any bigger than they were 25 years ago, Ccommentator Tucker Carlson how to Ventures, which develops educational but the anger level in America has got- escape the East Coast bubble ten higher and higher. I and get to know Republican Lifelong Democrat Ken Stern ’85 left wanted to tell the story of America, Carlson told him the “liberal bubble” for an odyssey that anger through my own to go shoot pigs in Texas. across America’s red states. The year he spent experience. I wanted to test Armed with a rifle and getting to know “the other side” changed my fairly typical liberal prej- clad in a Day-Glo vest, Stern his view of politics entirely and inspired udices and see if they stood spent $250 for the “one-day a book that’s attracting controversy. up in real life.” He listened hog hunt plus gun rental” BY NATALIE POMPILIO AND ANNE STEIN and learned to like the other package at Independence side—at least some of them. Ranch in Gonzalez, Texas. ★ ★ ★ And he started to under- Encouraged by his new stand some very different hunting buddies and after points of view. six hours of waiting, the life- Stern is a longtime resi- long liberal finally pulled the dent of Washington D.C.’s trigger as two pigs streaked DISCOVERING Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, by. (He missed.) It was the which lies about three miles first time he had ever used north of the White House. a gun. And that makes him Most residents identify as far different from much of THE liberals and, in their minds, gun-toting America. that means they are toler- To better appreciate ant of others’ beliefs and the country’s vast politi- differences. cal divide, Stern willing- “OTHER” But a joking pledge ly left his Washington, recounted at an annual D.C., home—located in party by children who live a voting ward where 94 on Stern’s street suggested percent of residents iden- AMERICA otherwise: “Gay or straight, tify as Democrats—and a woman or man, all are household that’s proudly 100 percent partnerships between universities and welcome on Hobart Street—except for Democratic, and spent one year trav- postgraduate audiences. “You can learn Republicans.” eling to traditional Republican strong- a lot from people even if you don’t agree Why, Stern wondered, was it still OK to holds, including evangelical churches, a with them.” judge people who didn’t share your polit- NASCAR race, Tea Party meetings, and Being open to the opinions of others ical views? To assume the worst in them Liberty University. is a Haverford tradition, he notes. and hunker down in liberal or conserva- What Stern learned from this jour- “There is a real campus ethic that there tive bunkers? There’s a danger, he said, ney behind what he once would have are a lot of different voices out there, not to living in bubbles with ever-thickening considered enemy lines is carefully and just in one section of the country but walls, surrounded by like-minded people. humorously documented in his new book, everywhere around the world, that are “When you get beyond your Twitter Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal worth exploring and learning,” he says. feed and [beyond listening] only to media Bubble and Learned to Love the Right. “That’s a part of the Haverford experience that agrees with you, you get a very differ- The biggest takeaway from his odys- I hold with me today.” ent view of the world,” he says. sey? That people who hold political views Haverford also instilled in Stern a ten- So off he went to Texas, where he

40 Haverford Magazine KEN STERN on his Washington, D.C., street, located in a voting ward where 94 percent of residents identify as Democrats. ★

joined that pig hunt and, more important, a campus atmosphere vastly different which found children were indeed more realized his call for more gun control laws from just a decade ago. When Stern likely to thrive in two-parent families, in response to violent crimes may not be asked, “Do you accept gay students at but those family units were much more the “simple solution” he once thought. He Liberty?” Falwell replied matter of factly, diverse than Falwell had found. visited Liberty University, the Lynchburg, “Sure! There are plenty of them.” That’s “Researchers of all political stripes have Va., school founded by the late conserva- a different answer than his father would shown the breakup of the American family tive activist preacher Jerry Falwell Sr., who have given, says Stern, who cites the meet- has societal consequences across gener- was often accused of hate speech because ing as an example of how we can learn ations,” Stern says. “Falwell had a good of comments he made about homosexuals something from almost anyone. conclusion based on faulty information.” and Muslims. Stern fully expected it to Take Falwell’s views on the importance Stern’s travels also took him to the be the highlight of a “Places I Am Pretty of two-parent families; in his mind that struggling former manufacturing city Sure I Will Hate” tour. meant a man and woman raising children of Youngstown, Ohio; Kentucky coal But Stern, who met with Liberty’s cur- according to Biblical standards. The meet- country and its Creation Museum;

PHOTO: GREG KAHN rent president, Jerry Falwell Jr., found ing spurs Stern to review secular research, and downtrodden neighborhoods in

WINTER 2018 41 Discovering the “Other” America

Baltimore. Along the way, he gains an a white man, had his skin temporarily suspenders and spending a few Sundays understanding of just how difficult life darkened so he would appear African in church with The Conservatives and has become for a declining working class American as he traveled the South. (That then writing books in which you declare in America. Among the people he meets book, in turn, takes its title from Langston yourself shocked—shocked!—to find that is a long-unemployed coal miner whose Hughes’s poem “Dream Variations.”) they read books and talk in complete sen- “sense of grievance, of abandonment by The broad statement in the book’s tences and think about race in America.” those who are supposed to help him” has subtitle—“How I Left the Liberal Bubble Public radio reporters, countered Mann, led him to vote for Donald Trump, writes and Learned to Love the Right”—refers “have been telling conservative America’s Stern, “not out of any great affection, but to individuals Stern came to know and story with care and knowledge and inti- out of the belief that he will either ‘be a respect during his travels and research, mate, deep, factual reporting for decades.” great leader or launch World War III.’ That such as Kevin Palau, a prominent Oregon (Reader comments on the essay ran from comment is worth a pause, because that evangelical leader whose congregants hearty congratulations to mocking Mann’s is not a bet I would make on my defense of NPR’s reporting.) own behalf or for the country, ★ ★ ★ Even Stern’s son, age 10, but when you are on your back has been known to boo when in Pikeville, looking up from the “At heart I’m still he hears his father giving TV or bottom of the pyramid, the per- radio interviews (though he’s spective is quite a bit different.” fundamentally a progressive, mostly joking). During many of these trips, but I’m registered now “What has troubled me the he finds a middle ground and as independent. I think of most are the people who want commonalities between him- to judge a book by its cover,” self and people he had assumed both parties as not reflecting says Stern, referring to those he would dislike. In a quest to the country as a whole and who judge the author by his get in touch with evangelical giving people two very book title. Christians, for example, Stern “If you say you found com- attends services run by Pastor unappealing choices.” mon ground with conservatives Steve Weber of the Freedom or Republicans and don’t hate Church Assembly of God in them, you must be a white con- Fredericksburg, Va. “We’re the servative or hate gays, which are same age, we have a son the same all things I’ve heard,” he says. age, we both love football,” says “That reflects how we really Stern. “We didn’t see eye-to-eye on gay have worked tirelessly to improve two think of the other side now and that goes rights, but the things that drove me to Portland schools with nary a sermon. both ways.” write the book were worrying him too— And Pastor Steve, whose flock is looking For Stern, the year spent getting to hate and racism in society, and figuring for ways to mitigate the hatred being know the “other side” changed his view out how we can get to know others in the directed at minorities and immigrants of politics entirely. “At heart I’m still fun- community and help them.” It surprised in their community. damentally a progressive, but I’m reg- him, as those moderate views aren’t the But some incorrectly interpret “learned istered now as independent. I think of ones that appear in headlines or on TV. to love the right” as meaning Stern grants both parties as not reflecting the country “Face to face, most Americans are actu- blanket approval to extreme right-wing as a whole and giving people two very ally pretty moderate people,” he says. “You ideas. As a result, he’s become a target of unappealing choices.” may not know that because the people both left- and right-wing critics, as well as The book, he says, is ultimately about you see on TV or on Twitter tend to be the media, who took offense at comments the consequences of groupthink and liv- the loudest and the angriest. In real life, he made in the book about media bias. ing in our own bubble. “People want to people aren’t that way.” After a podcast interview during a book hear things that tell them they are right. publicity tour, a couple of dozen neo-Na- But the year confirmed for me that most he book’s title has touched some zis attacked Stern via Twitter; they were people actually tend to view themselves nerves in these increasingly angry that he described himself as both as moderates, and tend to reject the anger touchy times. Republican Like Me white and Jewish. And an NPR contract of both sides. Those are the people who is a nod to John Howard Griffin’s reporter, Brian Mann, wrote an angry read the book and related to it. When 1961 nonfiction bookBlack Like essay in Current, stating, “For decades you hear from folks like that, it gives me T Me, which details how Griffin, city folk have been pulling on a pair of a lot of hope.”

42 Haverford Magazine THE MUDDLED MIDDLE? From Republican Like Me. Published with permission of Harper. Copyright © 2017 by Ken Stern.

