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FEATURES 28 Greg Kannerstein: 1941-2009 Remembering the beloved dean, coach, athletics director, teacher and mentor who touched so many lives during his 41 years at Haverford.

Special Report: Global Perspectives How globalization is playing out in the Haverford classroom, the student experience and the lives of Fords whose work has an international reach. 32 Guatemala Connection 44 Investing in Change Haverford’s first Global Leader for Peace Fellow, activist Three Haverford grads are at the vanguard of and lawyer Jorge Morales Toj, offers a first-hand account microfinance, a growing financial market and of his country’s struggles during a semester-long residency. movement that fights poverty in developing By Brenna McBride countries with loans to the self-employed. By Justin Warner ’93 35 Educating for a Global World Across the campus, the effects of globalization are 49 The Go-To Guy on World Trade being investigated, debated—and experienced. Whether proffering legal advice to firms with By Eils Lotozo and Brenna McBride multinational business interests, or advising President George W. Bush at international 38 Going Global economic talks, Daniel M. Price ’77 has From building schools in Africa to providing legal aid become a sought-after expert on the to immigrants, plenty of Haverford grads go on to do challenges of globalization. work with an international impact. By Robert Strauss By Charles Curtis ’04, Samantha Drake and Eils Lotozo “Greg Kannerstein embodied so much of what we have come to know as ‘Haverfordian’ that his five-decade presence here led many of us to believe that he would always be here.” by Stephen G. Emerson ’74 view from founders

f you were shocked by the news on our cover, you have Having completed a three-year appointment as Dean of plenty of company. Greg Kannerstein embodied so much of the College, Greg became ill just as he had begun planning a Iwhat we have come to know as “Haverfordian” that his class he was going to teach next semester—a reminder that at five-decade presence here led many of us to believe that he Haverford there’s really no retirement from learning. Similarly, would always be here. And while Greg took great joy in his learning at Haverford extends beyond the classroom proper role as mentor, confidant and coach, it is now up to us—the to the very institution itself as the College refines and rede- many he inspired by his example—to see that he truly does fines its mission in ways that are guided by the past and become ‘the eternal Haverfordian’: by living his ideals of truth informed by a sense of the ways in which our graduates will and dignity, we enable those who will never meet him to be challenged in the future. know him nonetheless. I hope our tribute in this issue does This academic year such self-study is fueled by two him justice and I invite you to follow the links at the end of separate but related processes that call for us to take stock of the article for information about a campus memorial service ourselves as an institution and consider how best to move and an online space for you to share your memories of Greg. forward. Every ten years, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools reviews our accreditation status to ensure that we are continuing to deliver educational excellence that is consistent with our mission. In preparation for this process, the entire Haverford community has been engaged in a series of interconnected self-study conversations that, in many ways, formalize the process of examination and introspection in which we endeavor to engage on an ongoing basis, regardless of where we may be in the review cycle. Ultimately, Middle States Self-Study and Reaccreditation (“Middle States,” for short) fosters a process that helps ensure that we are positioned to grow in response to changes that have taken place, while we consider where and how to grow and develop in the future. Of particular importance throughout the self-study was our vision of Haverford College as an institution committed to educating young women and men to lives of intellectual independence and community participation and leadership. We considered the implications of this vision in a variety of different ways. What came out of this process was a set of recommendations that focused on the four themes below: • Academics and our plan to expand and enrich our curriculum. What can we do to best achieve our goals of enhancing faculty-student research collaboration, given its centrality in instilling the values of the liberal arts experience? • An ever more diverse student body. What new opportunities and challenges are presented by a student population that is more diverse, across more measures, than ever before? • Organizational structure. With more students, more faculty members, more staff and more programs, have we configured our operational structure in ways that maximize our effectiveness?

2 HaverfordMagazine • Assessment and information management. Do we have them with the core academic experience, thereby providing in place the means and mechanisms to evaluate the suc- additional means and methods for the expansion of intellec- cess of our approach and to memorialize, for the bene- tual development and discovery across all four years of study. fit of those who will follow, the steps we take and why? And that’s just the academic end of things. We’re also look- What tools, data and procedures will be required? ing closely at the campus itself. As you’ve probably heard, Steve Jaharis ’82, through the Jaharis Family Foundation, has The Middle States Association expects to issue a decision made a challenge gift of $10 million in connection with con- on our reaccreditation status in June. struction of a new dormitory (see our story in Main Lines). The second process of self-study involves preparations we This has prompted a lively discussion about the physical are making for our next comprehensive fundraising cam- meaning of ‘community’ and how living spaces can enhance paign. At this stage, we’re examining needs and strengths in what we know to be true about Haverford, mindful that it order to identify priorities that both resonate with our core has been 40+ years since we built a new dorm. Some needs are values and directly support our institutional vision and mis- timeless; others have emerged. What does all of this mean in sions. In short, we are asking terms of bricks, mortar and living room bull sessions? ourselves, “What makes We are just beginning our detailed campaign planning and It has been 40+ years sense in terms of our unique expect to report to the Board next summer and fall. Going since we built a new place in higher education forward, we’ll be implementing the Middle States recommen- dorm. Some needs are and, in turn, how does that dations over the coming years in parallel with the rollout of timeless; others have positioning enable us to best our case for fundraising support. I’m confident that these emerged. What does prepare students for the chal- mutually reinforcing inquiries will enable us to take Haverford all of this mean in lenges that will be con- to the next levels of academic achievement and social aware- fronting the members and ness, while ensuring that we remain true to the principles on terms of bricks, mortar leaders of their generation?” which the College was founded, and that it exemplifies to and living room bull As we build our case, a this day. sessions? cornerstone is our recent A All the best, Blueprint for Haverford’s Future which was developed by our faculty over several years and endorsed by the Board of Managers. Essentially, it calls for us to expand into new areas of study while infusing all levels of study with collab- Stephen G. Emerson, ’74 orative student-faculty learning—which is our signature aca- President demic element and best represented by our Senior Thesis program. This, without significantly increasing the size of the student body (thereby preserving the small college approach marked by mentored learning) and maximizing the number of tenure line faculty (in order to increase the likeli- hood that Fords will still be able to study under professors who devote their working lives to teaching here). I believe it’s fair to say that a Haverfordian from any generation, stretching back to the founding days, would recognize the value and relevance of such an approach. But just as—if not more—importantly, for current students and faculty it also fits perfectly as a next step following the creation of our three Centers for interdisciplinary learning. We’ve seen how the Centers (centerpieces of the Educating to Lead, Educating to Serve campaign) facilitate cross- and extracur- ricular learning. We now seek to more extensively integrate

Winter 2010 3 main lines Exploring Comics’ Social Impact

rawing the Line: Comics the Village Voice, the Nation, the “Dand the Art of Social New Yorker, the New York Times, Transformation,” brought a series and Newsweek, and have been of master classes, workshops, used by anti-war and economic lectures and panel discussions justice activists. to campus in October. The During his presentation, symposium was organized by entitled “Street Art and Graphic Professor of English Theresa Novels,” Drooker showed slides LINDA SARRO Tensuan, who teaches a course from his books, accompanied by Author and artist Lynda Barry. on the subject of comics and pre-recorded music, and provided symposium was a talk by that everyone has a reservoir of graphic novels as agents of live entertainment with a banjo playwright/novelist/cartoonist images in their minds from which social and political change. and harmonica. He recited poems Lynda Barry, author of they can draw in order to create. The keynote address was given by Ginsberg, who had been his One!Hundred!Demons!, “By the time we’re eight, we think by Eric Drooker, the American neighbor in Manhattan’s Lower The Good Times are Killing Me, we’re already too old to start a Book Award-winning author of East Side, and displayed photos and What It Is (also the title of life-long creative venture.” Flood: A Novel in Pictures, of his recent trip to Gaza and the her lecture). Barry also ran one But the creative process is Blood Song: A Silent Ballad, and West Bank. During his stay at of her “Writing the Unthinkable” open to all, Barry said, not just Illuminated Poems, a collaboration Haverford Drooker also taught a workshops for members of the the “best” in the class. with beat poet Allen Ginsberg. master class for students. Haverford community. The central —Brenna McBride Drooker’s works have appeared in Another highlight of the message of Barry’s workshop was

aid; or buildings identified by the Campus Master Plan. Haverford College Receives $10 The gift challenge emerged in conversations with Steven M. Million Challenge Gift Jaharis, M.D., who graduated Haverford in 1982, is a family he Board of Managers of students continue to enjoy an Haverford since 1968. The dorm, medical practitioner in Chicago THaverford College together undergraduate experience long to be located on Orchard Green and sits on the Jaharis Family with President Stephen G. Emerson noted for both its academic adjacent to the Whitehead Student Foundation’s Board of Directors. ’74 are pleased to announce a excellence and commitment to Center, will be named in honor of He is also a member of Haverford’s leadership gift challenge in the social values. Nearly all of our Tom Tritton, Haverford’s 12th Board of Managers, and has amount of $10 million from The 1,200 students live on campus, and president and Steve Emerson’s long supported the College Jaharis Family Foundation Inc. dorm life is the forge in which our immediate predecessor. philanthropically through programs for construction of a new student students first test – and strengthen Secondly, in accordance with such as one that enables pre-med dormitory. – their sense of what it means to be the agreement with the Jaharis students to provide medical care to “This comes at a critical part of a community, both here and, Family Foundation, the Challenge underserved populations. Steven moment in the history of Haverford when they graduate, in the world must leverage other gifts in support Jaharis says that his participation College,” said Emerson in at large.” of the College. Indeed, the gift will in the Campus Master Plan Steering announcing the gift. “We are The “Jaharis Leadership only be paid if and when the Committee enabled him to see grateful to the Jaharis Family Challenge” has two major College secures one or more the importance of new dormitory Foundation for appreciating the elements. It is fundamentally a additional major gift(s) totaling space as a vital next step for the vision expressed in our Campus multi-year pledge of $10 million $10 million in support of one of the College. Master Plan, which is the physical from the Jaharis Family Foundation College’s key fundraising priorities: “I am quite grateful to my blueprint for ensuring that our to build the first new dormitory at academic enrichment; financial family, who are the directors of the

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“My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet…“

ook for Haverford College Lin the closing credits of the recent Jane Campion film Bright Star, about poet John Keats’ secret love affair with Fanny Brawne. Haverford gets a special thank you for providing access to an 1819 love letter written by Keats that is part of Special Collections at Magill Library. The romantic missive came to Haverford as part of a collection of autograph letters that Charles Roberts (Class of 1864) began amassing while he was a student A poster from the movie Bright Star here. After his death in 1902, his widow gave the collection to the For more on the collection, on the Haverford website: College along with the funds to to read a transcription of the news.haverford.edu/blogs/ build Roberts Hall, which was letter, and to view a “poetic special/2009/10/01/shall-i-give originally erected as an “assembly animation” of Keats reading it -you-miss-brawne/. This love letter written by John Keats, part hall” to house her husband’s (from YouTube) go to the Magill of Special Collections, inspired dialogue in epistolary treasures. Library Special Collections blog Bright Star.

Jaharis Family Foundation Inc., other benefactors by December 31, slowly expanded over the years. It People are still giving to those for authorizing this gift to a very 2012. will also allow the College to organizations and institutions that special college,” said Dr. Jaharis. “Investment in a new dorm is increase the number of freshmen matter to them, and for Steve “It is our hope that the challenge literally the leading edge of the living at the core of the campus by Jaharis the promise of Haverford’s will inspire others to contribute to entire master plan,” said Emerson, moving them up from the Haverford mission is enduring. Steve and his this worthy institution.” pointing out that it will create College Apartments, located family know that the strength and Terms of the Challenge require social space in other dorms that toward the south end of campus. resilience of Haverford, like all of the College to secure written have seen living rooms become “This is a critical gift from someone higher education, depends on pledges totaling $10 million from bedrooms as the College has who understands and feels in their philanthropic support. “ heart the ambitions of the College. “This is a thrilling day for the We could not be more pleased by Haverford family,” concluded this gift, particularly given Steve’s Emerson, “and we thank the longstanding support for programs Jaharis Family Foundation for that resonate with Haverford’s core making their support quite visible Quaker values of service for the for our upcoming comprehensive common good. You could say this is campaign at this important first a ‘bricks and mortar’ expression of stage of the process.” the same philanthropic intent.” “This gift is remarkable for another reason,” added Michael Kiefer, Haverford’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement. “At a time of great economic Orchard Lot, across from Whitehead Center, will be the site of a new student dormitory. uncertainty, it sends a signal.

Winter 2010 5 New Campus Culinary Group Cooks Up Some Tasty Ideas

he 11 members of Culinary think cooking is one of the best life hopes to revive the HCA garden THouse, located in the skills to have.“ so that Haverford students can Haverford College Apartments, In October, Culinary House play an active role in not just the kicked off the year with a salsa members hosted the first in a preparation and consumption of making working shop and an series of community dinners they their food, but in growing it as well. ambitious agenda. plan to offer throughout the year. In addition, the group plans to According to the Culinary That dinner, which had an Italian volunteer some time and House mission statement, the new theme and included dishes such resources to Philadelphia food group wants to “offer an outlet as fresh-baked flatbread, eggplant drives and soup kitchens as a way where once a week or once every parmesan, and tiramisu, was a of giving back to the community other week students can gather big success, drawing over 60 that goes beyond the Haverford and indulge in culinary bravado, members of the Haverford campus. Finally, each member of whether it be a simple appetizer, community despite short notice Culinary House plans to teach at a delectable dessert, or a multi- and a lack of advertising. least one tutorial in a planned course meal. We want to inspire At press time, the group was Members of Culinary House conduct a semi-weekly series of cooking the chef within each student, and planning a second dinner, for salsa making workshop. classes. (One early fall session we want to show the community which each house member will focused on baking an apple pie.) how easy simple, proper cooking prepare a favorite comfort food. stands in the Sunken Lounge or Recipes from group dinners can be.” As a corollary to these dinners actually plan and cook an entire and workshops can be found “We started Culinary House Culinary House members want to dinner one night, I think it’s really at the house’s new blog: to help encourage cooking on combine efforts with Dining important to spread the word and culinaryhouse.wordpress.com. campus,” says Patrick Phelan ‘11. Services Director John Francone get people excited about what —Cameron Scherer ’11 “We think the HCA kitchens are a and the Dining Center at some we’re doing,” said Phelan. highly unused resource, and we point. “Whether we set up a few The Culinary House group also Visitors’ Corner

n October: “Politics, Africa, and filmmaker Sanjay Kak screened Faye Hirsch, art critic and senior IPerformance” featured five his film “Words on Water,” a story editor at the monthly magazine prominent Kenyan panelists— of the anti-dam movement in the Art in America, spoke about the singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina; Narmada Valley in Central India. state of gallery art and the guitarist Isaac Mugunda Frances Fox Piven, public’s engagement with it. Omamu; activist, performer, and Distinguished Professor of In December: Award-winning producer Mumbi Kaigwa; Sociology and Political Science author Mark Doty read from his Martin Kimani, Associate Fellow at City University of New York and 1997 memoir Heaven’s Coast and at the Conflict, Security and past president of the American spoke about the impact of AIDS Development Group at King's Sociological Association, spoke on his life. College, London; and writer about labor relations in a talk Throughout the fall, the Binyavanga Wainaina—in a called “Can the Decline of Labor anthropology department’s two-day discussion focusing on in the U.S. be Reversed?” The Filmmaker Guests series the ways in which the visual and physics department welcomed welcomed award-winning artist performing arts provide crucial October’s “Politics, Africa, and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Mike Hazard, Pew Fellowship links between lived experience Performance” symposium brought the William Phillips, who won for his recipient Margie Strosser, and and political power. A symposium Kenyan musical theater piece MoFaya! work on a technique called laser Howard University’s Assistant called “Economic Perspectives on to campus. cooling. Peter Brown ’61, Professor of Radio Television & Health Care Reform” brought to School of Public Health; and Professor of Geography and Film Tina Morton for screenings campus Gerard Anderson ’73, Timothy Taylor ’82, managing Natural Resource Sciences at of their work. professor of health policy and editor of the Journal of Economic McGill University’s School of management and professor of Perspectives. Environment, gave a talk titled international health at the Johns In November: Critically “Economics without Ecocide: Hopkins University Bloomberg acclaimed Indian documentary Building a Whole Earth Economy.”

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our bi-co students were Chinese political science at Cornell Famong the few who worked as Smith’s research undergraduates ever to assistant in 2008. main present papers at a prestigious The goal of his “West Meets Asian studies conference. East” seminar, says Smith, is to The students, who wrote their “look at interactions between the papers for Professor of History West and East Asia, read studies Paul Jakov Smith’s research on the general nature of these seminar “West Meets East” last interactions, and sample primary spring, participated in the 2009 sources available in English.” Annual Meeting of the Mid- In designing the course, Smith (clockwise from top left) Andrew McNeal ‘10, Patrick Lozada ‘11, Atlantic Region Association for worked with Manuscripts Christina Wagner BMC ‘11 and Elisa Hernandez BMC ‘10 Asian Studies, which was held at Librarian and College Archivist Villanova University October 30- Diana Franzusoff Peterson to the Chen Family Fund, created by “It’s rare to have November 1.They were part of a provide students with access to Francis Chen ’42, who gave $1 undergraduates present at a panel called “Local Resources for materials on China, Japan and million in support of East Asian professional association meeting,” the Study of East Asian/American Korea in the 19th and 20th studies at Haverford. Oaks Smith says. “It’s a plum for the Cultural Interactions.” centuries; these included searched archives in the program, a testament to what we The presenters were Andrew missionary reports and Quaker Philadelphia area and created a and the Chen Family Fund have McNeal ’10, Elisa Hernandez BMC documents. “They provide good website for the class accomplished and the work the ’10 , Patrick Lozada ’11, and views of the China/Japan social (www.haverford.edu/library/ students have done.” Christina Wagner BMC ’11. world,” says Smith. eastasian/index.html) guiding —Brenna McBride Also part of the panel was Jason He also hired Jason Oaks as a students to unique primary Oaks ’09, a graduate student in research assistant with help from sources in the area. The Truth About Hitler’s Skull?

inematographer Jonathan Miller for the shoot. On the team’s After a last minute scramble for “I wasn’t even sure the DNA test CMiller ’01 was in Berlin with a list of tantalizing clues to examine visas, Miller and Chejade-Bloom would work,” says Miller, who shot production crew in April shooting for the show were skull and traveled to Moscow with University footage for the show of Bellantoni an episode of the series Mystery jawbone fragments, purportedly of Connecticut archaeologist and handling the skull fragment. (The Quest about the doubt and from Hitler’s skull, that were housed bone expert Nick Bellantoni, who scientist also got to examine the speculation that has swirled around in Moscow’s State Archive. It performed a DNA test on the skull. blood-stained couch on which Hitler accounts of Hitler’s suicide during wasn’t clear, though, if they would The results of the investigation supposedly shot himself after the Russian bombardment of 1945. be allowed in to see the bones. But aired in an episode titled “Hitler’s swallowing a cyanide pill.) “The Upping the bi-co connection, also the team got lucky. “At the last Escape” on September 16 in a condition of the skull was terrible part of the crew was Joanna minute, one of our historian dramatic “reveal” at the show’s and it could have been Chejade-Bloom, BMC ’02, the contacts in Russia said he could get end. According to Bellantoni and a contaminated. That they actually segment's producer, who hired access to the skull,” says Miller. team of fellow forensic experts, the got something was pretty amazing.” skull belonged not to Hitler, but to a Miller, who has also shot a woman between 20 and 40 years old. Mystery Quest show on the The finding made big news. Amityville horror and another A miffed Russian government about the organization Odessa disputed that the Mystery Quest which smuggled Nazis out of crew ever even visited the facility, Germany after the war, says the while the History Channel rebutted revelations about the skull and the with evidence of contracts and furor that ensued were a major receipts for a location fee. David surprise. Says Miller, “It’s been a Letterman worked a few jokes pretty crazy adventure.” about the controversy into one of —Eils Lotozo his late-night monologues. Jonathan Miller ‘01 (right) shooting an episode of Mystery Quest in Genoa, Italy.

Winter 2010 7 The Business of Doing Good

s it possible to create a to shop. Since its launch, the had a way of reaching potential the organization’s donation Isuccessful business based on nonprofit has sent more than $300 supporters online. platform (including an initiative helping and improving charitable million to 50,000 charities and When Strathmann joined with actor Kevin Bacon called giving? Bill Strathmann ’89, recruited thousands of volunteers Network for Good as its CEO in SixDegrees.org), and enhancing Katya Andresen ’89, Kate Olsen through its website, the “Causes” 2004, after a career in business training for nonprofits to help them BMC ’00, and Benesha Bobo ’03 Facebook application, and other consulting, the organization was become better fundraisers. not only think so, they’re proving it. partnerships. heavily dependent on funding from Olsen and Bobo are both recent The four bi-co alumni work Strathmann became interested philanthropies. He introduced an arrivals at Network for Good. Olsen, at Network for Good in philanthropy after his mother entrepreneurial approach, turning who holds M.S.W. and M.B.A. (www.networkforgood.org), a died of cancer at age 54 and he the nonprofit into a social degrees, met Andresen when the nonprofit founded in 2001 by began running marathons to honor enterprise by developing low-cost COO guest taught a class in social Yahoo!, Cisco, and AOL. her. He built a website to allow fundraising software and web enterprise at Georgetown Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., friends and family to sponsor him tools to sell to other nonprofits, University’s business school. with offices in San Francisco, the and donate to the American creating a revenue stream that Olsen now works to attract new 40-employee organization is Cancer Society, and that made him now covers 90 percent of Network corporate partners. Bobo calls focused on making it as easy to realize how much more effective for Good’s operating expenses. upon her philosophy and divinity volunteer and donate online as it is small charities could be if only they Andresen joined Network degrees and experience in the for Good after she interviewed nonprofit arts sector as she advises Strathmann for her book Robin nonprofits on the best mix of online Hood Marketing: Stealing tools to meet their donation needs. Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Network for Good levels Causes. In the midst of that the digital playing field, says interview, the two switched Andresen, making it easy and roles and Strathmann started affordable for smaller nonprofits interviewing Andresen—for a job. to find donors and volunteers. As COO, Andresen has put her “The Internet makes a fragmented marketing experience to work nonprofit market accessible by expanding the number of anywhere online.” The Network for Good staff includes (left to right) Kate Olsen BMC ‘00, CEO Bill Strathmann ‘89, Benesha Bobo ‘03, and COO Katya Andresen ‘89. partnerships and charities using —Andrew Thompson ‘12 Major Grants Aid Scientific Research

he Koshland Integrated fluorescence-activated cell sorting Chemistry Casey Londergan has proteins, such as Alzheimer’s and TNatural Sciences Center system (FACS). received an AREA (Academic Parkinson’s. (KINSC)—and two of its The transmission and scanning Research Enhancement Award) Assistant Professor of professors—have been electron microscopes use from the National Institute of Astronomy and Physics Beth recognized for their research and electrons instead of light as General Medical Sciences—the Willman received $422,000 in NSF initiatives this fall with substantial sources of energy, and will allow basic research arm of NIH—for a grants to support her work on grants from the National Science users to view images at atomic- project focusing on the structure ultra-faint galaxies. She will use Foundation (NSF) and the National level resolutions, while the and binding of proteins. The award the funds in her efforts to find Institutes of Health (NIH). confocal microscope will create provides Londergan with $202,355 nearly-invisible galaxies that orbit Haverford’s departments of three-dimensional reconstructions for two years of work, and will also the Milky Way and to create biology and physics have received of objects. The FACS is vital to allow Haverford students to travel computer simulations of the Milky a $1 million grant from the NSF to faculty and students who study to the laboratories of international Way’s formation. purchase four new high-tech different types of stem cells and collaborators in France and Six Haverford students are imaging instruments that will blood cells; it allows them to Sweden. working with Willman on her enhance research capabilities analyze up to nine different Londergan’s research has research: Gail Gutowski, Dylan Hatt, for faculty and students. The features of individual cells in a public health implications: His new Alex Warres (all ’10); Jennifer instruments include a transmission mixed population, and then “sort” approach to studying proteins may Campbell ’11; and Andrew Sturner electron microscope, a scanning or collect those cells that have the make it possible to understand the and Kathryn Meehan (both ’12). electron microscope, a confocal necessary features. molecular basis of diseases —Brenna McBride light microscope and a Assistant Professor of associated with disordered

