SEPTEMBER 2002 F e a t u r e s Departments P r o f i l e s A r e Y o u a L e t t e r s 3 R a i s e d t o Renaissance Swarthmore’s open forum Volunteer 42 S o u l ? 1 4 The Sonneborn sisters are Swarthmoreans find a way to still going strong. juggle many interests. C o l l e c t i o n 4 Commencement and more By Carol Brévart-Demm By Ali Crolius ’84 Alumni Digest 36 L u r e o f Notes for Life 20 Reveling in reunions Many Sirens 62 The Chester Children’s Chorus Chris King ’68 weaves the comes of age. tapestry of his own life. ClassNotes 40 By Sasha Issenberg ’02 Living our lives By Andrea Hammer

S p r e a d i n g D e a t h s 4 7 Teaching for Their Wings 24 Swarthmore remembers C h a n g e 7 0 Class of 2001 graduates Kevin Huffman ’92 has returned venture into the “real world.” to Teach for America Books&Arts 54 By Andrea Hammer The world of ideas By Jeremy Schifeling ’03

A World That Is I n M y L i f e 7 2 Not Just Ours 30 Letters From the Front Bill ’72 and Amy Vedder Weber ’73 challenge us to preserve wildlife. By Aviva Kushner Yoselis ’96

By W.D. Ehrhart ’73 OurBackPages 80 Why We Need Dreams

By Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62

ONTHECOVER: KEEPINGSEVERALBALLS IN THE AIR IS THE TASK OFTHERENAISSANCESOUL. ILLUSTRATION BY PAINE PROFITT. STORY ON PAGE 14. SEPTEMBER 2002

GOLFCARTDRIVERANNA STRATTON ’04 CATCHES UP ONHERREADINGDURING ALUMNIWEEKEND. 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For many years, I more, one of his greatest contributions has have wanted to write a thank you note to been the simple fact that, after what he Swarthmore. experienced as an undergraduate, he I came to the College almost by acci- returned. No alumni can appreciate this dent. Having escaped Nazi Germany, I was more than those of us who were under- making my living as a very untrained graduates with him in the late 1950s. housekeeper. After I burned the potatoes In “Diversity: Then and Now” (June and nearly set the house on fire doing Bulletin), Eldridge writes of anonymous some ironing, the man of the house hate mail he received one spring, reporting thought I might do better using my brains. that the student who wrote it was discov- He was a wonderful Swarthmore-connect- ered and expelled. ed Quaker, and he got me an interview I never knew who the writer was, nor with Dean Brand Blanshard. I was accept- the punishment. But from the other side, ed as a junior. The young Jewish woman the side of white students who somehow who wanted to fight for a better world— came to know of the letter(s), I remember who, having survived the Holocaust, want- the incident vividly. ed to prove that her survival was worth it— What I remember, however, is not mere- was on her way. This spring, College Treasurer Suzanne ly my deep disgust with my own communi- Swarthmore helped me to pull together Welsh told The Phoenix that Swarthmore’s ty—one community whose intellectual and my ideals. Starting in displaced persons purchase of stock is based on economic cultural intensity had become the passion camps in Europe after the war, I spent 46 return. I cringe to think that this might be of my life. I remember even more the les- years as a social worker, helping displaced the only criterion. Claiming now to be son in political dynamics that the hate mail people. I was young then, and I grew old involved in socially responsible investing incident taught. with them. I am now 87. rings hollow when that investment is in For several days and into the nights, a The little light of life kindled by Swarth- arms manufacture. number of students debated what, if any, more has kept on burning, literally through ELIZABETH MYERS (P’03) action we might take. The debate eventually hell and high water. I have had a full life— Scottsville, N.Y. centered on whether or not to prepare an a colorful and fulfilling one—and, in no open letter, which we would sign—and for small way, my thanks go to my alma mater AN ASSAULT ON MARRIAGE which we would attempt to secure the sig- for my two years at Swarthmore College. I was shocked and dismayed by the article natures of as many students (and faculty?) May your light continue to shine “Proxy Fight.” Never would I have thought as possible. through the present gray days toward a that my alma mater would take the lead in The letter would state our beliefs about better future. assaulting the institution of marriage. It is racial integration. (Remember this was only GABI DERENBERG SCHIFF ’41 a sad day now that equal employment a few years after Brown v. Board of Educa- Forest Hills, N.Y. opportunity is construed to demand not tion.) Maybe we also discussed mentioning just equal rights but equal outcomes. To the Quaker tradition in race relations or at “PROXYFIGHT”MISSESTHEPOINT me, Swarthmore emphasized the need to least the tradition of tolerance. (I think Although ending discrimination against discriminate between truth and falsehood. none of us knew that Swarthmore had sexual orientation is a worthy goal, I was My understanding of the Quaker tradition enrolled its first African-American students disappointed to read “Proxy Fight,” in the is that one must discriminate between less than 20 years earlier.) June Bulletin (“Collection”) about the Col- good and evil. But practical questions immediately lege’s shareowner proposal for a policy that To the Committee for Socially Responsi- arose: How many people were likely to sign, would protect homosexual employees from ble Investing (CSRI), the Board of Man- and what difference would the number of discrimination at Lockheed Martin. agers, and the executives of the more than signatures make? We tried out two possible How can Swarthmore speak of a Quak- half of the Fortune 500 companies [that answers: that a huge percentage of stu- er heritage and Quaker principles and, at have adopted policies prohibiting discrimi- dents would sign or that an unimpressive the same time, invest in arms manufacture? nation against homosexuals], I commend a or even insignificant percentage would. The College seems to be ignoring the over- most enlightening book by Richard Herrn- The first of these answers would be riding issue of supporting and profiting stein and Charles Murray: The Bell Curve: ideal but, for several reasons, seemed from weapons of war and destruction. Intelligence and Class Structure in American improbable. With term papers, finals, and Broadcasting uncritically Swarthmore’s Life. Let us be thankful for the 95 percent honors exams pending, who among us ownership of Lockheed Martin stock of the [Lockheed-Martin] proxy vote. would actually throw ourselves into the appears to condone investment in such THOMAS SPENCER ’37 needed effort? What if the student body militaristic activities. Orlando, Fla. Please turn to page 76 SEPTEMBER 2002 3 Commencement 2002 METAMORPHOSIS

t 9:15 a.m., the front porch of Parrish Hall is nearly empty, but this Sunday is not a sleepy one in Swarthmore. In less Athan an hour, the Clothier Hall bells will peal, and the pro- cession will begin. The Class of 2002 is about to graduate. Inside Parrish, gowned faculty members begin to gather in the Aparlors. Some changed into their colorful garb at home, walking borough streets to the College like medieval dons. Professor of COLLECTIONMathematics Don Shimamoto, in his first year as faculty marshal, is there early. Wielding the College’s silver mace, his job is to herd the faculty into line, two by two. Under the trees outside, seniors adjust their mortarboards. Most wear roses from the Dean Bond Rose Garden, where the subtraction of 336 perfect blossoms hardly diminishes the glorious display. The Scott Arboretum staff, wearing pruning clippers like badges, pinned on the flowers. A few minutes before 10, President Alfred H. Bloom comes down from his office, smiling and resplendent in crimson. With him are diplomat Denis Halliday and journalist Josef Joffe ’65, who will receive honorary degrees. Bloom chats with Board Chairman Larry Shane ’56 as the procession takes shape behind them. The seniors form an alphabetical line, also two by two. Registrar Martin Warner fusses over them, addressing most by name. In his head, no doubt, are their majors, grades, and credit hours. If this were sixth grade, he would be telling them not to shove and push, but we’re over that now. One young woman sobs onto the shoulder of a friend—a private sadness amid the general joy. Near the head of the line, Stu Hain, associate vice president for facilities, speaks quietly by radio to an unseen person controlling Clothier’s bells. The chimes begin, and Shimamoto raises the mace. Perched above the Scott Amphitheater, a brass ensemble begins a sonata by Johann Cristoph Pezel. Swarthmore’s 130th Commence- ment has begun.

he faculty, now miraculously organized and appointed in a rain- Tbow of robes, streams out of Parrish toward the shady woods. The seniors follow, picking up the pace when they hear the music. Along the way, scores of housekeepers, food service staff, and secre- taries applaud and call to their favorite students. A few break ranks for a quick hug or handshake. As the head of the procession reaches the amphitheater and its tail begins to move near the library, it looks like a colorful black- robed caterpillar with a thousand different shoes peeking out from

PROFESSOROFMATHEMATICS DONSHIMAMOTO (TOP), FACULTYMARSHAL, LEADSTHE COMMENCEMENT PROCESSION.SENIORSPEAKER DAVIDKAMIN (CENTER)TOLDHIS CLASSMATES: “WEARE ABOUTTOVENTURE OUTINTOA WORLDTHATSEEMS SADLYSINISTER.”ALIKI BONAROU(BOTTOM), WITH SWARTHMORE DIPLOMAINHAND, RECEIVED CONGRATULATIONSFROMHER COUSIN,BILLDEMAKAKOS. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 4 PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVEN GOLDBLATT ’67 The ceremony seems to gather meaning—a symbolic moment at the heart of what a college does.

under its collective gown, moving as a single organism toward its graduation metamorphosis. In the breezy shade of the amphitheater, parents and grandpar- ents—some of whom claimed their seats quite early—stand to wel- come the procession. Conductor John Alston, associate professor of music, glances over his shoulder to see how many more measures will be needed as the caterpillar inches down the stone steps and seats itself on waiting white chairs. It’s difficult to say why Swarthmore’s Commencement seems so special. As with every such ceremony, there are invocations and admonitions and last bits of advice. There are traditions, like the engineering students’ final gimmick. (This year, each carried a light bulb to be screwed into a giant E they had constructed, and some- how, they made the Clothier bell ring 22 times—once for each B.S. diploma.) There are the usual awards and speeches and honorary degrees. Yet, rather than becoming a cliché, the ceremony seems to gather meaning—a symbolic moment at the heart of what a college does. After the calls and waves of friends, after the thousands of photo- graphs and miles of videotape, after the traditional moment of Quaker silence, the Class of 2002 is the palpable product of every- one’s labor here.

arry Shane welcomes the throng and asks the class to face their Lparents, guardians, and friends—to say thank you. The gesture is sustained and genuine. It is followed by a scripture reading by Marc Sonnenfeld ’68, who quotes from Proverbs: “Happy is he who has found wisdom.” Class speaker David Kamin then compares Swarthmore students to Smurfs—“McCabe Library Smurfs, Paces Café Smurfs, Activist Smurfs, Interpretation Theory Smurfs, and the soon-to-be-extinct Football Smurf.” “The point is,” he explains, “there are real differences among us. We are a truly diverse community, and, as I grew in my ‘Smurfiness’ here at Swarthmore, I became less wrapped up in my own need to

JOSEF JOFFE ’65 (TOP),PUBLISHERANDEDITOROF DIEZEIT,TELLSTHE GRADUATES THAT HIS SWARTHMORE EDUCATION “WAS THE ASSET OF ALL ASSETS THAT KEPT MULTIPLYING.” APPLAUDING ARE (CENTER,LEFTTO RIGHT) ENGINEERING GRADS MICHELLE LOWRY, PUKAR MALLA, LINDA

MCLAREN,ANDMARCRICHARDS.RICHTERPROFESSOROFPOLITICALSCIENCE RAYMOND HOPKINS (BOTTOM,LEFT)ESCORTSHONORARY–DEGREE–RECIPIENT DENIS HALLIDAY, A CAREER DIPLOMAT WHO RESIGNED AFTER 34 YEARS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS IN PROTEST OF SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ. SEPTEMBER 2002 5 6 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN COLLECTION inllae h fesavso ffnreuainadwoleads who and education finer of vision a offers educa- who and leader principal, teacher, tional model devote the you be If education, path. to significant yourself or the productive guide more will a believe onto you discipline ways in paradigm current the redefines are prepared…. you well which very and for so personal impact also beyond broader ambitions the your have set to to much success you very professional ask how I of do, light to in is … there population; world’s the and education own and our care, to health distribution nutrition, of adequate patterns provide the to is and required there productivity much the how create of to light do in to world; peaceful a ensure and nation of future a respect…. assure societal but and all security will economic and choose you careers whatever in world, the or yourselves, sell short.” not extraor- Do 336 have. that can impact individuals positive powerful dinary the a of be magnitude 2 the June of “Let devastat- says. reminder a he have world,” to the takes on it impact 11, individuals ing Sept. few with how began of year reminder senior stark “Your a world. the change to class the A world.” it this another, heal or to way try one to in duty but, fail, our may is tasks efforts The Our institution. vast. elite are this us of before tools the given been because have powerful we are We community. intellectual to peaceful together one coming stu- build backgrounds seeing and of cultures hope different us—the from give dents Swarthmore hope at the here of years because the powerful that are We not powerful. may are we we magical, although be But violence. today’s would world of the futility and the mouths, understand our open could we graduate, we smile. 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Studies Conflict taught and he Peace 2000, the and in 1999 classes of semesters fall Social the of during the Professor Change against Lang Swarthmore’s out As speak sanctions. to the him of freed effects but career U.N. resigna- his public ended His country. tion that to against resigned sanctions he U.N. when the 1998, protest September until He Iraq. position in this coordinator in humanitarian served U.N. as national, Irish an is posts. he assistance where humanitarian Nations, in United primarily the served at disap- career and 34-year rewards his the of of pointments humbly speaks and hood Swarthmore his etadato ota end.” that to action and ment commit- broader galvanizes example, public and sive, persua- articulate, by who, and good the of vision your toward take might society or institution your tions direc- imagines who vidual indi- the be sector, public or nonprofit the choose you If world. the and ty socie- broader the of needs the to responsive more strategies or directions, professional treatments, introduces who one the be business, or law, cine, vision. that on deliver to nation, the or system, the A scomplete. is metamorphosis the unfurl; wings cracked; is cocoon The up. breaks procession steps, the the of top the At na nesl esnlfv-iuetl,Hlia addytells candidly Halliday talk, five-minute personal intensely an In who Halliday, named had Annan Kofi Secretary-General 1997, In I o hoemedi- choose you “If ei aldy omrUN sitn ertr-eea,dons secretary-general, assistant U.N. degrees. former honorary Halliday, award Denis to time is it remarks, Bloom’s fter Joffe jokes that, by being honored by Swarthmore, he has finally surpassed his “old friend and teacher” Henry Kissinger, who has never received an honorary degree from his alma mater, Harvard. “[This] proves that Swarthmore is a lot smarter than Harvard,” he says, “but we knew that all along.” Praising his Swarthmore education, he says it “never became obsolete. What I learned here in philosophy, economics, and politi- cal science, in psychology and art history, was money in the piggy bank of the mind that was never depleted. It was the asset of all assets that kept multiplying. Because liberal arts, unlike all those ‘relevant’ subjects from management studies to computer science, never turns obsolete. Liberal arts is the tool of all tools that will accompany you all your life and make you not only a bit smarter but also a bit wiser.” Referring to the contemporary film Spider-Man, Joffe says, “Look at him. In school, he was put down as a bookworm and ignored by the girl he adored. He has to navigate the shoals of self-doubt and desperation, as we did when we could not finish that seminar paper due in six hours…. But then he was bitten by the spider, and he turned into a superhero. That’s you: You, the graduates, have been bitten by the spider that is Swarthmore.”

