The View from Founders High Rocks Connection Jonathan Snipes ’82 Interim President Changing the lives of girls Saving the Farm Joanne V. Creighton in rural West Virginia

The Magazine of Haverford College FALL 2011

All About 10 GROUPS,HUNDREDS OF SINGERS,30YEARS OF HISTORY ACappellaACappella 24 30

Michael Kiefer Contributing Writers DEPARTMENTS Vice President for Samantha Drake Institutional Advancement Emma Eisenberg ’09 Sari Harrar 2 View from Founders Chris Mills ’82 Elizabeth Foy Larsen 4 Letters to the Editor Director of College Communications Mara Miller ’10 Eils Lotozo Alison Rooney 6 Main Lines Communications Editor Contributing Photographers 14 Ford Games Rebecca Raber Dan Z. Johnson Associate Communications Editor Nora Landis-Shack ’13 17 Faculty Profile Debbie Leter ’15 Tracey Diehl Peter Tobia 22 Mixed Media Graphic Design Steve Woit 49 Roads Taken and Not Taken Eye D Communications Jonathan Yu ’12 50 Giving Back/Notes From the Alumni Association On the cover: The 2011-2012 Haverford College Humtones, the 55 Class News 31st generation of the school’s oldest a cappella group, singing in Roberts Marshall Auditorium. Photo by Dan Z. Johnson. 65 Then and Now

Back cover photo: Student seminar, circa 1955. Courtesy of Haverford College Archives. The Best of Both Worlds! Haverford magazine is now available in a digital edition. It preserves the look and page-flipping readability of the print edition while letting you search names and keywords, share pages of the magazine via email or social networks, as well as print to your personal computer. CHECK IT OUT AT haverford.edu/news/magazine.php Haverford magazine is printed on recycled paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste fiber. fall 2011

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FEATURES 27 New Focus on the Environment 40 The High Rocks Connection The just-launched Tri-College Environmental Studies An education and leadership program in rural West Program offers students across the three campuses Virginia provides a life-changing experience for the an interdisciplinary approach to some of the crucial girls it serves—and for the steady stream of Haverford issues of our time. students who have found internships and jobs with By Eils Lotozo the organization. By Emma Eisenberg ’09 30 COVER STORY: Harmonic Convergence Haverford’s a cappella tradition is only 30 years old, 45 Saving the Farm but it has become a driving force. What is it about Jonathan Snipes ’82, and his family, rejected the offers these student-run singing groups that makes them of developers and instead turned the land that has been such an important part of life on campus? theirs for 10 generations into a model of community- Plus: “The Voice Doctor” (Robert Sataloff ’71) centered agriculture. By Rebecca Raber Plus: Down on the Farm in Austin (Carrie Kenny ’93) By Sari Harrar 37 A Heart for Healing Phua Xiong ’91 defied the expectations for girls in her Hmong culture by going to college and becoming a physician. Now she runs a St. Paul medical practice that takes an insider’s approach to the health needs of her community. By Elizabeth Foy Larsen

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nique. Purposeful. Rigorous. Intimate. These words kept coming up in conversation when I talked with friends and colleagues about my initial impressions Uof Haverford. And midway through the first semester of my interim presidency, I am now finding myself adding another word to that lexicon: Fortunate. I join you at a time of great upheaval in higher education, as both the nature and purpose of learning in collegiate and university settings undergo tremendous change. Part economic, part demo- graphic, much has changed in the forty-plus years that I’ve been teaching, administering and learning. And with this evolu- tion—some might say revolution—has come the realization that many of the old rules and solutions no longer seem to apply. Yet I’m finding that Haverford is particularly well-posi- tioned to both withstand and take advantage of the changes sweeping the landscape. A little background. With more than 4,300 accredited institutions educating well over 18 million students, the rapid growth in higher education during the last several decades has been fueled by some dominant trends. Meanwhile, Haverford (and many of its peers, though Haverford in particular) remains “contratrend.” Here’s what that looks like:

Higher education trends Haverford Large Small Public Private Urban Bucolic To help answer this, I’d like to share some survey information Cosmopolitan Community-centered with you—no, not from the US News and World Report rankings, Career-prep Liberal arts so flawed, so correlated in many of its spurious metrics with Non-residential Residential wealth, where Haverford ranks tenth this year despite the fact Diverse and nontraditional 18-22-year-olds (although that its financial resources are a fraction of most others in the top student populations increasingly, and deliberately, ten. (In this, as in so much else about Haverford, our academic reflecting diverse backgrounds) accomplishments “outperform” our financial assets.) For-profit Nonprofit A more revealing top ten list can be derived from a survey of Value-neutral education Value-laden education focused students who applied to Haverford. It was conducted by the College on intellectual and moral Board and tallies the number of “cross applicants” among various development colleges. So where else do prospective Haverford students apply? 1. Swarthmore 6. Harvard What should we make of—and with—this contrarian status? 2. Brown 7. Amherst How can we ensure that the liberal arts experience—and the 3. Yale 8. Middlebury uniquely rigorous and intimate Haverford experience—is rare 4. Princeton 9. Wesleyan and transformative rather than declining and vestigial? 5. Williams 10. Vassar PHOTO: PETER TOBIA PETER PHOTO:

2 HaverfordMagazine Here’s my takeaway. First, obviously, we’re in excellent com- of interim president, I’m now convinced that Haverford is also pany. Students who think of Haverford are also thinking of fortunate because it has the luxury to be what it quintessentially these other fine schools. While we are smaller than our peers— is: an intimate, purposeful community with a fierce commitment in terms of student body, alumni, endowment and ability to to intellectual and moral freedom that transforms young people’s market ourselves—we more than hold our own in competi- lives and produces what the world needs and values: honorable tiveness. Clearly, there must be something about Haverford that leaders and problem solvers who serve their communities, what- draws students to our doors and keeps us a peer with the best ever and wherever they may be. (I’ve discovered that you often institutions in the country. call it, simply, “being Haverfordian.”) What could be a more pos- The answer, in my view, is revealed in data from the College itive outcome than that? Board and other sources which show that Haverford applicants During this transitional year while the search for the new —and, if they choose to attend, our students—are attracted to president takes place, I am committed to finding collective strength the College because of priceless assets, including our: in these potent values that emanate from the College’s core of n Reputation for academic excellence being and to moving forward without interruption on important institutional goals. That’s my job, which I undertake gladly on n Selectivity in attracting diverse students animated behalf of this truly great institution, one that is so humble by by both intellectual curiosity and moral passion nature that I, as an admitted outsider, am probably the only n Strong teacher/scholar/mentors person among us who is permitted to use that adjective without n Intense, rigorous and intimate learning environment sounding boastful! n Stunning campus with state-of-the-art academic facilities A final thought: I said that I’ve added the word fortunate to the (now growing) list of attributes that I have been using to n Appealing location that is both bucolic but describe Haverford. But I’m finding that the word applies to me, fashionably “urban” as well too: fortunate to have this opportunity to become a bona fide n Connections to other institutions that counterbalance Haverfordian myself. And that is a true privilege and pleasure. its “contratrend” smallness I look forward to meeting you as the year unfolds and hope n Living Honor Code that infuses academic and social life you will continue to help Haverford be Haverford, for in so doing, And while we must, as caretakers of this institution, preserve you are ensuring that the College will continue to thrive well and build the financial foundation of Haverford, arguably the into the future. greatest assets are the inestimable, Quaker-rooted values passed down generation to generation and now part of the fabric of My very best wishes, Haverfordian life, values so memorably articulated by Isaac Sharpless in 1888: For your consciences and your judgments we have not sought to bind; and see you to it that no other institution, no political party, no social circle, no religious organization, no pet ambitions put such chains on you as would tempt you to sacrifice one iota of the moral freedom of your consciences or Joanne V. Creighton the intellectual freedom of your judgments. Interim President As a newcomer to the institution, I see clearly that these ideals are the sine qua non—by far the most determinative attribute— that makes Haverford uniquely Haverford. And while I suspected it when I first talked with the Board of Managers about the role

Fall 2011 3 letters to the editor

The 1967 photo (above) that was part of I am the guitar player on the left in the out competitor in this picture is in mid- our “Then and Now” feature on the inside paisley shirt. To my right (to the left of throw or, looking again, perhaps has back cover of the last issue (Spring/Summer the picture) is Jim Clifford ’67, playing already thrown the knife. His opponent 2011) evoked a flood of memories among mandolin. To the right of Jim is George is looking down seemingly sliding his alumni who wrote in to help us put names Stavis ’67 [back to the camera], playing right foot out to the knife’s edge. The on the figures in the picture. banjo. —Gregg W. Jackson ’69 fans are transfixed by the action. Thanks for the memory! I had the eerie experience of remembering Several writers explained what the small —Jeff Averick ’70 the event, and the viewpoint of the picture, group seen in the distance on Founders taken from Founders porch, gave me a Green was up to. The game in the background is definitely queasy, out-of-body-experience kind of Stretch, which was responsible for many feeling. Sure enough, there I am on the We used to play “Stretch” most every wasted hours, mostly after dinner, in right side, wearing a pair of white trousers, evening after dinner in front of the ’60s at Haverford. … One of the dirty with my left hand in my pocket… I think Founders, using kitchen knives. There secrets of the era was cutlery pilferage I can identify the young woman who was was a rule about how far to either side in the dining room, and Stretch was with me, but I am not sure she would of either foot (one knife length?) you a factor. —Mack Lindsey ’69 appreciate having her identity revealed, could throw the knife in the ground and so I will keep the secret. She is a very nice force your opponent to stretch out his (Note: That’s Lindsey in the center of the Bryn Mawr girl I still think of from time (or her?) foot that much farther to the photo, wearing glasses and a white shirt to time. —Philip J. Tramdack ’70 side. It appears that the most stretched and carrying a book.)

4 HaverfordMagazine And for those who wrote in wondering that I don’t even know if there still is a if that was philosophy professor Aryeh Haverford swim team at this time, yet I Kosman on the guitar in the picture, the have here in my hand a trophy with a professor emeritus of philosophy confirms: male swimmer statue on an Italian marble base with a little plaque on the front that “True indeed. I’m the young man in the says: “1967, Bob Anderman, Haverford center with my knee bent. Notice the 62 – Swarthmore 43.” necklace I was wearing, not to mention I trust [the omission] was an oversight the head of real hair.” … or, was it because no one on the cover was as scantily clad as we were “in uni-  form” for our meets and races? One eagle-eyed reader raised this question  Thanks for doing the magazine, about our “Jacob Jones lives on” ad for We also heard from quite a few readers —Robbie Anderman ’70 planned giving on the back cover: about our cover story on athletics. I thought the collage of historical I was reading the Jacob Jones snippet on I was dismayed that your article “A sports figures on the cover of the Spring/ the back cover of the last magazine issue. Championship Athletics Program” omit- Summer [issue] was inspired. Then I saw It states that Mr. Jones left his bequest in ted the accomplishments of the nation- two of my classmates and was delighted 1896. I then looked at the photo of the ally ranked men’s lacrosse team. … until I looked at the key on page 31 in plaque just above the text, and it says Coach Bathory led the men’s lacrosse which they were identified as “members that Jones died in 1885. Did it really take team to a conference championship and of the 1963-64 fencing team.” A lot of 11 years for his bequest to become the quarterfinals of the NCAA tourna- us are still alive and would have been “active”? —Daniel Fromowitz ’95 ment in 2010. This past spring, the team happy to tell you they are Robert made its sixth consecutive Centennial Feinland and Dennis Carson. All in all, The answer: As in the case of most wills Con-ference tournament and led the it was a good issue, but still … since women historically outlive men, his nation in man-down defense. Four team —Bert Umland ’66 estate benefitted his wife until her death, members were named to the Division III at which time the estate was distributed All-American team. I hope a future article to Haverford. will spotlight these impressive student CORRECTION: A caption on page 26 athletes. —Sarah Sangree P’12 in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue mis- identified the coach pictured. He is Colin Any picture that purports to show HC Bathory ‘99, head lacrosse coach. We athletic history/tradition and does not regret the error. include Karl Paranya ’97, the first DIII runner to break (by a lot) the four-minute mile, has to be bogus. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! —Bob Colyer P’05 Let us know what you think about the magazine and its contents. Send us an A great edition of the Haverford magazine, email at [email protected] once again. My compliments. I keep Or write to us: learning from Haverford alumni and stu- Haverford magazine dents. Way to go, Way to be. Haverford College Office of I also enjoyed the cover with all the Communications athletes, yet I was surprised to notice that 370 Lancaster Ave. Haverford’s swimming team … was total- Haverford, PA 19041 ly absent from the cover photo. I admit

Fall 2011 5 main lines Basketball Blogger Goes “Classical”

or a certain sort of bas- new project. “And getting read- ketball fan—erudite, ers to fund the start-up of a new obsessive, interested in site, what better way to say, Fthe broader story ‘This is not a secret club’?” beyond the wins and losses— Though Friedman and his FreeDarko was a must-read. collaborators were waiting to see The blog, with its irreverent, if they would make their initial quirky long-form posts celebrat- $50,000 goal before deciding on ing playing style and a macro a launch date, The Classical's view of the sport, and the two creators are hopeful that the site stylishly illustrated, conceptual will be live later this fall in time books it spawned (2008’s to catch the delayed start of the The Macrophenomenal Pro basketball season, assuming the Basketball Almanac and 2010’s NBA lockout can be resolved. The Undisputed Guide to Pro (By the time you have this mag- Basketball History) spoke to an Freelance writer and Classical azine in your hands, it should be underserved niche of readers: founder Nathaniel Freedman ’00 up and running; check theclas- aesthetes more interested in the (above). The Classical’s logo (left) sical.org for updates.) was designed by Jacob Weinstein lore of the game than the ’01, the artist behind the unique In many respects, the writing match-recap approach of main- artwork on the blog FreeDarko. style for which Friedman has stream sports journalism. And become famous—metaphorical though you probably never obscurity about it that seemed a broad range of sports (soccer, yet tactical, influenced by an knew it, because the members funny at the time,” he says of college football, baseball, omnivorous intellectual curiosi- of the collective that maintained his former blog, “but at the end Ultimate Fighting, etc.). ty that goes beyond the world of FreeDarko all wrote under of the day, a lot of what was To keep it from being yet sports—is a product of his time pseudonyms, it was created by a amateurish about FreeDarko another blog, Friedman and his at Haverford. Ford. The site’s main writer, was very much the style of it collaborators raised more than “There are books that I read Bethlehem Shoals, is actually and its affect.” $55,000 via the online fund- in college that I still have my Nathaniel Friedman ’00. Now, he says, he’s ready to raising platform Kickstarter to copies of that were huge influ- “I always forget that I’m run a more “professional” site. support their business model ences on me,” he says, noting conducting a career under a So Friedman, along with a host (which includes paid writers that his broad knowledge of stupid made-up name,” says of other interesting, left-of-cen- and a small editing staff) before many different fields, which is Friedman, a freelance writer ter names in sports and pop cul- anyone had even written a evident in his prose, is a result whose work has appeared in ture writing—from WFMU’s word. Friedman hopes that of a liberal arts education. Sports Illustrated, McSweeney’s The Best Show host Tom audiences paying into the “It’s sort of funny that I still and The Nation, among other Scharpling to writers for Vice, process of starting The Classical know enough about contempo- publications. GQ, Pitchfork, Sports Illustrated will feel a commitment to the rary Jewish theology to every Despite FreeDarko’s popu- and The Wall Street Journal— final product, which means a once in a while insert a refer- larity, Friedman, who now lives dreamed up a new site that is built-in community of readers. ence into a piece of basketball in Seattle with his wife and decidedly un-bloggy. The “That sense at FreeDarko writing. But I also think it says newborn daughter, shut the site Classical, which takes its name that we were trying to start a lot about the way I’ve come in April, believing it had run its from a song by the British post- some kind of secret club, that is to think about sports, and the course as a blog. punk group The Fall, will be a what I really want to leave role Haverford may have played “There was a deliberate daily web publication covering behind,” Friedman says of his in that.” —Rebecca Raber

6 HaverfordMagazine IN THE GALLERY

More Seuss!

e last wrote about renowned Dr. Seuss scholar and collector Charles D. Cohen ’83 in the spring 2009 issue of the magazine. That article featured some Wpretty fabulous photographs of Cohen’s collection of “Seussiana,” a trove that includes 1,000-plus items. Now we can thank Cohen and his relentless Seussian detective work for bringing to light seven long-forgotten stories by the beloved children’s book writer and illustrator. Jessica Backhaus, Reflection, 2005, C-Print. The Bippolo Seed and Courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery, New York Other Lost Stories by Dr. Through the Plain Camera: Small and Shapely Pleasures Seuss, published in Sep- in Contemporary Photography gathers the work of five photogra- tember with an introduction phers whose pictures describe and yet transcend everyday experience. by Cohen, wouldn’t exist Curated by photographers Sarah Kaufman ’03 and Rebecca Robert- if he hadn’t become curious son BMC ’00, both former students of Professor of Fine Arts William about references to sto- Earle Williams, the show features images of intimate, unposed moments— ries that Theodor Geisel seemingly snapped from the daily lives of the artists—that inspire the (Seuss’s real name) had pub- viewer to look at their commonplace subjects with new eyes. Included in lished in magazines in the Through the Plain Camera are works by Jessica Backhaus, Elizabeth Flem- 1950s. Cohen, a dentist by ing, Vita Litvak, Christian Patterson and Shen Wei. The show runs through trade and the author of Dec. 11 at Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. More information: haver- The Seuss, The Whole Seuss ford.edu/events/exhibits.php and Nothing But the Seuss, set about tracking down those stories, traveling to The College welcomed NPR radio host Terry Gross to Marshall Auditorium in libraries and trolling the web September for a two-hour discussion of her interview techniques and a look to search out old copies of back at some of the best and most challenging interviews of her long public radio the original magazines. What he found, declares Cohen in his intro- career. Gross, the host of NPR’s Fresh Air, has interviewed authors, world lead- ers, movie stars and musicians—both famous and less so—and she told the duction, was “writing and artwork from a transitional period that was audience that she has two different sets of rules for her artist guests and her critical to the development of the Dr. Seuss we know today.” political ones. Gross said she reserves a “tougher” interview style for politicians It seems Geisel had an epiphany in 1950 about the importance and people in power that is designed to get them “off their talking points.” of rhyming in helping children learn new words. And so he began to experiment, writes Cohen, publishing in magazines “tales with lively auditory appeal that he intended to be read aloud to children SOUND BITE “If journalists stop asking by their parents.” In the stories collected in The Bippolo Seed, a rabbit outwits a bear questions of powerful who is ready to eat him; a duck runs afoul of a greedy cat; a goldfish people because it makes named Gustav grows to mammoth proportions; a “strange shirt spot” just won’t go away; and an Ikka, a Gritch, a Grickle and a them uncomfortable, think Nupper follow a little boy home when they hear he’s having steak for supper. As for reading aloud, these stories’ delightful rhymes get about all the questions we celebrity treatment in the audio version of the book, which features wouldn’t have answers to.” a cast of movie star narrators including Anjelica Huston, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Lee, Joan Cusack, Edward Herrmann, William H. Macy —Terry Gross and Peter Dinklage. —Eils Lotozo GROSS PHOTO: JONATHAN YU ’12 YU JONATHAN PHOTO: GROSS

Fall 2011 7 meant to support the courses articles. They know about the he was teaching on the subject. people who are making these Nicholas Lotito ’10, now in statements and how they under- the Ph.D. program in political stand the world. This allows science at Columbia University, us to look past the surface of completed the database the document.” (launched in 2009). Nick Sher Building the Index was a ’10, currently a Ph.D. candidate complex and sometimes frus- in political science at Stanford trating process, says Schaus. University, created the original “Websites with Al-Qaeda state- (left to right) Ryan Rubio ’12, Barak Mendelsohn, Rupinder Garcha ’13, version of the Al-Qaeda Index, ments have been shut down, Magill Library’s Margaret Schaus and Rob Williams ’12 are part of the which began attracting atten- news sources have heavily team that created the Global Terrorism Research Project website. tion in the wider academic abridged the statements— world soon after its launch. sometimes without indicating But another of Mendelsohn’s the edits—and videos of Indexing Al-Qaeda students, Rose Mendenhall speeches do not include tran- ’10, a political science major scripts.” In a serious blow, the n enterprising team Ryan Rubio ’12, a political sci- with a minor in computer Open Source Center, a U.S. gov- of Haverford ence major who handles web science, had an even more ernment agency that provides College student design and administration for ambitious vision for the Al- translations of terrorist state- Aresearchers, led by the site. “It can help researchers Qaeda Index. “She took my ments, decided to restrict access Assistant Professor of Political to see trends and identify if the ‘Introduction to Terrorism in June 2009. The Center, Science Barak Mendelsohn, is Al-Qaeda rhetoric is shifting or Studies’ class, and she came to which had provided many of aiding the study of terrorism if their organizational strategy me and said, ‘I do computer the translated statements in the with a new website that is changing.” science and I saw the database. Index, now only allows govern- launched in September. According to Mendelsohn, I think we can make it better,’ ” ment employees and contrac- Three years in the making, the author of Combating says Mendelsohn. tors with security clearances to the Global Terrorism Research Jihadism, the new website has “Rose laid out an amazing see the statements it gathers. Project website (gtrp.haver- one of the largest collections of theoretical framework for what To fill the gap, Magill Library ford.edu/aqsi/) includes an translated Al-Qaeda statements it could be and should be,” says sought a subscription to SITE extensive resources section with in the world that are in a uni- Rubio, who took over the proj- Intelligence Group Monitoring links to books, journal indexes, form format and easy to search. ect from Mendenhall, who Service, a terrorism research news, blogs, and other websites “The site is an amazing team plans to attend law school next website whose more typical on terrorism and international effort and a testimony to the year. In fact, Mendenhall used clients are think tanks, govern- security. The centerpiece of the extraordinary ability of our the project as the focus of her ment agencies and corpora- site, though, is its unique Al- students,” he says. senior thesis, which won tions. “They had no pricing Qaeda Statements Index, a col- That teamwork started back Haverford’s Herman M. Somers model for a college and had no lection of more than 300 state- in 2007, when Mendelsohn Prize in Political Science. idea how to give us access,” ments issued by the group enlisted Margaret Schaus, bibli- With the help of funding says Schaus. “But they agreed dating back to 1994 that are ographer and reference librarian from the Provost’s office, Rubio and have been very helpful.” indexed based on critical key at Magill Library, to help gather worked on campus through the However, due to license restric- words and phrases. The State- resources for his “Evolution of summer building the website tions, users of the website ments Index allows visitors to the Jihadi Movement” course. and refining the Index. Working outside of Haverford cannot find out, for example, how “We also started collecting alongside him were fellow stu- see SITE’s documents in the many times Al-Qaeda’s leaders Al-Qaeda statements and then dent researchers Mathew Cebul Al-Qaeda Index. have declared the U.S. “an it became a natural thing ’13, Rupinder Garcha ’13 and While Mendelsohn, who enemy of Islam,” in what con- that the library would help Rob Williams ’12, who, often hopes to expand the website text they have mentioned the [Mendelsohn] preserve them,” gathered around a table in team going forward, credits group Hamas, and what they says Schaus, who has played an Zubrow Commons, did the his students and their Magill have said, specifically, about important role in the creation of actual indexing of the Al-Qaeda Library collaborators for the Afghanistan, Pakistan and the new website. statements. success of the project, they other countries. Mendelsohn’s students soon “They are trained as readers, demur. “It’s Barak’s knowledge “It allows you to drill down got involved and began work and they have been working and expertise and his ability to and analyze the collection of on a terrorism database (the with the team for a while,” says inspire students that are the key statements as a whole,” says forerunner of the new website) Rubio. “They have read journal factors here,” says Schaus. —E. L. INDEXING GROUP PHOTO: NORA LANDIS-SHACK ’13; LUTNICK PHOTO: PETER TOBIA PETER PHOTO: ’13; LUTNICK LANDIS-SHACK NORA PHOTO: GROUP INDEXING