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mong Chris Jordan’s 200,000 smoking related deaths feeling,” has garnered critical the Numbers. The show, organized lines A photographic images of every six months) and hundred praise and gotten him booked on and distributed by the Museum of American contemporary culture dollar bills (125,000 of them—the The Colbert Report and Bill Art/Washington State University, are a picture of 2.3 million folded amount spent per hour on the War Moyers Journal. Now Haverford opens January 22 and runs

prison uniforms (the number of in Iraq from 2003-2008.). His art-as- will get a chance to see Jordan’s through March 5. Jordan will come main Americans incarcerated in 2005), activism efforts to translate the work when the Cantor Fitzgerald to campus to give a public talk on an image of 426,000 cell phones numbing statistics of modern life Gallery hosts the East Coast January 28 and attend an artist (the number “retired” every day), into what he has called “a visual premiere of the traveling reception on the 29th. and a picture of 38,000 shipping language that might allow for more exhibition Chris Jordan: Running —Eils Lotozo containers (the number that passes through U.S. ports every 12 hours). Jordan’s arresting, large- scale photographs, created using Photoshop, have also utilized cigarette packs (to illustrate

Plastic Bottles, 2007. Photograph, 60 X 20 (above), and detail (left). Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the U.S. every five minutes. ©Chris Jordan. Revamp for OMA

averford welcomed Frederic community to reexamine and HMacDonald-Dennis this fall restructure the role of the OMA as the College’s Interim Director of and to help the College find a new the Office of Multicultural Affairs Dean of Multicultural Affairs. (OMA). MacDonald-Dennis takes “The charge is really to talk over the position that had been with various constituencies, folks held for a decade by Dean Sunni who have already indicated an Tolbert, who retired in March. interest, as well as folks who have MacDonald-Dennis brings not come forward, about what they considerable experience to the would like to see in the OMA,” job. He has worked in says Dean of the College Martha administration at several colleges Denney. “The idea is to cast a and served as Director of LGBT wide net.” Affairs at the University of “My kind of multiculturalism Michigan. More recently, he was is very, very inclusive of many Director of Life Residence at the groups,” says MacDonald Dennis, Frederic MacDonald-Dennis is the new Interim Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Art Institute of Philadelphia. In his who is the partner of Bryn Mawr’s role as interim director, he has Dean of Intercultural Affairs, individuals in the community what needs to be done.” been charged with the task of Chris MacDonald-Dennis. “I will about who they feel is left out. I —Reporting by Will Stone ’12 working with the Haverford be interested to speak to hope to hear from everyone about

Winter 2010 9 A New Way to Read Children’s Books

hen Lynette (Karpoff) recreates the experience of Woloson’s My Friend Isabelle, W Mattke ’91 first reading a printed children’s book about a girl with special needs. encountered audio children’s aloud, complete with audio, color Today, PicPocket offers 17 books on her husband’s iPhone, illustrations, and automatic titles, with four more in production. she realized something was page-turning. Each title can be downloaded as a missing: illustrations. “You could In the spring of 2009 Mattke separate application that costs hear about Curious George riding a teamed up with her computer- anywhere from $.99 to $3.99, and bike, but you couldn’t see him,” savvy husband, Manuel Mattke publishers receive a share of the she says. ’90, and another partner to develop revenue. “Publishers are That’s why Mattke, a former a prototype of software that would interested because they’re curious English major with training as an enable books to be published on about the new market,” says elementary school teacher and, the iPhone. Then the Silver Spring, Mattke. “And the production time she says, a “real love of Md.-based team approached a is much reduced from what it literature,” came up with the idea local publisher, Woodbine House takes to put out a print book, so for the iPhone application in Bethesda, and secured we can reach a global market Lynette Mattke ’91 PicPocket Books. PicPocket PicPocket’s first title, Eliza overnight.” Mattke has also

State of the College Admission

With this issue we begin a new ever—that proved to be true, and like matching program; through commitment to meeting way of presenting annually we experienced one of our most this we admitted eight absolutely demonstrated financial need updated information about the stable, strong years in admission fantastic students—six from high proved deeply meaningful, and the College. Instead of a once-yearly, at Haverford. schools from which we had never absence of loans was crucial for multipage “State of the College” enrolled a student, and five from many in the decision to attend report, we will feature individual schools from which we had never Haverford. Despite uncertainty and updates throughout the year from even received an application! our initial fears, it seems clear that the Provost’s Office, Institutional Most QuestBridge students do not the value of higher education and Advancement, Finance, Admission, match through this initial process, of the Haverford experience were and other key departments. but are then able to apply to us understood and embraced more through early and regular decision. than ever—a fact for which we n the wake of last year’s In the end, our cooperation with are very grateful. Ieconomic turmoil, the college QuestBridge brought 17 incredible And while we continue to be admission world was rife with students to Haverford, most of concerned about the lingering concern over how the crisis would whom likely would not have looked effects of the economy on this impact students as they our way otherwise. year’s process, our work to enroll approached the admission We saw application increases the Class of 2014 has started out process. As retirement and Jess Lord in both the early decision and extremely well. In our second year educational savings, investments, regular decision processes, and of participation with QuestBridge, and other resources shrank or We were excited to begin the were able to admit and enroll an we matched with nine more dried up, we wondered if families admission process for the Class of extraordinarily talented, amazing students, and we would pull away from seeing 2013 with our first year of interesting, diverse group of concluded the Early Decision private education as a viable participation in the QuestBridge students. Remarkable in light of process by admitting 127 equally option. Admission deans across scholars program. QuestBridge is our concerns, we saw no drop in wonderful students. We are the country wrung their hands and a national organization reaching our yield (the number of students currently at the beginning of the tried preparing their institutions for out to academically talented low- who accept our offer of admission) regular decision process, eager worst-case scenarios. But in the income students, connecting them and we went to our waiting list for and excited to continue building end it was the other side of the with a number of private, highly- only a small number of students. the Class of 2014. coin—in times of economic selective colleges and universities. Many families certainly expressed —Jess Lord, Dean of uncertainty the value of higher The first stage of the process with anxiety about the cost of higher Admission & Financial Aid education is embraced more than QuestBridge is an early decision- education. But our long-standing

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a highlighting feature that helps favorite book,” explains Mattke. business presentations. Her two lines toddlers learn to read by Mattke sees PicPocket Books daughters, ages 15 and 13, emphasizing the connection as a healthy alternative to video approve of her use of Twitter and between the written and spoken games. “You get the same Facebook to promote the

word: “It’s like moving your finger educational benefits as reading a applications. And her nine-year- main along with the sentence,” says paper book, and children increase old son reports that his favorite My Friend Isabelle was the first title made Mattke. A soon-to-be added their focus and vocabulary.” One way to unwind after school is to available through PicPocket Books. component will allow adults to satisfied parent told her, “It’s the pick up the iPhone and scroll received inquiries from record their own voices reading first time I haven’t felt guilty about through the books. children’s authors whose books the stories with a built-in handing my iPhone to my kid.” As for Mattke herself, she’s are out of print. microphone. Mattke’s family has been loving her leap back into the The PicPocket technology is “If you’re visiting your overwhelmingly supportive of her professional world. “I’ve taught simple to use for children who grandmother, she can read a story entrepreneurial endeavor. myself a lot about social have access to their parents’ and record the vocal track, so Husband Manuel, with his tech networking and marketing,” she phones or iPods. Along with audio back at home you can listen to background, has been helpful in says. “I’m a total convert!” and video, the application includes Grandma’s voice read your creating software platforms and —Brenna McBride

Turning Poetry into Song

hen Heidi Jacob first Haverford and Bryn Mawr bursting out,” says Jacob. her poems set to music; she had Wbecame a fan of acclaimed Colleges called “Julia Alvarez— And “‘Are we all ill with acute already been sent a recording of poet and novelist Julia Alvarez Words and Music,” which also loneliness’” is, Jacob says, a L’Ensemble’s Italian performance (In the Time of the Butterflies, featured a reading by the writer “20th-century woman’s poem,” of “Beginning Again.” Jacob How the Garcia Girls Lost Their herself. revealing the American that reports that Alvarez “had tears in Accents), she never imagined that Jacob—a cellist as well as Alvarez had become. her eyes” while listening to the she would someday compose a composer, who also directs December concert. “She said it original music for the words she the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Alvarez was ‘unfolded her ideas,’ and brought so admired. Orchestra—selected four of her back to specific times in her However, two years ago, the Alvarez’s poems to score. The first intrigued by the life.” chamber music trio L’Ensemble one she approached, “Beginning idea of hearing During Alvarez’s December commissioned Associate Again,” relates Alvarez’s process visit, she and Jacob also visited Professor of Music Jacob to write of assimilation in the United her poems set several bi-college classes, a song cycle for Alvarez’s poems. States as a young immigrant from to music. including Haverford Professor of In December, the trio (for whom the Dominican Republic. “I felt it English Theresa Tensuan’s Jacob’s husband Charles spoke the most about her life,” The composing process was “Contemporary Women Writers,” Abramovic plays piano) says Jacob, “and crystallized the challenging for Jacob, who in which Alvarez’s works are performed Jacob’s compositions events described in her books.” sometimes found it difficult, she taught. at an event co-presented by This work was premiered by says, to get “inside” of the poems. Alvarez was so impressed L’Ensemble in Italy in 2007. “The musical narrative must with Jacob’s work that she “Gladys Singing,” about a maid illuminate the text, but must also hopes to arrange more public in Alvarez’s childhood household, work on its own,” she says. Jacob performances of the song cycle appealed to Jacob because of its also used a technique she calls in the near future. Meanwhile, musical theme; she used the “word painting.” For example, at Jacob is writing music for more of traditional song “Cielito Lindo” one point in “Gladys Singing,” Alvarez’s poems, keeping in mind to structure her composition’s the piano mirrors the sound of lessons learned from her previous piano introduction. “Folding Alvarez’s mother’s clicking heels. experience. My Clothes” frames Alvarez’s Jacob partnered with Karl “You have to have fidelity to mother’s crisp folding of her Kirchwey, Associate Director of the text and the meaning of the daughter’s laundry as a futile Bryn Mawr’s Creative Writing poem,” she says. “But there’s also method of control: “The music, Program, to plan the “Words and my interpretation of what I see in The poems of Julia Alvarez (left) were set however, is interpreted as Music” event. Alvarez was the poem.” to music by Haverford professor Heidi uncontrolled, with jazz elements intrigued by the idea of hearing —Brenna McBride Jacob (right).

Winter 2010 11 Speaking Out on World Hunger

uth Messinger, president of Center for Peace and Global Messinger spoke about AJWS’ “The problem,” she said, “is that RAmerican Jewish World Citizenship. Before she joined “Fighting Hunger From the Ground not enough of the food is being Service (AJWS), a faith-based AJWS, Messinger, who was Up” campaign, an effort to raise produced in the right places, for organization working to relieve trained as a social worker, spent awareness in the Jewish the right reasons, by the right poverty, hunger and disease in 20 years in public service in New community about the political people.” developing nations, spent four York City and was a candidate for underpinnings of world hunger. In the U.S., she said, when days on campus in October mayor in 1997. During her visit to “Every six seconds a child dies there is a surplus of food grown by as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Haverford, Messinger addressed from starvation or a hunger-related farming conglomerates, it is Fellow. Her visit was part of the classes, met with students, and cause,” said Messinger, who shipped to the poorest countries, President’s Social Justice Speaker delivered a public talk called revealed that, contrary to news and much of it is sold to merchants Series, and was co-sponsored by “Fighting Global Hunger in a World media reports, there is not an below cost or given in-kind to the Office of the Provost and the of Plenty: A Grassroots Approach.” enormous global food shortage. governments. “By the time much faculty news

Studying the War on Terrorism

t was a busy year for Assistant Professor of Political Science Barak Database (people.haverford.edu/bmendels/) in support of several of the IMendelsohn. In August, his article “Al-Qaeda’s Palestinian Problem” courses he teaches, including “The War on Terrorism,” “Introduction to appeared in Survival, the publication of the International Institute for Terrorism Studies” and “The Evolution of the Jihadi Movement.” Strategic Studies, a prominent London-based think tank. In September, “What we have is a master list of sources,” says Mendelsohn, who Foreign Affairs magazine, put out by the Council on Foreign Relations, ran his credits Nicholas Lotito ’10 with completing the project. “We have links to analysis, “Hamas and Its Discontents: The Battle Over Islamic Rule in Gaza.” public opinion sources and to data bases of terrorist acts.” In addition to Also appearing in the fall, from the University of Chicago Press, was providing links to the websites of major terrorism research centers and Mendelsohn’s first book, Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and the articles and reports they produce, the database also includes links to Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism. [see our review p. 16] datasets, document collections, maps, country-specific lists and more. And, in December, International Studies Review published his article “It is a tremendous achievement and it is the work of our students,” “Bolstering the State: A Different Perspective on the War on Terrorism.” says Mendelsohn. Aiding Mendelsohn in his research for all of these works: an online He is particularly proud of the Al Qaeda Index created by Nick Sher database he and his Haverford students created. ’10 and subsequently updated by Katie Drooyan ’11 and Harrison Jones Mendelsohn and his students developed the Global Terrorism Resource ’12, which has over 200 statements by Al-Qaeda leaders that can be searched by key word. “This index proved particularly useful in writing the article about Al-Qaeda,” he says. “If I need something on Al-Qaeda’s attitude toward Hamas, for example, everything that Al-Qaeda has said about Hamas I can locate in the database.” Recently, Mendelsohn received funding from the Provost’s Office to maintain the index and make it even more user friendly. For that purpose, Rose Mendenhall ’10 recently joined the crew. “Now we will be able to update these resources regularly,” he says. “The database and the index are helpful in my own work, for my students’ work and in my classes,” says Mendelsohn. “If I ask students in a 200-level class to write a 20-page paper, I’m glad I can offer them these tools to help them in their research.” The Global Terrorism Resource Database is also finding users beyond Haverford. Says Mendelsohn, “I went to an American Political Science Association conference during the summer and I found out that people from many other schools are familiar with it and are using it. Even staff members with the Congressional Research Service are familiar with our work. I am Barak Mendelsohn (right) at a public debate on international politics with fellow political very proud of these tools and the students who created them.” science professor Craig Borowiak in September. —Eils Lotozo

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of this surplus food travels around roots projects aimed at increasing fact, when we use our collective lines the world and reaches store farming capacity, and advocating influence and affluence, when we shelves, it is still out of reach for a for policies that empower take action to repair the world— family surviving on a dollar or two communities. The group provides that is how we honor the good

a day,” she said. Small-and- smaller organizations with fortune we have to be living in main medium-scale farmers, she added, financial aid, technical assistance, the United States in the 21st can no longer compete with the and volunteers. century with food on our huge American corporations who “Our actions have consequences own tables.” overwhelm the market with for those around us and for those —Brenna McBride underpriced products. who will inherit the planet from The approach of AJWS, said us,” Messinger concluded. “ Ruth Messinger Messinger, is to support grass- And when we take heed of that

The Visual Culture of America’s Wars

ohn Muse, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford, and his cutouts of soldiers used by families with young children to help them stay Jartistic collaborator Jeanne C. Finley, a California College of Arts connected to their absent parent; and “Flat Stanleys,” small cutouts of a professor, explored the visual culture of America’s contemporary wars cartoon boy sent on worldwide adventures by American schoolchildren. through three video works exhibited in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Lost paired an Army chaplain’s audio diary entry with a single revolving this fall. shot of a former military base. Original video footage reframed the moral Imaginative Feats Literally Presented/Three Fables for Projection: ambiguities of the diary segment, which chronicles the shooting of an Guarded, Flat Land, Lost, which ran from October 23-December 11, Iraqi during a house raid by American soldiers and their efforts to assist peered through the imaginative gloss of words, photographs, and video the man’s widow. LISA LISA BOUGHTER LISA BOUGHTER

Flat Land, part of the sound/media installation Imaginative Feats Literally Presented at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery this fall, featured two video streams projected onto either side of a single screen.

images Americans have used to prepare themselves for the wars on “We hope the title of the show, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, terror and in Iraq, presenting the lives of those who participate—either guided our visitors’ approach to the work,” says John Muse. “The willingly or not. pieces—which utilize original and found materials, including words and In the sound/media installation Guarded, two video projectors, two images from public sources—call upon us to imagine that everyone and DVD decks, and stereo speakers threw images that followed each other everything will be OK, that we will protect ourselves, our loved ones, that around the opposing walls of the gallery; pieces of text, adapted from a we can justify our actions and measure our losses. We wanted viewers to Red Cross pamphlet entitled “Preparing for the Unexpected,” ran through hear this call yet refrain from heeding it; hear it but reflect on how it would these images of daily life. Flat Land explored the visual culture of men and recruit them to join in, consent, believe, cheer, and empathize.” women at war by looking at publicly available images of “Flat Daddies,” —Brenna McBride

Winter 2010 13 Haverford Welcomes New Faculty

averford’s new assistant Stauffer has already begun that diving—with her professional Hprofessor of philosophy effort in the course she is teaching interests. “I was diving at a Jill Stauffer just started work in called “Introduction to Peace, shipwreck one day, and I started September, but to many on campus Justice and Human Rights.” In this wondering about the ocean and its she was already a familiar face. new course, says Stauffer, “We are chemistry,” she says. She went That’s because Stauffer, who asking: What is a human being? on to get her Ph.D. in chemical received her Ph.D. from the What is a human right? What is the oceanography from the University of California at Berkeley difference between a human right Massachusetts Institute of in 2003, spent four semesters here and a civil right? We are looking at Technology and Woods Hole (2005-2007) as a Mellon Post- history, philosophy and case Oceanographic Institution. Anat Yom-Tov Doctoral Fellow with the Hurford studies to see the different ideas White’s ongoing research often as an assistant professor, says, Humanities Center. During that first people have had about these takes her to the bottom of the sea, “I imagine a wild woodland sojourn at Haverford, Stauffer questions. And we’re looking at as she studies the fate of certain creature running through the forest, taught philosophy courses, how history and philosophical organic compounds and sediments taking what it needs from different participated in a faculty seminar questions are reflected in current that accumulate on the ocean floor. disciplines to make sense of the on Representations of Political real world problems.” “I’m interested in man-made world.” He was drawn to the field Violence and Terrorism, and compounds,” she says, “which of American studies—in which organized a symposium titled show how we influence the he holds a Ph.D. from Yale “Seeing Justice Done: environment.” White sees the field University—precisely because Interrogating the Margins of Law.” of environmental chemistry gaining of its interdisciplinary nature: Philosophy of law and political popularity as issues like climate “Throughout the 19th and 20th philosophy are major areas of change become more prevalent. centuries, political institutions and intellectual focus for Stauffer, who “Everyone actively cares about conversations about nationalism has taught at John Jay College of their local environment,” she says. have had personal, social and Criminal Justice at CUNY. At “And more and more people are cultural dimensions that affect Haverford, Stauffer will be thinking about their carbon us all.” responsible for helping to reshape footprint and their contributions to Friedman is also a writer who and direct the Haverford College the global environment.” holds a B.S. in journalism from component of the current bi-co At Haverford, White will be part Northwestern and an M.F.A. in concentration in Peace and Conflict of a working group charged with fiction from the University of Iowa; Helen K. White Studies, which will become the developing an environmental his articles have appeared in the Peace, Justice and Human Haverford’s new assistant studies curriculum at Haverford. Village Voice, the New York Times, Rights program. professor of environmental She will teach both general and and the Chicago Tribune. “I liked “The new concentration will be chemistry Helen K. White environmental chemistry, and the idea that journalism was a interdisciplinary,” she says. “And pursued her chosen field because supervise students in a research route to engagement with public it will be something that can be she believed it would speed her lab. institutions,” he says. “It’s a tool to added on to any major. My purpose path to her dream job: astronaut. Andrew Friedman likes to decode reality.” is to get students thinking across “The first European woman in imagine an interdisciplinary Presently, Friedman is turning the disciplinary boundaries and space, Helen Sharman, was a academic as a “feral intellectual.” his dissertation, titled Covert maybe come up with creative chemist,” she explains. “I decided Friedman, who has joined Capital: Landscapes of Denial and solutions to entrenched problems.” it was a good path to follow.” Haverford’s department of history the Making of U.S. Empire in the White—whose professorship Suburbs of Northern Virginia, is the first of three new faculty 1961-2001, into a book. He looks positions funded in part by the at built environments, such Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to as the CIA’s headquarters, malls, support environmental studies at houses and airports, and how Haverford—focused her they came to reflect international undergraduate work at the power relationships in the University of Sussex in the U.K. mid-to-late-20th century. on organic synthesis (the making One of the courses Friedman of new organic compounds). is teaching this academic year She later switched her focus to is “History of the U.S. Built environmental studies because Environment,” which surveys the she wanted to combine one of her growth of towns and cities over the personal passions—scuba previous century, and the factors Jill Stauffer Andrew Friedman

14 HaverfordMagazine haverford college that lead to suburban sprawl. He will also teach “Political Faculty Updates Technologies of Race and the Body,” which looks at ideas about n November 30, the world In November, Associate Miraculous Agency of Charisma news race and gender and how different Opremiere of Ruth Marshall Professor of Anthropology Zolani in Ghana,” which appeared in technologies (blood transfusions, McGill Professor of Music Curt Ngwane joined a panel of experts Cultural Anthropology, focused on prosthetics, electricity) played roles Cacioppo’s “When the Orchard to discuss post-apartheid South popular theater and charismatic in shaping these ideas. Dances Ceased” was performed at Africa at Philadelphia’s Wilma preachers. “Aesthetic of the Anat Yom-Tov, who joined Carnegie Hall in New York City by Theater. The event was part of a Entrepreneur: Afro-Cosmopolitan

Haverford’s sociology department the American Composers Orchestra. symposium series being held in Rap and Moral Circulation in faculty as an assistant professor this term, This piece was “a meditation, or a conjunction with the theater’s Accra, Ghana,” from Anthropology uses sophisticated data analysis to lamentation, on the destruction of production of South African Quarterly, looked at hip hop/hiplife study the economic disadvantages the Navajo peach orchards in playwright Athol Fugard’s play music as an aspect of youth that women and minorities face in Canyon de Chelly during the 1860s, Coming Home. culture. the work world. part of a scorched earth/forced Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor of English Yom-Tov earned a B.A. and M.A., relocation policy carried out against Mathematics Joshua M. Sabloff Theresa Tensuan’s article magna cum laude, in sociology and the tribe by the government.” answered the question “What is a “Crossing the Line: Graphic (Life) anthropology at Tel Aviv University Professor of Physics Jerry Legendrian Knot?” in an article Narratives and Collaborative and received her Ph.D. in sociology Gollub was an author of a paper that appeared in the November Political Transformations” from the University of Wisconsin, published in the July 24, 2009 issue issue of Notices of the American appeared in the Winter 2009 Madison. Her dissertation, titled of Science. The article concerns Mathematical Society, the world’s issue of Biography. Rethinking Inequality: Constrained research performed by a team most widely read magazine aimed Susanna Wing won the 2009 Opportunities and Structural from the University of Cambridge, at professional mathematicians. Best Book Award from the African Barriers to Equality, looks at where Gollub was recently Sabloff’s article was part of a Politics Conference Group for the causes of the economic Leverhulme Visiting Professor. series designed to introduce Constructing Democracy in disadvantages faced by minorities The National Science members of the Society to Transitioning Societies in Africa: and women. Foundation has funded a research important current topics. Constitutionalism and Deliberation Yom-Tov, who has published proposal by Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor of in Mali, which was published in papers, with several co-authors, on Chemistry Alex Norquist. The Anthropology Jesse Shipley April 2008. The book is based on attitudes about and discrimination title of the proposal is “Synthesis has had two articles published in extensive fieldwork in Mali. against foreign workers and of organically template gallium anthropology journals. For more Faculty Updates go to immigrants in Israel, taught a sulfites.” “Comedians, Pastors, and the www.haverford.edu. “Quantitative Methods” course this fall in which students learned the basics of employing comparative data and using statistical models. HaverAthens “This is a course that can be useful to students not only majoring in s part of a course they co- they would have been found in the sociology, but in many other fields A taught this fall, “Culture and fifth century. Next to the Dining as well—psychology, economics, Crisis in the Golden Age of Athens,” Center, a sign identified the public health,” she says. In the class Robert Germany and Bret Mulligan equivalent location of the Painted students learn how to apply statistics came up with an ingenious way to Stoa, a civic building that was to their areas of interest and to connect their students to the decorated with artwork develop critical ways to analyze ancient city. The two assistant encompassing mythological themes statistics presented by the popular professors of classics used and Athenian military victories. In media and in professional articles. GoogleEarth to place a scale model front of Magill Library was marked In the spring semester Yom-Tov of Athens atop Haverford’s campus the spot where the Monument of will teach a course on “Inequality and discovered that, although fifth- the Eponymous Heroes, an in Labor Markets,” as well as a century Athens was twice the size important meeting place and public A signpost in front of Founders Hall marks “Social Problems” class that will of campus, the marketplace or bulletin board, would have been the equivalent location on campus of the serve as an introduction to agora—Athens’ social, political and located in ancient Athens. And one agora, or marketplace, in fifth-century sociology for first year students and spiritual core—could encompass of the paths leading from Founders Athens. sophomores. “We’ll be looking at the area from Founders Green to Hall was labeled as the inside out,” said Germany, who the factors that define a social the Dining Center. Panathenaic Way, the main road notes that the project also altered problem,” Yom-Tov says. “When, The pair then created through the agora. students’ perceptions of campus. and how, does a social phenom - information-packed signposts, to “By putting themselves in the “As Athens seems more enon we have taken for granted mark the equivalent locations of the context of the city itself, the Haverfordian, Haverford begins to turn into a social problem?” Greek city’s important landmarks as students see Athens from the seem more Athenian.”

