Podcasting on the Rise Podcasts—A Digital Alternative to Radio—Have Become a Hugely Popular Way to Tell Stories and Share Information

VCAM Unveiled At Work in Nature Inclusive Learning Evangelist A look at the new facility for Dan Barringer ’90 on Luis Perez ’94 wants to give all visual culture, arts, and media managing a 600-acre preserve students the chance to succeed

The Magazine of Haverford College FALL 2017 Podcasting on the Rise Podcasts—a digital alternative to radio—have become a hugely popular way to tell stories and share information. We spotlight Haverford alums who have plunged into the field. 4 12

Editor Contributing Writers Eils Lotozo Karen Brooks DEPARTMENTS Charles Curtis ’04 Class News Editor Brian Glaser 2 Inbox Mara Miller ’10 Hannah M. Hepfer Main Lines Cat Lazaroff ’89 4 Giving Back Editor Mara Miller ’10 12 Ford Games Pat Laws Natalie Pompilio Photography Editor Keith Schneider ’78 15 Academix Katrina Schwartz ’08 Patrick Montero Anne E. Stein 23 Mixed Media Graphic Design Contributing Photographers 29 In Season Tracey Diehl, Matts Bäcker Roads Taken and Not Taken Eye D Communications Nancy Belluscio 46 Director of News Holden Blanco ’17 47 Giving Back/Notes From and Social Media Justin Brendel’18 the Alumni Association Monique Byars ’19 Rebecca Raber Lynton Crabb 51 Class News/Obituaries Assistant Vice President for Bob Croslin College Communications Describe the Fauna 73 Then and Now Chris Mills ’82 Caleb Eckert ’17 Alexandra Iglesia ‘21 Vice President for Sarah Jennings ’20 Institutional Advancement Greg Kahn Ann West Figueredo ’84 Victoria Merino ’20 Cole Sansom ’19 Justin Turkus ’08 Claire Chenyu Wang ’20 Wanyi Yang ’20 Rae Yuan ’19

On the cover: Gina Delvac ’08, producer of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend. Photo by Describe the Fauna.

Back cover photo: In an annual tradition, seniors celebrate the last day of exams by ringing and—signing—the bell in the cupola of Founders Hall. Photo by Caleb Eckert ’17.

Haverford magazine is printed on recycled paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste fiber. fall 2017

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FEATURES 30 Tell Us More 34 COVER STORY: Podcasting on the Rise Dan Barringer ’90: At Home (and Work) in Nature Podcasts—digital downloadable alternatives to radio— By Karen Brooks have become one of the world’s most popular ways to tell stories, share information, and tackle challenging issues. We spotlight some Haverford alums who have 32 INNOVATORS: Inclusive Learning plunged into the field. Evangelist By Natalie Pompilio Luis Perez ’94, who is legally blind, has a passion for photography—and for getting the right supports into classrooms so that all students have the chance 39 HOW TO: Take Care of Yourself to succeed. When You’re the Caregiver By Katrina Schwartz ’08 Tips from Claire Zilber ’84, co-author of Living in Limbo: Creating Structure and Peace When Someone You Love Is Ill. By Eils Lotozo

40 VCAM Unveiled The new facility for visual culture, arts, and media opened in September, taking over the Old Gym after a dramatic renovation. Here’s a look inside.

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THE VIEW FROM FOUNDERS “The Red Wave,” which you suggest to the world of Cartier-Bresson and pho- Thank you for publishing President won the day over “Black Squirrels.” My tography’s “critical moment”—an edu- Benston’s address to the graduating class favorite was “The Big Happy Sandwich,” cation I had used as a documentary film- of 2017. Benston does us an invaluable proposed by someone in an effort to maker for ABC. Students produced their service by renewing the meaning of com- encompass the wide diversity, but happy “final exam” prints after studying the munity in this age of discriminatory trav- melding, they found at the Ford. I could work of some of the masters. el bans, arbitrary deportation, and mass imagine the T-shirts. —Glenn McCurdy ’60 incarceration. His words bear repeating: —Beth Salerno ’91 “The safe belonging that has been ours MUSIC APPRECIATION here, we wish for others.” In keeping HC THROUGH THE LENS I was intrigued by the description of the with the school’s Quaker traditions, After reading the feature story “Haverford band Daisy House, featuring Tatiana President Benston affirms the kind of Through the Lens” in the [spring/sum- Hammond ’15 [and her father, Doug moral leadership that makes Haverford mer] edition, I was moved to send you a Hammond], in the latest Haverford alum- a light in dark times. brief note about my experience with pho- ni mag [spring/summer], so I checked —Daniel Block ’02 tography at Haverford. Over one summer out their website, and ultimately their in the 1980s I was asked to offer some music through a streaming service. I’m HAPPY TRAILS photography and filmmaking cours- not sure what I was expecting—my band- Nice job on the spring/summer mag- es at the campus. This resulted in the width for new music these days is sadly azine! Where was the photo taken on installation of darkroom facilities and narrow—but I figured it would probably page 68? film-viewing rooms on the second floor sound either amateurish or derivative. Congratulations to [newly appointed of Sharpless. Students were introduced Wrong. The production values, to my Arboretum Director] Claudia Kent [“How To”]. Good luck. I was a cross-country runner and spent four years running on the beautiful Arboretum trail. Keep up the good work! —Henry A. “Sandy” Phillips ’59

The editors respond: The photo on p. 68 is of the Haverford College Apartments (HCA), the apartment complex adjoining a corner of campus (in Ardmore) that the College bought in 1974. The HCA’s student housing choices include group living options such as Quaker House and the environmentally minded E-Haus.

TEAM NAMES REDUX I just read your editorial note [“Inbox,” spring/summer] that “team names and mascots came up in a Plenary discussion in the late 1980s.” I remember well an extremely long Plenary (1987, I believe) that involved at least two pizza deliveries Check out the digital edition of Haverford magazine at to keep people from leaving and taking  haverford.edu/magazine. quorum with them. I don’t remember

2 Haverford Magazine ear anyway, sounded full and pol- to be brought up-to-date on the ished, completely ready for prime wonderful things that have been time. There’s a self-consciously happening on campus. Most seren- retro aspect to the songs, but for me dipitous, however, was the appear- that augments rather than dimin- ance on the inside back cover of ishes their impact. There’s no old the map of the campus in 1940, band I’d say they sound so much the year I first arrived at the college. like as to suffer from the compar- I went up and down the lists [of ison. And if you have a soft spot profs’ office locations], recalling for lush, layered harmonies, smart one after another, and paused at lyrics, and jangling guitars, they’re Prof. Kelly, number 103, recalling worth a listen. the afternoon I called there for If I ever wonder what inter- some help in German—and stood esting alternative bands do for a transfixed as he finished playing, I living, I now know they do things think, a Beethoven sonata. It was like teaching math in England. I only later that he linked up with hope that doesn’t bespeak the end another professor who played of the [Daisy House] father-daugh- viola, I think, for a series of recitals ter collaboration, because their in Roberts Hall. efforts deserve a wider audience. Thank you for giving me a Meanwhile, I guess I can start in- glimpse into the past and into the cluding the alumni magazine on future! —Henry H. Gray ’44 my list of places to find new music. —Bill Belt ’80 The Yard (campus). As I prepare for my 45th reunion this October, I am also look- TALK TO US TRADITIONAL ing forward to our Class of 1972 con- If something you read in this issue CONNECTION necting with the Class of 2022 next June. inspires a question, a comment, a I was intrigued by the article in [the My connection to Haverford, and why polite rebuke, or a paean, send it Main Lines section of] your spring/ I see your magazine, is my wife, Susan along. What would you like to see summer issue, “Continuing a Century- Swan Smith. Her father was Dana W. more of in the magazine? What would Old Tradition.” The program described Swan, former head coach and athletic you like to see less of? Let us know. echoes of what we alums of the United director, to whom Haverford’s Swan Field Have you got a great idea for a story? States Naval Academy call “Another Link is dedicated. Susan grew up in a house Tell us about it. Do you have a ques- in the Chain.” In our version, members only a block or so from the Haverford tion you want to ask about Haverford of a class begin interfacing with their campus, and a sister and her family still history or Haverford now? Ask away. 50-years-later brethren on the younger live in the area. We visit there often, usu- class’s Induction Day. What begins as a ally walking the campus at least once Send us an email at: social mixer progresses through many each time. It’s a beautiful place, and it [email protected] milestones and events over the next four was gratifying to become acquainted with years … [and] formally culminates with one more of your honored traditions, one Or send a letter to: the older alumni presenting diplomas to which we just happen to share. Haverford magazine the newly minted Ensigns and Second —Ken Smith College Communications Lieutenants on their graduation day. Haverford College But many strong friendships and men- MAPPING FOND MEMORIES 370 Lancaster Ave. toring relationships are formed during I was pleased to receive the [special cam- Haverford, PA 19041 those four years that continue far beyond paign] issue of Haverford magazine and

FALL 2017 3 4 H a verfor C Tales ofaFirst-Year Student Circa 1881 “Secrets” byOneRepublic.TheOlympicseventispartofCustomsWeek, theorientationprogram forfirst-yearstudents. Team SouthCampusshows offOlympicswitharendition theirmusicalabilities inthetalentportionofDorm hittune entation program designed to acquaint entation program designedtoacquaint with thestart ofCustomsWeek, an ori dent-led affair. muchastu orientation isstillvery Duck Pond,Haverford’s new-student no longermeansbeingtossedintothe “customs” oftheCollege.Thoughthat Fords tocampusbyteachingthemthe have beenwelcomingthenewest d Customs begins on Move-In Day Customs beginsonMove-InDay M a gaz dents in the upper classes dents intheupperclasses Since themid-1800s,stu College’s oldesttradition. ustoms isarguably Haverford i n e m - - - unusual talents, and prowess at egg unusual talents, andprowess ategg demonstrations oftheirdormpride, tants competeagainstoneanother in Tritton, and green Gummere inhabi South Campusdwellersfrom HCAand which theblueBarclay residents, red annual traditionofDormOlympics,in and more. Italsofeatured thebeloved dance, anoutdooracappellaconcert, Arboretum), ascavengerhunt, tree-planting (courtesy oftheHaverford schedule includedatrustwalk,class and offerings. Thisyear’s Customs new studentswiththeCollege’s policies ain

lin - e Caswell ’88 a Haverford student. which hedescribeshisownfirst daysas John HenryAllenClassof1884 memoir ofhisgreat, great grandfather pus toshare withhis:pagesfrom the brought somethingunusualtocam years. AndBenDeichman-Caswell’21, ant part ofCustomsWeek forfirst- their Customsgroup isalsoanimport paper-towel wrapping. tossing, water-balloon catching,and s Deichman-Caswell’s father, Getting toknowthemembersof , had told him about the , hadtoldhimabout the Bruce Bruce in in - -

PHOTOS: VICTORIA MERINO ‘20 (OLYMPICS); ALEXANDRA IGLESIA ’21 (DEICHMAN-CASWELL) existence of the memoir, but Ben had never seen it until his grandfather emailed him some scanned pages just before he left his home in Kensington, Md., to start school. “The entry basically summarizes his travels to Haverford and the first day or so, including his first impression of campus, his first meal, and testing out of his first-year courses,” he says. “Hearing about his experience on the eve of beginning my own adventure was quite powerful.” In the passages Deichman-Caswell shared, J. Henry Allen writes of traveling in 1881 from his rural New York home to the train station in a horse- drawn wagon, and of an overnight stay in a Philadelphia hotel where he accepts an offer to have breakfast brought to his room and is later aston- The Class of 1884 in front of Barclay Hall. ished to discover that the bill would cover “at least six meals at a first-class start several days of a written exam- ten by its author sometime around restaurant” in the town near his home. ination that would allow him to enter 1950. Allen then sent the drafts to his He describes his arrival at Haverford, the College as a sophomore. And he daughter, who typed them up. where “a landscape gardener had done tells of eating supper at a long table in “The memoir contains about 20 skilled work in arranging trees and the basement of Founders Hall and more pages recounting my grandfa- shrubs and flowers and walks,” and meeting “a very young man” named ther’s three years at Haverford,” says sitting down almost immediately to Sharpless: “His cordiality took away Caswell. “They include tales of a hazing my fears.” incident, attending Quaker meeting, In later pages, Allen describes his commentaries on various professors, “cozy” third-floor room in Barclay Hall and the annual ritual ‘cremation’ in and his efforts to improve it with “a effigy of a chosen author of one of their clock and a neat fringe for the mantel textbooks. (J. Henry wrote the dirge and a small comfortable rocking-chair” that was sung by a quartet hired from purchased at “Wanamaker’s store in Philadelphia for the occasion!)” Philadelphia.” Writes Allen, “The view Caswell plans to send his grandson from my window looked toward Maple additional installments of the memoir Avenue down past Professor Pliny over the coming months. Chase’s home and also commanded As for J. Henry Allen, he became a view of the depression where in the Haverford class president and went on winter, the boys told me there was skat- to become an educator, working for ing on the pond.” 54 years as a teacher, principal, and According to the man who sent school superintendent in Colorado and Ben Deichman-Caswell ‘21 with pages Deichman-Caswell those pages, grand- Oklahoma. He died in 1956. from his great, great grandfather’s memoir that describe his start as a Haverford father Allen Caswell (J. Henry Allen’s —Eils Lotozo, with additional student in 1881. grandson), the memoir was hand-writ- reporting by Rebecca Raber

FALL 2017 5 Boosting Support for Low-Income and First–Generation Students

he College has launched a new initiative music lessons, and field trip transportation. to increase support for low-income and (Textbook expenses are not included, as they are first-in-their-family (or “first-genera- covered in financial aid packages.) Non-academic tion”) students. The Low-Income and requests covered by the program include expenses TFirst-in-Their-Family Assistance and Resources associated with emergency medical, dental, and program (LIFTFAR) will ensure that all Haverford vision procedures; travel costs to return home in students can thrive as they pursue academic case of a family emergency; and various expenses excellence and co-curricular opportunities, and associated with postgraduate opportunities, such prepare for postgraduate success. as standardized testing and application fees, and While Haverford’s financial aid policy is com- travel to interviews. (Non-academic expenditures mitted to meeting all admitted students’ demon- the program cannot support include the purchase strated need regarding the costs of attendance and of athletic gear, which is considered an impermis- Dean Michael Martinez study abroad, LIFTFAR is designed to address sible benefit by the NCAA.) the additional costs that can arise during the course of an In addition to consolidating resources, LIFTFAR also will undergraduate education. “Previously, students who encoun- act as a kind of clearinghouse for new ideas and projects that tered incidental or emergency expenses would connect with can serve students with needs that go beyond financial aid. A different individuals or offices to get their needs met,” says student advisory committee, to be convened later this semester, Dean of Student Life Michael Martinez, who is administering will contribute ideas as the program evolves. the initiative. “LIFTFAR will make the process more system- “LIFTFAR is a great step forward in our institutional effort atic and centralized.” to support students who are first-generation to college and Academic-related requests covered by LIFTFAR include those who have financial need,” says Martinez. “I’m excited funding for course materials or activities such as art supplies, about its future prospects.” —R. R.

IN THE GALLERY

The term “futureproof” refers to the engineering or industrial design process of creating something in a manner that avoids or slows its technological obsolescence. The new Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibition Futureproof expands on that idea, gathering the work of five contemporary artists along with images and documents from governmental and corporate scenario planners to explore how we have imagined (and continue to imagine) different futures. Curated by artist and writer Ingrid Burrington, the author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure, the show features the work of Morehshin Allahyari, Salome Asega, Gui Bonsiepe, Ilona Gaynor, and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde. It includes materials from the U. S. Department of Energy, as well as archival documents from the government of Chilean dictator Salvador Allende, and a 1991 film on climate change produced by the Shell Corporation. Futureproof runs through Dec. 17. Ilona Gaynor’s “Everything Ends in Chaos” deconstructs corporate risk assessment.

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Artist Sadie Barnette at the opening of her show Dear 1968 at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. For the Haverford stop of the traveling show, she created a new work with a College connection. Art and the FBI

he centerpiece of artist Sadie nearby Media, Pa., FBI office. That Barnette’s traveling exhibition incident not only made public the Dear 1968 is the 500-page secret case histories of thousands dossier the FBI compiled of Americans, but was also an Ton her father, a Vietnam War veteran important first step in exposing the who caught the attention of the Bureau’s Cointelpro operation, which agency in 1968, when he co-founded used covert counterintelligence the Compton, Calif., chapter of the activities to “expose, disrupt, Black Panther Party. Decades later, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise his artist daughter obtained that FBI neutralize” groups the FBI deemed file via a Freedom of Information Act subversive. Prompting the addition request and reframed it—and her of the new work was the campus family’s story—for Dear 1968, which connection: One of the eight antiwar ran Sept.8—Oct. 13 at the Cantor activists responsible for that break- Fitzgerald Gallery. The show includes in was the late William Davidon, a family photographs, recent drawings, Haverford professor of physics and and selections from her father’s file. mathematics. Barnette’s drawing But for its stop at Haverford, Barnette imagines a logo for those activists, created a new drawing, “Untitled who called themselves “The Citizens’ (Citizens’ Commission),” inspired Barnette’s logo for The Citizens’ Commission Commission to Investigate the FBI.” by the famous 1971 break-in of the to Investigate the FBI. —R. R.

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PHOTOS: BRAD LARRISON (MARTINEZ); COLE SANSOM ‘19 (FUTUREPROOF, FBI) PHOTOS: BRAD LARRISON (MARTINEZ); COLE SANSOM ‘19 (FUTUREPROOF, view of the College as it is right now via student takeovers.