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he railroad has been an impor- the College’s 5,000-piece permanent col- tant subject for photographers lection. Both shows run through Dec. 4. lines since the earliest days of the medium. Two shows on campus You Are Here: Exploring the Contours

T main explore that fascination and reveal the of Our Academic Community Through ways railroad imagery has evolved since Maps runs through Feb. 10 in Magill the 19th century. Walker Evans in Color, Library’s Sharpless Gallery. This exhibition in the Atrium Gallery of Marshall Fine displays maps (in- Arts Center, consists of 32 rarely seen cluding rare exam- color photographs of railroads and rail- ples from Special road cars done for Fortune magazine in Collections) that the 1950s by a photographer best known were selected and for his images of Depression-era America. Walker Evans, Frisco Railroad Box Car (1956-57), interpreted by Hav- The Railroad in the Landscape, in the digital color print. erford faculty, staff Alcove Gallery of Magill Library, displays and students and photographs that date from 1869 to the present and includes images shows the array of forms maps can take, the by William Henry Jackson, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand and Scott many functions they can serve, and the mean- Conarroe. Nearly all of the photographs in these shows come from ings they can embody. ON CAMPUS

Howard Lutnick ’83 (above) was a featured speaker at Family and Friends Weekend in October. Lutnick, the chairman and CEO of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 employees in the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11, spoke about rebuilding the company in the aftermath of that tragedy. Lutnick, whose younger brother Gary was among the dead, told of the motivation that drove his efforts to keep New Dorms Update the company not just going but thriving: “I said if we’re going to go back to work, it sure as hell isn’t for money … there’s only one reason to go With both the underground utility installation completed and the to work and that is to help the families of our friends that we lost.” Or- concrete floors poured for the first floors of Kim and Tritton halls, phaned as a teenager, Lutnick also credited his experience at Haverford work is now underway on the exterior walls of their first floors. with inspiring his desire to give back. “When my father was killed my According to Director of Facilities Management Ronald Tola, the first week at Haverford College,” he said, “my sister was going to the floor slabs for the second floors of the building are expected to be in by the end of November, and the bricks are in transit and should University of Rhode Island, a big—giant—school, and they told her if start going in during the first week of December. Both Kim and she couldn’t pay she should be a waitress. But Haverford called and said, Tritton halls will be completed and ready for student move-in by the ‘Your four years are free.’ ” His parting words to the audience: “You can beginning of the next academic year (2012/13). Follow along with change someone else’s life, just as Haverford did for me.” To watch his the buildings’ progress (complete with a live video feed of the talk, go to hav.to/lutnick construction site) at haverford.edu/newdorms.

Fall 2011 9 Whitehead Internship Program Gives Students a Glimpse of the Business World

ndrew Bostick ’12 specifically [that of] corporate isn’t your typical development, mergers and finance intern. The acquisitions, and strategy—and AEnglish major spent the vital role that those skills his last two summers undertak- and competencies play in the ing sustainable-agriculture success of a firm,” notes internships sponsored by the Jennings, who interned for a Center for Peace and Global division of GE Capital, in the Citizenship. But with his senior summer of 1998. “I learned how year approaching, Bostick decid- to apply the critical thinking and ed that he needed some expo- analytical skills I was learning at sure to the business world. So Haverford in practical applica- last summer he took an intern- tions and, more than anything ship at Aberdeen Asset else, I learned the value of ask- (left to right) Andrew Bostick, Ian Goldberg and MaryAlice Postel Management, the third-largest (all ’12), three of the 16 students selected for the 2011 Whitehead ing the question ‘Why?’ ” money manager in the world. Internship Program. When Jennings took his job “I think a business internship with De Lage Landen and is a great training ground his or her foot in the door at services company. returned to the Philadelphia area because it exposes liberal arts big businesses.” Anthropology major in 2005, he decided to sponsor students to the fundaments of [a “It’s a great experience,” says MaryAlice Postel ’12 used her his own interns as a way to repay vocation],” says Bostick, who Liza Jane Bernard, executive Whitehead Internship stipend to the program that so influenced also recently picked up a second director of the CDO and the fund a summer at the Waterford his career trajectory. major in economics. coordinator of the Whitehead Group, a new investment advi- “Given the significant posi- Bostick’s internship was Program. “And it’s a win-win sory firm, where she worked in tive impact that the Whitehead made possible by the White- situation, because our alumni marketing, public relations and Internship Program has had in head Internship Program, which get to feel more attached to the social media. my life and career, I felt that it is run by the Bi-Co Career College and, in return, they “What I was most interested was important to give back and Development Office (CDO) to get the gift of help from a in studying and experiencing provide other Haverford stu- encourage rising Haverford jun- sharp intern.” was whether the culture of a dents with an opportunity simi- iors and seniors to engage in The program, launched in new financial firm and the pres- lar to mine,” he says. summer work related to entre- 1992, has grown in both popu- sures to grow, make money and A common refrain from preneurship, small business, larity and competitiveness each succeed within the intense members of the 2011 internship venture capital or finance. year. This year’s cohort of 16 is competition of the marketplace cohort is that the program gave Created and funded by entrepre- the largest yet. In its 20-year his- could co-exist or even benefit them “real-world experience” neur Herbert Slotnick ’44 in tory, the Whitehead Internship from principles consistent with that enhanced their classroom honor of John Whitehead ’43, Program has placed close to 200 the Haverford Honor Code,” education and helped them the program not only generous- students in entrepreneurial or she says. “I found a place, the make decisions about their ly funds summer internships, financial work settings, while Waterford Group, where it can.” future careers, which, according but helps match students each broadening its scope from sim- Matthew Jennings ’99, to the CDO’s Bernard, is exactly year with alumni sponsors. ply serving economics students now a program manager for the the point. (Applicants may also design interested in finance to funding Construction, Transportation Andrew Bostick has already their own internships.) other kinds of small-business and Industrial Global Business had the opportunity to make a “The program is important internships, such as those in a Unit of De Lage Landen, career decision thanks to the because it leverages alumni theatrical producer’s office or at doesn’t just hire Whitehead Whitehead Program. His intern- contacts in order to connect an independent record label. interns; he was one himself. ship at Aberdeen Asset Manage- liberal arts students to the busi- One student, Nick Farina ’10, “The Whitehead Internship ment was such a success that ness world,” says Bostick. “It even used his Whitehead experience provided me with the company has hired him to can be incredibly challenging stipend to support the launch the opportunity to see an entire- begin full-time in July after his for a liberal arts student to get of his own online financial ly new world of business— Haverford graduation. —R. R. WHITEHEAD PHOTO: NORA LANDIS-SHACK ’13; BROWN PHOTO: ANDREW BENNETT ’14 BENNETT ANDREW PHOTO: ’13; BROWN LANDIS-SHACK NORA PHOTO: WHITEHEAD

10 HaverfordMagazine and music blogs (college-of- ects every couple months. I’m music.com, thissongissick.com) using that to my advantage, I’m AKA Gabriel Stark consistently post his tracks. But outworking everybody.” lines he’s better known on campus Brown’s first foray into by his offstage name, Howard music production on campus Brown ’12. was his Student Arts Fund- Brown, a religion major sponsored album, Creative main from New York, released his Control, which was recorded in latest effort, Thank You Starky, the basement studio in the on October 20. It is, stagger- Dining Center during his soph- ingly, his fifth release, despite omore year and featured vocals the fact that the ambitious from some of the College’s a wordsmith only started his cappella group talent. Shortly recording career a year ago. thereafter, he started recording “I’ve grown so much in his own raps as Gabriel just a year,” he says. “The fact Stark—named for both the that I have a booking agent now messenger angel and comic and that people want me to per- book hero Iron Man’s alter ego. (left to right) Howard Brown ’12 in the studio with DJ Jazzy Jeff and M1. form in Colorado is ridiculous. Though Thank You Starky My first song came out the was only just released, Brown averford’s leafy sub- activity, but it’s where rising rap- Thursday before fall break last is already almost finished with urban campus may per Gabriel Stark got his start. year. I’ve been recording so its follow-up. And he’s plan- not seem like a Stark has been profiled in the much and there’s so much ning on embarking on his first Hhotbed of hip-hop hip-hop press, such as XXL, material that I can put out proj- tour over winter break. —R. R.

THERESA TENSUAN ’89 JOINS OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS

Over the summer, Haverford welcomed Theresa Tensuan greater length about how they and their families see how ’89, formerly an assistant professor in the English depart- their work in the classroom might translate into the work ment, to the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) as its new that they hope to do after graduation. … And you get to director. The OMA implements educational and cultural be witness to the moments when someone has made a programs to improve campus climate and enhance com- breakthrough.” munity life at Haverford. In its effort to help the College Tensuan has already implemented several new OMA realize its commitments to diversity, it also works with the initiatives, including an internship program, a Sunday Sup- Office of Admission to recruit and retain students from per Series (which brings invited guest speakers together diverse backgrounds and supports many different cultural with small groups of second-year students over dinner), and ethnic student organizations. Tensuan replaced Fred- and the OMA Passport (which helps introduce new stu- eric MacDonald-Dennis, the OMA’s interim director since dents to different on-campus organizations). Tensuan is September of 2009. also preparing to introduce a Curriculum Initiative for Con- Tensuan is also the new Dean of Multicultural Affairs. centrations, which provides support for faculty members As such, she counsels designated student advisees on off- to collaborate with students and staff on the creation of and on-campus resources, academic matters and immediate and future new courses for OMA partner concentrations (Latin American and Iberian plans, and offers general support. She also advocates for and supports the Studies, Africana Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality specific interests and needs of multicultural Fords, such as students of color Studies, and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies). and LGBT students. “I want students to know that the OMA supports the entire campus,” “What I'm finding as a dean is that you get a kind of 360-degree per- she says. “Every single student on this campus is bringing something to spective on a student's life,” Tensuan says. “You see how she's working to the community that no one else is bringing. I want students to know that juggle four courses, a campus job, team practices and a key roles in a the OMA is a place to discover that, draw that out and foster it. My door student organization. You have the opportunity to talk with students at is wide open.” —R. R.

THIS YEAR THE COLLEGE unveiled a new concentration in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. The new concentration was devised to give students FYI basic knowledge of the Middle East and broader Muslim world and help them to participate constructively in the many debates that frame public discourse about Muslims and the region today. Learn more about the program’s requirements, courses and faculty here: haverford.edu/meis

Fall 2011 11 Tracking the Spacemen hen the space time more than one manned shuttle Atlantis spacecraft was in orbit launched for simultaneously. Wthe last time in Benham writes that he was July, it marked the end of an era. skeptical when an enterprising But we’ll bet that not too many Philadelphia Bulletin reporter, Fords know that a Haverford hoping to hear the two cosmo- professor helped document the nauts’ voice transmissions from very beginning of that era, outer space, finds a Russian- dubbed the Space Age, starting speaking Rutgers professor and in the 1950s. brings him to the campus track- In a Smithsonian Institution ing station to translate. “We had blog post last summer about to explain,” writes Benham, the end of the space shuttle “how unlikely it was that they program, an archivist wrote would hear anything worth- about digging up an unreleased while first-hand, since the two 1958 Folkways record titled cosmonauts had 24 hours a day Voices of the Satellites! Along during which they could talk to with the sounds of the radio each other, but only about three signals of American and Soviet minutes during each of possibly satellites, the album also four passes a day would they be records the heartbeat of Laika, in our range. Fortunately, we the Russian dog that was one were rewarded by hearing of the first living creatures sent Nikolayev say, ‘They are silent into space. That documentary now,’ to which Popovich replied ‘But not for long.’ ” recording was narrated, it turns T.A. Benham ’38 (bottom), in a 1962 Philadelphia Bulletin photograph, That was pretty thrilling out, by the late T.A. Benham listens in on orbiting Russian cosmonauts in his on-campus tracking station. With him is a Rutgers University professor brought in by an stuff in 1962. “With even these ’38, who taught physics and enterprising newspaper reporter to translate. few words, everyone was engineering at Haverford for pleased and excited,” reports more than 30 years. to build with the help of dish—that housed the opera- Benham. “The area opposite According to an account by Haverford students and friends tion. Benham also reports on the field house was bustling Swedish scientist Sven Grahn, in a large open area south of the the media attention showered with activity for the entire who chronicles the history of field house. Titled “We Tracked on his team’s efforts to track afternoon as other members of the early space race in his own the Spacemen,” the piece Soviet cosmonauts Andrian the press, photographers from blog, Benham, who died in describes the 20-ton Army sur- Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, various news agencies, TV 2006, apparently recorded plus trailer—topped by a donat- who launched a day apart in trucks and movie cameramen many of the static-filled bleeps ed 12-foot-diameter parabolic August 1962—the first arrived.” —E. L. from space heard on Voices of the Satellites! himself, using amateur radio equipment in his CRAFTING THE KANNERSTEIN AWARD home to track early Soviet and U.S. satellites. A new prize honoring the late Greg Kannerstein ’63 was introduced at last May’s Alumni But Benham, who was Achievement Awards ceremony during Reunion Weekend. The Kannerstein Award, which blind and lectured from notes recognizes an individual who, like Greg, has provided sustained service to the College, in Braille, didn’t stop there. brings with it not just the satisfaction of being recognized, but also a beautiful bronze We did a little digging of our medal designed by Philadelphia goldsmith Caleb Meyer ’88, owner of the Caleb own and came up with a Meyer Studio. For Meyer, the Kannerstein connection goes way back. “Greg was at December 1962 article that he Haverford the same time as my dad,” he says. (Meyer’s father, James Meyer ’62, is wrote for Haverford’s then- also a goldsmith.) “And Greg was Athletics Director when I was a student.” Meyer’s design alumni magazine, Horizons, for the medal, which is about three inches in diameter and features a large “H” in the center, was about the “rather sophisticated” inspired by a photo he had of Kannerstein wearing a Haverford baseball cap. “Greg always had one on when he tracking station that he went on went outside, and the “H” is modeled on the one on the cap,” says Meyer.

12 HaverfordMagazine STATE OF THE COLLEGE admission lines

t’s tempting—but per- pool have been breathtaking. main ilous—to describe every In just seven years, we have class as “the best class seen increases of 45 percent in Iever,” for what does that the number of international say about all of you who went students, 64 percent in appli- before? Our own Bill Ambler cants with one or two parents found a way to finesse this. who did not attend college, Whenever alums remarked and 82 percent in the number that they would never get in of students who identify as a to Haverford today, he would student of color. California reply, “If I had the good sense has now passed New York as to admit you then, I’d like to the number-one state in our think I’d have the good sense applicant pool. Eight percent to admit you now.” And of the class is international, though an applicant to including nine students from Haverford today looks very China. different from an applicant 10, Working in admission gives 30, or 50 years ago, the core one the opportunity to be at values of the institution and Jess Lord the frontier of higher educa- the qualities that suggest how tion, witnessing and even a student might take advan- of students accepting our offer enrolling class in Haverford’s affecting the way the world tage of and contribute to the of admission), but in fact yield history. around us changes. Despite the College have not changed increased. While I am not The Class of 2015 includes shifts we have seen, however, much over time. The Class of especially popular with the a congressional House page, a the reasons students are 2015 is an extraordinary housing office right now, such national high school chess choosing Haverford seem group that affirms the endur- a positive response to the champion, a student who cre- unchanged. Students wrote to ing strength and appeal of the opportunity to attend ated a recycling program now us about wanting to live in a Haverford experience while Haverford is tremendously being implemented in the collaborative, intellectual com- evincing the ways higher edu- exciting. Denver public school system, munity that inspires personal cation, the United States and For the Class of 2015, 94 another who conducted biolo- growth and respect; wanting to the world are changing. percent of students were in gy research at the MIT- and be in a community of people The raw numbers confirm the top 10 percent of their Harvard-affiliated Broad who are passionate about this. We received 3,470 appli- high school class. Institute, a captain of a Quiz learning and making a differ- cations, a 5 percent increase The median SAT scores Bowl team that took second ence in their community; and over last year and the second were 700 for the Critical place at the national tourna- wanting to be amongst others highest total ever. We also had Reasoning section, 700 for ment, and another who was who believe that an education a record number of early deci- Math, and 710 for Writing, one of 50 students chosen should be purposeful, prepar- sion applications—6 percent and the 25th to 75th per- from around the world to be a ing us to be engaged members more than last year. We centile for the three sections of Bayer young environmental of the larger world. We are offered admission to 25 per- the SAT are 650-750 for envoy to Germany. This is just thrilled to have the Class of cent of those who applied, and Critical Reasoning, 650-750 a snapshot, but it gives a 2015 here with us on campus, while we were aiming for a for Math, and 660-760 for glimpse of the kind of ener- and look forward to another class of 320 to 325 students, Writing. It bears noting that getic and engaged students extraordinary process as we 335 chose to accept our offer while these measures are just a who have chosen to come to work to enroll the Class of and enroll at Haverford. Every part of how we assess candi- Haverford. 2016! —Jess Lord key indicator actually predict- dates, they represent the The rapidly changing Dean of Admission ed a lower yield (the number strongest figures for an demographics of our applicant & Financial Aid

Fall 2011 13 ford games

Emily Dix ’12, the Equestrian Club’s Haverford liaison, takes a jump. The Bi-Co group, which numbers about 30 this fall, has access to a fully equipped barn and private riding lessons. All in the Game From Ultimate to ice hockey, badminton to crew, Haverford athletes find some serious fun playing all kinds of nonvarsity sports. By Mara Miller ’10

Deep inside the Bi-Co jungle, you can for a trademarked product, and the flying And second, to place even higher and real- hear the Sneetches rumble!” object these players toss is a “disc.” ly push ourselves to the peak of our game.” o, the arboretum is not over- The Ultimate squad, based at Hav- It’s an important step for a team that, run with angry Seussian crea- erford but also open to Bryn Mawr like many of Haverford’s nonvarsity tures. But members of the women, has grown in both size and talent clubs, has long hoped for a little more Nwomen’s Ultimate team, who since its inception. Last spring, the recognition. have been known to chant just such a Sneetches climbed all the way to the “Some people have said it’s not a real battle cry before matches, do in fact wear national tournament, breezing through sport,” says Meg Bishop ’12, who along green stars on their bellies. sectionals and winning regionals outright with Julie Singer ’12 rounds out the team’s They are the Sneetches, a club team in the process. leadership trio. “But we are establishing born in the 1990s when some female Co-captain Aly Lieberman ’12 says the it as something legitimate, something Fords struck out on their own from their team is determined to qualify again, for more than a hobby.” male counterparts. Some know their sport two reasons: “One, to prove to ourselves On the men’s side of Haverford as Ultimate Frisbee, but the official name that it wasn’t a fluke … and we really are Ultimate, Matt Lowenthal ’12 agrees. “We

is just Ultimate—turns out the F word is one of the top 10 teams in the country. are just as serious as varsity players in ’12 YU JONATHAN PHOTOS:

14 HaverfordMagazine the way we approach the game and the can fade in and out of existence as interest of the more advanced riders periodically standards we set for ourselves,” he says. fluctuates, many of Haverford’s athletic travel to compete individually at shows. Though the absence of a paid coach clubs are young. But the Lame Ducks ice Emily Dix ’12, the club’s Haverford or exclusive facilities can be a hurdle for hockey club is one that’s been around at liaison, has been riding since she was club teams, Bishop does see a bright side: least since the 1980s. “[Lots of] people young. “The opportunity to ride was def- “We have complete responsibility,” she with alumni parents have heard stories initely on my radar for all the colleges I says. “Both the successes and failures of about the Ducks,” says Rob Williams ’12, was considering,” she says. Though she the team are all on us, and that’s really now president of the club. initially would have preferred a compet- empowering.” The Lame Ducks welcome everyone itive team, Dix says she’s realized the club In addition to men’s and women’s from beginners to experts. They play setup has its perks. “Looking back, I really Ultimate, there are six other club teams pickup games among three “lines,” called appreciate that I’ve been able to get officially supported by the athletic A-, B-, and C-line, sorted by skill level. involved in other activities on campus, department: badminton, crew, men’s Williams said A-line play can get pretty like Honor Council,” she says. rugby, golf, and men and women’s soc- intense, “but that’s just because it’s more Some Fords are drawn to nonvarsity cer. These teams also receive financial fun to skate hard and take crazy shots.” sports for their flexibility, or for their assistance from the College’s Student emphasis on fun and fitness. But make Activities Office. Students can play no mistake—some, like the Sneetches, There’s also a long list of groups that Ping-Pong, go skiing know how to balance recreation with are classified strictly as student activities results. but that still hold rosters, host practices, or snowboarding, train “I think when people notice that we’re or challenge others in competition. For for a triathlon, or join practicing for two hours every day, or example, students can play Ping-Pong, Haverford’s Cornhole that we always have a disc in our hand, go skiing or snowboarding, train for a we start to break stereotypes and show triathlon, or join Haverford’s Cornhole Ring of Champions. that we’re dedicated,” says Bishop. “We Ring of Champions—which bills itself just have a little more fun.” as the East Coast hub of this Midwestern- “Everyone who comes to Ducks is born bean-bag game that, according to just there to have fun,” he says. And that the club’s website, “combines the skill includes more than a few varsity athletes of horseshoes with the intensity of glad- who take to the ice during their off-sea- iator fighting.” sons. According to Williams, many of And some students, rather than join the talented A-liners are soccer and or form a club, go rogue. Aubrey Clark- lacrosse players in disguise. The Ducks Brown and Isaac Ellman (both ’12 and practice and play at a local rink from also Ultimate players) represented 11 p.m. Saturdays for two hours, and Haverford at the National Collegiate Williams said that, though he’s pretty Croquet Championship, held at nearby sure the odd time slot was chosen for Merion Cricket Club this past spring. budgetary reasons, “the late hours defi- Clark-Brown, whose father coaches nitely contribute to the fun.” Davidson College’s croquet team, has Another unofficial club team, the competed since high school. But this Equestrian Club, has access to a fully marked Ellman’s first foray into compet- equipped barn and private riding lessons. itive croquet, or onto a real court, for that Members of this Bi-Co group, which matter. “We didn’t place, but we still had numbers about 30 this fall, can take eight The Sneetches, the Haverford women’s a good run and enjoyed ourselves,” says subsidized lessons each semester. Like Ultimate team, at one of their daily Clark-Brown. the Ducks, they count both novices and practices. The team climbed all the way Since clubs, both official and informal, lifelong riders among their number. Some to the national tournament last spring.