’m sitting across from Arthur Brooks, the thin, bespectacled When you talk with Democrats and you talk with Republicans, president of the American Enterprise Institute, and he is just at least the Arthur Brooks Republicans, you may not find different annoying the hell out of me. It is not anything that he is end goals, but you certainly will have different conversations. saying. I’m there to interview him, but he is peppering me For Brooks, the conversation about poverty reduction begins with questions, so much that I can hardly wedge my own with economic growth. It is a reasonable place to start. The questions into the conversation. It is not a delaying tactic, period of greatest poverty reduction in U.S. history was in the Ias best I can tell, but rather reflects his genuine interest in the two decades before the launch of LBJ’s Great Society, when rapid people he meets, their motivations and needs. growth reached all segments of society. And Perhaps because Brooks has similarly talked that is not just an American story. Around to many people in poverty over the years, he, the world, economic growth, often driven unlike Rush Limbaugh, doesn’t believe that by the expansion of free trade and free mar- poor people in the United States have it easy. ket regimes, has similarly lifted hundreds He knows they are trapped by lack of access of millions of people out of poverty, more to resources and education and by a system than 450 million in China alone over the that discourages work and lasting relation- last three decades. That is far more than any ships. The failure of America to help those aid or poverty program could ever hope to less fortunate weighs on him, as he believes achieve. It is an alluring picture, one that it is our shared moral imperative to do better. is not inherently Republican but one that I quite like that about him. Democrats seem to have largely forgotten. So much of the conservative critique of But we also need to acknowledge the struc- the welfare state is written in the pinched tural changes in the American economy that prose of the Heritage Foundation, an insti- funnel more and more rewards to the top tution that hangs like the Eye of Sauron over levels of earners. And, it is far from clear Washington. It is not that I necessarily disagree the Republican bromides about reducing with everything they say—I’ve cited them taxes and streamlining business regulation favorably in this book—but so much of what they say comes will either inspire growth or ensure that this growth reaches off as mean-spirited and judgmental. That attitude has wormed the lowest economic rungs of our society. its way into policy and into the White House, which casually Maybe all this puts me in the “muddled middle,” as one dismisses Meals on Wheels and school food programs as lacking of my new conservative friends put it in frustration. He didn’t “demonstrable evidence” of effectiveness. The fact that the Trump mean it as a compliment, but I don’t take it as an insult. On the administration was so wrong on the merits—unlike many other poverty issue, and many others, I have found insight on both social programs, there is considerable evidentiary support for sides, with more than enough sophistry and pigheadedness to the value of these programs—suggests that the statement is a go around. It is yet another area where Americans tend to agree pretext to slash away at the support for the weakest and most with each other and disagree with the doctrinaire approaches vulnerable members of society. There is a desperate need in our of both parties. The majority of Republicans and the majority government for clear-eyed, evidence-based analyses that expose of Democrats think government is doing a poor job of helping nice-sounding but ineffective programs, but all I can say is that people out of poverty, and trust neither party to fix the problem. if you are going to take that on, you’d better get your facts right. It is one of the ironies of our age of polarization that voters Brooks is as conservative as anyone—he is at the very least are excessively loyal, at least with their votes, to their political a fierce advocate for the power of free markets and economic parties, but just as frequently reject their political philosophies, growth to pull people out of poverty, and a skeptic of govern- or even reject the notion that we need a coherent philosophy— ment programs—but he also has a vision for “conservative an “ism”—driving government. It is why the incoherence of social justice,” a strong safety net for those who truly need it, Trumpism, or even the absence of Trumpism, was an electoral investments in education and job creation, and a profound virtue for him in 2016. I won’t sign up for a presidency about belief in fostering a culture of faith, family, community, and nothing, but I might like a leader who is not so politically rigid work. I’m not sure that it is the recipe for all that ails us, but at that he can find virtue from different points of view. That is the least it is a recipe. value of the middle, muddled or not.

WINTER 2018 43 HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MEMORY

As a Haverford chemistry and phi- and drug use, vitamin deficiencies, head injuries, and thyroid losophy double major, Andrew problems all can affect one’s memory. Budson ’88 acquired a fascina- tion with the brain that only grew stronger with time. Today, Budson Treat your memory loss. Using the medications that are is chief of cognitive and behav- currently available, I can typically turn the clock back on a ioral neurology at the Veterans patient’s memory by six to 12 months. However, I cannot stop Affairs Boston Healthcare System; the clock from ticking down over time—the patient’s memory director of education at the Boston will still decline. Don’t stop taking medication if your memory is University Alzheimer’s Disease worsening; you’ll plummet more quickly without it. Also, seek Center; professor of neurology at treatment for any anxiety or depression you are experiencing, Boston University; and a lecturer as poor mental health can interfere with your memory. in neurology at Harvard Medi- cal School. Modify your lifestyle. Studies consistently show that the The co-author of five books about Alzheimer’s disease and relat- Mediterranean diet—fish, fruits, vegetables, olive oil, nuts, ed disorders, Budson (who with his wife, Amy Null ’88, maintains beans, and whole grains—improves brain health. Limit red close ties to Haverford through their daughter, Leah Budson ’19, meats and other fatty foods as well as items containing raw a math major) most recently published Seven Steps to Managing sugar and flour. (There is a ray of hope for those with a sweet Your Memory: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What to Do tooth, as small amounts of dark chocolate may be beneficial.) About It. We asked him to outline those steps for us. Exercise is even more important, especially because it releases growth factors that produce new brain cells in the hippocam- pus. It also improves sleep, which is when our memories go Learn what is normal memory. We assume that memory from short-term to long-term storage. You don’t have to run a works like a tape or video recorder, but every time we retrieve a marathon; brisk walking for 30 minutes a day is sufficient, and memory, we actually lay it down anew. This provides an oppor- those 30 minutes do not have to be consecutive. tunity for distortions that often are nothing to worry about. And as we age, our frontal lobes—which take in information and put it into the hippocampus—naturally decline, so it is normal for Strengthen your memory. As of now, there is no scientific older people to ask that information be repeated a few times, evidence that you can “train your brain” with crossword puz- to take a bit longer to retrieve a memory, or to need a hint to zles, Sudoku, or other games that are marketed as memory retrieve a memory. boosters. It makes me sad that people spend money on these games and then stay home in front of their computers rather ??? than going out for a walk, socializing with friends, or learning a Determine if your memory is normal. If you’re unable to new hobby—all things that actually will benefit your memory. retrieve a memory even after information is repeated and you’re Use practical tools like pill organizers, calendars, notepads, and given a cue, this could signal damage to your hippocampus, strategies to keep track of tasks and responsibilities. where recent memories are stored. This damage results in “rapid 2021 forgetting,” when people ask the same questions again and again, tell the same stories over and over, get lost in familiar Plan your future. Life shouldn’t come to a halt because of locations, and frequently lose items. If this is happening to you memory problems. Keep working as long as you are able. Enlist or a loved one, see your doctor for an evaluation. the support of people you trust, particularly with major deci- sions, such as financial investments. If you have a diagnosed memory problem, have a loved one ride in the passenger seat Understand your memory loss. Memory loss does not always periodically while you drive your regular routes; if they feel indicate Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder. There are comfortable, there’s no need to hang up your keys. Be proactive many causes, and they’re often reversible. Two of the most and communicate openly with your family, peers, and doctors. common are medication side effects and lack of sleep. Alcohol —Karen Brooks

44 Haverford Magazine TASTES OF THE FORDS Haverford alumni are feeding the world (and slaking its thirst) with an impressive array of food- and beverage-related ventures

“THERE IS A COMMUNION of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?” So declared the great food writer M.F.K. Fisher, whose work often testified to how exalted and restorative are the humble, daily acts of eating a meal, feeding others, and raising a glass together. Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that so many sumption.” Says Richards, “Haverford showed me that Haverford alumni—a thoughtful and creative bunch I could channel my passions into real-world projects.” in general—have found their bliss in baking bread, On the following pages you’ll find a map that drops making cheese or wine, growing vegetables, or working a pin on all the alumni we could find (including one the stove in a restaurant. Though cooking classes or outside the U.S.) who fit our criteria: They make, or small-business management weren’t on their course grow, things you can eat or drink, and they sell those lists, some Fords see direct connections between their things directly to the public. Following the map are time at Haverford and what they’re doing now. Shaun detailed listings that provide addresses, phone numbers, Hill ’01, whose Hill Farmstead Brewery in Vermont has websites—everything you need to know should you been declared by one beer lovers’ website to make the want to sample their offerings. best beer in the world (yes, we said the world), says Know of an alumni venture you don’t see on the what he learned about ethics as a philosophy major and map? Go to our interactive web version at hav.to/tastes, the overall Haverford experience—with its “emphasis where you’ll find a form you can fill out that will help on honor and integrity and personal growth”—helps us keep the map updated. guide the way he runs his business. Tim Richards ’10, A note about that colorful map: It was drawn by tal- founder of The Philosopher’s Stoneground, a California ented Haverford student Jessie Lamworth ’18. To see more company that makes sprouted nut butters, has this examples of her art and her graphic-design work, as well big-picture mission for his company: “to regenerate as scans of her sketchbooks, which feature intriguing hand- people and the planet with delicious food that nourishes drawn “mind maps” of some of the cities she’s visited, go all life through its cultivation, manufacturing, and con- to jessielamworth.com. —Eils Lotozo