FALL 2017 7 Sutherland, also an emergency medicine physician. Their personal and professional lives have been entwined since both were residents at the Medical Center of Delaware in Newark. The emergency department cared for 20 people injured by the hit-and- run driver that day. Nine were admitted. Ten were treated and released. Heather Heyer, 32, did not survive. “The whole scene was cleared in Dr. Robert O’Connor ‘78 in front of the medical transport helicopter used by the UVA about two hours,” says O’Connor, who Medical Center, where he directs the Emergency Department. recalls walking into the triage area after the last patients had been treated. “It was eerily calm considering what had Tending to the Injured just taken place.” O’Connor knew he wanted to be in Charlottesville a doctor from an early age. He understood what the profession demanded; he was 12 when his family moved from n that terrible August four receiving rooms with eight beds. Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, where his Saturday in Charlottesville, Imaging, surgery, and intensive care mother completed medical school and Dr. Robert E. O’Connor units awaited orders. her residency in internal medicine. ’78 arrived early at the The hit-and-run occurred a mile His college experience also influ- OUniversity of Virginia Medical Center from the hospital. The first ambulances enced his decision. “Haverford taught Hospital. As director of the hospital’s arrived in minutes, the rest within 20 me the value of leaving something Emergency Department, O’Connor minutes, all carrying patients coded red greater than yourself in this world. anticipated trouble. Big trouble. (critical), yellow (intermediate inju- That’s what drew me to medicine and to An estimated 700 white nationalists, ries), or green (minor injuries). emergency medicine,” he says. neo-Nazis, and KKK members had Working alongside O’Connor Among his goals: to refine treatment swept into town with a stated goal of was his wife of 30 years, Dr. Sara practices and to help transform an over- protesting the city’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park. Counter- protesters prepared to confront them. ON Though police and university intelli- VIEW gence projected that many would be armed, nobody predicted the car. Around 1:45 p.m., O’Connor The Marshall Fine Arts Center’s Atrium Gallery featured Keeping in Touch, a received an alert from the incident joint show of works by Shannon Murphy BMC ’14 and Kathryn Bennett, the command center outside the hospital. paternal great-grandmother she never knew, but whose traditional handcrafts, A car had plowed into a group near handed down as family the downtown mall. “That’s when I heirlooms, inspired her own pulled the switch,” he says. “I called the work. The show featured a command center and said, ‘Initiate an dozen of Bennett’s colorful cotton quilts and meticulous MCI’—a multi-casualty incident.” needlepoint canvases, O’Connor’s decision set in motion shown alongside Murphy’s a plan that had been weeks in prepa- contemporary responses, ration. Nurses and technicians rolled which are made of wood and stretchers, IV poles, and coolers of fabric, and embellished with blood into a triage center set up in screen-prints, paint, crochet, the hospital’s two-story lobby. Trauma lace tatting, weaving, and teams waited in the hospital cafete- collage. ria. Emergency physicians manned

8 Haverford Magazine looked specialty into one of the most prominent fields in American medicine. IN THE In 1982, when he graduated from the lines Medical College of Pennsylvania, the COLLECTION n nation counted roughly 30 emergency ai medicine residencies and 6,000 emer- Spotlighting the holdings of Quaker and Special Collections m gency physicians. Today there are hundreds of residencies and roughly 35,000 emergency physicians. “When I applied for residency, I knew other students around the country who were advised by their faculty, ‘Don’t go into emergency medicine. You’ll burn out. It’s a passing fad.’ ” O’Connor says. But his career path reflects how he and his field have flourished. At age 34, he became director of emergency medical research at Christiana Care Health Systems in Delaware and director of Delaware’s emergency medical service. Among his innovations: helping suppliers develop portable EKG and defibrilla- tion equipment, and training emergency technicians to stabilize heart attack and cardiac arrest patients in the field. O’Connor has published 160 research papers, many in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the profession’s I can find no fault with the Island, but only that it is not favourable to my leading journal. He’s served on the board purpose for we are almost continually covered with clouds, which hinder of the American College of Emergency us from the sight of the starrs, sometimes for six weeks together, so that I Physicians and has trained 400 emer- am almost persuaded I must returne without the full accomplishment of my gency doctors in the United States, and intents, which will be the greatest trouble to me that can possibly happen, by dozens more in China and India. reason I shall give the world cause to judge hardly and censure me for failing In 2007, O’Connor moved to in a thing I had undertaken … Charlottesville, where he became chairman of the UVA School of Medicine’s Astronomer Edmond Halley was just 21 years old when he penned this plaintive Department of Emergency Medicine and letter to a friend from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena in 1677. He had recently director of the medical center’s emergen- voyaged to the island to set up an observatory and catalog the stars of the Southern cy department, which sees an average of Hemisphere. But once there, he was faced with uncooperative weather and a “ma- 175 patients per day. “On busy days,” he licious” deputy governor, who, he wrote in the letter, “has abused me in the basest says, “we see over 200. We see everyone manner imaginable and disparages me to all the commanders that come here.” who comes to us, so we have little con- Despite all that, and his own gloomy predictions, the young scientist accomplished trol over day-to-day volume. That’s what exactly what he set out to do. In 1678 he published the results from his observations makes the field exciting.” on St. Helena, including details of 341 southern stars. Those star charts established On that day in August, O’Connor his reputation and got him elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society at age 22. Best directed the largest multiple-casualty known for his predictions regarding a certain comet, Halley was an all-around ge- incident of his career. “I don’t think of nius who built the first diving bell, devised a working model of a magnetic compass, it as a defining moment for me, but and pioneered actuarial science. He also made other important discoveries on that a defining moment for UVA, because early expedition to St. Helena, eventually publishing his findings on barometric pres- everything worked smoothly,” he says. sure, trade winds, and monsoons. (The symbols he used to represent trailing winds “We had many moving parts come are still used today in weather charts.) And it was on the island that Halley made the together to take care of a lot of people first observation of a transit of Mercury, which revealed to him a way to measure the very quickly.” size of the solar system. —E. L.

PHOTOS: JUSTIN IDE (O’CONNOR); COLE SANSOM ‘19 (ON VIEW); PATRICK MONTERO (COLLECTION) PHOTOS: JUSTIN IDE (O’CONNOR); COLE SANSOM ‘19 (ON VIEW); PATRICK —Keith Schneider ’78

FALL 2017 9 GOING GREEN The Club Life @

In June, Haverford became the first college in the United One in a Haverblog series on the many and varied student clubs States to take a stand on changing the pallet when it sent on campus. (To read more, go to blogs.haverford.edu.) a letter asking its suppliers to send all campus shipments on lightweight, recyclable, corrugated shipping Bi-Co Architecture pallets instead of wooden ones. Haverford’s initiative is WHAT: The club was founded in spring 2015 by a group of Growth expected to save money and to reduce carbon emissions and Structure of Cities majors who wanted to engage with design associated with the delivery of products ranging from and architecture beyond their coursework. The club aims to build office supplies to food and beverages. a community of students who also help educate one another on ar- The decision came after a two-year evaluation and chitectural history, theory, and drawing techniques. Past activities open stakeholder dialogue. “By including our student sustainability leaders, faculty, and staff in the deliberation have included discussion groups, sketching sessions, a trip to Frank process, we attained broad support to act first in a Lloyd Wright’s famed Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa., a Philadelphia national effort to reduce mural tour, and a construction tour of New York City’s Hudson Yards, CO2 via the modernization the largest real estate development in U.S. history, led by Timur of product transport,” says Galen ’78. Vice President and Chief WHO: The club is run by Nicky Rhodes ’19 and Austin Huber ’19. of Staff Jesse Lytle, who DID YOU KNOW: Haverford’s Assistant Director of Facilities is also the College’s chief Management Dave Harrower has offered guidance for design proj- sustainability officer. ects in the past and, last year, set up the club with an impromptu Haverford’s initiative studio space in the Locker Building. came in response to a WHAT’S NEXT: During the fall semester the group is hosting a campaign launched by Change the Pallet, an sketching session in Philadelphia, visiting the exhibition Patricia organization headed by Urquiola: Between Craft and Industry at the Philadelphia Museum Adam M. Pener ’95 of Art, and traveling to Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting to experience (above, who was featured in the winter 2017 issue). artist James Turrell’s “Skyspace” installation. Change the Pallet wrote to the presidents of more than 300 U.S. colleges and universities, asking them to use their buying power to encourage or require suppliers to ship on corrugated pallets to reduce emissions and waste. “There is simply no reason for deliveries to campuses, hospitals, and government facilities to be on 50-pound wood pallets when lightweight, sturdy, sterile, and fully-recyclable options are available,” says Pener, who is also president of Green Ox Pallet Technology, a manufacturer of cardboard shipping pallets. Not long after Haverford sent out its letter, the National Wood Pallet and Container Association contacted Lytle in an attempt to undermine the effort. Along with extolling the virtues of wood pallets, the organization provided a white paper of “questionable quality,” says Lytle, about a failed pilot project in Oregon using corrugated pallets. Says Lytle, “We’ve had a handful of inquiries about the initiative from interested peer institutions, which was exactly the goal, i.e. to inspire more signals from the market to suppliers that we value the environmental benefits of this technology.” —E. L. The Bi-Co Architecture Club on a Philadelphia mural tour.

DURING A WEEK-LONG STAY on campus in November, Friend in Residence Zachary Moon visited classes, met with student FYI religious groups, and gave several talks. Moon, who served for eight years as a military chaplain, shared with the College community what he learned in that service and how the work was a faithful expression of his Quaker identity.

10 Haverford Magazine PHOTOS: JOHN VALLS (PENER); JUSTIN BRENDEL ‘18 (CLUB); SARAH JENNINGS ‘21 (DORMS) D Home Away From Home sions. And everyone who participated whoparticipated sions. Andeveryone represented inthedozensofsubmis range ofresidence hallsoncampuswere Tritton) andoldest(Barclay) dorms,a to singlesinbothournewest(Kimand ments tosuiteswithcommonspaces in September. From four-person apart al #haverhome Instagramcontest,held learned duringthesecondannu Runners-up: (left) SarahJesup‘20inherBarclayroom, and(right)MadisonSultan‘19 inGummere. with suitemates. the Leedscommonroom(right)heshares Haverhome winnerR.AustinHuber‘19,in residents—that’s whatwe pus isasvariedtheCollege’s orm decoratinghere oncam - - - - and his mates brought in a console table, and hismatesbrought inaconsoletable, inexpensive outdoorcushions,Huber stering” theroom’s existingseatingwith common room. Inadditionto“reuphol sophisticated styleintheirsharpLeeds ’19, reflected hisandsuitemates’ campus intoahome. fulness inmakingtheirlivingspaceon their creativity, interests, andresource home hashtagonInstagram)showcased (by postingphotosusingthe#haver This year’s winner, R.AustinHuber - - - tration workthroughout herroom. cased herownhand-letteringandillus (Barclay), atalentedartist whoshow for herartwork, andSarahJesup’20 of metalpipes(withattachedlighting) (Gummere), whocreated framesout by runners-upMadisonSultan’19 artwork, andsomewallhangings. dressed thingsupwithaddedlighting, a storagecart, andasmallsidetable, We were alsoespeciallyimpressed

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Former Haverford soccer player Amy Arundale ‘07 has taken up Australian Rules Football as a member of the Philadelphia Lady Hawks team.

Playing Footy

my Arundale ’07 and Erica Blanco ’07 met on their first day on campus, How to describe footy to as members of Haverford’s soccer team. A decade after graduating, it was someone who’s never heard of it a completely different sport that took the pair of friends across the globe Erica Blanco: The first misconception is that people think it’s just rugby. It’s not and Down Under: Australian Rules Football. A rugby! It’s like a cross between soccer Soccer and the game known as footy are like night and day in terms of how different and ultimate Frisbee, with tackling. they are. Aussie Rules Football players kick, bump with a fist, and catch a spheroid that Amy Arundale: If you took soccer and resembles a rugby ball, passing it to each other until they eventually boot it through rugby and put them together, then took out a rugby “scrum” and put in a tip-off sets of tall poles. It’s played on a huge oval field and includes full contact tackling. from basketball, you’d have footy. You’ve Thanks to Blanco’s husband, Jay Sacci ’08, Blanco and Arundale discovered the got the multi-directionality of soccer— game, joined the Philadelphia Lady Hawks club team, and then and took their new meaning the ball moves in every direc- passion all the way to Australia this past summer as part of the United States women’s tion—and you’ve got the contact that comes with rugby, and a combination of national developmental Aussie Rules Football team. Haverford magazine spoke with tactics, some similar to both rugby and the pair about their stint on the team, why they fell for the game, and how sports has soccer. And you can catch a ball like a helped their respective professional careers. wide receiver in American football.

12 Haverford Magazine They’ve been athletes all their lives were in Australia this August playing Aussie Rules Football is AA: My dream growing up was to play against five different squads during a more than just a sport for the U.S. women’s national team. I three-week tour. I gave up the dream of EB: What really sealed the deal for me watched Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, and playing for the U.S. soccer team in high with footy is playing with other women. I Brandi Chastain win the 1999 World school, and never did I think I could found this incredible, supportive commu- Cup in my freshman year of high school. make a national team for anything else. nity of people just like me: Professional Then I realized I wasn’t that good and that To even get invited to camp was some- women who have lives, jobs, and careers probably wasn’t a reasonable goal. thing that boggled my mind. It didn’t and, on weekends, they like to tackle the EB: Sports has been a bedrock of my matter if I made it or not, just to be in snot out of each other. That’s really what’s life. I ran track, did cross-country skiing, the realm was an honor. helped me to be passionate about it. and played lacrosse for a couple of years. EB: I couldn’t make it to tryouts, but AA: I’ve really gotten to experience Although I left Haverford’s soccer team coaching staff for the team had seen me footy culture. After a game, everyone after my freshman year, I did work in at several games and decided to recruit from both teams gets together for a meal and a drink. It’s amazing to play against sports medicine in the training room. me. We won three out of our five games women and then learn from them and in Australia, and we came together as a get to know them. Some women from The footy connection comes team. I always loved sports, but I never from one other Ford the first games that we met came to our wanted to dedicate so much of my life to EB: When my then-future husband later contests, our own cheering squad. I a sport that I could go to the Olympics Jay came back from studying abroad at think a big part of my love of the sport is or anything like that. Melbourne University his junior finding “my people.” It’s really about year, he started playing Australian community, both in the U.S. and Rules Football. Eventually, he said, Australia. “You play soccer, you should check it out.” The local Philadelphia footy Sports for them is more than team, the Hawks, had a non-contact what they’ve done on the field league in the spring, and I had a AA: I just finished my Ph.D. in ball. I went to Amy and said, “Hey, biomechanics and studied soccer here’s something you should try.” players. My research is focused on AA: We got intimidated about preventing ACL injuries in soccer training with the guys. We didn’t do players and how you get them back anything until July, when we played into the sport. I’ll be doing a post-doc in a game, and that was where we program in Sweden this fall—while got bitten by the bug. Both of us still playing footy there—working got tackled once and said, “This with soccer players with and without isn’t too bad.” We realized how ACL injuries. I’m also in the pro- much soccer crossed over, and that cess of applying for jobs with Major gave us a leg up. I’m still learning League Soccer in the U.S. and in the to catch things, but the kicking English Premier League. So, soccer motion isn’t too far from drop-kick- is still there even though I stopped ing a soccer ball. playing it. EB: I’ve worked in emergency medi- The rise to the top cine since 2011 [as a nurse], and the was meteoric idea of teammates, the people you’re AA: Erica and I went to U.S. working with that day, and their Nationals last October and got com- strengths and weaknesses—knowing bined with players from Boston, how to elevate them—it’s something Montreal, and Des Moines. That I’ve learned through sports and I’ve team came in second in the wom- used in my career. —Charles Curtis ’04 en’s division. We trained really hard Charles Curtis is a sportswriter for USA in the off-season and were invited Today’s For the Win and an author of to national team camp. Neither of the Weirdo Academy series, published us thought it was a possibility to Erica Blanco ‘07 is another convert to the game known by Month9Books. He lives in New York

PHOTOS: LYNTON CRABB (ARUNDALE); HOLDEN BLANCO ‘17 (BLANCO) play for that team, but there we as footy. City with his wife and son.

FALL 2017 13 role in his current career. For his senior thesis, guided by Professor Stephen Finley, he wrote about William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth: A Deep Map, games which honed Cho’s critical thinking and analytical skills. “It helped give me a different per- ford spective as a cook as well,” Cho says. “When I look up recipes or I’m thinking about a dish, I know it’s not just a rec- ipe in a book. There is cultural, social, economic, and historic significance to everything we do in the culinary world. It makes me a mindful and more respectful cook.” Graduating in the midst of a reces- sion, Cho fell back on his kitchen training, working in restaurants in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He was cooking at Parc, in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, when a chance meeting with a Sixers executive brought him to Camden. In many ways, Cho and his kitchen Feeding the Team crew are each player’s personal chefs, Basketball fanatic JaeHee Cho ’07 found his dream job providing individual meal experiences. as chef for the NBA’s 76ers. Some players have established eating routines. Others are still trying to figure out how food can affect their job t was a high-school counselor who through my day-to-day,” he says. performance. encouraged JaeHee Cho ’07 to apply Growing up in South Korea, Cho “There’s an education aspect to what Ito small liberal arts colleges. When became a devout hoops fan watching we do,” he says. “We use meals at the Cho was accepted to Haverford, he grainy videos of Michael Jordan and the practice facility as a launching point to knew, he says, “it was going to be fun Chicago Bulls. When he and his fami- discuss not just nutrition and perfor- and it was going to be hard and I would ly moved to Seattle in the early 1990s, mance, but cultural differences. There’s go and explore and figure out what I one of the first things he noticed was a lot going on in the world, and a lot wanted to do.” the abundance of basketball courts in of the guys have strong opinions. Food There was another factor that excit- his neighborhood. becomes a good [way] to meld all these ed the basketball fanatic: “I remember At Haverford, Cho kept stats for discussions.” thinking, ‘It’s close to Philadelphia, and the College’s athletic teams and took a Cho is constantly in search of nutri- I can go to Sixers games.’” job cooking at the Coop. He was also a ent-dense foods that also taste good. A decade later, Cho is the chef for the member of Ehaus, a campus commu- Fermented food is a current trend he’s NBA’s 76ers, feeding players, coaches, nity-housing group dedicated to the trying to incorporate into meals. Some and staff at the team’s Camden, N. J., environment and providing vegetarian/ players initially balked at the idea. training facility. Working in collabora- vegan eating options. Cho learned to “A lot of players hear ‘pickled’ and tion with the team’s sports scientists, cook meat-free meals to impress Leigh say, ‘I don’t like pickles’ or ‘I don’t eat strength training and nutrition coaches, Urbschat ’07, who became his wife cucumbers.’ But we’ve turned a corner,” and the players themselves, Cho puts his last year. Cho says. “We want to make it easy and all into crafting meals that are healthy as Cho left the College with an English fun to get good nutrition.” well as delicious. degree, and even those studies played a —Natalie Pompilio In many ways, Cho says, his experiences at Haverford brought him to Keep up with your favorite Haverford team at where he is today. “Whatever eclectic  haverfordathletics.com.

foundations were laid there get me PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE PHILADELPHIA 76ERS

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Hurford Center Associate Director James Weissinger ‘06 in the new VCAM building.