Winter 2010 15 books

Mark A. R. Kleiman ’72: his latest book, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment Getting Smart on Crime (Princeton University Press, 2009) he argues ark Kleiman has spent much of the past that locking up more people for longer terms M30 years examining the ways the U.S. has been a failure as a crime control strategy, fights crime and coming up with fresh ideas on and shows how new law enforcement ideas how to make those efforts more effective. From being tried across the country can offer greater his days at the U.S. Department of Justice, benefits to society as a whole. where he looked at drug law enforcement A New York Times op-ed piece declared strategies, through his years as an academic, the concept of “focused deterrence” that Kleiman has sounded the drum about the Kleiman writes about in the book “a benefits of getting smarter, not just tougher, revolutionary idea.” So, are public officials on crime. with packed-to-the-rafters prisons and In two previous books, Marijuana: Costs daunting crime rates beating a path to his of Abuse, Costs of Control (1989) and Against door? While Kleiman has made contact with a Excess: Drug Policy for Results (1993) few policy figures in the Obama administration, Kleiman, a professor of public policy at UCLA’s the path to his door “is still grass-covered,” he School of Public Affairs, questioned the tactics says. “But I think there is enough happening and outcomes of the nation’s “war” on drugs. In now that things will start to change.

How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

ven after a decade of falling crime rates, principles, simple in concept but requiring • Not every social program helps control crime. Ecrime remains a major social problem and effective management: But some demonstrably do: nurse home visits, remains an important barrier to improving • Punishment is a cost, not a benefit. improved classroom discipline, shifting the conditions in poor neighborhoods. With one • Swiftness and certainty are more effective school day later so that adolescents aren’t on American adult in 100 now behind bars, mass than severity. the streets when there are lots of empty incarceration constitutes a problem in its own • A truly convincing threat doesn’t have to be homes, reducing exposure to lead, substitution right. The challenge is how to shrink both carried out very often. therapy (methadone and buprenorphine) for problems at the same time: by using • A small proportion of the offenders account opiate addicts. incarceration more efficiently, by using for most of the crime. • Social-services agencies need to be managed punishments other than incarceration, or • Offenders need to be warned—personally with crime control in mind, just as criminal- by controlling crime by means other than and specifically—what it is that they’re not justice agencies need to be managed to help punishment. supposed to do and what will happen if they control disease and serve other non-crime- Could the United States have half as keep doing it. control purposes. much crime and half as many prisoners a • Concentrating enforcement attention works Hawaii’s HOPE probation program illustrates decade from now? Yes. But not the way either better than dispersing it. how this approach plays out in practice. Neither liberals or conservatives normally think about • Now that it is possible to monitor the location judges nor probation officers want to revoke the problem: not by building more prisons and drug use of probationers and parolees with probation and send a probationer to prison for or “fixing root causes,” not through “zero portable GPS systems, many—perhaps most— "technical” violations of probation terms. tolerance” or “restorative justice,” not by of today’s prisoners could be safely managed in Consequently, probationers quickly learn what “winning the drug war” or “ending prohibition,” the community instead. But that depends on the they can get away with: most of the time, not with “more guns, less crime” or national willingness and capacity to use short jail stays, anything short of getting arrested for a new gun registration. delivered quickly and reliably, to sanction crime. In particular, drug users learn that the The current system of randomized severity probation and parole violations. most likely result of failing a drug test is a gets us the worst of all possible worlds: high • The primary goal of drug law enforcement warning from the probation officer. But after crime rates and mass incarceration. The should be to minimize crime and disorder seven or ten of fifteen rule violations, a alternative approach that could cut both crime around the drug markets, not to reduce the probationer may find himself facing revocation and incarceration rates depends on a few flow of drugs. and a spell in state prison. This system keeps

16 HaverfordMagazine haverford college In addition to his scholarly As Kleiman plugs away at making an things he wrote and another well-known writings on drugs, crime and impact on public policy with his books, he has blogger linked to it. Eugene said, ‘You also found a satisfying outlet for his ideas (on obviously have a talent for this. You should public policy, Kleiman has found crime and many other subjects) as a blogger. do a blog.’ another venue for his ideas as a His blog, called “The Reality-Based “Blogging,” says Kleiman, who now shares blogger. “Blogging,” he says, “is Community” (www.samefacts.com) bears the posting duties on the blog with five other slogan (a quote from the late Senator Daniel public policy scholars, “is like writing a letter like writing a letter to the editor Patrick Moynahan): “Everyone is entitled to his to the editor that always gets published and that always gets published and own opinion, but not his own facts.” doesn’t get edited. It’s like screaming at the doesn’t get edited.” The erudite Kleiman, who triple majored at television set and someone hears you. Haverford in political science, philosophy and “We get about 3,000 visitors a day, which “I am not the only one working on these economics, says he was inspired to join the is not a lot, but 3,000 is about how many copies ideas. There are a lot of us out there,” says blogging ranks by UCLA law professor Eugene got printed of my last book, Against Excess. Kleiman, citing the work of criminologist Volokh, founder of the widely-read, right of With a blog, there is someone reading my stuff David Kennedy at John Jay College of center blog The Volokh Conspiracy. “He is a 24 hours a day. Unfortunately, that is more than Criminal Justice and an organization called libertarian and a gun rights guy and a lot of I can say about my academic writing.” The National Network for Safe Communities. things I’m not and he’s one of the smartest —Eils Lotozo “The Network was organized at John Jay people I know,” says Kleiman. “I started around Kennedy’s ideas about policing,” he says. reading his blog and commented on some

By Mark Kleiman

probationers from using expensive drugs and the lives of their children, and reduce their winding up in prison either for a new crime or probability of being arrested by more than 25%. on a probation revocation. That may be the most cost-effective crime- A judge in Hawaii had a better idea. He control program ever invented, since the cost of took a group of methamphetamine-using sending out the nurses is more than covered by probationers who wouldn’t stop using their reduced costs elsewhere in the health-care favorite drug, and put them on randomized drug system due to the fact that the children don’t testing, with the promise that every missed or get sick as often. “dirty” test would lead to an immediate 48-hour After four decades of being “tough on spell behind bars. Once that threat had been crime,” it’s time to get smart instead. We need clearly made, most probationers stopped using, to be as tough as necessary, but no tougher. either right away or after a single sanction. The goal is not to put as many people behind Fewer than a third violated as many as three bars as possible, but to make people safer in times. That program, called HOPE, cut the their homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods. number of probationers arrested for new Professionals throughout the criminal justice crimes, and the number sent off to prison, system are figuring out how to do that; it’s time by more than half. for the public conversation to catch up with In High Point, North Carolina, police had what the experts know. been trying and failing for twenty years to system was arrested and sent away. With all This essay originally appeared on the control an open crack market. Every time a the dealers gone, the customers stopped website The Huffington Post. dealer was arrested, a new dealer took his coming, and the market dried up. Five years place. But then the police accumulated cases later, it’s still gone. against all the active dealers, and called them Poor parenting creates children at high risk in for a meeting. The police chief issued a of becoming serious criminals. A baby doesn’t simple message: stop dealing right now, or go come with an instruction manual. Sending to prison. That drove most of the dealers away nurses to the homes of first-time mothers who immediately; the one who decided to test the are also poor and young can markedly improve

Winter 2010 17 Barak Mendelsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science Q&A: Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Jeffrey L. Dunoff ’82 Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism s globalization increasingly reshapes University of Chicago Press, 2009 A international relations and international law, scholarly debate has arisen over whether arak Mendelsohn’s first book starts from an the theoretically lucid eyes of justice. we are (or even should be) moving in the Benticing premise: After trade barriers The weakest element of Mendelsohn’s direction of an international constitution that disintegrated and the Internet pulled each theoretical frame is the proposition that the could, in some measure, govern the world. In a corner of the globe closer to the others, after jihadi network ever posed a credible threat to new book, Ruling the World?: Constitutionalism, countless proclamations that globalization had the state system. His thesis rests on the International Law, and Global Governance torn down the walls between argument that a true systemic (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Jeffrey L. nations and flattened the threat, among other qualifiers, Dunoff and his co-editor Joel Trachtman bring world, the state system “possesses—or has the together essays from leading scholars that resurged spectacularly. potential to obtain—the power explore some of the major developments and Mendelsohn argues that our to overcome the old order.” central questions in the debate over system of nation states at I hold that the history of international constitutionalism at such bodies the hinge of 9/11 recognized Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, of global governance as the United Nations, the existential threat of an Al Pakistan’s support of fighters in the European Union and the World Trade Qaeda ideology dedicated to Kashmir, and the Arab world’s Organization. toppling governments and patronage of Palestinian Haverford College Assistant Professor of responded by strengthening militants, has demonstrated the Philosophy Jill Stauffer talked to Dunoff, a law the international order and inability of jihadis to pose a professor and director of the Institute for cooperation. credible threat to a single state’s International Law and Public Policy at Temple His defense of the thesis viability, let alone the broader University Beasley School of Law, about the is both well crafted and state system, even with support book and the issues it raises. disciplined; he was as well of a host government. I would served by his years snowed into Cornell’s Olin argue that their radical ideology has proven Jill Stauffer: How should we think about Library as well as those spent analyzing so unattractive that they can only succeed in constitutionalism at the international level? intelligence with the Israeli army. After building dismantling states if nations, blinded by fear an exhaustive literature review and analytical and grief, choose to do their work for them, Jeffrey L. Dunoff: Constitutions perform lens, Mendelsohn spends his remaining systematically undermining their own values in many functions; one of the most important is hundred pages focused on ways the pursuit of phantom threats. That said, there is that they both authorize and constrain the use international society has cracked down on little disputing that the less radical steps of law-making authority. The U.S. Constitution terrorist financing, secured materials that could Mendelsohn analyzes have prevented further identifies what powers Congress has – it can be used in weapons of mass destruction, and tragedy. Indeed Mendelsohn will respond to my regulate interstate commerce, for example – bolstered borders. Central to his argument is critiques by arguing that (1) the lack of and what powers Congress does not have – the notion that the war in Afghanistan was precedent does not indicate a lack of capability, for example, it cannot establish a state religion. legitimate—and thus supported by the broader particularly if weapons of mass destruction are International constitutional rules do much the international collective—while the invasion of involved, and (2) the perception of the threat, same thing – they either authorize or limit Iraq was a misguided distraction from the true and indeed the hyperbolic response we threat, rightfully dissented against by other observed and overwhelmingly supported, states. The hegemon’s actions were checked indicates the vulnerability of the system. by other members of the society, properly Mendelsohn provides a convincing recognizing the assault as a contradiction of aggregation and analysis of the quiet steps the ideals and security they sought to cement. states have taken to protect us from the There remain chapters that require further horrors seared into our hearts and minds exploration; we should hope that they will be almost a decade ago. The most important the focus of his next work. Among them: The work that has kept us safe, Mendelsohn issue of extraordinary rendition, to which we’ve demonstrates, has happened not on the seen a schizophrenic response, governments “dark side,” but rather with cooperation, simultaneously cooperating with the American shared ideals, and assistance. capture and deportation of purportedly high —Brian Till ‘08 is a Research Fellow at the value targets while judicial systems and New America Foundation in Washington, publics, notably in Italy and the United Kingdom, D.C. where he is working on a book of dissent against the cooperation. There also interviews with former heads of state. remains an inability to agree upon “new rules” [See our story, p. 38] for detention of captives and for trials where imperfect evidence and torture have clouded JOE LABOLITO JOE

18 HaverfordMagazine haverford college law-making power. Thus the UN Charter both community. Since important elements of the JS: Any system of law has to be both stable and grants a form of law-making power to the international community do not accept the UN responsive, or it won’t be just… or legitimate. Security Council, and at the same time limits Charter as a constitution, I would suggest that that power. So constitutional rules are really the Charter has constitutional features, but JD: Exactly. So a key question in any legal “rules about rules,” and they exist in both does not currently serve as a constitution. system is whether adequate processes for domestic and international law. change exist. Given the absence of an books JS: This question seems harder to me, but it is international legislature, the processes of JS: Does the difference in effective enforcement right in your area of expertise: Where does the change in international law are neither rapid options point to a marked difference between World Trade Organization [WTO] fit in a vision of nor straightforward. Current stalemates in domestic and international constitutions? international constitutionalism? negotiations over a new treaty on climate change, for example, illustrate some of the JD: It is true that the international domain JD: A number of prominent scholars claim that difficulties in current law-making processes. largely lacks effective enforcement the WTO is a constitution for the international Some argue that the system’s inability to mechanisms. However, we should not economic order. Indeed, WTO rules govern respond to rapidly changing circumstances overemphasize the role of enforcement. Many nearly 90 percent of world commerce, and the threatens to undermine the system. areas of domestic law – including virtually all WTO has the strongest and most active dispute areas involving claims against the state – are settlement system in international law. But the JS: How did you end up where you are, in effectively unenforceable. WTO’s undoubted power terms of your profession? Did your studies at The U.S. Supreme Court has has sparked a backlash. Haverford put you on this track, or did the no coercive powers; Critics question why direction come later? nevertheless the President, unelected and the Congress, and even the unaccountable trade JD: My time at Haverford has powerfully armed forces systematically bureaucrats can decide that informed everything I’ve done since. While in obey the Court’s orders. rules passed by democratic college, I developed an independent major in states, such as the U.S., are political philosophy. I took many philosophy JS: So international unlawful, and many critique classes at Haverford and many political science constitutionalism is more the “legitimacy” of WTO classes at Bryn Mawr. This course of study about cooperation than processes and authority. immersed me in questions about the coercion? I think that claims that justification of state power and the appropriate the WTO is a constitution scope of state authority. My current interest in JD: Yes. International law are an effort to respond to global governance flows directly from the provides states a this legitimacy critique. A issues I explored with Haverford faculty and mechanism for achieving “constitutional” order is classmates. commonly-shared goals usually thought of as being that no state can obtain on representative, transparent, JS: What projects are next on the horizon its own, such as a healthy environment and and legitimate. I believe that constitutionalism’s for you? sustainable use of the world’s resources. In a advocates appropriate the value-laden rhetoric deeply interdependent world, collaboration and of constitutionalism precisely in order to profit JD: I am interested in what some call the cooperation are a necessity, and international from those connotations. Those who claim the “fragmentation of international law.” Since law provides rules, principles and institutions WTO is constitutionalized are trying to bridge World War II, we’ve seen an explosion of that help govern and stabilize international the gap between the WTO’s perceived power, international institutions and the rise of new affairs. and the lack of a broad popular basis for international legal regimes, such as human exercise of that power. rights, international environmental law, JS: Is the UN Charter a constitution? international criminal law, etc. Each of these JS: Constitutionalism seems to refer, at the specialized areas of law has its own treaties, JD: The Charter has several constitutional same time, to unchanging rules and ever- principles, and institutions, all designed to qualities—for example, it allocates authority changing rules. How is that possible? advance certain values. among various UN bodies and sets out the The interesting and difficult question is what conditions under which the Security Council JD: One of law’s primary functions is to provide should happen when rules from different can create legally binding norms. In addition, stability. This stabilization function is even more regimes conflict. When a trade rule conflicts constitutional law is usually considered to be pronounced for constitutions, which set out with a human rights rule, which should prevail? hierarchically superior over other forms of law, norms and establish institutions to govern What should we do when courts from different and the Charter provides that its terms will society. On the other hand, laws must adapt to international regimes address the same fact prevail over inconsistent terms in other social, economic, technological, and political pattern, but reach different results? Traditional international treaties. changes if they are to stay relevant. Thus international legal doctrine provides little But as a pragmatic matter, a constitution’s although law must provide stability, a legal guidance when rules collide or conflict. I’ve just status as fundamental law ultimately rests not order that is incapable of change will not – started a project that explores new ways of on textual provisions but rather on its and should not – long survive. addressing regime overlap and conflict. acceptance as authoritative by the relevant

Winter 2010 19 New Releases

Books John Kromer ’71 Edward Shanken ’86 Alan Armstrong ‘61 Fixing Broken Cities: Art and Electronic Media Looking for Marco Polo The Implementation of Urban Phaidon Press, 2009 Random House, 2009 Development Strategies Shanken, an assistant professor of new Newbery Award-winning author Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2010 media at the University of Amsterdam, traces Armstrong’s latest book for young readers Kromer, Philadelphia’s Director of Housing the history of electronic media and its artistic focuses on 11-year-old during the 1990s and now uses. Divided into three Mark, whose a senior consultant at the sections—Survey, anthropologist father Fels Institute of Works, Documents— has disappeared in the Government at the book gives an Gobi desert while the University of overview of the field tracing Marco Polo’s Pennsylvania, offers from the early 20th ancient route from practical ideas century to the present Venice to China. When for stabilizing and includes nearly an asthma attack keeps neighborhoods, 200 color plates with him from sleeping one revitalizing downtowns, captions and a collection of theoretical writings night, Mark is visited by and eliminating post- by artists who played important roles in defining an old friend of his father’s, who captivates him industrial blight in urban areas challenged by electronic art practices. with the real-life story of Polo’s journey. decades of abandonment and decay.

Nicholson Baker ’79 Richard Lederer ’59 The Anthologist: A Novel A Treasury for Dog Lovers Simon & Schuster, 2009 A Treasury for Cat Lovers Baker’s humorous 10th novel delves into the Howard Books, 2009 Film mind of struggling poet Terry Kegel ‘03 Paul Chowder, who’s I Speak Soccer recently lost both his 2009 girlfriend and his ability to write. Through Shot over the course of four years and stream-of-consciousness spanning six continents, Terry Kegel’s film narrative, Paul shares (available on DVD at ispeaksoccer.com) takes his troubles, his viewers on a worldwide tour of pickup soccer, extensive knowledge of an unofficial, public, self-defined version of the poetry, and his attempts world’s most popular game. Kegel, an to clean up his office. Author of more than 30 books on language, elementary school teacher, frames the game humor and history, Lederer celebrates the fun as a reflection of diversity and a community- Jon Holtzman ’87 and foibles of furry companions with word building force. I Speak Soccer was Uncertain Tastes: Memory, games, stories, and drawings. Featuring facts, named Best Travel Ambivalence and the Politics lists, poems and guides, Lederer’s books offer Documentary at wit, wisdom and inspiration for pet owners. the Philadelphia of Eating in Samburu, Independent Film Northern Kenya Festival and won the University of California Press, 2009 Audience Award at An associate professor of anthropology at the Seattle True Western Michigan University, Holtzman provides Independent Film an ethnography of Samburu cattle herders and Festival. All proceeds examines the effects of a from DVD sales go to Right to Play, an shift in their basic diet international humanitarian organization that from a regimen of milk, uses sport as a forum for teaching and meat and blood to one of community-building. purchased agricultural products. Holtzman uses food to measure the changes happening in Samburu social and material life.

20 HaverfordMagazine haverford college profile

“It’s All Chemistry” faculty

Master teacher and devoted mentor Fran Blase helps her students discover that to understand chemistry is to understand the world. By Brenna McBride PHOTOS BY PETER TOBIA

Fran Blase ponders a ssociate Professor of Chemistry drugs, or studying soil samples from research-related puzzle Fran Blase wants you to know the moon in search of water. “It spans with student assistants A one thing: “Chemistry totally every aspect of the universe,” she says. Kelsey Cantwell ’11 (left) rocks.” Blase had wanted to study chemistry and Justin Sears ’10. If you have a fundamental under- since her South Philadelphia adoles- standing of chemistry, you have a fun- cence. She attended an all-girls damental understanding of the world, Catholic high school, and being in an she says. “The Earth is made up of ele- entirely female atmosphere, she recalls, ments, elements are made up of was empowering. “We would watch the atoms…it’s all chemistry.” Chemistry nuns in their lab aprons, doing exper- is used for mundane tasks, like mak- iments, and there was not even a ques- ing paints or glass, and for “sexy” proj- tion that we weren’t capable of doing ects like developing new anticancer this,” she says.

Winter 2010 21 She went on to enroll at the she went into the industry with only crazy, applying for only two academic University of Pennsylvania, and in her bachelor’s degree, it wouldn’t be jobs,” she says. “I would be one of up doing so became the first in her family long before her doctorate-holding to 200 applicants.” And now, after 18 to be admitted to college. Blase’s moth- peers would become her bosses. successful years at Haverford—includ- er grew up during the Depression, at a “You’re just as good as they are,” Blase ing a stint as department chair from time when it was assumed women remembers Mallory telling her. 2005-08—she’s reminded of the old would do no more than marry and Being at Bryn Mawr was great prepa- expression: If you want to make God have children. Her mother was one of ration for a career at Haverford, she laugh, tell Him your plans. four siblings; only the son continued says: “I became familiar with the pace “Haverford was the perfect situa- his education. “And my mother and my of a smaller school, so I knew what I tion,” she says. “I always loved to teach, aunts were very smart,” says Blase. was getting into, and my Ph.D. advi- and here I can do that and also do Meanwhile, her father had only a bit sor, Charles Swindell, was an outstand- research with my undergraduates.” of college, taking classes on the GI bill ing mentor.” After receiving her doc- Currently, A.J. McGahran ’11 and after returning from World War II. torate, she completed a two-year Kelsey Cantwell ’11 are assisting Blase

left to right: A.J. McGahran ’11, Kelsey Cantwell ’11, Fran Blase, and Justin Sears ’10 collaborate on Blase’s projects. “I always loved to teach,” says Blase, “and here I can do that and also do research with my undergraduates.”