WINTER 2018 45 Tastes of the Fords

46 Haverford Magazine WINTER 2018 47 Tastes of the Fords

NEW ENGLAND Kit Basom ’06, co-owner farm also sells produce at the East patio, with its truly humongous [Massachusetts] and chef Providence Farmers Market on umbrella, is a customer favorite. Evelyn Wulfkuhle ’93, Craftsbury General Store Thursdays. Look for Gish behind the bar co-owner 114 S. Craftsbury Rd. most Monday nights. Hope and Olive Craftsbury, Vt. [Connecticut] 44 Hope St. (802) 586-2440 Mark Gillman ’91, co-owner Jordan Salcito ’02, founder Greenfield, Mass. craftsburygeneralstore.com Cato Corner Farm Bellus Wines (413) 774-3150 This classic Vermont general store 178 Cato Corner Rd. belluswines.com hopeandolive.com has a well-stocked deli serving Colchester, Conn. Ramona Magpie Woodfired Pizzeria breakfast and lunch, with a focus (860) 537-3884 drinkramona.com 21 Bank Row on sourcing ingredients locally, catocornerfarm.com New York-based sommelier Greenfield, Mass. and a weekly “Globe Trotting Co-owners Mark Gillman and Jordan Salcito launched her own (413) 475-3570 Dinner” that features a differ- his mother, Elizabeth Lewis wine label, Bellus, in 2012 to magpiepizza.com ent international cuisine every MacAlister BMC ’65, produce 15 introduce wine fans to reason- Bread-baking expert Evelyn Wednesday. There are also aisles raw farmstead cheeses from the ably priced, organically grown Wulfkuhle is co-owner (along full of local fare ranging from pro- 35 Jersey cows that roam freely wines—and she donates a portion with a brother-sister duo) of two duce to craft beers, meats, and raw on their small Connecticut farm. of her proceeds to a variety of popular Greenfield restaurants. honey. Gift baskets are available Cheeses include the award-win- charitable causes. Bellus wines are With an emphasis on locally for online ordering and feature ning Womanchego, Dairyere, and distributed throughout the U.S., grown products, Hope and Olive’s northern Vermont products, from Hooligan, which was selected by and among the offerings is La wide-ranging lunch, brunch, and foods and wreaths to handmade the chef of top New York restau- Vie en Rose (Life in Pink), a dry, dinner menu runs from soups to goat milk soap. rant Eleven Madison Park as his still rosé from California. Salcito’s seafood and salads, while Magpie favorite cheese. You can buy their latest business venture is Ramona, Woodfired Pizza features custom, Shaun Hill ’01, founder cheese online via the Cato Corner a ruby grapefruit wine cooler in wood-fired pies and traditional Hill Farmstead Brewery Farm website. a can. Italian dishes. 403 Hill Rd. Zoe Lloyd ’09, cofounder David Gilberg ’01 and Greensboro, Vt. Carla Goncalves ’01 Zoni Foods [New Hampshire] (802) 533-7450 The Wellesley Hotel (917) 664-9182 Dan Greenspan ’77, owner hillfarmstead.com & Restaurant Dan’s Brick Oven Bread Hill Farmstead Brewery isn’t easy zonifoods.com Thousand Island Park, N.Y. to reach, but that doesn’t stop Lloyd and her co-founder started Richmond, N.H. (315) 482-3698 hundreds of people from trekking Zoni Foods, which sells frozen, (603) 239-8242 tiparkcorp.com plant-based stovetop meals, while dansbread.com through the Vermont country- The former owners of critically both were earning their MBAs. Dan Greenspan’s lineup of side to line up and buy Shaun acclaimed Portuguese restaurant The goal: to “bring justice to our small-batch breads is baked in Hill’s award-winning craft beers. Koo Zee Doo in Philadelphia, chef bodies and to the earth by chang- his home-based kitchen in a tra- Lauded by Vanity Fair and The Gilberg and pastry chef Goncalves ing what we eat.” By making ditional custom oven fired with New York Times, Hill Farmstead started a new culinary adventure plant-based eating easy and tasty, local wood. His breads begin with was rated Best Brewery in the last year in the Thousand Islands Zoni aims to improve health and freshly milled, organic whole World for five of the last six years region of New York. The husband mitigate environmental degrada- grain flour, and are available by RateBeer.com; its beer is avail- and wife team is running the tion. The company sources organ- at a handful of small stores able throughout Vermont and at Wellesley Hotel & Restaurant in ic, local ingredients to make the regionally and via selected home the brewery. Thousand Island Park, a quaint meals, which are available in nat- delivery. community on Wellesley Island. ural food stores in Connecticut. [Rhode Island] Open seasonally from Memorial [Vermont] Sarah Turkus ’10, co-owner Day through Labor Day, the MID-ATLANTIC Amy Trubek ’85, co-owner Sidewalk Ends Farm hotel’s restaurant offers fine din- Windfall Orchards Providence, R.I. & Seekonk, Mass. [New York] ing, serving dinner and Sunday 1491 Route 30 (617) 817-6598 Ray Gish ’87, owner brunch. For the coming season, Cornwall, Vt. sidewalkendsfarm.com Commonwealth Bar the couple will add to the eating (802) 462-3158 First established in a residential 497 Fifth Ave. options in town with the opening windfallorchardvt.com area near downtown Providence, Brooklyn, N.Y. of The Guzzle, which Gilberg Along with her husband, chef R.I., Sidewalk Ends Farm was (718) 768-2040 describes as a hybrid diner/ice Brad Koehler, Amy Trubek owns originally founded by Fay commonwealthbar.com cream shop with a deli counter Windfall Orchards, where they Strongin ’10 and two other Kentucky native Ray Gish and a convenience store. grow the heirloom apples that women and has since expanded opened Commonwealth Bar in produce their Hard Cider, Ice to a second location in Seekonk, 2004 in Brooklyn’s Park Slope [Pennsylvania] Cider, and Perry, a fermented Mass. The organic farm serves neighborhood, and it has since Jon Myerow ’85, drink made from pears. Ciders as an educational space for local become a low-key and popular owner of three popular are available for sampling in the schools, universities, and summer neighborhood hangout. Featuring Philadelphia restaurants tasting room from May through camps, and its CSA (Community beer, bourbon, free popcorn, and Tria Cafe Rittenhouse December. The two also prepare Supported Agriculture) a jukebox chock-full of indie 123 S. 18th St. and host pop-up dinners through- subscription program provides rock classics, Commonwealth (215) 972-8742 out the year, featuring local vegetables and flowers for pickup also offers specialty cocktails. Tria Cafe Wash West cuisine. in Providence and Seekonk. The And when it’s warm outside, the 1137 Spruce St. (215) 629-9200