ollowing the speeches, Shimamoto steps forward with the mace. FHe instructs the class to rise and wear their mortarboards. Presi- dent Bloom steps to the microphone and intones: “By the power vested in me by the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.…” The tassels are moved en KARLAGILBRIDE(LEFT), AMCCABE SCHOLARFROMSYOSSET,N.Y., WAS masse, and suddenly it’s official. ACCOMPANIEDBYHER GUIDEDOG,TARA. PRESIDENTBLOOM (TOPRIGHT) Provost Constance Cain Hungerford (who just a year ago was URGESTHE CLASSOF 2002 TO“SETYOURAMBITIONS BEYOND PERSONAL herself carrying the mace) reads each name as the 336 members of ANDPROFESSIONALSUCCESS TO HAVE THEBROADER IMPACTFOR WHICHYOU the Class of 2002 come forward to receive rolled-up, garnet-rib- boned diplomas from a beaming President Bloom. Hoots of joy fill AREALSOSOVERYWELLPREPARED.” MEMBERSOFTHE GRADUATING CLASS the air from family and friends in the audience. (BOTTOM RIGHT)TURNTOTHANK FAMILY ANDFRIENDS. It takes more than an hour to get from Prince Chuks Achime, a political science major from Duncanville, Texas, to Johanna Moran Yoon, an engineering and art double major from Toledo, Ohio. But ed Nations, I set aside for more then 30 years my commitment to then the caterpillar, suitably inoculated by its Swarthmore spider such issues—ones that preoccupied me during my own student years.” bite, stirs itself to climb out of the amphitheater. The music turns “Happily,” he notes, “we have among Swarthmore graduates celebratory, as Alston conducts his own arrangement of “Sir Duke” young men and women who want it all—a brilliant, exciting career by Stevie Wonder. At the top of the steps, the procession breaks up. in a chosen field but yet the ability to be themselves. Freedom to The cocoon is cracked; wings unfurl; the metamorphosis is com- continue good works, the courage to speak out, even when socially plete. embarrassing—or possibly career threatening. To be able to stand In the shade of a sour gum tree on Parrish lawn, the arboretum up when driven by outrage, by a sense of unacceptable injustice, by folks hand out souvenir pots of Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica, witnessingwrongyetknowingthecapacityforrightexistsinabundance.” Henry’s Garnet). Plant it carefully, I think. Feed and water it well. Next, President Bloom introduces alumnus Josef Joffe, publisher —Jeffrey Lott and editor of the influential German weekly Die Zeit. A double major in economics and political science at Swarthmore, Joffe holds a The complete texts of all Commencement speeches—including the bac- Ph.D. in government from Harvard and has taught at Harvard, calaureate speech by Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Cen- Johns Hopkins, and Stanford universities. Bloom describes him as a ter for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy “public intellectual whose interpretations of current political, eco- School of Government, and the Last Collection speech by Associate Profes- nomic, and social issues consistently offer your global audience new sor of History Tim Burke—are available at www.swarthmore.edu/- levels of understanding and greater ethical clarity.” news/commencement/index2.html. SEPTEMBER 2002 7 8 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN COLLECTION t e o P n a i n i t s e l a P r vial nEnglish. in available collections are poetry his of few 20 very than languages, more into translated been has his work Although English. in poems his from selections different read Nye Shihab Naomi and Forché Carolyn poets work, well-known recent while his from Arabic in and read poetry prose, of books dozen two than more of author the Darwish, work. 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ricular activities and dinner.” The document asks students to G a m e T i m e consider the times of athletic contests as they plan their sched- n May, the faculty voted to adopt a set of guidelines aimed ules but also urges faculty members and coaches to schedule at reducing scheduling conflicts for student athletes. both academic and athletic commitments well in advance and IAlthough the guidelines reaffirm several existing policies, to avoid last-minute changes that create conflicts. they go beyond any previous faculty action in seeking to provide Professor of Economics Stephen O’Connell, who chaired the a framework for the resolution of conflicts between academic ARC, called the faculty’s action “a major accomplishment for the commitments and participation in intercollegiate sports. College.” He emphasized that the guidelines are “not rules” and The guidelines were developed by the Curriculum Commit- observed that “many are tee in close collaboration with the Athletics Review Committee The faculty adopts already routinely ob- (ARC). They emphasize communication among students, served by faculty and coaches, and faculty members, encouraging all parties “to work new guidelines coaches.” out mutually acceptable solutions” where potential conflicts The new guidelines are arise. The document acknowledges that “when a mutually to address appended to the ARC’s agreeable understanding is not reached, students should be final report, which can be mindful of the primacy of academics at Swarthmore.” scheduling conflicts viewed at www.swarth- In adopting the guidelines, the faculty made a key distinc- more.edu/news/athletics. tion between athletic practices and contests. They say, “Stu- for athletes. In its report, the ARC— dents who are participating in intercollegiate athletics should which has consisted of not miss classes, seminars, or labs for practice.” But those who faculty members, members of the Board of Managers, coaches, anticipate missing an academic appointment for a scheduled students, and administrators—notes a broad range of improve- athletic contest should “try to come to an understanding ments to the athletics program. Among the ARC’s recommenda- regarding the conflict with their coach and their professor as tions are that its own three-year existence be concluded, with soon as possible, preferably during the first week of the semes- its oversight role passed to the standing Physical Education and ter.” Athletics Advisory Committee. A separate committee of the The guidelines restate a long-standing practice of ending Board of Managers, which includes two members of the Alumni most regular classes by 4 p.m. on Monday to Thursday and 5 Council, will continue to evaluate progress in strengthening the p.m. on Fridays, reminding the faculty to “recognize that the College’s intercollegiate athletics program. time from 4:15 to 7 p.m. is heavily used by students for extracur- —Jeffrey Lott SEPTEMBER 2002 9 10 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN COLLECTION xettosfrti oiin n [ways] and position, this for expectations their community, Swarthmore the about more “learn to members faculty and students with meetings conducted has from Harvard. education in Ph.D. a received and School Divinity Rochester Colgate from graduated Smaw Education, of School Graduate Harvard’s at development July. in Center Intercultural College’s the of director and dean assistant became Zapata Rafael affairs. multicultural for dean associate new College’s the as community. campus inclusive more broader, a creat- ing on and students minority for grams T S W O R R G E T N E E C C N E I C S E ieweeteodDPn etr alsod l fti ilb linked be will this of All stood. hall lecture DuPont will old space the commons where glass-enclosed rise A astronomy classrooms. and two physics and for and faculty, offices biology temporary house labs, will teaching it Sciencephysics winter, Cornell this the completed of When roof Library. and facade now-demolished the ers building. the typical of is the design preheat that “green” concept to the energy-saving used of building—an be the will in water water the hot chilling by generated heat the is Ricciardi, that to According the center. throughout science units air 140,000-square-foot climate-control rooftop through to gen- connected pumped will and be building handlers box-like to This water 45-degree plant.” antifreeze-treated “chiller erate a is tower water lege’s 2004. building spring the and of 2002 sections December as between in per- completed phased 15 are be is will project Occupancy the built. that cent a declared marked Semler of day erection. completion the steel Coincidentally, the structural 3. off,” construction—“topping July the on in site milestone full me the gave of group, tour management a and facilities planning College’s of the director from Semler, construction Janet and firm, construc- management the tion Skanska, White Barclay for man- ager project senior Ricciardi, Charles shape. changes and progresses Building Science ic riiga wrhoe Smaw Swarthmore, at arriving Since program for dean associate Previously February in work began Smaw Darryl nte tutr aigsaei nadto,pr fwihcov- which of part addition, an is shape taking structure Another Col- the beneath Tucked along. farther is project the of part One ilcnetaeo eeoigpro- developing on concentrate will staff dean’s the of members new wo hthssalwdu h l DuPont old the up swallowed has that construction of maze intricate day—the every summer—even this week very ONDTESAFI JULY. 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BENJAMIN GALYNKER ʼ03 REMEMBERING PAUL BEIK The subject of the annual lecture alternates n June 8, Centennial Professor of His- between French and Francophone studies TOTALLYSWAT Otory Emeritus Paul Beik died at the age and Russian and Eastern European studies. of 87 in Winter Park, Fla. After graduating In 1990, the History Department estab- In lieu of a portion of their final exam, from Union College in 1935, obtaining a lished the Paul H. Beik Prize in History in students in the political science course doctorate from Columbia University in 1943, his honor, to be awarded annually in May, Socialism in Europe, taught by Assistant teaching courses at Columbia, and partici- for the best thesis or extended paper by a Professor Jeffrey Murer, opted to be eval- pating in the V-12 Naval Officers Training graduating history major. uated through a more direct demonstra- Program, he —Carol Brévart-Demm tion of what they had learned. They draft- joined the ed a manifesto of principles and built and Swarthmore fac- BEIT MIDRASH ESTABLISHED lived in a tent commune on Parrish lawn— ulty in 1945. He Jewish students and others with an interest complete with Soviet martial anthems and retired in 1980. in Jewish texts have a new place to study red flags—for three days and two nights. An expert on them on campus. The 2001–2002 academic The students, who dubbed themselves the French Rev- year was the first for Swarthmore’s new Beit Trabajadores Unidos para la Revolución, olution and Midrash, a joint project of the College plastered campus bathrooms and lounges modern Euro- library and the Department of Religion. with 10-point critiques of capitalism and pean history, Located in one of the lodges near copies of old Beik was the Sharples Dining Hall, the Beit Midrash Soviet propa- author of five PAUL BEIK (which in Hebrew means “house of study”) ganda posters, books on French offers volumes of the Bible, Talmud, Mishna, generating history, including, in 1956, The French Revo- Tosefta, mystical texts, and codes of Jewish publicity for lution Seen From the Right, a study of conser- law. The Bible collection, with books in both a culminating vative thought about the revolution, which Hebrew and English, is named for the rally on In- THE PHOENIX ʼ 03/ was reprinted in 1970; and, in 1959, the Claude S. Smith Professor of Political Sci- ternational textbook Modern Europe: A History Since ence James Kurth, a generous supporter of Workers Day, 1500, in collaboration with Lawrence Lafore. the project. May 1. He also introduced the study of Russian his- Weekly study sessions and occasional On that CLAIRE WEISS tory to the campus. visiting speakers attract students, faculty historic day, FASCISTRAID Beik is remembered by his students and members, and others from the Swarthmore members of Associate Professor of History acquaintances for his geniality, generosity community. The center is also expected to be Pieter Judson’s Fascist Europe seminar with his time, and the encouragement and an important resource for students taking unexpectedly upstaged the Socialists at rigor with which he prepared students for religion courses such as Hebrew Bible and their lunch-hour rally. Wearing black and careers as historians. the Ancient Near East and Jewish Bible wielding water balloons and large water On his retirement, many of Beik’s former Interpretation. guns, the Fascist counterrevolutionaries students endowed a lectureship in his name. —Jeffrey Lott wreaked havoc in the commune and ascended the Socialists’ Parrish podium in line formation. To the audience’s delight, the Socialists sportingly handed over the AIR POWER microphone to Danny Fink ’03 and Matthew Rubin ’03, representatives of the Fascist Europe seminar, who delivered a hot-blooded ideological attack on the grounds that the Socialists had violated their own precept of equal distribution of wealth by hoarding the College’s Adiron- dack chairs inside the commune. COMMUNITY ENERGY INC. After accusing the Socialists of sully- he College has committed to meeting 2.5 help cover the cost difference, Swarthmore ing the virtues of the idyllic Swarthmore Tpercent of its energy needs through the students have agreed to reduce their energy nation, the Fascists relinquished the purchase of wind power. And thanks to a consumption by turning off lights and taking stage. The Socialists resumed their pro- conservation effort by students, it won’t similar measures. The wind power comes gram, declaring solidarity with other stu- have to expend additional dollars to achieve from newly developed wind farms—such as dents rallying in Europe against the rise a more environmentally friendly energy mix. the one shown above, near Somerset, Pa.— of Jean-Marie Le Pen and right-wing poli- Although its cost has fallen dramatically operated by Community Energy and Exelon tics there. in recent years, wind-generated power still Corp. —Benjamin Galynker ’03 costs more than conventional electricity. To —Jeffrey Lott SEPTEMBER 2002 11 We Bid Them Adieu

LOOKING AT THE STATS ONE OF THE CLASSICS rofessor of Statistics Gudmund Iversen hirty-five years after coming to Swarth- Pretires this year after 30 years at the Tmore in 1967 as an assistant professor, College, during which he has expanded the Susan Lippincott Professor of Modern and formerly one-teacher, one-course Statistics Classical Languages Gilbert Rose retires this

Program to become a popular elective today. ʼ 64 year. Arriving at the College shortly before One of the highlights of Iversen’s career jobs in academe became scarce, Rose says: at Swarthmore was when, 10 years ago, the “It turned out that I spent my whole career name of the Mathematics Department was in one place, and I’m lucky that it turned

changed to the Department of Mathemat- BENNETT LORBER out to be Swarthmore. It’s a great fit for my COLLECTION ics and Statistics, reflecting the growing JANET AND TIM WILLIAMS ’64 commitments and interests and values.” importance and popularity of Iversen’s Rose, who has served as chair of the work. Although he claims that study of sta- WORKING TOGETHER Classics Department and the Humanities tistics traditionally has a bad reputation, rofessor of Biology Timothy Williams Division, is grateful for the College’s unwa- 50 to 60 percent of Swarthmore graduates Pretires this year after a 42-year–long vering support of his area of scholarship in regularly have taken statistics courses vol- association with the College, where he began a culture and society where, these days, the untarily. During Iversen’s tenure, more as a member of the Class of 1964. He humanities are “at the bottom of the totem than 2,000 students have taken his cours- returned in 1976, accompanied by his wife, pole.” As a teacher of Greek and Latin at all es. Six years ago, the growing workload Janet Williams, who has worked as a re- levels, he has welcomed the College’s com- necessitated search associate alongside her husband. mitment to language as the essence of the hiring of a “We’ve always worked together,” he says, “so studying Classics. “We require that all Clas- second statis- when we look at what I have done, it’s really sics majors have a high level of understand- tician, Philip what we have done.” The Williamses special- ing of at least one ancient language,” he Everson, who ize in tracking the migratory patterns of says. Most majors take at least three Honors received ten- birds and other flying animals. seminars taught in the language itself. ure this year. They have taken students on research Rose has taught language courses and Iversen, voyages to Hawaii and Guam and around seminars on Greek and Latin epic, drama, who is also in the world on the Semester at Sea Program. and philosophy. He sees Swarthmore as the his second They observed birds migrating over the kind of environment where a teacher easily

