Enduring Ideals Speaking Truth to Power All About Meteorites E-Haus marks its 25th A journey to the Philippines NASA’s Kevin Righter ’87 on anniversary on campus with Bob Swift ’68 the largest collection in the world The Magazine of Haverford College FALL 2015 Dressed for Success Alumni entrepreneurs take a sustainable approach to business attire. 6 38 Editor Contributing Writers Eils Lotozo Doug Davis DEPARTMENTS Sam Fox ’14 Giving Back Editor Lini S. Kadaba 2 Inbox Emily Weisgrau Cat Lazaroff ’89 4 View From Founders Class News Editor Natalie Pompilio Mara Miller ’10 Anne E. Stein 6 Main Lines Katherine Turman Photography Editor 14 Academix Patrick Montero Contributing Photographers Melanie Arnold 21 Ford Games Graphic Design Caleb Eckert ’17 Mixed Media Tracey Diehl, Hina Fathima ’15 24 Eye D Communications Stephen Faust 44 History Lesson Lynn Lane Assistant Vice President for Brad Larrison 49 How To College Communications Tony Oquias Chris Mills ’82 51 Giving Back /Notes From Vice President for the Alumni Association Institutional Advancement 57 Class News/Obituaries Ann West Figueredo ’84 77 Then and Now On the cover: Tuckerman & Co. founders Jonas Clark ’04 (left) and his wife Amanda Rinderle at the Fall River, Mass., clothing factory that produces their line of environmentally friendly dress shirts. Photo by Stephen Faust. Back cover photo: Small class discussion, circa 1985. Courtesy of Haverford College Archives. Haverford magazine is printed on recycled paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste fiber. fall 2015 45 51 FEATURES 30 Tell Us More 38 Speaking Truth to Power Kevin Righter ’87: Antarctic Meteorite Curator at NASA in the Philippines By Eils Lotozo On the road with pioneering human rights attorney Bob Swift ’68 as he distributes some of the 32 DRESSED FOR SUCCESS $19 million won in a landmark case brought on Alumni entrepreneurs take a sustainable approach behalf of thousands of victims of the Ferdinand to business attire. Marcos regime’s reign of terror. Of Shirts and Sustainability By Doug Davis Bucking the typical clothing company business model, Tuckerman & Co. founders Jonas Clark ’04 and his wife 45 Enduring Ideals Amanda Rinderle launch a line of environmentally The housing cooperative E-Haus marks its 25th friendly dress shirts. anniversary on campus as a place where residents By Eils Lotozo can live their commitment to the environment. Best Foot Forward By Sam Fox ’14 With Ace & Everett, Sage Disch ’13 has found his entrepreneurial groove with a line of design-conscious, made-in-America, organic cotton men’s socks. By Eils Lotozo Haverford magazine is also available in a digital edition. CHECK IT OUT AT Haverford magazine is published three times a year haverford.edu/news/magazine by College Communications, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, 610-896-1333, [email protected] ©2015 Haverford College inbox TALES OF TWO PROFESSORS of an original musical titled Wet Paint in Fascinating issue! I was a physics/math May 1945. According to a contribution to major a few years before [Professor] Bill The Fractured 40s, an alumni-written Davidon showed up. I followed the pub- account of the College during the World lic part of his career. I was amazed to War II era, the musical was staged as a discover from the magazine and then the fund-raiser to help pay a fine incurred by book [The Burglary, by Betty Medsger] a group of Haverford students who had that he was the brains behind the 1971 painted red and black graffiti on some FBI break-in. What a story. What an Swarthmore campus buildings. The paint- amazing group of activists willing to put ing party, it seems, was driven by the then- their lives on the line. What an amazing fierce football rivalry with Swarthmore, ability to hold it all in for decades. The and was retaliation for a similar action Burglary tells their story, and also gives by some Swatties. insight into J. Edgar Hoover—as evil a man as has ever achieved high office. [The performance of Wet Paint] involved [Assistant Professor of English and all the classes, because the undergradu- Creative Writing] Asali Solomon is ate population in the spring of 1945 was entirely new to me. She’s a couple less than 100. In the spring of 1946, the generations later than Bill Davidon. of evolution. And the rapid acceptance students decided that each class would Thanks, Haverford, for bringing on of gay marriage in our society is a very have its own musical. And they would board someone with such amazing recent phenomenon. Even our highly be competitive, with faculty members insight. Asali’s world is about as different liberal president