48 Haverford Magazine Tria Taproom refined and simple, elegant and Heather Sperling ’05, Jessica Moy ’04, co-owner 2005 Walnut St. approachable.” Orman, who co-owner Enter the Cafe (215) 557-8277 worked in restaurants in New Botanica Restaurant 1401 Powell St. triaphilly.com York before moving to Austin 1620 Silver Lake Blvd. San Francisco, Calif. More than a decade ago, Jon with his family, has taken an Los Angeles, Calif. (415) 967-3276 Myerow opened the first of his unusual approach to running (323) 522-6106 enterthecafe-sf.com two award-winning, Philadelphia- the business. He and his partner botanicarestaurant.com Jessica Moy and her husband, based Tria Cafes, which are have eliminated tipping in their Named one of LA’s 10 best new Swarthmore ’02 alum Aurelio wine, beer, and cheese bars that restaurant. They instead apply a restaurants in 2017 by Los Angeles Perez, met while attending law boast no televisions and serve 20 percent service charge to every Magazine, Silver Lake-based school in California and last year European-style light gourmet fare. check and ensure that all of their Botanica is an eatery and food opened Enter the Cafe, at the edge The Tria Taproom on Walnut is workers earn a living wage of at market, situated in a refurbished of Chinatown and down the block the newest member of the Tria least $14 an hour. liquor store and co-owned by from where Moy’s mother’s family family, serving wines, cocktails, Heather Sperling and her business grew up. Moy is still a practicing and craft beers. MIDWEST partner, both former food writers. attorney, but on early mornings [Wisconsin] The creative menu features local and weekends she works at the SOUTH Phil Bilodeau ’96, co-founder and healthy veggies, grains, spices, shop, which features coffee, milk [North Carolina] Thief Wine Shop & Bar dairy, and seafood, among other tea, mochi waffles, ice cream, and Ari Berenbaum ’01, owner 400 North Water St. things, with dishes changing by sandwiches, often with an Asian- Ninth Street Bakery Milwaukee, Wis. the season. fusion twist. 136 East Chapel Hill St. (414) 277-7707 Paul Underhill ’88, co-owner Durham, N.C. thiefwine.com [Colorado] Terra Firma Farm (919) 688-5606 Sommelier Phil Bilodeau is Lauren (Bruner) ninthstbakery.com cofounder of Thief Wine Shop P.O. Box 836 Robydek ’05, owner Ari Berenbaum was a sociology and Bar, which has locations in Winters, Calif. Nothing Bundt Cakes graduate student at UNC Chapel Milwaukee’s Public Market and in (530) 795-2473 10449 Town Center Dr., Suite 500 Hill before he got into baking, suburban Shorewood, just north terrafirmafarm.com Westminster, Colo. Co-owner Paul “Pablito” becoming a baker and production of the city. Both spots serve more (303) 248-7224 Underhill is a partner in 200-acre manager at Durham’s Ninth Street than 30 wines by the glass, taste, nothingbundtcakes.com/bakery/ Terra Firma, an organic farm Bakery, and then setting out or flight along with a light menu, co/westminster on his own with Berenbaum’s, and both have an adjacent retail located north of San Francisco. Whether it’s bundt cakes, “a data-driven, open-sourced, shop featuring hundreds of wines Focusing on ecologically sus- Bundtlets, Bundtlet towers, or sliding-scale food concept” that from around the globe. tainable agriculture and year- bite-size Bundtinis, Nothing sold baked goods at a stand near round employment for workers, Bundt Cakes is the place to go for the Durham Farmer’s Market. WEST the farm offers three sizes of bundt fans. The Las Vegas-based CSA (Community Supported In 2013, he bought Ninth Street [California] bakery chain has more than 200 Agriculture) boxes packed with Bakery, a long-standing Durham Tim Richards ’10, owner locations in the United States fruits and veggies that are deliv- institution. Established in 1981, The Philosopher’s Stoneground and Canada, and Lauren Bruner ered to subscribers, retailers, and the bakery serves a huge variety Sprouted Nut Butters Robydek owns the Westminster, restaurants in the Bay Area and of organic baked goods, and since Santa Cruz, Calif. Colo., franchise, which offers a beyond. Berenbaum arrived, they’ve added thephilosophersstoneground.com variety of flavors and hand-deco- even more breads, sandwiches, Philosophy major Tim Richards Jennifer Waits ’89, co-owner rated bundt treats. and recipes to the bakery and cafe. began developing his sprouted Waits-Mast Family Cellars almond butter recipe in 2012 San Francisco, Calif. FRANCE SOUTHWEST while living in a communal, (415) 405-6686 Lukas Völlmy ’96, owner [Texas] food-focused household in waitsmast.com Microcosmos Chai Urbain Adam Orman ’96, co-owner Northern California. Today This award-winning, boutique 42 rue de l’Evêché L’Oca d’Oro his Santa Cruz-based company winemaking operation was Marseille, France 1900 Simond Ave. sells organic, small-batch stone- founded by Jennifer Waits and 33 6 87 15 60 98 Austin, Texas ground coconut butter, sprouted her husband Brian Mast, who microcosmoschaiurbain.com (737) 212–1876 almond butter, and chocolate produce mainly small lots of Located in Marseille’s city center, locadoroaustin.com versions of both. They’re avail- single-vineyard pinot noir (as Microcosmos was the first urban Food and wine enthusiast Adam able at health food markets in well as some sauvignon blanc and winery established in France. Orman cofounded L’Oca d’Oro California, Oregon, Washington, rose) from independent growers Owned and managed by Swiss (Golden Goose) with Chef Fiore and Nevada, as well as through in Anderson Valley, Mendocino patent attorney Lukas Völlmy ’96 Tedesco, placing an emphasis the company’s website and on County, and Mendocino Ridge. and his wife, Fabienne, the winery on locally sourced foods and Amazon. Waits describes herself and Mast makes and sells wines made from pastas, cheeses, and breads made as vintners, or wine merchants, grapes grown in the vineyards in-house. When Austin Monthly who work closely with an on-staff of Provence that surround named it the city’s best new winemaker to produce their Marseille, focusing on single restaurant in 2016, they cited wines; they’re available through parcel organic wines. the menu, “which borrows from the company’s website and at different parts of (Italy’s) cuisine, select retailers and restaurants (and) straddles the line between nationwide.

WINTER 2018 49 Roads Taken and Not Taken

Alex Shahla ’07 Looking back on it now, years later, the moment I am still struck I vividly remember the day by most is when I watched my my parents abandoned me at parents’ Louisiana license plate Haverford College. disappear in the distance. It was My arrival at Haverford in- actually that moment at Haverford volved a 1,300 mile drive with that the seed was planted for my them from our home in Baton first book, an epistolary novel Rouge, La. It was only a three-day titled Lying to Children. The story journey, but it felt like The Lord of comes from my general nostalgia the Rings—all three books. In ret- for home and the emotions I felt rospect, it would have been better during that adjustment to college to fly, but there’s always a silver life. It is told from the perspective lining and in this case it’s that of a father who is coming to terms when you’re 18, spending three with his daughter and son depart- days in a car with your parents ing for college. He is writing the is enough “quality time” to last book to—and for—them and for years. recounts stories, large and small, After our adventure, we from their childhoods. said our farewells and my par- The father is the typical sub- ents dropped me off at the side urban dad. He likes Nerf guns. entrance to Barclay. As they He drives a minivan. He has a started to drive away, I remem- particular affinity for cookies. ber thinking, “What? That’s it? His children are his life and their Shouldn’t you at least get somebody to My four years at Haverford flew by. leaving is difficult for him. Luckily, he sign for the delivery?” It seemed like During my time there, I went to music does not have to endure it alone; he is such an underwhelming moment for and improv shows in Lunt Basement. joined by his wife. His companion. His what was possibly the most important Watched, but didn’t understand, rugby conscience. At times, she’s the only thing event in my life to that point. I didn’t games. Attended—and survived— keeping him from breaking down as he realize it at the time, but I was being Haverfest. Majored in Classics. Tried struggles to say goodbye. At its core, the bombarded by all the bittersweet emo- and failed to understand the different book is a father’s love letter to his chil- tions I should have felt months earlier split-level floors in Gummere. Ventured dren—his method of coping with his (but was too focused on my impend- off campus to take in all the Main Line children’s departure. ing break for freedom to recognize). had to offer—in particular, one hibachi Each year, millions of kids enroll in Naturally, I called my parents minutes restaurant that closed its doors after my college. Many leave home; some don’t. after their exodus and voiced my dis- friends and I graduated. (Coincidence? But for all, it presents a difficult transi- pleasure. I’m pretty sure this encouraged I think not!) tion. I know it was for me. My book is them to drive faster. My parents’ departure was the end dedicated to my parents, and although With their departure, I was scared, of an era: my childhood. I was lucky I the stories in it are entirely fictional, nervous, uncertain about what lay had Haverford College waiting for me the emotions are real. When writing it, ahead. However, any questions I had afterward. There, I formed friendships I drew from what I felt many years ago were quickly answered by my Customs that have lasted to this day, and built the on Barclay lawn, as I watched my par- People—two college sophomores by the confidence and skills needed to conquer ents drive away. names of Whitey and Flanders. I knew any professional task, including surviv- Alex Shahla is a recovering lawyer liv- when I met them that gone were the days ing law school, and even becoming a ing and writing in Los Angeles. Lying to of being tucked in and kissed goodnight. novelist. Children is his debut novel. But much to the credit of Whitey and Flanders, they were the perfect surrogate parents—especially for college freshmen CARE TO SHARE YOUR STORY of roads taken (or not taken) who lived on diets of cheesesteaks, pizza, since graduation? Drop us a line: [email protected] and chicken wings.

50 Haverford Magazine giving back

Funding the Haverford College Experience Why the endowment matters.

averford was founded in 1833 through “subscrip- tions” given by a handful of local Quakers, and we depend on this legacy of Hphilanthropy today. Annual gifts help support today’s operating needs and equip the College to respond nimbly to challenges and opportunities. As a perpetual institution, our future rests squarely on securing our financial resources for tomorrow. And that’s where the growth and vitality of the endowment play a key role: Without the generosity of our alumni, parents, and friends, the College simply would not be able to deliver the full Haverford experience—or preserve the academ- ic programs, facilities, campus activi- ties, and financial aid that define the College’s character. We asked Chief Investment Officer Michael Casel and Senior Vice President for Finance Mitchell Wein to explain the endowment—how it works, and what it means to the operation of the College. Don’t student revenues cover the over time, but every Haverford alum has What is an endowment? cost of running the college? benefited from the endowment. An endowment fund supports the insti- Net student revenue generates less than tution, for the life of the institution. In two thirds of the College’s annual oper- How does the endowment factor our case, that means forever—or in ating revenue. Last year, the College’s into the College’s budget? perpetuity. total operating expenses, measured on Last year, the College’s annual operating a per-student basis, were a little over budget was $100.7 million. Roughly one What does it enable the College $77,000. The total cost of attendance, quarter of that was funded from spend- to do? including tuition, fees, room, and board ing withdrawals from the endowment. If The endowment allows the College to this year is $68,712. Therefore, each there were no endowment, the College provide an exceptional program that’s student, in the aggregate, receives some would very simply not be the same greater than what we could otherwise subsidy from the College’s other reve- place. The academic program, student afford, given student and other revenues nues, including annual giving and the experience, financial aid, many support

PHOTO: JIM ROESE alone. endowment draw. The numbers vary functions, and the College’s facilities