CAROL BREVART-DEMM three-year Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans, estimat- develops a close relationship with students. GUDMUNDIVERSEN term as direc- ed the density of migrants, and measured Most of his Honors seminars have taken tor of the their orientation, which, Williams says, had place in the living room of his home. “The Center for Social and Policy Studies, says never before been done systematically. students have that Swarthmore was just the right place “The students have been our best remained close for him. friends,” Williams says. “We often get clos- friends in many An impressive list of publications est to students on our field trips, where they cases,” he says. notwithstanding, research has not been his appreciate that we not only studied animal In 1983, Rose first priority. “The emphasis on teaching behaviors in class—we looked at real ani- was honored [at Swarthmore] appealed to me,” he says. mals in the field.” He received a Flack Teach- with the Ameri- “Teaching is what it’s all about.” ing Award from the College in 1987. can Philological Of his departmental colleagues and Author and co-author of hundreds of Association administrators, Iversen says, “I couldn’t wildlife-related publications, Williams is Award for

have asked for a better group of people to also the inventor of several pieces of radar JIM GRAHAM Excellence in be together with. They’ve been a great equipment, including an ornithological GILROSE Teaching, and, inspiration.” radar on top of the Martin Building. in 2000, he Iversen’s retirement plans include read- On retirement, the Williamses will head received the Flack Teaching Award. ing statistics books, reviving his high- for northern New Hampshire, where they Recently, Rose founded the new Lifelong school interest in photography, and driving have been doing research since 1992. Wil- Learning Program for adults interested in the winding U.S. Route 2 cross-country liams will retain strong links to Swarthmore, continuing education classes, which de- from western Washington state to North- where his departmental colleagues have buted successfully in 2002 and which he ern Maine. At the end of his drive, two been “marvelous and so cooperative.” As hopes will become a regular feature of both small grandchildren await, “as precious as an alumnus, emeritus faculty member, and his own and the College’s life. can be.” Swarthmore parent, how could he not? —Carol Brévart-Demm SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 12 Castro, Carter, a n d K h a w j a Yasmin Khawja never aspired to be an ambassador. Actually, she wants to be a doctor. Nonetheless, in May, with very little time for preparation and no prior experience, she succeeded in grab- bing the attention of two heads of state. Khawja, born and raised in Boston as the daughter of a Pak- Yistani father and a Colombian mother, is a premed medical anthropology special major. She spent the spring semester at the Universidad de la Habana in Havana, sponsored by Butler Uni- versity’s Cooperating Programs in the Americas (COPA). The program is part of former President Bill Clinton’s People to Peo- ple Act, which now permits American students to study in Cuba. Khawja was there when former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba on his mission to improve relations between that country and the United States after 43 years of hostility. The week before she was due to leave Cuba, Khawja was informed that she had been selected to represent the 49 COPA participants from 36 American universities, speaking at the event surrounding Carter’s address to the Cuban people. Broadcast on television from the grand hall of the university, the event was attended by Cuban President Fidel Castro and other Cuban dig- nitaries as well as Cuban and American students and members of the American delegation accompanying Carter. “This was an absolute surprise,” Khawja says. “I found out on a Thursday that I was to speak the next Tuesday, and we were going on a trip for COURTESY OF YASMIN KHAWJA the weekend.” FIDEL CASTRO AND YASMIN KHAWJA ’03 CHAT FOR A WHILE AT THE As part of an evening program that included speeches by the FAREWELLDINNERFORFORMERPRESIDENTJIMMYCARTER.KHAWJAWAS director of the university, the president of the University Student CHOSEN TO SPEAK FOR STUDENTS FROM 36 AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES WHO Federation, and Carter, Khawja spoke in Spanish for six minutes, summarizing the impressions that she and her group, whose WERESTUDYINGINCUBALASTSPRING. members came from varied ethnic backgrounds, had gathered during their stay. Her role, she said, was not to relay their politi- with the Consejo de Estado (national council) in the Palacio de la cal views but rather their experiences of everyday life among the Revolucion. “It was like a dream,” she recalls. Castro and Carter Cuban students and people. In her speech, she spoke of positive “remembered me from my speech, and I got to talk to them.” and valuable interactions between program participants and They asked her about her plans for medical school. Castro said he Cubans of all ages and from all sectors of society—whether while enjoyed her speech and offered her admission to the Latin Amer- singing; worshiping; learning to play the bongos; or making pre- ican School of Medicine he founded two years ago, which gives sentations in class, which they attended with Cuban students. full scholarships to all its students. Although she mentioned problems the COPA students had She adds: “I definitely saw the bad sides [of Cuba] and things observed in the Cuban economy and transportation system, she that I would change, like the restrictions on the Cuban people. I said they had been im-pressed by the fact that the country has no think I got a clearer, less idealistic view of both the good aspects organized crime and that it is safe to walk the Cuban streets at all of Cuban society and government and those that still need to be times of the day and night as well as to hitchhike—the preferred worked on.” mode of travel because public transport is so unreliable. She Cubans and Americans have much to learn from each other, hoped that her remarks, al-though not offering actual solutions, says Khawja. The Cuban people, whom she found to be warm, might illustrate the capability of Cubans and Americans to coex- lively, and very creative with their limited resources, were as curi- ist peacefully and thereby contribute to eventual solutions. ous to know more about American culture as she and her fellow- At the end of the evening, Castro and Carter had to hurry students were to explore Cuba. She believes that with mutual away to throw ceremonial pitches at a baseball game, leaving a respect and a willingness to communicate—such as the Cuban hall full of disappointed students, who had hoped to at least and COPA students had shared—both countries would benefit shake the dignitaries’ hands. from reconciliation. But this effort, she adds, has to begin with For Khawja, however, the experience continued. The next the heads of their national governments. morning, she received an invitation to Carter’s farewell dinner —Carol Brévart-Demm SEPTEMBER 2002 13 A r e Y o u a Renaissance Soul?

SWARTHMOREANSFINDAWAYTOJUGGLEMANYINTERESTS.

By Ali Crolius ’84 Illustrations by Paine Proffitt

argaret Neisser Lobenstine ’65 divides the world into clients collapse in tears of relief when she assures them there’s noth- two categories. One includes those highly focused,1 decisive individuals ing wrong with them. who come into the world knowing exactly what they want to do when Drinking tea in her living room, where a small sunlit corner dou- Mthey3 grow up. These souls she compares to Mozart, whose intelli- bles as her office and a constant flutter of birds at her feeder pro- 3 gence and inspiration went wholly into his music. These are the vides background entertainment, she runs through a list of her own freshmen who know what their major will be, who graduate four years Renaissance endeavors. At Swarthmore, she had a difficult time pick- later with a degree in that subject, get advanced degrees in the ing a major, of course. She settled on political science but backed it same, and then go on to make a name for themselves in that field. up with minors in economics and history. Did she use these directly This article is not about those people. in her life? No—she worked with blind children at a camp one sum- Instead, it is about those in the other category, the one compris- mer and decided to drop a political science seminar to take two edu- ing people Lobenstine calls “Ben Franklins.” Inventor, publisher, cation courses. She writes, “My request was considered so out of the writer, philosopher, public citizen, statesman, Francophile, founder of ordinary that it had to be taken up by the entire faculty.” a university and a post office, and all-around Promethean thinker, Lobenstine continued the pattern after graduation. Her resumé Franklin was what Lobenstine calls a “Renaissance soul.” reads something like this: obtained a master’s from Bank Street Lobenstine pays tribute to people of diverse passions in her Teacher’s College; worked at the New York University Reading Insti- unpublished book manuscript, “Secrets of the Renaissance Soul: tute as well as in one of the original Head Start programs. Subse- Making ‘Too Many Interests’ Work for You.” A career and “life design” quently, Margaret did political work with the Black Panthers, worked counselor in the Amherst, Mass., for an alternative press, worked area, Lobenstine wrote the book at an eyeglasses factory and at after realizing that many seeking the post office, and started her her help were the proverbial own errand business. She ran a round pegs trying to force them- bed-and-breakfast; coordinated selves into square holes. labor groups for First Harvest They worried that there was Brigade for Nicaragua; taught something wrong with them. others how to run inns; was They labeled themselves as regional master trainer for the hopelessly indecisive, vacillat- Massachusetts Literacy Corps; ing, restless. They started a mil- and started her current business, lion projects but completed few; Alternative Approaches. no sooner did they master a sub- Now, she responds to ques- ject than they moved on to tions through her Web site www.- something new. When attention- ToGetUnstuck.com, leads career deficit disorder came into vogue, and Renaissance Soul workshops, these people were sure they had is a guest expert for the Staples it. Their friends described them Inc. small business Web site, as dilettantes and jacks-of-all- does family business consulting trades, and their families wished at the University of Massachu- they’d “find themselves and set- setts, writes both fiction and tle down.” newspaper articles, and does pro- At midlife and beyond, many fessional photography. of Lobenstine’s clients were still Much of this overlapped with casting about for the one thing raising twin daughters Lori and that would bring all their areas Heather, now grown and showing of passion together. their own signs of Lobenstine’s Lobenstine says she’s had Renaissance nature. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 14 Lobenstine believes the pendulum is swinging in favor of Renais- religion and a minor in studio art. My first business card read, “Ali sance souls. Hard economic times and destabilizing political forces Crolius: Generalist.” Later, I became a journalist—a career that are forcing people to become more adaptable, more adept at having enabled me to follow my curiosities to my heart’s content. I contin- more than one skill to offer in the job market. “The cradle-to-grave ued to write fiction and letters to the editor, sell my paintings, and security simply isn’t there,” neither as a mind-set nor as a reality, be an outspoken citizen of the republic. Now, I am a teacher as well she said. “People are re-examining their priorities.” as a writer, a field that enables—and demands—that my multiple As for myself, I have an interest in pretty much every subject interests find expression. Like the other Renaissance souls, my life academic, abstract, and practical. I left Swarthmore with a B.A. in would feel diminished if I eliminated any of these joys.

Whistleblower, Lawyer, and Actor: Mark7 Schwartz '75 hen Mark Schwartz was doing WChekhov scene studies in his junior year, he never imagined he’d have an encore. “I didn’t think acting was the responsible adult thing to do,” he said. He majored in political science instead. To be sure, years in the courtroom as an attorney provided him with ample opportuni- ties for theatrics. The Pittsburgh native’s early career choice, law, looked rather “duckish,” to use Margaret Lobenstine’s language. Schwartz took the drive he’d put to good use in the Hon- ors Program and went to work. Law segued into investment banking, in which he became first vice president of Prudential-Bache Securi- ties’ Public Finance Department in Philadelphia. Schwartz’s first brush with drama was self-imposed and unoffi- me work at a critical time, which gave me the opportunity to re-eval- cial: He became a corporate whistle-blower. As manager of the mid- uate my life.” The verdict: Schwartz came to view his years in high Atlantic region of Prudential’s tax-exempt division, he said he finance as an empty, if educational, interlude: “It wasn’t allowing me became aware of pressure on employees to contribute to political to use my brain the way Swarthmore developed it.” campaigns. After objecting to the practice and getting fired, he spent It was after Schwartz had regained traction in his law practice two “unpleasant” years pursuing a case against Prudential’s prac- that his early love of theater re-emerged. Representing a literary tices with the National Association of Securities Dealers. As a result, agent and a filmmaker gave him the urge to try some acting classes. the Securities and Exchange Commission banned political contribu- He began auditioning and found himself cast as Truman Capote in tions by underwriters and began keeping a closer eye on political Cruelties, a play about the writer that won Best New Play for the gifts by brokerage firms. Some major houses agreed to curtail politi- New York Drama League. To prepare for his role, he dived with char- cal contributions, but an industry panel reviewing the Prudential acteristic intensity into “reading everything (of Capote’s) I could get case threw out a claim that Schwartz had been wrongfully dis- my hands on,” digging up old recordings to get the literary legend’s missed. He felt only somewhat vindicated by the fact that Prudential pouting drawl and ordering first editions of his books on eBay. For was heavily fined by the Federal Elections Commission. his six performances in a tiny theater at New York City’s Pace Uni- The experience left Schwartz “flat, I mean flat, on my back.” versity, he was paid a grand total of $65. Unable to interest other Wall Street firms in hiring him, he set up a Schwartz concluded that acting, far from not being very adult, private law practice from his Bryn Mawr, Pa., home; burned through demands everything a person’s got. “Acting’s the hardest profession his savings, trying to support his wife and two young sons; and I’ve ever seen. If investment bankers are brain dead, and lawyers are came to the edge of bankruptcy. “It’s very nice to be outspoken,” he a small step up, then acting is the hardest as far as what it takes to reflected, “but it’s also nice to pay the mortgage.” be successful.” The breaking point came when a former investment banking With a few parts in independent films now on his resumé, partner died of cancer at age 40. Schwartz says he spiraled into a Schwartz is casting around for a new role. In the meantime, he serious depression but was thrown a lifeline by a generous fellow hopes his next gig will be as mentor of a new generation of Swarthmorean who retained him to do some legal work for his fami- lawyers—starting with Swarthmore’s current crop of Renaissance ly. “He admired my whistle-blowing,” said Schwartz, “and he gave souls, including son Benjamin ’06. 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Annie Bill, and Buffalo Bull, of Sitting portraits Chief with decorated percussion is Colt cylinder a whose as revolver his rarities to such add includes to which continued collection, he firearms And makers. munitions the among takers hs as tsrtrmn htnesisoncounterbalance, own its needs that retirement it’s days, These bal- to easy relatively it found Kopsch talents, many of man a As Navy Attorney and Artist: Navy because some friends liked the work there, and it had a good reputation.” Robinwyn Lewis ’65 It’s work she loves, involving acquisitions of ships; environmen- tal, labor, and personnel law; and managing 120 lawyers in offices obinwyn Dietrich Lewis was raised as a Quaker. from coast to coast and in Hawaii. Mentoring young lawyers, who RIt would never7 have occurred to her that some day she would work she says are often trying to dedicate themselves to both their careers for the U.S. Navy. and their families, is a big part of her job. “I think they come to the And if you told the Navy lawyer she is now that she would even- Navy because they think they can have a life here. Frequently in the tually turn to painting portraits of private homes on commission, beginning of a law career, they’re expected to give everything and she would have been very surprised. The life of the Renaissance soul more. We don’t demand that of our attorneys.” is full of unexpected twists of fate. How did the Friend come to be at home in the Navy? “I’m just a “I could never figure out what to do,” she said. “As a kid, I want- different person than I was 30 years ago,” she reflected. “Vietnam ed to read everything. In college, I did folk dance. Later, I did tap was a different time. I’m comfortable now with the idea that we dancing. It would always be, well, I did that, now I want to try some- need a military force to defend the country.” thing else.” Still, the law hasn’t been her only focus. In spurts, Lewis has In high school and at Swarthmore, Lewis studied languages— written poetry and begun a mystery novel. Dabbling in watercolors French, German, and Russian—in which she declared a major and gave way to oils. Figure painting, landscapes, and still lifes led to eventually got a master’s.Her first job upon graduation was as a paintings of people’s houses she calls home portraits. Once again, maid in Chicago, where “I learned how to clean bathrooms and she hit a place where she was juggling “too many interests” and feel- make Old Fashioneds, while I waited for my job with the United ing she had to focus. States Information Agency (USIA) to start.” The USIA, Uncle Sam’s “I’m not trying to escape the law, because I love it,” Lewis said. public relations arm, sent Lewis to the Soviet Union to answer ques- “But I finally decided, about a year ago, that with the job I’ve got, I tions for Russians about an expo of American architecture. had to pick.” She chose painting, an avocation she hopes to master Eventually, Lewis went to New York to work for Harper’s Bazaar, well enough to carry her into retirement from the Navy. She where she worked as the second secretary to the editor in chief. “I approached a friend about helping her with marketing, and recently, had absolutely no interest in fashion,” she laughed. She did, howev- she’s started doing paintings of private homes for people around the er, “drink up the city,” enrolling in a painting class at the Museum Washington, D.C., area in earnest. She spends weekends painting, of Modern Art. “Margaret’s [Lobenstine] idea of nurturing your showing her work at outdoor art fairs, preparing for a gallery show interests was very real to me even then,” she said, referring to her in the fall and building up her portfolio for commission work. Swarthmore roommate. People ask her how she manages to do so many different things. Lewis then took a job writing press releases and articles for the “I just say I don’t clean my house very much,” she laughed. “It’s American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. The work always a trade-off.” plunged her among the most ardent voices for peace in Vietnam and justice at home, and it was during this time that she first observed lawyers up close and came to admire them. By 1970, Lewis thought she needed to make up her mind about settling on a career. “I reached a point where I thought I really had to make a decision,” she said. All her Renaissance fascina- tions vied to be taken seriously—lan- guages, writing, social action, and the law. She entered George Washington University Law School in 1971, only to be surprised by how attractive contracts law appeared to her. “I think it has some- thing to do with my interest in linguis- tics, with what something actually means. In this case, it was interpreting statutes and contracts,” she mused. Following law school, she taught in and later managed a legal clinic. “I burned out after five years and started looking around. In 1981, I went to the SEPTEMBER 2002 17 Real Estate Broker, Carpenter, their dreams. It’s a city of people with dreams. It’s the city for me.” Nurturing his own dream of making his living independently, Photographer, and Perpetual Metzidakis turned his carpentry experience into a viable business. He was soon supervising 10 employees on three or four jobs at a Student: Philip Metzidakis ’79 time and vying for business against the city’s fraternity of veteran builders. “I knew nothing—absolutely nothing—about business,” hat do7 you call a fellow who cuts real estate he said. “I cringe when I think back on some of the contracts I Wdeals in Manhattan one day, shoots photographs for signed. I made a lot of money, and I lost a lot of money.” National Geographic another, takes regular trips to meditate with He soon saw that real estate brokers were making more money Eastern Orthodox monks in Greece, and makes sure he’s always tak- selling the stores, offices, and homes he was building. So, in 1985, ing a college class? he became a commercial real estate broker. That went well until the A maverick of the market and the mind. recession of the late 1980s dragged the market to a crawl. He made a Philip Metzidakis insists he’s not a Type A personality: “I’m just nimble jump into building office interiors, taking a job as director of seeking an interesting and fulfilling life. I like adventure.” the interior construction division of Tishman, one of the largest Adventure was a pattern established early. As an undergraduate, builders in the country. “I hated it,” he said. “It was absolutely cor- Metzidakis, son of retired Spanish professor Philip Metzidakis, porate. Everything flowed downstream from the top.” In true Ren- quickly established a rhythm. He took the first semester of his soph- aissance fashion, he realized he was happiest working for himself. “I omore year off, went back to Swarthmore for three semesters, and said: ‘That’s it, if I ever work for a grand and glorious individual then took a second semester off before returning for three semesters again, it’s going to be me.’” and graduating. On his first semester off, he hitchhiked through the Metzidakis tried his hand at writing video scripts and corporate United States and Mexico. On his second semester off, he flew to speeches. When a friend called to say she was writing an article on London and made his way eastward—overland to Egypt, into the New York for a magazine in Chile, he dashed off a list of angles she occupied Sinai. He financed his travels with carpentry, both as sum- could cover—and she invited him to take the pictures. The pictures mer jobs near home and while on the road. were a hit in Santiago, and the editors asked to see more. After “enough” trips abroad and back, Metzidakis got his degree When a producer with whom he had worked before announced in 1980 and settled in New York. He thought to return to Europe, that he was going to Greece on assignment for National Geographic, but as he was planning to go, he had an epiphany: “I realized that Metzidakis piped up that he’d been taking a night class in Modern most people are like trees: They live where they are planted. Very few Greek and could go along as a translator—and photographer. “I got are strong enough to leave the place where they are born to pursue a two spreads out of it,” he said. dream because leaving means abandoning the known for the As the New York real estate market came back to life, Metzidakis unknown. New York is a magic filter that collects the people from all founded a new company. The Jansizian Group, Ltd. (named for his over the world who are strong enough to abandon everything for maternal grandfather who, because of the massacre of Armenians in 1915, was the last man to bear the family name), has become a force in Manhat- tan’s commercial real estate market. “Mostly, we represent companies and not-for-profit organizations in their search for space,” he said. “We do what the big real estate brokerage companies do but without the hype.” And when he’s not wheeling, dealing, pointing, or shooting, Metzidakis can be found in Greece meditating with monks in a monastery on Mount Athos. In their own way, these retreats have allowed him to revisit his religion the- sis. “The Depravity of Hope and Faith: A Search for Meaning” was his attempt to shake his own late adolescent nihilism and find meaning. “I argued that hope and faith create slaves of men, but what I wanted more than anything was not to be an atheist.” He still does- n’t have his final answer, but he finds useful markers for his journey in the Christian mysticism of the monks. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 18 Engineer, Innkeeper, and State7 Legislator: Scott Cowger ’82