Fall 2011 15 athletics news games

point average in Division III, and was one of 64 teams to earn USTFCCCA ford 2011 Division III Men’s All-Academic Team recognition. …Both the men’s and women’s TENNIS squads were named Intercollegiate Tennis Association All- Academic Teams. …WOMEN’S LA- CROSSE was named a 2011 Intercolle- giate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Academic Squad.  Annick Lamar ’08 was chosen to repre- sent the United States at the 2011 Pan American Games, which were held Oct. 24-29 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Lamar finished 10th in the 1,500-meter run, besting the other American runner in the race.

After months of design collaboration with Tim Schoch ’12, who was voted the men’s Presto Sports, the athletics department track performer of the year. A two-time launched its new website (above) in All-American runner this past year, August following the migration of data Schoch was joined on the academic all- from the old site to the new one, which area MEN’S TRACK team by Anders has a streamlined navigation style and Hulleberg ’11, the 2010 NCAA indi- gives visitors front-page access to the vidual cross country champion. The all- latest athletics news. Check it out at area WOMEN’S TRACK team included haverfordathletics.com. (We’ve also made Kylie Lipinski ’12 and Christina Neilson it easy to keep up with Haverford athletic ’11. MEN’S LACROSSE placed three events on both Twitter and Facebook.) players on their all-area team—All- Annick Lamar ’08  Americans Travis Gregory ’11, Dillon Athletics welcomed three new coaches, Hamill ’12 and Max Hjelm ’11—while  beginning with the April hiring of All-American Josie Ferri ’12 was voted MEN’S LACROSSE goalkeeper Joseph Michele Benoit to lead the VOLLEYBALL to the WOMEN’S LACROSSE all-area Banno ’12 was named a third-team program. Benoit came to Haverford with squad. All-American shortstop Charles All-American by the United States 16 years of head coaching experience at Carluccio ’11 was joined on the BASE- Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. the Division II and III levels. Shane Rineer BALL academic all-area team by Louis  stepped into the role of interim head DeRosa ’11 and Mike Galetta ’11. The MEN’S SOCCER team went abroad MEN’S SOCCER coach in July. Rineer  during the summer, traveling to Sweden was an assistant at Amherst College last Head men’s and women’s SQUASH Aug. 9-18. Read senior Matt Wetherell’s season after spending two years on coach Niki Clement was granted one blog account of the trip at news.haver- the Villanova University staff. Lauren of four open slots in the 32-player ford.edu/blogs/soccerm/. Wray was hired in August to lead the tournament 2011 United States Open  WOMEN’S LACROSSE program. Wray Squash Championship hosted by Drexel Head WOMEN’S SOCCER coach Jamie arrived at Haverford after spending the University. Clement, who was ranked Gluck participated in the NSCAA past two years as the assistant coach at 103rd in September’s Women’s Inter- Women’s World Cup Tour and Special Temple University. national Squash Players’ Association Topics Course this summer. Read  world rankings, fell in the first round. about her July trip on her travel blog at The Philadelphia Inquirer academic all-  news.haverford.edu/blogs/worldcup/. star teams for spring sports included The MEN’S TRACK & FIELD team post- Get more athletics news at numerous Haverford athletes, including ed the second-highest cumulative grade haverfordathletics.com.

16 HaverfordMagazine faculty profile

distant strangers and render those con- nections invisible,” he says. “This raises important challenges for social justice.” “Globalization” is a term that refers to a breaking down of national borders that has increased the flow of goods, cap- ital and services, as well as cross-cultural contacts and influence. According to Borowiak, globalization studies emerged as a compelling academic subject in the mid-1990s, eventually spawning its own interdisciplinary field. It has been a big year for the political scientist. In the spring he won the Lind- back Award for Distinguished Teaching, given each year to a full-time faculty member in recognition of his or her excellent teaching record. His first book, Accountability and Democracy: The Pitfalls and Promise of Popular Control, was pub- Associate Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak with Christine Letts ’12, lished in September by the Oxford who worked with him to create the Solidarity Economy webpage. University Press. He is also working on a research project on the spread of soli- darity economy practices worldwide. Off campus, Borowiak is part of an Looking at Globalization’s international community of academics and researchers engaged in the study of globalization. Closer to home, he recently New Connections commented on food co-ops for an article From the solidarity economy to the global economy, in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Borowiak introduces Haverford stu- Craig Borowiak helps his students understand the realities— dents to globalization and political theory and possibilities—of the worldwide flow of goods and in a variety of courses, giving them a per- services, capital and influence. By Samantha Drake spective on the world around them both in the classroom and through research activities. “It’s a combination of really raig Borowiak likes to create science from Duke University and an interesting academic focuses and being learning experiences that result enthusiasm for examining issues around on the edge of this new activism that’s in “lightbulb” moments for his globalization. happening in the world,” says Christine Cstudents. He understands the “I have been fascinated by the subject Letts ’12, a political science major from importance of such moments; his own for a very long time,” says Borowiak, an Doylestown, Pa. illumination came in the form of an associate professor of political science, Letts provided her web expertise to undergraduate philosophy class he took who joined Haverford’s faculty in 2004. help Borowiak launch the Solidarity while at Carleton College. He ended up Also fascinating to him is the so-called Economy webpage (hav.to/solidaritye- switching majors—from pre-med to “invisible hand” of the market. “What conomy), which looks at alternatives to philosophy—which led to an interest in interests me is the idea that global mar- mainstream capitalism, such as con-

PHOTO: PETER TOBIA PETER PHOTO: political theory, a Ph.D. in political kets both create new connections among sumer and producer cooperatives, micro-

Fall 2011 17 finance and fair trade movements. It offers Economy Movements seminar. and written reports for the class. Kate links to articles, databases, organizations Borowiak is known for exercises that Monahan, Sofia Athanassiadis and Sam and networks around the world. nudge students into examining how the Fox, all ’14, checked out Poland Spring The webpage is organized into several world around them works. In his Politics brand bottled water, which is produced broad categories, including food and agri- of Globalization course, one of his favorite by a subsidiary of the Nestlé company. culture, land trusts, and currency and strategies is to tell students to look at The students confirmed that the water finance. The page also features a map of the tags in each other’s clothing to see actually is bottled in Maine, as advertised, the evolving solidarity economy in where the item was made. “In a class of but they also discovered the plastic for the the Philadelphia area. Developed by 40 students you invariably have 30 dif- bottles is made in Asia, with associated Cameron Scherer ’11, it is believed to ferent countries represented in their cloth- consequences for the environment. be the first map of its kind of the region. ing tags,” Borowiak says. The exercise Borowiak plans to use his recently “We came up with a list of close to launches a dialogue about what the tags published book, Accountability and 300 organizations that fit our criteria, mean in terms of the global economy. Democracy, in the classroom. “The prin- and Cameron went into the field to check Asked if Borowiak’s classes spark ciple of democratic accountability is the them out,” says Borowiak. “Then she lively discussions, Letts laughs and nods. idea that the people or the citizenry have created an interactive Google map that Says Borowiak: “The more discussion, the authority to demand accountability you can search by category, such as artist the better.” from the sources of power that govern cooperatives or community gardens.” Last spring, Borowiak had his Politics over them,” he explains. He says he wrote “I wanted to push this agenda for of Globalization students research an item the book to provide a clearer understand- myself, and I wanted to have a resource selected from their refrigerator or closet ing of the ways government authorities for students, by creating a webpage,” to find information such as where the raw can be held responsible for their actions. Borowiak continues. Soon after the web- materials come from and where the prod- “I saw the proliferation of accountability page went live in September 2010, he uct is made, as well as the company’s labor discourse [occur] without much preci- made it available to members of an inter- conditions and environmental record. sion. So I embarked on the book to clarify national research network, and it has since The students then teamed up to create the meaning.” become a resource for other academics. posters tracking one chosen commodity’s Borowiak is spending the 2011-12 The project piqued Letts’ interest in “global trail.” They shared their knowledge academic year on sabbatical, working on solidarity economies so much that in a public information session in Zubrow research projects, and giving lectures she enrolled in Borowiak’s Solidarity Commons, in addition to completing oral based on his book.

New Focus on Microfinance ver the past few years there has been both in classes and in seminars for the general community. increasing interest on campus in the grow- “There will be opportunity for students to talk with people with Oing field of microfinance, which combines broad sets of interests and skills who have found ways to work with one of Haverford’s most popular majors, econom- microfinance,” says Mudd, who is charged with organizing the lec- ics, with the kind of social justice emphasis that ture series and symposium. “And there will be opportunities to leave is intrinsic to the College’s mission. Now Haverford campus, to participate in conferences, visit [microfinance-] sup- is expanding options for students to explore micro- porting organizations in the U.S. and, ideally, go out in the field. All finance, both in and outside of the classroom. will help students create their own opportunities for internships, re- Shannon Mudd, a visiting professor of eco- search, work after graduation or campus projects.” nomics last year, has been hired to direct this All of these exciting new opportunities are due to the efforts of new project. Under his leadership, and inspired another Haverford community member, Andy Pleatman ’66, by his research, two courses in microfinance who helped secure foundation funding. It was Pleatman’s own deep Shannon Mudd have been added to the economics curricu- commitment to socially responsible business that inspired him to lum—a general, broad-based 200-level course that teaches basic look for ways to expand prospects on campus for students inter- finance and microfinance principles, and a junior seminar course ested in the field of microfinance. focused on current topics in microfinance research. Professor “Andy’s efforts gave us the opportunity to introduce core ele- Mudd will also be responsible for advising senior thesis research ments of a robust microfinance curriculum into the economics pro- in microfinance, and will take over as faculty advisor to the existing gram,” says Linda Bell, the College’s provost and also the John B. student Microfinance Investment Club. The other components of Hurford Professor of Economics. “He challenged us to think about this new microfinance program will include an on-campus sympo- this in both curricular and co-curricular terms, providing resources sium, scheduled for the 2012/13 academic year, and a lecture series for courses, speakers and additional programs designed to bring that will bring microfinance practitioners, recipients, academics, awareness of the world of microfinance to Haverford. It’s an amaz- investors and activists to campus to discuss microfinance topics ing gift and we are exceedingly grateful.” —Rebecca Raber

18 HaverfordMagazine Joshua Schrier Helps Discover SYLLABUS New Organic Semiconductor Culture and Crisis profile in the Golden f, one day, your iPad rolls up like a newspaper or solar panels are Age of Athens Classical Studies 119 Ipainted on your house, you will have faculty Assistant Professor of Chemistry Instructor: Bret Mulligan Joshua Schrier, in part, to thank. The theoretical chemist was part of a group Description: Against the background of of scientists who recently reported a establishing democracy, spearheading the new organic semiconductor in the defense of Greece against the Persian Empire, and forging (and losing) an empire August 16 issue of the journal Nature of its own, fifth century BCE Athens pro- Communications. duced stunning achievements in philosophy, Organic semiconductors—carbon- tragedy, comedy, rhetoric, political theory, based materials that move electrical sculpture and architecture. The works of charges from one place to another— Joshua Schrier Athenians and their contemporaries will be are the great hope of the future of mod- the main sources for our investigation. As we ern electronics and widespread solar out even better than we predicted, but learn about the important developments of power. Inorganic semiconductors, such it took a few years.” this century, we will also examine the daily as silicon, allow electrons to move Their molecule was twice as fast as working of Athenian democracy, economy, quickly, but are rigid and expensive to the original DNTT in conducting love, art, science, education and religion, grow in high purity. In contrast, organic electrical current, and according to with an eye to the illuminating contrasts in- semiconductors tend to have low ScienceDaily, this new material is more herent in Athenian culture and society. mobilities, but can potentially be used than 30 times faster than the amor- Sample readings: Bacchae, Euripides; on flexible substrates and processed phous silicon that is being used in The Murder of Herodes and Other Trials from cheaply. Organic semiconductors have LCD screens now. the Athenian Law Courts; The Histories, been studied since the 1970s, and the It took much less time than expect- Herodotus; Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a new material discovered by Schrier and ed for the researchers to discover this Day, Matyszak; The Rise and Fall of Athens: his co-authors at Harvard and Stanford new material because of Schrier’s pre- Nine Greek Lives, Plutarch; The Republic, universities is one of the fastest discov- dictive approach. “It would have taken Plato; Theban Plays, Sophocles. ered so far. several years to both synthesize and Sample activities: In the last third of the Schrier initiated the theoretical side characterize all the seven candidate semester, students will participate in React- of this project back in 2007. He began compounds,” Bao told ScienceDaily. ing to the Past, an open-ended simulation of by working from a model of an organic “With this approach, we were able to the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War, in semiconductor molecule called DNTT, focus on the most promising candidate which they will debate such topics as the or- and then considered various com- with the best performance, as predicted ganization of Athenian government, the ex- pounds possessing chemical and elec- by theory. This is a rare example of truly pansion of citizenship, the future of the trical properties that seemed likely to ‘rational’ design of new high perform- Athenian empire and the fate of Socrates. To enhance the parent material’s perform- ance materials.” prepare, students will create a biography for ance if they were attached. This led to Schrier, who is on sabbatical leave the fictional or historic Athenian they will be a collaboration with Harvard Associate this academic year, is continuing the playing in the game and will write and deliver Professor of Chemistry Alan Aspuru- work he started with this project. Two one or two short speeches as that character. Students will also work in small groups to re- Guzik to theoretically compute the of his students, Malenca Logan ’14 and search and present an aspect of Athenian molecules. Arman Terzian ’14, spent the summer daily life and present it in a public forum “Together we were able to make applying the same computational (video re-enactment, live performance, or the predictions listed in the paper,” strategy to two new classes of organic other venue or media). says Schrier. “We had initially tried to semiconductor molecules. And anoth- Editor’s note: The course website and blog publish the theoretical work on its er one of Schrier’s students, Anna created by Mulligan offers commentary and own, but nobody believed us! So we Brockway ’12, recently published with additional resources ranging from the family turned to [Stanford] Professor Zhenan his Harvard collaborators in The tree of a prominent Athenian clan, to podcasts Bao’s group to synthesize the mole- Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, of lectures and a History Channel video clip. cules with high purity and produce detailing the theory-driven search for hav.to/athens11 the working devices, which turned organic solar cell material. —R.R.

Fall 2011 19 3 Questions

Associate Professor of Psychology Benjamin Le, whose research fo- ture. I don’t watch a ton of TV and cuses on issues of commitment in romantic relationships, recently movies, so I’m not good at the pop- teamed up with a group of colleagues to launch a website, Science- culture examples, but a lot of my OfRelationships.com. The site, which is based on their book, The colleagues are. We’ve got an article Science of Relationships: Answers to Your Questions About Dating, coming about the TV show True Blood, Marriage and Family (Kendall Hunt Publishing), aims to help people which just ended its season. One of our better understand their romantic entanglements by making the lat- contributors said she wanted to write est research interesting and understandable for a general audience. about vampire relationships, so we thought, “Why not, if there’s science How did ScienceOfRelationships.com new material can come out quickly, be behind the take-home point of the come about? revised, and include dynamic content article?” It’s things like that people Benjamin Le: The book came first. It is like quizzes and videos. That way we can grab onto, hopefully—examples something we’ve been talking about can be responsive to readers’ questions from books and movies and so on— doing for four or five years. The idea and comments very quickly and make to understand the concepts we are was that a book is only as strong as the use of technology. It’s cool to see talking about. expertise of its authors, and the best people reading our articles on their way to write a really great volume on smartphones and iPads. Has there been a time when you any topic—for us it’s relationships—is to weren’t able to translate the aca- get five or 10 or 12 contributors and The site was conceptualized for demic terminology appropriately? everybody only writes about the stuff general readers, but do you find it BL: I wrote a piece for the site a few they are experts on. Along the way, six hard, as an academic, to write for weeks ago about my own research on or eight months ago, as we were in the that audience? predicting relationship “success,” but midst of editing and getting the book BL: That has been the biggest chal- actually, my scientific article was on ready, we started thinking, “What would lenge. Being very familiar with the predicting relationship stability and Volume 2 of this book look like?” The peer-review process, we decided to do persistence. We thought if we used the book is based on questions that people our own in-house peer review. So when terms “persistence” and “stability” it have about their relationships—Why do I write something for the site, it gets would be confusing to readers, so we people stay in abusive relationships? sent out to two or three contributors to reframed the article as “success.” But Do I have to believe in soul mates for a the site, who read it and provide com- then somebody wrote in and com- relationship to succeed?—so we were ments. … I always get stuff back from mented, “Well, maybe a successful thinking about what would be the next my colleagues and they say, “You have relationship is one that breaks up.” set of 40 questions that people have. to explain this more. Stop using fancy And I wrote back to that reader and We also thought in terms of updating words.” Dumbing it down isn’t the right said, “You’re absolutely right. We’ve the original questions, because there is approach, because we want to be true been loose with the term ‘success’ here, new research all the time. Then we real- to the science, but making it accessible and this is why we did it. But really we’re ized that maybe books are passé, so the is important. So we use a lot of exam- just talking about whether a relationship way to do it is not to put out another ples and analogies, which is why the site survives, which is a totally separate book, but to work on the Web, where includes a lot of references to pop cul- thing from what’s good for you.”

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The compositions of Associate Profes-  the wall next to his desk. “For Levine, sor of Music Ingrid Araucowere includ- Visiting Assistant Professor of English work and love are the same subject,” ed on two albums released this past Thomas Devaney was interviewed for Devaney told the Inquirer. “His poems spring: Invocation: Solo Piano and an Aug. 11 Philadelphia Inquirer article are often about the working class, but Chamber Music (Albany Records) and about new U.S. Poet Laureate Philip the poems go further than that, illumi- Florescence (Meyer Media). The cover Levine. Devaney, a poet himself, de- nating work’s greater meaning in all of art for Invocation is a painting, Lily #3, scribed how he had clipped Levine’s our lives. His question of ‘what work is’ by Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li. poem “What Work Is” and taped it to is a defining one, and one that rever-

20 HaverfordMagazine berates poignantly in this American act with each other, and discussed how of Psychology Wendy Sternberg. “The moment.” the two visual traditions have shaped and Truth about Pain: It’s in Your Head,” by  inspired her work and her teaching. Li David Epstein, explored how athletes

Professor Emeritus of Political Sci- gave a second talk for the art and art his- deal with pain and discussed Sternberg’s notes ence Harvey Glickman was appointed tory department titled “The Love/Hate research on stress-induced analgesia— + research fellow of the African studies pro- Relationships Between Art Making and which is the temporary absence of pain gram at the University of Pennsylvania. Art Market,” and led a discussion in an after injury. Wrote Epstein: “[Sternberg] He also organized an on-campus sym- M.F.A. art history class. tested the pain sensitivity of track ath- news posium, Islamism in Africa South of the  letes, basketball players and fencers at Sahara, which marked 50 years of the Associate Professor of Music and Haverford immediately after competition, course African Politics at Haverford. Director of Choral and Vocal Studies compared to two days before and two  Thomas Lloyd was named a “creative after. Sure enough, on game day the ath- Assistant Professor of Spanish Aurelia connector” by the organization Leadership letes were less sensitive to heat or cold. Gómez organized a three-day conference Philadelphia, which began its Connectors For Sternberg the key implication was hosted by Casa de los Amigos in Mexico project in 2006 as a way to spotlight great that athletic competition kicks in the City that brought together 11 women leaders in the region. In the third phase body’s pain-inhibition circuitry.” who participated in guerrilla warfare dur- of the project, the organization  ing the Mexican “dirty war” of the 1970s. compiled a list of the top 76 Haverford, Bryn Mawr and At the July event, which was sponsored Creative Connectors who are Swarthmore have been award- by the Provost’s Office and the Center integral to the local arts and ed a $739,000 grant from the for Peace and Global Citizenship, and culture community. “These Andrew W. Mellon Found- was filmed by a documentary film crew, are the folks who seem to ation to develop a Tri-College the women discussed state violence (ille- know everyone, connect for Creative Arts Residencies gal detention, torture and imprisonment), the common good, and get Program that will create arts armed struggle, memory and gender. The things done without worrying residencies linked to faculty last session was attended by Casa de los about getting credit for it,” said and departments not tradi- Amigos summer interns from Haverford Leadership Philadelphia’s tionally associated with the and Bryn Mawr. Sally Weathers ’13 trav- president, Liz Dow, about the arts. The aim: to spread the Wendy Sternberg eled to Mexico and reported on the con- Cultural Connectors. arts throughout the entire ference in a blog. Read her account at  curriculum. Mellon used Haverford as the hav.to/encuentro. Visiting Associate Professor of test-lab for the idea, providing the College’s  Art History, Independent College John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Programs, Carol Solomon was quoted with an $87,700 planning grant that Sciences Anita Isaacs commented on in an April 13 article in The New York helped fund a number of projects over the Guatemalan presidential elections in Times about censorship at the Sharjah the past few years, including bringing DJ an article in the Sept. 12 Wall Street Biennial, a major contemporary art event Spooky, percussionist Will Calhoun (of Journal. Isaacs, an expert on Guatemalan in the Persian Gulf region. The piece Living Colour) and virtual-reality guru politics, discussed the “mano dura” (or reported on the controversy surrounding Jaron Lanier to work with Stephon “iron fist”) slogan used by the leading an Iranian-American filmmaker whose Alexander(Physics) and Joshua Schrier candidate, who vowed to strengthen the work was dropped from the show. The (Chemistry); bringing electronic super- police and military to fight drug traffick- conflict, Solomon said, could be read as duo and Björk-collaborators Matmos to ing. “People feel paralyzed by the vio- a sign of success, showing that the bien- partner with Gus Stadler (English); and lence, which has made the ‘mano dura’ nial’s organizers were willing to allow hosting playwright Claudia Rankine to message appealing to some,” said Isaacs. artists and curators to test limits. “Sharjah organize a series of performances and  has moved itself out into the wider inter- conversations with Andrew Friedman Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li visited national contemporary art world,” she (History). The next steps will include the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in said, “and in doing that it’s inevitable that working with Bryn Mawr and Swarth- October and gave a public lecture on it’s going to get people who are going to more in the coming year to set up the “Landscape Painting East and West.” Li’s be provocative.” new Creative Arts Residencies Program, lecture explored the ways Chinese paint-  and hire a grant-funded program coor- ing and calligraphy, and Western painting, An article in the Aug. 8 issue of Sports dinator who will be based at the especially Abstract Expressionism, inter- Illustratedcited the research of Professor Humanities Center.