Shortly after receiving her B.A. in postdoctoral program at Penn under in one of her projects, which involves 1984, she entered Bryn Mawr College’s the direction of Amos B. Smith, II, the study of a family of natural prod- Ph.D. program in organic chemistry, working on the synthesis of a potent ucts with antibiotic activity called the in what she admits was a rather neurotoxin whose mechanism of action Ripostatins. “Many drugs on the mar- roundabout way. “I first thought I could lend insight into neurodegener- ket are isolated from natural sources, would work, take the opportunity to ative diseases. She believed she most like plants or microorganisms—includ- pay off some student loans,” says likely would follow the path of fellow ing even marine organisms,” she Blase. But she was fortunate to have a organic chemists into the pharmaceu- explains. “Synthetic organic chemists mentor in Sally Mallory, a Penn pro- tical field, but then she saw two adver- look at the natural products and say, fessor who held a research position at tisements for assistant professor posi- ‘Can we make these in the lab? What Bryn Mawr. Mallory advised her to tions, one at Swarthmore, the other at are the challenges to putting this consider graduate school, because if Haverford. “Amos Smith told me I was together from scratch? Can we do it

22 HaverfordMagazine applies these skills as an adviser for the Haverford Summer Science Institute (HSSI), which brings incoming freshmen to campus during the summer for profile “Until you make a taste of college-level science. Much like her students, Blase something in a lab, spends her time outside of Haverford study it, and model it, volunteering for social causes. In addi- only then do you have tion to raising 11-year-old Julia and 16- year-old Audrey with husband Michael faculty a true grasp of what Utkus, Blase is active in her local Catholic parish outreach programs and is going on at the regularly visits a city homeless shelter molecular level,” to cook and serve dinner: “I’m an Italian chemist, so of course I love to says Blase. bake and cook.” She also took up running after her second daughter was born, and often brings her beagle, Baxter, for company. “I don’t do anything terribly adven- differently than nature?’” Modifying chemistry) to assemble a complex rigid turesome,” she says, “but I’m trying to the template nature has provided can region of the chivosazole backbone. spend most of my free time hopefully also advance the discipline of chem- “She always has great research sug- doing good.” istry itself: “If we can figure out an effi- gestions, which have helped me to Sometimes she wonders to herself: cient way to synthesize complex mol- think like a scientist and chemist,” says What kind of impact is she having on ecules, it shows us how we can make Sears. “She encouraged my decision to the lives of others? “I don’t know yet,” even more intriguing, diverse mole- pursue research abroad, and helped me she confesses. “But I try to provide my cules.” acquire a research internship in students with a positive experience, She’s particularly interested in the Germany this past summer.” and an appreciation for science. I’m Ripostatins, which are produced and Blase’s philosophy of chemistry can proud of the students I’ve mentored isolated from soil bacteria, because be summed up by a quote, which she because they have gone off and already some members of the family target bac- incorporates into her syllabi and class done amazing things. I like to think teria in a similar manner to the well lectures, from internationally renowned that I contributed in very small part to known antibiotic rifampicin, which chemist and Nobel Laureate Roald their passion for uncovering scientific treats tuberculosis. “If we can assem- Hoffman: “…until you synthesize that truths and for revealing nature’s ble the Ripostatins in the lab, then we molecule, no one can study its proper- secrets.” can make modifications, and better ties. The synthetic chemist is quite in understand how these molecules bind control.” to the target sites within the bacteria,” “So until you make something in a she says. lab, study it, and model it, only then “Working towards synthesizing a do you have a true grasp of what is drug to help treat tuberculosis, while going on at the molecular level,” she under the leadership of someone as says. kind and enthusiastic as Fran, has been When teaching both science and a phenomenal experience,” says A.J. non-science majors, Blase tries to use McGahran. “She pushes her students real-world analogies to make things to think critically and analytically while clear. “If I’m talking about the structure examining problems pertinent to our of an atom, I encourage students to society.” think of that atom as the science build- Blase collaborates with another stu- ing, with the first floor rotunda as the dent, Justin Sears ’10, on a second proj- nucleus and electrons on various floors.” ect involving an antifungal agent, Blase’s teaching skills have earned her Chivosazole A. “It doesn’t have the a Christian and Mary Lindback teach- ‘wow’ factor of an antibiotic,” she says, ing award in 1998 and, in 2009, an “but it’s still a novel molecule.” Sears Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Blase are using metals (in a process Award from the Philadelphia branch of known as organo-transition metal the American Chemical Society. She also

Winter 2010 23 Faculty Friend Catching Up with Former Faculty Members

When Emeritus Professor of Biology Mel Santer joined Haverford’s biology department more than 50 years ago, he didn’t know that he’d soon become a pioneer in the field. Santer was one of a trio of professors—including Ariel Loewy and Irv Finger—who made the burgeoning study of cell and molecular biology a cornerstone of Haverford’s program, at a time when few colleges pursued this path. Santer stopped teaching in 2006, and turned his attention from the future of science to its past. In the fall of 2009, two of his articles focusing on the history of science—specifically, the discoveries of 18th-century botanist Richard Bradley and 19th-century scientist Joseph Lister—were published in academic journals. Here, Santer speaks about his years at Haverford (where, he says, “every day was a joy”), his current project, and his fascination with science through the centuries.

What brought you to Haverford? Foundation. In 1960 we got a training shown that microbes cause disease. I’ve grant from NIH. This was unique for an written about Richard Bradley, who 200 Mel Santer: I was a postdoctoral fellow at undergraduate institution. We were probably years before had suggested that very idea. Yale. I met my wife [Ursula Victor Santer, also the only undergraduate school in the country Why is a theory accepted at certain times, a professor of biology at Haverford] there; to receive an electron microscope! and other times it isn’t? Understanding we got married in April of 1955. She was where we are now depends on doing her Ph.D. with a well-known How have you seen the field of understanding where we came from. biochemist named Dave Bonner. One day he molecular/cellular biology change told me that Haverford College was looking over the years? What are you working on presently? for a new faculty member, and I said to him, MS: Those methods and ideas have MS: I’m writing a history of how diseases “Where is that?” My wife, a graduate of infiltrated everything: evolution, ecology, described as infectious or contagious have Swarthmore, heard this conversation from medical fields. And all of these things are been understood, from ancient times to the another room and shouted to me, “I know now highly integrated. There’s an emphasis beginning of the 20th century. where it is. You go and look at it.” not so much on the components of the cell’s You have said that every day at Haverford So I came down on a cold, rainy day in mechanism, but how the components work has been a “joy” for you. How? November of 1955, and I met the man who together to give you what you see. would transform my life. He was a great man, MS: I worked with people who I not only Why do you study the history of science? one of the great people who taught at admired, I actually loved. They were my deep Why is this important to understand? Haverford: Ariel Loewy. I spent the day with friends. We thought alike, so there was little him and became convinced that this was MS: Fundamentally, it’s just incredible conflict; it was such a community of identical where I should be. He had already begun to curiosity on my part: How did we come to interests. The College allowed us more create the biology discipline you see at believe what we know? That was always an freedom than I could imagine at any other Haverford today. important question in regard to the place. We were independent but worked as experimental science in which I was a community. I arrived in 1956. The next year Irv Finger involved. I wondered, where do these ideas came, and the three of us were going to come from? It’s fascinating to read questions create a new discipline, a new biology that posed by Greek thinkers, and they’re was emerging in the world. We included questions you could pose today: What is the molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, nature of the world? How is it constituted? genetics. This wasn’t being done anywhere; How does it work? it was even difficult for us to find places for our students to go to graduate school. We My area of interest is microbes and how they got a lot of support, both from the College work. At one time, an important aspect of and from outside agencies like the National microbiology was disease theory, because Institutes of Health and the National Science at the end of the 19th century it was finally

24 HaverfordMagazine Not Your Average games

Summer Camp ford

Two sports programs founded by Fords give kids lessons in life. By Katherine Unger ’03

Campers (above) play a game ost sports camps fall into a pat- DiverseCity Hoops, founded by Mike during the Summer Academy tern: multiple training sessions Fratangelo ’07 and Greg Rosnick ’09— run by SportsChallenge, an Meach day, plus a little time for have different aims and different histo- organization Jeremy Edwards socializing, with a few scattered hours ries. SportsChallenge blends basketball ‘92 helped launch. Greg for eating and sleeping. Not content and soccer training with leadership Rosnick ‘09 (top) helps a with this mold, a trio of Haverford ath- development, while DiverseCity Hoops DiverseCity Hoops participant. lete-alumni took it upon themselves to incorporates lessons in diversity aware- broaden the experience, creating two ness into basketball practice. According programs that give campers something to their founders, however, both enti- to take away from their summers besides ties were created in the best spirit of a mean jump shot. Haverford—one that aims to give back The two ventures—SportsChallenge, to the world. co-founded by Jeremy Edwards ’92, and SportsChallenge, which today oper-

Winter 2010 25 Jeremy Edwards ‘92 teaches a course on cross-cultural communication for the SportsChallenge summer program.

ates a summer program for high school The first Summer Academy was held during a game and he or she seems students, as well as a growing suite of in 1997, offering four courses focusing upset. In the discussion that follows, other services, is in its fourteenth year. on aspects of leadership, such as con- students are asked to consider how they Its roots go back to the Haverford athlet- flict resolution. Since then, there have might respond as a sophomore on the ics department. Not long after Edwards been changes—soccer was added to the team, or as a captain. Would they say graduated from Haverford, where he roster, for example—but many of the anything to their coach? played basketball and baseball, he camp basics have remained constant. Edwards says these and other discus- became an assistant basketball coach for Currently the Academy lasts nine days, sions are enhanced by the diversity of the college. He developed strong friend- each one carefully plotted out by the academy attendees. More than 80 ships with fellow coaching assistants Edwards and his co-directors. Each day percent of the student-athletes are on Kevin Morgan and Kevin Small. After student-athletes, both soccer players and financial aid. SportsChallenge has host- realizing a coach’s life wasn’t for him, basketball players, take part in three ed athletes from rural Kansas to Edwards went to play basketball in bouts of sport-specific training, two Northern Ireland, from public schools Wales, “the only country bad enough” classroom lessons (one on some aspect and from elite private schools. “When to have him. While he was gone, howev- of leadership and one on sports psychol- the kid from Deerfield is rooming with er, Morgan and Small formulated a plan, ogy) and an occasional leadership sem- the kid from the South Bronx,” says letting him in on the idea as he was inar or college-counseling session. Also Edwards, “what happens in those nine planning to return stateside: They want- built into the day is time for fun and days with that relationship is a lot more ed to start a basketball camp with an games to help the campers relax and powerful than anything we conscious- emphasis on leadership development, bond. The athlete-to-counselor ratio is ly try to do.” and they wanted Edwards to join them. kept low, around five to one. Many of the counselors have under- Edwards accepted, and took on the The lessons are designed to blend gone metamorphoses of their own. More role of leadership director, in charge of seamlessly from classroom to court or than 30 Haverford alumni have worked coming up with the curriculum—this field. After a class on sports psycholo- with SportsChallenge enroute to or in despite his utter lack of education expe- gy, for example, all athletes adopt a “mis- the midst of careers in education, youth rience. Before the camp launched, says take ritual,” such as brushing off their coaching, or nonprofit management. “It Edwards, “I spent a year thinking hard shoulder, to acknowledge an error and helped me develop as a teacher and a about the essential needs of a team move on with the game. In a course coach,” says Liz Koster ’04, an assistant leader and how we can give [kids] those called “Conflict Resolution in Sports,” director for SportsChallenge who is a skills.” He also reached out to experts counselors will present the student-ath- social worker at a Philadelphia school. in leadership development to help fill letes with a hypothetical situation. For An athlete at Haverford, she began his knowledge gaps. example: A coach berates a teammate working summers for the organization

26 HaverfordMagazine before her sophomore year and hasn’t ed alumni who donated funds to help and self-esteem, the older campers may stopped. Says Koster, “I am my best ver- the camp get started. delve into more nuanced topics such as sion of myself while I am there.” With little time to make the camp a stereotypes of gender and race. SportsChallenge continues to evolve. reality, Fratangelo and Rosnick placed Importantly, campers come with dif-

A pilot program in 2009 tested a sum- ads in the local newspaper, approached ferent perspectives on these matters. games mer academy for middle school age stu- faculty, and spoke with local schools to Fratangelo and Rosnick strive for “an dents. A lively blog, complete with audio recruit campers. When the camp began, even mix” between campers from urban and video clips, keeps the messages they had only 13 campers. “It was a and suburban backgrounds, and have about leadership rolling throughout the blessing in disguise,” says Rosnick. In been successful at drawing a diverse ford school year—when student-athletes 2009, the camp attracted roughly 100 group of campers from the Main Line, might need them most. SportsChallenge kids. West Philadelphia, Upper Darby, and also organizes customized workshops Held in two sessions, one for second other nearby neighborhoods. DiverseCity for athletes to improve leadership skills through fifth graders, and another for Hoops has partnered with a few non- in focused areas throughout the year. sixth through ninth graders, the camp profits to create sponsorships for indi- Edwards and co-director Molly kicks off with campers simply playing vidual campers whose parents cannot Hellerman have also discussed ways to basketball all together for 20 minutes cover the full tuition. expand upon their mission. In a trial or so. “I think the first day is huge,” says Like SportsChallenge, DiverseCity run last year, they provided college Rosnick, who is now a graduate student Hoops appears on its way to being a counseling services throughout the in education at Smith College. “We real- Haverford tradition. This past year, school year to five girls who took part ly think basketball is an amazing force Fratangelo and Rosnick, both busy with in the summer academy; all five went that just bonds people.” their graduate studies, relied heavily on on to college, two with full academic scholarships. DiverseCity Hoops sets its sights on enlightening slightly younger campers. For a comparatively young venture, the program (launched in 2007) has made an impressive impact. Mike Fratangelo, then a Haverford senior, and basketball teammate Greg Rosnick, a sophomore, developed the program after the pair took two education classes that got them thinking. “We were talking a lot about multicultural education, a lot about theory,” says Fratangelo. Both were consid- ering pursuing careers somehow tied to education. “We wanted a way to take this theory and put it into practical everyday use in our lives as educators,” says Fratangelo. As it happens, he notes, The ideas raised in education classes they took in school, inspired Mike Fratangelo ‘07 (left) and “we also needed summer jobs.” An idea basketball teammate Greg Rosnick ’09 to create the summer sports camp DiverseCity Hoops. for a camp began to take shape. “We wanted to tackle the issue of diversity Later on, campers break into small two current Haverford students, Sam and bring it together with sports,” says groups for classroom sessions. Each day Permutt ’11 and Lekan O-Nicholson ’11, Fratangelo, who recently received his has a special theme, such as teamwork, to take on some of the camp’s manage- master’s degree in social service from around which the practices and class- ment. Though uncertain of exactly what Bryn Mawr College and will soon leave room discussions are framed. So drills direction the camp will take, both insist for Italy to play basketball profession- that day may emphasize passing and a it must continue, even expand. Perhaps ally. Their professors helped them nail motion offense, while in class coun- one day, looking to the example of down the specifics of what the camp selors might pair together campers who Jeremy Edwards, it will become for them would look like—a mix of basketball don’t know each other to create a “part- a full-time labor of love. training and classroom sessions—while ner rap”—a short rhyme describing the Haverford basketball coach Mike Mucci other person. Fratangelo and Rosnick discussed the logistics of hosting a have worked to gear their lessons to the sports camp on the Haverford campus maturity levels of the campers. For with his players. Mucci also helped example, while the younger campers them secure the facilities and contact- may talk about identity, responsibility,

Winter 2010 27 Greg introduces classmate and Greg honorary degree recipient John Carroll ‘63 during the 2008 Kannerstein Commencement ceremony. 1941–2009

hrough 41 years at legacy.com page created in his the College, Greg It is hard to imagine honor. Hundreds attended a Kannerstein ’63 Haverford without him. special Quaker Meeting for played so many Worship held in December in T different roles and touched so many students’ lives in the Calvin Gooding ’84 Arena (part of the Gardner Integrated so many ways. He knew more about the College’s history and Athletic Center, whose construction he championed). lore than anyone. And he seemed to know personally most of What these testimonials most often recall is his way of mak- Haverford’s alumni, and kept tabs on all of them, remembering not ing everyone he talked to feel special and important, and his just their names, but their majors, the teams they played on, remarkable gift for believing in people, even when they did not where they lived now and what jobs they held. yet believe in themselves. Also remembered is his great kindness: He was a principled advocate for change at the College, and a how he always managed to find work for a financially struggling steadying presence through decades of those changes. He was student; how he always had the time to make a call, write a let- Haverford’s heart and its conscience. But now the man affection- ter or send an email to help a Ford find a job, an internship or ately dubbed “Mr. Haverford” is gone. gain admission to grad school; or, how, as baseball coach, he Kannerstein, who served Haverford as Dean of the College, would cheerfully encourage even those with little baseball expe- Director of Athletics, Admission Director and baseball coach, rience and no obvious talent to join the team. (Jerry Miraglia ’80 among other positions, died November 24 of complications from recalls Kannerstein’s response when, as an aspiring freshman mesothelioma, which had been diagnosed only a few weeks ear- player he confessed that he hadn’t played baseball since he was 13: lier. Dean of Students since 2006, he had recently left that post to “Don’t worry about it, just come out and work hard and Haverford become special advisor to Institutional Advancement and lectur- baseball will be a great part of your college experience.”) er in general programs. And then there was his humility. “I’ve never met a person who Since his death, campus colleagues, current students, and fel- was so enthusiastic about talking about the accomplishments of low Fords far and wide, have been struggling to put into words other people and so reticent about talking about his own,” says the impact he had on Haverford and their own lives. At press- Dick Wynn, vice president for finance and administration, and time, more than 300 people had added their thoughts to the Kannerstein’s friend of more than two decades. “Greg always

28 HaverfordMagazine wanted to tell you about what this or that 1959, at a time, he once said, when finances were Haverfordian had done.” bad, the dorms were “awful” and the food was “He had an essential sweetness,” says Dean “really awful.” According to the class of 1963 year- Steve Watter, another longtime friend. “He book, which refers to Kannerstein with the curious remembered everyone’s name and so much nickname of “Boxcar” or “the Car,” campus social about them because he cared so deeply. He was life then featured the occasional “twist party in always making connections. But he wasn’t a Leeds or a Folk Sing in Founders,” and the biggest pushover, he had a backbone, he had principles.” controversy of the Class’s tenure had been a drunk- Bruce Partridge, emeritus professor of astron- en student riot on Parent’s Day. Also of note: The omy, describes Kannerstein as someone who football team won just two games in four years. “acted on his belief that ‘there is that of God in At Haverford, he played on the baseball and every one,’ whether it was a goof-off on the base- basketball teams, fondly recalling in later years ball team, a budding student politico or a frag- the one foul shot he made in a game against Drexel ile faculty member. Greg was mentor to them in the Palestra. Richard Gillmor ’61, the basket- all, and kept their stories alive. He spoke quiet- Greg’s 1963 yearbook photo ball team co-captain, says about him, “He was not ly but wrote forcefully. And he stood a great athlete, but the best team up to bad calls, whether by umps, player ever. He went to all the events, professors or college administrators.” cheering and learning.” Greg was also the sports editor of the Haverford College News and he The early years credited a chance encounter with In a “sports autobiography” he once a Philadelphia Bulletin sportswriter wrote, Kannerstein traced his life- during a football game with long obsession with two subjects— Swarthmore for leading him to a job race relations and baseball—to his as a reporter and rewrite man after childhood. One of his earliest mem- college. He worked the night shift, ories dated to 1948 when he was happily consorting with hard-boiled seven and living in St. Louis, he reporters and “fascinatingly weird wrote, “where the Cardinals were Philly athletic personalities.” pennant contenders and the papers Greg coached Haverford’s baseball team from 1977-1991. “I think if he had stayed with it, were full of Jackie Robinson’s break- he would have been known as a ing the color line. My dad took me to great sportswriter,” says Wynn, who recalls the Sportsman’s Park for my first big-league game witty “Score Line” reports Kannerstein sent out and I got my first glove, abandoning complete- to an email list-serve when he was Haverford’s ly the previous center of my life, a neurotic athletic director. “He was this erudite guy who cocker spaniel.” loved to read, and he’d write these stories about That baseball madness took permanent root athletics that would include references to Greek when the family moved to northern New Jersey philosophers, and French poets.” in 1951, the year the Giants and the Dodgers While still writing for the Bulletin, faced-off in a legendary pennant race. “Relatives Kannerstein attended the University of despairing of my lack of interest in our religious Pennsylvania, where he received an M.A. in heritage cheered when I missed school to attend English and folklore. Also during this period, services on Rosh Ha-Shana,” he wrote. “They during summers and vacations, he traveled to little suspected that the third Giant-Dodger play- Montgomery, Alabama, to work as a reporter off game that afternoon out-weighed other moti- for the Southern Courier, a newspaper started by vations.” Parked in front of the family’s first- a handful of Harvard Law School graduates to ever television set, he witnessed the Giants Teacher and lecturer are two of the cover the civil rights struggle—an issue local homerun that became known as “The Shot many roles Greg played during his southern papers would not touch at the time. Heard Round the World.” years at Haverford. “Greg really walked the walk,” says Watter. By the time he got to high school, both the “He put his beliefs on the line. He went down Dodgers and the Giants had relocated to the West Coast, but he South at a time when people were getting killed for their recalled traveling by train to the old Shibe Park in Philadelphia to involvement in the Civil Rights movement. It wasn’t a safe see the teams whenever they came east to play the Phillies. thing to do.” Kannerstein even claimed that his decision to attend “cerebral, Many years later, Kannerstein would again delve deeply into Spartan” Haverford, was connected to baseball. Those “pleasant American race relations at Harvard’s Graduate School of Philadelphia memories” and the College’s proximity to Shibe Education, from which he earned a doctorate in 1979 with a Park, he said, were deciding factors. dissertation on the desegregation of black and white colleges Kannerstein arrived on Haverford’s then all-male campus in in several cities.

Winter 2010 29 Greg Kannerstein: 1941-2009

A return to Haverford the 1979 Board meeting at which the College finally decided After a stint as an English instructor at North Carolina Central to go co-ed. University, a historically black college in Durham, Kannerstein “He played a role in every important decision at the college found his way back to Haverford in 1968, taking a post as Assistant and its implementation,” says Watter. “He was a strong propo- Dean of Students while also teaching writing to freshmen and nent of going co-ed and ensuring that women were integrated coaching the JV basketball team. “I cannot count the ways … his into the fabric of the college as quickly as possible. And he was a guidance saved me from drowning as I made my undergraduate strong proponent of increasing the diversity of the student body. slog through a school that seemed over my head and above my He was involved in the trends and issues of the day and he was station,” says George Shotzbarger ’73, who played basketball always on the side of progress. under Kannerstein during that era and relates a story that cap- “People always asked him why he stayed at Haverford so long. tures perfectly his boundlessly generous spirit. He would talk about how important it was in his own develop- Shotzbarger wanted to skip a game against Johns Hopkins so ment, but he was always quick to say ‘Haverford is a much he could go to his girlfriend’s high school prom, but Kannerstein better place now.’ “ said no, skipping a game could hurt his chances of making the var- In 1983, Kannerstein’s encyclopedic knowledge of Haverford’s sity team, which had a tough new coach. Instead, Kannerstein history was put to good use as the editor of The Spirit and The volunteered to drive Shotzbarger to Baltimore for the game in his rattletrap Fiat hatchback and get him back to his girlfriend’s home in Ardmore in time for the prom. And he did Having touched so just that, “grinding gears like a gremlin” all the way up I-95. While Shotzbarger rushed many, there is a kinship upstairs to get into his tux, he recalls, “Greg sat downstairs chatting amiably with Marisa’s among thousands parents. He even taxied us to the prom venue … I believe he took high pride in managing the unmanageable that special night, that can be credited as always.” In 1970, Kannerstein was named assistant to a single man. to President Jack Coleman, with whom he worked to craft the College’s new commitment to cultural diversity. Upon his hiring, Coleman wrote a thank you note to Intellect: Haverford College, 1833- John Whitehead, who helped fund 1983, which looked at some broad the new position. “He gets his work themes in the College’s development. done with efficiency and good That was the same year he became sense,” wrote Coleman about director of athletics. It was his Kannerstein. “He is tactful but firm; longest running role at Haverford, he knows when to act and when to lasting until 2006, and one that he check first; he apparently cannot loved almost as much as being head be ruffled; and he writes well. I’m baseball coach. “He laid the foun- very lucky!” dation for what the sports program Throughout the 1970s, he put on has become today, with full-fledged a number of different Haverford hats men’s and women’s programs, and (often more than one at a time) over coaching resources and facilities the mop of brown hair he then sport- that were not here when he start- Greg with Dave Beccaria (left), Haverford’s current ed. He was Acting Dean of Student baseball coach, and former coach Ed Molush during the ed,” says Director of Athletics Affairs, Acting Dean of the College, baseball team’s 2001 trip to Cuba. Wendy Smith ’87, who took over Associate Dean of the College and a from Greg and counts him, as do lecturer in Humanities. (Among the courses he taught was a so many others, as an important mentor. “He was also here for freshman seminar called “Literature of the Ghetto,” whose syl- the entire transformation into co-ed athletics and he was always labus included an even mix of black and Jewish writers.) He tremendously supportive.” seemed to have a hand in everything going on at the college, pro- Kannerstein had a vision of sports as a natural complement ducing Haverford’s very first athletics brochure and crafting an to academics. “Sports get people from different backgrounds to incisive report that argued (successfully) for enhancing the work together toward a common goal,” he once said. “Teams College’s then-meager student services. offer opportunities to demonstrate leadership. Sports make most Kannerstein was also part of the drawn-out debate over admit- kids—and adults—feel good about themselves.” ting women (he was enthusiastically for the idea) and he once So confident was he about Haverford’s athletic program and its said that one of his most memorable moments at Haverford was emphasis on broad participation and the cultivation of scholar