hink engineer, and you probablyT don’t think of some- one who, in Lobenstine’s words, “prefers variety and combination over concentrating on any one thing.” But even when he was engineering full time—for the first 15 years after graduation—Scott Cowger chafed against the same-old same-old. His first job, at Maine’s legendary Bath Iron Works shipyard, found him cooped up in a trailer inhaling the cigar smoke of a decidedly one-dimensional boss. And the fact that he was working on weapons systems for warships wasn’t a match with his own values or the Quaker ori- entation of his alma mater. help. And any thoughts he had of “staying home on the farm” have In a quest for a little fresh air, Cowger spent the next 15 years been happily delayed by his duties—as a state representative. moving from job to job, dipping his drafting pen into the challenges Well aware of Maine’s environmental problems after so many of working with municipalities and the private sector. He designed years of hands-on contact with them, Cowger wanted to make stormwater systems for housing developments, capped municipal changes on a broader level. After losing on his first try, Democrat landfills, and drew up wastewater pollution abatement plans for the Cowger unseated the Republican incumbent two years later by a city of Portland. Anything to keep his mind active, his people-ori- slender 27 votes. In typical Renaissance style, though, Cowger ented personality satisfied, and his day’s work aligned with his resists the loaded label “politician,” preferring “public servant.” By deeply held environmental values. any name, voters must like what he does because they’ve re-elected “The pattern I’ve always followed is to do several different things him twice. at a time,” said Cowger. His Renaissance spirit found that variety in As House chair of the Joint Natural Resources Committee, he has being sole proprietor of his own consulting firm, with its multiple overseen many satisfying victories. Maine enacted the strictest stan- demands of managing a budget, putting out bids, and juggling sev- dards in the nation for mercury and dioxin emissions. It was the eral projects at once. “Without the variety and change of things, I first state in the country to outlaw the sale of mercury thermometers would have become bored. You can definitely tie that to Swarth- and thermostats and now requires dentists to make brochures avail- more. I happened to have an engineering degree—from a liberal arts able informing patients of the risks of mercury amalgam fillings. college.” After three terms, he finds that representing his constituents is When the opportunity to buy a 1906 farmhouse on 130 pastoral its own 24–7 job. “I don’t have time to read books anymore,” acres outside Augusta, Maine, came up seven years ago, Cowger Cowger sighed. “I go to bed reading reports.” Despite not having a grabbed it. “I still don’t know what drove me into starting a B&B, vacation for close to a decade, he’s not complaining. He accepts con- other than that I was interested in running a business, serving peo- stant motion as the price for satisfying his multifaceted interests. ple, and living my life by my own interests,” he said. “That’s the problem of having so many interests. You don’t have As we spoke by phone, front-desk sounds came over the line. time to realize every aspect of any one,” he said. Innkeeping comes Guests were greeted and checked in by Cowger’s partner, Vince Han- closest yet to a holistic expression of himself. “This is the best expe- nan, as Cowger described the view from the office window: “I see rience I’ve ever had,” he said. “As an innkeeper, there’s the big bene- the hills way beyond our animal pastures and the sun just starting fit, psychologically, of making people happy every day.” to set,” he said. It must be working. Maple Hill Farm Bed & Breakfast Inn was After 10 years of trial and error, the business of running an inn recently featured as one of “30 Great Inns” in Travel & Leisure has become as idyllic as his initial vision of it. But Cowger’s goal of (June). It can be found at www.maplebb.com. T “going out in the garden and planting perennials” has been more difficult to realize. There was a major renovation to do, the constant Ali Crolius is a Renaissance soul who writes, teaches, and paints in demands of hosting guests, and the challenge of finding reliable Amherst, Mass., where she lives with her 10-year-old son, Ezra. SEPTEMBER 2002 19 By Sasha Issenberg ’02

Photographs by Eleftherios Kostans

Notes for Life

THECHESTERCHILDREN’SCHORUSCOMESOFAGE.

ust before 12:30 on a Saturday afternoon in early June, six chil- Alston drove the van off campus, headed south to Chester, a city dren gathered around a piano 4 miles from their homes in of 36,000 with remarkable poverty, a history of municipal corrup- JChester, Pa. They sang a song about how easy it is to go home, tion, and a well-earned pessimism about the American urban condi- written by a man who never had to run a car pool. Associate tion. Alston had no list of stops, no map, and so the trip had an Professor of Music John Alston’s left hand floated through the air, improvisational quality, as he tried to design an efficient itinerary en conducting as his right plinked out a melody on the piano. route while two of the girls sat in the back, loudly singing along “Goin' home, goin' home,” the children sang, “I'm a-goin' with the hip-hop on the van radio. “The nice part,” Alston says, “is home.” I get to hang out with them and get to know Chester better than “Mother’s there, 'spectin me; father's waitin' too,” they contin- any taxi driver.” ued. “Lots of folks gathered there, all the friends I knew.” Alston has also come to know the members of his chorus better After they finished the song, Alston told the children—all than most conductors. Each child rehearses with Alston on the around 8 years old—that they had performed well, and he instruct- Swarthmore campus twice weekly during the school year—one ed them to exit Swarthmore’s Lang Music Building, where a white after-school session and one on Saturday—and then daily during a 15-passenger van waited out front. By 1:30 p.m., he was supposed to five-week summer camp. He is a demanding and intense leader dur- be back in the same place with a whole new group of older children. ing rehearsal time, scolding the children at the slightest indication The kids were part of the Chester Children’s Chorus, of which of distraction: wandering eyes, slouching posture, unfocused Alston, 41, is founder, director, and animating spirit. Some days, he singing. is also chauffeur. On this day, he had one hour to drop off the first Alston also spends many evenings and weekends hanging out group at their homes and to pick up the second and take them to with members of the chorus—taking them to the movies or out to the College for an afternoon rehearsal. Alston used to do this as two eat. Many ask him for advice about problems at home or at school; separate legs, making all the drop-offs before starting his pickups; sometimes, they receive it unsolicited. Two of the boys live with to expedite this process, which frequently demanded retracing his Alston at his home in Parkside, which borders Chester, having left path across the length of Chester, he recently decided to drop off homes riddled with family problems. some and pick up others in geographical sequence. Alston does not hide similarities to his own youth. “They know SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 20 HI, ESY FTEGOP HC O A ERY5 STUDENTS. 50 NEARLY A HAS START NOW TO WHICH WANTED GROUP, REALLY THE OF JUST “I SAYS HE 1995. CHOIR,” SINCE PA., CHESTER, ( FROM ALSTON JOHN MUSIC BUILDING OF PROFESSOR ASSOCIATE ltnt odc uiin tClmu lmnaySchool, Elementary Columbus at auditions conduct to the invited Alston like enthusiastically something schools Chester Chester Chorus.” in Boys be Alston Newark would choir,” there a day start one to that wanted “so really says, just “I real- dream. to standing helping a in ize support for administrators College asked Alston at doctorate a completed University. the he Indiana from 1995, 1985 In Iowa. in Northern music in of master’s University a and Dakota South in College She conductor. trains.” a liked be I to if wanted asked expectation. 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When the Chester–Swarth- DAILY DURING A 4-WEEK SUMMER CAMP. “I WANT THEM TO LEARN TO WORK more College Community Coalition disbanded three years ago, the REALLY HARD ALL THE TIME,” ALSTON SAYS. “I TELL THEM, ‘YOU HAVE TO chorus inherited its assets. Now, that cash is running out, and the BRING YOUR A-GAME.’” chorus has turned to grants and fund-raising to support itself. Last fall, Alston hired Andrea Hoff Knox ’64 as managing direc- the pressure of mastering a repertoire for the stage distracts from tor of the program. Knox, formerly a reporter and editor for The the real point of the chorus, developing an appreciation for music, Philadelphia Inquirer, created an advisory board for the chorus and the ability to read music, and a sense of discipline among its mem- spends much of her time raising money and writing grant proposals bers. to assist Alston. “He’s the guy with the vision, with the musical tal- “There are lessons that traditionally fathers pass on to their chil- ent,” Knox says. “He’s not thinking about money or where to get it; dren, and for many of these kids, there is nobody to do that,” Alston it’s not his expertise or where he’s comfortable.” says. “I don’t pretend to be their father, I don’t pretend to be their Alston’s vision includes securing “a beautiful place in Chester to best friend. I’m probably a role model. But Michael Jordan’s a role rehearse” and then one day turning the chorus program into a year- model, too—and I can’t win with that. They want what Michael round school. Alston has been talking about this idea for a while, has.” The unusual rapport Alston has developed with many of the but Knox has added momentum. “He could never see how to get boys—he says he is most comfortable describing it as “an uncle- from where he is now to the school,” she says, “but now he can see nephew relationship”—was not by his design. “I think they started it.” Alston doesn’t find this optimism similarly reflected in all of the it,” he says. “One of the kids—he was tiny at the time, and now he children. “I wish I could tell you they’re genuinely excited,” he says. weighs more than I do—just called to see what I was doing. Josh “Some are listening. Some are not.” and I are best friends now. He just wanted to know what was up.” Laurie Daniels says that Alston is “a brother-father type of guy” nlike the Newark Boys Chorus—or the most famous of all such to her son Nkenge, 12. Nkenge is a small, shy boy who is currently Ugroups, the Harlem Boys Choir—Alston has never tried to home schooled—in part because he used to get picked on in school. develop the chorus as primarily a performance group. Most of the He has been in the choir since he was 8 years old and has begun to group’s public appearances are nearby, at places like the Chester take piano lessons as well. He says he likes Christian music and YWCA and the Swarthmore United Methodist Church. For Alston, hopes to one day sing in a church choir. “He has become very social. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 22 He’s now a social boy; he is outgoing,” Mrs. noun-verb agreement.” Daniels says of the choir’s effect on Nkenge. The chorus is not “That’s three ‘ain’ts’ and the bathroom “It has spilled into his schoolwork. I see it in light on,” Alston says to Vincent, offering a his mannerisms, how he is when he has to primarily a tally of accrued debts. do schoolwork. He is more patient and con- “That’s a dumb rule,” Vincent says. centrated.” performance group. “You want to get into Harvard?” Alston asks. Vincent doesn’t answer, but he is one y the time Alston makes his last pickup, Mastering a repertoire of three chorus members who have pro- Bit is already past 1:30 p.m. Alston con- gressed enough to be invited to sing with cedes that the day’s rehearsal will have to be can distract from the College Chorus. Alston says he “held shortened and apologizes to the boys in the his own”in the bass section during this car for forgetting to bring a football, which the real point— spring’s performance of Brahms’ Requiem. dashes hopes for a quick postrehearsal game. Before he started the choir, Alston had Hurrying to make it back to Swarthmore— music appreciation never been to Chester, never even driven in a van increasingly noisy with the sounds through. Parts of it became quickly familiar of the radio and teenagers—Alston pulls up and discipline. to him. “It’s a poor city,” he says. “It feels a to a stop sign and asks Vincent Wilson, sit- lot like Newark, where I grew up.” From ting to his right, to look out the passenger- behind the windshield of the van, Alston side window to see if there is oncoming traffic. Wilson, 14, is one of has watched Chester for eight years—and knows plenty about its the two boys who lives with Alston. schools, families, and housing stock. But he refuses to draw any “Ain’t nobody coming this way,” Vincent says. conclusions about the state of the city. “I don’t study economic “That’s a buck,” Alston snaps. Since Vincent has been living development in Chester,” he says. “I just want to find the 10 best with him, Alston has developed a system of fines for two major second-grade singers every year. I just want to see a few kids infractions: $1 each time he says “ain’t” and $1 for each time he blossom.” T forgets to turn out the light after leaving a room. “That’s it for now,” Alston explains later. “When he masters that, we’ll go on to Sasha Issenberg ’02 is a writer at Philadelphia Magazine. SEPTEMBER 2002 23 Spreading S Their WING CLASS OF ’01 GRADUATES VENTURE INTO THE “REAL WORLD.”

