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Swarthmore College Bulletin (June 1997) SSWWAARRTTHHMMOORREE College Bulletin June 1997 The Future of Dying Tom Preston ’55 on physician- assisted suicide Eugene M. Lang ’38, shown here surrounded by some of the current Lang Opportunity Scholars, has pledged $30 million to Swarthmore, the largest gift in College history and among the most generous ever given to a liberal arts college. Lang came to the campus in April E E L to meet prospective Lang G N E J - G Scholars for the Class of N E D 2001. For more on Eugene Lang’s “Fund for the Future,” please turn to page 6. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN • JUNE 1997 10 The New Face of Honors The Honors Program had fallen on hard times when the faculty voted sweeping reforms in 1994. Now enrollment is up, and students are enjoying new flexibility in preparing for external exams. Take a look at what’s happened to the College’s signa- ture program through the eyes of faculty members and students. Editor: Jeffrey Lott D Associate Editor: Nancy Lehman ’87 16 Elegant Euclid News Editor: Kate Downing Former math hater Nick Jackiw ’88 invented one of the most Class Notes Editor: Carol Brévart F widely used software programs in mathematics education, Desktop Publishing: Audree Penner R Geometer’s Sketchpad. With it two 16-year-olds created a novel T Designer: Bob Wood solution to a problem first posed by Euclid 2,300 years ago. Editor Emerita: Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 A P6 P4 P2 By Eric Rich Associate Vice President for External Affairs: Barbara Haddad Ryan ’59 20 The Future of Dying Cover: Physician and Supreme Modern medicine has changed the nature of dying, argues Court plaintiff Thomas Preston ’55. cardiologist Tom Preston ’55, who has challenged a state law Photo ©1997 by Joel Levin. Article that prohibits doctors from helping terminally ill patients to end on page 20. their lives. His case has gone all the way to the Supreme Court. Changes of Address: Send address label along with new By Thomas A. Preston ’55 address to: Alumni Records, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore PA 19081-1397. Phone: (610) 328-8435. Or e-mail 28 Paying for the Final Years [email protected]. Should you be required use up your savings before applying for Contacting Swarthmore College: Medicaid to pay for nursing home care? Or is it OK to transfer College Operator: (610) 328-8000 assets to family members in order to qualify for this government www.swarthmore.edu assistance? Last November’s Bulletin provoked this lively Admissions: (610) 328-8300 correspondence about the legal and ethical issues involved. [email protected] Alumni Relations: (610) 328-8402 [email protected] Publications: (610) 328-8568 68 Not With Their Feet Up [email protected] Registrar: (610) 328-8297 While most emeriti faculty members travel, take up hobbies, ©1997 Swarthmore College and do volunteer work, few have truly retired. Many continue Printed in U.S.A. on recycled paper. their research, writing, and even teaching—no longer constrained by the College calendar and student needs. The Swarthmore College Bulletin By Judith Egan (ISSN 0888-2126), of which this is vol- ume XCIV, number 5, is published in August, September, December, March, and June by Swarthmore College, 500 2 Letters On the Road Again? College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 4 Collection Our annual 19081-1397. Second-class postage 32 Alumni Digest pull-out directory paid at Swarthmore PA and addition- for traveling al mailing offices. Permit No. 0530- 34 Class Notes 620. Postmaster: Send address 40 Deaths Swarthmoreans changes to Swarthmore College Bul- 62 Recent Books by Alumni follows page 34. letin, 500 College Avenue, Swarth- more PA 19081-1397. n the fall of 1953, as a first-grader in Pittsburgh, I was part of L E T a medical miracle. Every few weeks my classmates and I were lined up in the school gym for injections and blood Special Letters Section tests given by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh. Due to the large volume of letters I received on the topic, readers will Like most kids I was afraid of the needles, but I could tell from find a special letters section, “Paying the way the grown-ups were acting that this was something very for the Final Years,” on page 28. important. I particularly remember a balding, white-coated man named Jonas Salk, who personally injected his experimental Ecclesiastes via Pete Seeger polio vaccine into my tensed-up arm. No kidding. By the next To the Editor: I had a fine time reading your article spring, he was a national