WINTER 2018 51 would not be able to be funded at a peer institutions and what you want to Today, that $1 million gift has grown to rate even close to what we are able to compare. In the most recent endow- over $100 million, and it now generates do today. ment study conducted by the National over $1 million of income per year for Association of College and University the College. So gifts today, regardless of Is that why the endowment was one Business Officers, Haverford had the the size, contribute to the College now of the Lives That Speak campaign 52nd largest endowment per student and will help grow and sustain the insti- priorities? among the 800 reporting institutions. tution in perpetuity. Yes. An endowment gift in support of a Endowment per student is often used specified program—such as a financial to compare institutions because it is a How does the College determine aid scholarship—supports that pro- relative measure of financial resources how much to draw from gram in perpetuity. A gift might endow to support a school’s enrollment levels. the endowment each year? a building or a faculty chair, it could be Schools can have wildly different total The College draws from the endowment for the library, or academic support, or it at a rate of around five percent, which is could be an endowed scholarship fund. determined by the multifaceted, Board- But there are also unrestricted endow- The endowment gifts approved spending policy, which has ment gifts. These gifts are very valu- that we receive support not changed in a number of years. This able, because they can be used for any annual draw from the endowment is approved College activity and provide the current generation intended to be fully sustainable for many flexibility in long-term planning, and generations to come and still provide the in dealing with unforeseen events, like a and are invested, incredibly important funding needed market downturn, should other sources generating a return over to support the academic program and of revenue decline for a short period. student experience. If, and as, long- time to support term investment returns moderate So there are different kinds of in the years to come, the Investment endowment gifts? future generations. Committee and full Board may look The endowment is not a uniform pot of to adjust the spending rate in order to money that we can spend on whatever endowment values, but similar endow- balance shorter-term operating needs we like. A majority of the endowment ment per student simply because of with preserving purchasing power into is restricted, which means it’s made up significant differences in the size of the perpetuity. of gifts targeted for a specific purpose institution. Our level of endowment or purposes. When an endowment per student is relatively similar to many So the endowment is not a gift is restricted, the College can only peers, but there are several academic rainy-day fund? use this money for the purpose it was peers, including Amherst, Williams, We don’t treat it that way. It does pro- designated for. But there are also unre- Swarthmore, Wellesley, Pomona, and vide financial stability during difficult stricted endowment gifts. These provide Bowdoin, that have significantly higher economic times, but we’re seeking to enhanced flexibility in the face of future endowment per student. provide support for our programs for- challenges, as well as a means of taking ever. Tap the endowment excessive- advantage of exciting and innovative So how does the endowment work? ly, and you’re spending the College’s programmatic opportunities that come Gifts provide more endowment to future. Consider your own investment our way. spend currently and to invest for the or savings account. If you are retired and future. These three aspects of endow- only have income from your return on How much is the Haverford ment—investment returns, new gifts, savings and investments, if you spend endowment? and spending—must all work together too much of those savings, you will run The last fiscal year-end endowment to grow the endowment and enhance out of money in retirement. But a retired value was approximately $503 million the College’s programs. So the endow- person only needs savings to last a lim- (audited, and as of June 30, 2017). The ment gifts that we receive support the ited amount of time, e.g. while they are endowment has increased since then, current generation and are invested, living. In the College’s case, those “sav- and the most recent, estimated month- generating a return over time to support ings” need to last forever. Donors have end figure, as of Dec. 31, 2017, was future generations. Here’s an example: given with the understanding that the approximately $528 million. The College received an extraordinary endowment supports current and future gift of about $1 million for scholarships generations. Spending more of it today How does that compare to our in the 1950s. At the time, that gift was would unfairly favor current generations peer institutions? supporting scholarships by generat- at the expense of future generations. It depends on how you want to define ing about $40,000 of income per year. —Eils Lotozo

52 Haverford Magazine alumni to provide students with infor- mation about financial planning and the art of effective self-promotion. “I back look forward to working more closely with Alumni Relations and the Center for Career and Professional Advising to provide additional opportunities for giving students and alumni to connect,” says A planning retreat to discuss next steps for MAAG brought together (from left) Jackson, who helped organize the Life President Kim Benston, Rashidah Andrews ‘02, Associate Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Sandra Johnson, Thien Le ‘05, James Pabarue ‘72, Samantha Beers Phillips Skills Workshop event. ‘84, and Peter Anderson ‘92. Julie Min Chayet ’91, who has been involved with the externship program, also saw a need for more multicultural Spotlight on the Multicultural alumni mentoring at the College. After sponsoring three Asian students for Alumni Action Group a shadow day at her workplace last winter, Chayet wondered if she could hen James Pabarue’72 color with the College.” do more for current Asian students. “I arrived at Haverford in “In a relatively short span of time, offered to come to campus for a career the fall of 1968, he was MAAG has made a big impact on stu- panel,” she says. Planned for April is a one of approximately 20 dent career and professional develop- panel discussion that will explore the menW of color in a class of 170. “In 1972,” ment through both formal programs dynamics and power of networking. “I Pabarue says, “only seven or eight stu- and informal mentoring,” notes Associate think the event will also help us further dents of color graduated with our class. Dean of the College and Dean of Career assess student needs,” Chayet says. The majority dropped out for various and Professional Advising Kelly Cleary. “Haverford has a tradition of commu- reasons, never to return.” MAAG offers a steady schedule of nity that provides a nurturing medium As Haverford became a coeduca- programming with an emphasis on for addressing perhaps the greatest source tional institution, it grew more diverse. mentoring activities tailored toward of conflict in the history of the United By 2014, students of color made up current student needs. “I met two recent States and the world, namely, the ability 30 percent of the student body and alums who voiced concern that students of people from different backgrounds, Haverford’s enrollment included more left Haverford prepared to be effective classes, cultures, and ethnicities to live Latinx, Asian, and mixed-race students. employees, but that some were lacking in and flourish in harmony in one society,” “However,” notes Pabarue, “issues con- essential skills for negotiating the practi- says Pabarue. “Organizations like MAAG tributing to historic high attrition and cal aspects of life beyond the Ford,” says alone will not solve this problem, but in lower affinity with the College on the Lamel Jackson ’04. “That’s when the the special world of Haverford College, part of both students and alumni of color idea for the Life Skills Workshop series we may be able to educate ourselves and persisted.” Pabarue worked with admin- was born.” Launched in 2017, the first future generations of leaders to form a istrators and alumni volunteers, and in event in the series created a venue for more perfect union.” —Pat Laws 2015, the Multicultural Alumni Action Group (MAAG) was formed to help ensure an inclusive community where WHAT’S YOUR AFFINITY? all Haverfordians can thrive. “Serving as co-chair of MAAG for Affinity groups connect ■ Athletics Alumni ■ Multicultural Alumni the past three years has been most Fords around shared Network Action Group rewarding because it afforded me the interests and provide ■ Education ■ Public Health opportunity to connect with so many opportunities to engage ■ Fords in Finance ■ Rainbow Quorum members of the Haverford community with each other, the ■ Lawyers Network ■ Scarlet Sages to do meaningful work,” says Pabarue’s College, and today’s ■ Media, Entertainment, co-chair Rashidah Andrews ’02. “Our students in a variety of and Sports ways. Programs offered collective efforts have helped forge rela- by these communities To learn more and get involved with these tionships with current students through are made possible by groups, visit fords.haverford.edu/affinity-groups, active support of events and programs or contact Alumni and Parent Relations at the active involvement of [email protected] or (610) 896-1004. to improve the multicultural experience alumni volunteers.

PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO on campus, and to reconnect alumni of

WINTER 2018 53 back ALUMNI Weekend June 1-3, 2018 giving

lumni Weekend is jam- eight—are planning lots of special activ- Fran Blase, Professor of History Linda packed with old traditions ities to commemorate their milestone Gerstein, and Emeritus Professor of and exciting new programs. occasions. See the complete schedule at History Roger Lane. There will be opportunities fords.haverford.edu and check out your You’ll also have the opportunity toA eat, dance, explore, learn, relax, play class page. to visit with other administrators and with your kids, and much more. faculty members at a wine and cheese Whether it has been five years or YOUR CAMPUS reception, and other events. 50 years since you last visited, we hope The campus is yours to enjoy during you will join us for an Alumni Weekend Alumni Weekend. Visit familiar places FOOD filled with memories, laughter, and fun and enjoy new spaces. Burn calories at Whatever your cravings or preferences, for the whole family. the Arn ’76 and Nancy Tellem Fitness you’ll find delicious choices on campus Center, take a yoga class, check out the throughout the weekend. YOUR FRIENDS exhibition at the Marshall Fine Arts Back by popular demand, the Saturday Reconnect with old friends and make Center, pick up souvenirs at the book- Food Truck Festival on Founders Green new ones. Alumni Weekend brings store, take a student-led tour, or run offers a wide variety of interesting choic- Fords together with gatherings large the Nature Trail. Even recent graduates es. Pay as you go and eat what you wish, and small. Pick a party, reception, or will find new things to see, including but don’t miss this! meet-up and dive in. You’re always in the new VCAM, a totally renovated Saturday’s dinner is “A Cruise Around good company at Haverford. Sharpless, the Arboretum revitalization the Mediterranean,” a feast of flavors Join classmates in applauding our project, and the major construction inspired by Mediterranean cuisine, Alumni Achievement Award recipi- project that is reinventing the library. including spanakopita, spicy chickpea ents, who will be recognized for their stew, chicken tagine, and much more. service to the College, society, and their YOUR MIND professions at the festive “A Toast to Get back into the classroom (or audito- LIVE MUSIC Haverford” event. [For more about the rium) for illuminating, thought-provok- Talented Ford performers will have awards, see p. 56.] ing, panel discussions and class-spon- you dancing, singing, and cheering Volunteers in Reunion classes—grad- sored events, as well as entertaining throughout the weekend. uation years ending in a three or an talks by President Kim Benston, Provost Analog Groove, featuring Rob Staples

54 Haverford Magazine ’73, will bring the blues and R&B. The Shameless Impersonators (Jim Bower ’69, Ken Edgar ’69, Jim Keen ’68, Chris Lane ’69, Bob Stern ’69, and Dave Yager ’71) will remind you of someone. Bridge the generation gap with Rightback—Rosalie Hooper ’12, Tim Hooper ’80, Jeremy Jaffe ’83, Noah Jaffe ’17, Rachel Jaffe ’15, Vanessa Mangini BMC ’83, and Nancy Wolfson BMC ’83. Fan favorite Dingo returns with James Pabarue ’72, Duitch Sloane (wife of Heywood Sloane ’71), Robert Sandhaus ’71, Robert Schnaars (son of James Schnaars ’45), Michael Stehney ’71, and David Yager ’71.