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monthly financial obligations, young adults ERICKSON SAM of ‘Mother Swarthmore,’ the must draw on previously untapped sources of adjustment can be very chal- was i f attitude our personal strength and perseverance. more ion o n y lenging. But our graduates Swarth attent be all “The less must es,” Swarthmore’s Career Services Office offers ocused n y ou r s tudi are very good at coping you f ce, t he n y ou students and graduates much-needed support pearan ested i and at breaking tasks and ap e i nter e m or ays. during this confusing and often stressful period th egory s problems down into manage- Evan Gr (see box). For example, questions such as “Who able components,” he adds. am I, and what do I have to offer?” and “Can I Demonstrating that ability, 72.1 percent of the Class of do things that are consistent with my goals and values?” 2001 already had plans for employment—based on a Career arise. In response, Career Services staff members “offer Services Survey before graduation from 269, or 81 percent, of support by trying to be good and responsive sources of 332 graduating students. In addition, 18.2 percent wanted to information, feedback, and advice,” says Tom Francis, attend graduate or professional school in 2002, 1.1 percent director of Career Services. “And perhaps most of all, we were interested in more undergraduate study, 2.2 percent had try to be a place where people can come to have their travel or vacation plans, 2.2 percent were uncertain at that questions and their uncertainty acknowledged in a non- time, and 4.1 percent had other interests. Of these respon- threatening environment.” dents, 44.2 percent were “very firm” about the certainty of Many alumni continue to use Career Services as they make these plans; 17.8 percent, “firm”; 16.7 percent, “tentative”; changes throughout their careers. “Most of our contact of this 9.3 percent, “uncertain”; and 11.9 percent, “very uncertain.” sort is with alumni in the first five to 10 years after Swarth- One year later, seven of these ’01 graduates relate the reali- more but sometimes later as well,” Francis says. Some consult ties involved during the last year in emerging from the Col- about the steps for applying to graduate school; others are lege’s cocoon and creating adult lives in New York, California, contemplating career or job changes or difficult work situa- and Swarthmore. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 24 C oto ftesfwr, rgr says. Gregory software,” the of portion functional the programming for responsible are I and Patrick developers, As various clients. to basis contract a on solutions software custom provide Life] We Goundie. Student Tedd for College the of Dean ate [Associ- from street the across Swarthmore, in Avenue Vassar on lives, ironically, who somewhat Oaks, Rob boss, the my is of exists home that ‘base’ a to thing closest “The D.C. Washington, and York; New Philadel- phia; as such places in live the employees and office, central no has company The Internet. the over projects programming software ’02—complete Galun Josh and ’01 Boe Patrick of employees—including all the which for Design, Oaks for developer in cities world!” populous the most the of ex- one might in one pect as easy as not friend- task new ships—a make and people new desire meet natural to a also is there are, tionships rela- those as the indispensable to as Now, move area. to me for motivations major the of one was the community to alumni closer Swarthmore be to desire “A says. he and strong,” fresh very are classmates with tionships rela- my graduate, recent a “As spring. the Radford,Va.,during of hometown his from “T fe th co fo

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hen Henry David Thoreau wrote that most people live lives of Wquiet desperation, he clearly did not have in mind Bill ’72 and Amy Vedder Weber ’73. In the normal course of their professional working lives, one or the other or both of them have been detained by Idi Amin on suspicion of being counterrevolu- tionary mercenaries; hiked alone through unfamiliar montane rain forest while suffer- ing from malaria-induced hallucinations; climbed trees to escape Africa’s most danger- ous animal, the cape buffalo; had their house cut completely in half by a falling Hagenia tree; gone one on one with a 400- pound silverback gorilla; scaled a rugged 12,000-foot mountain while four months pregnant and without climbing gear; assist- ed in the murder investigation of a world- renowned animal behavioralist; had a $1,000 bounty put on one’s head; and set a world record by counting 353 Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii monkeys in a single group. OK, some of those experiences could be classified as desperate. But “quiet”? Not hardly. And this is only the short list. Even a partial accounting of the couple’s adventures over the years would fill a book. In fact, it has filled In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (Simon & Schus- ter, 2001; Touchstone, 2002), co-authored by Weber and Vedder. The couple, who met and married at foundly disturbed woman who had already der must be found between the lines be- Swarthmore, joined the Peace Corps in 1973, outlived her usefulness to the gorillas she cause the couple is self-deprecatory to a spent two years teaching in what was then loved, how they struggled to save the rapidly fault: Mostly you are left to infer their physi- Zaire (now the Congo), and fell in love with dwindling mountain gorilla population in cal courage in the face of constant chal- Africa. Even before their Peace Corps days the face of overwhelming odds, and how lenges from both the natural and the human ended, they knew they wanted to come back. they watched a country they loved get torn world; their moral courage in the face of Within a few years, they found their way to apart by civil war and the most intense constant challenges from Rwandan, U.S., Rwanda and the mountain gorillas of the genocide of a genocidal century. World Bank, and other officials and fellow Parc National des Volcans. It makes for something more than fasci- conservationists; their single-minded deter- Vedder and Weber cover all of this in the nating reading. Awesome reading is more mination to save Rwanda’s mountain goril- book: how they came to work with the like it, made all the more so by their under- las no matter what—even if it meant, as it famed Dian Fossey and discovered a pro- stated writing. Much about Weber and Ved- often did, keeping their mouths shut in the SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 30 yWD hhr ’73 Ehrhart W.D. By ERAY17,TE ECE 4-YEAR-OLD A ( IN RESCUED GORILLA THEY NOSTRILS. 1978, THEIR FEBRUARY ABOVE LINES AND RIDGES ONSSFEE HNI A TRAPPED. WAS IT OF WHEN DIED ANIMAL SUFFERED THE WOUNDS CARE, CONSTANT DESPITE NIIULGRLA,SC STEOENAMED ONE THE ( AS QUINCE SUCH RECOGNIZE TO GORILLAS, LEARNED INDIVIDUAL WEBER AMY BILL LIVE. AND GORILLAS VEDDER VOLCANS, MOUNTAIN DES MANY NATIONAL WHERE PARC ( THE OF RWANDA IN PART VOLCANO VISOKE THE BV RIGHT ABOVE IH,WT AMY WITH RIGHT, ,B H ATR OF PATTERN THE BY ), RMPOACHERS. FROM ) ABOVE IS )

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BILL ʼ72 AND AMY VEDDER WEBER ʼ73 AND THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY 31 SEPTEMBER 2002 “It seemed odd to me that we’re asking the world’s poorest people to live with tigers and elephants, but we won’t live with wolves. We’re asking other countries not to log while we knock down our own forests.”

BILL WEBER GETS CLOSE TO PABLO (TOPLEFT), face of provocation, obfuscation, and stu- country in Africa, and most people depend A BOLD GORILLA WHO WAS KEENLY INTERESTED pidity. on farming for a living. Much of the Parc IN HUMANS. PABLO WAS THE ELDER SILVERBACK “We had heard that Fossey was diffi- National des Volcans had already been lost cult,” says Weber, “but we decided we were to farming in the decade before the couple’s IN THE LARGEST-KNOWN GORILLA FAMILY, going to go [to Karisoke, Fossey’s research arrival in 1978. Weber set out to convince COMPRISING 44 MEMBERS. center], come hell or high water. We had no Rwandans that “Rwandan needs couldn’t be idea how high the water would get.” addressed by destroying the park” but them. But the MGP was an immediate suc- “But the gorillas were amazing,” says would be better served by turning it into a cess. And we felt we were leaving the project Vedder, explaining why they stuck it out. tourist destination. in good hands. And finally, there were such “You look into their eyes, and there’s a Thus was born the Mountain Gorilla big challenges in other areas. The more we thinking being in there. They couldn’t be left Project (MGP), which by 1989 was attract- learned about the gorillas, the more we real- alone. They were not going to survive.” ing 7,000 tourists a year willing to pay $200 ized we had to leave them to save them.” “Fossey had won the global battle,” each to spend an hour with the gorillas as Weber says, “Every moment you spend Weber adds, “but she was incapable of well as providing employment to local with the animals, you’re not spending with fighting the local battle. There was no one Rwandans hired as park rangers and guides, the director of parks. To save the animals, to do it but us.” drastically reducing poaching and creating a you must deal with the forces that threaten “We saw we could make a difference,” great deal of indirect spending within them.” Vedder says, “And to walk away from that— Rwanda. It’s what has come to be called eco- we just couldn’t.” tourism, though there was no such name for hrough the 1980s, the couple worked it then. When the concept was finally devel- Ton a variety of projects in Rwanda while uring their first 18 months in Rwanda, oped, it drew heavily on Weber and Vedder’s earning doctorates from the University of DVedder spent much of her time with a pioneering work. Wisconsin and raising their sons Noah and single gorilla family, sitting among them day The program has been so successful that Ethan. By 1990, they were both working for after day in the rain and cold at 10,000 feet, the gorilla population is now up to about the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), watching what they ate, studying not just 360 animals from a low of 260 20 years which, under its old name of the New York their behavior but their nutritional needs ago. Even the terrible civil war did not Zoological Society, had funded their initial and habitat use patterns. Meanwhile, realiz- destroy the program; though it languished research on mountain gorillas, Weber as ing that “you couldn’t save the wildlife with- for nearly a decade, tourists in the thou- director of WCS’s Africa programs, Vedder out addressing people’s needs as well,” sands are back again. as Biodiversity Program coordinator. When Weber concentrated on the people side of Long before the civil war, however, Ved- Weber became director of the North Ameri- the equation. “Here were impoverished local der and Weber had turned to other projects. ca Program in 1993, Vedder took over as people,” he says, “who were being told to “I think people find it very hard to under- director of the Africa Program. stay out of their own parks.” stand how we could move on from gorillas,” In fact, Weber created the North America Rwanda is the most densely populated says Vedder. “We were very attached to Program. “I was very content to be running SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 32 the Africa programs,” says Weber, “but meanwhile, I’m reading about spotted owls and wolves here in the United States. It seemed odd to me that we’re asking the world’s poorest people to live with tigers and elephants, but we won’t live with wolves. We’re asking other countries not to log while we knock down our own forests. I thought we should hold ourselves to the same standards we expect of others. We could be setting a better example for the world. “This [current Bush] administration is particularly bad,” he continues. “They are so in bed with the vested interests, especially oil and energy. They’re sticking oil rigs all over the Rockies.” “Bush has lifted the moratorium on building logging roads in our national forests,” adds Vedder. Weber is especially contemptuous of the proposal to drill for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). He describes a 10-day rafting trip he recently took with son Noah through ANWR, con- cluding, “And then to imagine oil rigs there. How do you tell Bolivia and Ecuador not to

ʼ 73 AND THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY open their parks?” His tone shifts from incredulity to sarcasm: “All parks should be inviolate,” he says, “except ours.” “I just came back from meetings in Bolivia,” says Vedder, “and I can tell you that the world is watching what we do.

ʼ 72 AND AMY VEDDER WEBER Ecuador. Congo. Gabon. Are we going to drill in the most pristine wilderness left in our country?” Two years ago, Vedder left the Africa Pro- gram herself to become a WCS vice presi- dent as well as director of the newly created Living Landscapes Program. “I was really

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BILL torn,” she says. “I hated to leave Africa, but

WEBERAND VEDDER LIVEDINRWANDAWITHTHEIR CHILDREN,NOAHAND

ETHAN, FORSIX YEARSINTHE 1970S AND 1980S.AMY (ABOVE)CARRIES YOUNGETHAN ACROSS ABRIDGEMADEOFBAMBOOAND VINESINZAIRE.

IN THE 1980S,DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECOTOURISM PROGRAM(LEFT) CONVINCEDTHE RWANDANGOVERNMENTTOABANDON PLANSFOR RAISING CATTLE IN THEPARCNATIONAL DESVOLCANS.TODAY, THE POPULATION OF

MOUNTAIN GORILLAS IS THEHIGHEST IT HASBEENSINCE THE 1960S. SEPTEMBER 2002 33 the Living Landscapes Program sounded studying five key species of animals known people all around the park. Here, however, neat intellectually, and I wanted to help it as “landscape species” because if you can the primary conflict is not over hunting or work and make sure it was linked to on-the- protect these, you can protect just about logging but between the indigenous Tacana ground programs.” every other species in the area. people of the lowland forests and developers She hasn’t had to leave Africa entirely, “If you don’t know how these animals backed by the provincial government, with however. The Living Landscapes Program behave,” says Vedder, “you’d think: ‘a million additional conflict in the mountains be- has projects all over the world, and, despite acres [the size of the park]—that’s huge.’ tween farmers and spectacled bears. dealing with much larger geographic areas But the animals have ranges even larger Two of Vedder’s Living Landscape proj- and many more species of animals, it isn’t than the park’s boundaries. Bongos [large ects involve Weber’s North America Pro- much different from those early efforts of antelopes] travel up to 75 miles, elephants gram: Greater Yellowstone and the Adiron- Vedder and Weber to balance the needs of 100. Dwarf crocodiles move back and forth dacks, both just now in the process of gorillas with those of people. between the park and the reserve. Chim- selecting landscape species. “People ask us, One Living Landscapes project in Congo- panzees disappear from areas that are ‘How can you work with each other day in Brazzaville, for instance, involves the mil- logged. Nobody knows why. But you can’t and day out?’ But it’s all we’ve ever done,” lion-acre Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, just say to people, ‘No hunting. No logging.’ says Vedder. From all appearances, they’re which is abutted by multiple logging conces- People need to eat; they need to make a liv- about as durable and compatible a couple as sions, the Lac Tele Community Wildlife ing. What is sustainable?” ever was, even commuting together daily Reserve, and a legal trophy-hunting zone as Another Living Landscapes project from their home in Yorktown, N.Y., to WCS well as the borders of Cameroon and the involves Madidi National Park in Bolivia, headquarters at the Bronx Zoo. Central African Republic. The project is and, of course, the lands and animals and Nevertheless, over the years, they have

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new venture for Amy Vedder is the Liv- Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) projects in Africa, South America, and North Aing Landscapes Program, which works approach involves the designation of a America. One example is the Adirondack to save wildlife both inside and outside pro- small number of key “landscape species” in Mountain region of New York State, where tected areas and to reduce conflict between particular areas. These are animals that Vedder and Weber have a summer home. The people and animals. The project is based on require large and diverse areas and, when five species pictured here are possible the simple reality that animals—especially they and the lands they need are protected, “landscape species” for that region (a selec- large species such as elephants, jaguars, or will tend to assure the conservation of a tion process is now under way). Learn more bears—do not respect the boundaries of wide range of other species as well. These about Living Landscapes at http://wcs.- parks and wildlife preserves. Part of the principles apply to 50 WCS Living Landscape org/7490/livinglandscapes/. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 34 “There has to be something of higher value than consumption. The world cannot survive ʼ 73 at the level that we [in the United States]

are living. This is ʼ 72 AND AMY VEDDER WEBER just not sustainable.” COURTESY BILL