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Fall 2011 21 mixed media BOOKS Q&A: MacKenzieCadenhead ’98 Nation Rebuilding

During an illustrious stint as an editor at Marvel Comics, MacKenzie Cadenhead STEVEN C. BESCHLOSS ’80 developed new content for young and teen readers and worked on such genre- bending superhero series as Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane— which she describes as “a great read for girls who are interested in comics but hen Steven C. not so into the spandex and capes.” Now the editor-turned-author has a new middle-grade novel out. Sally’s Bones (Sourcebooks) tells the tale of Sally Beschloss ’80 Simplesmith, a sixth-grader with a “lovably lifeless, decidedly dead” skeleton began work on dog named Bones, and features tongue-twister names, cliffhanger chapter end- WAdrift: Charting ings, a mystery in need of solving and illustrations by the appropriately named Our Course Back to a Great T.S. Spookytooth. Cadenhead, who lives in Westchester County, N.Y., with her Nation (Prometheus Books), he husband Dan, infant son Phinn and dog Smudge, talked to Theresa Tensuan could never have imagined just ’89, the College’s new dean of multicultural affairs, about writing for young how timely the book would audiences and what she learned from comic books about telling stories. turn out to be. As it happened, Adrift came out in July, when Theresa Tensuan: When you were a from a dream or daydream, but I Congress was embroiled in ran- student at Haverford, you won the suddenly had this picture of a gawky, corous debates over the coun- Krieger Prize, the award in the dark-haired girl with big eyes and try’s debt ceiling, sparking fears English department that marks out- dangly limbs smiling down at a of a government default and the standing achievement in a creative super-spirited skeleton dog. She was thesis, for what we might describe giggling and the dog was grinning. economic catastrophe that as a “director’s notebook.” Were Though the image stuck in my head, could bring. the book, in radio interviews there any elements of that project I was busy editing comic books and Beschloss and his co-author, and on MSNBC and Fox that we might see as influences on had no time to pursue it. A few years William C. Harris, the CEO of Business, among other outlets, your work on Sally’s Bones? later, I left comics to pursue writing Science Foundation Arizona, and in editorials in newspapers MacKenzie Cadenhead: I think picture books, and that image was have a lot to say in Adrift about including the Pittsburgh Post- that what I learned from that project still top of my mind. I tried for weeks the mess we’re currently in. The Gazette and Arizona Republic. was how to apply the analysis of text to create a picture-book manuscript challenges the country faces, Unlike Congress, Adrift takes a to creative expression. I realize that’s about their adventures, but the story they say, include an erosion of nonpartisan approach in its how my editing background helps kept getting longer and longer with American ambition, a lack of analysis of recent U.S. history, me with my own writing now. The plot twists and middle school melo- shared purpose, declining edu- the problems that beset us and one necessarily informs the other, drama to spare. Pretty soon I real- and I bounce between the two until I ized this kid and her dog weren’t cation levels, and an epidemic the measures we could take to finally land on what becomes my final interested in a picture book for of distrust that has fueled anti- solve them. “That’s not the draft. Also, that project was on younger readers. They wanted a government sentiments and the trend in publishing right now,” [Shakespeare’s] The Tempest. Clearly middle-grade novel all their own. rise of the Tea Party. Becoming a says Beschloss. “You’re sup- I like things on the fantastical side! The story dictated the format. great nation again, the authors posed to be like Ann Coulter on By the way, the format for that continued on page 26 say, will require a reinvigorated the right, or Keith Olbermann project was created by [Professor] democracy, a new approach to on the left. But I don’t think Kim Benston, who, along with political leadership and an that’s the most effective thing [Visiting Assistant Professor of economy refocused on “jobs when the country needs people Writing] Sue Benston, had the and making things,” enriched to cooperate and find solutions. biggest influence on me during my by new policies that support In the book, we pull in good time at Haverford. TT: When and how did the idea for research and development, ideas from all over.” Among the Sally’s Bones first emerge for you? training and innovation. authors’ suggestions: Cut cor- MC: Sally’s Bones started with an Beschloss has been promot- porate tax rates and give auto-

image. I can’t remember if it was ing that can-do message, and matic green cards to foreign stu- BENNINGTON MARK PHOTO: BESCHLOSS SHEEHY; ALISON PHOTO: CADENHEAD

22 HaverfordMagazine dents who earn Ph.D.s in criti- the Showtime Network’s partisan warfare. When Bill and cal fields. various movie channels.) I got together, we would share Beschloss, who went on Eventually Beschloss found these concerns we had about from Haverford to Northwest- he missed writing and report- America becoming a second- ern’s Medill School of ing, and began freelancing for rate country.” Journalism, first wrote about national magazines, focusing on Those conversations birthed economies in flux as a young international travel and art and the idea for Adrift, which looks reporter for the Beaver County architecture. It was on one of critically at free trade, declares Times in Western Pennsylvania these magazine assignments free markets “a myth,” and calls when the steel industry was col- Another move took him to that he first met Bill Harris, who for political leaders to “talk lapsing in the region. After a Helsinki (his wife is Finnish), was then the head of Science straight to the American people year spent studying at the where he formed a production Foundation Ireland, putting and explain why the country London School of Economics company that produced feature together partnerships between must take tough steps to secure and writing for the New York films, TV movies and documen- government and industry. The its long-term future.” Times out of its London bureau, taries for the European market. two met up again in 2008, when That’s not happening in he took a reporting a job at the After returning to the U.S. with Harris came to Arizona, where Washington right now, says Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star, his family in 1999, he co-wrote Beschloss now lives, to do the Beschloss. “The discussion is where he wrote a series on the and co-produced Paris, a feature same thing. “We had both lived about shrinking government, region’s boom and bust, “The film he describes as “an indie a lot outside the U.S., and we about what do we cut and what South’s Broken Promise,” that noir thriller, shot in L.A., Vegas were both aware that the world do we get rid of, but there is not was nominated for a Pulitzer and Death Valley.” (Paris was was changing fast and it really a lot of clear conversation about Prize. After a move to New York picked up by Blockbuster and seemed the United States was what kind of country we want City and some years spent 20th Century Fox, translated not keeping up. Instead of band- to live in.” More information: working in magazines, Besch- into a dozen languages and was ing together to figure things out, stevenbeschloss.com loss shifted into filmmaking. shown for nearly two years on America’s leaders were mired in —Eils Lotozo

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Fall 2011 23 Books FILM continued from page 23 young New York-based journal- Studies at Mars Hill College, ist who returns home to Maine Newfont has collected 300 to try to write the eulogy for her years of Appalachian environ- best friend’s memorial service. mental history in one book, Like the Water was shot in revealing the stories of local Camden, Maine, the hometown people who built forest of the film’s star and co-writer, protection movements on Caitlin FitzGerald, who played their own terms. Meryl Streep’s daughter in It’s Complicated and has a lead role Michael Schatzki ’66: in Ed Burns’ newest film, The Great Fat Fraud Newlyweds. This is Best’s first (Lamington Press) foray as a feature film producer. Professional speaker Schatzki She’s also an actress and a voice- aims to debunk myths of the For Flow over artist (that’s her in the com- diet and weight-loss industry mercials for the latest Kindle with his own guide to health esav Wable ’02 collaborated with a director on products), and is planning the and fitness. The author turned his play For the film project. “But the film New York season of her compa- explores “why the ‘obesity epi- Flow into a short was received very well [and] ny, The Private Theatre. Best demic’ isn’t, how to be totally K film that became has opened many doors with calls Like the Water a “micro- healthy without losing weight, one of five finalists in the HBO HBO. We’re looking ahead to budget” feature. “The total and if you should lose some American Black Film Festival, big things over the horizon.” budget will be less than pounds, how to keep them held in Miami in July. For Flow, Wable’s latest feature-length $200,000, though we are still from finding you again.” which was staged in New script, Dear Brother, about a fund-raising for the last month York in 2008, was inspired by boxer from a Pakistani immi- of post-production,” she says. Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting grant family in England, is a “We have had immense suc- for Godot and reimagines that semifinalist in the Rhode cess in [online] crowd-fund- classic work as a hip-hop fable Island International Film ing, and there are many Fords about two aspiring rappers, Festival’s screenplay competi- who contributed to the making who are waiting for a producer tion. More information: 25tolife of this film in ways large and named Flow on a deserted productions.com small.” She expects the film to street corner in the Bronx. “We  be completed in January, with a did not bring home the grand Emily Best ’02 spent the sum- projected festival debut in the prize,” says Wable, a corporate mer producing a feature film spring. More information: and commercial litigator who titled Like the Water, about a camdenmainefilm.com

Like the Water

Juan Williams ’76: Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate (Crown Publishing) The award-winning journalist and Fox News political analyst uses his controversial firing from National Public Radio PHOTO: EVE M. COHEN M. EVE PHOTO: last year as a springboard for a wider discussion about how the politicization of news has degraded the quality of debate

in this country. LIKE THE WATER

24 HaverfordMagazine VISUAL ARTS

This fall the Marlborough Chelsea gallery in New York hosted an exhibition of new works by Vincent media Desiderio ’77. The show, the painter’s seventh with the gallery, ran from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 and included 18 new pieces in oil and mixed media. Desiderio’s work often grapples with art history, and his canvases appear so accurate and detailed as to almost seem to be photographs at times. He was profiled in the book The Rebirth of Painting in

the Late Twentieth Century by the influential art critic Donald Kuspit, who called Desiderio a “postmod- mixed ern visionary” painter. His latest Marlborough exhibition included Self-Portrait Before Orozco, in which Desiderio paints himself in front of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco’s fresco Gods of the Modern World as it looms over him, and Bride, a near life-size portrait of a woman smiling knowingly in a wedding gown and illuminated by an unseen but brilliant light source. Desiderio, who now lives and works in Westchester County, N.Y., teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art. He is a recipient of, among others, a Self Portrait Before Orozco (2010), oil Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Desiderio’s works and mixed media, 64 in. x 48 in. Image are included in the collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. courtesy of Marlborough Gallery.

MULTIMEDIA

n the website for musicians. “I’m really excited his just-launched about what’s going to come of publishing compa- this,” he says. “It’s not just a Ony, button-down piece of music that is going to bird, Ben Rubin ’03 describes go along with the book. It’s its first offering, When Comes going to be something that is What Darkly Thieves, as a fairy capable of standing alone.” tale: “One that you’ll wake After graduating from from feeling as if someone Haverford, Rubin moved to spent all night weaving nets in Florence, Italy, for a time, to which to catch your dream ani- soak up the art there. He spent mals.” The book, written and an unsatisfying semester in a illustrated by Rubin, features a graduate program in fine arts, blind gypsy king, a giant crow then worked for several years as a lab technician doing and moonbeams that turn into When Comes What Darkly Thieves, a book written and illustrated by swings, and evokes that sense Ben Rubin ’03, is also available as an iPad app with original music oncology research, all the while of a dream whose memory by some of Nashville’s hottest young alt.country musicians. making art on the side. and meaning dances tantaliz- Eventually he began writing ingly in and out of the Tyler, a sometime member of book too expensive to print to novels. “And somehow that led dreamer’s grasp. Lambchop and a sought-after interest a commercial publish- to making a children’s book,” When Comes What Darkly session guitarist; as well as er. That’s when he decided he says. Thieves, whose striking col- singer Cortney Tidwell. to launch his own publishing So what are his plans for laged illustrations employ cut- (Several of the musicians also effort. button-down bird? “I would up magazine pages, will also be headlined a launch party for “The iPad app was really a venture that every project we available in the form of an iPad the book in Nashville in fundraising idea at first,” he do will have a strong visual app with original music by September.) says. “The music was going to component to it,” says Rubin. some of the hottest young Music was always part of be provided by this other musi- “But most of them are going to alt.country musicians in Rubin’s concept for the book, cian. When she backed out of be for the iPad or other tablet Nashville, Tenn., where Rubin which he originally envisioned the project, the fit with Ryan, devices featuring music as well, grew up and still lives. Among packaging with a CD. But William, Scott and Cortney just and depending on the project, the musicians creating the when he began shopping his happened really naturally.” animation or video. We’re just score for the app are C. Ryan manuscript around to agents, Rubin has known Tyler since looking for interesting projects Norris and Scott Martin, part of he learned that its elaborate he was a teenager, and was to explore.” More information: the band Lambchop; William illustrations would make the friends with some of the other buttondownbird.com —E. L.

Fall 2011 25 THEATER Q&A: MacKenzieCadenhead ’98 continued from page 22

The Blue Flower TT: You’ve worked in media as TT: I’ve been thinking about the different (and as interrelated) as ways in which works categorized as drama, comics, picture books and “children’s literature” contend with illustrated narratives. I’m curious foundational fears and transforma- about what you see as the genera- tive moments—everything from the tive tension between narrative death of a loved one to the primal and image. terror of figuring out who you’re MC: I think in pictures. When I going to sit with in the middle worked as a production dramaturge school cafeteria. Now that you have [in the theater], the research and your own little one, Phinn, I’m analysis I did was there to help bring wondering if you’re thinking anew the story to visual life. Comics are an about some of the thematic regis- even purer extension of that—[you] ters of the book—for example, the think in snapshots of action that fact that Sally’s connection with Bones is forged as she’s visiting her move the plot forward. I’m a big fan he Blue Flower, the musical created by Jim Bauer ’78 and mother’s grave, contending with of free-writing as well as outlines, his wife, Ruth Bauer, took another step closer to Broadway and my outlines tend to jump from her mother’s absence. this fall. The multimedia work, which had its first full-scale major image to major image, which MC: I’ve already read it to Phinn. I production last fall at the American Repertory Theater in then gets broken down smaller and was doing my final edits when I was T smaller until I’m writing those pregnant, and I always read out Cambridge, Mass., and was the subject of our winter 2011 cover moments. Then it’s about bringing loud to get the voices and rhythms story, began a limited off-Broadway run at New York’s Second Stage them together. Comics also taught down, so he’s heard it! Now that Theatre on Nov. 9. A story of love, art and politics that spans me to think in cliffhangers. Many of he’s in the world, though, I’ll proba- Germany’s Weimar period and World War II, The Blue Flower fea- my chapters end at an unresolved bly read it to him when he’s school tures 18 original songs composed by Jim Bauer, who performs and point of drama or a moment of calm age. I think it’s important to allow records as part of the duo Dagmar. The show caught the attention right before the storm. children to confront real-world fears of Stephen Schwartz, the composer and lyricist of such Broadway and even tragedies in a storytelling TT: Did you start off thinking hits as Godspell, Pippinand Wicked, who context where they can witness the about a particular audience for point of distress as well as the point was so enthralled he signed on as a pro- Sally’s Bones? of arrival and transcendence. It’s ducer. The Blue Flower runs through MC: It’s funny, [because] I feel like something that came up in that Dec. 18. More information: 2st.com I’ve been having this conversation development and lit class at Bank  about intended audience—and Street and always stuck with me. Amie Roe ’06 has been busy perform- whether you create for an audience, There’s a reason why kids like gory for yourself, or for the characters as ing with fellow comedy improv artist Grimms’ fairy tales when they are they speak to you—since college! I Kristen Schier as the Philadelphia-based younger. Those offer black-and- think it is worthwhile to understand Amie & Kristen Show. A March article white consequences to extreme sit- what audiences are out there. I’m a in Philadelphia Weekly spotlighted the uations, and that’s what you process huge fan of tangible research and duo in the paper’s roundup of “Philly’s when you are little. As you grow, Comediennes of Comedy.” In October, getting it into your bones, so to you begin to both fill in the shades speak, and then letting it all go of gray and be confronted by them, the paper declared their act one of the and trusting you’ve absorbed it in too. It’s all part of the process. And “must-see shows” of Philadelphia’s some way. that’s what’s so exciting about writ- Comedy Month lineup, and said of When I began to suspect that ing for kids! them: “With their child-like charm and Sally’s Bones might be a middle- killer wit, Kristen Schier and Amie Roe grade novel I made sure I was read- Amie Roe (left) with perform- make improv look easy.” Roe, a sociol- ing partner Kristen Schier ing middle-grade novels. I have ogy major at Haverford, studied improv quite a few kids in my life that age, at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade and Magnet Theater. The so I talked with them about books. I took a child-development and litera- pair has taken the Amie & Kristen Show to theaters and festivals ture class at Bank Street Graduate across the country, including, most recently, the Boston Improv

School of Education, and I familiar- Festival, the Out of Bounds Improv Festival in Austin, Texas, and STERN MARCUS PHOTO: ized myself with what kids are pro- the Del Close Marathon in New York. You can catch the Amie & cessing, developmentally speaking, Kristen Show on Dec. 9 at the Philly Improv Theater. Roe also appears in the 8-12 [age] range. Then I let it every Wednesday at the Magnet Theater in New York as part of the

go and just wrote my story. resident ensemble Brick. FLOWER BLUE

26 HaverfordMagazine Environmental anthropologist Nikhil Anand lectures on the history of the global environmental movement.

The EnvironmentNew Focus on

The Tri-College It is the end of October and in a At just about the halfway point in the Environmental Studies classroom in Hilles Hall students in a semester, the class, which is co-taught by course called Case Studies in Environ- environmental chemist Helen K. White Program launches, mental Issues are settling into their seats and environmental anthropologist Nikhil offering students across for a talk by guest lecturer Dilip da Cunha, Anand, has already explored such topics the three campuses an a landscape architect from the University as biodiversity, the structure and function of Pennsylvania School of Design. For of ecosystems, population dynamics, and interdisciplinary approach a section of the course that focuses on pesticides and toxicity. The students have to some of the crucial issues around water and politics, dams delved into the global history of environ- issues of our time. and development, da Cunha, co-author mentalism and read iconic writings on of the books SOAKand Mississippi Floods, nature and the environment by Edward will share with the group of 40 students Abbey, John McPhee and Rachel Carson. BY EILS LOTOZO his thoughts about the Mississippi Basin They have created their own maps of the as a “landscape of conflict” along with Haverford College environment, looked observations about the water challenges at “agroecology” and considered the via-

CLASSROOM PHOTOS: PETER TOBIA PETER PHOTOS: CLASSROOM faced by Mumbai, India. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// bility of local food systems on a field trip

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to an urban farm in Philadelphia. Capping the semester will be a trip to a sewage treatment plant as well as read- “WITH A PROGRAM LIKE THIS, at a school like ings and discussions focused on the health of the world’s oceans and global this, we really have the opportunity to create climate change. It is an intense journey, and that’s the next generation of truly interdisciplinary by design: The Case Studies class is one of the core courses that are part of the approaches to the environment.” just-launched Tri-College Program in Environmental Studies. The new, broadly scape of methodologies and styles of the fall of 2009 and is the director of the interdisciplinary program (the first such inquiry in any one curriculum. With ES program. (In December 2010, she Tri-Co program ever developed) gives three colleges involved, you don’t have got a close look at a major U.S. envi- Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore just one biologist, or one political scientist, ronmental issue when she joined a team students in any major the opportunity or one philosopher who is the voice for of scientists on a research cruise in the to minor in Environmental Studies. The that experience in the discipline. You Gulf of Mexico that examined the effects requirements include two core courses have this wider range of expertise. It’s on marine life of the Deepwater Horizon (the introductory Case Studies class also very valuable to the faculty—who oil spill.) plus a project-based senior seminar) and are involved in a very fast moving disci- Joining the faculty at the start of the four electives from an approved list pline whose cutting edge is shifting as current academic year were Anand, of more than 90 classes. Potential elec- we find out more—to be in collaboration an assistant professor of anthropology, tives, which can be taken on any of the and dialogue with other faculty.” whose research has focused on the water three campuses, include such courses as As planning went forward for the system in Mumbai, and the ways natural Environmental Health; Environmental program, a significant grant from the resources and the public are mobilized Economics (Bryn Mawr); Solar Energy Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and for urban development and environ- Systems; Behavioral Ecology (Swarth- additional support from alumni and mental projects; and Assistant Professor more); Introduction to Environmental foundation donors, allowed Haverford of Biology Jonathan Wilson, whose Anthropology; and Energy Options and to hire three new tenure-track faculty research examines the physiology of

Science Policy (Haverford). members to help build the interdisci- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// fossil plants as a means to reconstruct plinary scope of Environ- environmental history. mental Studies at the Environmental chemist “It is really exciting Helen K. White (center) Haverford first began planning College. White, an assis- and Jonathan Wilson (far to be a part of this new for the program in 2009 after an intensive tant professor of chemistry, right), a biologist who uses initiative,” says Anand, review of the College curriculum by a whose research focuses on fossil plants to reconstruct who worked closely with faculty committee resulted in a report the sources and cycling of environmental history, White to develop the Case (“Blueprint for Academic Excellence”) organic matter in marine lead a discussion. Studies core course they that identified Environmental Stud- sediments, started work in teach together. “It is made ies as a key area for development. Initially the intention was to collaborate with Bryn Mawr, which already offered an Environmental Studies concentration. But after a series of discussions that brought in faculty from Swarthmore (which had been offering its own ES minor) the vision for a Tri-Co program began to take shape. “The benefits are just so clear,” says Professor of English Kim Benston, who was the co-chair of the Environmental Studies working group that helped devel- op the program. “When you look at Environmental Studies, it is so radically interdisciplinary that it is hard to imagine

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28 HaverfordMagazine even more exciting by the determinants, and to ask challenging. Fortunately, we have a lot energy and enthusiasm of Students in the Case broad questions about of support to figure that out.” There is the students. It is clear from Studies in Environmental affected populations,” also support, she says, for faculty across the classes that they are real- Issues class on an October he says. the board to develop more courses with ly concerned about envi- field trip to an urban “It’s very rare to have an Environmental Studies aspect. farm in Philadelphia. ronmental questions and a scientist and a non-sci- “It is really nice to be at the center some of them are already engaged in entist together teaching a class and stu- of something so new,” says Jonathan doing work on environmental issues.” dents have responded very positively to Wilson, who sits in on nearly every “What is also unique is the way the that,” says White about the Case Studies session of White and Anand’s Case program has been designed,” Anand says. course, which is meant to serve as an Studies course, and has also stepped in “It is interdisciplinary without watering introduction to Environmental Studies. several times as a guest lecturer. Wilson anything down. The science in this pro- “When I am teaching, I really want stu- is also co-teaching the senior seminar in gram will not be science for nonmajors. dents to understand what the scientific Environmental Studies at Bryn Mawr We want students to get a very deep underpinnings are. We look at numbers. with political scientist Carol Hager. “The understanding of both science and social We look at figures. We look at data. Then, amount of expertise that is out there is science.” But visual arts or literature because he is an anthropologist, Nikhil just wonderful,” Wilson says. “We profit majors could also find the minor’s deeply problematizes all of that. He says, ‘OK, from their history at Bryn Mawr and interdisciplinary approach a good fit, these are the figures, but what are the Swarthmore in developing Environmen- he believes. “Issues around food and questions you are asking? Are these the tal Studies programs.” water are not just questions for science, questions you should be asking? How “This program is a big part of the rea- they are questions for the humanities as do the questions change?’ ” son I came to Haverford,” says Wilson, well,” he says. “We are both used to walking between who in the spring will teach a junior biol- Benston believes the Environmental the disciplines, and I think it’s exciting ogy seminar that will combine paleon- Studies minor will also attract Haverford for students to see that,” says White, who tology, climatology and biochemistry. students interested in the social justice hopes to incorporate more field trips into “With a program like this, at a school issues that are intertwined with so many the Case Studies course in the future. like this, we really have the opportunity pressing environmental problems. “We “Part of it is to have students experience to create the next generation of truly are a college with a long and complex the environment, but it is also to have interdisciplinary approaches to the envi- interest in social justice, so we want stu- students interact with Nikhil, Jon and ronment. I hope our students go on to dents not just to have the grounding to me in the environment, which is where graduate school and become scientists. think about environmental problems as we do our work,” she says. “I would love And I hope some of our students go on open to technical solutions, but also to to do something like follow a river to the to work for the EPA and advise members PHOTO: HELEN K. WHITE K. HELEN PHOTO: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// understand their historical and cultural //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ocean. That’s exciting, but logistically of Congress.”