Unpacking VCAM What the new visual culture, arts, and media facility brings to Haverford.

his fall, Haverford opened a space to life. Hannah Weissmann ’17, great projects; we have faculty teaching new space for visual culture, who works in Haverford’s office of challenging new courses in visual studies; arts, and media (VCAM) in Institutional Advancement, sat down we have students getting interested in the Old Gym in the center of with Weissinger to talk about his hopes staging their own exhibition projects. Tcampus. James Weissinger ’06, asso- for the building’s future. [Go to p. 40, to So that’s been going on for a bit through ciate director of the John B. Hurford see a gallery of photos of VCAM.] the Hurford Center and through other ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities entities on campus, but we often haven’t and operations manager for VCAM, has Hannah Weissmann: What are you had the proper facilities for them. People been a leading member of the project most excited about with the opening have made do—it’s been very DIY—but since it was first conceived, working of VCAM? now there are facilities in VCAM to do with Associate Professor of English James Weissinger: There’s a way in those things. We have an artist residency and VCAM Director Laura McGrane, which VCAM will scratch a lot of itches studio. We have Create Spaces, where architects from MSR Design, and we already have. We already have stu- students can stage exhibition projects. members of the Haverford commu- dents making fantastic films; we have We have the gorgeous screening room,

PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO nity to bring the dream of this new visiting artists here all the time making which is the gem of the building. And

FALL 2017 15 then there are things that the campus HW: What are your personal hopes COOL CLASSES has needed for a while, like a central for VCAM? What are you hoping community gathering space right in the will happen from here? middle of campus, which I’ve wanted to JW: Haverford’s small size necessitates CLASS NAME: have since I was a student here. a feedback loop between the curric- “Chemistry in I think what will be really interest- ulum and what’s outside the curricu- ing, though, is that once we’ve satisfied lum. When that’s working correctly, it Everyday Life” those desires, if VCAM works correctly, can be very powerful and exciting, and it will produce new desires. It will draw the Hurford Center’s student-centered Taught by: Visiting Assistant in new collaborators who might not programming —the reading groups and Professor of Chemistry Yang Yang have thought, “I’m interested in visual student seminars—have hovered in that

Here’s what Yang had to say studies.” So I think VCAM expands on spot, in that they’re often connected to about the class: Chemistry is ev- the interdisciplinary mission of all three the curriculum while still remaining erywhere, recognize it or not. One academic centers, which do different outside it. That model works broadly for doesn’t have to be an expert to ap- things but have one similarity in that the arts at Haverford. Everyone engages preciate and enjoy the utility, charm, they bring students, staff, and faculty with the arts in some way while they’re and beauty of together from different departments and here: maybe they major in fine arts or this discipline. programs to collaborate. music; or they go on a Dialogues on Indeed, one Art trip downtown. Maybe they stage will be shocked HW: What, specifically, do you think a performance through the E. Clyde to realize how the VCAM building will bring to cam- Lutton Memorial Fund, or they work in thoroughly our pus that we haven’t had before? the Hurford Center’s Cantor Fitzgerald daily lives are “saturated” JW: There’s been a culture of students Gallery. VCAM is going to provide even with chemistry. and faculty and staff interested in more of those touch points for students In my course, making and in fabrication in different to get involved. What’s new and exciting my students and I attempt to revisit pockets across campus. Having a central is that for certain artistic practices—and the world about us from the per- Maker Arts space with a staff member, I’m thinking particularly about film—for spective of chemistry. For example, Kent Watson, dedicated to running it, students who want to make this a central when we talk about food, we don’t and 3D printers and CNC routers and part of their lives, they’re going to have debate whether Szechuan cuisine or other equipment, is new. It’s also going the facilities and tools to do that, to make Mexican is spicier, but we discuss the to be a classroom, so it’s somewhere a those projects, but also to share them in chemical basis of why we can actu- computer science class might be taught, a very professional way. I’m excited to ally taste. When looking at cars, we and also where sculpture classes or see how that film activity will work in don’t care whether they are BMWs or Mercedes-Benzes, yet we are keen to anthropology classes can take place. In tandem with the new visual studies pro- understand how the chemicals in an the evenings, VCAM student monitors gram, now that we have all of these new airbag could save our lives, how cata- will facilitate use of the space. resources. lysts help reduce the pollutants in ex- haust fumes, and how batteries drive the next-generation electric cars. Every September the Koshland Integrated Chemistry, in my eyes, has a sci- Natural Sciences Center ence-art duality. After hundreds of hosts a RESEARCH years of development, chemistry SYMPOSIUM that nowadays is way more than a set of showcases the summer work of students from bizarrely shaped glassware, colorful Haverford and other area liquids, unusual smells, frothing bub- colleges. This year’s 13th bles, and jumping flames. A chemist, Annual Undergraduate like an artist, pushes to the extreme Science Research to create, and, more importantly, to Symposium drew students from six institutions who understand, new substances at the presented 95 posters on atomic and molecular level. In my a wide variety of subjects, course, my students and I will not including starburst only seek to comprehend chemistry galaxies, new methods for detecting oil in beach sand, as a science, but also appreciate its and the biomechanics of artistic aspect. pea fowl crests.

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Ever since the first U.S. charter school out, “How do we retain our students?” opened in Minnesota in 1992, the debate We’ve seen stories of principals going about charters (publicly funded schools door-to-door trying to sell their schools. acade that operate independently of local dis- You can say, “That’s good. They’re tricts) has been going on at high pitch. In not a monopoly anymore.” But the flip July, Associate Professor of Political Sci- side is that administrators are devoting ence Zachary Oberfield jumped into the resources to things like recruitment, middle of that discussion with the pub- and every dollar you spend recruiting lication of his new book, Are Charters students, you are not spending on edu- Different? Public Education, Teachers, cating them. and the Charter School Debate (Harvard Education Press). Washington Post col- Charter schools have much less umnist Jay Mathews called it “the fairest, public oversight and control. Are deepest, and thus most frustrating book you concerned about the democratic on that subject in a long time. People on implications of that? both sides of the debate will find facts in ZO: Yes, I am. The positive side of the it we don’t like. That is why we should be story is that charters have the potential required to read it.” Haverford magazine to empower parents to have more editor Eils Lotozo spoke to Oberfield control over one of the most vital de- about what his research revealed. cisions they make. If choice is not just a buzzword, but is something parents So are charters different? ditional public schools in being worse get value out of, I think that’s a powerful Zachary Oberfield: Yes and no. The places to teach—that they’re high turn- thing. However, when you give public aim of the charter school movement over, exploitative, miserable places to dollars to a private entity, it’s incumbent was to give teachers and schools more work. But I found no evidence to suggest upon us to know what’s happening in autonomy and to make them more ac- that charters are much different in terms [that place.] The concern is there is not countable. From what I can tell, they’ve of teacher satisfaction and turnover. a strong framework in a lot of states achieved half of that goal. They’ve for overseeing charter schools and allowed teachers to bring more of their What does the growth of charter making sure what happens in them is own experience and creativity into the schools mean for traditional on the up-and-up. Of course, there is a classroom and to participate in making public schools? tension between control and the ability decisions about their schools. But I ZO: Where charter schools are located, to innovate. If we made charters just don’t see much difference in terms of in mostly urban areas, it used to be that like public schools, whose budgets are accountability, the idea that if you do a kids would just go to the school in their much less flexible, there is the poten- good job you are going to get a reward, neighborhood. Now there are options. tial to eviscerate their dynamism. So I and if you do a crappy job you will be Charters mean that there is increasing think the key question for communities let go. So we have schools that are giv- competition, and public schools are and policymakers is: How do the gains ing teachers a bit more power, but they being forced to change how they inter- in school-level discretion and parent are not necessarily ensuring quality in act with their communities. In a lot of empowerment stack up against the the way the people who came up with places the funding follows the student, costs of losing public oversight? To put the charter idea envisioned. so for every student a district loses to it another way, I think we need to ac- But here’s something else I found. a charter, [it has] less money to spread knowledge that moving toward a char- There has been a lot of concern that around. I think a fire has been lit under ter-centered education system entails charter schools are different from tra- public school administrators to figure some trade-offs.

YANG (CHEMISTRY); COLE SANSOM ‘19 (SYMPOSIUM); PATRICK MONTERO (OBERFIELD) Madison Arnold-Scerbo ’18 and James Truitt ’17 were co-curators of Deprived of the Use of Their Reason: Quakerism & the ©  Curability of Mental Illness at Friends’ Asylum, which ran through Oct. 15 in Magill Library’s Sharpless Gallery. The exhibit was the culmination of a summer internship funded by the Scattergood Foundation, and collected papers—from staff record books to

PHOTOS: letters—from Friends’ Asylum in Philadelphia, the first private mental hospital in the U.S. Learn more: hav.to/2f7.

FALL 2017 17 mix acade

➊ Prints: These are two prints from the famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Office Hour Fuji by Hokusai. I got these in Japan when I was conducting research as a graduate student. My interest in Japan he start of the academic year brought a new role and a brand new office really began with exposure to Japanese for Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Erin prints, particularly by Hokusai, and his Schoneveld. As one of three newly appointed Visual, Cultural, Arts, most famous one in this series, “The and Media faculty fellows, she moved into a glass-walled office in the Great Wave.” I think most students— recently completed VCAM facility, where part of her job as a fellow, even if they don’t know anything about Tshe says, will be to bring attention to the many opportunities VCAM has to offer. Japan—know that image. “I’ll be highlighting to faculty that there are a lot of ways to engage in the space and ➋ Wall: To have a whole wall that is take advantage of the classrooms, the Maker Arts space, the Screening Room, the an enormous bulletin board is amazing. Create Spaces,” says Schoneveld, who teaches courses in modern and contemporary I’ve got materials from a research project Japanese art, cinema, and visual culture. “There are resources available for people up there. Previously it was spread out all working across all departments and disciplines on campus.” over a desk. I’m a visual person, so it’s nice to be able to look at everything. I To help spotlight the interdisciplinary possibilities the center was designed to also have posters from various Haverford promote, she’s teaching a new VCAM-supported course this semester called “Art classes and events, and postcards and and the Environment in East Asia” and bringing a local artist to do an outdoor art thank-you notes from students. The installation with the class. “He’s a sound engineer, and we’re going to be using the red cloth is called a furoshiki and was Maker Arts space to build biodata sonification devices,” says Schoneveld. “Basically, a gift from a friend in Japan. Cranes are they are machines that measure conductivity and create musical sounds to repre- a symbol of longevity and good luck in sent changes in the bioactivity of plants. So we’ll connect them to plants, and the Japanese culture. sounds that are emitted will allow us to hear the effects we humans have on our ➌ Magazines: These are original copies

immediate environment.” of a Japanese art journal called White PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO

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Birch, or Shirakaba in Japanese. They’re and we would sit on tatami mats on the anime film director Hayao Miyazaki. He part of my current research project, but I floor to work. I started with big blocks made a film called Princess Mononoke, also use them when I teach my seminar of wood, and over the course of a year I about the destruction of the environ- “Japanese Modernism Across Media.” carved and painted these two masks. ment told through the story of a young I bought these when I was studying in girl, and throughout the film these Japan. I went to this area in Tokyo called ➎ Family photos: [left] That’s my old- little tree spirits appear. My student Jinbo-cho-, which is the bookseller dis- est son, Soren, in the middle. He’s four. [Caroline Fleet ’16] did this incredible trict, hoping I would find something rel- My twins are two. That’s my son River final presentation, and at the end and she evant to my work, and I actually found [on the left] and my daughter, Mira [on gave the entire class and me one of these five or six of these originals. The library the right]. The picture was taken last little kodama figures she had made. has very generously bought a complete summer in front of our campus house, set of facsimiles for me, but to be able to and the kids are in these Japanese sum- ➐ Rowing team photos from her hold these [journals] and see the water mer outfits a friend sent from Japan. undergrad days at Brown University: stains and folded corners of pages, to And that’s my husband Mark playing the I had never rowed before, but I was know that someone else touched and guitar and Soren when he was a baby. recruited in the dining hall as a freshman read them is so cool. Mark is a writer and he runs a music and I ended up rowing all four years. I blog called yvynyl [“why vinyl?”] that rowed Division One and trained all year, ➍ Theater masks: That’s a mask of showcases Philadelphia’s independent so it was a big commitment. We were a monkey [from the Japanese comic music scene. two-time NCAA champions. Rowing theater tradition called Kyo-gen] and the was a formative experience, and is some- other is a No- mask of a young warrior. I ➏ Figure: This is a Japanese tree spirit thing I carried with me into teaching made them when I was in Japan during called a kodama. The first time I taught here at Haverford. I’m the faculty liaison junior year abroad. I was taking a class my course “Modern and Contemporary to the women’s field hockey team, and on traditional Japanese performing arts, East Asian Art,” we studied different there are a number of student-athletes and my teacher said, “I know a tradition- aspects of art and media, from film to in my classes. I understand the idea of al mask carver. … I can get you into his photography, to painting, to architecture balance—that athletics can really enrich class.” I was the only woman in a room and performance art, and one of my stu- the college experience—and I have a lot full of retired Japanese businessmen, dents for her final project researched the of respect for what they are doing. —E. L.

FALL 2017 19 David Harrington Watt

The newly named Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies and self-described “disciplinary nomad” talks about antifundamentalism and the appeal of “Quaker values.”

he start of the academic year talist label was applied to Jews, Hindus, did decide that. As an undergraduate, I brought another new face to Sikhs, and Buddhists as well to Muslims focused on history. In graduate school, campus: David Harrington and Christians. Antifundamentalism in I took courses in American studies as Watt, who joined the faculty as Modern America is the result of my trying well as in history. At Temple University Tthe College’s first Douglas and Dorothy to find out how and why such a broad most of my work was in history rather Steere Professor of Quaker Studies. array of believers—many of whom didn’t than religion. But I have had warm and Watt, who comes to Haverford from seem to have all that much in common friendly relations with Temple’s Religion Temple University, where he taught with the people Sandeen wrote about— Department, and the book series that I for 30 years, holds additional appoint- came to be thought of as fundamentalists. edit for the NYU Press [with two mem- ments as professor of Independent bers of the religion faculty] is, for the College Programs and affiliate profes- JF: What is the argument of your most part, devoted to works in religious sor in the Department of Religion. He new book? studies rather than history. also will serve as the faculty director of DHW: In the early 1920s North Amer- Being a disciplinary nomad has pre- Quaker Affairs, acting as a liaison to the icans began saying that certain groups sented a few challenges, but it has had Corporation of Haverford College. of people were fundamentalists. From some advantages, too. For one thing, Watt’s current research focuses on lib- then until the present day, the concept it has given me a chance to keep track eral Quakerism in the modern United of “fundamentalists” has been routinely of the truly extraordinary work on reli- States. He is the author of numerous deployed to conjure up a set of dangerous gion in the United States that is being articles and three books, including, most others: men and women who are said produced by scholars in both religious recently, Antifundamentalism in Modern to constitute a threat to science, peace, studies and history. That has been deep- America, which was published by Cornell justice, and progress. ly rewarding. University Press in 2017. John Fea, a professor of American JF: Why do we need to read it? JF: What is your next project? history at Messiah College, talked to DHW: “Need” is an interesting word, DHW: My next project grows out of the Watt about the new book for a post on isn’t it? It raises the dread specter of current one. As I was studying the histo- his blog The Way of Improvement Leads a “required list of assigned readings.” ry of antifundamentalism, I repeatedly Home. Below is an edited version of that Readers who want to know more about encountered forms of Protestantism that conversation: the history of fundamentalism might, could be described as “liberal,” “pro- however, enjoy reading it. So might gressive,” or “secular.” Scholars have John Fea: What led you to write readers who want to know more about already taught us a lot about those forms Antifundamentalism in Modern the creation and evolution of categories of Protestantism. But there is still much America? that are used to identify people whose work that needs to be done. I’m espe- David Harrington Watt: In the late beliefs and practices are thought to be cially interested in liberal, progressive, 1970s—when I was still an undergrad- problematic. Readers who are interest- and secular forms of Quakerism and the uate at Berkeley—one of my professors ed in what is lost and what is gained ways in which [they] have influenced suggested that I read Ernest Sandeen’s The when people who don’t think of them- U.S. culture as a whole. In the con- Roots of Fundamentalism. Ever since then, selves as fundamentalists get called temporary United States, many people I’ve been fascinated by Protestant funda- that by others might also enjoy reading who would never dream of joining a mentalism in the United States. Shortly Antifundamentalism in Modern America. Quaker congregation gladly send their after I read Sandeen’s book, I began I certainly enjoyed doing the research daughters and sons to schools that are encountering texts in which Muslims on which the book is based. committed to “Quaker values.” One of such as the Ayatollah Khomeini were the questions I’m interested in exploring referred to as religious fundamentalists. JF: When and why did you decide to is why it is that “Quaker values” some- Within a few years, I became accustomed become a historian? times seem to be far more appealing to seeing texts in which the fundamen- DHW: There is a sense in which I never than Quakerism itself.