TOALLOUTWARDAPPEARANCES,AMYVEDDER spent a great deal of time apart—on a few paging elephants or confronted poachers (SECONDFROMLEFT)ANDBILLWEBER(RIGHT) occasions, as much as six months but much armed with machetes and axes—though LOOKLIKEANYOTHERWHITEMIDDLE-CLASS more often for shorter periods, ranging from Vedder still wonders what impression she days to weeks. Vedder recently missed the made on neighbors when the couple first COUPLEFROMTHESUBURBS,NOTLIKEFOLKSWHO couple’s 30th wedding anniversary because moved to Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and she HAVE DODGED RAMPAGING ELEPHANTS OR of a trip to Bolivia and followed that almost immediately began hacking away at an old CONFRONTEDPOACHERSARMEDWITHMACHETES immediately with another to Alaska. tree stump in the front yard with a wicked- ANDAXES.WITHTHEMARESONSETHAN(FAR Through it all, however, one or the other looking machete, whose Rwandan name LEFT)ANDNOAH. parent has always been home with the boys. translates roughly into “the peacemaker.” Weber says: “One thing about WCS is that Whatever the neighbors may think, this they let us kill ourselves at our own pace.” is decidedly not an ordinary couple. Though Vedder translates, “We have incredible flexi- you are not likely to get them to say as much Project made us optimistic really for all of bility in shaping our schedules.” themselves, together they have helped to our lives,” says Vedder. “It showed us what Weber adds, “We don’t have a life outside revolutionize the way the world thinks you could do. There was a lot of doom and of work, family, and sports.” The boys— about and deals with conservation issues. gloom around, but we made it work. We Noah is now a senior at Washington & Lee, But the myriad forces arrayed against con- came away feeling that we really could make and Ethan is a senior at Yorktown High— servation success seem at times overwhelm- a difference.” have always taken after their athletic par- ing. Weber says, “You have to fight the fight. ents, who between them won varsity letters “There’s never been a rate of extermina- I don’t know what the alternative is. And at Swarthmore in football, lacrosse, softball, tion like we’ve seen since the turn of the last there are good things happening. Moose are and swimming. century,” Vedder says. “There has to be coming back to our national forests. Beaver, For many years, both parents coached something of higher value than consump- martens, fishers. It looked like wolves were community youth soccer and lacrosse, and tion. The world cannot survive at the level finished in the lower Forty-Eight, but now Vedder still coaches the girls’ lacrosse team that we [in the United States] are living. they’re represented in eight different states.” she founded 10 years ago. She missed two This is just not sustainable.” “We do win battles,” says Vedder. “You games in June because of her trip to Bolivia, Weber adds: “We’re just totally depend- can make a difference. It’s just really impor- but Weber covered for her. ent on our addiction to oil—on sticking tant to have wilderness in our lives. We need “Sometimes one of the girls or a parent that hypodermic needle into the ground, on that. To remember that this world is more will ask, ‘Where’s Amy?’ I’ll say, ‘She’s in this thing that is killing us. And we’re losing than just ours. Just be aware. That’s the first Bolivia. She’ll be back for Saturday’s game.’ the population battle.” step.” T I’m not sure that fully registers.” “And the corruption battle,” Vedder It probably doesn’t. To all outward interjects. “You’ve got to have your eyes wide W.D. Ehrhart teaches English and history at the appearances, Vedder and Weber look like open.” Haverford School. His newest book is The Mad- just another middle-class couple from the Yet Vedder and Weber remain positive. ness of It All: Essays on War, Literature and ’burbs, not like folks who have dodged ram- “The great success of the Mountain Gorilla American Life (McFarland & Co., 2002). SEPTEMBER 2002 35 36 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN ALUMNIDIGEST htgah ySee odlt ’67 Goldblatt Steven by Photographs l A NTEKHBR ALCFE BAR. COFFEE HALL KOHLBERG THE IN (FOREGROUND) RIGHT: BELOW GALLERY. LIST THE IN WORK THEIR PLAYED ’45 CENTER: BELOW A RSEL’57 CRISWELL SAM EO LEFT: BELOW WORKSHOP. ORCHESTRA TRADITIONAL PERCUSSION GAMELAN A INDONESIAN LED MUSIC, OF FESSOR RIGHT: (LEFT) HMSWIMN’2 SITN PRO- ASSISTANT ’82, WHITMAN THOMAS N EENPCURO’2DIS- ’92 PICCUIRRO JENEEN AND m u ML HMOD ’04 THOMFORDE EMILY AEI OIC-ARR ’01 JOKISCH-SAGRERA VALERIA N OLPIE’0PERFORMED ’00 PRICE JOEL AND RIT AE TNE MUSTIN STANLEY JANET ARTISTS (RIGHT) TREGISTRATION AT i n (LEFT) AND e W k e n e 2 d N AINLCNETO HI DONALD ’69 CHAIR FUJIHIRA CONNECTION NATIONAL AND LEFT: CENTER. INTERCULTURAL ABOVE: AAEMRHLEEO ED’67 REID ELENOR MARSHAL PARADE 0 0 H LS F’2PRIDI THE IN PARTIED ’92 OF CLASS THE 2 BELOW: SINGINGROUNDSUNDERTHEBELLTOWER JOHN FINKBINER ’98, SARA PALMER ’91, AMY WERE (LEFTTORIGHT) OTAVIA DE MOURA PROP- MARINELLO ’02, ADRIAN DOHRMANN PACKEL ’04, PER ’00, ELLIOTT MORETON ’88, SONIA MARIANO MARK HANDLER ’05, DAVID SZENT-GYORGYI ’83, ’02, THALIA MILLS ’00, JIM MOSKOWITZ ’88, ANDJULIASZENT-GYORGYI

BELOW: MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF ’82 PLANTED A TREE IN MEMORY OF CLASSMATE JONATHAN RAN- DALL, WHO WAS KILLED AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON SEPT. 11, 2001.

NEARRIGHT: CLASS OF ’57 REUNION CHAIR MAR- GARET “PEG” CALMAR MEHAN ’57 (LEFT)VISITS WITH TERRY ARMSTRONG THOMPSON ’57 (CENTER) AND MARJORIE THOM ARGO ’57.

FARRIGHT: COLLECTIONSPEAKERARLIERUSSELL HOCHSCHILD ’62, ALUMNI COUNCIL PRESIDENT RICHARD TRUITT ’66 (CENTER),ANDARABELLA CARTER AWARD RECIPIENT PAUL GASTON ’52

BOTTOMRIGHT: THE 50TH-REUNION CLASS (LEFT TORIGHT): CLASS VALET ELIZABETH NOLTE ’03, THOMAS REINER ’52, AMY HECHT ’52, ANNE PINGON VALSING ’52, BARBARA WOLFF SEARLE ’52, AND CLASS VALET MICHAEL LOEB ’03

ABOVE: MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF ’97 CELEBRATEFIVEYEARSINTHE“REALWORLD.”

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Starling ’92 Scott Cowger ’82 Jonathan Berck ’81 Martha Easton ’89 Allen Dietrich ’693 Panayiotis Andreou Ellinas ’871 Rosemary Werner Putnam ’622 Julia Knerr ’811 Paris Susan Turner ’603 David Lyon ’733 Catherine Seeley Lowney ’82 Gertrude Joch Robinson ’503 National Chair ZONE D Joanna Vondrasek ’942 Don Fujihira ’69 District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia Wendell Williams ’511 T. Alexander Aleinikoff ’743 Sabina Beg ’834 ZONE G KEY David Goslin ’581 Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, 1 Term ends 2005 2 Term ends 2003 Benjamin Keys ’013 Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, 3 Term ends 2004 4 Nominating Committee SEPTEMBER 2002 39 40 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN CLASSNOTES

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o ahead. Sit next to him. Adrien lent time, Swarthmore’s Quaker tradition deSchryver’s suggestion was part was a calming influence. While other cam- Gtease, part dare. Amy hesitated, puses went up in flames, our passions were then smiled as she began to crawl toward doused with a smothering blanket of Quak- Casimir, a massive silverback scowling at us er understanding—and the admonition to from beneath a tree about thirty feet away. use our learning and experience to go forth Surprised by her eager response, deSchryver and make the world a better place. Follow- grabbed Amy by the belt and pulled her back ing graduation, our budding interest in con- to his side. For the next thirty minutes, we servation and an urge for adventure led us watched Casimir and his family of gorillas to Africa via the Peace Corps. We weren’t from a respectful distance of fifteen to twen- qualified for specialist positions in parks or ty yards. Thick bamboo limited our views to wildlife management, so we joined more isolated body parts. The gorillas tolerated than one hundred other volunteers to be BOOKS&ARTSour presence, but several stayed completely trained as the first teachers sent to Congo, out of sight and all were clearly nervous. which was then known as Zaire…. Occasional screams ripped the still moun- In many ways, we were fortunate that we tain air. Powerful smells and strange plants began our work in Africa as teachers. If we enhanced the sensory stew. We were elated. had started in conservation, with strong Our pygmy guide, Patrice, was calm— pressure to save some park or species, we seemingly bored—throughout our time with might have been quickly pulled into adver- the gorillas. But on our hike back to park sarial positions with local people and gov- headquarters, he grew more animated when ernment officials. Instead, teaching brought another creature caught his eye. Patrice stalk- us into constant contact with Africans and ed his tiny prey until it led to an invisible their view of the world. We saw how our stu- target. Locating the entryway to the bee’s dents learned and came to understand rea- nest, he ignored repeated stings as he soning and values that shaped their percep- ripped open the rich ground. Within a “You will see many tions. We gained firsthand experience work- minute, he returned to our group with a ing with the dysfunctional Congolese educa- wide grin on his face and large chunks of strange and different tion bureaucracy—and saw how pervasive dripping honeycomb in his hands.... Soon corruption could crush individual initiative our faces were smeared with an indescrib- at a very young age. We became fluent in ably exotic mix of flavors and substances. things.... Always French and learned Swahili, a regional Ban- On that late summer day in 1973, we entered tu language that opened up a rich and re- the land of gorillas and honey. keep a question warding world of contact with the large Five years later, we would experience the majority of local people who spoke no Euro- wonder of sitting peacefully among moun- pean language. Most of all, we were able to tain gorillas in Rwanda—and the awesome mark in front of take our time and absorb the African way of responsibility of trying to save their popula- life and culture that surrounded us. We tried tion from extinction at the hands of your eyes and ask to follow the advice of a Jesuit priest who humans. But in 1973 we were Peace Corps had addressed our Peace Corps group toward volunteers in eastern Congo, with much the end of our formal training. You will see more to learn before we could make any ‘why’ before you many strange and different things over the next meaningful contribution to conservation. two years, he said. Always keep a question judge something mark in front of your eyes and ask “why” before e met in 1969 at Swarthmore College you judge something you see as wrong just Wand married three years later. Two because it is different. It was excellent advice. kids from small towns in upstate New York, you see as wrong we shared the best and worst of the late From Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, In the King- 1960s and early 1970s. The King and just because it is dom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dan- Kennedy assassinations, Vietnam, Kent gerous Land, Simon & Schuster, 2001. State, acid rock, Earth Day, Women’s Lib, the Reprinted with permission of the authors. See Generation Gap, and seemingly endless cul- different.” W.D. Ehrhart’s [’73] feature “A World That Is tural conflict. Through much of that turbu- Not Just Ours” about the Webers on page 30. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 54 OTHER BOOKS New Yorker, Saturday Review of Literature, Caroline Jean Acker ’68, Creating the Ameri- Harper’s, and The New Republic. can Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic John Riggs ’64 (ed.), U.S. Policy on Climate Era of Narcotic Control, The Johns Hopkins Change: What Next? A Report of the Aspen University Press, 2002. Weaving together Institute Environmental Policy Forum, The the accounts of addicts and researchers, this Aspen Institute, 2002. In January, the historian explores how addiction in the Aspen Institute convened a diverse group of early 20th century was strongly influenced scientists, economists, business leaders, by the professional concerns of psychiatrists environmentalists, and government officials seeking to increase their medical authority. to discuss solutions to greenhouse gases, She also examines other factors, including which dangerously interfere with the global the ambitions of pharmacologists to build a climate system. This book draws together drug development infrastructure and the the thinking from leading experts on the American Medical Association’s campaign to nature of climate change and ways to reduce prescriptions of opiates and absolve respond to these issues. Some of the topics physicians in private practice from the explored include action to reduce emissions, necessity of treating difficult addicts as investment in future technologies, and gov- patients. The author is an associate profes- ernment leadership. sor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and co-founder of Prevention Point Pitts- Paula Lawrence Wehmiller ’67, A Gathering burgh, a needle exchange program in of Gifts, Church Publishing, 2002. The Allegheny County, Pa. author writes about her experiences as edu- cator, priest, parent, and member of a Barbara Pearson Lange Godfrey ’31; Julie remarkable African-American family, whose Lange Hall ’55 (ed.), Man of Chautauqua and origins she traces in this JourneyBook. She His Caravans of Culture: The Life of Paul M. writes: “Telling stories is the way we speak Pearson, self-published, 2001. After gather- in our family. ‘Parable’ is our mother ing letters, photos, lecture notes, and plays tongue…. Separating stories from who I am in which her father acted—with the assis- would be like separating breathing from the tance of Friends Historical Library at the way I live my life. The stories that want College—the author tells her father’s story, telling are my way of knowing where I’ve helping her understand the facts of their come from, who I am becoming, and who I family history. In the preface to the book, am called to be in this world.” addressed to her children who never knew their grandfather, Godfrey begins this story E. Roy Weintraub ’64, How Economics where her father’s letters started—with one Became a Mathematical Science, Duke Univer- to his future wife. Many of these letters, sity Press, 2002. This book follows the his- reproduced in the book, document life dur- THECOVERSOF A GATHERING OF GIFTS (TOP) AND tory of economics within the framework of mathematics in the 20th century. The ing the late 1800s and early 1900s as well U.S.POLICYONCLIMATECHANGE(BOTTOM) DRAW as the influence of railroads at the time. author also examines the career of his late READERSTOTHESERECENTLYPUBLISHEDBOOKS. father, economist Sidney Weintraub. The Adam Haslett ’92, You Are Not a Stranger author is professor of economics at Duke Here, Doubleday, 2002. This debut collec- William Matchett ’49, Shakespeare and For- University; editor of Toward a History of tion of short stories focuses on people fac- Game Theory; and author of several books, ing some of life’s most profound dilemmas, giveness, Fithian Press, 2002. This study of Shakespeare’s plays discusses the differences including Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing including saying good-bye to someone you Economic Knowledge. love, letting go of a long-held secret, and between “pardon” and “forgiveness,” tracing understanding the meaning of mental suf- the evolution of the latter in works such as fering. In settings ranging from New Eng- Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of COMPACT DISK land to Great Britain and Los Angeles to the Venice, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, and Yvonne Healy ’75, Stories From the Heart of American West, these nine stories explore The Winter’s Tale. To complete this study, the World, 2002. The author/artist presents the themes of love and honor, pity and Matchett, professor emeritus of English at original adaptations of folktales from pride, and compassion and sacrifice. Cur- the University of Washington, drew on years around the world, which are suitable for lis- rently a student at Yale Law School, Haslett of scholarly study. From 1963 to 1982,he teners of all ages. Titles include Lugh, the has published work in Zoetrope: All-Story was editor of Modern Language Quarterly and Shining One; People-Eating Monster; and Isis and The Yale Review. the author of several books of poetry and and Osiris. criticism; his work has also appeared in The SEPTEMBER 2002 55 62 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN ALUMNIPROFILE i neeti nhoooya“ra tool “great a anthropology in interest his s n e r i S A y n a M f o e r u L book groundbreaking the wrote who ’36, Whyte novel. adult an on focused now is energy rilsi h ue20 n ac issues March of and 2001 June the in articles published also has He Players. Sherborn Rounds with Appointed tandem Our in presented was it when ater, The- Community of Association chusetts Massa- Eastern the from recognition spe- cial and 2001 in competition one-act ater Head My dramas. original two mounted Productions. King com- pany the started he 1988, In and Connecticut. 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By Aviva Kushner Yoselis ’96 INMYLIFE don’t consider myself living in a war zone now, although I suppose my descriptions of living outside Jerusalem sound as if I do. The following Iare excerpts from letters I’ve sent to my sister, Tamah Kushner ’83. I offer them neither as a political appeal nor as a defense; I only want to share my feelings and experiences about what it’s like to live as an Israeli Jew “over the green line.”

