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Swarthmore College Bulletin (September 2002) 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 ON THE COVER: KEEPING SEVERAL BALLS IN THE AIR IS THE TASK OF THE RENAISSANCE SOUL. ILLUSTRATION BY PAINE PROFITT. STORY ON PAGE 14. SEPTEMBER 2002 GOLF CART DRIVER ANNA STRATTON ’04 CATCHES UP ON HER READING DURING ALUMNI WEEKEND. PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVEN GOLDBLATT ’67 can’t remember the first time someone asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?" For a child, it’s a pretty daunting question. Although well-meaning grown-ups who pose it are usually just trying to make conversa- Swarthmore I COLLEGEBULLETIN tion, children soon learn the subtext: What’s important to you? Who might you emulate? What are your dreams? How competent are you? Of course, the underlying Editor: Jeffrey Lott question is: “Who are you?” You don’t have to be a child to worry about that. Managing Editor: Andrea Hammer One way to define yourself is through your work, which makes me a magazine Class Notes Editor: Carol Brévart-Demm editor and college administrator. But that definition also presents a problem. I Staff Writer: Alisa Giardinelli haven’t always been an editor—I’ve also earned my keep as an art teacher, carpen- Desktop Publishing: Audree Penner Art Director: Suzanne DeMott Gaadt, ter, and graphic designer. I’ve driven a tractor. I was a cashier in a restaurant. As Gaadt Perspectives LLC much as our society would have us believe it, a job—even a long career—is not an Administrative Assistant: Janice Merrill-Rossi PARLORTALKidentity. If I want a better idea of who I am, I have to look deeper. Interns: Benjamin Galynker ’03, I look to my relationships with others. I am a son, brother, husband, father, Stephanie Gironde ’04, Elizabeth Redden ’05 cousin, and uncle. I’m a friend, volunteer, coach, committee member, leader, and fol- Editor Emerita: lower. I am also an employee, colleague, and boss. Most of these relationships are Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 lasting, engaging, and satisfying—but is this Contacting Swarthmore College If “growing up” means who I am? College Operator: (610) 328-8000 www.swarthmore.edu In basic biological terms, I am an animal. Admissions: (610) 328-8300 I have to choose I move and breathe and eat and reproduce. [email protected] I’m one link in a genetic chain that reaches Alumni Relations: (610) 328-8402 just one thing to “be,” [email protected] back millions of years, and that now, because Publications: (610) 328-8568 forget it. I don’t I have children, has a chance at reaching for- [email protected] Registrar: (610) 328-8297 ward. And because I am a human being, I [email protected] want to grow up. have the chance to do more than just live, World Wide Web reproduce, and die; I have the opportunity to www.swarthmore.edu think about it, to decide how I feel, to listen to others, to wonder, to speculate, to Changes of Address learn. Send address label along with new address to: The best part of living is learning. Learning brings change—new truths new Alumni Records Office ideas, new skills. Whether I learn to knit or read a novel or contemplate new infor- Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue mation about the origin of the universe, when I learn something, it changes me. Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 The best way for me to answer the who am I question may be to quote Descartes: “I Phone: (610) 328-8435. Or e-mail: [email protected]. think, therefore I am.” On the cover of this issue, we pose a similar question: “Are you a Renaissance The Swarthmore College Bulletin (ISSN 0888-2126), of which this is volume C, soul?” In the accompanying article (page 14), we meet six Swarthmore alumni, number 2, is published in August, September, December, March, and June including Margaret Lobenstine ’65, who coined the term and fits her own descrip- by Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081-1390. tion of a Renaissance soul. They are restless people with diverse passions, the Periodicals postage paid at Swarthmore square pegs that don’t fit round holes. Yet, most of the liberally educated readers of PA and additional mailing offices. Permit No. 0530-620. Postmaster: Send address this magazine can truthfully say about themselves, “I’m one, too.” changes to Swarthmore College Bulletin, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA So, what do I want to be when I grow up? If “growing up” means I have to 19081-1390. choose just one thing to “be,” forget it. I don’t want to grow up. ©2002 Swarthmore College Printed in U.S.A. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN —Jeffrey Lott 2 LETTERS A LITTLE LIGHT GREAT GIFTS TO SWARTHMORE Some letters are on one’s mind for a long In the dozen years that Maurice Eldridge time, but somehow, the time to write them ’61 has been an administrator at Swarth- is never to be found. 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.
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