rejected the notion only as judges. from mine as I can imagine. Through her seven years ago. Not everyone can be Starting with spring 1948, most of eyes I got to experience something of life expected to evolve at the same rate. It the shows had original music composed in a place I could never know. doesn’t make people evil. by undergraduates, and had elaborate Hurray for Haverford; hurray for I would also point out that when I scenery, costumes, and chorus lines. In Haverford magazine. —Paul Craig ’54 attended Haverford in the early 1970s, the spirit of Elizabethan theater, all the only about a decade before you did, I did female characters were guys. The Class MORE ON “JUST MARRIED” not sense widespread acceptance of gays of 1952, which had fabulous shows, This is regarding the letter from Rebecca in the community at that time. … I’m had Haverford going co-ed in their Hyde ’87 responding to letters from really glad that the college had evolved sophomore show. —Scott Kimmich ’51 members of the classes of 1952 and by the 1980s to be as accepting as you 1953 about the [fall 2014] article on recall. But I think it’s a misreading of his- I recognize a number of my fellow class- gay marriage. tory to believe that the spirit was always mates in the Class Night picture on the Rebecca, you might want to consider exactly the same, and the previous letter inside back cover of the latest issue of cutting the guys from the 1950s a lit- writers just didn’t get it. I think the spirit Haverford magazine. This was probably tle slack. Of course you went to a dif- has actually evolved over time, too. our freshman class entry into the Class ferent college than they did. Haverford —Bob Nagele ’75 Night competition. I don’t recall how College does not exist independently we did that year, but, as a member of from the rest of society in some sort of THEN AND NOW the cast, I can attest to the fact that we bubble of sociologically perfect stasis. We heard from a number of readers about came out on top in our senior year. Class Haverford evolves, just like the rest of the photo of a 1961 Class Night skit we ran Night was a tradition that was observed society does, albeit often somewhat as part of our “Then and Now” page in the with enthusiasm by the entire Haverford sooner. And remember there were 35 last issue. One alumnus told us about the community during my four years at the years—a whole generation—between start of the Class Night tradition, which school, and I have no idea why it lost its their graduation and yours. That’s a lot was inspired, he said, by the performance appeal in later years. —Richard Luke ’64 2 Haverford Magazine Class Night was, by far, the BEST night of the year. In the early ’60s, each class wrote a play, with music, and of course did all the acting, sets, lights, costumes, etc. Typically, the senior class would win. The plays would often poke fun at the school and our idiosyncrasies. I remember this [Class Night perfor- mance] as a scene in the student section at a typical Ford football game. —Bob Richardson ’64 I attended Class Night final performanc- es all four years and thought it was a wonderful tradition. I’m sorry to hear that Class Night has disappeared from Haverford life. Our freshman attempt was a crude Blistein also kindly provided this copy of the beginning shortly after the return from skit (apologies to its creators), as we program for Class Night in 1971, above, winter break. The event proved to be had not yet realized what the compe- which featured a production written and a welcome antidote to the winter dol- tition was going to be. Each year our directed by Ken Ludwig ’72, who has gone drums that tended to descend upon play improved. Our senior production, on to become a prolific and much-produced the campus at that time of year. Most with great original music, was about a playwright. (Ludwig’s first Broadway show, importantly, everyone was welcome to nerd who needed a social life. I can still Lend Me a Tenor, won three Tony Awards.) participate in the shows, regardless of whistle the great trumpet solo played … theatrical ability. The event brought by Rob Riordan. —Keith Brinton ’64 Your photo of Class Night brought back together disparate elements of the class- pleasant memories. I remember the es for an enjoyable week of rehearsals [Class Night] rules, as I remember them, event well. While its format may have and performances, and thus helped said that you had to have some music. changed over the years, during the first to foster the sense of community that While the tune might be borrowed, the half of the 1970s it involved a competi- makes Haverford a special place.