30 HaverfordMagazine REMEMBERING GREG There are many ways for you to celebrate the life and legacy of Greg Kannerstein. • Join the hundreds who have shared stories of Greg on a special memorial website at legacy.com. Haverford’s Office of Communications plans to have the site’s anecdotes and photographs bound into a book that will be presented to Greg’s family and placed in the College archives. • Help complete the history of Haverford that Greg was researching and writing at the time of his death. The Office of Communications hopes to realize this project by collecting and preserving the stories Greg would have told about the College. From sporting events to Customs Week intrigue ... if Greg told you a tale about Haverford, please send it to [email protected]. • Join with the Haverford community in honoring Greg at Reunion Weekend (May 28-30). A Quaker Meeting for Worship, facilitated by President Steve Emerson, will be held in Ryan Gym on May 29, from 11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Following the Meeting, an all-alumni lunch in the tent will offer further opportunities for reflection and conversation. Other Reunion Weekend events in the works include an alumni Greg greets Michelle Obama baseball game, a Saturday evening dinner during an April 2008 hosted by the classes of ’63 and ’65, and a campaign stop at Haverford. post-dinner gathering in the hospitality suite. Check www.fords.haverford.edu for updates.

athletes, that in 2005 he allowed reporter he harbored a dream that she would one Bill Pennington fly-on-the-wall access to day be the first female professional base- meetings of coaches, administrators and ball player. “To Kannerstein—who had athletes for a series of New York Times waited 52 years to see Haverford beat stories on the recruiting practices of Swarthmore in tennis—nothing was N.C.A.A. Division III schools. Before he’d impossible,” says Arne Tellem ’76, a called Kannerstein, Pennington says sports agent who calls himself one of dozens of prominent small colleges Kannerstein’s “many disciples.” rejected his request. “Athletic directors “There were so many things that were would not even discuss the possibility wonderful about Greg and one of them on the phone. And then I called was the sense of community he created Haverford. Greg thought my series was a for all of us,” says his former classmate great idea and adopted a ‘what do we Loren Ghiglione ’63, now a professor of have to hide?’ attitude. Greg’s unflinch- journalism at Northwestern University. ing candor and integrity served as a back- Ghiglione recalls a recent alumni event bone to every story in the series. Best of Greg in his Athletic Director’s office in Ryan Gym. in Chicago, at which Greg was scheduled all it was just fun to have lunch with him, to speak. “When I arrived, I was absolute- ask a question that I thought might perplex him, ly amazed at how many people were there. And I then sit back and watch his eyes twinkle as he think we were all there for the same reason: quietly delivered a flawlessly astute answer that because Greg was going to be there.” left no angle uncovered.” The many who were at his memorial were Kannerstein, who enjoyed opera, was a pas- there ‘for the same reason’ as well—only this time, sionate reader, and was known for drinking Coca- of course, it was because Greg would not be there. cola in the morning instead of coffee and for his And as the many who loved him contemplate life brightly colored argyle socks. He found another without him, there is some comfort in a shared love to rival his tie to Haverford when he married sorrow. Having touched so many, there is a kinship Elissa Sklaroff in 1986. The couple lived in the among thousands that can be credited to a single Art Museum area of Philadelphia. In recent years, man. In so many ways, then, he is as close as any he’d found a prime occupation in doting on grand- of those whose lives were indelibly stamped with daughter Edie, the child of stepdaughter Sara Proud grandfather Greg the mark of his mentorship, companionship Sklaroff Carey and son-in-law Kevin Carey. He’d with granddaughter Edie as and friendship. already started to teach the little girl baseball and a newborn. —Eils Lotozo

Winter 2010 31 Jorge Morales Toj shared his personal experiences of the Guatemalan Civil War in the classes he co-taught with Anita Isaacs. PHOTO BY PETER TOBIA

During a semester-long residency, Haverford’s first Global Leader for Peace Fellow gave the College community a first-hand account Guatemala of his country’s struggles. CONNECTION By Brenna McBride

ORGE MORALES TOJ IS WELCOMING AND AFFABLE, WITH A QUICK, WARM SMILE for everyone he encounters. But there’s pain and passion beneath that smile, and it rose to the surface as the Mayan lawyer, activist, and survivor of Guatemalan genocide talked with U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Stephen McFarland in a public conversation at Haverford in October. The topic: achieving democracy in the aftermath of the country’s 36-year civil war. Morales Toj spoke at length about the 1996 peace agreements that had been disregarded by Guatemala’s political officials, and the racism that he and Jfellow members of the indigenous community have faced throughout the cen- 32 HaverfordMagazine turies from the colonial system of govern- have accompanied Isaacs on numerous classes co-taught by Isaacs and Morales ment. “[Members of the government] don’t research trips. Toj. “Through his vivid stories, passionate see the indigenous as people with rights; During the fall semester, Isaacs co- speech, and critical insights, he has pro- they see us as cheap labor, second-class cit- taught two classes with Morales Toj. One foundly enhanced our understanding of izens,” he said, voicing his hope for a multi- course, concentrating on U.S.-Latin the challenges faced in attempting to ethnic society in which all participate and American relations, encouraged students rebuild after violent conflict, both in a are represented equally. to mobilize U.S. and Latin American gov- broad national context and from a deeply His ability to bring a first-hand per- ernment agencies in promoting and personal perspective.” spective to studies of the Guatemalan Civil defending the rights of indigenous War is why the Center for Peace and Guatemalans. The second class, a seminar Morales Toj’s history with the Global Citizenship (CPGC) named on historical memory and genocide, Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from Morales Toj its first Global Leader for focused on the pursuit of truth, justice and 1960-1996, began during his childhood, Peace Fellow this fall. The new program reparations in postwar Guatemala and when he was recruited to join the guerillas. brings scholar/activists from abroad to other Latin American countries. He later broke away from the insurgents campus at the invitation of a Haverford “Jorge has worked with me and my stu- and returned to his indigenous commu- faculty member (in this case, Associate dents for over a decade, and I was thrilled nity, where, he says, he decided to “fight Professor of Political Science Anita Isaacs), to bring him into the classroom on a more for our land, equality and dignity in a dif- with whom the Fellow will co-teach a sustained basis and have him engage with ferent fashion.” On the International Day class. Throughout the fall, the CPGC also the community at large,” says Isaacs. “He of Conscientious Objection, he declared hosted public forums centered on Morales represents the essence of student-research himself a pacifist in front of the presiden- Toj’s visit, such as the conversation with partnerships.” tial palace in Guatemala City: “I said no Ambassador McFarland. The classes were conducted in English, to war for ethical and moral reasons.” “To be at Haverford was a tremendous but Isaacs provided translation, both for During the past decade he completed his privilege and honor,” says Morales Toj, students who sought Morales Toj’s opinion education (he had only finished a year and who brought his family with him to on a specific issue, and for Morales Toj a half of elementary school when he was Haverford for the semester. “It was also an as he answered questions and offered recruited by the guerillas) and obtained a enormous responsibility; I see myself as his views. law degree. someone who can tell stories others would “[He provided] a unique and crucial He also began a new phase of his life as want to tell, stories that are common to perspective that I think is too often miss- an activist for indigenous communities, many communities in Guatemala.” ing from academic discourse: that of some- assisting the war’s victims in their quest to The creation of the Global Leader for one who has actually lived the experiences receive reparations from the government Peace fellowship stemmed, in part, from we read about, discuss, and try to make and ensuring that the peace accords were the CPGC’s successful summer internship meaning of,” says Rachel Schwartz ’11, a implemented. Presently, he raises aware- program, according to Center director political science major who took both ness about and defends citizens’ rights Parker Snowe ’79. “The CPGC sends over 60 students per year on summer internships focusing on global issues of peace and social justice in a local context,” says Snowe. “We’d love to send every Haverford student on an internship, but obviously we don’t have the resources to do that. So in order to bring a bit of the internship experience to Haverford, we established the Global Leader for Peace program.” Snowe says that the Center wants to host a Fellow every two years. “Our hope is that we can invite other scholar/activists who will contribute to the social justice aspect of the curriculum, while at the same time be able to share their experiences with our students, themselves future social change agents.” Anita Isaacs, who has dedicated years of study to the Guatemalan civil war and its repercussions, calls Morales Toj “the Guatemalan extension of Haverford Morales Toj (left), shown with his wife and children, was a child soldier with a guerrilla College.” Morales Toj has acted as a group in Guatemala’s Civil War. He eventually left the group, became a pacifist and guide and mentor to the students who earned a law degree.

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against mining companies seeking to The College’s participation encroach on indigenous lands. “ Through his 11-year friendship with in these efforts is consistent Isaacs, Morales Toj has had the opportu- with its commitment to nity to visit Haverford’s campus several peace and social justice, times and share with students Guatemala’s history of genocide and its struggle to build and continues the historic a lasting peace. During spring break 2009 relationship between Morales Toj worked with Isaacs, Rachel Haverford and Guatemala’s Schwartz and Fabrizio Barbagelata ’10 in Guatemala to interview survivors of the survivor communities. PHOTO BY PETER TOBIA war and assess the progress of the govern- ” ment’s reparations program. been detained and tortured, and two had Kuperberg ’10 returned to Guatemala and Says Morales Toj, “The College’s par- been killed. “Being in the barracks, feeling assisted Isaacs and Morales Toj in putting ticipation in these efforts is consistent with the chill of the walls, and imagining the together an interactive historical archive its commitment to peace and social jus- thousands that had been tortured and of the war, interviewing survivors and cre- tice, and continues the historic relation- killed in that space, I could sense the neg- ating video testimonials that will eventual- ship between Haverford and Guatemala’s ative energy that’s still there today.” He ly become part of the museum. survivor communities.” began to picture it as a place that might Morales Toj is grateful to Anita Isaacs Morales Toj is now involving the symbolize resistance instead of death, and and the students who have collaborated Haverford community in his plans to build to give the survivors a much-needed voice. with them, and for the opportunity to a museum dedicated to the memory of “It will be a place to remember the have spent a semester at the College. those lost to and affected by the war. He dead, to learn the history of our country, “I hope we continue to deepen our rela- was inspired by a visit he, Isaacs and the and to allow victims and survivors to tell tionship of solidarity and fraternity,” he students made to Guatemala’s former mil- what really happened,” says Morales Toj says. “When we put even our smallest itary headquarters last spring; it was the of the proposed museum. During the sum- contributions together, we make big same place where three of his uncles had mer, Schwartz, Barbagelata and Rebecca things happen.”

Q&A: Alex Kitroeff

The associate professor of helps us to co-exist, prevent war and ensure that countries history and academic director interact in a peaceful manner. of the Center for Peace and How do you help Haverford students to become Global Citizenship shares his global citizens? thoughts on what it means to be In our classrooms it’s crucial to promote an awareness of other a global citizen in today’s world. cultures and the ways they operate within a particular context, and to understand how history has shaped them. All of us who In your opinion, what constitutes teach foreign cultures must make an extra effort to bring the global citizenship? outside world and the issues it faces closer to students. One It’s an awareness of a range of differ- way I do this is to expose students to the voices of the people ent cultures and political and eco- they study and show how familiar they sound to us. We can nomic systems around the world. It’s being predisposed to never truly understand other cultures if we don’t take the time engaging with them, and thinking critically about them but also to listen to what they have to say and how they say it. understanding them in their own contexts. As a historian, I’ve You have a multicultural background; you were born in studied cosmopolitan societies that existed before World Greece, then educated in the United Kingdom, and now War I; these multiethnic empires left a legacy, an example of teach in the United States. How do you consider your different cultures cohabitating, intermingling and cooperat- own status as a global citizen? ing. I see global citizenship as a present-day version of old Both of my parents lived outside of Greece before settling in world cosmopolitanism. Athens where I was born, so my family is considered diaspora Why is it important to be a global citizen? Greeks. They are aware of being the “other” in a particular First, we live in the most powerful country in the world, and it country. I was educated in the United Kingdom and then moved would be easy, from our vantage point, to overlook smaller to the U.S., so I’ve experienced three different cultures and countries. We have a responsibility to be aware of their exis- appreciated all of them. My background gives me an advan- tence and what they have to offer, and not to ignore them. tage in the classroom: I can talk about global citizenship from Second, I’ve seen that conflicts and wars are still “justified” by the mind as well as the heart, through knowledge as well invoking cultural differences. An embrace of global citizenship as experience.

34 HaverfordMagazine Students present posters tracking the global commodity chains of common products for a “Politics of Globalization” course. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Across Haverford’s campus, the effects of globalization are being investigated, debated—and experienced. By Eils Lotozo and Brenna McBride

When Assistant Professor of Political Science Globalization as an economic phenomenon refers to a breaking Craig Borowiak teaches his “Politics of Globaliz- down of national borders that has increased the flow of goods, ation” course, he always includes an exercise that capital and services. In another light, it has to do with the revved- never fails to brings home to his students just how up pace of cross-cultural contact and influence, boosted by immi- globalized our world has become. gration, travel and technology. However you define it, globalization “I ask them to look at and its effect on commerce, politics, culture, the environment and the tag in the back of everyday lives, is a topic that is surfacing in myriad ways across the shirt of the student sit- the Haverford campus. ting next to them,” says According to Borowiak, globalization emerged as a compelling Borowiak, who has been academic subject in the mid-1990s, eventually spawning a new teaching the course since interdisciplinary field known as Globalization Studies. “As an aca- 2004. “Then I ask them to demic phenomenon, one thing Globalization Studies has done is call out the name of the break down boundaries,” he says. “Though disciplines are impor- country it was made in and tant, people recognize that they can’t understand these complex I start writing them on the developments with one, narrow disciplinary focus.” board. Invariably, in a class In Borowiak’s class, for example, the reading list encompasses of 40 students, I’ll have 31 sociology, political theory and international law, and includes works Assistant Professor of or 32 countries. That real- by bioethicist Peter Singer, cultural critic Edward Said, and philoso- Political Science Craig Borowiak

PHOTOS BY PETER TOBIA ly gets them thinking.” pher Kwame Anthony Appiah, whose book Cosmopolitanism:

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Ethics in a World of Strangers, has become an important text in For many students, the quest to better understand the study of globalization. a globalized world means getting out into it. “But I also really emphasize political economics,” says Following a national trend, the number of Haverford Borowiak, whose wife, Banu Nilgun Uygun, a visiting assistant students enrolled in study abroad programs increased professor of anthropology at Haverford, also teaches about glob- in 2007-2008, when 47 percent of the junior class went abroad. alization in a course called “Culture in the Global Economy.” Also a sign of the globalized times: more students than ever before “I think it’s really important that students understand the basic looked beyond the traditional European options for study abroad terms and framework of the world economy,” Borowiak says. “I to pursue programs in Latin America, Africa and Asia. (Both of think our students need to know what the International Monetary those trends were interrupted last year when the economic down- Fund, the World Bank and World Trade Organization are and turn took a toll on study abroad at most colleges.) how they function.” Haverford students are also investigating the challenges and To give students insight into competing assertions about such opportunities of globalization through international summer concepts as free trade, Borowiak asks them to select an item from internships sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global their closet or their refrigerator and to track that commodity. “They Citizenship. Last summer, 55 Fords (and five Bryn Mawr stu- have to find out where the raw materials come from, where the company’s financial headquarters is, and what the labor conditions are like where the product is produced,” he says. “They have to “I CONSIDER IT VERY IMPORTANT contact the company and go to NGO sites for research.” At the end TO EXPOSE MY STUDENTS TO of the semester, students team up to create detailed posters track- INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH,” ing a commodity’s global trail. SAYS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF One challenge of teaching about globalization is getting students “to think outside the American box,” says Borowiak, who PHYSICS STEPHON ALEXANDER ‘93. observes that having international students in the class, con- “STUDENTS COME BACK FROM tributing a different perspective, can be a big help. Still, he says, THESE TRIPS TRANSFORMED.” for some U.S.-born students, “questions about globalization are all about what America should do in its own interests. For example: Why should we support free trade? On the other side there dents) circled the planet to intern at organizations dealing with an are those interested in issues of global justice who presume that array of social issues. And thanks to funding from the Koshland the U.S. is an imperial power that is turning everything American. Integrated Natural Sciences Center to support travel, more and But globalization isn’t simply westernization. The flows are going more student scholars in the sciences are finding opportunities to back and forth.” participate in international research projects. Winnifred Johnson ’09 and Catherine Divizio ’12, for example, Assistant Professor of Economics Saleha Jilani got the chance to work with Professor of Chemistry Karin touches on many of the same concepts in two Akerfeldt and her colleagues at Lund University in Sweden last courses she teaches, “Global Economy” and “Economic year. Associate Professor of Biology Iruka Okeke, who research- Development and Transformation in India and China.” es anti-microbial resistance in developing countries, brought stu- In one assignment for the latter dents on a research trip to Ghana in 2007. Last summer, Amy course, she asks students to Labar ’10 and Laura VanArendonk ’10 spent three weeks with choose from a list of about ten Okeke at Nigeria’s Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife, where industry sectors, such as textiles, they got a first-hand look at the obstacles Nigerian scientists face, finance or communications tech- such as unexpected power cuts and limited equipment. nology. They then must research “I consider it very important to expose my students to inter- how the forces of globalization national research,” says Associate Professor of Physics Stephon have played a role in that indus- Alexander ’93, “There are different styles to doing physics. There try’s development in each coun- are different modes of engaging in research and you clearly see try, and, in turn, how economic that when you work overseas.” development in China and India Alexander, whose own research focuses on dark energy, has col- have affected globalization. laborators in Paris, Germany, England, Africa, Puerto Rico and The course, says Jilani, draws Spain. Over the summer, he took three Haverford students to Spain, on changes in the world eco- Assistant Professor of and next summer he plans to take more students abroad with him. nomic landscape over the last 30 Economics Saleha Jilani “Students come back from these trips transformed,” says Alexander, years and relates China and India’s recent experience to both his- who observes that there are far more opportunities for internation- torical and cultural factors, as well as regional influences, such al collaboration now than there where when he was a Haverford as the emergence of “the four tigers” (Hong Kong, Singapore, student. The internet has helped, he says, and so has the emer- South Korea and Taiwan). With growth driven in large part by gence of privatized research facilities around the world, such as exports and more open trade policies, as well as an exchange of the Institute for Astrophysics in Paris and The Perimeter Institute capital, technology, expertise and ideas, “the so-called East Asian in Toronto. “This new breed of institute,” says Alexander, “has cre- Miracle is a prime example of globalization,” she says. ated more opportunities for people to travel and work together.”

36 HaverfordMagazine Amy Labar ‘10 and Laura VanArendonk ‘10 Carol Solomon (right) with Zoulikha Bouabdellah, worked with medical residents during a research trip to Nigeria a French/Algerian artist whose work is included in the upcoming with Associate Professor of Biology Iruka Okeke. Mapping Identity exhibition Solomon is co-curating.

Haverford’s faculty also does an exemplary job of Gyatso, a Tibetan living in London, whose work combines pop bringing the world to campus. Exposing students art with traditional Buddhist imagery; painter Daniel Kojo, the to a broader, more historically grounded way of son of a Ghanaian father, raised in rural Germany, whose work has understanding globalization was one of the aims of featured an “afronaut” character and “trickster” themes; and assistant professor of anthropology Jesse Weaver Shipley in Maria Magadalena Campos-Pons, a Cuban-American artist of organizing October’s “Politics, Africa and Performance.” That Nigerian descent whose art deals with these intertwining threads event included a performance of Kenyan singer and compos- of her identity. er Eric Wainaina’s musical Mo Faya!, set in the slums of Nairobi, “As the world gets smaller and smaller, the art market is chang- as well as a panel and workshop with Wainaina and four other ing—you see more interest in artists like these,” Solomon says. Kenyan scholars, activists and artists. Also part of the proceed- “There is also great interest now in Chinese art and Korean art, and ings was a discussion, titled “Imagining Global Arts Residencies Middle Eastern art. It used to at Haverford and Beyond,” which invited the College commu- be that Europe and the U.S. nity to offer ideas on building stronger connections to Africa. were the center of the art Shipley, who focuses his own research on recent Africa diaspo- world and everything else ras, and Ghana and its popular culture, says Africa is too often was on the periphery. But the seen only as a place in need—of development and western aid. But center is no longer defined in the continent is also a contributor to the free flow of ideas that the way it once was.” globalization has brought, he observes. “It is important for us to The Mapping Identity exhi- recognize Africa as a continent that is ahead of Europe and the U.S. bition will spotlight the debate in thinking about the use of technology in the creative arts and over globalization at Haverford political movements,” says Shipley, who hopes to bring more in other ways. Several artists African artists to Haverford in the future. in the show will participate in a roundtable discussion For Carol Solomon, visiting associate professor and Princeton University of art history, Independent College Programs, Philosopher Kwame Anthony one of the most fascinating questions raised by glob- Appiah will come to campus alization is: “How do we define identity in a global for the opening. He’ll also society?” This spring Solomon will explore that idea in her course give a talk titled “Cosmopoli- Also being featured in the called “Art and Cultural Identity” that looks at concepts such as tanism,” drawn from his influ- exhibition is Japanese exile, diaspora and transnationalism, and examines such topics ential book, which examines American artist Glenn Kaino, as cultural imperialism and the current debates over cultural our interconnected and yet whose life-size sculpture Graft (Ostrich) (above), property. As a counterpart to the class, Solomon is co-curating ever more fractious globalized covered in Python skin, deals an exhibition with Janet Yoon ’10 titled Mapping Identity that will world and argues for a path with “hybrid” identities. bring the work of 11 international artists to the Cantor Fitzgerald that embraces “universality Gallery March 19-April 30. plus difference.” “Both the course and the exhibition deal with something that I In a blog she’s writing about her experience co-curating the think is really exciting, because we are at a transitional moment as show with Solomon (news.haverford.edu/blogs/mapping far as the definition of cultural identity is concerned,” says Solomon. identity/), Janet Yoon writes: “I’m hoping the Haverford com- With so many people on the move in the world, whether by munity will begin to see that Mapping Identity is not just anoth- force (propelled by conflicts and politics), or choice (immigra- er show … but an exhibit that incorporates so many ideas that tion or travel), she says, a growing number of artists around the are discussed in our classrooms—History of Art, Poli Sci, world are dealing with the subject of cultural identity in work Anthropology, Sociology, etc. Appiah talks about ideas we can that is informed by their own “hybrid” identities. Among the all relate to as members of this interesting human race we are artists featured in the Mapping Identity exhibition are Gonkar part of in the 21st century.”

Winter 2010 37  GOING GLOBAL From building schools in Africa, to providing legal aid to immigrants, many Haverford grads go on from college to do work with an international reach. Here are few of their stories.

arely two years out of Haverford, Brian Till has been gaining a unique global perspective in an unusual way: by interviewing a Blong list of former world leaders. So far Till, who is at work on a book that will collect these conversations, has interviewed Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, former South African president F.W. de Klerk, ex -President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaff, and Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, as well as former leaders of Finland, Spain and Brazil. Ehud Barak, of Israel, and Mikhail Gorbachev have both agreed to interviews. And, says Till, “I am in avid pursuit of Fidel Castro.” Lining up these chats has required dogged, won’t-take-no-for-an-answer per- sistence. “To get to these guys, you have to jump through a lot of hoops and talk to a lot of assistants,” say Till, who is grateful that his post as a research fellow with the New American Foundation in Washington, D.C. has given him the freedom to pursue the project. Till actually traces his idea for the book to a 2007 Haverford commencement speech given by Barbara Ehrenreich,

author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)

Getting By in America. “She told the grad-  uates, ‘Some of the best and brightest of you will still be behind a counter in BRIAN TILL ’08 Starbucks or Borders three years down the road,’ ” says Till. “For some people it GRILLING WORLD LEADERS was a slap in the face, but I’d watched friends graduate from college year after

38 HaverfordMagazine  ELISSA STEGLICH ’94

AIDING IMMIGRANTS

year and struggle to find jobs. To me she was someone who was willing to speak the truth about what we were facing.” Till went on to write an editorial on the subject titled “Graduating to Starbucks” which was picked up by newspapers around the country and helped launch his career as one of the youngest syndicated columnists in the U.S. (He writes a week- lissa Steglich ’94 knows immi- often, Steglich is in a position to help. ly column on politics and foreign affairs gration is a hot-button issue Take, for example, the teenage girl distributed by Creators.com syndicate.) in the United States. But she from Guatemala, who was left in her But a bigger thought nagged at him. “The believes that confusion about extended family’s care when her mother book was born from that frustration about Ehow immigration law works and who it is came to the U.S. to find work. The girl the world we’re inheriting,” Till says. designed to protect, as well as a “culture fled to the U.S. to find her mother after “With climate change, nuclear prolifera- of fear” fostered in part by the events of her grandmother forced her into prosti- tion, the economy, it looks like an unman- Sept. 11, 2001, have led to misunderstand- tution. Steglich petitioned for and won ageable mess.” What, he wondered, would ings about the plight of many immigrants. asylum for the girl after her therapist former world leaders say about it all. Says “When most people hear their stories, alerted the AFSC to her situation. Till, “I thought it would be interesting to they soften their position,” Steglich notes. Immigrants from Latin America are ask them, What were your mistakes, what As a managing attorney for the American increasingly seeking to escape the human would you do differently? What do you Friends Service Committee’s Immigrant trafficking of children and adults in their understand now that you wished you’d Rights Program in Newark, N.J., she countries by seeking asylum in the U.S., grasped when you were president or hears immigrants’ stories every day. And Steglich says. As the co-editor of the 2003 prime minister?” Till, who is working with an agent on a publishing deal, won’t disclose any stun- ning revelations his book might contain. Steglich believes that confusion about how But, so far, he says, his theory that former world leaders, out of the fray of politics, immigration law works and who it is might be free to speak honestly, is proving true. “All of these guys are willing to be designed to protect, as well as a “culture of fallible,” he says. —Eils Lotozo fear” fostered in part by the events of Sept. I Read Till’s interview with Vaclav Havel on Atlantic magazine’s website at: 11, 2001, have led to misunderstandings http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911u/ vaclav-havel about the plight of many immigrants.