20 Haverford Magazine New Faculty mix oining the faculty as an assistant professor of X-rays from pulsars, providing Computational LINGUISTICS is Jane Chandlee, who a wealth of data for astronomers

first came to Haverford in fall 2015 as a visiting pro- worldwide to analyze. acade fessor in the Computer Science Department. Chandlee Lommen, who brings with hasJ taught both introductory computer science courses and her to the College grants from discrete mathematics, and developed electives in speech tech- the NSF and NASA, started the nology and computational linguistics. Going forward, Chandlee International Pulsar Timing will be teaching linguistics courses that will be cross-listed in Array and is the founding chair of computer science, and will serve as an important liaison to the North American Nanohertz both departments, supporting and fostering the growing inter- Observatory of Gravitational est among Haverford students in the interdisciplinary area of Waves. computational linguistics. Lommen received her B.A. in Chandlee received her under- physics from Carleton College, Andrea Lommen graduate degree from the Univer- an M.S. in physics from the sity of Delaware, double major- University of Pennsylvania, and ing in English and computer an M.A. in astronomy from the science, and went on to earn an University of California, Berke- M.F.A. in creative writing from ley, where she also earned her Pennsylvania State University Ph.D. in astrophysics. Lommen’s and an M.A. in applied linguis- research focuses on unlocking a tics from Boston University. She new way of “seeing” the universe then returned to the University by using pulsars to detect and of Delaware for her Ph.D. in lin- study the nanohertz gravitation- guistics. Her research is focused al-wave universe. on understanding the computa- Jane Chandlee Starting in January, Karen tional nature of human language Masters also will join the Depart- Karen Masters phonological systems. ments of PHYSICS AND AS- Ariana Huberman, who was TRONOMY as an associate professor. Masters comes to previously a visiting professor at Haverford from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at Haverford, was named associate the U.K.’s University of Portsmouth. professor of SPANISH and chair Masters read physics at Oxford’s Wadham College, went on of the department. She received to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy at Cornell University, and spent her B.A. from Tufts University three years working as a researcher at the Harvard College and her Ph.D. from New York Observatory before returning to the U.K. in 2008. University. Her research inter- Her research interests are in the area of extragalactic astron- ests include cultural translation, omy, typically using data from large surveys. She is the spokes- immigration and diaspora, travel person for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and regularly observes narrative in Latin American liter- with the Green Bank Telescope. A passionate advocate for ature, and Latin American Jewish Ariana Huberman citizen science, she is also the project scientist for Galaxy Zoo literature and culture. She is the and often uses information on galaxy shapes and types col- author of Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity lected from this citizen science project in her own research. in the Argentine Countryside. Masters, whose husband Wynn Ho will join her at Haverford Andrea Lommen joined the Departments of PHYSICS AND as a visiting researcher in physics and astronomy, is a regular ASTRONOMY as a full professor, charged with helping to lead guest on BBC Radio 4 and has been featured on BBC television’s and build the program. Before coming to Haverford, Lommen Sky at Night show. She tweets regularly about astronomy as was a professor of physics and astronomy at Franklin & @KarenLMasters. Marshall College, where she was the chair of the department as Anna West joined the faculty as an assistant professor well as the director of F&M’s Grundy Observatory. She also was and will lead the HEALTH STUDIES program at Haverford. selected to be part of a NASA mission, the Neutron Star Interior West, who taught previously at William Paterson University, Composition Explorer (NICER), which launched to the Space will teach both the introductory and capstone courses for

PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO Station in June. NICER is an X-ray telescope that will detect the interdisciplinary program, and also will offer courses

FALL 2017 21 on global health, health and citizenship, urban Ph.D. in anthropology in 2016 with a dissertation health, and colonialism and medicine, among titled “Body Politics in the Postcolony: Global mix others. West’s pedagogy and research are highly Health and Local Governance in Rural Malawi.” interdisciplinary and will strengthen offerings in With support from the Fulbright program and the health studies, anthropology, and Africana National Science Foundation, West conducted 18

acade studies programs. months of ethnographic fieldwork among health West earned her B.A. in human biology from workers, households, and village leaders in Malawi. Stanford University, and her M.H.S. in interna- She works primarily in southern Africa but has tional health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg begun fieldwork for a new project on health and School of Public Health. She returned to Stanford access to health care among African immigrants in University for her doctoral work and earned her Anna West the northeastern United States.

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Assistant Professor of Religion Molly most learned man who has helped guarantee the immortality Farneth published her book, Hegel’s of Homer’s works” and lauded him for the 30 years he spent Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and at Haverford “enriching young minds, producing brilliant Rituals of Reconciliation, via Princeton research, always the soul of kindness to his students.” University Press.   Associate Professor of Spanish Roberto Castillo Sandoval pub- Associate Professor of Classics Bret lished a translation of Herman Melville’s important novella Mulligan launched a revised version of Bartleby, the Scrivener with Chilean The Bridge, an online tool that allows publisher Hueders. Sandoval’s transla- students and instructors to generate cus- tion, Bartleby el Escribano: Una historia tomized vocabulary lists from its database of Greek and Latin de Wall Street, restores the work’s orig- textbooks and texts. inal subtitle, A Wall Street Story, which  was omitted by Jorge Luis Borges in In October, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific honored the 1969 translation that has become Bruce Partridge with its 2017 Richard H. Emmons Award. The canonical. In this new work, Sandoval award honors the emeritus professor of physics and astron- also departs from past translators’ omy for his outstanding achievement in the teaching of col- accepted rendering of the story’s most lege-level introductory astronomy for non-science majors. famous line: “I would prefer not to.” Though he retired in 2008 after 38 years on the Haverford  faculty, he has continued to teach in the Department of Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier, Associate Physics and Astronomy. Just last year, he taught a first-year Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist, and Assistant course for intended astronomy majors, and the year before Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler received a that, he taught two classes, including an introductory course National Science Foundation grant for $645,288 for their col- for non-majors. laboration “The Dark Reaction Project: A Machine-Learning  Approach to Exploring Structural Diversity in Solid State Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jaclyn Pryor’s book, Analysis,” which runs through Aug. 31, 2020. Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance,  and the Hole of History, was published by Northwestern Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies University Press. Helen White was awarded the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar  Award, which honors accomplishments in scholarly research The Classical Association of the Atlantic States honored with undergraduates and a compelling commitment to teaching Emeritus Professor of Classics Joe Russo at its annual meeting with a $60,000 unrestricted research grant. White also was in New York City in October. Russo received an “Ovatio,” a appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Latin oration that recognizes the honoree’s great contribution and Medicine Committee on the Evaluation of the Use of

to the discipline of classics. Russo’s Ovatio declared him “a Chemical Dispersants in Oil Spill Response. PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO (WEST)

22 Haverford Magazine mixed media Books Q&A: Bryan Snyder ’95

It was during a junior year abroad sacred ground. It has to do with in Edinburgh, Scotland, that Bryan the twisting of the strata, the colors Snyder caught the wilderness bug. After and shapes, I think. months of exploring the Highlands, visiting ancient ruins, and climbing moun- CL: Did you always want to be a tains, Snyder returned to Haverford to writer? cram in as many ecology classes as pos- BS: I did, yes. I didn’t know what sible while still completing his English it was going to be for—I specu- major. Since graduating, Snyder has lated it would be fantasy fiction. combined his passions for writing and But it’s only after writing about outdoor adventures through the three- the outdoors for so many years book Off The Map series, culminating that I feel like I can get back to in this summer’s Falling Off The the fantasy fiction I was trying to Map. Cat Lazaroff ’89 caught up do in high school. Now I have a with Snyder as he braved the wilds of lot of practice being descriptive a Vermont craft fair. and evocative in my writing, and I think that will be a huge help Cat Lazaroff: I loved getting lost in the sublime, and the alchemy of combining with the new series I’m planning. backcountry with you in Falling Off The syllables and arranging beats to create the I love YA because you have a lot of free- Map! How did you get started writing right sensations in the readers’ minds … dom to pick at the moral dilemmas we outdoor adventure essays? that can be quite a trick. The direct chal- face in our modern day. Hopefully it’s a Bryan Snyder: Ever since I left Haverford, lenges of heat, cold, thorns, and muscle way to have a real impact on the calibra- I’ve been working at outdoor science exhaustion are usually much less intimidat- tion of people’s moral compasses. schools, teaching geology, astronomy, ing in comparison. biology, and ecology to students outside of Cliffs are the most treacherous thing I CL: Are you at all worried about making the classroom. Most of these schools give face, so I’ve had to become good at landing the transition from nonfiction to fiction you housing, so it’s pretty easy to bounce on my feet. Through experience, and luck, writing? around. I’ve worked all over the country I’ve managed to survive the hazards of the BS: I’ve recently been writing short plays that way. And working during the school wild and write about these things. for a group called Fishbon in Santa Barbara, year gives me the summers to travel and near where I live in the Santa Ynez Valley, have adventures. I was finally able to CL: You refer to mountains in this book and that’s been a path back into fiction combine that passion with my English variously as “mafia thugs,” “evil looking,” writing. Fiction writing felt pretty excru- degree and start writing outdoor articles for and “ghouls.” Do you have a bit of a love- ciating back in high school, but I’ve found Chenango County, New York’s Evening Sun hate relationship with the places where I can write these plays in a single night. newspaper. When the high school sports you trek? The dialogue, cues, and story season ended, my articles took up the slack BS: It’s mostly a love relation- structure seem to come much in the sports section. ship. I hit the mountains to more easily. I’m toying with see the majestic views, but the idea of writing my YA nov- CL: What’s more fun, the adventures, or some mountains seem like els first as screenplays, almost writing about them afterward? characters, and they don’t like an action movie, then BS: Writing about the adventures afterward always feel friendly. Some going back and converting the is definitely more difficult. You have to feel hostile to your presence, screenplay into prose form. conjure words to describe the surreal and like you’re trespassing on continued on page 28

FALL 2017 23 More Alumni Titles

ROBBIE ANDERMAN intensity to documenting and capturing JOHN S. MAJOR ’70: The Healing Trees: the everyday and mundane? Epstein trac- ’64 and Yeshi The Edible and Herbal es the history of this preoccupation and Dorjee: The Boy Qualities of Northeastern argues that its post-1945 explosion was a Who Understood Woodland Trees reaction to the unsettling transformations Animals (XLibris). (Burnstown Publishing of the era. In our own era, he asserts, poetry This illustrated House). The fruit of 40 celebrating everyday life has become not children’s book tells the story of Tenzin, a years of research and only a response but a mode of resistance to young shepherd in Tibet, who prays to the exploration, which a culture suffering from a crisis of attention. Buddha every day, asking to be granted the began when Anderman moved to a farm Epstein is an associate professor of English power to understand the languages of ani- in Canada, this book details the bene- at Florida State University and the author mals. After his prayer is answered, he res- fits common trees have to offer us. Also of Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar cues a lamb in danger of becoming a rich informed by the writings of 19th-century American Poetry. man’s dinner and runs away to a distant herbalists and botanists who consulted with valley where he uses his special gift to save local indigenous tribes, The Healing Trees KEN HICKS ’70 and Anne a princess from a deadly illness. Major is a includes detailed chapters on forestry, first Rothman-Hicks, BMC ’71: New York-based independent scholar who aid, edibles provided by trees in various sea- Weave a Murderous Web has written many books on East Asian his- sons, and the uses of wood ashes. (Melange Books, LLC). In tory and culture. the second installment CHRISTIAN DUCOMB in this mystery/thriller JOHN MORRIS ’75: ’01: Haunted City: series focused on New When I Snap My Fingers Three Centuries of York City litigator Jane You Will Remember Racial Impersonation in Larson, Jane agrees to help a friend in what Everything (No Record Philadelphia (University of is supposed to be a simple child support Press). In this collection Michigan Press). Winter case. But when she discovers the deadbeat of stories, Morris’s holiday celebrations dad’s hidden assets, a web of lies, drugs, and characters cope with in Europe and North murder begins to unravel, drawing her into bizarre and unsettling America have long a race to find a missing suitcase of cash and situations including an featured performers known as mummers catch the murderer. The co-authors, whose escaped lion, an infesta- wearing blackface; in Philadelphia, home previous entry in the Jane Larson series was tion of cockroaches, and a game of “party to the famed Mummers Parade, blackface Praise Her, Praise Diana, have collaborated hypnosis” gone wrong. “Again and again persisted from the Colonial period until on 20 books in their more than 40 years here,” declared one reviewer, “we see char- the early 1960s, when it was banned from of marriage. acters looking for ways to think of them- the parade. Despite that ban, other forms selves as the captains of their fates, the of racial and ethnic impersonation have JOYCE E. KELLEY authors of their narratives, as they nego- continued. In Haunted City, DuComb, an ’98: Excursions into tiate a world ringed round by accident, assistant professor of theater at Colgate Modernism: Women threat, sadness, the imp of the perverse.” University, combines historical research Writers, Travel, and A resident of the Washington, D.C., area, with his own experiences marching in the the Body (Ashgate/ Morris has taught for many years at The Mummers Parade to create a lively and rich- Routledge). Kelley, an Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md. ly illustrated narrative. associate professor of English at Auburn COLIN RULE ’92 and ANDREW EPSTEIN University, looks at Amy Schmitz: The New ’92: Attention Equals fiction and travel writing of the early 20th Handshake: Online Life: The Pursuit century and finds similarities in the way Dispute Resolution and of the Everyday in women authors used foreign experiences the Future of Consumer Contemporary Poetry to inspire artistic innovations. She focuses Protection (American and Culture (Oxford on the pairing of outward journeys with Bar Association). This University Press). Why more inward, introspective ones made groundbreaking book have contemporary possible through re-conceptualizing wom- outlines a method for providing fast and poets turned with such en’s bodily and domestic geographies. fair resolutions for low-dollar consumer

24 Haverford Magazine claims. Designed to save businesses from parents in the face of challenges we often CLAIRE ZILBER ’84 and the costs and complexities of the courts, feel thoroughly outpaced by, and about the Laura Michaels: Living in while providing consumers with free access deep joy and meaning parenting, however Limbo: Creating Structure to remedies, this system can be integrated imperfect, can bring to our lives. and Peace When media directly into the websites where transac- Someone You Love Is Ill tions take place. Rule is chairman and COO MICHAEL SNYDER ’95: (CreateSpace). Written of Modria.com, an online dispute resolution John Joseph Matthews: for those shepherding a

service provider in Silicon Valley. Life of an Osage Writer loved one through a period of serious ill- mixed (University of Oklahoma ness, this collaboration combines the story ALEX SHAHLA ’07: Lying Press). A novelist, natural- of co-author Michaels’ experience dealing to Children (Fitzwilde, ist, biographer, historian with her husband’s grim medical diagnosis LLC). In this debut episto- and tribal preservationist, with accompanying commentary by Zilber lary novel, a father writes John Joseph Matthews on the adaptation strategies described in a series of funny and poi- (1894-1979) was one the story, which incorporate elements of gnant confessional letters of the first indigenous authors to gain psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and to his college-age daugh- national renown with books such as the mindfulness-based therapies. Zilber is a psy- ter and son, explaining semi-autobiographical novel Sundown and chiatrist in private practice in Denver. [For his actions regarding Talking to the Moon, which chronicles his more on the book, see p. 39.] events from their family’s past. (“It’s what Thoreau-like sojourn in a remote corner of people who make mistakes, call context,” Oklahoma. With the story of this complex, he writes.) Offering a witty survey of the restless character, Snyder, a professor of  FORD AUTHORS: Do you have a new untruths parents regularly tell their kids in English at Oklahoma City Community book you’d like to see included in More Alumni Titles? Please send all relevant an effort to protect (or silence) them, College, also tells the story of Oklahoma Lying information to [email protected]. to Children is about how we muddle on as and Native America in the 20th century.

Music arol Compton ’84 never be- events was Scott Higgs ’78. (Higgs isn’t lieved she’d be able to make a living the only alum Compton knows who is active in doing something music-related. And the world of folk dancing. She often performs at Cshe certainly never thought she’d dances where David Millstone ’68 serves have a career as a dance musician. as the caller/teacher.) But today Compton is the director of Edu- “Philadelphia is, and has a history of being, cation Programs at the music school of the a hotbed for folk dancing,” says Compton. “The Brattleboro Music Center in Vermont, where scene is vibrant, diverse, and widespread. In a she introduces students ages 18 months to 93 city like Philadelphia you can probably go to years to the joys of music. Many evenings and a dance every night of the week, while here on weekends, she can be found playing music in New England many small towns still hold at English country or contra dances. community dances that have been going for Compton—who plays the accordion, re- generations.” Speaking of longevity, the En- corder, and piano—travels up and down the glish country dance in Media, Pa., that Comp- East Coast and to Canada and England. She has Carol Compton ‘84 has made a career as a music teacher ton frequented as a Haverford student was the performed at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum, and performer for English country and contra dances. same one her mother and grandparents had Garden and Library and Washington’s Smithso- attended regularly. nian Institution. While Compton may be known in New En- Compton performs on the 2000 Smithsonian Folkways recording Choose gland’s folk dance circles, she notes that “you don’t get much of a name by Your Partners! and appears in the 2002 video “What’s Not to Like?” Her original playing for [these] dances. You do it because it’s fun.” compositions can be heard on dance floors in New Hampshire and Vermont. Performing dance music, Compton said, requires paying attention to those Yes, original compositions. While many people assume folk dancing is on the dance floor: “The ultimate challenge is to play the notes in such a way largely historical, “these traditions are very much alive, with people writing that it makes the dancers want to pick up their feet and move.” new music and new dances all the time,” said Compton, who got her start in All that Compton has learned from folk dance also informs her day job at music as a classically trained pianist. “The music can be as old as the 1500s or the music school. “Working with faculty and students is not unlike being an as recent as yesterday.” accompanist,” Compton said. “You are constantly looking for ways to get and As a first-year student at Haverford, majoring in anthropology, Compton keep people engaged in music in ways that will carry them long after the final met two students who regularly attended English country and contra dances note has ended.”