Fall 2011 29 New member Marcus Levy ’15 singing with the Humtones, the College’s oldest a cappella group.

Harmonic Convergence

varying colors, are dragging chairs across Haverford’s a cappella tradition is only 30 years old, the linoleum floor, trying to devise the most but it has become a driving force. What is it about these welcoming seating arrangement possible. student-run singing groups that makes them such an The blackboard at the front of the room important part of life on campus? By Rebecca Raber has “Willkommen to das Oütenskirtens” scrawled across it in loopy, purple-and-pink script. In a corner, near where a keyboard In early September, in a small has been set up, a table is covered in juice boxes, room in the basement of the Dining Center, four candy and plastic containers of mini cupcakes peppy young women, all wearing skinny jeans in cheerfully decorated with multicolored frosting.

30 HaverfordMagazine HE SCENE LOOKS MORE LIKE A BAKE- what accounts for all this interest in organized singing? sale trial run than preparation for auditions. One of the many reasons for a cappella’s on-campus popularity But these women are members of the Out- is that it’s an immersive but nonacademic way to interact with skirts, one of two all-female a cappella music for those who aren’t necessarily going to study it in classes groups based on campus, and today is their or make their eventual living in the field. first round of tryouts, during which they “Singing a cappella gives me the ability to sing, listen to and will have to narrow a pack of 30 hopefuls enjoy music in a very not-superficial way,” says Daniel Gordon to just a handful of new members. (They will eventually initiate ’14, a member of the S-Chords (and the group’s business man- Tfive.) And even though the Outskirts are serious about finding ager). “But I don’t have to dive into reading hundreds of pages the best match for their group and replacing the four members about what the music means, the history of it, and understanding who graduated last year, they are also adamant that the process the complexity of the tonal harmonies in the song. I can just not be seriously nerve-wracking for the auditioning students. dive in and not worry about it too much and just enjoy myself. “I don’t want to stress them out,” says Angelique Bradford It’s just meant to be fun.” ’13, the Outskirts’ co-president, explaining the effort expended “The thing about Haverford College a cappella groups,” moving around chairs into different, less intimidating formations. says Humtones co-skip (group leader) Daniel Ikeda ’13, “is (She will later also suggest to her that you don’t really need to nec- fellow ’Skirts that they refrain from essarily be an outstanding musi- taking notes during the different cian to be in a group, as opposed performances, for fear of seeming to some of the ones at Harvard, “too Simon Cowell-ish.”) Yale and Princeton, which are more A cappella—music made entire- like an institution. Here you can ly by human voices, without any do a cappella twice a week for two accompanying instruments—is hours and fit it in with other things having something of a cultural you want to do, like sports or moment right now. But between the student council.” underdog high school singers Associate Professor of Music always vying for a solo on Glee Thomas Lloyd, who directs both (who, technically, sing with accom- the Bi-Co Chamber Singers and paniment most of the time) and the The Outskirts, one of two Haverford-based, all-female the Chorale, says that though hungry groups from around the groups, pride themselves on not taking themselves (or Haverford has long had a vibrant country fighting it out for a record a cappella) too seriously. musical tradition, the more recent contract on the reality elimina- success of student-run a cap- tion show The Sing-Off, televi- pella groups has benefited the sion’s representation of the art whole community and actually form makes it seem like a cap- made his job of recruiting and pella singing is a competitive working with campus talent sport. Not so at Haverford. simpler. “A cappella is its own very “My basic feeling is the more tight-knit community, and singing students on campus, community values are very the easier my job is, since it important at Haverford,” says contributes to the idea of a thriv- Bradford. “So that can attract ing musical culture,” he says. people who like the idea of “Whereas many of my col- ‘It’s not me competing against leagues at other institutions are all these other people.’ … In a losing more singers than they cappella it’s like, ‘We’re all going The Haverford-only co-ed group Mainliners was founded in 2007. gain to a cappella groups, I think to get together to make sounds we’ve more than benefited, like guitars and drums.’ ” especially in recruiting male singers—a challenge anywhere, Haverford claims the most a cappella groups per capita of but especially in the Bi-Co, where the women students outnumber any college or university in the country (see sidebar, page 32) the men three-to-one before we even hold auditions.” with 10 student-run, extracurricular groups for which student- Each of the a cappella groups holds its auditions at the begin- singers can audition. Five of them (the all-male Humtones and ning of the academic year, and by early September, after rounds Ford S-Chords; the all-female Oxford Blues and Outskirts; and of callbacks, the new members have been chosen. The different the co-ed Mainliners) are based on campus during the school groups may have a set number of graduated members to replace, year, while the others are Bi-Co, Tri-Co or summer-only (see but they are usually flexible on the final number of singers they

HUMTONES PHOTO: DAN JOHNSON; OUTSKIRTS PHOTO: NORA LANDIS-SHACK '13; MAINLINERS PHOTO: DEBBIE LETER '15 LETER DEBBIE PHOTO: '13; MAINLINERS LANDIS-SHACK NORA PHOTO: OUTSKIRTS JOHNSON; DAN PHOTO: HUMTONES sidebar, page 34.) At a school with relatively few music majors, accept. They are, after all, looking for the best fit—musically

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in mid-September). Because they are looking for as many opportunities to showcase their We’re NUMBER ONE? sound as possible, some groups will also put on more impromptu shows around campus ne claim we have often heard is that Haverford has more a cappella throughout the year. groups per capita than any other college in the country. But where is “[Last year] we wanted to do something for the footnote for that claim? What’s the source? In an effort to confirm O the students before the year ended, so we worked Haverford’s status as an a cappella hotbed, we decided to do the math ourselves. Here’s what we can report: with the Outskirts and did a ‘study break’ show Haverford has just under 1,200 students enrolled in any given year (this year, in the Dining Center,” says Jacob Horn ’13, a it’s 1,198, a College record). Currently, there are 10 a cappella groups that are based member of the Mainliners, the newest group at on campus, or are part of the Bi-Co or Tri-Co community. This means that Haverford Haverford, which formed in 2007. “We just used has approximately 120 students for every group they could join. That’s a pretty high the Sunken Lounge, no mikes, no setup or any- ratio. From the open-sourced Collegiate a Cappella Directory (which can be found thing. They did a song, we did a song, and just at http://hav.to/66), it does seem that Haverford has one of the highest number of swapped off with them. We publicized it a little a cappella groups per capita of all the colleges and universities in the country. bit on Facebook, and people just came in, Some schools have more groups than we do, but they are far larger schools. grabbed food and watched.” (Harvard University, for example, has 18 groups, but a student population of Another reason for a cappella’s popularity around 6,640 students, for a ratio of 369 students per group. Princeton has 14 groups and an enrollment of 5,220, for a ratio of 373 students per a cappella group. at Haverford is that it represents the relatively And Swarthmore has nine possible groups students can join and an enrollment rare opportunity for a campus full of serious of 1,524, for a ratio of 169 students per group.) Data on the subject is admittedly scholars to be silly and uninhibited. Those limited, but the math does seem to support the claim. —Jacob Lowy ’14 semester shows, for example, often include comedy skits and ridiculous music videos. The Oxford Blues did a reality TV- and personally—and can pull themed performance last year, off their four-part harmonies and the Outskirts made a whether they have more or fewer purposely cheesy video for the voices than the previous year. Rebecca Black song “Friday” (The groups currently range that featured Director of Student between 10 and16 members, Activities Jason McGraw rap- give or take a few juniors who ping. “People were laughing are abroad.) because it was so bad,” says Each ensemble then starts Bradford. preparing for its “semester show,” Says Horn, “A cappella is a big, hour-long concert, put on about having an opportunity to twice yearly. Songs are chosen Last November’s Oxford Blues reunion concert, which sort of be ridiculous.” featured performances by current Blues and more than 40 (by consensus, via a “song-pick” alumni members, celebrated 25 years of the all-female group. A cappella at Haverford has at which members bring in dif- a relatively young, 30-year his- ferent choices for the group tory. By comparison, Yale’s to consider), arranged (by Whiffenpoofs date back members with help from to the turn of the last cen- software called Sibelius), tury, and Smith College’s and then practiced at two Smiffenpoofs were found- or three two-hour-long ed in 1936. But singers say rehearsals each week. that a cappella’s success in These shows, which take such a relatively short time place in venues as diverse is due to the supportive as Zubrow Commons and community spirit of the the more formal Marshall small campus. Auditorium, are the main “The fact of the matter events that the groups prac- The ’80s-era Humtones singing together at their 30th anniversary is that you probably know tice for all year, but they reunion show in Marshall Auditorium on March 19, 2011. Founder someone in a group—you Andrew Garthwaite ’83 is second from the left. aren’t the only opportunities probably know people in to perform. A cappella groups go on tour to different colleges more than one group—and whether it’s legitimate enthusiasm over school breaks and perform around the Philadelphia area. or obligation, people at Haverford take supporting the people

(The Outskirts, for example, sang at the Mount Airy Village Fair that they know very seriously,” says Horn. TOBIA PETER PHOTO: ’13; SATALOFF COHEN-CARROLL NATASHA PHOTOS: & HUMTONES BLUES OXFORD

32 HaverfordMagazine The MEDICINE Behind the Music

“The Voice Doctor,” Robert Sataloff ’71, has made a life’s work of combining his two passions: singing and science.

any students are torn between a career in the sciences and a ca- reer in the arts, but few have found a way to Mmake both fields part of their professional lives the way Dr. Robert Sataloff has. The ear, nose and throat doctor is the chairman of the department of otolaryngology and senior associate dean for clinical academic specialties at the Drexel University College of Medicine. And he runs Philadelphia Ear, Nose and Throat Associates, the practice formerly overseen by his father. But he is also a professional singer who holds a Doc- tor of Musical Arts degree in addition to his M.D.; a conductor who led the Thomas Jef- ferson University Choir for many years; and a cantor who has sung in synagogue serv- ices since he was 15. His converging interests date back to his time at Haverford, where he took all of Dr. Robert Sataloff ’71, an otolaryngologist who has pioneered the field of his pre-med requirements but majored in professional voice care, stands in his Center City office’s Hall of Fame. music composition. (He even wrote an opera, Sterling Thomas, for his senior the- advice.) He has written 41 books—the 42nd and their voices will be not quite right, and sis.) But rather than making a career out of is currently at the printer—including the first they’ll fuss with it themselves and self-med- just one of his passions, Sataloff combined book on the care of the professional voice, icate before they go in and have their prob- the two, pioneering the otolaryngology and he was a co-author on the first book on lems diagnosed. Often the compensatory subspecialty of professional voice care arts medicine (both books are now in their adjustments are injurious.” for singers and others who use their voices third editions). As an otolaryngologist, Sataloff doesn’t heavily in their jobs (public speakers, Sataloff offers a multidisciplinary ap- just treat voice disorders. Only half of his actors, the clergy). proach to voice care. His practice is staffed practice is care of the professional voice; “I’m a professional musician, but I not just by medical doctors but also by voice the other half is microsurgery of the ear and picked medicine [as my full-time job] be- therapists, voice pathologists, and singing ear-brain interface. In fact, some of his most cause this way I can do everything,” says and acting voice specialists. His office has grateful patients aren’t musicians but ones Sataloff. “You can’t be a singer and do sur- surgical equipment, but also pianos. Though whom the doctor introduced to music. gery on the side. But you can do it the other he treats everything from laryngeal cancer “My musician friends and my singer pa- way around.” and vocal polyps to transgender voice care, tients and my professional-speaker patients, Known as “The Voice Doctor,” Sataloff the most common problem he sees with his many of them came to my concerts,” says uses his expertise to treat singers from all professional patients is a lack of training Sataloff, who still sings professionally in over the world, some famous, others less so. among singers. (“If you get a little training, public and gives master classes at music (Doctor-patient confidentiality kept him from you do it better and you stand much less of schools. “But what was really fun was my naming names, though he did share a story a likelihood of injuring yourself,” he says). hearing patients, who couldn’t go to or enjoy of one “now very well-known rock singer” The next most common problem? Waiting concerts until I operated on their ears and whose scheduled arena show in Philadel- too long to see a doctor. brought their hearing back. Those people phia was supposed to be taped for HBO but “Singers are reluctant to seek medical hardly every miss a concert of mine.” was canceled because of Sataloff’s medical care,” he says. “Something will go wrong —Rebecca Raber

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A cappella is also, in some ways, a “limited-time” offer—the Garthwaite ’83, founder of the Humtones, Haverford’s opportunities to sing in this type of group flourish in college first a cappella group. Formed in 1981 as a way to replicate and diminish afterward. Garthwaite’s high school a cappella singing experience and to “A cappella groups are a great opportunity for students to offer an opportunity for students to sing popular music, the sing the pop- and folk-based songs they love, whether of current Humtones were born from a simple poster that read, “Want artists or golden oldies,” says Professor Lloyd. “They can to sing Beatles, Beach Boys or barbershop? Come to an audition.” perform this music as part of a close-knit ensemble. As a soloist Luckily, the 12 men needed to fill out the four-part harmonies they can sing with the freedom most people only allow them- that Garthwaite imagined showed up, and the group began selves in the shower. And they can do it all without needing practicing and performing around Haverford and Bryn Mawr. instruments or amplification. Once they leave college, this But he never expected that his little experiment would become kind of group will be almost impossible to find, [because] the foundation of a campus tradition. while its roots are in the corner doo-wop and barbershop tra- “Beware of your actions, because you never know what ditions, the current tradition is almost exclusively scholastic.” they are going to become,” says Garthwaite, who was especially The current campus craze owes its existence to Andrew moved by his group’s 30th-reunion concert, which was held

Just the FACTS The 10 a cappella groups that feature Fords.

AWKAPELLA Tradition: Giving new members their Albums: “We will soon be giving away our Year Founded: 2009 “Chaver-name” and presenting them with 2009 album, Under Lock and Key,” says Membership: Co-ed (as of summer 2011), their “Chavershirt” Jelyn Masa BMC ’14. “Our new album will summer-only, Haverford-only Proudest Performance: “The Novem- be available for free this fall.” Number of Members: Roughly 11, ber 2010 concert with the Alfred James Signature Song: Melissa Ferrick’s all of whom are members of other Haverford Band,” says Laura Feibush BMC ’13. “Everything I Need” a cappella groups during the academic year. “Combine a cappella with an electric cello Tradition: Putting on a “rad Halloween Membership is fluid depending on the num- virtuoso and you have some idea of this concert,” says Masa. ber of singers available on campus during concert.” Proudest Performance: “Almost the summer. Hear for Yourself: http://hav.to/chaverim breaking the stage at Accepted Students’ Albums: None, as the casual group only Weekend—due to swag, not because of learns songs immediately before their im- COUNTERPOINT our girth,” she says. promptu performances around campus. Year Founded: 2007 Hear for Yourself: Signature Song: The Pokémon theme Membership: All-women, Bi-Co http://hav.to/extremekeys song Number of Members: 11 Tradition: “While the group performs at— Albums: One (Sweet, Sugar, Counter- yes, at, not for—random bystanders point), with another due to be released this throughout the summer, there is always a spring final concert at the end of the season at the Signature Song: None so far, though faculty pool, which culminates with all of they are trying to make it the Wailin’ Jennys’ the members jumping in,” says Marissa “Parting Glass” Plowden ’12. Tradition: “Every member of Counterpoint Proudest Performance: “Singing for receives a musical note pin upon initiation Haver-VIPs,” says group co-founder Patrick into the group,” says Katherine Cunningham Lozada ’11. “This summer we visited Tom BMC ’13. “There is a pinning ceremony that The Ford S-Chords get animated at a Lloyd, the head of Chamber Singers; Alfred is involved; however, we’re not allowed to recent evening rehearsal. James, the producer of Haverford’s a cap- tell the details of that!” pella music; and former President Emerson.” Proudest Performance: Singing at a Hear for Yourself: Joe Sestak rally at which President Clinton FORD S-CHORDS http://hav.to/awkapella spoke Year Founded: 1985 Hear for Yourself: Membership: All-male, Haverford-only CHAVERIM http://hav.to/counterpoint Number of Members: 14 Year Founded: 1999 Albums: Eight albums, with a new one Membership: Co-ed, Tri-Co EXTREME KEYS slated for release this fall Number of Members: 15 Year Founded: 1981 (as Suburban Signature Song: “Viva La ’Ford” Albums: One self-titled effort, recorded in Squares) Tradition: “We have something called spring 2009 Membership: Traditionally all-women; ‘The Boola,’ which is right before go on Signature Song: “Sorry Sorry” by Bi-Co stage,” says Daniel Gordon ’14. “We all Korean pop stars Super Junior Number of Members: 15 huddle together and go, “Boola! Boola!