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book, In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas, Steglich knows the subject too well. But being able to make a difference in an individual’s life is a big reason she Andrew Garza (center) became an attorney, Steglich says. She with Abukari Abdul- has also had a strong interest in what Fatawu, Titagya goes on in the world ever since high Schools Managing Director, (left) and school when she was a foreign exchange Manzah Iddi Habib, student in Venezuela. She followed that Project Manager. experience by studying in Costa Rica

while at Haverford. “I graduated with a

strong interest in Latin American policy issues,” Steglich recalls.  After earning a degree from the ANDREW GARZA ’08 University of Texas School of Law, Steglich had a stint at the National Immigrant Justice Center before joining BOOSTING EARLY EDUCATION IN GHANA AFSC. The Quaker institution provides support for undocumented immigrants and advocates for policies that would n Ghana, the Village of Dalun may early education in northern Ghana. allow the undocumented to achieve legal just be a tiny dot on a map, but However, that goal goes beyond building status (www.afsc.org). Andrew Garza ’08 and his organiza- and operating pre-schools and kinder- Getting to know her clients and their tion Titagya Schools plan to make an gartens—Garza hopes the government stories is what makes her work meaning- Iimpact there that reaches far beyond its will adopt the program Titagya has cre- ful, Steglich says. “My clients give me an estimated 1,000 residents. ated and award scholarships to needy enormous amount of strength.” Titagya Schools has a simple mission: children as well. —Samantha Drake to increase the quantity and quality of Garza was inspired by his time in

Roads Taken and Not Taken

BETH SALERNO ’91 ter (man on a farm with a gun), and the tic tac toe board (the divisions of American Twenty years ago I was a Haverford society by race, class, gender and geogra- sophomore with a difficult choice to make. phy). It helped that Rick Kahn ’91, in a I worked for the Study Abroad Office and desperate bid to write something on an always assumed I would study abroad my otherwise blank quiz paper, provided twen- junior year. But as I talked to my advisor, ty new versions of man on a farm with a I realized that the course I really wanted gun (and a dog, and a wife, and a pinball to take—Roger Lane’s American history machine), carefully explaining the histor- survey—would only be taught my junior ical significance of each. The laughter and year. I had already given up my unrealis- excitement of that class carried me through tic dream of being a doctor. I had fallen emails from friends studying abroad in in love with American history. How could France and Russia who “wished I were I miss the crucial survey course? It was there.” I never regretted my choice to stay taught by the wiry, short guy whose entire on campus that junior year, though I closet was filled with white fisherman thought I had missed an important expe- sweaters, faded blue jeans, and sneakers, rience living outside the U.S. After gradu- but it was reputed to be a great class. ation I talked my parents into letting me Missing it was impossible. So I gave up on travel in Europe for a month and that had studying abroad and instead immersed to suffice. myself in Professor Lane’s “keys to Twenty years later, I now teach that American history.” American history survey course at Saint Some of these are now forgotten, but I Anselm College in Manchester, New

remember the square with a dot in the cen- continued on page 52 PHOTO BY DICK SHELTON

40 HaverfordMagazine Dalun, where he spent a summer funded by the Whitehead Internship Program. “Having someone who is based in the While doing a microfinance study with a group called Simli Pong (which translates village and who knows the local culture as “Friendship Fund”), he learned about a study that showed local secondary and economics is key,” says Garza. school students who had attended pre- school and kindergarten performed at a higher level than those who had not. But international community, he was born in duties as the day-to-day manager in Garza had also noticed that another New Jersey, but attended school in Ghana, raises funds, buys materials for important segment of the community’s Switzerland and spent a summer in the schools and helps spread word of the children would benefit from the early edu- Guatemala, a place that prepared him for project to locals. cation plan. “There’s an age hierarchy the challenging living conditions in In the fall, Garza finally saw Titagya’s there, in which older children watch after Ghana. He also helped found Haverford’s vision come to fruition when the first the younger kids,” Garza points out. “By Rufus M. Jones Institute for Leadership, school was completed in Dalun. Two giving the younger children a place to go, which prepares students to lead in the more buildings are already planned for now the older siblings, especially girls, professional world. But the catalyst for construction. The schools will combine are also free to attend school.” With help the project came in the form of Abdul- innovative aspects of American early edu- from communities in Ghana, the Ghanian Fatawu Abukari, currently a Ghanaian cation, such as playing certain types of government, and fund-raising in the producer for an educational radio station. music to stimulate brain function, with United States, Titagya Schools is ready to Abukari contacted Garza, who was local traditions. While Garza hopes to fulfill the meaning of its name; in then studying at the London School of expand the number of schools within the Dagbani, the local language of Dalun, Economics, about forming what would region, he has no plans at the moment to “Titagya” loosely translates to “we have ultimately become Titagya Schools. expand the project to other areas of Africa. changed.” “Having someone who is based in the vil- Says Garza, “I think it’s eventually possi- A variety of experiences have provid- lage and who knows the local culture and ble, but we want to leverage our experi- ed Garza with the tools and the impetus economics is key,” says Garza, who ence in one region first.” to launch Titagya. No stranger to the reports that Abukari, among his many —Charles Curtis ’04

JAIME LOUCKY ’04 to four months working with a think- tank in the Balkans, studying anti-drug- Although I didn’t know it at the time, and human-trafficking efforts along the one of the most important decisions in my Serbian/Bulgarian border. Other than the career in international development came small stipend for living expenses the posi- approximately two weeks after graduating tion would be completely unpaid. from Haverford, in the spring of 2004. I had started at Haverford four years I had been staying with a girlfriend in earlier, drawn in large part to its Quaker New York, enjoying that short-lived feeling tradition, and the importance it placed on of freedom that comes from having both a personal and social responsibility. My father college degree and a total lack of long-term had studied at Haverford and gone on to plans. Everything changed over the span of become an anthropologist, and I shared a couple of days, when I received two phone his passion for international travel and a calls. The first was from a friend with a job desire to do good in the world. offer at a gourmet foods supplier in Spain. Clearly, I fit right in. With support from Based in Madrid, the two-year position the amazing faculty and staff at the school, would be responsible for quality and taste not to mention the other students, I was control at the office, which had an in-house able to explore a wide range of issues in chef who would prepare daily exotic dish- international relations and social justice. es for us to taste. One of the most formative experiences The second call was from Haverford’s came during my freshman year, when I Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. A took a course on Sports and Cuban- small summer grant had been made avail- American Politics, taught by professors able. It would allow me to spend three continued on page 52

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o matter what the scale, join- CHARLOTTE KOENIGER ’07 ing a start-up venture means  pitching in wherever necessary. For Charlotte Koeniger SCHOOLING FUTURE GLOBAL LEADERS N’07, being part of the School for Ethics and Global Leadership’s (SEGL) inaugu- ral semester means wearing as many hats as she can handle. Koeniger serves as the Washington, D.C.-based school’s director of admissions and mathematics teacher, and even lives in the Capitol Hill townhouse with the school’s first cohort of 17 high school students. SEGL is a new semester-long residen- tial program for high school juniors and is open to students from the United States and abroad (www.schoolforethics.org). The program provides students who show scholastic ability and leadership Charlotte Koeniger ‘07, promise with a unique, rigorous curricu- (left) director of lum that emphasizes critical thinking, admissions at the international affairs, and leadership devel- just-launched School opment. for Ethics and Global “I chose this job because I wanted to Leadership, with co-worker Alanna be part of an amazing mission,” says Copenhaver ‘07. Koeniger. The program “is important because most students have no idea what’s

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42 HaverfordMagazine MATTHEW D. ROAZEN ’85 “I chose this job  because I wanted to GIVING RUSSIA A LEGAL LEG UP be part of an he wrote a letter explaining his strong desire to learn about Russian language and amazing mission,” culture and was ultimately admitted. True to his word, he fell in love with the Russian says Koeniger. The language while immersed in Bryn Mawr’s prestigious program and went on to major program “is important in Russian, even spending a summer at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. because most students Despite the political turmoil in the crumbling Soviet Union, Roazen knew have no idea what’s there would be opportunities presented as the new government took shape. During going on in the world. law school job interviews, he explained that he wanted to practice business law in They study history but he Berlin Wall was falling; the newly-formed Russian Federation. “I’m Mikhail Gorbachev was placed pretty sure most of the lawyers interview- they don’t study under house arrest; Boris Yeltsin ing me were wondering if I was too nuts stood atop a tank in front of the even for the profession,” says Roazen. But the present.” TRussian White House and, a few years later, his vision for the future was spot on—he sent tanks to bombard that same build- has spent 12 years in Moscow and watched ing. Where most of the world saw poten- as branches of American law offices sprout- tial chaos and danger, Matthew Roazen ed up around him, and the quality of local going on in the world. They study histo- saw opportunity. legal professionals markedly improved. ry but they don’t study the present.” Soon after Roazen completed his M.A. Adjusting to Russian business law, still Koeniger notes that U.S. high school in Russian at Bryn Mawr and his J.D. at in its nascent stages, hasn’t been a huge students are often too focused on grades Temple University, he arrived in Moscow to challenge for Roazen, though he points and are not rewarded for independent help assist companies on mergers and out there are loopholes that he needs to thinking. “We challenge students to ask acquisitions and corporate finance. As the deal with on a daily basis. “For instance, ‘why?’” she says. Along with more tradi- Soviet Union dissolved in the early 1990s, there’s no such thing as an escrow account tional studies, all students will complete Roazen told whoever would listen that in banking law or practice. There are a project they can bring back to their there was a future for American business in dozens of other concepts that are familiar communities and must write a business Russia, especially with a new government to any corporate transactional lawyer that plan and grant proposal toward that end. in place. That foresight has led him to a are still foreign to Russian law, like share- Also among the school’s administra- career spent helping our former cold war holders’ agreements, options, and non- tors is fellow Haverford ’07 grad Alanna enemy continue its economic growth. compete clauses,” explains Roazen. “While Copenhaver. A political science major, Roazen, a native of western Mass- the legal industry in Russia has devised Copenhaver assists the school’s director achusetts, remembers his desire to see the work-arounds for all of these holes, the and works frequently with Koeniger. world started young. “I was a sixteen-year very need to patch what should be a mod- Koeniger, a psychology major at old prep school student who had barely ern suit of clothes points up how far the Haverford, says she particularly enjoys been outside his own area code, much less local legal system still has to go.” working with the students and helping time zone,” recalls Roazen, now a partner Roazen credits the patience and them come into their own. She has with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, resilience of his wife and four kids (all watched as a Palestinian refugee from LLP. “But the students surrounding me four have grown up in Russia and are bilin- Jordan, one of only two Muslims in the came from all over the world and had the gual) for making it possible to live and program, slowly let down his guard, means to sign up for school trips to places work abroad. Although there are times he and two students from opposite ends of like Greece, Egypt and, most exotically of wonders what his life would be like if he the District of Columbia confronted all, the Soviet Union.” During his senior lived in London or the United States, he’s their differences. year, that curiosity led Roazen to take an committed to his clients in Russia. Says “The students challenge me every elective on the Soviet Union. Unfortunately Rozen, “I’m in the service business and as day,” Koeniger says. And it’s obvious she (and ironically), Roazen received a D+ for I continue to work for my clients, I guess relishes the challenge. the course, nearly costing him a spot in I will find out where that will take me.” —Samantha Drake Haverford’s freshman class. Undeterred, —Charles Curtis ’04

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Three Haverford grads are at the vanguard —a growing industry often described as “banking to the unbanked,” which typically makes small loans to self-employed of microfinance, a growing financial people, the majority of them women, in developing countries. market and movement that fights poverty Modern microfinance began in Bangladesh in 1974, when in developing countries with loans to Chittagong University economist Muhammad Yunus lent $27 from his own pocket to a group of craftswomen in an impover- the self-employed. By Justin Warner ’93 ished village. The women used the money to buy raw bamboo for their crafts, sell them at a profit, and pay Yunus back with interest, at a rate much lower than local moneylenders charged. Thick curtains obscured the windows Based on this model, Yunus eventually established the Grameen of the beauty parlor in Lahore, Pakistan, when Elizabeth Lynch Bank, which to date has disbursed $8 billion in micro-loans to ’97 and her colleagues from Women’s World Banking arrived about 8 million borrowers, with a near 98 percent payback rate. there to meet the owner, who had received several micro-finance Similar microfinance lenders, large and small, have sprouted all loans through the organization’s local lending partners. The over the world. For his efforts to eliminate poverty, Yunus won the owner appeared in full burqa to greet Lynch’s all-female 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. (Haverford gave him an honorary degree entourage at the door and lead them into the sanctuary of the in 1996.) shop. Once inside, though, the woman removed her burqa, Now, 35 years later, microfinance has reached a point of ado- and Lynch was taken aback: “She was this tall, stunningly gor- lescence. Local lenders, known as microfinance institutions, or geous woman with a slinky outfit on, and she proceeded to MFIs, are merging and formalizing into banks, creating new talk about the enormous success of her beauty parlor, and opportunities and complications. And as microfinance gains noto- about how her husband used to be argumentative and verbal- riety in the media, more people want to get involved. Lynch and ly abusive, and now he’s been offering to help out with buy- several other Haverford alumni are at the vanguard of this rap- ing supplies for the shop, and how fantastic she feels.” idly changing financial market, which increasingly blurs the line This scene encapsulates the traditional aim of microfinance between business and charity.

44 HaverfordMagazine Agora Partnerships, founded by Ben Powell ‘93, has provided micro-venture capital in Nicaragua to a company that produces bagged juices and water (far left), and to the foot clinic launched by Roberto Mejia (left). Elizabeth Lynch ‘97 (above, second from right) of Women’s World Banking, with a group of microfinance clients outside Kolkata, India.

For Ben Powell ‘93, capital fund, and a non-profit foundation, which also owns the the new frontier is micro-ven- fund. The Fund not only lends to growing businesses like La ture capital. As Founder and Clinica, it also sometimes invests in them. Powell says that tak- Managing Partner of Agora ing a stake in the company can benefit both parties: “If you just Partnerships in Washington, give a loan, your focus tends to be on risk mitigation—getting D.C., Powell helps Central your money back even if the company goes under,” he explains. American entrepreneurs whose “But if you’re an equity investor, you’re focused on growing the businesses have grown too big company.” The non-profit Agora Partnerships foundation takes for microcredit, but aren’t big on that cause, deploying MBA students from top business schools enough for commercial bank as pro bono consultants. In Mejia’s case, students from Duke loans, or who need longer term University’s Fuqua School of Business helped him adjust his pric- “growth capital,” of the sort ing, invest in infrastructure, and refine his management tech- banks don’t provide. “In Nicaragua, it’s easier to get a loan to sell niques. They also steered him away from premature franchising, tortillas on the street than to expand the local tortilla factory,” and helped him land local TV and university appearances that Powell explains. What’s more, while many people in develop- raised his public profile. Media appearances such as these serve ing countries have the brains and work ethic to succeed in another of the non-profit’s aims: to create a climate of entrepreneur- business, they usually lack formal business training—or, often, ship that encourages others to start new businesses too. While any kind of advanced education. As a result, he says, would-be consulting support is key, it’s often not enough—so in this case entrepreneurs take their businesses only to a certain point, and Agora’s fund invested $30,000 in the business. then hit a wall. Since he began working with Agora’s team, Mejia has Case in point: Clinica del Pie (The Foot Clinic) launched by increased his payroll to 25 employees and nearly tripled his Roberto Mejia in Managua, Nicaragua. Mejia launched the busi- receipts. He serves about 2,000 clients a year, 80 percent of ness with a $2,000 family loan and the skills he learned at a Dr. whom come for medical treatment, receiving affordable, high Scholl’s franchise. Five years later, Mejia’s clinic was employing 12 quality care that was previously not available. Recently, Mejia full-time staff and taking in about $75,000 in annual revenue. sold part of his company to another investor, and used the Mejia wanted to expand further, but he needed far more money money to buy a house for extended family and reinvest in the than family or an MFI could provide. company. Perhaps even more significantly, several of Mejia’s That’s where Powell and Agora stepped in. Agora actually has former employees have started foot clinics of their own, creat- two separate but symbiotic branches: a for-profit micro-venture ing a thriving, competitive local industry.

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Dana Schmidt ‘84 (left) is chief administrative officer for Microplace, an online company that gives individuals a way to invest small amounts in microfinance ventures. On a field trip to Kyrgyzstan (above) Schmidt found that apple growing was enjoying a largely microcredit-driven renaissance.

So far, Agora has worked mostly in Nicaragua, where it esti- in 2007 from the world of conventional finance, with tenures at mates to have directly created or sustained 450 full-time jobs, Montgomery Asset Management and Morgan Stanley. Looking and 1,000 more in supply and distribution. Agora has over 10 for a more socially rewarding job, she started cold-calling organ- staff including Powell’s co-Founder, Ricardo Teran, a Nicaraguan izations involved in microfinance. “On the third cold call I heard fellow of the Aspen Institute who has helped spread Agora’s ideas eBay had just bought Microplace, and I was here three weeks to business leaders across Central America. Grants from the later,” she says. Rockefeller Foundation and the Draper Richards Fund, which Like E*TRADE and other online investment sites, Microplace named Powell a Fellow in 2008, have bolstered Agora’s non-prof- is a fully licensed broker-dealer that allows individuals to invest it arm. Meanwhile, Powell, who has employed several Haverford small amounts—as little as $20—in a microcredit venture. Users College students as interns at Agora Partnerships, has been busy can pick their investments from a menu of social values, includ- designing a much larger Central American social venture fund, ing fair trade, green development, and benefits to women and based on the work of the smaller Nicaraguan fund. Agora plans to open offices in El Salvador and Honduras next year. Powell says this kind of investing is not for the faint of heart. We’re sort of inventing this new asset But Agora attracts those who are up for a challenge. “It used to be that we lived in this binary world, where it was totally normal to “class that stands in between donations have money invested in Phillip Morris and then to donate to the American Cancer Society. Now we live in a world where more and market-return investments. and more people realize that there’s an x axis for financial return ” and a y axis for social return—and a lot of investments fall in between. The key is generating the biggest blended impact pos- rural clients. They can also search by geographic area, level of sible and being very rigorous in how you measure it. Investors poverty, and expected return. Microplace collects and tracks all need to know the power they have to change the world.” those small investments, and passes the capital on to larger, non-profit microfinance investors, like the Calvert Foundation, which, in turn, fund microfinance lenders in the developing Until recently, however, only governments, foundations, world. In exchange for the service, the non-profits pay and extremely wealthy people could actually make this kind of Microplace a fee. Schmidt’s job is to make sure the company investment. Because the administrative costs and regulatory has- follows the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules—of sle outweighed the financial payoff, no brokerage had taken up the which there are many. She’s also head of Customer Service, which challenge of offering microfinance products to the masses. That means helping online users understand some of those rules as changed with Microplace, a Bay Area-based company founded well. For example, unlike most websites, they can’t accept cred- by Tracey Pettengill Turner, an alumna of the Grameen Bank. it cards. “You can‘t use credit cards to pay for securities,” Schmidt Chief Administrative Officer Dana Schmidt ’84 came to Microplace explains. “Sometimes our customers don’t get that because

46 HaverfordMagazine they’re in a donation mindset when they come to our site.” in this desolate landscape. An unmarked door on one rusted-out Microplace’s investments typically earn 1 to 6 percent. That’s warehouse led upstairs to a five-person shoemaking business. pretty good in the post-bailout economy, but they don’t have the Down another alley of derelict buildings, a man cranked out potential to skyrocket like conventional stocks. “We’re sort of paper napkins on a homemade machine. Outside the industrial inventing this new asset class that stands in between donations and centers, many Krygyz had planted apple orchards on Soviet land market-return investments,” Schmidt says, echoing Powell’s grants. Kyrgyzstan’s apples include many ancient and rare species description of Agora’s venture-cap fund. “We have to be careful (“I’ve never had such good apples in my life,” Schmidt raves), not to say this is the most lucrative investment; it’s a slice of your and the apple industry, largely dormant during the Soviet era, is investment portfolio and you’re getting a social payoff.” now enjoying a largely microcredit-driven renaissance. What’s Everyone on Microplace’s small staff goes into the field to see more, the local MFIs were doing more than just lending money. the impact of their investments. Schmidt recently went to They were providing professional development, on topics rang- Kyrgyzstan, where she discovered that microcredit was “basical- ing from fertilizers to accounting, and serving as a de facto cen- ly being used to rebuild the country after the collapse of the Soviet ter of activity for the apple-growing industry. Union.” Once a major industrial center for the U.S.S.R., Krygyzstan’s economy suffered mightily in the immediate post- Soviet era. Businesses collapsed, and workers with no skills beyond In fact, as microfinance grows, MFIs around the world are their old assembly-line jobs had to reinvent themselves. moving beyond credit. Some offer savings accounts, insurance, or But Schmidt found that microcredit had sprouted new growth even commercial loans. The institutions have changed internal-

Haverford’s Microfinance Club Takes Off

averford students have their oughness of research, and quality of consul- very own pipeline to the world tation. (Haverford’s assessment: Avoid of microfinance, in the form of Nigeria; the Central Bank’s new microfinance the Microfinance Consulting regulations are onerous and unrealistic. Club. Founded in the fall of Videre took the advice and went into H2008 by Jeremy Golan ‘09 (now a Peace Mexico instead.) With support from the Corps volunteer in Cambodia) and James CPGC, Travis Taylor returned to Mexico City Burton ‘11, the club educates current Fords last summer for a ten-week internship with about the industry, and helps them devel- Financiamiento Progresemos, an MFI that op the kind of skills that can benefit microfi- he had first met with on that spring break nance organizations. trip. Over the summer, Taylor helped the Burton got the idea for the club during company figure out the reasons behind a a summer internship, funded by Haverford’s huge spike in defaults in the Veracruz region. Center for Peace and Global Citizenship In addition to doing economic analysis, Taylor (CPGC), in Mexico City, where he spent time conducted nearly 100 surveys in two dozen with managers at several microfinance insti- communities, and came away with clear tutions (MFI’s). At Haverford, he found a Members of Haverford’s Microfinance ideas on how to build stronger borrowing motivated partner in Golan, an economics Consulting Club in front of a Mexico City groups going forward. shop with the owner and her daughters. major whose senior thesis related microfi- The store was launched with the help of a Taylor, who now co-chairs Haverford’s nance to education spending in Indonesian microfinance loan. Microfinance Club with Katie Johnston-Davis households. Golan’s thesis adviser, econom- ‘10, hopes to deepen the relationship ics professor Saleha Jilani, signed on as fac- Back on campus, the club members cre- between Progresemos and the club. And ulty adviser to the group. ated a brochure about volunteering in the co-heads plan to use a speaker series During the 2009 spring break, the CPGC Mexican microfinance. Meanwhile, the club not just to inform others about microfinance, awarded Burton, Golan, Travis Taylor ‘12 and scored a coup when it bested Wharton, but to build business skills that can be of two other club members a grant to work Cornell, and other established college micro- practical value to future volunteers. In the with MFI’s in Mexico City. This time, in addi- finance clubs in a nationwide contest. Videre, long term, Burton says he wants the group tion to meeting with managers, the students a Dallas-based startup microfinance organ- to stay on the leading edge of the field: went into the field with loan officers. There, ization, assigned each college a different “We‘re learning that credit group lending is they got a first-hand look at how the loans part of the world—Team Haverford got Abia, giving way to seed capital and targeted had improved the lives of the borrowers. in southern Nigeria—and asked them to entrepreneurs. We would like to turn the Burton particularly remembers Lucy, the assess the feasibility of setting up new MFI‘s club in that direction—micro-venture capi- manager of a tiny general store in a shanty there. After four weeks of research, the tal—turning the money toward somebody town: “She could not have felt more suc- teams presented via videoconference, and who‘s going to employ 3,000 people.” cessful, happy and important,” says Burton. Videre judged them on presentation, thor- – Justin Warner ’93