PHOTO: NANCY BELLUSCIO (COMPTON) off-campus and invited her along. Providing the group with rides to those —Natalie Pompilio

FALL 2017 25 Ryan Rebel ‘14 directed WILD: A Clown Western, an improvisational theater piece that was part of the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The show featured (from left) Jo Vito Ramírez ‘13, Michaela Martz, Jason Corn, TheaTer Julie Roberts, Alexis Howland, and Nate Biagiotti.

n stage, a clown is moving theater troupes. Based at Manayunk’s Ven- ters in partnership with the city’s Department to and fro on a rocking horse ice Island Performing Arts Center, Shoe Box of Parks and Recreation, teaches summer while another clown ap- was formed less than two years ago but has sessions at the Cheltenham Center for the proaches, shyly, with a lasso already put on a festival of short plays and Arts, and recently worked as a zombie in an and a love note in hand. a production of Macbeth, set in a contem- escape-room game. But his primary job is OWhen the scene ends, director Ryan Rebel porary corporate office instead of medieval doing freelance tech work for Venice Island; ’14 offers the actors some advice. Scotland. Its clown western was presented as in fact, that’s how he met the other Shoe Box “Have you ever gotten a note or a letter part of the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. founders. from someone you had a big old crush on, “Venice Island is new, and even people “I’m very slow to anger usually, and I don’t or have you given one?” he asks “Tilly,” the who work right up the street don’t know really get mad, but it really gets me when clown with a note to present. “This piece of we’re here,” Rebel says. “We’ve had some people say the arts aren’t important,” Rebel paper, it has such immense importance to success connecting Venice to the larger says. “It’s not that without theater programs you at that period of your life, your entire theater community, and we’re hoping more children’s imaginations will shrivel up … but physical and emotional well-being is tied people come out now that we’ve been in the when someone says, ‘This is an important way into it. You really want to pass this note, but Fringe guide.” to see the world,’ it shows that there are other your body is telling you not to. You’re like a Rebel was introduced to acting in eighth paths. I think we’d have a healthier society if rubber band—this way, that way. Try to feel grade and was part of the drama scene in we embraced the arts more.” those forces.” high school. Still, he didn’t think he would One of the many members of the Haver- The actors nod, and each time they run continue in theater in college and beyond. ford community who attended a Fringe Fes- through the improvisational WILD: A Clown He found his personality—slow, thoughtful, tival performance of WILD: A Clown Western Western, the scene gets tighter, funnier. deliberate—was better suited to directing was Associate Professor of English Laura Mc- Rebel laughs with appreciation. than acting. Grane. She really enjoyed it, she says, noting “The least helpful advice a director can “I’m a good listener, and that’s the main how well Rebel was able to pull poignant, give,” he says later, “is ‘Just do things bet- skill you need to have in directing,” he says. funny, and pointed performances from his ter.’ ‘Be more angry.’ Or, ‘Do it with more “It’s not really about imposing your will on actors (including Jo Vito Ramírez ‘13). energy.’ I think, ‘How can I frame this to this others, but being sensitive to all in the pro- Rebel was McGrane’s student, and at person’s experience, so [the actor] can more cess. The best ideas will always come from one point her research assistant. He was, readily and enthusiastically access what they the other people you’re working with, and if she says, “playfully experimental and gently need to make this scene really pop and you’re not listening, you tend to miss it all.” independent.” come to life?” Like many people who make a living in “I knew that he would be out there in the Rebel is one of the four founders of Shoe theater, Rebel has multiple gigs. He’s taught community using performance to make a Box Company, one of Philadelphia’s newest theater workshops at Philadelphia rec cen- difference.” —Natalie Pompilio

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he goal of most museum and Barn was what hooked me,” says Figa. gallery spaces is to get out of “It’s a transformative, visceral, awakening media the art’s way—your attention experience.” is supposed to focus on the But a family dispute over the prop- Twork, not the walls. But that’s not quite erty (Harry Bertoia died in 1978) meant

the case with the rural Pennsylvania barn that the barn would be dismantled and mixed where artist Harry Bertoia showcased his the sculptures removed later that year— Sonambient sculptures. When that barn a timeline that raised the stakes for the was scheduled to be dismantled in 2016, documentary. “Every time we went back filmmakersHarlow Figa ’16 and Sarah to film on the Bertoia property, we saw Moses ’16 set out to capture both the Sarah Moses ‘16 (left) and Harlow Figa ‘16 are a growing story that only we could tell works of art and their environment. finishing up their feature-length documentaryBertoia. as the last documentarians in the barn,” Their feature-length documentary says Figa. Bertoia, which is heading into the final stages of production, got its The filmmakers, who live in the Philadelphia area and are co- start during their senior year at Haverford, but the roots of the proj- directors of the Tri-Co Film Festival, which showcases work cre- ect go back to childhood for Moses, who recalls family trips to the ated by students at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore, shot Museum of Modern Art in New York City that included encounters the initial footage of the sculptures and the barn during their senior with the artist’s furniture designs. “I’ve known about Bertoia’s work year. After graduation, they were able to continue using Haverford for as long as I can remember,” she says. “My father always spoke equipment thanks to the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts fondly of the time he visited the Sonambient Barn and met Harry and Humanities, which awarded them both emerging artist resi- Bertoia in the 1970s, so when the opportunity for this project came dencies through the summer and fall of 2016. along I was super-excited to jump in.” Since then, they’ve expanded the production to include shoots The Sonambient Barn, located in Berks County, was home to at Bertoia-related events and exhibits, and interviews with people Bertoia’s body of sculptural works that combine interactive visual, who knew, or were influenced by, Bertoia. To keep the project audio, and tactile elements. Throughout the 1960s, Bertoia created going, they turned to online crowdfunding on Seed&Spark.com around 100 such sculptures, which feature vibrating metal rods of (co-founded by Emily Best ’02) and raised more than $27,000. different sizes that produce eerie, resonating sounds when manip- They also established a social media presence at facebook.com/ ulated by hand or with mallets. They’re visual artworks, but also bertoiafilm that has become vital to the production. “It’s really melodic/harmonic instruments that reverberate with the acoustics fulfilling to put out a teaser from the film and see all the awed of the space. The barn opened to the public in the late ’70s via tours reactions to these unique pieces of art,” says Moses, who majored given by Bertoia’s son Val, who has helped with the film. in film and media studies at Swarthmore through the Tri-Co Figa, an anthropology major who minored in health studies Consortium. “I’m really excited to share this film with the world, and did a concentration in gender/sexuality, was led into Bertoia’s and our online connection to our supporters has only encouraged world by Moses’ enthusiasm, which brought both filmmakers to that.” (Clips of the doc in progress also can be viewed at the property in the spring of 2016. “Visiting Bertoia’s Sonambient bertoiafilm.com.) The filmmakers, who screened a work-in-progress version of the film at Haverford in October, are spending the latter part of 2017 on final shoots, and plan to begin editing while applying for grants and securing funding for post-production and eventual distribution of Bertoia. As the project moves toward completion, Figa and Moses have maintained their enthusiasm for the artist and his work—but they now also feel a part of the legacy of the space the sculptures once inhabited and brought to life. “This film definitely began with the goal of preservation, but preservation and presentation are also inherently linked,” says Moses, noting that the documentary is both preserving a physical space on film and “presenting an artist’s legacy, his body of work and the views of various artists, histori- Harry Bertoia’s Sonambient Barn, dismantled in 2016, housed works that combined ans, family members, and friends that are intertwined

PHOTOS: JUSTIN TURKUS ‘08 (THEATER); PATRICK MONTERO (FILMMAKERS) visual, audio, and tactile elements. in the story of Bertoia.” —Brian Glaser

FALL 2017 27 Dance

n the Swedish dance company of 38 artists from 20 nations that he now

media calls home, Waldean Nelson ’09 fits right in. “In the past I was labeled as ‘heady,’” says Nelson, who once planned on being an archi- tect. “But here, everyone has an opinion, and different experiences and Iawareness, and we put these into the pot and see what comes out. We’re

mixed given a lot of freedom.” “Here” is GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Gothenburg Opera Dance Waldean Nelson ‘09 (center) performing with Sweden’s Gothenburg Company), the Nordic region’s largest contemporary dance company, where Opera Dance Company. the Brooklyn native is in his third full-time season as a dancer. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, Nelson attends dance classes and rehearsals tract with the Brooklyn dance company Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE. “I was for performances in the Opera House and on European tours. looking at architecture schools, but once I got the offer I never looked back.” Nelson started dancing at age 13 at Brooklyn’s Philippa Schuyler Middle Nelson spent two years with the company and then began freelancing, School. “We had modern dance classes in sixth grade, and it just felt right,” he working for weeks or months at a time with various project-based choreogra- explains. But academics came first for Nelson, who attended New York City’s phers and companies. “I was doing a lot of touring, and going back and forth Stuyvesant High School and focused on physics. Still, he earned scholarships to New York, Europe, Seattle, Vancouver, and Montreal,” he says. “It was a throughout high school to study ballet, modern, and other styles/techniques lot of fun and very exciting at first, but I was living out of a suitcase. I loved the at prestigious schools such as the one run by the Alvin Ailey company and the work, but it was beginning to take a toll. I was looking for a new challenge—a Dance Theatre of Harlem. When it came time to apply for college, he consid- place where I would be able to anchor myself and grow.” ered attending a conservatory. “Haverford won out because of academics,” He’d always dreamed of working in Europe, because the arts are so he says. “It was near Philadelphia, which has an interesting dance scene, well-supported there. So in January 2015, Nelson took his savings and em- and it’s near New York, so I could audition for summer programs in dance.” barked on an audition tour of European dance companies. Nelson majored in growth and structure of cities at Bryn Mawr, with an Gothenburg was his second stop, and he received a job offer soon af- architecture concentration, and minored in dance. Each summer, he won terward, while waiting for a flight in Berlin. “I started to cry in the airport dance scholarships to study at different institutions. “The summers were Starbucks,” Nelson recalls. “It was a long time coming.” eye-opening—it was a glimpse into the world of professional dancing, and “My path has been so untraditional. Most professional dancers don’t go I could see how I measured up,” he says. Nelson studied abroad his junior for a liberal arts education before starting their careers. I remember all the year in Copenhagen, focusing on architecture, taking dance classes with times I felt so weird, that the combination of academics and dance shouldn’t Danish Dance Theatre, and in the process, falling in love with Scandinavia. go together. I’m glad I was stubborn enough and foolish enough to keep both Just before graduating, in January 2009, he was offered a full-time con- feet in both worlds.” —Anne Stein

Q&A: Bryan Snyder ’95 continued from page 23

That should hopefully trick my mind into who are willing to do stupid things to get race in the Bryce Canyon area of Utah. overcoming the roadblocks I faced in writ- to the top of them, I’ll be out there. Travel She’s a rider, but will spend much of her ing fiction in the past. writing gives you a push to get out to less- time massaging riders and horses while er-known areas, so you can be there to see I explore the red rock sandstone regions CL: What will this change mean for your a bear cub climbing a tree, or watch the around us. A great spot for inspiration if outdoor adventures? sunset while you’re hanging from the side you’re writing about faerie cultures! After BS: I definitely won’t stop going out into of a mountain. I wouldn’t be who I am that, I’m really looking forward to explor- these landscapes—that’s almost unthink- today without having those experiences. ing the worlds I have yet to put to paper. able. Being in natural landscapes helps Writing every week was a good habit Learn more about Snyder’s books at me feel more alive and connected to every to develop. I had to find a hike or a big offthemapbooks.com other living thing on the planet. It reminds adventure every week, and write it up on Cat Lazaroff is managing program director me of what it means to be human, of our deadline. That discipline will be really for Resource Media, a nonprofit communica- role as a species, and how our actions have helpful as I switch to write fantasy fiction, tions group that helps foundations and other profound impacts on the world. but I’ll never really stop outdoor writing. partners advance public health, conserva- I feel fortunate that I have a flexible tion, and social justice issues. She interviewed career, and I will still take parts of the CL: So what’s your next adventure? Dave Levitan ’03 about his book Not a summer off to go exploring. As long as BS: At the end of September, I’m accompa- Scientist for the spring/summer 2017 issue of

there are mountains and people like me nying my girlfriend to a horse endurance the magazine. PHOTO: MATS BÄCKER

28 Haverford Magazine Jack-o’-lanterns lit the way for a night hike on the Nature Trail sponsored by the Haverford College Arboretum. HAVERFORD IN SEASON PHOTO: MONIQUE BYARS ‘20

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DAN BARRINGER ’90 At Home (and Work) in Nature

The only poisonous frog native to the United States, the acres of woods, meadows, and crop pickerel frog emits skin secretions that are toxic to some of its predators. fields along French Creek in Chester County, Pa. Dan Barringer knows these brown-speckled amphibians are harmless After graduating from Haverford, to humans, though, so when he encountered one while at work on a where he worked in the campus arbo- recent Tuesday morning, he felt lucky instead of afraid. retum, Barringer completed a year-long internship at Morris Arboretum and an On any given day, Barringer might cross paths with a ornamental horticulture program at Longwood Gardens. He’s number of wild creatures: deer, foxes, beavers, mink, rac- been with Natural Lands ever since. Describing his profession coons, and countless types of birds (among his favorites is as a “lifestyle choice,” he fully immerses himself in nature, the bright blue indigo bunting). As a preserve manager with living with his family on the preserve year-round. Natural Lands—an organization that protects and cares for Barringer spoke to Haverford magazine about the expected open space across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New and unexpected aspects of his work and how the College

Jersey—Barringer oversees Crow’s Nest Preserve, about 600 helped cultivate his passion for the outdoors. PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO

30 Haverford Magazine Your bachelor’s degree is in English. serve and enjoy great camaraderie with like chainsaws, string trimmers, trac- How did you come to work in land them. And while this is an environ- tors, and bush hogs (a type of rotary management? mental career, it’s also a social services mower). You have to be flexible. And I think I always envisioned myself career. I work to engage people and you have to know how to identify all living in the woods. I went camp- improve their lives through contact kinds of plants and the communities ing a lot as a kid and worked in my with nature. My greatest joy is sharing they make up. uncle’s elaborate Japanese-style garden the preserve with others, giving tours during high school. That and working to student groups or hiking clubs who How does your work today echo your for Haverford’s arboretum gave me a come to learn about our land and how work at Haverford back in the ’80s? foundation in the horticultural prac- we manage it. If my colleagues and I have done our tices I use every day. But I actually do I also help staff the Crow’s Nest sum- jobs well on the preserve, it looks as get to use my English degree! I write mer camp and after-school programs. though we were never there. Deliberate for Natural Lands’ blog and use social The idea is for kids to have supervised landscapes require care, but our pur- media to promote our work saving but unstructured playtime in the woods pose is to keep them looking natural open space and caring for and con- so they become comfortable in nature, and functioning naturally. The same necting people with nature. doing things I might have done when was (and still is) true for the arboretum I was a kid but that many kids today at Haverford. I go back for reunions What does a preserve manager do? don’t seem to have time for. and appreciate the campus more and My responsibilities vary widely—but more; you can tell people have been in general, we handle the maintenance Winter is coming. How will that affect caring deeply about it for generations. of the preserve. This means planting your work? I continue to carry with me the and pruning trees; taking trees down You might think things would slow influence of mentors like Carol Wagner if they’ve become hazardous; main- down, but they don’t. We’re out in all [who is still on staff at the arboretum]; taining trails and gardens; controlling weather and still have to do everything former grounds supervisor Eric Larson; invasive species; building relationships we always do, except maybe cut the and former arboretum directors Floss with neighbors and visitors; and mak- grass. Winter brings a lot of tree work. Genser and Bill Astifan. Despite the fact ing the preserve accessible to all. And since we can see more of the land that agriculture is not part of a formal more easily in the winter, it’s also when curriculum at the College, there are Your other title is “invasives manage- we monitor conservation easements. a surprising number of graduates in ment coordinator.” What is an invasive These are lands that are in private own- the field, working in areas like organic species, and what risks do they pose? ership, but their development capaci- or community gardening. I have the Invasive plants aren’t evil—they’re just ty is restricted and we protect them as pleasure of working with Pete Smyrl behaving badly. They are species that open space. We check every year to ’69, who is retired from Natural Lands can take over the woods to the exclu- make sure nobody is building where and has volunteered with our kids’ pro- sion of others, threatening diversity. A they’re not supposed to. grams and nature clubs for years. And community can become a monocul- one of my classmates, Tim Abbott ’90, ture if an invasive species physically Do you have any favorite memories of also works for a land trust. displaces the native species that were close encounters with animals on the there before. We want to prevent this preserve? Does working outside compel you to from happening. Once I was cleaning wood duck boxes spend your down time indoors? Invasives are easier to control if they along our creek, standing on a ladder, Not at all. Our family loves to go camp- are recognized just as they are becom- and reached in and felt something soft. ing with our yellow 1985 Volkswagen ing established … we try to minimize I pulled it forward and came face to face Westfalia camper, which is our pride their impact by cutting them back or with a red phase screech owl. I didn’t and joy. It has needed a lot of main- replanting with more desirable spe- fall off the ladder, but both of us were tenance, but you meet the best peo- cies. One invasive plant that has had a pretty surprised! ple when you break down. Complete good season this year is “mile-a-minute strangers have helped us out whenever weed” (Persicaria perfoliata); it smoth- What skills and traits are most import- we’ve ended up on their doorsteps—it ers a lot of other vegetation. ant in your field? restores your faith in humanity. Most importantly, you have to have a See Barringer’s blog posts at Do you ever feel isolated working out strong work ethic because you have natlands.org/field-notes. in the woods? to show up on the hottest of hot days —Karen Brooks Well, nobody does this work alone. We and the coldest of cold days. You have Karen Brooks is a Philadelphia-based rely heavily on volunteers on the pre- to be comfortable using equipment freelance writer and editor.