34 HaverfordMagazine on campus in March. “I did [the Humtones] for two years, founder of the Outskirts. “I saw that there was room on campus and then I passed it off to the next group and had no idea what for [both] the S-Chords and Humtones, and that each group was going to happen. It could have all fallen apart. But I was had its visible personality, and wondered why no one had ever amazed to see how it had blossomed, and to see how each gen- thought to start another women’s group. The awesome thing eration of Humtones had taken it to a new level, expanded it. about Haverford that I had learned early on is that you’re ... It’s quite amazing how much it meant to so many people.” encouraged to do anything that you believe is possible, so I After founding his own group, Garthwaite then helped felt that it was a good a time as any to try it for myself!” some friends organize the Suburban Squares (now known as Now with 72 singers in the five Haverford-based groups the Extreme Keys), the Bi-Co’s first female a cappella group. (and many other Fords helping fill out the other Bi-Co/Tri-Co Through the years, more groups formed as the demand for a groups), a cappella seems to have become one of the College’s cappella singing outlets outpaced the opportunities. top extracurricular activities. If a student isn’t in a group, it’s “My sophomore year, I was interested in trying a cappella, likely he or she has supported at least one by attending its con- [but] at the time my only options were the Oxford Blues and certs. And for those who do join the singing ranks, a cappella the [Bi-Co, co-ed] Looney Tunes,” says Karel Chan ’04, the helps students find a place for themselves at school, and can

Boola! Ha! Ha! Ha!’ and then scream and OUTSKIRTS run on stage.” Year Founded: Conceived in 2001, Proudest Performance: The fall 2010 executed in 2003 mid-semester show, because, says Gordon, Membership: All-women, Haverford-only “we were singing in the rotunda for the first Number of Members: 13 (plus two time with the whole group. We actually all who are abroad) lay down on the floor and sang up to the Albums: One older album and the just- ceiling, and it was just one of the greatest released In Pants sounds I’ve ever heard.” Signature Song: Though it’s not an Hear for Yourself: http://hav.to/schords official song, Little Big Town’s “Boondocks” 2006-7 Looney Tunes performing at is a fan favorite. HUMTONES May Day. Tradition: Last year they held the first Year Founded: 1981 Skirties Awards ceremony, a gala event Membership: All-male, Haverford-only our 20th anniversary, so for our spring with paper-plate prizes that they hope to Number of Members: 13 semester concert, we had alums come join continue annually. Albums: Five previous albums, with a new us for the weekend and the final perform- Proudest Performance: Performing live one, tentatively titled Do It for the Story, ance,” says Krause. “We got to meet some on the radio on WERS in Boston during its due out this semester of the founders and got to see some of our show All a Cappella Signature Song: “Here’s to Good Old recently graduated Tunes.” Hear for Yourself: http://hav.to/outskirts College” Hear for Yourself: Traditions: An ongoing, playful rivalry with http://hav.to/looneytunes OXFORD BLUES the S-Chords; group leaders called “skips,” Year Founded: 1985 after the group’s original name (Skip Doo MAINLINERS Membership: All-women, Wop and the Haverford Humtones); and a Year Founded: 2007 Haverford-only red tie with a snare drum on it, which is Membership: Co-ed, Haverford-only Number of Members: 14 (plus two passed down from vocal percussionist to Number of Members: 14 who are abroad) vocal percussionist through the years. Albums: They have been working on their Albums: They release a CD every four Proudest Performance: Singing the first album for the last three years, recording years; a new one is due out this fall. national anthem at a 1991 Phillies game in several songs each year. Signature Song: Pat Benetar’s the now-demolished Veterans Stadium Signature Song: Still looking for one “Shadows of the Night,” Kenny Loggins’ Hear for Yourself: Tradition: As a new group, the Mainliners “The House on Pooh Corner,” Crosby, Stills http://hav.to/humtones are still working on establishing traditions. & Nash’s “Helplessly Hoping” and “Snap,” Proudest Performance: “Last year’s the Rice Krispies jingle LOONEY TUNES Customs Week concert,” says Jacob Horn Tradition: “The [secret] initiation is a really Year Founded: 1990 ’13. “We did ‘I’m on a Boat’ by Lonely Island, special tradition,” says Kelsey Capron ’12. Membership: Co-ed, Bi-Co and that year, [Assistant Dean] Jason Proudest Performance: “It varies year Number of Members: 13 McGraw and Dean Martha Denney had to year,” she says. Albums: Four, including 2007’s The Tunes come to that performance. Afterwards, Hear for Yourself: Signature Song: Toto’s “Africa” Dean Denney said, ‘I’ve never heard you http://hav.to/oxfordblues Tradition: “Worshipping the Buffalo,” says swear so much before.’ ” Lulu Krause ’12. Hear for Yourself: Additional reporting by Matthew

S-CHORDS PHOTO: DEBBIE LETER ’15; LOONEY TUNES PHOTO: COURTESY OF LINDSAY SKLAR ’10 SKLAR LINDSAY OF COURTESY PHOTO: TUNES ’15; LOONEY LETER DEBBIE PHOTO: S-CHORDS Proudest Performance: “Last year was http://hav.to/mainliners Fernandez ’14

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become not just an activity, but the center of their social lives. claim it’s a friendly competition meant to spark excitement “Even though Haverford is already a small place, a cappella about their performances. Mostly, though, a cappella at gives you a small community within that with a shared interest,” Haverford is a supportive network of singers who are proud says Garthwaite, now an architect with his own firm in Vermont. of the work they have done and are looking for an opportunity “It’s really magical,” says Oxford Blues member Kelsey to let loose from a heavy academic workload. Capron ’12 about the experience of singing with others. Musically, most of the groups draw their repertoires from “And the friendships that happen in a cappella groups are similar sources. That’s because it’s important, when choosing really special.” songs for entirely vocal-driven groups, to pick tracks with robust Those close friendships are the main reason for the musical accompaniments that can be turned into vocal parts. endurance and growth of a cappella at Haverford. Many students So orchestral pop artists like Coldplay, Sara Bareilles and the spoke of the sisterhood or brotherhood of their singing group, Beatles show up in many of the groups’ song lists. But the varying noting that the members don’t just sing together but spend personalities of the student-arrangers and the unique performance most of their free time together. The bonds run deep. styles of the different ensembles keep their similar catalogs “I sometimes joke with the sounding wildly distinctive. group that it’s not an a cappella “I loved the process of taking group, it’s a sorority,” says Arielle an original song, complete with Harris ’13, “simply because by instrumental accompaniment, being a member of the Oxford and arranging it for voices only,” Blues you’ll have 15 girls who says Molly Conant ’91, a former will always be there for you if member of Oxford Blues. “It you need somebody to talk to.” requires a different way of lis- Sure, there are rivalries, most- tening to music—assigning ly between the shirt-and-tie- voices to musical instruments wearing Humtones and the and breaking down harmonies shoeless S-Chords, who perform into distinct voice parts. I had in white painter’s overalls— Counterpoint, an all-female Bi-Co group, donned costumes the joy of being the ‘percussion though both all-male groups for a Halloween concert in Stokes Auditorium in October. section’ for a few songs, most notably as the maracas in ‘Under the Boardwalk.’ I nearly hyperventilated in several performances.” Haverford Singers In a way, the experience of being in an a cappella group at Haverford is reflective of the Show Their RANGE school itself. Between the Quaker tradition of consensus-driven decision-making that guides tudent-run a cappella groups are just one outlet for Haverford vocalists. each group’s song choice or tour planning and Associate Professor of Music Thomas Lloyd directs two singing groups, the 37-voice Chamber Singers and the 130-member Chorale. the personal responsibility members have to S undertake in practicing or arranging songs, The Chamber Singers perform mostly a cappella works—which helps explain how all of its current members are also involved in the student-run groups—and involvement in a cappella reaffirms the lessons the focus ranges widely: Along with “classical” repertoire spanning the last seven intrinsic to a Haverford education. centuries, the group performs new international repertoire (sung in original lan- “It has just given me a lot of confidence,” guages, brought back from cultural exchange tours), African American spirituals, says the Outskirts’ Bradford. “In the academic and advanced close-harmony vocal jazz. setting, you’re always learning, you’re always The Chorale, which is open to students, faculty, staff and other friends of the in a state of unknowing. But when you’re in College, performs major works from the oratorio repertoire, accompanied by an a cappella, you’re in a state of teaching and orchestra made up of Bi-Co and conservatory students. “This is music that, once knowing and being confident and performing. well-learned and performed, stays in the memory for years to come, as many of The confidence of the performance is a nice our community singers often tell our students,” Lloyd says of the works, like Verdi’s Requiem or Bach’s B Minor Mass, that the Chorale undertakes. balance to the vulnerability of academia.” Both groups require an audition, and students can receive college credit for “Being in the Oxford Blues really defined my participating. But Lloyd doesn’t see them as competing with the a cappella experience at Haverford,” says Conant, who, 20 groups for singers; rather, they share the wealth of on-campus talent and provide years after graduating, has held on to the sign depth and breadth to the singers’ repertoires—and the larger community’s mu- announcing her admission to the group in 1987. sical consumption options. “I was a decent student, but I was never an ath- “These different kinds of ensembles, he says, “serve different roles in stu- lete, a Customs Person, an HCO, UCA or any dents’ lives.” —Rebecca Raber other acronym. Singing with the Blues was my niche, and a major part of my identity.”

36 HaverfordMagazine A Heart for Healing

Phua Xiong ’91 defied the expectations for girls in her Hmong culture by going to college and becoming a physician. Now she runs a St. Paul medical practice that takes an insider approach to the health needs of her community. BY ELIZABETH FOY LARSEN

PHOTOS: STEVE STEVE PHOTOS: WOIT 37 A Heart for Healing year-old, I felt that connection. Many of the patients weren’t Asian, but I found it didn’t matter who I helped. It was just about being there for them.” Xiong’s passion for helping people found an unexpected ally in her father. “In high school, my dad said, ‘If you like it, you should go into medicine and be a doctor,’ ” she remembers. “It surprised me, because of my background, culture and upbringing. In the Hmong culture, girls aren’t given opportunities to do things outside the home. Instead, they are expected to get married, be a house- wife and take care of the kids. To hear that coming from my dad surprised me. I took it to heart.” As a high school student at the rigor- ous Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia, Xiong set her sights on going to college, with the goal of one day making it to medical school. It was an ambitious plan Dr. Xiong examines five-day-old Sean Yang. She credits her husband, Blong Thao, a former teacher who now does administration for her medical practice, with providing for any student, but Xiong’s dreams of the support that allowed her to raise five children, work long hours and leave home in college were further complicated by the the middle of the night to deliver babies. expectations of her family and the local Hmong community. ROM THE MOMENT YOU WALK INTO THE ST. PAUL FAMILY Xiong’s older brothers had already gone Medical Center, it’s clear that this inner-city clinic just to college and didn’t want their sister living on campus. “The biggest fear in the Hmong off a busy intersection on the east side of St. Paul, Minn., community for families is losing face,” says is proud of the community it serves. Dolls dressed in Xiong. “So if a daughter gets pregnant, it intricately embroidered and beaded Hmong costumes reflects on the family. They have a bad rep- look out from atop the receptionist’s desk. Story cloths utation within the community, and the Fwith appliqué maps of Laos, Vietnam and Thailand hang on the walls. daughter’s future is wounded.” The tones of the Hmong language mix with American slang and That opposition only spurred the young woman who as a girl made sure the nasal accents of the upper Midwest. her mother and father attended all of her The clinic, founded in 2002, is the solo together English phrases, she was accom- parent-teacher conferences. When Xiong practice and life’s work of family practi- panying her parents and other Hmong matriculated at Haverford—and lived on tioner Phua Xiong (pronounced PU-a adults to doctors’ appointments and acting campus—she was the first Hmong girl Shong) ’91. More than 90 percent of the as an interpreter. “I’m sure I didn’t do a in Philadelphia to go to college. clinic’s clients are, like Xiong, Hmong, an good job, but it was the best thing that Haverford’s Quaker values spoke to ethnic group from the mountainous was available at the time, since interpreters Xiong. “I wasn’t into partying,” she says. regions that straddle China, Vietnam, Laos, weren’t required by law,” says the smartly “I was at Haverford for a purpose. I took and Thailand. Tens of thousands of Hmong dressed Xiong, who comes across as both in all the good things of Haverford, and fled their homeland when the Communist warm and earnest. Her interest in becom- I carry the intrinsic values of the college Party took over the Laotian government ing a doctor, she says, started with those with me to this day. Having an honor in 1975, after a brutal civil war. glimpses into the medical world. code and hearing how the faculty handles Among those escaping Laos was By high school, that interest had those issues and how the community Xiong’s family, who arrived in Philadel- steered her into volunteer jobs as a candy responds matures you. I valued that great- phia by way of a Thai refugee camp in striper in hospitals and nursing homes. ly, and I still live my life that way.” 1976. The fourth of nine children, Xiong “I liked being a helping hand to someone From Haverford, Xiong moved west was only 7 years old when she came to who needed it,” Xiong says. “It really to the University of Minnesota for med- America. But by the time she could piece touched my heart. Even as a 13- and 14- ical school. Located in Minneapolis, the

38 HaverfordMagazine highly regarded school appealed to her in part because she knew the Twin Cities have one of the largest Hmong communities in the United States. When she graduated in 1996, she was among the first female Hmong physicians in the United States. In 1999, Xiong was named Family Practice Resident of the Year by the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians.

After completing her residency, Dr. Xiong (center), who is the sole doctor at the St. Paul Family Medical Center, Xiong worked at a community clinic. talks with staff members Stephanie Xiong (right), her sister, and Janie Thao. But even though she enjoyed it, she want- ed to do more. “I have always had a heart shamanism to Christianity—into her it. She’ll spend 45 minutes with a patient for the Hmong people,” she says, wiping examination room. “A lot of doctors don’t if that’s what’s needed.” away tears. “I wouldn’t be myself if I went like talking about religion, but in this For female patients, Yang says, Xiong to medical school and left the community community it’s interwoven into people’s is a trusted confidant when it comes to and didn’t come back and do [something] lives and the decisions they make.” anything from a pregnancy test to being for them. The purpose of me coming to That understanding of her commu- treated for sexually transmitted diseases. America wouldn’t have been fulfilled.” nity’s needs has given Xiong a reputation “The Hmong community is very small,” Still, starting a solo practice was a as someone her patients can trust; she says Yang. “If there are rumors about you, daunting task, and Xiong’s colleagues brings an expertise that is highlighted you lose your reputation. Hmong women and mentors warned her of the difficul- in the 2003 book Healing by Heart: know they can go to her and she won’t ties. In typical fashion, their naysaying Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong tell anyone.” galvanized her to prove them wrong. Elders and Western Providers (Vanderbilt Aside from her strong sense of ethics, While Xiong admits she’s not making University Press), which she co-edited. Xiong believes that her patients trust her the kind of money one would expect of “Hmong elders have a lot of chronic because she personally shares values that a doctor, the St. Paul Family Medical health problems,” says Deu Yang, a nurse are important to Hmong culture, including Center is a cornerstone of the community educator in St. Paul who is also Hmong family. She has five children between the she holds so dear. In the nine years since and has known Xiong for more than 20 ages of 19 and 9 and credits her husband, it was started, the practice has grown to years. “With a regular doctor, they will Blong Thao—a former teacher who now serve 5,000 patients. And while she is take the medicine home and put it away works at the clinic doing general admin- the only doctor, Xiong recently hired a because they don’t understand how it istration and technology support—with certified nurse practitioner. In addition, works, and they’ll take an herbal med- giving her the necessary backup and a Hmong- and Spanish-speaking phar- ication instead. Dr. Xiong helps them encouragement to allow her to raise a large macy opened in the medical center’s understand why they need to be on that family, work long hours, and leave home building early in 2011, largely because medicine, so they are more likely to take in the middle of the night to deliver babies. of the presence of Xiong’s clinic, whose Even though her life is hectic, Xiong patients can now get their prescriptions wouldn’t have it any other way. “Succeed- filled at the same location. ing in Hmong terms is being a mom, rais- The clinic has succeeded in large part ing kids, having a family and carrying on because Xiong can address her patients’ the line,” she says. “Success in American health needs as an insider. When patients terms is to succeed in your profession. If are suffering from diabetes, Xiong doesn’t I was a Hmong doctor and was single and talk to them about counting carbs. “That’s had no kids, the respect wouldn’t be there not something they can conceptualize,” in my community. So if I was successful she says. “I know that rice is the main in American terms but not Hmong terms, culprit when it comes to diabetes in my I wouldn’t be happy. I’ve always wanted patients. I may ask them to cut down to blend the two so that I would be myself to one cup per meal or cut rice in half and also be a little bit of both.” or eat rice only with dinner instead of The walls of the Center’s reception area Elizabeth Foy Larsen’s writing has appeared every meal.” are decorated with story cloths, including in the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Xiong also doesn’t shy away from this one from Laos, where the majority of The Daily Beastand numerous other nation- bringing religion—from animism and the Hmong in the U.S. come from. al magazines. She lives in Minneapolis.

Fall 2011 39 Aly Lieberman ’12 (far right), whose summer internship was sponsored by the CPGC, laughs with some of the girls during a summer camp session at High Rocks.

THE HIGH ROCKS CONNECTION An education and leadership program in rural West Virginia provides a life-changing experience for the girls it serves—and for the steady stream of Haverford students who have found internships and full-time jobs with the organization. By Emma Eisenberg ’09

In a county in West Virginia where only 12 percent of the population AmeriCorps workers Hazel Scott has a college degree and most kids learn to can their own vegetables ’10 and Jessica Perry BMC ’09 are in the camp’s rustic outdoor kitchen and shoot a gun by age eight, 40 teenage girls are spending two putting the finishing touches on weeks wrestling with Shakespeare, designing and building a solar a homemade dinner, while Youth composting toilet, learning about recycling and building a model Community Action Coordinator city. And there’s a Haverford hand in every project. Mica Baum-Tuccillo ’09 emerges from the garden with bowls of freshly n this particular July evening, at a camp run picked lettuce. Joanna Burt-Kinderman ’98is learning songs by the organization High Rocks, summer on the guitar with one of the oldest campers and listening at intern Aly Lieberman ’12 is playing Ultimate the same time to the girl talk about how she wishes her sister with a group of girls in the campground field, would stop abusing prescription drugs. while another group asks her fellow intern, This is just a snapshot of the crucial role that Haverford

Noemi Agagianian ’14, questions about math. (and Bryn Mawr) students and grads are playing in operating MACK SHELBY PHOTOS: O 

40 HaverfordMagazine High Rocks Educational Corporation, a flourishing nonprofit dents participating together with Haverford students, staff organization in the mountains of southeastern West Virginia. and faculty in several collaborative programs on campus. High Rocks, which partners with Haverford’s Center for Peace This is the kind of highly beneficial and reciprocal partnership and Global Citizenship (CPGC) in a summer internship pro- CPGC aspires to in all of our work.” gram, was founded in 1996 by Susan Burt, who spent 18 The typical 10-week summer internship with High Rocks years in the local school system as a librarian and gifted/talented includes a week of seminars focused on Appalachian history program coordinator. Watching girls start middle school and pedagogy, hands-on teaching experience, as well as plan- with positive energy and an optimistic outlook but begin ning, promoting and running Nettlefest, High Rocks’ annual to struggle once they hit high school inspired Burt to launch musical festival and fundraiser. Interns also complete an indi- a summer camp program that could help. “I wanted to vidual project where they focus on a particular question or change the ways girls thought about themselves,” she says. component of High Rocks and leave behind a movie, digital “I wanted to create a place where girls don’t judge each story, academic paper or other creative work that adds to the other or put each other down.” High Rocks body of knowledge and exploration. “As an intern The need for such a space of learning and acceptance for at most places you don’t really touch the organization,” says girls in the area is urgent. The three-county area that High Burt-Kinderman. “At High Rocks you really touch it. Without Rocks serves is a place of mountainous terrain and remote you, it might not happen.” small towns. The unemployment and poverty rates are higher Aly Lieberman, a philosophy major from Providence, R.I., than the state averages, and educational attainment is below. designed and taught an experiential outdoor science class to High Rocks’ office building and campground sit on 200 acres seventh and eighth graders at both sessions of High Rocks of wilderness located in Pocahontas County, where the high camp using the wilderness setting to teach the girls about school drop-out rate is 25 percent—the highest in the state ecology, conservation and recycling. “Coming [to High Rocks] and almost double the national average. The High Rocks girls felt like what I needed to do to figure out what I’m going to themselves are a diverse group, though 60 percent of them do next,” says Lieberman. The experience, she says, “gave live under the poverty line and qualify for free or reduced- me a reality check and a new perspective on the world.” price lunch. “I learned all I could and contributed all I could,” says High Rocks has steadily expanded, working to empower Noemi Agagianian, a rising sophomore from Sunland, Calif., girls aged 12 to 19 through intensive summer camps designed who taught the High Rocks girls an innovative math curricu- to bolster academic and personal growth, weekly after-school lum called Toadtown, in which girls had to use math tech- tutoring and curricular enrichment classes, service trips, and niques and operations to construct a miniature model city a comprehensive college access program that includes visits for a fictional group of toads. to colleges in the Appalachian region and beyond. High Rocks also provides girls with cross-cultural learning opportunities, including attending ACLU meetings in the state capital, rebuilding houses in New Orleans and traveling to the Arizona- Mexico border. All of these programs are free or have a very low cost. Knowing High Rocks was short staffed for the summer, Susan Burt’s daughter, High Rocks staff member and Haverford alumna Joanna Burt-Kinderman, reached out in 2005 to her friend Carrie Oelberger ’98, the program coor- dinator at the then-new CPGC. Burt-Kinderman offered Haverford women students the opportunity to come to High Rocks as interns. “From the CPGC perspective, we’d had a history of inter- national internships over the summer, and we were trying to develop the domestic ones,” says Oelberger. “Joanna was looking for some extra hands to help with High Rocks camp, and we thought it was the perfect match.” Twelve Haverford students have served as summer interns over the collabora- tion’s seven-year history, including Agagianian and Lieberman in 2011. “Haverford’s engagement has deepened over the years,” says CPGC Domestic Program Coordinator Janice Lion. “We Mica Baum-Tuccillo ’09 plays Ultimate at High Rocks’ New now sponsor exchanges of service learning groups during Beginnings camp. The game became a daily event at camp,

spring and fall breaks, and we have High Rocks staff and stu-  with both staff and girls joining in.