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ing workday, had far-reaching consequences for female employees. “There were concerns of safety, and problems with public transportation after rush hours, but the most significant concern was ‘what will the neighbors say,’” Lynch recalls. “Families restrict the movements of their wives and daughters, because it preserves the women’s image in the eyes of the community.” But slowly, she says, “women are starting to break away from these restric- tions, neighbors be damned.” Lynch also argues that having women well-represented in upper management makes sound business sense. She cites work by the non-profit organization Catalyst, which has linked the percentage of women in upper management to better performance in the North American and European corporate sector. “We’re trying to bring that same argument to the microfinance industry: Why would an institution that’s serving 98 percent women clients benefit from having women on their board, and represented on their front line as loan officers? They may better understand their clients’ needs, for example.” In fact, a 2007 study of 226 microfinance institutions in 57 countries found that MFIs with These clients of Uganda Finance Trust, part of Women’s World female CEO’s had higher returns than those with male CEO’s. Banking’s global network, work in a wide range of ventures, including farming, hair dressing, tailoring, and animal husbandry. Women’s World Banking also helps MFIs develop new financial products that can benefit women. Among these is caretaker insurance, which covers loss of income if a woman has to take ly as well. As in any industry, the most profitable MFIs have grown and swallowed up smaller competitors. Many once-scrap- py organizations have converted into full-fledged banks. Playing In 2008, Lynch spent six months a significant role in assuring that these changes benefit employees and borrowers alike is Elizabeth Lynch, a Ford who man- developing an assessment tool to help ages the Center for Microfinance Leadership created by Women’s World Banking. microfinance institutions maintain Women’s World Banking is a New York-based global network their commitment to gender diversity. of 54 MFIs and banks serving 25 million clients in 31 countries. (A bit of trivia: President Obama’s mother, the late Ann Dunham- Soetoro, was the organization’s policy coordinator in the early care of a sick family member at the expense of her business. 1990’s.) The new Center for Microfinance Leadership has two Microfund for Women, a member MFI in Jordan, will be testing main objectives. One is to shepherd member MFIs through an a pilot version of caregiver insurance in partnership with WWB increasingly complex and high-stakes financial landscape. In and Zurich Financial Services. partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Despite all the challenges and risks ahead, Lynch hopes that of Business and the British consulting firm Creative Metier, the ultimately, the growth and maturation of microfinance institu- Center offers a variety of workshops to MFI officers, to help them tions will be a good thing. Larger institutions can finance even hone management skills and take on new, more sophisticated more borrowers, and a more formal corporate structure may responsibilities. increase accountability and transparency, which could attract The other key mission is to preserve the role of women with- more investors from the developed world. And as microfinance in the microfinance industry itself. Women make up the vast extends its reach, Lynch hopes that it will change societies for majority of microfinance borrowers, and historically, they have the better by changing one life at a time. “One of the things we saw been well represented among microfinance executives, managers, in Pakistan is that with the first couple of loans, a shockingly and loan officers. However, as MFIs consolidate into banks, the high number of women would just get the loan and give it to her percentage of women on both sides of the table tends to drop. In husband,” Lynch says. “But as you got to the third or fourth loan, 2008, Lynch spent six months developing an assessment tool to you started to see more and more women who are using part if not help microfinance institutions maintain their commitment to all of the loan for their own activities.” And once that happens, real gender diversity. She then tested it at the Kashf Foundation, a transformations can occur—even if they’re hidden behind a cur- 12-year-old MFI in Pakistan still run by its founder, Roshenah tained window, or underneath a burqa. Zafar. While there, Lynch found that seemingly mundane issues, Justin Warner ’93 is a playwright, lyricist, and freelance writer. He like coming home late from an increasingly long and demand- lives in New York City.

For more information: Agora Partnerships: www.agorapartnerships.org Microplace: www.microplace.com Women’s World Banking: www.swwb.org

48 HaverfordMagazine The GO-TO

GUYon WORLD TRADE By Robert Strauss

Whether proffering legal advice to firms with multinational business interests, or advising President George W. Bush at international economic talks, Daniel M. Price ’77 has become a sought-after expert on the challenges of globalization.

aniel Price discovered early in his career that it is good to be open- minded when dealing with people from other cultures. He was D then working for the U.S. government in The Hague as a participant in the post-hostage-crisis claims settle- ments between the Iranians and the United States. “All day, I would be working closely with Iranian representatives,” said Price. “We would exchange pleasantries when we left and then [I would] hear them call me before the Tribunal or the Iranian press, ‘a representative of the Great Satan whose regard for the truth is even lower than his regard for the Iranian people.’ ” According to Price, who is now senior partner for global issues at the Sidley Austin law firm in Washington, D.C., “in international relations, you have to be aware of what people have to say to keep face or because of what their community needs to hear. Respect that, and negotiations go a lot more smoothly.” Indeed Price, who has been in and out of government service several times in the last three Republican administrations, is, according to Washington insiders, an indispensible man when PHOTO BY DAN Z. JOHNSON

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it comes to international trade and other but that is how important Dan’s work According to Price, the fact that he has sensitive negotiations. “Dan is just a real has been.” worked only in Republican administra- key player in international economic mat- Price’s government jobs have come with tions may largely be related to the people ters. He is knowledgeable about every- those seemingly endless and confounding (such as Bolten) whom he met during his thing,” said Henry M. Paulson, Jr., George titles that scream bureaucracy. After a stint first roles in government service in the early W. Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury. “I in the Legal Adviser’s Office at the State to mid-1980s. “Yes, I am a Republican, but worked with him on a wide range of eco- Department, he was, from 1984 to 1986, I grew up in a Democratic family in the nomic and trade issues. The real difference Deputy Agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims inner suburbs of St. Louis,” said Price, who between Dan and others is that he knows Tribunal in The Hague. After that he interned at the American Civil Liberties how to get things done.” spent several years at a Philadelphia law Union when he was studying law at Price’s knowledge and diligence con- firm learning about the business side of Cambridge and Harvard. “The kinds of tributed substantially to the Bush admin- the law, before serving as the U.S. Trade things I did for the government were rarely istration’s international response to the Representative’s Principal Deputy General partisan,” Price said. recent economic crisis, according to Bush’s Counsel from 1989-1992. Then, after more His job in The Hague, for instance, former chief of staff Joshua Bolten. “Dan than a decade of building a leading inter- involved something he believes many peo- helped steer the administration success- national law practice in Washington, ple didn’t even know was going on: help- fully through the international coordina- Joshua Bolten induced him back to pub- ing to adjudicate claims arising from tion of the global financial crisis,” said lic service with the unwieldy title of nationalizations and the eviction of U.S. Bolten, now a faculty member at Prince- Assistant to the President and Deputy investors from Iran in the period follow- ton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public National Security Advisor for International ing the Iranian revolution. And when his and International Affairs. Economic Affairs. friend Bolten convinced him to come to Bolten explained that Price played a work for the first Bush administration, the critical role in organizing the first Leaders “Dan is the man you Berlin Wall had just fallen, the Soviet summit of the G20 convened by President Union had broken up into many different Bush in 2008. The G20 is the group of go to when you want nations and Latin American countries had developed and developing countries that things done,” says started negotiating for more free trade with account for 85 percent of global gross the United States and among themselves. domestic product. Bolten noted that the Joshua Bolten.“He is Price, who works out of a downtown Obama administration has adopted the the master negotiator Washington, D.C., office decorated with G20 as the premier international forum photos of himself with both Presidents for economic cooperation. “If you look and works beyond Bush and with diplomats and ministers at Dan’s work, it is the Obama template,” ideology.” from Eastern Europe to South America, said Bolten. “No one will shout that now, calls that period “a really exciting time.” Said Price, “I’d be going to the former Soviet Union to negotiate with new governments, sometimes having to teach them what capitalism really was about, then get on a plane and go to Mexico City for NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] negotiations. There was always a feeling that we were accomplish- ing something.” During his most recent government service, in addition to international economic issues, Price was involved in what to some might seem unlikely issues for a con- servative administration: food policy, public health and climate change. According to Bolten, Price was a leader in advancing policies that would encourage all nations to be involved in cutting harmful emis- sions, addressing HIV/AIDS and reducing world hunger. Price is also an entrepreneur. When he left his role in the first Bush administration, he and one of the men he had negotiated Price (right) traveling on Air Force One with President Bush. with, former Bulgarian deputy foreign min-

50 HaverfordMagazine One of Price’s favorite photographs with President Bush shows the two of them in a speeding limo on the way to the Lima airport, smiling gleefully while tightly gripping the back-door handles.

ister Stanimir Alexandrov, formed an inter- What was particularly exciting for Price on overseas trips and gotten to see much national trade and dispute resolution prac- was that when the face-to-face negotiations of the world. Emma, a senior at Brown tice that has grown into a 50-lawyer divi- actually came, the rules allowed only one University, has spent summers working on sion at Sidley Austin. “Dan had a vision: advisor to each governmental leader at the AIDS education with children in Tanzania Clients need comprehensive solutions for table—and that was Price, with Bush. and on a water project in Honduras. Joey, doing business internationally,” said “President Bush loved dealing with who is a freshman at Union College, spent Alexandrov. “He wanted to build a prac- him,” said Bolten. “When he goes to a a high school semester in Israel and Josh, tice that would provide companies that summit, the President is in isolation with an avid ice hockey player and a culinary have global business interests with advice the Sherpa, and Dan always did his home- adventurer, is in 10th grade. “The kids on how to take advantage of existing inter- work. There couldn’t be more of a one-to- grew up in a house where they met many national rules—and how to shape those one relationship. Dan is too modest to say visitors who didn’t speak English,” said rules in the future.” According to Price the how influential he was in the good things Price. “They have learned, like I have, that practice “goes everywhere,” sometimes that have happened.” understanding other cultures is fundamen- representing an Italian firm trying to do a Price does admit, with a shy smile, that tal to solving global issues such as public utilities project in Pakistan, and at other he enjoyed being with President Bush. health, poverty and climate change. times helping Latin American companies Among his favorite photographs is one of “At Haverford, I learned to think rigor- do business in Asia. them in a speeding limo on the way to the ously. I took courses from professors who Price so enjoyed his private practice Lima airport that shows them smiling stepped back and took a breath and then that he resisted his friend Bolten’s requests gleefully, while tightly gripping the back- turned the problem around, showing how to join the most recent Bush administra- door handles. to make a difference, not just have a glib tion until 2007, when Bolten offered him Price is proud, too, of his family. His thought,” he said. “That is the key in inter- a job as what in Washington is known as a wife, Kim, whom he met when they were national relations too, and I hope I have “Sherpa.” (Sherpas are famed guides students at Harvard Law School, recently done that in my work in some way.” employed by mountaineering expeditions finished her term as president of their syn- Freelance writer Robert Strauss lives in in the Himalayas.) For Bush, Price was the agogue and remains actively involved with Haddonfield, NJ. His work appears in the New Sherpa in the sensitive international eco- Jewish philanthropies in Washington. They York Times, the Washington Post, Sports nomic talks of the G-8, and later the G-20. have three children, who have joined them Illustrated, and other national publications.

Winter 2010 51 Roads Taken and Not Taken

BETH SALERNO ’91 sertation and then first book traced the guage that places everyone into hierarchi- continued from page 40 founding and activities of women’s anti- cal relationship, and the impact of teaching slavery organizations across the north in my courses in English. When I was not Hampshire as Associate Professor of the decades before the Civil War. My cur- teaching, I traveled all over the country, History. I think of Roger Lane each time I rent book is a biography of the woman even briefly to North Korea, and reveled do. I used notes from his class as I studied who wrote that circular, Mary Clark of in the food, the culture, the history, and for my preliminary exams—the four two Concord, New Hampshire. the hospitality of strangers. I had never hour exams covering all of American his- My topics have provided little oppor- been forced to face my race or my nation- tory which I had to pass before I could start tunity to travel the world, since the major- ality quite so thoroughly before, or the my dissertation. I used those same notes ity of my sources are tucked away in north- privileges and prejudices that come with as supplementary aids in the history cours- eastern and Midwestern archives. My both. I gave talks on the American es I taught as a teaching assistant at the husband (Tod Ramseyer ’89, physics major Revolution to scholars, discussed women’s University of Minnesota. I pulled them out and student in Roger Lane’s survey course history and human rights with activists, again as resources when I designed my two years before me) keeps suggesting a and shared classroom techniques with edu- own courses at the University of Central history of Caribbean beaches or interna- cation students. I wonder whether I would Arkansas and ten years ago when I moved tional trade—anything to enable some for- have felt as welcomed, as comfortable, as to New Hampshire. The notes are now lost, eign research time away from New incredibly enriched if I had studied abroad a casualty of our last move, but the mem- England’s winters! twenty years earlier, when I knew so much ories are clear. I might have become a pro- Yet teaching U.S. history did finally give less about myself and the world. Clearly fessor without Roger Lane’s course, but I me the chance to “study abroad.” For my it would have been different, though am not so sure. It gave me a sense that U.S. sabbatical in 2007-2008, I received a enriching in its own way. I am not sorry history was exciting and that teaching it Fulbright Senior Fellowship to teach I waited. could be a satisfying, life-long challenge. American history in South Korea at It took two decades but I finally got Even my dissertation topic was drawn Pyeongtaek University, one hour south of both my U.S. history class and the chance in part from another junior year history Seoul. Three times a week for a year I met to live abroad. I am grateful that a path not class, the junior seminar. This involved with Korean students in American Studies taken turned out to be a path taken later. researching a document from the Magill courses to discuss race and gender, Beth Salerno is an associate professor of Library Treasure Room. Mine was a draft of American political traditions, and contem- U.S. history at Saint Anselm College in a circular connecting women’s rights and porary American culture. I learned enough Manchester, N.H. Her research focuses on antislavery beliefs. A decade later, my dis- Korean to recognize the power of a lan- the United States’ antebellum period.

JAIME LOUCKY ’04 moved to Barcelona, Spain, where I spent and Development, on the organization’s continued from page 41 six months writing freelance for travel mag- Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems azines, eventually coauthoring a book on team, now takes me regularly to the field, Anita Isaacs and Roberto Castillo-Sandoval. the Winter Olympics with my uncle, David most often to South Sudan. I’ve gotten to Along with 29 other students, including Wallechinsky. After finishing the Olympics know the challenges of field operations, liv- 20 members of the Haverford baseball book I moved to the U.S. and took a job ing in a tent with no running water and lit- team, we spent a week in Havana, meet- in Washington, D.C., working on an insti- tle more than a generator and a 4x4 jeep. ing Cuban students, playing lots of base- tutional contract with USAID’s Office of I’ve also seen our projects come to fruition, ball, and learning the power of sports to Food for Peace. I spent the next two years both figuratively and literally, as villages bridge political and geographical divides. working in the drab hallways of the Ronald build community gardens and begin to My experience in Cuba led me to major in Reagan Building, learning the world of food harvest fresh fruits and vegetables to sell in Political Science with a concentration in aid and donor-side development. With an local markets. I’ve also seen the limits of Peace and Conflict Studies. annual operating budget of $1.2 billion, development projects in unstable countries, Back in New York, I had eventually our office shipped staggering amounts of where a resurgence of violence can wipe reached a decision. As tempting as the posi- American-grown food to developing coun- out the slow advances of a community in tion in Madrid was, it didn’t have the social tries and disaster-impacted areas. mere moments. responsibility aspect that I was looking for. Tw o y e a r s a f t e r t a k i n g t h e j o b w i t h After graduating Haverford in 2004 I took the unpaid summer internship. Food for Peace I decided to make anoth- I decided to follow a path in international Two weeks later I was on my way to er shift, this time to a large international development, with no idea of where it Serbia with a backpack full of clothes and NGO where I began to focus on agricul- would take me. Five years later I still no return ticket. I spent the next eight tural productivity and market develop- don’t know where I’ll end up, but the jour- months studying anti-trafficking efforts ment. Rather than shipping American- ney so far has been exciting, challenging and stretching out my grant money by grown food, we were now trying to help and rewarding. sharing an unheated apartment with three vulnerable communities grow and sell Jaime Loucky ’04 lives and works in Wash- Serbian students. their own crops in local markets. ington, D.C. and has co-authored three edi- When the grant funds finally ran out I My work with International Relief tions of The Complete Book of the Olympics.

52 HaverfordMagazine State of the College Finance

s is true of all its peer institutions, Haverford suf- needs. And the heart of the enterprise, the academic pro- fered a significant reduction in its resource base in gram, has emerged from these difficult times relatively A2008-09. In responding to last year’s rapidly falling unscathed. security markets, the Board of Managers acted to reduce Thus we look forward with cautious optimism as we plan endowment spending in the 2009-10 operating budget to meet our most important educational needs through an proportional to the decline in the College’s endowment upcoming comprehensive capital campaign. Looking back at market value. This necessitated a number of painful budg- fiscal 2008-09: et cuts, an effort which deliberately excluded the academic program. Operations However, even in the midst of the country’s uncertain Operating revenues grew to $82.8 million in 2008-09, economic future, Haverford enjoys a number of critical exceeding operating expenditures for the 33rd consecutive strengths. Demand for a Haverford education remains year. The enrollment of 1,159 students compared to the bud- extremely strong among the very best students in the coun- geted figure of 1,100 generated excess revenues that were try. Our financial aid policies welcome a diverse student assigned for a number of key purposes: a reserve providing body regardless of need, and enrollment is at an all-time severance payments to employees taking advantage of a retire- high. The budget has been balanced for the past thirty years, ment incentive program, instructional startup and technol- and will be again in 2009-10; the College is operationally ogy reserves, HCA and dormitory upgrades, and various cap- sound. We are in a strong liquidity position, i.e., we have ital projects such as reroofing Barclay, replacing the stage ample cash reserves to meet our operating and endowment lighting in Roberts Hall, and installing utility metering.

Winter 2010 53 Physical Facilities Investments After two years of study, a steering Reflecting the declining national and committee representative of the College international security markets, the value community completed a campus master of the College’s endowment fell to $336.1 plan to provide direction on building million on June 30, 2009. The market projects for the next several decades. The value of the endowment had recovered steering committee was assisted by the to $357.8 million by November 30, 2009, nationally recognized firm, Venturi, Scott thanks to a portfolio of investments Brown and Associates. The Board of diversified across asset classes. Robust Managers approved both a ten-year plan performance for years preceding 2008- and a twenty-five-years-and-beyond plan; 09 led to 10-year returns of 3.8% com- the ten-year plan identifies major build- pared to a 10-year decline of 0.2% in the ing projects that will be a cornerstone of S&P 500 Index; this return as well was the next campaign. in excess of the rate of inflation. Respectfully submitted, Voluntary Support Haverford received $12.4 million from private sources in 2008-09. Unrestricted gifts to annual giving, which help sup- G. Richard Wynn port the operating budget, climbed to Vice President for Finance $4.6 million, and more than $6 million & Administration, and was received in gifts for capital (physi- Treasurer of the Corporation cal plant and endowment) purposes.

2009 Sources of Operating Revenues (%): 2009 Operating Expenses by Use (%):

Instruction 29.8 Net student charges 40.7 Auxiliary enterprises 20.6 Auxiliary enterprises 23.2 Facilities management 14.9 Endowment 25.3 Management, general, and fundraising 15.8 Gifts and grants 9.1 Student services 10.7 Other 1.7 Library and academic support 8.2 Total 100.0 Total 100.0

State of the college FINANCE

54 HaverfordMagazine A Campus Childhood giving

Daughter of a former Haverford professor, Veronica “Ronnie” Petersen’s memories of growing up on campus inspire her to support the College’s academic initiatives. by Brenna McBride

eronica “Ronnie” Petersen’s childhood memories are indeli- V bly linked to Haverford— particularly its natural environment. “I grew up on one of the most beau- tiful campuses in the country,” says Petersen, the daughter of former professor of government Edmund Stinnes (for whom the Stinnes Professorship in Global Studies is named). She remembers long constitutionals with her parents, picture-postcard winters spent ski- ing with her mother, Margiana, on the hill sloping towards the Duck Pond, and skating on the Pond itself when its surface had frozen solid. STEPHEN FAUST STEPHEN

Winter 2010 55 Petersen came to Haverford as a six- extremely dedicated; they all wanted to College, influenced her passion for the year-old with her family in 1941. She do good for Haverford.” issue. “We have to do something to and her family had fled Germany by way She may no longer be a Board mem- improve the world,” she says emphatical- of Switzerland, and met up with the late ber, but Petersen’s own inclination to do ly. “If we don’t, we’re in for major trou- Haverford professor of philosophy good for Haverford hasn’t waned. In 1999, ble. Doing nothing will lead to disaster Douglas Steere on the boat to America; she established the Stinnes Professorship years down the road.” an old friend of her mother, he had in her parents’ memory. Last year, she She hopes a concentration in envi- helped numerous Jewish families escape made a substantial gift of appreciated ronmental studies will encourage Europe during World War II. Having a stock to help endow the College’s bur- Haverford students to become active in friend at Haverford helped ease the tran- geoning environmental studies program efforts to reduce the amount of carbon sition for Petersen and her family. (see sidebar). By endowing her gift, dioxide in the atmosphere, and gain the Her father often took young Petersen Petersen has established a permanent skills to investigate alternative forms of to the political and economic forums he source of funding that will support envi- energy. “It’s essential for all of us, espe- organized, some featuring prominent ronmental studies at Haverford in perpe- cially the future generations, to make German intellectuals who had also fled tuity. Her husband Robert, a pediatric the world we live in more sustainable,” the country. Stinnes was also influential ophthalmologist at Harvard, and son she says. in starting Haverford’s Relief and John, associate professor of environmen- Reconstruction Training program for tal studies and biology director of the women during World War II, and those environmental studies program at Oberlin students were regular attendees at meals in the Stinnes household. “We had long, continuing friendships with many of Environmental Studies at Haverford them,” says Petersen. She also recalls the Haverford students who babysat for her, averford has already proven its College, it will also strengthen the rela- especially John Whitehead ’43. commitment to sustainability in tionship between the two colleges. During their time at Haverford, Hseveral ways: the establishment Following receipt of the Mellon Petersen, her sister and her mother of the Committee for Environmental Foundation award, the College began became Quakers, and Petersen attend- Responsibility (CER), the appointment exploring the horizons of an expanded Haverford Friends School, as well of a sustainability coordinator, the ed program last winter with a campus as the Baldwin School, and eventually signing of the American College symposium sponsored by Haverford’s graduated from Westtown. She entered and University Presidents’ Climate three academic centers and featuring Brown University as a chemistry major, Commitment. The next—and most national experts in science, policy and with an eye towards a vocation in med- ambitious—step is an interdisciplinary cultural studies. Presently, the icine. “When we were in Switzerland, environmental studies program, one of Committee for Environmental Studies, my mother had become sick with hep- four new areas of curricular focus that co-chaired by Professor of English Kim atitis,” she says, “and I was inspired by are part of the College’s plan for aca- Benston and Professor of Chemistry the Bulgarian doctor who left her coun- demic enrichment. Rob Scarrow, is looking at the College’s try to stay with us and take care of her.” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation current course offerings on environ- She considered careers in nursing, and is supporting the program with a $1.5 mental issues and how these classes even international relations, before million grant towards the cost of three can be grouped into a set of require- going on to become a respected pedi- endowed professorships in the areas ments for the proposed program. The atrician in the Boston area. She retired of plant biology, environmental chem- committee will also consider the kinds from practicing with Harvard Vanguard istry, and environmental justice. Each of courses that would need to be devel- in 2000, but during 2009 she still professorship requires an endowment oped for the curriculum. There is also taught third-year pediatric students of $2 million. In anticipation of suc- ongoing dialogue about additional pro- once a week at Children’s Hospital of cessfully completing Haverford’s fessorships in environmentally focused Boston. matching campaign for $4.5 million, disciplines, such as environmental eco- Haverford was never far from the College has already hired environ- nomics. Petersen’s mind or heart. In 1985, then- mental chemist Helen K. White, who “A robust environmental studies president Robert Stevens invited her to joined the faculty in the fall of 2009. curriculum will combine traditional join the predominantly male Board of Incorporating the humanities, social academics with contextual, experien- Managers, hoping for more female rep- sciences, and natural sciences, the envi- tial learning to harness student and resentation. She served for 12 years. “I ronmental studies program will pro- faculty energy around these issues,” loved being back at Haverford, because vide a host of new research and schol- says President Stephen G. Emerson ’74. I had such fond memories of the place,” arship opportunities and faculty “Haverford will have a deliberate, con- she says. “The Board had wonderful partnerships for students. Developed scious focus on the environment.” members, really nice people. They were in collaboration with Bryn Mawr