FALL 2017 31 INNOVATORS Inclusive Learning Evangelist

Luis Perez ’94, who is legally blind, has a passion for photography— and for getting the right supports into classrooms so that all students have the chance to succeed. BY KATRINA SCHWARTZ ’08

Growing up in New York City, and later attending portion of the test, which should have been a hint boarding school at Westtown School in Chester that something was just not right.” After the birth County outside Philadelphia, Luis Perez ’94 never of his daughter, Perez moved his family to south- needed to drive because public transportation was ern New Jersey, where driving was necessary, so easier. Like most young people, he’d tried to get a he finally got his license. Several car crashes later, driver’s license in high school, and then again in doctors diagnosed Perez with retinitis pigmentosa, college, but “that was a really frustrating experi- a genetic disease that would eventually leave him ence,” Perez says. “I repeatedly failed the driving legally blind. He had just turned 30. PHOTO: BOB CROSLIN

32 Haverford Magazine “It throws your life on Accessible Educational Materials es for making his way in the world up into the air because so much of our to help schools across the country without sight. It was a scary time. “I lives revolve around being able to use materials all students can access, know I have a limited amount of time see,” says Perez. The news came as a and he has even lent his expertise to that I’ll be able to see the world,” says shock to Perez, who had no idea he Haverford as the college embarks on a Perez. He’s using that time to travel, had the condition. He hadn’t noticed UDL initiative. build mental models of the world and any problems with his vision while at “There is still a misconception out capture it all through photography, his Haverford, although looking back he there that these technologies are cheat- other passion. “I wouldn’t be able to recognizes the signs. It wasn’t until he ing,” he says. It’s actually the oppo- do photography if it wasn’t for digi- started driving that the deterioration in site. It’s leveling the playing field.” He tal,” he says. He can only see some of his peripheral vision became apparent. doesn’t want any students to miss out the scene he’s shooting, even though At first he had a hard time accepting on an education because they didn’t he often inverts the colors for higher his disability. He would forget or lose have the right technological supports, contrast and uses the zoom features his red-tipped white cane with mysteri- tools that are much more readily avail- on his iPhone. ous frequency, embarrassed that a tool able than ever before. “What’s essen- Even with these features, Perez he now needed branded him as differ- tial for some is almost always good for admits he often doesn’t know what he ent from everyone else. Fifteen years all,” has become a motto for Perez as has captured until he gets home and later, he has accepted that he is a dis- puts the image up on a big screen. He abled person, a term he prefers because compensates in the field by taking lots his disability affects every interaction WHEN HE’S SHOOTING of photos and mostly photographing he has with the world. photos with his phone, landscapes. “I’m not a great photog- But the diagnosis and increasing dif- white cane nearby, “I often have rapher, but that’s not the point. The ficulty with his vision also sharpened photos are secondary,” Perez says. very deep conversations,” Perez’s focus. He went back to school The most important part of photog- for a degree in educational technology Perez says. People want to know raphy for Perez is engaging with the and became interested in how technol- how a blind man can also world. “For me, it’s really the act of tak- ogy could help students with disabil- be a photographer. ing the photos that’s more important. ities, students like him. Perez still has When you have a visual impairment some central vision, so he scans a lot the world is not that inviting for you,” when reading, but that quickly tires his says Perez. It’s easy to want to disengage eyes. The rest of the time, he relies on he pressures companies big and small from the world, he says, but he chooses text-to-speech technology. He listened to make their products accessible from to be as positive as possible, and pho- to many of the hundreds of pages of the start. tography has helped him to embrace reading his professors assigned in grad- He’s acutely aware that without the world. When he’s shooting with uate school; it took twice as long and his cane, people wouldn’t know that his phone, white cane nearby, “I often was a huge adjustment for someone he is legally blind. The same is true have very deep conversations,” he says. who preferred visual learning. for many other people with hidden People want to know how a blind man Perez would go on to get a doctorate disabilities, or even for children with can also be a photographer. It’s another in special education with an empha- cognitive differences, such as dyslexia. chance for Perez to talk about what the sis on Universal Design for Learning Many kids don’t know their brains are world is like for a disabled person and (UDL), an educational framework processing words differently until they to advocate for inclusivity. emphasizing that when spaces, experi- start to fail. The UDL movement holds “To me, whenever you try to avoid ences, and tools are designed for people that educators should make supportive naming something, that sends the with disabilities, it ultimately makes tools accessible for all students. “We message that it’s something negative,” them more suitable for all students. shouldn’t wait until they fail,” Perez Perez says. “This is who I am. It’s all He now calls himself an “inclusive says. “We should set them up for suc- part of the package.” learning evangelist,” and is passionate cess from the beginning.” Katrina Schwartz ’08 is a journalist based about helping the ed tech communi- Advocating for the disabled com- in San Francisco. She’s worked at KPCC ty understand the crucial role it can munity is Perez’s work, but it’s also his public radio in Los Angeles, and has report- play in giving all learners access to life; he doesn’t regard them as sepa- ed on air and online for KQED Public Media education and job opportunities. He rate. When he received his diagnosis since 2010. She’s a staff writer for KQED’s was just hired by the National Center he felt totally alone, with no resourc- education blog MindShift.

FALL 2017 33 Podcasting on the Rise Podcasts—a digital, downloadable alternative to radio—have become one of the world’s most popular ways to tell stories, share information, and tackle challenging issues. We spotlight some Haverford alums who have plunged into the field. BY NATALIE POMPILIO or more than 18 months, Gina Delvac ’08 pro- radio and for audio generally,” says Jennifer duced the podcast Call Your Girlfriend without Waits ’89, who has been volunteering in radio pay, because she was passionate about helping since her student days at Haverford and has writ- smart and kind people speak in their authentic ten for the blog Radio Survivor since 2009. Waits voices—and be heard. is also part of the team behind the Radio Survivor “Questions I ask myself about a new project podcast, which has addressed the culture of radio include, ‘Will I enjoy working with this person? since 2015. Podcasts, she says, have “provided Does she have something to say? Is her perspective an entry point for people who might not be as smarter, more nuanced, or different from what’s immersed in radio.” already out there?’” Delvac says. “You’ll notice I For Katrina Schwartz ’08, a journalist at NPR use the word ‘her’ because the cleverest people member station KQED in San Francisco, co-host- who seem to get skipped over are women, women ing the MindShift podcast was a natural extension of color in particular.” of her work and her interest in the future of edu- Three years and 130 episodes into its launch, cation. Certified nurse midwife Amy Alspaugh Call Your Girlfriend regularly attracts 150,000 lis- ’07, co-host of The Peach: Lady Smarts About Lady teners per episode. The show is framed as a back Parts, has used podcasting as a way to share crit- and forth between real-life friends Aminatou Sow ical women’s health information. Dennis Norris and Ann Friedman on topics ranging from politics II ’08 started the podcast Food 4 Thot with three to pop culture to “pelvic power.” The show some- friends after they were told they were often the times includes interviews with “a roster of women most entertaining people in a room. you wish you could call for life advice,” as a 2016 “Podcasts barely existed when we graduated,” article in The Guardian noted. One recent guest? Ahmed Ali Akbar, says Delvac, who also produces the podcast “Pitch Hillary Rodham Clinton. who spent two of Makeover” and works on other podcasting proj- F“It’s meant to be a thing that you share with ects. Still, she believes her Haverford education his college years someone you really care about, like how a at Haverford, is the prepared her for the challenges of the genre. mixtape or a zine used to be,” says Delvac, who is host of BuzzFeed’s “A lot of liberal arts grads do well in start-ups an equal partner in the podcast with the two hosts. See Something and entrepreneurial endeavors because we enjoy She now earns about half of her yearly income Say Something and research and discovery,” she says. “We think criti- from the show, which takes up about half of her remains in touch with cally and creatively. We pick up the new skills we freelance work time. Class of ’08 friends need along the way, especially if it’s in service of Podcasts—digital audio files available for and fellow podcasters an idea or mission we care about.” downloading, usually offered as a series and built Gina Delvac and Podcasts aren’t new to Haverford. In 2007, fac- around a theme—have become one of the world’s Dennis Norris II. ulty members recorded podcasts about different most popular ways to tell stories, share information, and prompt discussion on even the most challenging issues, such as race and religion. In recent years, the number of available podcasts has grown tremendously. So have audiences. Since 1998, the Infinite Dial report, issued by Edison Research and Triton Digital, has ana- lyzed digital media topics with a survey of 2,000 people. The 2017 report showed that 40 percent of Americans age 12 and Gina Delvac ’08 is up say they have listened the Los Angeles- to a podcast. That’s up based producer of from 29 percent in 2012 Call Your Girlfriend and 36 percent last year. and other podcasts, “There’s an excite- and has been an ment and energy around adviser to several podcasts that has brought

PHOTOS: DESCRIBE THE FAUNA (DELVAC); KATE BUBACZ/BUZZFEED (AKBAR) Ford podcasters. in a new audience for

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books listed in the college’s 1836 library catalog one billion podcast subscriptions. to support a Magill Library exhibit. Haverford Why do podcasts appeal to so many? One Athletics began releasing podcasts focused on answer: People want content on demand, instead student athletes, coaches, and administrators in of being tied to a fixed broadcast slot. 2015, offering more than 30 episodes on iTunes “I can listen to a podcast while doing something before switching to video content last year. else,” says MindShift podcast co-host Schwartz. Haverford’s radio station—one of the country’s “It’s really nice to learn something or have a story first college stations, launched in the 1920s—has told to you while you’re washing dishes or taking struggled in the internet age and at one point, Jennifer Waits ’89 a walk.” between 2009-10, became a podcast-only DJ club. is part of the team Schwartz got her start in radio because of The station, now run by Haverford and Bryn Mawr behind the podcast Delvac, a good friend from Haverford who encour- students, is a “web-based collective of audio con- Radio Survivor. aged her to take a radio internship. One of the first podcasts she regularly listened to, she recalls, was NPR’s Planet Money, which began the year she graduated. “Podcasts allow you to find what you care about and listen to people who know about that (subject),” she says. “You can find a podcast for anything.” That’s because almost anyone can record a podcast and offer it to the masses via the internet. But not all have the high production values that appeal to listeners. “Making a podcast isn’t that hard, but making a good one is,” Schwartz says.

lspaugh, who works as a nurse midwife for the Durham County Health Department in North Carolina, says she and two other medical pro- fessionals launched The Peach: Lady Smarts About Lady Parts last January to address some of the women’s health misinformation they heard while on the job. “I hear stuff from my patients, tent and multimedia,” its Facebook page notes. but I also hear stuff from my friends who went to That includes podcasts. Haverford,” Alspaugh says. “When it’s your whole Podcasts have existed since the early 2000s. world, you forget that not everybody knows what The term first appeared in print in 2004, when a you know.” writer for The Guardian newspaper joined “pod,” The Peach has thus far averaged one 30-to- from Apple’s iPod, with “cast,” a broadcast refer- 45-minute show each month. Episode titles ence. But many credit NPR’s investigative podcast Ainclude “IUD, Yeah You Know Me” and “The Serial, first released in 2014, with pushing the Girls,” which is illustrated on the podcast’s web- genre to new heights. With two seasons complete, site with a buxom photo of singer Dolly Parton. Serial has had more than 230 million downloads. “We bought a microphone and a recorder and While comprehensive data on the rise of said, ‘Let’s give it a try,’” says Alspaugh. “We record podcasts is tough to come by, one study pub- it at each other’s homes. You can tell it’s not done lished on the website Medium calculated that by NPR.” the number of podcasts on iTunes (the domi- Since all three women have full-time jobs, this nant podcasting platform) as of June 2015 totaled is a self-funded side project—Alspaugh estimates around 206,000. The study further estimated that they’ve put in a combined $1,000 so far, not around 5,000 new podcasts were added to iTunes including the cost of their time. Still, she believes per month in 2015. Meanwhile, in 2016 Apple it’s worth the effort.

announced that its iTunes Store had surpassed “Our goal is to start more conversations about PHOTOS: COLE SANSOM ‘19 (WAITS); MICHAEL GEORGE (NORRIS); CHRISTIE HODGSON (ALSPAUGH)

36 Haverford Magazine Dennis Norris II ’08 (far left) co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot with three friends. The show, which has a large LGBTQ following, has been named to several best-of lists for 2017.

things that often aren’t talked about,” she says. including “first times seeing ourselves in literature, “We want [listeners] to feel educated and empow- first times questioning religion, and first times ered when they make health-care decisions.” accepting Beyonce as our Lord and Savior.” The Norris and three friends launched their podcast show got 20,000 downloads, a magic number in “Food 4 Thot” in February. (The spelling of “thot” podcasting as that is the number advertisers look refers to an acronym for a raunchy slang term.) for, and there has been interest, Norris says. “It’s Each episode features a roundtable-like discussion so hard to make money off of a podcast, but we on topics that can make people laugh but also spark deep conversations, “like a radio version of Amy Alspaugh ’07, The View, but not terrible,” says Norris. The quar- a nurse midwife, tet—all are gay and three are people of color—met launched the podcast The Peach: Lady while participating in a writing workshop at Reed Smarts About Lady College in Portland, Ore., in 2016. Parts to provide “There were probably 300 people there, and women’s health we came together immediately and became great information. friends,” Norris says. “We would get glasses of rosé and talk writing and craft, and everything from Mariah Carey’s Vine account to critical race theory to the publishing industry. During one conversation, it was me who said, ‘We should broadcast these conversations because they’re amazing.’ ” After seeking podcasting guidance from Delvac, Norris and his co-hosts rented studio space so they could offer a professional-sounding product. They had a photographer friend take pictures of them for their press kit and website, and built excitement for their show with a trailer and social media posts. The first episode ofFood 4 Thot was called “Like a Virgin” and was built around “first times,”

FALL 2017 37 Podcasting on the Rise

thought we could. To be able to make a living Ramadan fasts. Says Akbar, “The goal of my pod- podcasting and writing is a dream.” cast is to give our listeners a better way of talking Just six months in existence, and with only about and addressing ‘Muslimness’ in America.” nine episodes, Food 4 Thot has been named to Personality matters in podcasting. Having a big several best-of lists for 2017, including the web- name anchor a show is always a good thing. Well- site Vulture’s “The Best Podcasts of 2017,” NBC known criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos News’ list of “11 LGBTQ Podcasts You Should ’79 and comedian Adam Carolla have co-hosted Know About,” and GLAAD’s list of “11 Podcasts to the podcast Reasonable Doubt since 2015. Its suc- Subscribe To.” cess can be attributed to the pair’s celebrity and The show has a large LGBTQ following, Norris the unique qualities of their show, which features says, but also has found fans among women, mil- conversations about diverse subjects, including legal issues. This allows Geragos to share insights and behind-the-scenes stories about representing clients such as singer Chris Brown, convicted killer Scott Peterson, and former Congressman Gary Condit. The two on-mike hosts of the Delvac-produced Call Your Girlfriend, which takes its name from Robyn’s 2010 pop song, also have a bit of celebrity behind them. Sow is a digital strategist named to Forbes’ 2014 list of “30 Under 30.” Friedman is a journalist who made Columbia Journalism Review’s list of “20 Women to Watch in 2012.” Perhaps what’s really propelled the podcast is the tangible friendship between Sow and Friedman. In June, Entertainment Weekly included the podcast on its “Must List,” with the article’s writer noting she’d developed “brutal friend crushes on both” hosts. The digital media website Mashable said the podcast is “like listening to your lennials, and college students who identify as left of “Making a podcast own best friends talking about issues you care center politically. “My Haverford community has isn’t that hard, but about.” been incredibly supportive,” Norris says. making a good one is,” But one reason those talks sound relaxed is Ahmed Ali Akbar was considering a career says Katrina Schwartz Delvac’s editing and pre-recording prep. “People in political science or medicine when he came ’08, co-host of the think that because the conversation flows freely to Haverford in 2006. Then he felt the pull of MindShift podcast, and naturally and sometimes meanders that it’s not the college’s lauded Department of Religion and which looks at “the edited or produced,” she says. “But a lot of work changed his focus. He and a friend then dabbled future of learning.” goes into making it seem that way.” in campus radio, hosting Muslim Power Hour. The podcast’s longevity—three years and (Akbar transferred to the University of Michigan counting—also can be credited to the hustle of its after four semesters due to a family illness, but he team, including constant promotion of the show remains in touch with Delvac and Norris and says through social media. For Delvac, it’s worth it. his “besties” are all Haverford folks.) Don’t forget, she was all in even when she wasn’t More than a decade later, Akbar, who went getting paid. on to get a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity Says Delvac, “There’s something kind of cel- School, is the host of BuzzFeed’s popular pod- ebratory about listening to two smart, engaged cast See Something Say Something. Named to a women talking.” 2016 “best” list by The New York Times, Akbar’s Natalie Pompilio is a freelance writer in Philadelphia show focuses on Muslims in America, address- and a frequent contributor to the magazine. Her book ing complex issues, such as cultural appropria- Walking in Philadelphia was published by Wilderness tion, and more lighthearted ones, like the bond Press in June. She also wrote about Carol Compton ’84

that strengthens between hungry friends during and Ryan Rebel ’14 in this issue’s Mixed Media section. PHOTO: CHRISTINA ZEE WHITE

38 Haverford Magazine HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF WHEN YOU’RE THE CAREGIVER

There are few things harder than supporting cate someone about how their comment feels to you, but it’s a loved one through a serious illness. But not your job to do so if you don’t have the energy. Sometimes a challenging diagnosis doesn’t mean life it’s just easier to be polite. Also, when family members want must be grim and grueling, and taking care to visit your ill loved one, you can create structure and limits. of someone who is sick does not mean you Tell them: “If you come, this is how you can help,” or “This should give up caring for yourself. That’s is what I don’t want you to do.” the message of a new book co-authored by Claire Zilber ’84, a psychiatrist in pri- Allow yourself to grieve your own losses. The demands vate practice in Denver. Living in Limbo: of caregiving can bring all sorts of losses, such as the cancel- Creating Structure and Peace When Someone You Love Is Ill tells lation of a long-awaited vacation, the disappearance of time the story of co-author Laura Michaels’ experience after her husband to engage in hobbies, the loss of an innocent belief that you was diagnosed with cancer, and offers accompanying commentary would live happily ever after. Acknowledging the ways your by Zilber, who relates the adaptation strategies described in the story life has changed and allowing yourself to feel sad about it, to the elements of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and mindful- without descending into self-pity (see below), will help you ness-based therapies they incorporate. We asked Zilber to talk about stay present in your emotions. a few of those healthy strategies for caregivers. Short-circuit self-pity. It’s easy to fall into “Why me? I don’t Avoid nonproductive worry. Worrying about something is deserve this.” Or, “My loved one doesn’t deserve this.” That’s helpful to the extent that it prompts you to recognize your not wrong. It’s a natural thought, but it’s not helpful. When next steps. But taking on too many worries at a time, or I dealt with my own husband’s illness, I struggled with feel- worrying without also problem-solving, can become a ham- ing, “It’s not fair.” I finally realized that “fair” is not really a ster wheel in your brain, getting you nowhere. If you feel useful construct when you are dealing with illness. Illness overwhelmed, intentionally choose the one or two worries is random. From there, I was able to move away from how that are most important to tackle today, and set the others hard it was for me, to how hard it was for my husband who aside for another day. + felt physically terrible. Keep hope alive. Focus on the good. Our brains are wired to Balance the scales. Imagine those old-fashioned scales with collect information that confirms our beliefs and expectations. two dishes. On one side is everything difficult you are going We can choose to notice information that confirms the pos- through and have to do. And on the other side is self-care itive, such as that our loved one is having a good day today, and fun. When someone in our life gets sick, our impulse is rather than focusing on the negative, like our loved one had a to cut down on fun and nourishing activities, but that puts cough last night. This doesn’t mean ignoring the cough if it’s a us more off-balance. It’s best to put more weight on the self- sign that you need to call the doctor; you still attend to whatev- care side, but to do it mindfully. For example, go for a run er requires an active response, but you don’t over-focus on it. with a friend so you can get exercise and connection at the same time. This is not a time to cut corners on your sleep, Ask for help. I think people really want to help, and we need exercise and nutrition. How can you take care of your loved to let them—but often they don’t know what to do. Tell one when you are running on empty? them. Asking your friends to do something for you is a way  to honor the friendship. Hold on to the things you enjoy. Ground yourself in your old ways of being healthy, even as you are changing your priori- Accept and manage other people’s responses to your sit- ties and plans. If exercise, or music, or enjoying a good belly uation. Well-meaning people sometimes say or do unhelpful laugh at a comedy film are what lighten your spirit, find ways things. When someone croons, “Oh you poor thing,” they are to keep them in your life, even if it’s from a hospital bedside. expressing pity, which diminishes us. You may choose to edu- —Eils Lotozo