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For several Haverford grads, these internships have turned The link between the work done at High Rocks and a into full-time jobs. Hazel Scott, from Seattle, Wash., served Haverford education might not be immediately apparent, but with the AmeriCorps VISTA program this past year and for those who have both walked the halls of Founders and focused on grant writing, capacity building and technology looked out on the vista of the Monongahela National Forest use while at High Rocks. Mica Baum-Tuccillo, a New York from the High Rocks campground, the connection is clear: City native who first encountered High Rocks as a volunteer High Rocks is a place where students can move from theory on a CPGC-sponsored spring break trip, has worked for to practice. “I’m hoping to major in psychology with a minor High Rocks since August 2010. Adding a Bi-Co presence, in education,” says Agagianian. “I spent a lot of my summer Bryn Mawr grad Jessica Perry, from Little Rock, Ark., headed [at High Rocks] thinking about how to converse with teenage

up a successful after-school program for elementary  girls—what to say, what not to say, how to lead by example, school children as part of a new 10-person AmeriCorps team. The Putting people from different worlds in the same AmeriCorps assistance was award- ed to High Rocks in 2010 to provide room is a key part of the Haverford-High Rocks magic, more personnel and extend the mission to the broader local com- says Joanna Burt-Kinderman ’98. “Nothing you can say munity through local food advo- will influence these kids as much as just them meeting cacy, community organizing and after-school programming for boys someone they would normally never meet. That’s what and girls of all ages. And the latest Ford to go to High Rocks is Nathan can change somebody’s life.” Shelton ’11, who grew up in neigh- boring Randolph County and has just signed on to be part etc. Having had this real experience to look back to, I will be of the second year of this AmeriCorps team, making him the able to better understand theoretical psychology.” first male Haverford alumnus to participate in the partnership. “Working at High Rocks lit a fire under my academic “I'm excited to begin working [at High Rocks],” says Shelton. pursuits at Haverford,” agrees Burt-Kinderman, a mathematics “Since I grew up so close to the project, it means a lot to me major in college. “After my junior and senior years at Hav- to be involved.” erford, I came to High Rocks and taught math. I figured out that I wanted to be a math major when I met [Haverford Professor] Jeff Tecosky-Feldman. Going to high school in West Virginia, it never occurred to me that learning math could feel that powerful. I realized it is so important that dis- enfranchised people also learn math, because math is the door to becoming upwardly mobile.” Burt-Kinderman now teaches math at an area middle school and is a mathematics instructional coach for the district. To put the educational realities of growing up in rural West Virginia into context, the state has one of the 10 highest high school dropout rates in the country and has the lowest percentage in the nation of people over 25 who have gone to college. For many of the High Rocks girls, just getting to school every day is a struggle. Most ride a bus for an hour or more each morning, and in the 2010-11 school year, stu- dents missed 23 instructional days (about five weeks of school) because of snow and inclement weather that kept school buses from reaching those who live on dirt roads or up steep mountains. Baum-Tuccillo stresses that the Bi-Co education classes she took prepared her to fight the woes she’s seen while work- ing at High Rocks. “There’s a passivity in the culture [in Pocahontas County], and people here have a really hard time Hazel Scott ’10 (far right) leads her science class on a hike to a waterfall. Scott served with the Americorps VISTA program advocating for themselves,” she says. “We are trying to address over the past year, assisting High Rocks with grant writing and this passive attitude amongst young people and empower

technology use.  them to make change in their lives. Making people who

42 HaverfordMagazine HIGH ROCKS VIEWS  High Rocks Director Sarah Riley (top photo, far left) talks to a spring break work crew over lunch. Riley says that, more than any other college that sends interns, “Haverford students simply get what we are doing here.” CPGC-sponsored summer intern Noemi Agagianian ’14 (left photo, center) bonds with two High Rocks girls. Joanna Burt-Kinderman ’98 (bottom photo, far right), whose mother, Susan Burt, founded High Rocks in 1996, assists during a songwriting class at summer camp. The High Rocks Connection

erford’s support to educate the next generation of leaders.” Burt-Kinderman maintains that the secret behind the Haverford-High Rocks magic is simply putting people from different worlds in the same room. “In terms of influencing kids to think they’re capable of doing something great with their lives, nothing you can say will influence these kids as much as just them meeting someone they would normally never meet,” says Burt-Kinderman. Those outdoor science classes taught by summer intern Aly Lieberman, she says, are a good example. “She was engaging with learning in a way that was light and playful, and in doing so, opened kids up to the fact that they might actually like science. That’s what can change somebody’s life.” “People who go to a great college like Haverford usually just stick with people who are just like them,” Burt-Kinderman observes. “That might feel nice, but it really isn’t doing anything to bring the world closer together. That’s part of the reason that the work that’s happening between High Rocks and Haverford really matters. Because it’s a bunch of folks who are really different from each other, but who all want young women to grow up on two firm feet.” Mica Baum-Tuccillo ’09, Program Coordinator at High Rocks, has her face painted by campers. She first encountered the Emma Eisenberg ’09 worked at High Rocks from May 2009 West Virginia organization on a Haverford-sponsored Spring to October 2010. Eisenberg led an after-school poetry and break trip. creative writing class, expanded the college-access program, developed an annual workshop on writing college admissions haven’t always had a voice understand that their voice is pow- essays, supervised the intern program and directed the recruit- erful [is] something that I learned about from my education ment of new High Rocks girls. This past summer she returned professors. That’s something Haverford believes in.” to teach at camp and remains heavily involved with High Rocks High Rocks has emerged as an Appalachian social justice while she pursues a writing career in Philadelphia. “High Rocks training institute for 20-somethings, preparing them for transformed me,” says Eisenberg. “I don’t have enough words careers in social change work and education. Young staffers to thank the staff and girls I worked with for taking me in and letting me be a part of the magic that’s happening on that moun- like Baum-Tuccillo, Perry and Scott have an unusual amount tain. All of our lives, no matter where we live are tied up with of autonomy to run their own initiatives and programs, and what happens there.” they carry an unusual amount of responsibility for people so young working at a nonprofit that is now more than 15 years old. “Being able to say, ‘I started this [initiative],’ gives you a huge leap up the ladder for whatever you want to do next, whether it be a job or graduate school,” says Burt- Kinderman. “And [High Rocks] is a place that offers that kind of opportunity.” And what do Haverford students bring in return? High Rocks Director Sarah Riley says that more than those from any other college that sends interns (including Oberlin, Hampshire, Berea, University of Virginia, West Virginia Uni- versity, Harvey Mudd and Reed), “Haverford students simply get what we are doing here. They have solid foundations in social justice theory, they’re used to meeting high standards of academic excellence and thought, and they’re willing to work Emma Eisenberg ’09 (far left) with High Rocks girls on a hard. We do the work of educating young people who want September trip to North Carolina, where they visited colleges and learned about the importance of the admissions essay. to work at nonprofits because we believe it’s important, but Eisenberg developed the program last year with the help of we don’t have many partners that support us to do it. Haverford High Rocks donors Randy Lloyd and Kathy White (far right), who hosted the group in their Chapel Hill, N.C., home. is one of the only partners we have, and we count on Hav- 

To learn more about what High Rocks does, visit highrocks.org

44 HaverfordMagazine Jonathan Snipes ’82, and his family, rejected the offers of developers and instead turned the land that has been theirs for ten genera- tions into a model of community-centered agriculture. BY SARI HARRAR SAVING the FARM

n a dirt road lined with ancient oak trees and yellow sunflowers, Jonathan Snipes ’82 listens to the sound track of his family’s 164-  year-old farm. It’s a modern agricultural remix: Corn husks rustle, Jonathan Snipes ’82 with his sister, Susan free-range chickens squawk, farm subscribers chatter as they pick Snipes-Wells, and up produce, and traffic rumbles by on a nearby highway. “You can father, Samuel M. always hear Route 1,” Snipes muses. “And that’s not a bad thing.” Snipes ’41, in the cornfield at OThis historic Pennsylvania farm—home to three generations years. “Developers have shown up Snipes Farm and of Fords—has an impressive pedigree. It’s the oldest in Bucks here countless times offering money Education Center. County operated continuously by a single family. Ten gener- for our ‘vacant’ land,” says Susan ations have had a hand in it. Crops here root in some of the Snipes-Wells, 55, Jonathan’s sister. “My grandparents always state’s most productive “Class 1” soils—coastal-plain loam said, ‘No thanks.’ So did my parents, and so have we. This land that’s more likely to be trapped under shopping centers and isn’t vacant. We believe it’s being put to its highest and best use.” suburban lawns than bursting with winter squash and eggplant Just a few years ago, the farm’s future was uncertain. In these days. At the farm’s edge, ferns, magnolias and willows 2003, the family’s longtime garden center closed, unable to on the endangered and threatened species lists thrive in a compete with the bargain prices at big-box stores. “People pocket of old forest. around here were afraid we were going to sell out,” says Snipes, In the 1950s, developer William Levitt tried to buy the land 51. Instead, the family reinvented their homestead—giving it for his planned Levittown subdivision (ultimately built just a a new mission and a new name to match. In 2007 it reopened few miles south). The Snipes family turned him down flat.But as the Snipes Farm and Education Center, a working model the 150-acre farm’s prime location—wedged between two of of organic, sustainable, community-centered agriculture. “We the Philadelphia area’s busiest roads, with Interstate 95 just a wanted to preserve the farm in perpetuity. And we wanted to

PHOTOS: DAN Z. JOHNSON DAN PHOTOS: few miles away—has drawn plenty of interest through the keep it open to the public in a meaningful way,” Snipes says.

Fall 2011 45 Saving the Farm

“As a farm in a densely populated area, we realized we had KEEPING THE FARM ALIVE something unique to offer.” einvention is a tradition down on this farm. The Sun-ripened organic tomatoes, melons, beans and 12 vari- Snipeses’ ancestors were among the thousands eties of apples are just part of the new appeal. Today this farm’s of Quakers who fled religious persecution in a busy place. About 4,000 schoolchildren visit each year for England, moving to the safety of William Penn’s tours, summer camps and “seed to fork” classes that begin woods (present-day Bucks County) in 1681. They with planting lettuce seeds and end with salad parties. The Rgrew ornamental trees before the Revolutionary War. In 1848 farm’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) program has the family bought the land now called Snipes Farm. One famous 200 members, who buy shares and receive fresh-picked veg- nurseryman ancestor, Mahlon Moon, displayed his prize ever- etables, fruit and flowers weekly. Families line up on fine fall greens at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. weekends for hayrides, apple- and pumpkin-picking, campfires Moon’s certificate hangs in the parlor of a circa-1854 home and a five-acre corn maze. And an eclectic string of concerts, on the farm. Beautiful specimen trees from Moon’s time— potlucks and retreats forges and maintains links with a broad including a towering, 175-year-old Tennessee yellowwood— community of farmers, foodies, organic-gardening fans, music still dot the property. lovers, activists, fellow Quakers and others. In the 20th century, Snipes Farm sold milk from a small herd “We grew up with a strong sense of community,” notes of Ayrshire dairy cows, grew asparagus and grains, and had Snipes, who, along with his father and fellow Ford, Samuel tomato contracts with the Campbell Soup Company. “But what M. Snipes ’41, serves as a member of the Haverford College kept us afloat during the Great Depression was a gas station and Corporation. “The six kids in our family, our cousins and our a lunch counter that became a restaurant and later a dance hall,” parents lived here. Our parents were involved in the Quaker recalls 92-year-old Sam Snipes ’41, Jonathan and Susan’s father. community, in progressive social (Sam’s father, Edgar T. Snipes, and political causes. There were Snipes (left) with CSA was a 1904 Haverford graduate.) always interesting people visiting subscriber Roger “Those businesses helped keep the Edens, who rides his from all over the world. We wanted bike to the farm each farm alive.” to continue that. Today, the people week to pick his In the 1950s, when U.S. Steel who gather here are committed to vegetable share. opened a plant in nearby Fairless this vision of farms as a central part “It’s not just about Hills and ignited a suburban hous-

food,” Edens says.

of a local community. It’s about “There’s a real sense ing boom, Sam and his brother fresh, local food and connects to of community.” Bradshaw, a nurseryman, opened environmental issues and social-  Snipes Garden Center. “People still justice issues, too.” come and tell us that the cherry tree or forsythia bush on their front lawn came from our center,” Snipes says. As the family’s trees and shrubs beautified new suburban Samuel M. Snipes ’41 yards, Sam was also playing a role in altering Levittown’s social landscape. A lawyer, he represented the first African-American family to move into the 17,000-home development in 1957, helping to hold off an angry mob in front of the home of Daisy and William Myers until the sheriff arrived. Sam, who “almost became a dairy farmer, but changed his mind at the last minute,” nurtured an attachment to farm life in his children. “We always had a dairy cow—including one named Hollyhock,” Snipes-Wells recalls. “It was the job of one of us kids to get up early every morning with our father and milk the cow.” A vegetable patch also required tending, along with a flock of chickens and horses—which the family some- times hitched to a carriage for rides to meeting on Sunday mornings. “Living here gave us a love of nature,” Snipes says. “One of our aims for the farm is passing that along through educational programs. If children and families can come and learn to love one piece of ground, of open space, they’ll be interested in seeing open space protected and preserved.” continued on page 48

46 CARRIE KENNY ’93 DOWN ON THE FARM IN AUSTIN

umping across a Texas field on the back of a three-row planter, Carrie Kenny ’93 dropped tiny onion sets into holes in the silty brown earth. It was February of 2008 and she’d come to Johnson’s Backyard Garden, a burgeoning com- munity-supported agriculture (CSA) farm in BAustin, Texas, for a six-month internship. Close to four years later, Kenny’s still there—running the front office and expanding the role of one of the Southwest’s largest CSAs. Kenny, a Haverford sociology and anthropology major, had managed a local nonprofit before taking time off to help her mother through a battle with breast cancer. Returning to Austin, she was busy harvesting cucumbers, squash and okra when Johnson’s founder, Brenton Johnson, asked her if she’d be interested in helping run the office. “At Haverford, I was encouraged to look closely at my own actions and to consider the effects they might have on the community as a whole,” she says. “I was drawn to working at Johnson’s due to its emphasis on long-term sustainability and community involve- ment. I like being part of something that succeeds as a business and helps the community at the same time.” Thanks to Austin’s wildly popular local food movement, Johnson’s has grown from a backyard plot with 30 members in 2006 to a sprawling farm with almost 1,000 members today. Using “slow money” loans from supporters, paid back over many years, Johnson’s recently expanded to 206 acres of prime farmland along the Colorado River. In the summer of 2011, Texas wildfires reached the river’s far banks. Record Carrie Kenny ’93 at Johnson’s Backyard Garden, a nearly 1,000-member community-supported farm where she runs high temperatures (Austin ultimately had 85 days in the triple the front office and helps expand programs. digits) caused the CSA’s 20,000 tomato plants to ripen all of their fruit at once. nonprofits. Among the first recipients will be several group “My job is never predictable,” Kenny says. “Soon, the homes for girls. “The girls help cook dinner every night, and office next to mine was filled with tomatoes. We had to find they’re excited to get the produce,” Kenny says. a way to get these to people before they went bad. This Though she spends her days focused on food, Kenny meant scrambling to sell them. For about two weeks, it seems says she is not a foodie. “I came into this more out of social all we did was process tomato orders. We had a bulk tomato concerns. Sustainability is important, but I’m also interested sale, then a half-price bulk sale. A local chef did a canning in how we can get more produce to low-income areas, where class for us. We gave tomatoes away to the Salvation Army supermarkets are few and far between and the produce isn’t and to local restaurants.” always the best. We’re working on a grant that would let us Upscale Austin eateries feature Johnson’s jewel-toned, set up small farmers’ markets in front of local elementary sun-ripened produce, but the CSA is also working to make schools in communities that have expressed a need and good food affordable and available to a wide range of desire.” Austinites, Kenny says. “Not everyone can afford to put down Kenny may not be a foodie, but the fact that she thinks several hundred dollars at the beginning of the season for a deeply about sustenance is evident in her first- and second- traditional CSA membership,” she says. “One low-cost alter- place wins in edibleaustin.com’s first haiku contest. One of native is a work share, where you volunteer on the farm in her entries: exchange for one week’s share,” she says. “And for the past Egg, essential whole three years, we’ve donated thousands of pounds of produce Like Humpty Dumpty you crack to the Salvation Army kitchen in downtown Austin.” Johnson’s Undone by breakfast. Farm is also setting up a fund to provide vegetables to area —Sari Harrar PHOTO: SCOTT GORDON SCOTT PHOTO:

Fall 2011 47 Saving the Farm continued from page 46

GROUNDHOG WARS t takes more than enthusiasm to keep a small farm ticking. Early on, the reinvented farm established a board of direc- tors and received 501c3 not-for-profit status, paving the way for relationships with seven local school districts that send elementary schoolers to this outdoor classroom. I“Students get to come back to the farm several times,” says

Education Director Melanie Douty,  Jonathan’s wife. “They plant lettuce  in the children’s garden, then harvest On fall weekends at and eat it. They see what it takes to Snipes Farm, families grow an apple. They learn why earth- line up for hayrides, worms and honeybees are so impor- apple- and pumpkin- picking and a five- tant. If they go home dirty and sweaty, acre corn maze. it’s been a successful day.”Currently, the nonprofit leases 25 acres from the Snipes family. Income from the operation pays the leasing to be part of a community, part of a cultural movement. I wanted fees, the salaries of five staff members and a half-time mechanic, to make a positive change in the world. Producing food locally and provides stipends for two seasonal farm interns. and preserving farmland is a way to do that.” In 2010, nearly 100 acres of fields, orchard and forest were preserved when the family worked with the Natural Lands Trust A SOLAR CULTIVATOR to transfer development rights to Bucks County’s Natural Areas AND SUN-RIPE TOMATOES and Agricultural Land Preservation programs. “It’s a landmark erry has nudged the farm toward sustainability, hook- property,” says Kris Kern, the county’s open space coordinator. ing a circa-1941 Allis-Chalmers cultivator to a solar- “To preserve one of the last large undeveloped tracts in congested charged battery and encouraging plans to establish lower Bucks County is significant.” Botanist Ann F. Rhoads of a solar-panel array that will back-feed electricity to the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania inven- the power grid, offsetting 80 percent of the farm’s toried the farm’s 25 acres of woods for the preservation application. Belectrical use. He also finds himself talking up the charms of She says it was exciting to find endangered willow oaks, rare perfectly delicious organic produce that may not have the uni- swamp doghobble shrubs and other plants thriving in intact plant form size or color of store-bought. A week after Hurricane Irene communities. “The Snipes tract contains an excellent example and Tropical Storm Lee pounded the Mid-Atlantic region, a of coastal plain forest,” she says. “The conservation of the property sign beside the CSA’s tomatoes said: All the rain has split our is a continuation of the excellent stewardship that the Snipes tomatoes. Still very tasty. Vine-ripened tomatoes are fragile and family has applied to this land over many generations.” should be enjoyed in the next day or two. But Mother Nature hasn’t always been kind. In the CSA’s first The farm’s subscribers get it. “I love the produce,” says season, invaders threatened. “In our first growing season, hundreds Mary Sprow as she walks to her car with bags full of vegetables. of groundhogs tried to eat everything,” Snipes-Wells says, laughing. “I’m at the point where if I have to buy produce in the grocery “Groundhogs weren’t a problem when the farm raised nursery store, I’m not sure what to pick. Here you get what’s really ripe stock, but they’re a big problem if you’re trying to grow vegetables. every week.” Subscriber Roger Edens rides his bike to the farm Trapping them became an all-out war.” Then yellow-and-black each week. “It’s not just about food. There’s a real sense of harlequin bugs descended. “They ate all of the cole crops—the community,” he says, standing outside the barn as members cabbage, the broccoli,” recalls Victoria Lautsbaugh, a former walk in and out, choosing watermelons from an oversized bin garden center employee who returned to help restart the farm. and comparing recipes for the week’s purple eggplant, rainbow “It wasn’t easy, especially because we were organic and wouldn’t chard, leeks and Delicata squash (“Eat the skin! Voted best winter use pesticides. We had to replant like crazy.” squash!” reads a sign over the box). “Farming isn’t something you can do just because you like “It’s really expanded my diet,” Edens says. “It gets you back it,” Snipes says. “It’s a science. We realized we needed someone in tune with what’s seasonal, the way people used to eat. This who knew how to plan, how to cultivate, how to rotate crops, week it’s potatoes—the first of the season.” how to control pests. We were lucky enough to find just the right Award-winning freelance writer Sari Harrar specializes in health person.” He was Brad Berry, a Warrington, Bucks County, native and science. Her articles appear in national magazines including who’d spent four years working at a CSA in New York state. O, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Organic Gardening “Food may be the most significant player in shaping a culture,” and others. She last wrote for the magazine about New York City notes Berry, the farm’s manager. “I got into this because I wanted Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley ’77.

48 HaverfordMagazine Roads Taken and Not Taken

LINDSAY VOIGT ’03

My first impression of my students was of rows and rows of them marching in formation, covered head to toe in cam- ouflage, their long, shiny black ponytails swinging. They crisscrossed the dirt playing field under the bright blue September sky, the arid mountains of Gansu Province their dramatic back- drop. It was freshman orientation week at Pingliang Medical College, and my students were in military training. I, too, was a new arrival, fresh off two months of preparation at the Peace Corps China headquarters in the muggy metropolis of Chengdu, where, if noth- ing else, at least the humidity felt like home. But here in my dry, dusty new home, everything was unfamiliar again. Lindsay Voigt ’03 with one of her students at Pingliang Medical College in China’s As I piddled around my apartment on Gansu Province. my first night, wondering where to begin with cleaning and unpacking, a student because they did not do well on the lights go out at 11:00 sharp. In the knocked at my door. Grinning and bub- paramount college entrance exam and morning, they are roused a little after bly, she invited me to her dorm room, were offered a short list of fields of study 6:00 and stumble onto the athletic field and my walk down the hall with her from which to choose, one being nurs- for morning exercises to the tune of a offered me my first glimpse into the life ing or basic medicine. They are fully military march blared through the cam- of a college student in rural China. In aware that our school is not a good pus speakers. one room, students were hand-washing school; they are also aware that it is their Sometimes, as I stroll through the their laundry at huge tile troughs. In the only shot at college. Very few are here teaching building, I catch a glimpse of next, I caught sight of a row of squat toi- because they dreamed of a career as a my Chinese colleagues teaching. In lets without so much as a curtain for pri- countryside nurse. white lab coats, they stand on platforms vacy. We entered her dorm room and Upon acceptance to Pingliang Medi- wearing lapel microphones, vigorously before me were four sets of bunk beds cal College, students are put into classes lecturing rooms of silent students. and her seven roommates—seven room- of about 50, based on their test scores, Knowing that this is what they’re used mates! I realized with horror that in my meaning that if you know someone’s to, and, in fact, what they expect, it’s apartment, composed of two dorm class number, you know exactly what easy to see why students are a little dis- rooms, I was occupying the space of 16 kind of student he or she is. With these comfited by my class. I teach Oral Chinese students. Set into the wall were 50 classmates, students have all of their English, which by definition requires eight lockers, one for each girl to store classes, which are pre-determined by the that students speak, but I learned early all her earthly possessions. school and not chosen by the students on that their speaking is all or nothing. Since that first week of cool observa- themselves. Every night, my students If I pose a simple question to the class tion from afar, when my students make their way to their “homeroom” like “What does this word mean?” a marched past in their camouflage, I have classroom, where they have study hall chorus of 50 voices will knock me back- come to know them and know some- together for two hours, and in the dor- wards, their Mandarin tones emphati- thing of their stories. The vast majority mitories, the doors are locked and the continued on page 63 hail from the countryside, are the sons and daughters of farmers, and are the first in their families to go to college. CARE TO SHARE YOUR STORY of roads taken (or not taken) They have come to Pingliang Medical since graduation? Drop us a line! [email protected] College, a two-year vocational school,

Fall 2011 49 giving back

Justice, his true passion was always his- tory. “Going with him on any trip was like walking with a gifted tour guide who was also a [history] encyclopedia,” says Kossoff. “He had at his fingertips facts about any locale, that were often obscure, but always pertinent.” In the wake of the death of their friend, Kossoff and fellow classmate Barry Newburger, who attended Hav- erford before leaving to start a career in investment banking, had inquired at the College about starting a fund that would dovetail with Page’s first love and pas- sion—history. Kossoff says that setting up the fund was “a no-brainer.” “We wanted to do something to honor our friend,” he says, “because we were so upset about his pre- mature passing.” They worked closely with Haverford’s Office of Institutional Advancement to create an endowed fund, to which Kossoff, Newburger and a few History department chair James Krippner (left) with Wynne Lewis ’12, a recipient of the F. Page Newton Class of 1975 History Internship. other classmates, as well as Page’s wife Renee and his children Colyn and Cole, would contribute on an annual basis. The fund, which yields $3,000 a year, Honoring a Friend permits the history department to fund at least one student over each summer. The F. Page Newton Class of 1975 History Internship Kossoff, who was a strong proponent supports the summer research projects of rising seniors. of Haverford’s junior research seminar (History 361), wanted to provide stu- By Alison Rooney dents the chance to augment their on- campus research. Working closely with Kossoff in 1998 to craft the purpose for n 1998, Mitch Kossoff ’75 learned Like Page, Kossoff had been a history the fund were history department faculty that his good friend and Haverford major, and he recalls vividly the strong members Emma Lapsansky-Werner classmate F. Page Newton had connection he and Page struck up as (now curator of the Quaker Collection Ipassed away suddenly—in an acci- freshmen in Gummere Hall. “We became and professor emeritus), Susan Mosher dent while tending to his home in good friends there, and after,” says Kos- Stuard (now professor emeritus) and Washington, D.C. Kossoff wanted to find soff, who is now the founding partner Professor Linda Gerstein. Lapsansky- a fitting way to honor his friend in the of Kossoff & Unger, a law firm in New Werner managed the fund for many face of this tragedy, and Haverford quickly York City that focuses on real estate leas- years, often making possible internships came to mind. That same year he estab- ing and litigation. at museums. lished the F. Page Newton Class of 1975 He described Page as “a true acade- In 2010, the history department and History Internship, which supports rising mician,” and although Page worked in Kossoff decided to open up the scope of

seniors in summer research projects. labor relations for the Department of work that students could do using this MERIANS SARAH PHOTO: ’12; KOSSOFF YU JONATHAN PHOTO: KRIPPNER