Dear Tamah,

I’ve always been one for new experiences. Saturday night, I find itzchak wants me to get a gun. Now that I finally know how to myself driving along a dark road surrounded by abandoned build- Yshoot it, he thinks I’m ready to own one. He doesn’t like the ings. We pass a fluorescent green-lit tower, which I realize is a idea of my driving with the kids with no protection. At first, I minaret, a section of a Muslim mosque—not a welcome site in our thought he was crazy. What am I, born and raised in the mall capital situation. I look at my husband. “Are you sure we’re on the right of America, going to do with a semi-automatic in my purse? I’m still road?” I ask him, even though I’m holding the map and navigating. adjusting to the responsibilities of being a parent. He takes his gun out of its holster, loads it, and hands it to me. We first had this conversation on the way to visit Yitzchak’s “Hold it,” he says. “And look around. Be ready to fire or hand the brother and my new sister-in-law. They wanted us to visit them in gun to me.” We drive down the road in silence. their new home near Efrat, with the children. I looked at my hus- An almost hysterical giggle bursts from my throat. I’m holding a band, but I already knew what our answer would be. As scared as I semi-automatic weapon in both hands, when I’ve never even fired was to travel that road, we had both agreed that we wouldn’t change the thing. I’m a nice girl from South Jersey. How did I get here? plans because of terrorism. This was our family. At an army checkpoint, we ask the soldiers if we’re going in the So there we were, again, on a darkened road, passing junctions right direction. Straight on, they tell us. They’re boys of no more where passengers in cars are shot at regularly. than 19, wearing bullet-proof vests, helmets, standing behind sand- Then, Yitzchak says gently, “You know, Aviva, if we are shot at, it bags and cement blocks. We’re in a war zone. will be at close range.” I look at him for a moment, not understand- But the strangest thing is that my husband is not being over- ing. Then I realize, people come down from those villages, hide in dramatic or ridiculous. People are shot at all the time. It doesn’t even the bushes, and shoot at passing cars. I turn around and look at my make the news anymore unless someone’s seriously injured. A youth sleeping children in the back seat and have a moment of true fear. threw a Molotov cocktail at my brother-in-law when he was driving We ride the rest of the way home in silence. near Ofrah last week. Thank G-d it didn’t go off. We are living in surreal times, which explains why I am carrying a gun in my lap and am an American. I like being an American. I still get choked up whispering the phrases of psalms. We are more scared on this road Iwhen I hear the “Star-Spangled Banner.” I believe firmly in the because it is unknown. democratic process and constitutional law. I respect the flag and am We travel from our home to Jerusalem every day, passing check- fascinated by our brief history. I vote. points where explosions and shootings occur daily. Still, our life Yet I choose to live in another country. progresses as “normal.” We go on with weddings, births, and happy As much as I am an American and culturally always will be, I am occasions and sit with friends and relatives. We achieve normalcy. an Israeli by choice. Simply stated, I fell in love with Israel and could We try not to boil over when we hear accusations about the “set- not leave; that is why I live in this duality. As a Jew, this is the place I tlers” or how foreign countries think we should take less action— belong. even though we’re still being killed every day by people who think The past year has been painful, difficult, and challenging. Life it’s OK to blow yourself up for a cause. has been altered; even though the big picture has changed, the little It was good to talk with you, Tamah, last Saturday night and things affect me most. Like the fear that surprises you when you laugh a bit to relieve my worry. least expect it, driving next to a bus, sure that it will blow; or taking SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 72 Mortality holds our hand as we wake up in the morning and kisses us goodnight as we climb into bed.

AP PHOTO/EITAN HESS-ASKENAZI it as a victory or loss, us against them. The irony is that I am sur- rounded daily by Arab Israelis and Palestinian Arabs who go about their daily lives as I go about mine. The taxi driver, the street cleaner, the waiter, the hospital attendant, the academic, the teacher, the builder are all Arab. We meet everyday, sometimes with a smile, sometimes a wave, sometimes nothing, but we are in each other’s pockets. I wonder at the surrealism of it all, how we can be neigh- bors and enemies in the same breath. I don’t wish those individuals any harm; in many cases, we work side by side. But in the back of my mind always stands the thought that their nation wishes that my people would get up and go from their land forever. I feel the little things the most—like debating whether to go to an event because it’s in an area where there’s been shooting, even though there have been bombs in Netanya, Haifa, and Tel Aviv. Where is it really safe? I knew some of the people killed, although there have always been degrees of separation: a student friend of my husband’s,my neighbor’s brother, and a friend of a friend. Sometimes I’m sure that tragedy is waiting just around the corner; because I have been spared, the next attack will take someone I love. But through it all, we go to work, come home, and spend time with family. We go to movies, supper, and the park. The light shines over Israel: the hundreds of miracles of last-minute diffused bombs and gunfire that narrowly missed hitting a school bus full of chil- dren or the bomb that mysteriously didn’t go off in a place that would have killed hundreds. I don’t listen to the news anymore. One morning, I wanted to hear the names of those killed in the latest attack. “Maybe I know someone,” I said, “and I will want to go to their funeral.” My hus- band looked at me. “What you’re doing there,” he said, pointing to my prayer book, “is much more important. I can see that you’ve crossed the line, lost AVIVAYOSELIS (ABOVE, LEFT), SEEN WITH HUSBANDYITZCHAKAND perspective.” It’s been half a year, and I’ve rarely heard a news CHILDREN MA’AYANTOVAAND B’NAYA, HASLIVED IN THEWESTBANKSET- report. I do feel much calmer, have things more in perspective. My TLEMENTOFMITSPEH JERICHOSINCE 1997.ANISRAELI SOLDIER(TOP) priorities are relationships with those I love, my own development, PATROLSNEARTHE FENCEOFA SIMILARSETTLEMENTAFTER PALESTINIAN my connection to G-d, and my love for fellow Israelis—although GUNMEN ATTACKEDA BUS, KILLINGEIGHT SETTLERS THEREONJULY 17. they can drive me mad with frustration. That’s my purpose, and everything else must remain in the background. your child to buy shoes and giving the man on the street a sideways The truth is that life is uncertain. No matter where we are, sick- glance, sure that he is the next suicide bomber. My heart starts ness, car accidents, trauma, and death lurk around the corner. But pounding, I sweat, and the fear bubbles in my throat. I cannot we live in our state of denial that keeps us invincible and isolated, count how many buses I’ve gotten off because I was sure that the until the mirror cracks. When we step out of that isolation we feel, passenger next to me was going to explode. mortality holds our hand as we wake up in the morning and kisses The panic sometimes overwhelms me, but I struggle to get over it us goodnight as we climb into bed. and continue with my daily life—or they will have won. I do look at In Israel, we feel it more strongly. T SEPTEMBER 2002 73 76 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN LETTERS The FEELINGS? TRUE education. Swarthmore my an of as fixtures later become years administrator—have 30 nearly and student a returning—first as twice by College the to great Eldridge’s gifts of then and lessons its and off. year a took Eldridge rice Mau- after, Soon conviction. as from exhaustion much as perhaps though we nothing, end, did the In positions. these of second demoralized. our cause leave and opposition, racist the em- bolden Maurice, for grief more cause would signatures few relatively securing that tained progress. any be could there before others, arouse to necessary probably was that exposure exposed—an be would institution racist a as Swarthmore about truth suppressed but important people an few signed, a only if that asserted Others results. social not consciences, own was our counted What difference. no made tures principle. of politics in the dilemma common a arose pos- there this sibility, faced we when But signatures. relatively few gather would we that likely: more small minority? a only of how those matter were no expressed, views, our if what all, of Worst wording? and tactics else’s someone accept not might but positions take personal willingly would who ourselves like ists individual- self-conscious of up made were huhfl elraoe anr which manner, well-reasoned thoughtful, a in so did nonetheless Mr. views, Heacock’s with issue strong taking while who, Singer ’56, Fried Suzanne from in edition letter June the the see to heartening was that it storm, of middle the In 2002). March tine,” Pales- in “Professor and 2001, December Justice,” and Politics, (“Peace, policies Israeli and American of critical strongly were ’62 Heacock Roger alumnus and Ghannam Farha member faculty which in stories h eoyo h aemi incident mail hate the of memory The the argued I unease, considerable With main- us of some hand, other the On signa- few relatively that held us of Some the as possibility second the left This s r e t t e L Bulletin uestofasomwt the with storm a off set sure C HARLES e akt Va. Market, New . . . M ILLER ’59 civdtruhvoetocpto and occupation violent through be achieved cannot protection and peace that I believe Quakers, many and Heacock Like occupa- tion. the of effects devastating the formyself saw I Jerusalem. and Ramallah, hem, College. the at learned the I of traditions some best of me reminded It a area. in difficult work good doing was alumnus Swarth- more one how show to way a thoughtful seemed Heacock Roger of profile The PROFILE THOUGHTFUL o fsec n h auso h liberal the of arts. values the and speech of free- dom toward both feeling” “true on own searching their soul some do to wish They might wisdom. or morality superior to no claim them gives intensity that these but by writers, expressed views the of intensity the them. express who individuals the of integrity and/or competence, sional profes- intelligence, the attack they such views, of substance the to solely challenge their directing and Singer Ms. than emulating Rather disagree. they which with of views publication the to worse) (or censorship prefer would clearly alumni some Swarthmore which to degree the by pointed to association, by Swarthmore. and, her to both credit did bulletin/sept02/letters. www.swarthmore.edu/- site: Web our found on be may current letters Additional this issue. in letters the con- with particular versation this close will we those letters, to responding subse- letters the issue, in quent and, article an to reacting letters publish to usual is our policy—which Following article. that to tion ecc 6 htapae nteMarch the Bulletin in appeared that Roger ’62 of Heacock profile the Palestine,” in “Pro- fessor both regarding responses reader of number unprecedented an received We NOTE EDITOR’S nMy a h hnet ii Bethle- visit to chance the had I May, In a nesadadsmahz with sympathize and understand can I disap- and surprised was I contrast, By otne rmpg 3 page from continued n h ueltesi reac- in letters June the and , S TEVE P ENROSE Dallas ’66 utconditions. cult diffi- such under teaching in his perseverance for Heacock Professor praise should and faculty College’s the on Ghannam Professor of presence the celebrate should moreans Swarth- them, attacking of Instead them. against attitudes anti-Jewish of charges unjustified making ’62, Heacock Roger and Ghannam Farha scholars, fine two attack viciously they situation, political the century? a of third a for military occupation under living people about of concern rights no the have they Do work school? to to get or to unable ghettos, are tiny who in and locked seized been has land whose peo- ple with empathizing of incapable they Are policies? government Israeli about critically from themselves. different are who people per- of the spectives understand to ability the think- and critical ing students its in imbue to seeks Swarthmore that thought I and issues. March June the in published letters the language of vituperative the by dismayed was I LANGUAGE VITUPERATIVE esn h nlsdcek huhi is it Though check. enclosed the make send to me enough is That College. the from support financial withdrawing was she said conscience. human individ- ual the for respect of tradition historic Swarthmore’s remember we when appalling especially is It expression. and of thought freedom to committed institution an at censorship would-be of example appalling an is politics pro-Palestinian Heacock’s Profes- sor of because published been have should not article the assert alumni some Heacock. That Roger about article the strong for my support express to writing am I 2002. in College the from an doctorate receiving honorary of pleasure the had I color, of graduates first Swarthmore’s of one As APPALLING otnigt mhsz ec n justice. and peace emphasize to for continuing you Thank the people. in Jewish or of name interests my in act not self-deter- it to mination, right the people a when denies that Israel strongly feel I Jew, a As apartheid. nta ftyn olo tbt ie of sides both at look to trying of Instead thinking of incapable writers the Are n lmawodnucdtearticle the denounced who alumna One A NN R ACHEL M OSELY roln N.Y. Brooklyn, N Philadelphia EUMANN L ESCH ’66 ’92 small, it is my first contribution in many dren to the track in the path of an oncom- based on democracy and justice—not a neg- years. Your editorial integrity in this case is ing freight train. While he and his wife are ative stalemate based on either the force of an inspiration. busy “bearing witness” in the name of Palestinian suicide bombers or of Israel’s ELIZABETH MARTÍNEZ ’46 Quakers, they might want to take a moment permanent occupation of the West Bank. San Francisco to ask why their Palestinian friends, though This is entirely in keeping with the Quaker demanding a state for themselves, steadfast- teachings and traditions that Roger brought SPEAKINGOUT ly refuse to acknowledge a similar right for from his birthright and that one would hope A large and growing movement of commit- Israelis. others gained in their Swarthmore educa- ted Jews is speaking out against the Israeli There can be no peace until the Palestini- tion. occupation of Palestine, opposing all forms ans recognize the right of Israel to exist. JOHN CORBIT ’61, Narragansett, R.I. of violence by both Israelis and Palestinians There is no rationale for Israel to give up JONATHAN GALLOWAY ’61, Lake Forest, Ill. and supporting a genuine peace process. As land if it will not gain security by this ges- ROMAN JACKIW ’61, Boston a participant in this movement, I have seen ture. No nation is required to commit sui- other Jews attack and silence us when we SOLUTIONS,NOTSTEREOTYPES merely try to describe Palestinians as human The truth is that Palestinians The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is in desper- beings who, like Israeli civilians, are suffer- want their state, not side ate need of novel solutions and creative ing from the violence. These attacks intensi- negotiation. We, as Swarthmore graduates, fy when we criticize Israeli policies or ques- by side with a Jewish state students, faculty, and staff are well educated, tion U.S. military and political support for but in its place. globally aware, and instilled with the values Israel. The letters in the last issue of the Bul- —Jan Feldman ’76 of peace and justice. How can we fall back letin illustrate this dynamic. on ethnic and religious stereotypes and dis- Another example is the growing number cide. Heacock’s friends are deceiving him count the human dimensions of this con- of boycotts of mainstream newspapers by when they say that all they want is a state. flict? If Swarthmoreans cannot move discus- right-wing Jews who believe that Palestini- That is part of the truth. The complete truth sion toward a solution to the conflict in the ans should be portrayed as only terrorists— is that they want their state, not side by side Middle East, who will? never as victims of violence or injustice. At a with a Jewish state but in its place. Whether or not we support Roger Hea- recent counterdemonstration against a boy- Finally, we are told that because of Pro- cock’s decisions to live and work in Pales- fessor Heacock’s “delightful humor and con- tine, learning of his experience exposes A large and growing genial outlook,” he looks forward to eventu- those of us who are physically isolated from movement of committed Jews al “peace and the establishment of democra- the conflict to a novel perspective. Alumni cy.” So far, things don’t bode well for the profiles remind us of the many and varied is speaking out against the Palestinians’ exercise of democracy. My paths taken by Swarthmore students and Israeli occupation of Palestine. guess is that given the chance, they will serve to broaden our collective experience. —Alexandra Volin ’96 replicate the regimes that exist all over the AMANDA FINE ’93 Arab world. Begin to imagine Birzeit Uni- Lansing, Mich. cott of The Philadelphia Inquirer, I was called versity, Professor Heacock, without its a Nazi and told that I couldn’t possibly be a female students. You can also kiss your copy FREEDOMOFIDEAS Jew. of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales good-bye, as it I have just returned from the Middle East, It is unethical by both Jewish and demo- is unlikely to survive scrutiny by the Islamic where I experienced firsthand the political cratic standards to try to silence voices with morality police. If, in fact, you want to antipathy to the United States and the which you disagree. It is even more unethi- demonstrate your solidarity and commit- moral outrage over America’s uncritical sup- cal to dehumanize other people by refusing ment to the Palestinians and live your port for the Israeli repression of the native to acknowledge their pain, their humanity, Quaker ideals, persuade them to talk peace, Palestinians. It is regretfully clear why we and their individuality. The heartbreaking teach peace, negotiate peace, and pray for are hated and distrusted. conflict between Israel and Palestine is peace. These are the tactics that they have destroying lives in the Middle East; we who not yet tried. A Quaker friend of theirs I trust that the College will watch from across the ocean need to stop could demand no less. not yield to pressure groups attacking each other when we debate the JAN FELDMAN ’76 conflict. Shelburne, Vt. that seek to intimidate the ALEXANDRA VOLIN ’96 editors of the Bulletin. Philadelphia POSITIVEPEACE —Brice Harris ’53 Some of the reactions in the June Bulletin NOPEACEWITHOUTSECURITY are grounded in a zero-sum approach to the I applaud Roger Heacock for his princi- When Roger Heacock complains about the Palestinian-Israeli encounter. The United pled Quaker understanding of the conflict, I dangers faced by his children in Ramallah, States should move the parties from win- deplore those who say they will stop giving one has about as much sympathy for him as lose perceptions to a win-win scenario. to Swarthmore because of an article they for a parent who deliberately ties his chil- Roger Heacock envisions a positive peace don’t like, and I trust that the College will SEPTEMBER 2002 77 78 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN LETTERS tews esnbelte othe to letter reasonable Davidheiser’s otherwise Bolton in line little JEW quiet One A WAS JESUS the Swarthmore For crucified.” they One the as Savior “recognize they when will Israel Jews regain the only that and god false a worship Muslims that writes ‘34 Davidheiser Bolton RAVINGS FUNDAMENTALIST the time every financial damage consider to have not should Col-lege The petty. and vicious is to Swarthmore giving discontinue to effort alumni Her induce mind. to her in possible not both is fairness ways of concept the that appears anti-Jewish. It was course) of Heacock, writ- by not ten was (which story Heacock conclusion the her that to leads which Jews, to ness unfair- as Palestinians to fairness equates evidently Marcus Palestinians. the to ness fair- of sense a pattern—only clear-cut anti-Jewish any see cannot I article. Heacock June ’87 the Marcus in Julie by letter the reading WAYS After BOTH FAIRNESS everyone. for is ideas of dom the of editors to the seek intimidate that groups pressure to yield not rslte fi a ena nutn to insulting as Quakers? been had it if letter er’s the Would discussion. serious of worthy are pronounce- ments intolerant these that declares so, it doing in because remarks publish offensive to such obligation no has it but opinions, anti- The Muslim. and anti-Jewish both being word, of the sense truest the in is anti-Semitism This gross disgrace. a is ravings Christian ist fundamental- these to legitimacy lend fore, Swarthmore. she through when went meeting” the of “sense the missed have must Marcus article. stimulating teJw”hvn rcfe eu.B “the By Jesus. crucified having Jews” “the to reference his deicide—was of its accusation in casual so offhand, statement—so years. 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Chico, o Angeles Los K Bulletin H EENAN K ARRIS ING ’74 ’46 ’53 n xeine prcaethe appreciate I experience. life-chang- ing a be to out turned which opportunity, the have to pleased so was I Yet Roger. about glowingly so writing for and University Birzeit and Ramallah to going for community Jewish my from criticism received also I differently. it see might they Jew— and non-Jew between gap as the well as proper Israel and ritories ter- the between gap tremendous the bridged that venture—one peace- making a as conceived clearly was arti- cle the that knew readers if Perhaps anti-Israel. it is nor anti-Semitic, not March Palestine,” in fessor (“Pro- ’62 Heacock Roger about wrote I profile the that I affirm Jerusalem, confidently West in living Jew a VENTURE As PEACEMAKING A monochrome. in foes perceived their paint would those who are than people our the of and hopes spirit the of far by repre- sentative more be to herself proven it—she has with grips to come to mined deter- being by and problem; complex a regarding knowledge objective subjective and for quest the in Birzeit and Ramallah to on going by East Jerusalem; then West, to pilgrimage a ing March the in me of portrait the wrote who graduate more Swarth- young the Kraft, Carew ca green. to red from changed enemy has the of color the only repeated; been now has pattern be the can seen, As country. my of enemy an me branding citizens, fellow private and public from followed assaults writ- ten and verbal few a myself, triating expa- of intention declared the with College Colorado at my position resign teaching to chose I 1970, in HOPE When, AND SPIRIT scniudspotfrtepiece. the for support continued letin’s ol iet a rbt oJessi- to tribute pay to like would I J ESSICA aalh etBank West Ramallah, R OGER ymak- By Bulletin. C AREW H EACOCK is Bulletin) Jerusalem K RAFT Bul- ’62 ’99 o’ ieoeatcei the in article one like don’t you because College the off to cut To contributions passion. own their in lost writers letter narrow-minded for not I’m but Israel, article? any for of ask censorship they can how matter, that For world? the in significant and risky doing something someone about article an of cen- sorship for ask Swarthmoreans can is How Roger doing. what respect can one one them, if hates Even the area? with the do of to policies it government has What do. to a thing be great to area—seems embattled an in dents stu- poor doing—teaching he’s guy, what great and a is Roger Heacock. Roger article about the about complain people to the in with writing trouble of lot a having I’m WRONG DANGEROUSLY udro Jews? of and murder persecution of years 2,000 justifi- for as cation this use to of this—and Jews” done “the having accuse to mean it So does saved? what be not would world this the sacrifice, without And will? God’s doing was sacri- fice the out carried whoever And it? wasn’t choice, God’s was it then him, God sacrificed If son.” begotten only his sacrificed a as killed was and Jew. Jew a as follow- lived his Jesus of ers). most and Apostles the of most Simon—indeed, and Matthew and and Peter Paul and John (and were Mary as and us, Joseph of one was He having him? for produced credit given not but Jesus supposedly killing for blame the given are ity, entirely. state Jewish the destroy leading later, to years Rome few a force full in broke out that insurrection Jewish the rum- of were blings there when time Jewish a the at in community leader a was he because outspoken and and Jewish a was was he He because Rome. threat of power the to poten- threat a tial was he because crucified, many were so Jews as crucified, was He Jewish. for being primarily course) of Romans, the (by us. of one every and each Jews, of years 2,000 Jews, all means presumably he Jews,” agrul wrong. dangerously ’ ru ob eihada l for all am and Jewish be to proud I’m aeotnhadCrsin a,“God say, Christians heard often have I perpetu- in Jews, all that strange it Isn’t killed was himself Jesus that is irony The I KE Bulletin S A CHAMBELAN atLk City Lake Salt LEXIS e York New seems B AR -L ’61 EV DEPRESSING tuted Athletics Review Committee. The first How depressing to open the June issue of “The appropriate response decision taken at that meeting with respect the Bulletin and find so many letter writers to Roger Heacock and to the proposal to eliminate football and spouting the same Israeli propaganda that wrestling from the intercollegiate sports we read in the letters column of our daily Professor Ghannam is to program was, in fact, one that reflected the newspapers. I had hoped for better from examine what they have to unanimous view of the managers present Swarthmore alumni. Where are the toler- say in an effort to discern truth that an immediate decision on the proposal ance, independent thinking, openness, and to eliminate those sports was necessary. The influence of Quaker principle that is so and to respond in kind.” minutes record that all managers present often referred to in these pages as the legacy —Deborah Goodyear Rector ‘59 were in accord that a substantive decision of a Swarthmore education? Quaker princi- on the proposal “must be made immediately ple requires that all persons be listened to ans were at a low ebb—just after Ariel so as to protect recruiting for the coming with an open mind. It is a challenge some- Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon and the mas- year and define the future parameters of the times to give up one’s conviction, especially sacres of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and intercollegiate athletics program before the when one thinks it has been rationally Shatila. They have stayed there through the admissions office and prospective students arrived at, but it is amazing what can come first Intifada, watched the changes during made decisions about next year.” The ulti- from an honest discourse. The appropriate the frustrating years of the Oslo process, mate 21–8 vote (with one manager abstain- response to Roger Heacock and Professor and refused to run when the Israeli govern- ing) to eliminate these sports must be un- Ghannam is to examine what they have to ment destroyed the infrastructure of the derstood in the context of the unanimous say in an effort to discern truth and to Palestinian Authority. sense of the managers that such a substan- respond in kind. I hope that the members of As a classmate, I feel privileged to know tive decision could not responsibly be the Swarthmore community will find ways Roger, Laura, and their children. I visited delayed. to support all of those who seek an honest, them in Ramallah three times and saw the Moreover, the writers fail entirely to note lasting peace, no matter who they are. respect and affection with which they are that a special meeting of the Board was con- DEBORAH GOODYEAR RECTOR ’59 held by their neighbors and colleagues. The vened, at the request of managers who had Costa Mesa, Calif. world needs to understand what is going on voted against the decision, on Jan. 4, 2001, in Palestine. Would that there were more to reconsider the matter. After a full discus- CIVILIZEDRESPONSE witnesses to the realities on the ground like sion, participated in by 34 of the 38 then- If we want the terrorists—and, more impor- Roger Heacock and his family. managers and four of the eight then-emeriti tant, their uncommitted sympathizers—to RONALD SUNY ’62 managers, the minutes of the Jan. 4, 2001, respond in civilized ways, why do we not Ann Arbor, Mich. meeting state that the Board decided “with- provide them with some mechanism for out voting and without objection, to let its doing so? If Osama Bin Laden’s primary MANNER OF ATHLETICS DECISION decision of Dec. 2, 2000, stand.” complaint was about the desecration of holy WAS CONSISTENT WITH The decision taken by the Board of Man- places, where could he have sued or lobbied SWARTHMORE’SQUAKERTRADITION agers in December 2000 and reaffirmed in under international law to achieve this As a member of the Board of Managers January 2001 was, of course, a complex and rather modest goal? since 1993, as chair of the Board’s Nominat- difficult one, about which members of the Congratulations to the Bulletin. To sug- ing and Governance Committee, and as sec- Swarthmore community may well continue gest that publishing criticism of Israel is retary of the Swarthmore Corporation with to have divergent views. However, I submit reason enough to cut off support for the responsibility for the accurate recording of that when one actually looks at the record, it College is truly pathetic. the Board’s proceedings, I feel an obligation shows that the decision was taken in a man- SHAWN DISNEY ’55 to respond to the letter from Cornelia ner entirely consistent with Swarthmore’s Onancock, Va. Clarke Schmidt ’46 and Eleanor Schmidt Quaker tradition. PRIVILEGED Clark ’71 (“Oaks With Quaker Roots,” June LILLIAN KRAEMER ’61 I was shocked by the vehement reaction to Bulletin). This letter once again attacks the New York Roger Heacock’s decision to “bear witness Board’s December 2000 action with respect and live in solidarity with the occupied to the intercollegiate athletics program, CORRECTION Palestinians.” What in any other part of the characterizing the action as “rushed” and as In “Land-use plan looks ahead," (June “Col- world would have been recognized as a failing to use the “sense of the meeting” lection"), it was stated that two properties courageous and selfless choice was con- procedure rooted in Quakerism. in the block bounded by Chester Road, Col- demned as though Roger and his family I must dispute the assertions of Cornelia lege Avenue, Cedar Lane, and Elm Avenue approved of the senseless violence that Schmidt and Eleanor Clark, neither of are not owned by the College. In fact, there accompanies the struggle of a people dis- whom participated in the events they so vig- are three such properties. placed, subject to daily humiliations, and orously condemn. The Dec. 2, 2000, Board facing the overwhelming military force of a meeting was the culmination of an extensive Write to the Bulletin at 500 College Avenue, far stronger power. The Heacocks moved to period of review of the College’s athletics Swarthmore PA 19081, or e-mail bulletin@- Palestine when the fortunes of the Palestini- program by the Board and a specially consti- swarthmore.edu. SEPTEMBER 2002 79 Why We Need Dreams