KID-FRIENDLY FUN Show off your family to your College friends, and vice versa. HaverCamp offers daylong child care and fun for kids ages 3-13, and the 20th Annual Family Fun Fair on Lloyd Green features games, bounces, face painting, balloons, and a magician. You can chill with a water ice and soft pretzel—with or without the kids.

ONLINE REGISTRATION opens April 2 at hav.to/alumniweekend.

See the complete schedule at fords.haverford.edu. PHOTOS: MONIQUE BYARS ‘20, COLE SANSOM ‘19

WINTER 2018 55 A Toast to the 2018 Alumni Achievement Award Recipients back

An annual highlight of Alumni Weekend is THE DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT THE PERRY AWARD honors longtime de- recognizing those alumni who have made AWARD recognizes alumni who have made velopment staff member Chuck Perry ’36 outstanding contributions to Haverford, and outstanding contributions to their fields, and is given for exemplary service to Haver- giving to the world. This year, the Alumni Associa- achieved recognition, and brought honor to ford in fundraising. tion will honor the following 16 individuals. themselves and to Haverford. Jerry Anderson ’73 Eldora Ellison ’88 Richard G. Lyon ’68 THE KANNERSTEIN AWARD, honoring Carl Grunfeld ’68 P’10 the legacy and memory of Gregory Kan- THE MACINTOSH AWARD, which hon- nerstein ’63, is the most distinguished THE FORMAN AWARD goes to Haverford ors the late “Mac” MacIntosh Class of award given by the Alumni Association in athletes who have devoted time and energy 1921, Haverford’s first director of admission, recognition of loyal and active support for the to the betterment of society. The award hon- is given for exemplary service in the area of work of the College. ors Lawrence Forman ’60, one of our admission. William V. Dorwart Jr. ’63 P’96 P’97 most outstanding athletes ever. Colin Rule ’93 Elon D. Spar ’83 P’20 Joel R. Censer ’08 Leigh B. James Castanos ’03 THE FRIEND OF HAVERFORD COL- THE HAVERFORD AWARD recognizes LEGE AWARD is given for exemplary and alumni who reflect Haverford’s concern with THE KAYE AWARD, which honors Wil- sustained service to the College by a member the uses to which they put their knowledge, liam Kaye ’54, past president of the Alumni of the greater Haverford community. humanity, initiative, and individuality. Association, is given for exemplary service to Elizabeth Enloe Bruce L. Davidson ’73 the College in career development. Steven A. Drizin ’83 Nehad S. Chowdhury ’98 The awards will be conferred during Alumni Weekend at “A Toast to Haverford” on Sat- THE YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD recog- THE SHEPPARD AWARD, which honors urday, June 2, at 10:30 a.m. in Roberts Hall, nizes promise and accomplishment in alumni the late Director of Alumni Relations Bill Marshall Auditorium. who have graduated in the last 10 years. Sheppard ’36, recognizes service in the Rachel J. Davis ’13 area of alumni activities. Shashi R. Neerukonda ’08 Bruce West ’78 P’09

HELP WANTED Your experience and expertise can for ethical action during summer benefit current Haverford students internships and beyond. ELSI is when you volunteer as a speaker, looking for alumni to lead workshops presenter, or facilitator. on leadership and ethical decision- making across several sectors, The Haverford Innovations including global health, public health Program (HIP) fosters innovation and health care, Philadelphia-region and entrepreneurship through skill- social sector work, international building workshops, speakers, and development, and the professions. a summer incubator program. HIP seeks volunteer professionals to The Public Policy Forum invites run training sessions in social media Deb Perlman ’00 (left) and Rebecca Saxton-Fox ‘06. students to present policy-related marketing, market research and research and learn more about analysis, business consulting, future thinking, start-up funding, careers in public policy at a daylong event in March. The Public and financial literacy and management from a chief financial Policy Forum is seeking alumni panelists who are willing to officer perspective. HIP is also looking for alumni to offer share their career journeys and speak of how their Haverford workshops on negotiation and presentation skills. experiences shaped their paths, and whose work intersects with public policy on a variety of topics including education, foreign The Ethical Leadership Summer Institute (ELSI), held policy, housing, justice, big data, policy in the developing world, on campus in late May, jump-starts students’ preparation for health policy, and environmental policy. ethical decision-making in applied contexts, frequently drawing on alumni-generated case studies to prepare participants TO VOLUNTEER, visit hav.to/2gw. PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO

56 Haverford Magazine class news

The new VCAM plays host to Crosslisted, a weekly gathering of students, faculty, and staff working with the Hurford Center for the Arts & Humanities.

Due to privacy concerns, the Class News section is not included in the digital edition of Haverford Magazine. To get updates on your classmates and other Haverford grads, sign in to the alumni community, fords.haverford.edu. PHOTO: COLE SANSOM ‘19

WINTER 2018 57 Due to privacy concerns, the Class News section is not included in the digital edition of Haverford Magazine. To get updates on your classmates and other Haverford grads, sign in to the alumni community, fords.haverford.edu.

58 Haverford Magazine news class

Due to privacy concerns, the Class News section is not included in the digital edition of Haverford Magazine. To get updates on your classmates and other Haverford grads, sign in to the alumni community, fords.haverford.edu.

alumni obituaries

Rowland Greenough Skinner died bulldog, Butch, and the family basset hound roles over the years. While at Choate, he coau- 35 Nov. 18. He was 103. He enjoyed a mix, Long John. thored the book Understanding and Enjoying long career as a CPA with Haskins & Sells (now Adolescence, which was adopted as a textbook Deloitte & Touche), and later Master Video William Noble Wingerd died Dec. by other independent schools. When Wingerd Systems Inc., which bookended Army service as 43 18. After Haverford, he entered the retired from teaching in 1991, he returned to a statistical control officer and captain with the Army Air Corps, supplementing his duties with Chambersburg, Pa., where he served a term on 29th Tactical Air Command. He married Delma study at the University of North Carolina and the boards of the Area School District and the Stickell in 1944, and over the years they loved the University of Chicago. After his service, two Franklin Learning Center for Special Children. to travel together, especially by ship. Skinner years of law school persuaded Wingerd to pur- was passionate about military history, especially sue a career in education. He taught mathemat- Wingerd was married for 28 years to Jane the Civil War, and music, especially by Russian ics before obtaining a master’s degree in clinical Steiger. She, their three sons, Mark, Fredric, and composers. He is survived by Delma and by his psychology at Penn State. He served as a guid- Peter Wingerd ’77, and two grandchildren, daughter, Pamela. He was predeceased by his ance counselor and principal in Pennsylvania survive him. Wingerd was preceded in death by son, Lawrence, in 1971. A dog lover his whole and Delaware schools before joining the Choate his brothers Edmund Wingerd ’38, Joseph life, Skinner was also predeceased by his English School, Conn., in many teaching and leadership Wingerd ’39, and Daniel Wingerd ’46.