50 HaverfordMagazine grant money, to support them in research would be particularly relevant for her topic. for the year-long thesis required of every By chance, Lipman also came across senior history major. “This was a newly storybooks and primers used to keep the redefined focus of the major,” says history Yiddish language alive, as well as playbills department chair James Krippner, “and and programs from Yiddish theater in the Newton History Internships helps Philadelphia. “I appreciate so much the students—who are often scrambling for opportunity this internship afforded me,” funds and work during the summer— she says, “so I could be exposed to these to do meaningful research that helps them amazing sources first-hand.” develop as serious students of history.” Mitch Kossoff ’75 Each year, Kossoff receives letters from Krippner notes that the Newton students expressing heartfelt gratitude Internship is the only fund specifically Urban Archives at Temple University. for being selected for the F. Page Newton dedicated to the history department. The Lipman notes that the funds gave her the History Internships. Says Kossoff, “Page selection process requires a statement luxury of time to sort through dozens of would be happy to be connected with from the student on the focus of the sources until she came upon the materials something that fosters the inquiries of research and how it fits into the broader from Yiddish cultural schools around those with the same passion that he had context of the thesis they will write over Pennsylvania and New York City that for history.” the following year. In 2011 there were two recipients: Emily Lipman ’12 and Wynne Lewis ’12. MAKING CONNECTIONS Each year, student interns write thank you letters to fund donors, reporting on their internship activities. While The funds allowed Wynne to take two cartoon self-portraits are not required, they do get our attention. The following note weeks off from her summer job to com- was submitted by Thy Vo ’14, recipient of the Andrew D. Silk 1975 Internship in mute to Philadelphia and examine Journalism. Visit hav.to/impact for more internship stories like this one. primary sources related to land use and agrarian reform in the early American republic. She spent time at the Ameri- can Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania. “While many archival documents are now available online,” says Lewis, “most of the material at the American Philosophical Society is not. I was also able to spend hours pouring through an original copy of American Husbandry, which turned out to be essential. It was a real thrill for a history nerd like me, and a unique opportunity, for which I’m truly grateful.” She says the internship funds really gave her a leg up, allowing her to focus her thesis topic when she returned to campus this fall. Similarly, the grant allowed Lipman to do archival research related to her topic, Jewish education in the early 1900s, at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and the

Fall 2011 51 Upcoming Events

Haverford College Lawyers Network Fords Founded by Michael Gordon ’04 and Rahul Munshi ’06, Honoring Fords HCLN brings together Hav- hen Greg Kannerstein ’63 passed away in erford College alumni lawyers November 2009, alumni, parents and friends around the world in a forum of the College expressed their love and appre- that enhances their lives and ciation for him by making gifts in his memory careers. W to Haverford’s Annual Fund. Nearly $100,000 was raised— Next year, HCLN will be host- a fitting tribute for a man known to many as “Mr. Haverford.” ing events in: Memorial gifts like those made for Greg and honorary Chicago – January, TBA gifts made in recognition of a living individual are a popular DC – March, TBA way to both pay tribute to someone and to support Haverford New York – March 5 at the same time. Tribute gifts may be made as a single gift Baltimore – April, TBA by an individual or by a larger group. Meet Parker Snowe ’79, Update your information at This was the case for the Class of 1984 who sought a way executive director of fords.haverford.edu to join the to remember their friend and classmate Joel Rosenbaum The Center for Peace group. M.D. who passed away suddenly in the fall of 2010. Bob & Global Citizenship Jablonski ’84 and Jim Gorham ’84 approached Alumni Parker will explore the role Relations and Annual Giving at Haverford with their idea to of the Center in students’ aca- reach out to the class to encourage gifts to the Annual Fund demic lives today. in Joel’s memory. Los Angeles – December 6 What followed was a communication to the class stating San Francisco – December 8 their two-fold intention. First, they wanted to get as many Baltimore – February 16 gifts as possible to memorialize Joel. Second, they wanted Pittsburgh and to honor his daughter Sheera Rosenbaum, one of Joel’s three Central PA – Spring 2012 Alumni Mediterranean children, who is Class of 2013 at Haverford. They wrote in Cruise an email to their classmates, “We hope to give Sheera some The Haverford Join Haverford and Bryn solace in this sorrowful time, to know that very, very many Experience of Mawr alumni for “Venice, Its people took the time and effort to remember her father in Tomorrow Sea Empire, and the Medi- this way, even 25 years later. We like to think that the ties Members of Haverford’s Board eval World — A Voyage that bind us together are strong and defy time.” of Managers are hitting the from the Adriatic Sea to the Their plan was more effective than they could have hoped road to talk with alumni, par- Eastern Mediterranean,” for. Forty-seven alumni and current students contributed ents and friends about how May 5-17. more than $89,000 to the Haverford Annual Fund in Joel’s the College is preserving and memory, and additional gifts were made in honor of Sheera enhancing what’s best about Save the date for these as well. All of these gifts were added to the Fund, which pro- the Haverford experience. on-campus events: vides necessary resources for essential areas of the College, Kannerstein Field including academic programs, financial aid and campus Catherine P. Koshland ’72, Dedication – April 21 maintenance and beautification. Board Chair Alumni Weekend – Joel’s widow Ruth was deeply touched by the outpouring Seattle – January 6 May 25–27 of support. She recalled, “Joel loved Haverford and always Philadelphia – April 4 told me that his years as a student there were the best of his Boston – May 4 life. He wished our children would go to Haverford as well, Event dates and details are sub- Christopher K. Norton ject to change. For the most cur- so when Sheera was accepted he was the happiest dad.” Ruth ’80, Board Vice-Chairman rent calendar or to r.s.v.p. visit continued, “When Joel passed I was really moved that so Dallas – March 27 fords.haverford.edu. To organize many people loved him and wanted to contribute to Haverford Houston – March 28 or host an event in your area, in his memory and in honor of Sheera, even though they Austin – March 29 contact [email protected] didn’t know her. It just confirmed to me why Joel loved Chicago – April 19 or call 610-896-1004. Haverford and his fellow Fords so much.” —Emily Weisgrau

52 HaverfordMagazine From the President of the Alumni Association

Executive Committee back

n behalf of the entire alumni their work in planning alumni events, and I body, I want to extend a warm encourage you to attend one of these events

welcome to Interim President in your area. (See page 52 or visit fords.haver- giving OCreighton who is prepared to ford.edu for a list of upcoming events.) If you lead us during this transition period. It is have an idea and need help organizing, feel indeed an exciting time to be a Haverford free to reach out to me and we can make it alum. Whenever I have the opportunity to happen. The goal of these gatherings is to interact with current students on campus— reconnect Fords around the globe and across for reunions, recruiting seniors for my firm’s the decades. management training program, hiring summer I hope you will join us for good company interns or sponsoring Bi-Co students as and plenty of laughs in the coming year. “externs”—I am amazed by their intellect, With warmest regards, dedication to their communities and the envi- ronment and commitment to social change. As alums we have great opportunities to impart the Haverford philosophy through our volunteer efforts and com- munity activities. I’m grateful to the Regional Liaisons for Julie Min Chayet ’91

Alumni Association Executive Committee 2011-2012

President Emily D. Davis ’99 Jim Pabarue ’72 Kurt Ryden ’88 Julie Min Chayet ’91 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA Larchmont, NY New York, NY Awards Liaison Multicultural Liaison Member at Large [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Diane Leigh Davison ’86 Theo Posselt ’94 Burton R. Saidel ’53 Vice President Baltimore, MD Berkeley, CA Dayton, OH Elliot Gordon ’78 Regional Liaison Regional Liaison Scarlet Sages Liaison Santa Monica, CA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Philip Hawkins ’65 Dolores Reilly ’96 Heather Upton ’98 Collingswood, NJ Philadelphia, PA Los Angeles, CA Career Development Liaison Committee Members Annual Giving Liaison Regional Liaison [email protected] Bennett Berson ’81 [email protected] [email protected] Madison, WI Polly Ross Ribatt ’90 Neil Kahrim ’04 Uzma Wahhab ’94 Admission Liaison Chestnut Hill, MA New York, NY Washington, DC [email protected] Career Development Liaison Regional Liaison Multicultural Liaison [email protected] Kurt Calia ’90 [email protected] [email protected] Woodside, CA Alex Robinson ’96 Regional Liaison Bradley Mayer ’92 New York, NY Spencer Ware ’01 [email protected] Seattle, WA Awards Liaison Mountain Lakes, NJ Past President [email protected] Communications Liaison Anita V. Crofts ’92 [email protected] [email protected] Seattle, WA Jennifer Perlberger Regional Liaison Thalia Myrianthopoulos ’95 Robinson ’95 [email protected] Chicago, IL Bala Cynwyd, PA Admission Liaison Regional Liaison [email protected] [email protected] CHAYET PHOTO: PETER TOBIA PETER PHOTO: CHAYET

Fall 2011 53 Call for Nominations

back Help Us Select the Next Slate of Alumni and Volunteer Award Nominees

Each year, Haverford recognizes alumni who have excelled in their professions and/or opment resources for alumni and stu- provided exceptional service to the College. These awards are presented at a special con- dents. Exemplary volunteer service in-

giving vocation during Alumni Weekend. cludes providing internships and/or Please consider submitting a nomination for one or more of the awards listed below externships, attending job fairs, facili- which will be presented during Alumni Weekend in May 2012. Your nominee does not tating career networking or otherwise have to be in a reunion class; however, it is particularly meaningful to receive an award helping students and alumni advance while celebrating a reunion on campus. their careers.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Charles Perry Award is given for ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS exemplary service to Haverford in the The Kannerstein Award for Sustain- area of fundraising. The award honors ed Service to the College honors the Chuck Perry ’36 who served as associ- legacy and memory of Greg Kanner- ate director of development from 1954– stein ’63, an honored and revered alum- 58 and as the director of annual giving nus, and friend and mentor to many. for the next 21 years. Exemplary serv- Greg served Haverford for many years as ice includes serving as a class volunteer, director of athletics, dean of the College on a reunion committee, or in another and as a professor. This most distin- role supporting the work of Institu- guished award given by the Alumni As- Greg Kannerstein ’63 tional Advancement. sociation honors those who in a variety of ways have provided loyal and active and have demonstrated substantial com- The William E. Sheppard Award is support for the work of the College. mitment to the mission of the College. given for exemplary service to the Col- lege in the area of alumni activities. The The Haverford Award for Service to The Lawrence Forman Award for Ex- award honors the late Director of Humanity supports and demonstrates cellence in Athletics goes to Haverford Alumni Relations Bill Sheppard ’36. the College’s expressed concern for the athletes who, professionally or as volun- Exemplary service includes participa- application of knowledge to socially teers, have devoted a significant amount tion in Haverford’s regional events, useful ends. It rewards alumni who best of time and energy to the betterment of affinity activities or reunion programs. reflect Haverford’s concern with the society. The award honors Lawrence uses to which they put their knowledge, Forman ’60, one of the outstanding ath- The Archibald MacIntosh Award is humanity, initiative and individuality. letes in the history of Haverford College, given for dedicated service in the area who committed his life both to the bet- of admission. The award honors the The Haverford College Alumni Distin- terment of humankind and to interna- late “Mac” MacIntosh ’21, Haverford’s guished Achievement Award for Out- tional understanding. first director of admission, who also standing Contributions in a Profession served as vice president and twice as recognizes alumni who have achieved VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP AWARDS acting president of the College. Exem- personal success, made outstanding The William Kaye Award is given for plary service includes interviewing contributions to their fields, achieved exemplary service to Haverford College prospective students and submitting recognition by their colleagues and in the area of career development. The summary reports, representing Haver- brought honor to themselves and to award honors William Kaye ’54, past ford at college fairs and school nights, Haverford. president of the Alumni Association and hosting interview days, yield par- and a strong advocate for career devel- ties or frosh parties. The Haverford College Young Alumni Award for Accomplishments in Lead- ership recognizes established and future Visit haverford.edu/alumnirelations/awards to submit your nomination by December 30, 2011. Questions may be directed to Alumni Relations and Annual Giving leaders among Haverford alumni who at [email protected] or 610-896-1004. have graduated in the last 10 years. The Please note the Alumni Awards Committee will only consider nominations that award honors those who have shown provide detailed and concise background information (which may include personal great promise and accomplishment in stories, newspaper articles, concurrence from other alumni, or other pertinent in- their chosen professions and/or in com- formation) in support of the nominee. munity, public or humanitarian service,

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62 HaverfordMagazine Roads Taken and Not Taken continued from page 49 cally rising and falling together. But an open- apparent inability to think independently, love cheesy pop music and often request me ended question like “What do you think and we all chuckle at the same canned to sing “My Heart Will Go On.” They some- about this article?” will cause them to be responses our students spit out in answer to times hold my hand, often bring me bags of suddenly fascinated with the books in front our (we think) deeply probing questions. fruit, and always do my soul good. of them, leaving me with complete silence Every frustration I’ve encountered in the Sometimes I envy my students the sim- and a perfect view of the tops of 50 heads of classroom, though, is canceled out and then plicity of their college days. I think about the black hair. some by the sweetness of being in my stu- paralysis of choice that was often the hallmark I think about my time at Haverford and dents’ company. It’s impossible for me not of my time at Haverford: Summer job or of the analysis, research and independent to be constantly comparing them to internship? Study abroad? Where? Medieval thinking that were the chief end of every American college students, and harder still French literature or Italian poetry? A cappella class I took, and I realize that none of these to put into words just how innocent they concert, dance in Founders, or lecture from even factor into the equation in a place are, and how refreshing this is to me. Most a visiting professor? It was choices, choices, where academic success is determined solely have never been away from home before; choices at every turn, and I can’t help feeling by test scores. My 20-year-old students have many have told me they sometimes cry that the weight of choice, of somehow sealing never written a research paper and have cer- because they miss their parents so much. your destiny with every decision, lies heavy tainly never been expected to share their Their interests are simple, including taking on the American college student. But then I own critiques of a situation with their teach- walks, singing, dancing and playing Ping- think about my sweet students, these unwill- ers. They often don’t know how to take notes Pong. They require very little for amusement: ing future nurses of China, and can’t help feel- or how to study, other than by pacing back at New Year’s, they organized a carnival of ing the overriding pain of not having been and forth around campus, reading aloud to trivia games and relay races in the teaching free to choose in the first place. themselves important passages of their text- building, with bags of laundry detergent or Lindsay Voigt ’03 is a member of the Peace Corps books again and again. My fellow volunteers candy as prizes, and had the time of their in China, where she teaches Oral English at a often express frustration at their students’ lives. Alcohol on campus is a nonissue. They vocational college in Gansu Province.

alumni obituaries

H. Hall Katzenbach Jr. died May School. … On a romp through American Liege in Alleur, Belgium. He earned the 3222, 2010, in Bethesda, Md. He was poetry from its beginnings through recent EAME Theater ribbon with three service 100. Katzenbach was born in Trenton, times, Mr. K engaged even the most reluc- stars and a Meritorious Unit citation before N.J., and attended the George School in tant students, nourishing us with a widely being discharged as a major in 1946. Once Newtown, Pa., before coming to Haverford. varied poetic diet. Therefore, on learning of back in the States, Foerster opened an inter- After college, he attended Oxford University. his passing in 2010, it only seemed appropri- nal medicine practice in Milwaukee and co- In 1942 he became an English teacher at ate to raise a glass to Mr. K to thank him for founded the Milwaukee Medical Clinic in Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., the eternal gift of poetry.” 1967. In 1972 he moved to Santa Fe, N.M., where he taught for 42 years. He also served where he became the director of mobile as the school’s dean of boys, teacher of dra- Frederick Erwin Foerster died medical clinics for the State of New Mexico matics, coach of the varsity soccer team, 35April 22, 2011, in Oceanside, Calif. and the state’s first Medicare/Medicaid founder of the first cross country team in He was 98. Born in Milwaukee, Wis., administrator. He retired to California in 1962, principal of the Upper School, coordi- Foerster earned his M.D. at the University of 1998. He is survived by his second wife, nator of curriculum development, chairman Pennsylvania in 1939 and became a commis- Bette; son, Bruce; three step-children; and of the English department and faculty advi- sioned officer in the U.S. Army Medical two grandsons, two granddaughters, four sor to the school publication, Quarterly. He Corps in 1943. His unit landed at Utah step-grandchildren and a step-grandson. is survived by his granddaughter, Natalie, Beach as first general hospital in theater, and his grandson, Gregory. Linda Gaus ’87 took over a 1,500-bed French Marine Stephen Fleischman, a documen- writes, “Hall Katzenbach was my English Hospital in Cherbourg, and later created a 40 tary writer, producer and director for teacher in the 11th grade at Sidwell Friends 1,000-bed hospital in over 200 tents outside CBS News and ABC News, passed away June

Fall 2011 63 IN MEMORIAM

Joseph Jones involved in planning the D-Day invasion in

obituaries Joseph Jones, former Mail Center manager 1944. Near the end of the war, she met her and 50-year employee of the College, husband, who was an American Field passed away July 5. Jones began working at Service volunteer ambulance driver. They Haverford in 1957, ended full-time work in were married in 1946. Haverford College June of 2000, and immediately started part- was the center of their lives. For many years time work, from which he retired in 2008. they lived on College Circle, overlooking the alumni He is survived by three daughters, Stephanie cricket crease, where John Sr. (“Fiddy” to Lowe, Jacqueline Bailey and Michelle Brown; many) popularized the game in the 1890s. two sons, Spencer and Timothy Prescott; They hosted frequent student, faculty and and eight grandchildren and three great- Class of ’37 gatherings with their familiar grandchildren. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers always in attendance. They spent summers at their Wendy Lester beloved summer home in Wedgeport, Nova Wendy Lester, wife of longtime Professor of Scotia, and Jack’s sabbatical years in English John A. Lester Jr. ’37 and daugh- for Girls. Having lived through the London England. Wendy is survived by her three ter-in-law of John A. Lester Sr., Class of Blitz in 1940, she enlisted in the Women’s children, Alison Stonefield, Nancy Maguire 1896, died Aug. 27. She was born in London Royal Naval Service, becoming an officer, and John Lester III; and four grandchildren in 1922 and attended James Allen’s School a decrypter and one of the few women and two great-grandchildren.

5 in New York City. He was 92. Fleischman 1943 to 1945. They married in August 1946 to Haverford College. You can imagine a per- started working in network news in 1953. in Switzerland. After World War II, she son of Japanese descent walking the street of He began at CBS, where he produced hour- worked for the United Nations Relief and Altoona in WWII times. Larry was a true long specials in Walter Cronkite’s The Rehabilitation Administration and the friend. We remained close friends all these Twentieth Century series in 1957-8 and American Friends Service Committee, with years. I had the chance to visit him in his helped create the renowned Edward R. which she helped open a settlement house in declining years when he lived in Camarillo Murrow/Fred Friendly CBS Reports series in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1947. The Goods and I in Northridge.” 1959. He won a Lasker Medical Journalism moved to Denver in 1953, where Nancy con- Award in 1962 for the CBS Reports docu- tinued her efforts in community service. She Silas Ginsburg died Nov. 19, 2010. mentary, “Birth Control and the Law.” In worked with groups helping to establish fair 47He was an obstetrician and gynecolo- 1964 he joined ABC News, where he stayed housing practices, started a community gar- gist and retired in 1995. He is survived by his for 20 years, first running his own documen- den, and worked with Denver police on sen- wife, Mary Lou; daughter, Amy Tilly; two tary unit, then as a producer at ABC News sitivity training and with the Commission on sons, Andrew and Matthew; and six grand- Closeup. He won many awards at ABC News, Aging. When her husband was appointed children. including a second Lasker for “The Long U.S. ambassador to Zambia, she worked in Childhood of Timmy” and the Columbia hunger relief agencies there. She is survived Roger Hardy died in May in University-DuPont Television Journalism by two daughters, Kathy and Karen; a son, 58England, where he lived for many Award for “Closeup: The Gene Merchants.” Stephen; and six grandchildren and four years. Hardy met his wife, Judy, when they In recent years he took up blogging for the great-grandchildren. were both at Oxford University, and then political sites smirkingchimp.com and coun- attended a graduate program at Princeton in terpunch.org. Forty of his documentaries are Lawrence Canan died in April of English literature. Hardy moved back to in the collections of the Paley Center in New 462011 in Camarillo, Calif. His class- England after Princeton to take a job as a lec- York and Beverly Hills. He is survived by a mate Walter Y. Kato writes, “We entered turer at the University of Kent in Canterbury, son, Tom; a daughter, Ramey; and grandchil- Haverford in September of 1942 at the begin- a job from which he retired. He is survived dren and great-grandchildren. ning of World War II. I first met him in by his wife, a son, a daughter and three October ’42 in an algebra class and [we] grandchildren. Nancy Good (M.A.) died Aug. 24 became close friends. … During spring 45in Denver, Colo. She was 89. Good break of 1943, Larry took me home to Stephanie Sargent died May 25 was born Nancy Cunningham in Janesville, Altoona, Pa., and we had great fun walking 83following complications from a Wis., and attended Smith College. She met around the hills of Pennsylvania, a time I stroke. She was 49. Sargent was a teacher, her late husband, Robert Good ’45, at will never forget. I was an evacuee, as a sang with a Jewish women’s a cappella Haverford, where she was part of the Relief Japanese-American from the West Coast of group, Shir Harmony, and was involved in & Reconstruction program that brought the U.S. I had been moved from Seattle to Hadassah. She is survived by her husband, women to campus during the war years of Minidoka, Idaho, by the U.S. Army and then Ralph Bernstein; and sons, Daniel and Jacob.

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