THEMEANINGOFSWARTHMOREBECOMESCLEAR. By Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62

wonder if it’s true for you, too, that Swarthmore, bless its heart, puts a little Swarthmore looms larger in your life as bit of Mott in us all. In an age of postmod- Imore time passes. You can leave this ernism and identity politics, it passes on place, but Swarthmore follows you out the trace elements of the Enlightenment. It’s door. Even if you were having an existential not that we all share exactly the same crisis at the time and couldn’t fully absorb dream. But going through this place, it is BACKPAGESSwarthmore, something important about it difficult not to catch hold of, freshen, reflect becomes part of you anyway. And I’m won- on, critique, and enlarge your dream. dering now just what that important part is. What is a dream? It’s a vision of the When I was a student here 40 years ago, world as it isn’t yet. It’s a tendency to feel I had it backward. I wanted to be loved by that ideals are as real as anything else. It’s a Swarthmore and was less clear about what I chronic allergy to the word “inevitable” as loved back. I felt enormous respect for its in “global warming is inevitable,” “Wal- professors and my roommates and friends Mart triumphalism is inevitable,” or “war is but a cursory, ill-informed, anonymous inevitable.” It’s a gravitational pull toward warmth for its Quaker tradition. I took for optimism, a faith that things can improve. granted one key aspect of that Quaker tradi- Even in my classroom at the University of tion—the place it held for large dreams. California–Berkeley, nondreaming students This message is not the one that I imag- say, “flexible workweek? Subsidized child ined Swarthmore was imparting to us, care? Sharing ethic at home? Work-life bal-

which was more along the lines of learning FRIENDS HISTORICAL LIBRARY ance? You have to be kidding. Pipe dream.” for learning’s sake. Although I was imbibing Then, in the back row, a hand goes up. And the official message, I’d also been eyeing I regret that I bless God, it’s Mott. Or rather it’s her spirit, that portrait of Lucretia Mott on the wall of living on in the form of a young, gay man Parrish Parlors. I regret that I didn’t pause didn’t pause to have a with green hair and earrings who is saying, then to have a good conversation with Mott “What are you talking about? Norway’s about the importance of dreams. The con- good conversation done all that long ago. It’s time we did it versation would have made her smile. too.” For Mott had many big dreams; one of with Lucretia Mott. As a teacher, I’ve watched a parade of them was the founding of the College, dreams—large, collective dreams of the which she did with a few dozen others in I’ve asked what issues she would take on 1960s; the fading dreams and then fraction- 1864. Born in 1793, Mott was also active in today. I imagine her telling me that she’d sit alizing dreams of the 1970s and 1980s; and the movement to abolish slavery and win for down to talk some Quaker sense into Presi- the more worried, private dreams of the late women the right to vote and be public citi- dent Vajpayee of India and General Pervez 1980s and early 1990s. For all of them, any zens. She fought for prison and school Musharraf of Pakistan. Under the nose of dream worth its salt calls for a capacity to reform and temperance and opposed war. an oil president, she’d work to end American doubt itself. Dreamers need to be willing to In the course of her activism against dependence on oil-related military adven- criticize their dreams—to know when slavery, she was chosen to be a delegate to turism and call for all universities and col- they’ve gone sour or been just plain wrong. the World Anti-Slavery Conference in Lon- leges to follow Swarthmore’s lead in moving Clearly, too, a dream needs content. It don in 1840. There, she sat next to Eliza- toward sustainable energy [see “Air Power,” would be a fatuous statement, indeed, to beth Cady Stanton in the segregated p. 11]. She would protest the World Trade praise dreams of all sorts. After all, Genghis women’s section outside the main gallery in Organization’s policies of attaching “struc- Khan had a dream. Adolf Hitler had a which the conference was held, forbidden tural readjustment” requirements to loans dream. No, I’m talking more particularly any formal participation. Later, Stanton to poor countries. The equity Mott sought about dreams in a humanistic, progressive credited a conversation with Mott about between men and women would also be and—broadly speaking—Quaker tradition. holding a national women’s right’s conven- sought between the rich and poor peoples For though I am not a Quaker in any for- tion—a talk sparking the Senecca Falls, around the globe. And she would ask the mal sense, I feel we need this tradition now N.Y., conference in 1848 and the beginning question beyond the “equality question”— more than ever. With the triumph of global of the 19th-century women’s movement. equal to what? Equal on whose terms? capitalism, the rise to power of right-wing In imaginary conversations with Mott, Equally caring or uncaring? governments in many First World countries, SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 80 uha hto h ukr—pedthe Quakers—upheld the of that as such sects— religious Protestant that Weber observed Max Capitalism , of Rise the and In it. of aspects negative and overreaching the the counter in to feet attempt our plant to which on moral ground solid offers now capital- it of ironically rise ism, the to led that tradition gious paradox. great a discover we ground, moral that facing And tradition. the Quaker of that speaking, to broadly which than, on stand ground moral safer no of I know counterpoints. need we airwaves, our dominat- ing Limbaugh Rush of likes the with lhuhQaeimwspr fareli- a of part was Quakerism Although h rtsatEthic Protestant The oa rpgngd.Te eue osign to refused They gods. pagan or after Roman named were they of because days week the the use to refused They thou.” and “thee said, They pacifists. were they’d They society created. the from apart stood also they commerce. and industry of cap- tains indeed, were, Europe and States United the in of Quakers rise prominent the many of capitalism; story this of right, part is were Weber Quakers If capitalism. of rise led the which to hard, work to motivation a fueled which of monasticism)—all to opposed (as this-worldliness to call- orientation a an as ing, work work, hard thrift, of values ihterblesaduuulcustoms, unusual and beliefs their With

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