hero—and, visiting our school for the on the folk song festivals of the ’50s last time, he signed my yearbook. and after. Although I knew nothing We’ve come to take such medical miracles as Salk’s polio vac- about them at the time, I can judge their quality by the fact that I had cine for granted. Immunizations, antibiotics, pacemakers, CAT heard almost all of the people men- scans, bypass surgery, and transplants—almost all unknown a tioned out in the “real world” and century ago—have become commonplace. Public health mea- that the festivals had a remarkably sures and high-tech medicine high proportion of all the best folk singers of the time. have postponed our deaths It was, however, the last page many times over. As Dr. Tom that set me in motion. When I saw Preston ’55 points out in “The the picture of Susan Reed in 1948, I PARLOR TALK Future of Dying” (page 20), walked down the street and gave the article to her. She was delight- Medical miracles like the “Today the fatal condition ... is polio vaccine have extended life ed. Susan has lived in Nyack for no longer a natural outcome of quite a long time, keeps an attrac- and changed the way we die. a life lived and completed tive shop that carries all sorts of things, and produces paintings and under natural conditions as it collages that combine a distinctive was in the time of Hippocrates.... Nowadays we live long enough character of their own with strong to succumb to the diseases of old age—heart disease, stroke, folk art qualities. And, needless to and cancer.” say, she sings. Her voice is still fine, she has an Irish harp like the one in Of course we remember the Hippocratic Oath and its famous the picture (and other instruments, dictum “First, do no harm.” But the fact is that Dr. Hippocrates too), and her repertory is bigger couldn’t do much good either. While we credit him with the idea than ever. My family and I have heard her often and were particu- that diseases have knowable natural causes, we also know that larly grateful when, a few months he believed illness was traceable to imbalances among the four ago, Susan closed a memorial meet- so-called “humors”—blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. ing for my wife by singing “Turn, In Hippocrates’ time death was just another part of nature, Turn, Turn,” which, as she said, is Ecclesiastes via Pete Seeger. something the physician could do almost nothing about. Now WILLIAM DIEBOLD ’37 we know disease isn’t just an imbalance of bile and phlegm, and Nyack, N.Y. medical science has given physicians great power to extend our lives—and indeed to extend our period of dying. In this issue We Work It In To the Editor: Tom Preston argues that because of these changes, we need to I have just received the March rethink our approach to dying itself, perhaps even rejecting issue, and I feel compelled to point another Hippocratic dictum: “I will give no deadly medicine to out that the players pictured in the photo at the bottom of page 21 anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel.” were not just members of “an infor- Swarthmoreans love a good debate—and so do Tom Preston mal jug band.” Rather, they were and his twin brother, Ted ’55. Tom the physician has taken the part of the We Work It In Jug Band, question of physician-assisted suicide to the Supreme Court. Ted and the photo is from the group’s Bond concert of 1964. The banjo the lawyer thinks the body politic—and the medical profes- player is Roger Shatzkin ’67, and the sion—should debate the question first, reaching some broad guitar player in the funny hat is consensus before ideas are made law. We invite you to decide for none other than my father, Bennett yourself, Swarthmore-style, where the truth really lies. Lorber ’64 (yes, the same one to whom the College gave an honorary —J.L. doctorate last June). My mother, 2 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN T E R S P O S T I N G S Carol Finneburgh Lorber ’63, is also in the photo: Her face is partially am not a Christian. I am not a Jew. I quilt of all the hopes and dreams you hidden behind my father’s left Iam not a Muslim. I am not an atheist, outgrew. I am not the greatest love hand; next to her is my father’s a pagan, an agnostic, nor a devil wor- story of all time. I am not the protago- roommate, Jeff Heynen ’64. Finally, I shipper. I am not the Pope. I am not a nist of some picaresque novel. I am not would be remiss if I failed to men- Buddhist, a Taoist, or a monist. I am a preacher. I am not the Gimp nor the tion the presence of my grandmoth- not a Darwinist.
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