FALL 2017 39 VCAM Unveiled The new facility for visual culture, arts, and media opened in September, taking over the Old Gym after a dramatic renovation. Here’s a look inside. BY REBECCA RABER AND EILS LOTOZO

The successful Lives That Speak campaign, which raised more than grow with the College over the $269.5 million for the College, is making all sorts of new opportunities coming decades, says McGrane. possible here at Haverford. And one of the most dramatic examples is the The building, which opened in September, is the new home of the stunning transformation of the Old Gym into a facility for visual culture, John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the arts, and media—better known as VCAM. Arts and Humanities (HCAH), supports the new visual studies minor, and serves as a lab for film and digital media projects: curatorial experimentation, and arts exhibition. Among the new facilities VCAM brings to Haverford are a screening room, a central campus lounge and community kitchen, an equipment checkout room (providing cameras and audio equipment), and two flexible Create Spaces (which can serve as studios or be used for exhibitions and performances). And there is a new Maker Arts Space, outfitted with 3-D printers, laser cutters, and other machines to enable rapid design and prototyping—all of it overseen by Maker Arts Technician Kent Watson. Also housed at VCAM are three co-curricular initiatives. The Summer DocuLab is a donor-funded five-year pilot that helps develop student-faculty documentary film work. The Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives Program, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, fosters partnerships between the College community and local orga- nizations and artists. And the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), created with donor support, works to develop a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. HCAH Visual Media Scholar Vicky Funari, a documentary Associate Professor of English and VCAM Director Laura filmmaker who has been teaching at Haverford since 2009, is McGrane describes the facility as “a material realization of a delighted by the new VCAM, whose facilities also include a key feature of the College’s vision for a 21st-century liberal arts well-equipped Film/Media Editing Studio. “I like the fact that education: that is, the development of students as interpreters behind the walls, there is a sort of connective tissue of audio- and makers of visual media in spaces made for this work.” visual capability,” says Funari. “From any video-capable room “With our architectural partners from MSR design in in the building, you can send video and audio to any other Minneapolis, Minn., and our acoustical/technology gurus from video-capable room in the building. This gives us many possibil- Threshold in Chicago, Ill., we set out to remake the Old Gym ities for performances, art installations, expanded documentary with a philosophy of adaptive renovation, sustainability, sim- and experimental media work. I also like that there are some plicity, and innovative potential,” says McGrane. A hallmark of empty rooms that are designed to be flexible, just waiting for the design is the creative reuse of many of the original building art installations, exhibitions, and performances to fill them.” elements: stair balustrades became a base for a farm table, the Says McGrane, “Because VCAM offers such a variety of gym floor was reused for office and lab ceilings, old squash gathering spaces, as it also creates new platforms and physical court glass became wall boards. Extensive work also went into tools for learning, it suits the Haverfordian spirit of educating creating an acoustically friendly building and putting into place the whole person, of engaging all our sensibilities.”

a system of sophisticated technology and infrastructure that will —Reporting by Katie Rodgers ’18 PHOTOS THROUGHOUT: MONIQUE BYARS ’20, SARAH JENNINGS ’21, PATRICK MONTERO, WANYI YANG RAE YUAN ’19

40 Haverford Magazine ➤ PANELS ON TRACKS can be moved to cover windows when presentations are taking place. The renovation retained the Old Gym’s original running track but transformed its function. THE VCAM BUILDING is the new home of the

➤ John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities.

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER Vicki Funari teaches her “Introduction to Documentary Video Production” class in the Media Production/Object Study classroom. VCAM Unveiled

➤ STUDENTS IN the Maker Arts THE 66-SEAT Space build biodata Screening Room sonification devices on the lower that became part of a level is another

visiting artist’s outdoor ➤ important addition art installation. to the campus.

THE PRESENTATION Lounge features a community kitchen with a table created from

➤ pieces of the building’s original stairwell.

42 Haverford Magazine KENT WATSON coordinates activities and teaches about technology in the Maker Arts Space, which houses 3-D printers, laser cutters, and other machines.

➤ THE FILM/MEDIA Editing Studio supports students’ work on a ➤ variety of media projects. REBECCA FISHER ’18 spoke about the cricket farm project she’s working on at an event in the Presentation Lounge.

FALL 2017 43 VCAM Unveiled ➤ REUSED PIECES of the original gym floor create a speckled pattern of old paint ASSISTANT PROFESSOR lines on the floor. of English and VCAM Faculty Also repurposed in Fellow Lindsay Reckson’s the renovation was class “Theories of the Remix” the glass from the old featured guest speaker squash courts, which

➤ Michael Gillespie, a film was used to make theorist and historian. writeable wall surfaces.

SHAYNA NICKEL, manager of the Haverford Innovation Program (HIP), outside her VCAM office. HIP provides extra- curricular workshops and programs aimed at helping students accelerate innovative endeavors. FLEXIBLE EXHIBITION spaces, like this one, are a key feature of the VCAM facility.

➤ INFORMAL GATHERING spots promote collaboration.

➤ LOCKERS FROM the Old Gym were repurposed to create the Equipment Check- out desk, where students can get access to cameras and audio equipment.

FALL 2017 45 Roads Taken and Not Taken

Todd S. Garth ’81

If in 1981 someone had predicted that I would someday be a) in the pay of the Department of Defense, b) researching obscure literary figures, and c) viewed as a gay pioneer at a military institution, I would have asked what recreation- al drugs they had been taking and for how long. I was a decidedly mediocre student at Haverford, partly due to spending so much energy trying to convince myself that I wasn’t an intellectual. Becoming an academic required 10 more years of maturing, plus more time in graduate school than anyone should admit to. The real turning point was when it dawned on me how much I liked teaching the Spanish and Portuguese languages, as well as talking about literature and abstract ideas. Some heartfelt advice from Haverford classics professor Deborah an ineffable, slightly weird sense of com- that by the time I arrived at Annapolis Roberts—about how you could love your munity, verging on parody. I cringe at ref- there was no question of pretending I was work without it defining you—finally erences to “the Naval Academy Family.” anything other than happily partnered set me on the right path. That, plus the (Gary and I get ample love and anguish with a man. Here again, the bond of trust serendipity, in 1990, of one of the strang- from our own families, thank you very came through—I was always treated with est books ever written, The Museum of much.) But this community consists of respect. Eterna’s Novel, by Argentine writer-phi- more than just an educational “mission” Being gay at an institution where losopher Macedonio Fernández (1874- and military esprit-de-corps. It is mani- homosexuality carries an undeniable 1953), landing on my study desk at the fest as a bond of trust: in the classroom, stigma, however, could get complicated. Library of Congress. Suddenly, I had the in the ease and depth of conversations While I was out to anyone who cared to topic of my dissertation. about ideas, opinions and experiences; know, the midshipmen didn’t have any The decision to join a military institu- and on the playing field (yes, I was long reason to be aware that the professor tion is harder to explain. It was supposed ago brainwashed into a rabid Navy foot- standing in front of them was gay, and I to be temporary. My spouse was a few ball fan), despite the wearisome (to me) had no desire to make an issue of it. Thus years from retiring from his job as a law flag-waving and the wrangling over stu- the infamous Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy librarian and devoting himself to writing dent athletes’ academic priorities. That naturally led to awkward situations. Such fiction full time; we would move for my bond of trust also exists among the fac- as in 2001, when, reacting to a skit by two career once he did. When a teaching posi- ulty, which, despite the inevitable sniping students, I said that I didn’t understand tion at the Naval Academy turned up, our over curricular real estate, works with how calling someone homosexual could reaction was something like, “as long as amazing collegiality. Last fall I served on be an insult. After a long silence, a mid- the U.S. is going to have the world’s most a dean search committee with 10 offi- shipman spoke: “Sir, if someone called powerful navy by a factor of 60 (mea- cers and civilians that operated entirely you gay, wouldn’t you be insulted?” “Of sured in aircraft-carrier acreage alone), by consensus. Not exactly life among the course not,” I snapped back. I used to I might as well do my part to produce Quakers, but still ... explain, at such rare junctures, that while worldly, curious officers.” Then there’s the gay thing. Haverford I could tell midshipmen to put a sock in What I didn’t expect was for aspects of in the late ’70s was not the most congenial it, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell meant that gay the place to remind me of my alma mater. place for gays—few colleges were. Staying service members couldn’t risk objecting

Like Haverford, Annapolis possesses in academia, however, eased the way, so continued on page 70 PHOTO: GREG KAHN

46 Haverford Magazine giving back

Volunteer Spotlight: Giving Advocates Technology has changed the way fundraising is done, but alumni who volunteer to reach out to their peers share timeless motivations. By Pat Laws

bout 40 years ago, Alan Colsey ’74 volunteered to serve as class co-chair. He grabbed a pen and a pad and draftedA a letter urging his classmates to support Haverford with annual gifts. He’s been at it every year since. While the terminology and state-of- the-art outreach methods have evolved over time, Colsey finds the satisfaction of volunteering is a constant. “My classmates are always enthusiastic when I reach out,” he says. “It’s not heavy lift- ing, and the connection to my friends and the College warms my heart. And now all the resources are online, which Alan Colsey ’74 Jenifer Schweitzer Brooks ’91 makes it so easy.” The desire to maintain close con- nections with friends motivated Tamia Harris-Tryon ’03 to volunteer. “When our family moved to Dallas in 2014, we increased our physical distance from Haverford and also from many of my classmates. Being a volunteer gives me a great excuse to contact them, and I enjoy hearing about all that is going on in their lives.” Pride in her class and the College also factor in for Harris-Tryon. “I want to see them on campus at our 15th Reunion and to have the Class of 2003 well represented in the gift totals, so I feel good about reaching out. Haverford is a special Tamia Harris-Tryon ’03 Carol Bassie ’86 place and has had a huge impact on the person I am, both personally and profes- “Haverford has a long history of fundraising volunteers as giving advocates. sionally. It brings me joy to know that the raising by class chairs and Reunion gift This emphasizes advocacy for Haverford time I spend catching up with classmates committees,” notes Annual Giving Chair across many dimensions and makes get- might contribute to the future stability of Jenifer Schweitzer Brooks ’91. “On ting involved in a variety of ways easy.

PHOTOS: DAVID BEYDA PHOTOGRAPHY (BROOKS); UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (TRYON); THOM CARROLL (BASSIE) the institution.” July 1, we shifted to describe all fund- “The role of giving advocates is as

FALL 2017 47 simple as it sounds,” Brooks adds. “You advocate for giving to your friends, classmates, and alumni peers. Right now, we JOIN THE have about 100 active advocates and hope to grow that number quickly with GIVING ADVOCATES volunteers from all backgrounds.” When you become a giving advocate, you join a committed network Carol Bassie ’86 had volunteered of alumni, parents, and friends who help spread the word about why for the Office of Admission before join- supporting Haverford is so important. ing her 25th Reunion committee. “I love Haverford, and I want to help the College Here’s everything you need to know about this key volunteer role: achieve its goals,” she says. “Whenever I ■ It requires as little as a few hours per year. contact anyone of any age, we start from ■ All the tools and resources you need are easy to access online. a place of commonality—we are both ■ You select the people you’d like to reach out to and choose how Fords and quickly fall into a conversa- to contact them. tion similar to those we all remember so ■ Staff support is available to help you every step of the way. fondly from our days as students. That ■ Being a giving advocate allows you to reconnect with old friends conversation leads naturally to asking a and discover new ones. fellow Ford to join me in supporting our ■ You get the chance to represent Haverford and help secure amazing alma mater. its future. “Being a giving advocate is so easy,” To learn more about serving as a giving advocate, contact the Office Bassie says. “Every bit of information I of Annual Giving at (610) 896-1131 or [email protected]. could need is online for me. When I log in, the platform is intuitive and designed to make the process smooth and quick our interactions much more personal, want the school’s mission and purpose because the resources are already set up timely, and donor-focused.” to continue,” she says. “I will always for me to use.” In June, Muther appeared in a short be indebted to Haverford for the finan- Erik Muther ’94, who serves on video titled #Speak4HC with Katherine cial aid I received, so I’m happy to give the Annual Giving Steering Committee Lee ’16. “I was a little reluctant at first back to the school in various ways, and and has been a longtime volunteer as I often feel uncomfortable in front of I always look forward to talking with for Haverford’s Center for Career and a camera,” Muther says. “But I’m very fellow Fords!” Professional Advising, agrees. “Not so proud of Haverford and happy to spread “This does not require much time long ago, we’d send all of our appeals the word. It’s up to us to take care of the at all,” observes Sobocinski about vol- and outreach via snail mail and follow up College and pass it along to the next gen- unteering as a giving advocate. “The with phone calls. Then email and social eration.” prep work took no more than an hour. media created new opportunities to con- Victoria Sobocinski ’13 echoes I spent time promoting #YAGM, the nect with our fellow Fords. It may sound that sentiment. “I volunteer because young alumni gift match in October. counterintuitive, but technology makes I’m proud to be a Haverford alum and There was some connection with everyone on my list—whether it’s a member of my graduating class, a fellow basketball player, or someone I became friends with through Customs.” Giving advocates range from Scarlet Sages, who have been engaged for several decades, to current students just getting started. Working in the Office of Annual Giving and as a Phonathon caller (see p. 49) led Amanda Acosta ’18 to get involved in organizing her senior class gift campaign. “After getting to know a lot of alumni volunteers and donors, I knew I wanted to do this,” she says. “The alums who care about Haverford and do what’s needed to take care of it are just Erik Muther ’94 Amanda Acosta ’18 inspiring.”

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giving

(from left) Cole Beecher ‘18, Zuyi Wang ‘20, Paige Powell ‘19, Ceci Silberstein ‘18, and Isabella Falla ‘18 pitched in to make calls to alumni during October’s Phonathon.

Who’s Calling? When “Haverford” pops up on your caller ID, chances are it’s a Phonathon student.

ith the October sun setting over campus, stu- and help the College. It’s going to be fun.” dent Phonathon callers gathered in Founders “I’ve heard some great stories over the years,” said Cole Hall to discuss their strategy and talking Beecher ’18, an international studies major. “Talking with points, assemble the tools of their trade— Fords about how things were 50 years ago gives you a real pens,W pencils, information sheets—and start dialing. The sense of College history and how society has changed.” Added evening’s focus was reaching out to potential Ford donors in Beecher, “Trying to change someone’s mind [about donating the 10 youngest classes to let them know about a special 2:1 to the College] can be challenging, but most alums are full of matching challenge. good wishes for us.” “Our callers are from all walks of life—from first-year stu- Last year alone, nearly 900 donors pledged about $200,000 dents to seasoned seniors—and from all over the country and through the program, making it an important opportunity for the world,” said Ramon Guzman Jr., the Jill Sherman Fellow alumni and friends to make their annual gifts. In a world that for Leadership in Advancement, who oversees the Phonathon has increasingly moved online, these phone conversations not program. “A lot of colleges hire commercial telemarketing only raise needed dollars, they create an opportunity to swap firms, but that’s too impersonal for Haverford. Our students stories, talk about upcoming events, and keep the Haverford do a great job, and they offer alumni and parents a uniquely community connected. authentic view of life on campus.” Haverford’s Phonathon has evolved from rotary phones As Zuyi Wang ’20 prepared for her first shift, she was and regional alumni calling sessions in the 1950s to the pres- excited to talk with alumni about their lives after Haverford. ent-day student caller program. What hasn’t changed is the She also confessed, “I’m nervous! I’ve been an Admission tour hope that someone will pick up the phone. guide, but someone might ask a question I can’t answer, or “It’s a lot of fun when you reach an alum who once was a I might interrupt their dinner.” The economics major and Phonathoner too,” said Falla. “They like hearing all the details psychology minor from Queens, NY, was quickly reassured and statistics on how I’m doing and how the whole program by the veteran callers surrounding her. is going. Having been on the other side of the call, they’re “People leave here with good memories,” noted Isabella happy to help and proud to have become the donor. I know Falla ’18, an art history major who signed on as a caller in her that next year after I graduate, I’ll be that alum who’s eager

PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO (MUTHER, ACOSTA); SARAH JENNINGS ‘21 (PHONATHON) first year at Haverford. “They’re happy to hear from students to answer the call.” —Pat Laws