WINTER 2018 73 David Stokes, 94, died Sept. 28. He Nicholas, who died in 2015. He is survived by and her arboretum. She was preceded in death 44 worked as an electronic technician his sons, Colin, Robert, and Jonathon; daughter by her husband, Morse. She is survived by two in the Navy before joining the F.J. Stokes Pamela Elliott; and his grandchildren and great- daughters and a granddaughter. Corporation, then working as a director and vice grandchildren. president of marketing for several companies. George E. Ruff, 89, a psychiatrist He became president of The Quadrangle Betty Keith Freyhof Johnson died 49 who helped select NASA’s Mercury independent living community in Haverford, 47 Sept. 18. She was 95. Johnson earned astronauts and later was a professor at the Pa. Stokes also served as a trustee emeritus a master’s degree at the College before serving University of Pennsylvania, died Sept. 29 at the College, Abington Memorial Hospital, in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation of a variant of Parkinson’s syndrome. Ruff and Teton Science School, and as trustee at St. Administration in Germany during World earned his medical degree from Penn in 1952 John’s Hospital Foundation. He was a lifelong War II. She was the first elected female chair and completed a psychiatric residency at the athlete, playing squash and tennis in retirement. of the Board of Trustees at Wellesley College, University of Michigan. From 1957 to 1959, He and his wife enjoyed life at their house at her undergraduate alma mater. She sat on he was on active Air Force duty, assigned to Lake Paupac, Pa., where they spent time with the boards of Seven Hills, the Adolescent the Aerospace Medical Laboratory as chief family and friends. In 1988, the couple moved Clinic at Children’s Hospital, the YWCA, the investigator of the stress and fatigue section to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where they lived for Greater Cincinnati World Affairs Council, and at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. 20 years before returning to Philadelphia. CORVA, and was a dedicated member of the In that role, he helped choose America’s first Throughout his life, Stokes gave generously to Christ Church Cathedral. Johnson spread her men to go into space. In 1959, Ruff joined the many nonprofits and individuals and with little energy throughout Cincinnati, her home, at faculty of the Penn School of Medicine, where fanfare. He was married for 68 years to Joanne the Playhouse in the Park, the May Festival, he cofounded the section of geriatric psychiatry.

IN MEMORIAM

J. MORRIS “MORRIE” EVANS ’43 1991, the J. Morris and Anne T. Evans Fund was established at Haverford Haverford College Emeritus Board Member J. to catalog and digitize the Cope Evans Collection of letters, which Evans Morris “Morrie” Evans ’43 of Gwynedd, Pa., who began donating in 1992. That collection includes letters, diaries, and other served as president of the Corporation for most materials that offer scholars a rich picture of both Quaker and everyday of the 1980s and generously supported Magill life during the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as insight into issues of Library, died Dec. 16 at home. He was 96. economics, reform education, and science. As a Haverford student, Evans was active Over his life, Evans was deeply involved with both of his alma maters, in Students’ Council and served in several class Germantown Friends School and Haverford College, where he first officer positions, trading off the top spot— became a board member in 1968. He went on to serve as president of the president—with his classmate, the late John Corporation from 1979 to 1988 and vice president from 1972 to 1979. C. Whitehead ’43, during junior and senior Later he became an emeritus member of Haverford’s Board of Managers. years. He was also an athletic powerhouse in Evans’ lifelong love of sailing influenced his art collection and amplified soccer and track & field and even tried his his interest in the packet ships of Quaker merchant Thomas Pym Cope, hand at basketball. Evans captained both the about whom he wrote a book in 2002. Evans also was involved with track and soccer teams, won the coveted Varsity various community groups, and worked to preserve woodlands and fields Cup, and was voted an All-American for soccer along the Wissahickon Creek. After serving for nine years on the board of in 1940. In 2009, he was inducted into the Foulkeways at Gwynedd, a continuing-care retirement community started Thomas Glasser ’82 Hall of Achievement, which by Quakers, Evans helped to found Friends Life Care, a nonprofit that recognized him as “one of the finest multi-sport helps the elderly age in place at home. He is survived by five children and athletes in the history of Haverford athletics.” their spouses, 19 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. Shortly after Evans’ graduation from Haverford, he married Anne Tall, a high-school classmate from Germantown Friends School. They raised WILLIAM J. MARSDEN ’78 five children and were an inseparable couple for 68 years, until her death William J. Marsden Jr. of Avondale, in 2012. Pa., a member of the Haverford Board They began their lives together in 1944, while Evans served his country of Managers and the Corporation, as a conscientious objector during World War II, assigned to manual and a nationally known trial attorney labor on farms. Following the war, he became an accounting clerk at who specialized in patent litigation, the Philadelphia Quartz Co., which had been started by his great-great- died on Oct. 14 at Christiana Hospital grandfather to make soap and candles and later transitioned into the following sudden cardiac arrest. He manufacture of soluble silicates, eventually becoming the PQ Corp. was 62. He rose through the ranks of PQ, becoming vice-president and It was Marsden’s experience at treasurer; developing new markets in Mexico, Europe, Pakistan, and South Haverford that led to his decision to America; and gaining a seat on the board of directors. In 1973, he was join the Religious Society of Friends. named chief executive officer and chairman of the board, and by the mid- After Haverford, he worked as an 1970s the company had grown to serve diverse global markets with 62 intern for the Friends Committee on plants in 17 countries on five continents. National Legislation in Washington A historian by avocation, Evans spent considerable energy indexing D.C., where he met his wife of 37 the contents of more than 2,600 family letters, diaries, and records that years, Ellen Jones Marsden. spanned nearly two centuries, or six generations, from 1732 to 1911. In Marsden graduated from the

74 Haverford Magazine Ruff retired from Penn in 1995 as professor Princeton Seminary. He pastored churches Norman “Skip” Mattson died Sept. emeritus, but continued his private practice. throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia. A 53 13. He served in the U.S. Navy for A devoted family man, Ruff read widely and lifelong advocate for civil rights, fair housing, 14 years, including both active and reserve traveled to five continents. He enjoyed music, and social justice, he served several terms as a duty. He married his wife, Olivia, in 1956. The photography, business, sports, and gardening, city councilman while in Morgantown, W.V. family lived in Texas, California, and Hong and was a thoughtful friend and generous Throughout his life, Doane had a passion for Kong, and traveled far and wide to Australia, mentor. Besides his wife of 65 years, Jean, he music. He especially enjoyed singing, whether Indonesia, Thailand, Tahiti, and Fiji. Mattson obituaries is survived by daughters Lynne, Susan, Carol at family campfires in Michigan, or locally, worked for many years as a human resources Wilhelm, and Nancy Bolgard; a son, John; and with the Lancaster AARP and Symphony executive for pharmaceutical companies. He 10 grandchildren. and his wife retired to Tucson in 1995, where Choruses. In retirement, Doane enjoyed family he volunteered with their church and led the John W. Doane, 88, died Sept. 10. gatherings, traveling throughout the U.S. and committee to build a new facility. Six years later, Canada, spending time at the family’s summer 50 He was a Presbyterian minister and a he and Olivia returned to Texas to be closer to alumni second-string goalie for the 1948 U.S. Olympic home on Crystal Lake in Beulah, Michigan, their daughters’ families. There, Mattson served soccer team. Following his marriage in 1951 to sailing, swimming, playing tennis, reading, and as a board member of his homeowners’ and Marian Edwards, Doane attended Le Sorbonne, refereeing local high school track events. He is church boards. Since he loved driving, he also Paris, France, where he and Marian worked survived by his wife, Marian; his four children, kept busy chauffeuring grandchildren to school for the Presbyterian Foreign Missions to help Jonathan, Christopher, Jennifer Cross, and events and activities. He patiently taught two refugees from the Eastern Bloc. Upon his return Elizabeth Richard; six grandchildren, and 2 granddaughters to drive. In 1998, he and Olivia to the U.S., he received a B.D. and Th.M. from great-grandchildren. took the entire crew (daughters, spouses, and

University of North Carolina School of Law in 1983 and began working and connecting them to community service opportunities, died Dec. 9. with the firm of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, focusing on intellectual She was 84. property law. His natural curiosity about the intersection of science and Allen joined Haverford’s staff in 1981 for what was supposed to be an law and his perseverance made him well-suited to handling these 18-month appointment as the director of Eighth Dimension, the College’s complex cases. community outreach office. She stayed for 34 years. In 1982 she was After 16 years at Potter, he moved on to Fish & Richardson, the oldest tasked with founding the Haverford College Women’s Center, and she and one of the largest patent firms in the country. Marsden opened Fish’s worked directing both offices until her 2015 retirement. Delaware office in 1999 as its only attorney and one of three employees. Created as the College transitioned into a coeducational institution, the In the 18 years that followed, he expanded the office to employ dozens Women’s Center served as an important support for female students in the of attorneys and staff, all of whom were inspired by the example he set. previously all-male environment and provided a place on campus focused He was a zealous advocate for his clients, yet a courteous and respectful on issues of gender, sexuality, sexual health, and women’s rights. As its opponent. A committed lawyer, Marsden also believed and taught that mission evolved into serving students across the gender spectrum, Allen family must come first. He stepped forward to be accountable when things made sure its services, programming, and resources grew with it. did not go well, and stood back to ensure others got credit for the many “Because of Marilou and the visionary leaders at the College in the victories in which he played a great part. Integrity, judgment and good 1980s, the Women’s Center [became] an important space and voice for humor were his hallmarks. women entering a historically male institution,” said Associate Director Although his life’s work was as a patent attorney, Marsden was of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship Janice Lion back in 2013, extraordinarily multifaceted. His joy was horticulture, and he was a proud when Allen was honored with the National Women’s Studies Association’s and devoted steward of Crestfield Farm in New Garden Township, on Founders Award. which his children grew up as the fifth generation. He was a lifelong Allen’s relationship with Haverford, however, began many years before student with interests in many fields—most recently at the Mt. Cuba she became an integral member of its administration. A lifelong Ardmore Center in Delaware, where he learned about native wildflowers, shrubs, resident, she first worked on campus cleaning professors’ houses. In 1964 and trees in one of America’s finest wildflower gardens. she helped launch Serendipity Day Camp, an affordable summer camp for Marsden was a dedicated volunteer who chaired New Garden local families that was—and is today—held on campus. She served as the Township’s Zoning Hearing Board and served Haverford in a variety of camp’s director from 1984 until her retirement. significant ways. In 2006, he joined the Corporation, and in 2011 he During her tenure at Haverford, Allen also served as one of the became a member of the Board of Managers. His work on the College’s College’s Equal Opportunity Employment officers and Affirmative Action Lives That Speak campaign, for which he served as planned giving co-chair, officers. In those roles, she was an invaluable resource for staff and a force was integral to its success. He also enjoyed for equality across the community. golf, was a curious and adventurous Allen attended nearby Lower Merion traveler, and loved the arts, history, and High School and earned her B.A. and M.A. culture. Above all, he was devoted to his from Antioch University. She also earned her large, extended family. MSLP from Bryn Mawr College’s Graduate Marsden is survived by his wife, Ellen; School of Social Work and Social Research. his children, Benjamin Marsden ‘08, In addition to her work at Haverford, she was Emma Marsden ‘13, and Margaret; his director of program services of the Girl Scouts sisters, Jo Ann and Gloria; and a devoted of Greater Philadelphia for seven years, and circle of extended family, colleagues, did extensive volunteer work with a variety and friends. of organizations, including the Girl Scouts, From All Walks of Life, Eldernet/Lower MARILOU ALLEN Merion Coalition of Aging, the United Way, Marilou Allen, who served the Haverford and the Ardmore Avenue Community Center. College community for more than 30 Allen is survived by five children, eight

PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO (MARSDEN); STUART WATSON (ALLEN) years by supporting students on campus grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

WINTER 2018 75 grandchildren) on an Alaskan cruise, which Association for the History of Religions. He is Gerald “Jerry” Hough Jr. died of earned him the title “Captain Papa.” Mattson the author of numerous works, including Map Is 72 cancer Oct. 7 in Madrid, Spain. He spent took great pleasure in the accomplishments Not Territory, Imagining Religion, To Take Place, his career in the creative side of the advertising of his wife, children, and grandchildren, and and Drudgery Divine. He was also the editor of industry. After six years in New York, he was always generous and willing to help. He The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion. Smith accepted an opportunity in Singapore in 1979, was preceded in death by his wife, Olivia. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago saying, “Working in New York is like hitting is survived by daughters Merrilee Kuylen, in 1968 and remained there his entire career. against Bob Veale every day.” His career took obituaries Melanie Millard, and Melina Miers, and by six From 1973 to 1982 he assumed administrative him to Hong Kong, Mexico City, San Antonio, grandchildren. responsibilities and served as associate dean and and for the last decade of his life, Madrid, where James “Jim” Wallace, 88, died Oct. 9 then dean of the college. He is survived by his he owned his agency and lived with his wife, after a long illness. He earned a master’s degree wife, Elaine; daughter, Siobhan; and son, Jason; Margarita. In 2007, his novel, Expats, about a at Haverford. After working for the American and by a granddaughter. Jerry-like character, was published. Friends Service Committee in Mexico and alumni Chicago, Wallace taught school in New Jersey Richard A. Morris, 74, a homebuilder On February 17, 2015, Gerard and New Hampshire. In 1966 he completed 65 who went on to do housing research, 79 “Gerry” Haubrich lost his six-year his Ed.D. at Harvard, and moved his family advocate for cost-effective and affordable battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife to Oregon to teach at Reed College. He went housing at the National Association of Home Lee A. Albright; and children Bradford, Georgia, on to work for two years for the Oregon Builders, and write four novels, died Nov. 21 Maxfield, and Theodora. Gerard was employed Teacher Standards and Practices Commission in Baltimore, Md. He served as a rifle platoon at Drinker, Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia before enjoying a long and fulfilling career as leader in Vietnam in 1967–68 and earned a for 25 years, where he served in numerous a professor in the Education Department at master’s degree in business administration roles, including his most recent as director of Lewis & Clark College. He was a gifted, caring, from Harvard University. He founded a information security. committed citizen, administrator, teacher, housing company and later worked at NAHB writer, and scholar. He loved music and played Research Center in Washington, D.C., until Thomas Karl Voelkel, 57, died a mean piano, entertaining at family gatherings his retirement when he was diagnosed with July 20. He earned a master’s degree and holidays, belting out songs from the old 83 multiple myeloma in 2004. Morris devoted in fine arts from Claremont Graduate days. Everybody sang with him, and those who most of his time after his diagnosis to writing University in 1988 and lived much of his life played other instruments joined in. He knew novels and working at Goodloe Memorial in and around Santa Cruz, Calif. He was an how to make everyone feel appreciated. He is Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bowie, accomplished woodworker, and worked in survived by his wife, Mary Guenther; daughter, Md., where he directed the choir for 12 years. various occupations at the intersection of art Tina Tau; son, Richard; stepdaughter, Anna and construction. He was also an avid climber, Guenther; and six grandchildren. He was Morris’ novels covered topics of war, peace, environmentalism, and interfaith understanding. whose accomplishments included summiting predeceased by daughters Kathryn Cramer and Yosemite’s Half Dome. Voelkel married Sirima Barbara Conde. He was an accomplished singer, with many roles in local choral and musical productions. Morris Sataman in 1988. The couple’s son, Madison, is survived by his wife, Barbara; son, Alexander; who survives him, was born in 1993. He and Keith J. Hardman Jr. died Oct. 2. at Sirima parted in 2005. 54 age 86. He studied at the Princeton daughters Jennifer Sheppard and Audrey Theological Seminary, Columbia University, Engdahl; and six grandchildren. Julie (Peavyhouse) Melnyk died Dec. and the University of Pennsylvania, earning his Michael Rainey died Dec. 7. He had 22, having been diagnosed exactly doctorate at the latter. For 35 years, he worked fought a valiant battle against Alzheimer’s 86 one year earlier with incurable pancreatic as a professor of religion and philosophy at disease for the past 10 years. He earned a Ph.D. cancer. She studied at Oxford University and Ursinus College. He also served 12 Philadelphia- in sociology at Yale in 1970 and worked in the University of Virginia, where she earned a area churches in 20 years as interim pastor. In medical sociology, first at the University of Ph.D. A devoted wife and mother, she was also retirement, he taught Sunday school. Hardman Southern Illinois at Carbondale, Ill., where a much-loved scholar and teacher of English and his wife, Jean, traveled all over the world. he initiated a pre-med program. He was then literature, first at Central Methodist University He planned tours to Israel, Europe, and Alaska the dean of students at the Medical College of and later at the University of Missouri. She is for many years. He also loved to restore antique Loyola University in Chicago for 20 years. His survived by her husband of 29 years, Andrew, cars, read, write novels, work with stained glass, final professional appointment was at Stony and their two children, Stefan and Christopher. draw cartoons, and paint with oils. Hardman is Brook University in Long Island, New York. A survived by his wife, with whom he celebrated voracious reader, Rainey was also an early 54 years of marriage in June; children Colleen user of internet services both for research and for Christopher Bradford Johnson, John, Carolyn, and Keith; and six grandchildren. fun, once connecting with every other Prodigy 94 45, died of natural causes Oct. 5 in user with the same last name. He had a creative Portland, Ore. After Haverford, Christopher Theodore Robeson Bledsoe died spark as a longtime follower of Frank Lloyd worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in New 55 Dec. 17 of heart failure in Forest City, Wright’s architecture and also as a talented pen- York City for several years before earning a N.C. After graduating from Haverford, he and-ink artist. He was an enthusiastic amateur law degree from Boston College Law School. attended the University of Pennsylvania School photographer, capturing sunsets at his family’s In his usual unconventional way, to prepare of Medicine. Bledsoe had a radiology practice beloved Chesapeake Bay retreat. Rainey married for the law boards, he spent the summer in Bethesda, Md., for many years. He enjoyed Martha McGarity in 1999, and she predeceased camping in national parks throughout the music, travel, and talking about World War II. him in 2015. West. Christopher practiced law for several years in Minneapolis, Minn., and then moved Jonathan Z. Smith died Dec. 30. to Portland, Ore., where he worked in film 60 He was the Robert O. Anderson Robert “Bob” Stewart died Nov. distribution. Christopher had many interests Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the 71 17 after a brief but courageous battle including riding his bike, baseball (he was a Humanities at the University of Chicago. He with pancreatic cancer. He was a Temple Law Yankees fan), writing short stories, and painting. earned his Ph.D. at Yale in religious studies in graduate, a respected attorney, and a former He was known for his quick, clever sense of 1969. In 2013, Smith was awarded an Honorary district attorney. Stewart was a Civil War buff humor and was loved and respected by a wide lifetime membership in the International and enthusiastic reenactor. circle of friends from all over the country.

76 Haverford Magazine Founders Great Hall served as the College’s dining hall for more than 60 years, until the Dining Center opened in 1969. Since then, the majestic room has been a busy special events space, hosting invited speakers, student dances, alumni weddings, and concerts, like this 2016 performance by the Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges.

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