FALL 2017 49 The Haverford College Lawyers Network: back Building a Strong Affinity Group

giving s he began practicing law, Michael inception. Along with a quick-hits news blotter Gordon ’04 had a vision for his career: full of job moves and industry honors, each issue A Fewer awkward networking lunches. features an interview with a group member about Instead of one-offs with no follow-up, he their work. craved meaningful conversations. “Those are my favorite part,” says Render. “We Gordon and fellow attorney Rahul Munshi feature diverse people in diverse fields, to show ’06 (Gordon’s baseball teammate and Haverford that there are all these different experiences that pal) talked about building a network to help Fords are all part of our network.” in legal fields learn about each other, and share A few recent spotlights include Harsimran wisdom and resources with ease, whether or not Kaur ’97, legal director of the Sikh Coalition, lunch was involved. and Barzi Axelrod ’04, a criminal prosecutor at In late 2009, the pair started making calls and Daniel Render ‘06 the Delaware Department of Justice. sending letters. Eight years later, the Haverford Render says one of HCLN’s goals for the College Lawyers Network is more than 1,800 members strong. future is to build more relationships on campus. In 2015, the (That’s about 12% of the entire alumni population.) HCLN group hosted a symposium in Stokes Hall featuring, among offers a robust digital newsletter and directory, and mem- other guests of honor, three federal judges: David Hamilton bers host events around the country each year. There’s also a ’79, Richard Andrews ’77, and Jennifer Boal ’85. LinkedIn group with nearly 700 members, for the social-me- HCLN leaders also have connected with students by dia-inclined. helping to coach the Mock Trial Team, founded in 2014. “I’d always benefited from Greg Kannerstein ’63 and “Our head coach, Jeff Monhait ’09, has been with us since all the alums I’d engaged with over the years,” says Gordon. the beginning,” says cofounder Nick Barile ’18. “He’s a truly “Rahul and I asked ourselves, ‘How do we make this so that amazing coach, mentor, and friend. He’s spent too many late people are connecting on a regular basis?’ ” nights in Haverford’s Hall Building with us.” There was no model, so they built the model. Students in the College’s Pre-Law Society contribute to the Things got rolling the first year with a trio of events in HCLN newsletter, too, getting a valuable chance to chat with Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington, D.C. “We set alums before they even start applying to law school. out to spread through the Amtrak corridor first,” says Gordon. “We’ve learned a lot about the ins and outs of what real “We personally reached out to all the alums we knew, and attorneys do, which has helped many of us with our own they turned up with great support.” professional goals,” says Barile. Soon, they recruited Daniel Render ’06 as HCLN’s Midwest That’s the point, says Render: “When you help students, correspondent. Render, who grew up near Chicago, returned they become stronger alumni, and that helps everyone.” to the area to begin his career. Munshi had put down roots in Though Gordon is now far from campus in his West Coast Philadelphia, and Gordon moved, in 2011, to Los Angeles. outpost, he’s thrilled to see HCLN growing. “I’m excited to This year, Render took over newsletter editing duties from share it with some new blood and watch them run with it,” Gordon, who’d been culling the updates since the group’s he says. —Mara Miller ’10

WHAT’S YOUR AFFINITY? ■ Athletics Alumni Network ■ Media, Entertainment, and Sports ■ Education ■ Multicultural Alumni ■ Fords in Finance Action Group Affinity groups connect Fords around ■ Haverford College Lawyers Network ■ Bi-Co Public Health shared interests and provide opportunities ■ LGBTQI+ Network ■ Scarlet Sages for alumni to engage with each other, the College, and current Haverford. Check To learn more, visit fords.haverford.edu/affinity-groups, or contact Alumni out this list of alumni affinity groups to see and Parent Relations at [email protected] or (610) 896-1004. where your interests might lie:

50 Haverford Magazine class news

Quizzo Night in Magill Library.

Due to privacy concerns, the Class News section is not included in the digital edition of Haverford Magazine. To get updates on your classmates and other Haverford grads, sign in to the alumni community, fords.haverford.edu. PHOTO: CLAIRE CHENYU WANG ‘20

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Roads Taken and Not Taken

continued from page 46 not permitted to do so. That clinched it. By part. All in all, the Naval Academy isn’t that them, even in jest. “The last thing you want is the time I had composed an email reaction, I different from a college, except for the occa- for a shipmate to think you are prejudiced— was worked up enough to click “reply to all.” sional satisfaction of changing—in the tiniest and to be unable to tell you.” Which we aren’t ever allowed to do. Well. way—one of the world’s most terrifyingly With faculty it could be even more com- The next day, as I was trying to keep my head powerful institutions. My favorite moment plicated. For instance, I had to inform my down, a senior professor approached me say- of all, by the way, was in May of 2010 when department chair that I couldn’t chaperone ing, “I knew there was a reason I wanted you I told a midshipman I couldn’t meet her the students abroad, since my partner always tenured.” The vice dean commented that I next day because I was getting married to my traveled with me. I wasn’t worried about how “had made a lot of good points.” (Now, all partner of 25 years. She whooped and threw the midshipmen would react; I didn’t want these years later, I can’t quite recall what those her arms around me—something, according the chair to have to appease some admiral points were, but I do remember citing the to the rules of behavior while in uniform, she enraged over an assistant professor taking hypocrisy of the Academy stifling protests wasn’t allowed to do. his gay lover to Spain on the Navy’s dime. when certain visiting alumni and retired offi- Todd S. Garth majored in classics at Haverford; She understood. cers felt perfectly free to make deprecating earned an M.A in comparative literature at the But the most awkward day was in 2006, comments about gays and lesbians.) And University of Maryland and an M.A. and Ph.D. in when I caught wind of a planned visit to the scores of midshipmen wrote me thought- Spanish at Johns Hopkins University. He is a pro- Academy by the activist group Soulforce to ful emails engaging with my arguments and fessor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, protest Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Naval explaining where I might have been wrong. Md., where he teaches Spanish language and Academy’s Public Affairs Office had surrep- I responded personally to every single one. Spanish and Latin American culture and litera- titiously scrambled the day’s events; advised Of course Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ended, ture, and also serves as the associate chair of the and I’m pleased that I did my infinitesimal the students to avoid conversation with the Languages and Cultures Department. visitors; and—most galling of all—made the incredibly disingenuous statement that mid- CARE TO SHARE YOUR STORY of roads taken (or not taken) since shipmen “were not required” to reveal their graduation? Drop us a line: [email protected] sexual orientation, when in fact they were

70 Haverford Magazine alumni obituaries

John A. Fust, 96, died May 20 in Erie, Roberto P. Payro died July 19 at Haverford, and he credited the College with 42 Pa. Fust was a pathologist at Hamot 46 age 93. He was a former chief of the turning him away from “the tough aspects of Hospital, a veteran of the United States Army, International Labour Bureau. He is survived by Philadelphia” to the “man he became.” He was and a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in five children and 10 grandchildren. a successful businessman, and spent most of Mayville, N.Y. He is survived by two sons, Ford his life near Seattle, then moved to Palm Desert and Thomas; a daughter, Mary Dundon; and David A. Peters died Nov. 4, 2016, in with his wife to retire. In 1999, the Haverford two grandsons. Fust was preceded in death by 48 Scottsdale, Ariz., from complications of College Alumni Association awarded George its his wife, Mary, whom he married in 1947, and a Parkinson’s Disease. highest honor, the Haverford Award, “given to son, John H. E. Fust II ’76. those alumni who have used their education for Victor L. Johnson, 89, died Sept. 2. the betterment of the community beyond the James S. Sutterlin died May 8. He 49 He led Montague Rod & Reel Co. after College.” He is survived by his wife, Eileen, and 43 lived for 95 years as a beloved son, earning an MBA from Wharton and serving in a daughter from his first marriage. husband, father, and grandfather, continuously the Army Corps of Engineers, seeing combat serving in the cause of peace. After graduating during the Korean War. In 1955, he wed Joan Robert A. Barton Jr., 83, a retired from Haverford, he was drafted into the Markovitz. Together, they had two daughters 56banker and savings and loan executive, military and served in World War II as a second and pursued a passion for collecting American died May 27 of congestive heart failure. Barton, lieutenant in the United States Army. Following decorative arts. In 1958, he founded Johnson known as Bob to his friends and associates, was the war, he entered the U.S. Foreign Service, Computing Co., now JCI Data Processing Inc. a native of Washington, D.C. He worked for with postings in Berlin, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Johnson supported many nonprofits and served many years for the Interstate Federal Savings & Bonn. He later joined the United Nations. After in many leadership roles. He cofounded the Loan Association. While Barton was working retiring, he turned to academia, teaching and national Volunteer Trustees of Not-for-Profit at Interstate’s main office, the bank was robbed. studying at Yale and Long Island University. Hospitals and chaired the health-care advisory He pursued the thief, cornering him in a nearby Sutterlin resuscitated the UN Oral History committee of the late U.S. Sen. John Heinz. barber shop before the police arrived, and was Project, which ultimately encompassed more In 1987, he was elected chair of the board of commended by J. Edgar Hoover for his bravery. than 200 interviews. In his last years, he focused trustees at the Einstein Healthcare Network, Barton eventually became Interstate’s president on writing both a memoir and a novel. He was and he helped Einstein become among the first in 1978, a role he held until 1983 when the com- an elder in the Presbyterian Church, an avid to embrace advanced technologies in managing pany merged with Perpetual Savings & Loan. He gardener, and an international traveler. His business and caring for patients. His most recent served for a time as the national director of the loving kindness, wisdom, stability, strength, contribution was the endowment of the Victor Institute of Financial Education, and as the pres- and humor will be sorely missed but never L. and Joan M. Johnson Chair of Technology. ident of the Washington Metropolitan League forgotten. He is survived by his wife, Renate Other philanthropic gifts included the couple’s of Savings Institutions. After leaving Perpetual, Craine Sutterlin; his children (from his marriage donation of 240 examples of Pennsylvania he worked as a financial consultant and later to Betty B. Sutterlin, who predeceased him) Rose German fraktur to the Philadelphia Museum of at The Business Bank in Vienna, Va., until age Ellen, Sabrina, Jamie, and Jay; his stepchildren Art. His family described him as a lifelong fran- 80. Barton was predeceased by his wife, Joan, in Michael, Renate, Steffan, and Dan; and 14 cophile who believed virtually any dish could be 2006. Survivors include three children, Scott, grandchildren. improved by the addition of French butter. He is Kent, and Barrie; and three grandchildren. survived by his wife and daughters. George Lord de Schweinitz Jr., age Maurice A. Selinger Jr., “Skip” to friends Svend E. Holsoe, 78, died May 4 in 45 93, died May 13. He served in the U.S. and family, died May 13. He was 91. After 61Philadelphia. He was an associate profes- Army 1943–1946. Following the end of WWII, high school he served in the U.S. Navy before sor emeritus of anthropology at the University he was on detached service for study in Paris attending Haverford for three years and going to of Delaware, and a renowned scholar of Liberian when he opted to leave the Army and remain work for Eastern Airlines. He left for American history and culture. With master’s and doc- in Paris as a civilian for the remainder of the Express where he served as special assistant to toral degrees from Boston University, he also academic year. After college, de Schweinitz two chief executive officers, handling liaison taught at DePauw University. He retired from worked for several years at the Bethlehem and travel arrangements for members of the Delaware’s faculty in 1995. He received the Steel Company. After earning an M.A. from board of directors. In 1984, he became a travel Liberian Studies Association Annual Lifetime Middlebury College in 1967, he began a 28-year agent, and in 2010, retired. Selinger was a trustee Achievement Award and, in 1999, Indiana career in secondary French language education of the Altman foundation from 1978 to 2013, University’s Chancellors’ Medallion. His treasure at the Moravian Female Academy in Pa., the becoming trustee emeritus in 2013. He also trove of Liberian documents and artifacts, the Hotchkiss School in Conn., and for many years served on the board of the Highlands Estates Svend E. Holsoe Collection, is housed at Indiana at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, Homeowners’ association until 2013. He is University. He is survived by his partner, Reuben D.C. Following his retirement, he moved to survived by his wife of 59 years, Isabel; his son, Mollo James. Albuquerque, N.M., his mother’s adopted Maurice III; and two granddaughters. home, and bought his first house. He traveled Barry H. Barlow died April 24. In the to explore, learn, and visit relatives abroad. His George Todd died June 25 at his home 63summer of last year, he was diagnosed favorite summer vacation area was near Belfast, 54 in Palm Desert, Calif., with his wife with an acute bone marrow disease, but it didn’t Maine, where his parents had owned a farm by his side. He was 85. After graduation, Todd stop him from doing the things he loved, like and where he still had many friends. This past joined the Navy, which influenced his lifelong listening to beautiful music, reading, keeping summer he visited Maine one last time, staying interest in sailing and his philanthropic interest up to date with world events, enjoying meals, in a cottage on Pitcher Pond and canoeing with a in using sailing to give kids undergoing cancer and making tea. Barlow dedicated his life to friend who was visiting from Poland. treatment some respite. Todd was devoted to both music and political science, passing on his

FALL 2017 71 IN MEMORIAM

RAISA WILLIAMS years before being reunited with their parents. Raisa Williams, Haverford’s inaugural dean of first- After earning a B.A. in sociology from Moravian obituaries year students, died July 13 after a yearlong battle University and an M.A. in education from La Salle, with cancer. She was 69. she devoted her life to service. Williams worked Williams joined Haverford’s staff in 2001 and for Philadelphia Futures, a nonprofit that helps retired in 2013, before returning to the College local underserved populations gain the tools and for the 2015–2016 academic year as the interim opportunities necessary for admission to and alumni coordinator for Eighth Dimension. As first-year success in college. She was director of a bilingual dean, she was responsible for helping to make the child care center, a diversity specialist at Friends transition to college as smooth as possible for each Services for the Aging, and held many roles at incoming class. She worked tirelessly to help first- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. She also year students discover what they wanted out of worked as a program coordinator at the Pottstown their Haverford experience and set them on track YWCA. Even after her Haverford retirement, she to achieving it. spent years immersed in community-supported Williams had a personal understanding of what agriculture, travel, exercise, and peer-support it’s like to be in a new and foreign environment. volunteer work in between visits to her son in She came to the United States from Cuba when she New York City and road trips with her husband was 14 as part of Operation Pedro Pan. At first, she to roots music hotbeds from Virginia to Louisiana. and her younger sister lived in a camp in Florida Williams is survived by her husband, James City, before being moved to an orphanage near Boughton Williams; her son, Miguel Angel Barry Pottsville, Pa., and eventually being adopted by the Godín; and her daughter-in-law, Tamarinda Jean Chiles family, with whom the sisters lived for two Barry Godín BMC ’09.

immense political wisdom to students at the member of the Log Cabin Gun Club and Olde Colin and Zack McLaughlin-Alcock; and a University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Barn Gun Club. Stanley was a member of St. granddaughter. William “Bill” Humphrey Beik, 76, a scholar Martin’s Episcopal Church in Bridgewater, N.J. of early modern French history, died Aug. 31 In his spare time, he was an avid hunter and Roy Goodman died in July after many in Pittsburgh. For the past 20 years, he valiantly enjoyed traveling and photography. He is sur- 71months of declining health. He was well struggled against Parkinson’s disease. He was vived by his wife of 23 years, Karen; sons Frank known at both Haverford and Bryn Mawr and an admirer of working people in France and and Richard; and a granddaughter. lived on each campus at various times as a stu- Pittsburgh. Many years of travel and research in dent. He could often be seen with a camera, with France fostered a profound love of the French Daniel S. Maas died May 8. He was which he took many photos for the newspaper spirit of liberty, its people, its countryside, 67 70. He left us with the same strength and yearbooks. After college, he earned an M.D. especially Paris. His interest in popular rebel- and grace that carried him through decades of at New York University and practiced as an ear, lion attracted him to Pittsburgh’s working class life with multiple sclerosis. After Haverford, he nose, and throat physician for several decades. In history, especially the 1892 Homestead Strike. began a Ph.D. program in mathematics before retirement, he served as class correspondent for He was a devoted teacher at Northern Illinois being pulled from his studies early and serving this magazine. As long as he was able, Goodman University for 22 years, where he supported pro- as a civilian conscientious objector. Maas met maintained his interest in myriad hobbies and his tests against the Vietnam War, editing a student his wife, Susan Ackland, in Vancouver, where he notorious dry wit. He is survived by his parents, countercultural paper The News from Nowhere. earned a law degree at the University of British Phoebe and Merrill Goodman ’46; his sister, In 1990 he became professor of French history Columbia and practiced law before joining Nancy Goodman Torpey BMC ’74; his wife, Judy at Emory University and was widely recognized British Columbia’s Legal Aid Administration. His Schartenberg Goodman BMC ’74; two children, as an expert on the age of Louis XIV. In 2007, disability led him to retire earlier than his peers, Lauren and Julian; and three grandchildren. Bill and his wife retired to Pittsburgh. They but it didn’t slow him down. Maas spent the found an extended family with the Battle of last two decades charging around the streets of Carlton Goodwin died June 16, 2015. Homestead Foundation and regularly attended Vancouver in his wheelchair and continuing to 73 He enjoyed a career as a business man- weekly breakfasts and educational programs. travel the world with his wife and three sons. He ager and a community organizer. He is preceded in death by a stepson, John Eric was brilliant, but what really defined him was his Kauffman, and is survived by his wife of 42 courage and compassion. He endured a gauntlet Adam Abba Tessman, 57, died Jan. years, Millie, and his stepson Carl Kauffman. of health issues and yet somehow always had the 80 22. He is survived by his wife, Pamela T. Frank “Jeff” Stanley III, 75, died May energy and will to help others. Maas is survived Dlamini, and five children. 31. Stanley received his J.D. from New York by his loving wife; his three sons, Benjamin, University and practiced law in Somerville, N.J., David, and Simon; and a granddaughter. Geoffrey Geppert died Aug. 18 follow- for more than 51 years. In his early years, he 15 ing an accident at Taughannock Falls was involved with the Jaycees, serving in sev- Bud Alcock died in July. He was a geol- State Park in New York. Geppert played lacrosse eral leadership roles. Stanley was also a 50-year 68 ogist, professor, peace and justice activ- and studied economics at Haverford. He was an member of Solomon’s Lodge #46, a lifelong ist, amateur folksinger, nature enthusiast, and entrepreneur who developed WavesAudio, an tennis and squash player, a member of Westfield sports fan. Alcock will be remembered for his iOS app, and an app for news and information Tennis Club and Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club, kindness, humor, and commitment to making related to bitcoin trade. He loved to travel: In and was instrumental in establishing and serving the world better. He served two years in federal the past year, Geppert had surfed in Malibu, as a past president of the Northern New Jersey prison to protest the war in Vietnam. Alcock is snorkeled in Australia, sailed in Cancun, and Squash Racquets Association. He was also a survived by his wife, Molly McLaughlin; sons sunbathed in Thailand.

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