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Alumni Association Executive Committee Leadership and Dear Friends, Members 2009-2010

I hope this letter finds you having celebrated a joyous holiday and off to the start of a promising and good new year. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to return to Haverford for meetings in both September and December. In addition to enjoying the splendors of the campus and reconnecting with fellow Fords, I was able to get a sense of excitement and promise in conversations regarding Haverford’s future. Students, alumni and parents, faculty and administrators are all engrossed in rich dialogues as to how the College can best prepare to be properly poised to develop and educate its next generation of student leaders. There have been lengthy discussions about the campus master plan, the revitalization of President student living and recreational space, the academic programs and Save the Date Bradley J. Mayer ’92 faculty growth, and the importance of access and affordability. You for Alumni Seattle, Washington will undoubtedly continue to learn and hear more about these “hot Weekend 2010 topics” and other initiatives over the next few months. May 28 – 30, 2010 While you may not be able to make it back to campus as often as you might like, there are still many ways to keep up with what’s (Memorial Day Weekend) going on at Haverford and engage with fellow Haverfordians across All classes ending in 0’s the country and around the world. A great start is to check out and 5’s will be celebrating a what’s happening in your area by visiting the Haverford alumni reunion this year. However community at fords.haverford.edu. In addition to local events, Alumni Weekend is open you can find the latest news on fellow alumni, search contact to everyone, and we hope information for your classmates, preview Alumni Weekend activities, submit class notes, view photos, and of course, make a you will return to campus gift to the College! For added convenience, Haverford alumni now to join us! Vice President have a page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/haverford) in Exciting events include: Julie Min Chayet ’91 addition to the Haverford College Worldwide Alumni on LinkedIn alumni panels, classroom New York, NY (www.linkedin.com). Both are great ways to stay in touch with old Alumni Association friends and make new connections. You can also keep up with experiences, our Alumni Executive Committee Awards Ceremony, and a Members campus events, faculty news, athletics and much more through Lisa Berenson Hurst ’01 Haverford’s main website at www.haverford.edu. reception with faculty at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Admission Liaison As always, I welcome your thoughts and ideas for ways to home of Provost Linda Bell. continue to strengthen our alumni community. Here’s to a healthy Anita V. Crofts ’92 Updates will be posted Seattle, Washington winter and a refreshing spring! Regional Coordinator (Seattle) on fords.haverford.edu. Kyle W. Danish ’89 Washington, District of Columbia Best Reunion committees are Athletics Liaison still being formed! For more Emily D. Davis ’99 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania information, or to get Awards Liaison involved, contact Alumni David L. Fogelson ’73 Bradley J. Mayer ’92 Pacific Palisades, California [email protected] Relations and Annual Giving Career Development Liaison at [email protected] or 610-896-1004. Continued on next page

Winter 2010 57 AAEC Leadership and Members Congratulations to the winners of 2008-2009 Continued the recent Alumni Volunteer Elliot Gordon ’78 Santa Monica, California Awards and the 2008-2009 Regional Coordinator (Los Angeles) Philip Hawkins ‘65 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Annual Fund Awards! Annual Giving Liaison Garry W. Jenkins ’92 Columbus, Ohio Alumni Awards Past President Neil Kahrim ’04 Bloomfield, New Jersey Friend of Haverford College Multicultural Liaison Professor Emeritus of History Roger Lane Alexander Lowry ‘99 London, United Kingdom The Friend of Haverford College Award is an annual award given for exemplary service to Haverford by a (Chair, Annual Fund Executive Committee) Annual Giving Liaison friend of the College (i.e., a member of the greater Haverford community). The Award honors an individual who, Douglas N. Mason ’81 in a variety of ways, provides or has provided sustained service. It recognizes a friend for especially loyal and Royersford, Pennsylvania active support for the mission of the College. Athletics Liaison Eric Muther ’94 Lansdowne, Pennsylvania William Kaye Award Career Development Liaison Sidney “Skip” West ’77 Thalia Myrianthopoulos ’95 Chicago, Illinois The Kaye Award is given for exemplary service to the College in career development. The Award honors Admission Liaison William Kaye ’54, past president of the Alumni Association and a strong advocate for career development Jim Pabarue ’72 resources for alumni and students. Exemplary volunteer service may include but is not limited to providing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Multicultural Liaison internships and/or externships, attending job fairs, providing career networking, or otherwise helping students Theo Posselt ’94 and alumni in their careers. Berkeley, California Regional Coordinator (San Francisco) Archibald MacIntosh Award Polly Ross Ribatt ’90 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Anne Fleischmann ’84 Member at Large Alex Robinson ’96 The MacIntosh Award honors the late “Mac” MacIntosh ’21, Haverford’s first Director of Admissions, who New York, New York also served as Vice President and twice as acting President of the College. The Award is given for outstanding Alumni Weekend Liaison service as an Admissions Volunteer. Benjamin L. Rose ’80 Chicago, Illinois Regional Coordinator (Chicago) Charles Perry Award Burton R. Saidel ’53 Seth Bernstein ’84, Steven L. Begleiter ’84, Dayton, Ohio Scarlet Sages Liaison Roger B. Kafker ’84, and Dana Shanler Ladden ’84 Gabriella Sarnoff ’95 The Perry Award is given for exemplary service to the College in fundraising. The Award honors Chuck Perry New York, New York Regional Coordinator (New York) ’36, who served as Associate Director of Development from 1954-58, and then as the Director of Annual Giving Bruce Segal ’83 for the next 21 years. Narberth, Pennsylvania Regional Coordinator (Philadelphia) William E. Sheppard Award Uzma Wahhab ‘94 Washington, District of Columbia Sarah Willie-LeBreton ’86 Regional Coordinator (D.C.) The Sheppard Award, honoring the late Director Spencer Ware ‘01 Mountain Lakes, New Jersey of Alumni Relations Bill Sheppard ’36, is given for Communications and Technology Liaison exemplary service to the College in alumni/ae activities, such as service in Haverford regional If you would like to nominate an alumnus/a for the Alumni Association programming, class activities or programs. Executive Committee, please call 610-896-1004.

Sarah Willie-LeBreton ‘86, accepting the Sheppard Award from Steve Emerson ’74.

58 HaverfordMagazine haverford college Annual Fund Awards Scarlet and Black Award Class of 2004 with 45% participation

For the class with the highest percentage of participation among the ten most recent classes Class Volunteers: Neil C. Kahrim, Larry Bomback, Elizabeth J. Bacon, Jeph Gord, Brian Bejile, Jennifer Whitlock, Eric M. Jimenez, Lisa Piraino, Nicholas D. Kerr, Joe Hoffman, Fran Knechel, Lindsay A. Grant

Founders Bell Award Class of 1984 with 60% participation For the class with the highest percentage of participation among the classes celebrating the 10th through 25th reunions Lamel S. Jackson ’04 accepting the Scarlet and Black Award for the Class of 2004. Class Volunteers: Alexander P. Anthopoulos, William T. Fischer, Roger S. Foster, III, James D. Gorham, Edward P. Hollingsworth, Jr., Dana E. Ladden, Nancy R. Lewin, Diane Mallery, Andrew Searle Pang, Thomas R. Rosenfield, Rick Titlebaum, William A. Walsh

Alumni Association Cup from the alumni association Classes of 1959 and 1966 each with 91% participation For the class with the highest percentage of participation among the classes celebrating the 25th through 50th reunions notes 1959 Class Volunteers: John G. DeJong, J. Dexter Forbes, Lawrence S. G. Griffith, James O. Lee, Joel R. Lowenthal, Frank T. Lyman, Jr. 1966 Class Volunteers: A. Bob Baker, Thomas H. Bonnell, Lawrence C. Davis, Michael McKeehan, Charlotte Williams Lutton, Ron Schwarz

Barclay Tower Trophy (left to right) Joel R. Lowenthal ’59, Alumni Association Vice President Julie Min Chayet ‘91, Class of 1951 with an and Vice President for Institutional Advancement Michael Kiefer at the Alumni Awards reception. average gift of over $3,500 For the class with the highest average gift amount to the Annual Fund among classes celebrating the 50th through 60th reunions Class Volunteer: Scotty Kimmich

Changes to the Alumni Association Achievement and Volunteer Awards

eginning with the 2010 awards, nominations for the Alumni Association Achievement and Volunteer Awards will be accepted on an annual basis Bonly. Previously invited twice a year, the process was changed to increase efficiency and give award recipients sufficient time to attend the awards ceremonies. The Alumni Achievement Awards are: The Alumni Award, The Haverford Award, The Haverford College Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, The Forman Award and the Young Alumni Award. These awards, with the exception of the Forman Award, are presented during Alumni Weekend. The Forman Award is presented at an athletic event during the school year. The Volunteer Awards are: The Kaye Award, The Perry Award, The Sheppard Award, The MacIntosh Award and The Friend Award. These awards are presented in the fall of each year. Descriptions of the Volunteer Awards and the Achievement Awards are available online at www.haverford.edu/alumnirelations/awards/, where you can also submit nominations. The 2010 deadline was December 31, 2009, but we encourage you to make nominations for 2011 before the end of this year. For more information contact Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at [email protected] or 610-896-1004.

Winter 2010 59 Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends,

began supporting Haverford through the Annual Fund when investments you can make in the future. I’d like to see everyone I graduated a decade ago. While I didn’t have much to give, it support Haverford’s Annual Fund and to do so year after year. Alumni Iwas the best way for me to express my gratitude and to make giving is a tradition and a responsibility, and as a small college the greatest impact on the students who came after me. Haverford depends upon its small community to help meet its needs. Since taking on a leadership role within the Annual Fund Every single dollar really does make a difference. Whether you are Executive Committee, my understanding of the Annual Fund has giving for the first time or increasing your contribution, your gift increased tremendously. The Annual Fund is the lifeblood of the goes right to work strengthening the College’s traditions while College. It’s what allows Haverford to be not just excellent but providing new opportunities for student engagement. exceptional. It touches every aspect of the Haverford experience Giving is personal. I ask you to consider a gift that is meaningful by supporting everything from financial aid to student government, to you and appropriate to your circumstances. Some donors will be from cultural events to faculty salaries. in a position to increase their gifts this year. Others will be challenged I am grateful to everyone who to make the same gift they made last time. Still others will need to contributed last fiscal year and scale their giving back a bit. Make the decision that is right for you. helped the College raise a record When you give to Haverford, you are committing to the Haverford $4.63 million for the Annual Fund. you knew when you were a student, investing in the Haverford of You perpetuated the tradition today, and planting the seeds for tomorrow. Your support will allow where for over 175 years, Haverford the College to introduce people of great potential to a world of alumni, parents and friends have possibilities and develop as leaders and innovators with the creativity, given generously to keep the discipline and cultural awareness to work dynamically in our ever College at the forefront of the changing world. liberal arts. Thanks to your Thank you for joining me in supporting current and future commitment, Haverford can generations of Fords. continue to offer a rigorous With best wishes, education and a transformative experience in which exceptional students from varying backgrounds learn from one another as well as from outstanding faculty members. Alexander Lowry ’99 As we all know, providing this exceptional education is expensive. Chair, Annual Fund Executive Committee Helping to provide a Haverford education is one of the best Give online at: www.haverford.edu/makeagift

Haverford’s Advancement Office is Going Green

veryone at Haverford is trying to do his/her part to positively Give early. Haverford’s first fiscal year appeal is sent in late impact the environment, and the Advancement Office is no summer, and once you make your Annual Fund gift in a given year Eexception! Here are a few small ways in which Advancement you won’t be solicited in the same year. The earlier you make your is trying to make a difference—and action steps you can take to gift, the less mail you’ll receive—this means your gift will go even help: further for Haverford! Sign up for electronic communications. Alumni Relations Give often. Haverford provides donors with the opportunity and Annual Giving is sending more and more of its communications to make monthly gifts to the College directly from a checking via email rather than hard copy. Important items from classmates account or via credit card—with only one solicitation being sent and the College can now be found in your inbox rather than your per year. For more information or to enroll, please visit: postal mailbox. Help us to reduce our printed materials by keeping www.haverford.edu/giving/waystogive. your email address up-to-date and contacting [email protected]. Download the 2008-2009 Report of Gifts. Donors are being Coming soon! Gift receipts from the College will soon be sent thanked electronically through last year’s gift report and class lists. via email for your tax records. Find your name online rather than in a heavy, glossy publication by visiting: www.haverford.edu/giving/reportofgifts.

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alumni obituaries

Arthur Brinton died August 19 in Ludlow, sailor and had an amateur pilot’s license. He is pre- the Allied Cause. He went on to establish a soil 30 Vt. After graduating from Haverford deceased by wife Myra Kitchen and survived by analysis business, also doing water and wastewater with a degree in English, he was hired as a teacher five children, Peter, Wendy, Michael, Bill and analysis and consulting. In 1969, he sold the at the George School in Bucks County, Judy; 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; business to Quality Control Laboratory, joining Pennsylvania, where he taught until his retire- and two step-grandchildren. them as director of their water division, and ment in 1971. He earned an M.A. from Yale, retired in 1977. On his Carversville, Pa. proper- Daniel B. Boyer, Jr., 90, died at his home and during World War II he and wife Kate per- ty, he raised donkeys, goats, and sheep for many in Pennsylvania’s Lower Paxton Township formed alternative service in Cincinnati, Ohio, 41 years, and from 1971 to 1988 operated a whole- on May 25. He worked for Merck Pharmaceuticals, managing a hostel for Japanese-American fam- sale nursery, specializing in Alberta Spruce. He where he developed innovative packaging for ilies who had been released from internment is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; a son, John; and medical supplies; his efforts resulted in several camps. After Brinton’s retirement, he and Kate a daughter, Claire. moved to their farm in Vermont, where they military awards. He returned to his home town participated in local peace activities, founding of Boyertown to run a family business, D. B. Peter West Elkington died September 23 Wilderness Friends Meeting and the Black River Boyer and Co., until 1967. He was the Republican 46 in British Columbia. Before coming to Coop. Brinton also served as president of the candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate in 1964 Haverford, he was a conscientious objector dur- Black River Historical Society. He is survived by and for U.S. Congress in 1966. Boyer retired ing WWII and served in the Civilian Public four children, Keith, Anne, Dan and Erica; seven from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Service Corps. After Haverford, he received a grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. 1987, where he served as Director of the State master’s degree in education from Temple Department of Internal Affairs and Assistant University and began a long career of teaching. Walter Dothard died March 25 at age Director of the Local Government Commission. After retiring, he started a computer business 32 99 in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He retired as a sen- He is survived by his wife, Janet K. (Burns) and wrote newspaper columns and books rang- ior flight crew member with Eastern Air Lines in Boyer; four sons, Daniel III, Geoffrey, Randy and ing from fiction to biographies. He is prede- December 1969, after more than 30 years with Henry; a step-daughter, Diana Lynn (Burns) ceased by wife Mary Ruth, and survived by sis- the company. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy Sprinkle; a sister, Mary Elizabeth Heisler; 11 ter Theodora Waring; five daughters, Jane Wohl, and a member of the second class of Aviation grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and Judith McDowell, Ann Elkington, Carol Elkington Cadets at Pensacola in 1935. He also served as his extended family Hung and Cuc Nguyen and and Rachel Oakes; one step-daughter, Nancy a flight instructor at Pensacola prior to leaving children, Khoa and Anh Nguyen and children, Sanborn; 14 grandchildren; and nine great-grand- C the Naval Service, and was one of the original and Tran Nguyen. children. organizers of the Retired Eastern Pilots Association. M He is predeceased by his wife, Mary Wilson George Myron Swan, Jr. died May 31 at age 89. Barbara Nnoka, who received her master’s degree Y Dothard, and one grandson; he is survived by After graduating from Haverford, he earned a from Haverford’s Relief and Reconstruction pro- bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University CM children Walter, Charles, and Mary; seven grand- gram, died September 4 in Arlington, Va. at the children; and two great-grandchildren. of Minnesota in 1943. He served in the U.S. age of 87. She became a teacher in Nigeria in MY Army from 1944-1946 and married his wife, 1954 and, after the nation gained its independ- M. Albert Linton, Jr. died October 10 CY Anne Cleveland of Minneapolis, before head- ence in 1960, she served as an aide to Nnamdi 37 at a Quaker retirement community in ing off to the Philippines. After the war he CMY Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first president. She returned Bucks County, P a. He was 94. Linton was a con- returned to Minneapolis and for the next 15 to the United States in 1966 and taught African K scientious objector during World War II, and years worked with several architecture firms. studies at the State University of New York at worked as a chemist in a laboratory at He and his wife retired to Patagonia, Ariz. in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He went New Paltz, eventually becoming department 1984. Along the way they designed three more chair. Introduced to Quakerism at Haverford, on to receive a master’s in teaching from Harvard residences for themselves and other residences University. In 1946, he began teaching math at she moved to West Chester, Pa. in 1971 and for family and friends. Swan was also an amateur became director of a Quaker orphanage for girls. William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, astronomer and painter, and an avid reader. He and was chair of the math department from 1956 She moved to Arlington in 1974 and went on is survived by wife Anne, children Cynthia, to become a social worker for the Arlington to 1992, when he retired. He also coached the Penn George, and Nora, and three grandchildren. Charter golf team from 1946 to 1996; under his County chapter of the American Red Cross. She leadership, the team won the championship of Thomas C. Cochran, Jr. of Upper St. also received a master’s degree in legal studies from the Inter-Academic League 21 times. The annu- 42 Clair Township, Pa., died on September the Washington branch of Antioch College in al Penn Charter alumni golf tournament is named 12, 2008 at age 88. Following his graduation 1984. She is survived by two children, Catherine for him. Linton won teaching awards from the from Haverford, he enrolled at Harvard Business and Barrett, and two grandchildren. Penn Charter Alumni Society and the Philadelphia School and served in the Navy as an officer Thomas J. Ryan died September 23 at age 85 chapter of the Society of Professional Engineers, aboard the light cruiser U.S.S. Santa Fe. After at his home in Hillsborough, Calif. He spent receiving his M.B.A., he earned a law degree and in 1966 Haverford named him to its Phi most of his life in the insurance industry, begin- from the University of Michigan in 1949. He Beta Kappa rolls. He is survived by wife Joan; ning with the Insurance Company of North practiced law in Mercer for seven years, then children John, Carol and Betsy; and four grand- America. He joined Fred James & Co. in 1963 relocated to Pittsburgh in 1957, where he joined children. and moved to San Francisco, where he created the legal staff of the Koppers Company. He retired an insurance program crucial to the construction William E. Prindle, Jr. died November in 1985. He is survived by his wife, Helen Kent of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. He went 38 8in Randolph, N.J. He was 92. He served Cochran; three children, Thomas, Stephen, and on to found the ISU Group of Companies, which in the Coast Guard from 1941-1946 as one of Anne; and four grandchildren. the first military helicopter pilots, and later enables insurance agents to remain independent attended the University of New Hampshire, Edwin “Ned” Harrington died September 24 at while enjoying benefits available only to nation- earning a master’s degree in mechanical engi- the age of 89. He served in the U.S. Army dur- al brokers. He is survived by his wife, Rita; five neering. He worked at Schlumberger Oil Well ing World War II, where he learned Italian and children, Lila Burgess, Barbara Ryan, Grace Ryan, Surveying Corp. in Ridgefield, Conn., and at acted as an interpreter and administrative offi- Thomas Ryan, and Diane Adams; and six grand- Perkin Elmer in Wilton, Conn. He was an avid cer for Italian prisoners of war who worked for children.

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James F. Canan died September 22 in Robert George Schwartz died October Friends of the College 49 Billings, Mont. He was 83. Before col- 55 13 at age 76 at his home in Surprise, lege, he entered the Navy during World War II Ariz. After earning his M.B.A. from the University James O. Brooks,who taught at Haverford from and was later called back to service during the of Pennsylvania, he went on to work the Ford 1958 to 1963, died of Parkinson’s disease on Korean War. Shortly after his graduation from Motor Credit Company in Detroit. He took night September 12. He was 79. He earned his bach- Haverford he joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs, classes at a nearby law school, and, after receiv- elor’s degree in mathematics at Oberlin College ing his legal degree, he opened a private practice and held posts in Gallup, N.M.; Ignacio, Colo.; in 1952 and his master’s degree in math in 1953 in Jackson, Mich. His interests included paint- at the University of Michigan, where he also and Billings, where he was Area Director for all ing, model trains, tennis, swimming, running, received a mathematics doctorate in 1963. He the tribes in Montana and Wyoming. He retired hiking, golf, reading, traveling and the many taught mathematics and computer science at from the Bureau in 1979 and was awarded the activities of his sons. Schwartz was also instru- Villanova University from 1965 to 1994, and highest honor from the Department of the Interior mental in helping to found Family Life Radio served as chairman of the mathematics depart- for his leadership. After retiring, he was called back (KFLR in Phoenix), originally a single radio sta- ment from 1968 to 1977. After retiring, Brooks to the Bureau in Washington, D.C. to serve as tion in Michigan that grew into a national reli- taught part-time at Villanova until 1997. He was Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. gious broadcasting network with more than 30 also Pennsylvania regional coordinator for the Canan was also a founding member of the Institute stations around the country. He served as a board American Mathematics Competition, sponsored for Peace Studies at Rocky Mountain College, member and legal counsel to Family Life for by the Mathematical Association of America, where he taught government courses for 18 over 40 years. He served in a similar capacity from 1969 to 1995. He is survived by his wife, years. Canan is survived by his wife Mary Ann; for Youth Haven Ranch, a camp for underpriv- Maria; son James; and stepdaughter Monika brother Larry; children Jim, Deb, Dave, and Rob; ileged children. He is survived by his wife Temple, Hannemann. his sons Robert and Darren, and four grandchil- and seven grandchildren. A. Paul Hare,aprofessor in Haverford’s depart- dren. ment of sociology and anthropology from 1960- Ralph Elliott died July 30, 2009. Robert “Bob” Elmer died in a car acci- 1973, died October 31 in Beer Sheva, Israel. Thomas J. Garbaty died July 29 at his 64 dent in Hopkinton, Mass. on July 11. Born June 29, 1923 in Washington, D.C., he 51 home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 79. He He was 67. served in Europe during WWII and earned a received his Ph.D. in English Literature from B.A. in English from Swarthmore College in C William Reed Fry, III died August 6 at 1947. He went on to receive an M.A. in sociol- the University of Pennsylvania and was a profes- age 66. He was the son of the late William M 66 ogy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949 sor of Medieval English Literature at the University Reed Fry, Jr. ’36. He received a master of arts Y and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in of Michigan for more than 30 years. He was the in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. 1951. He joined Haverford’s faculty in 1960; CM recipient of numerous awards for his distin- During the Vietnam War he did his alternative shortly thereafter, the Kennedy Administration guished teaching and scholarly research. His service as a conscientious objector counseling at MY appointed him to serve in the Philippines as book Medieval English Literature is still being the Wiltwyck School for Boys. He was also a CY Deputy Representative of the newly formed U.S. used today in universities around the world. He self-published poet. He is survived by his moth- Peace Corps. During the 1960s he founded CMY is survived by his daughter, Bettina Zolotariov; er and brothers John and Douglas ’70. Haverford’s Center for Nonviolent Conflict K his son, Michael; five grandchildren; and his James Duff Steptoe died at his West Resolution, which sent teams of observers to beloved friend, Marion Cook. 73 Virginia home on August 30. He was hot spots of dissent around the country. He left 58. He graduated from the West Virginia University the United States for South Africa in 1973 to be William P. Melcher died September 17 in South College of Law in 1977, and that same year head of the department of sociology at the Hadley, Mass. at the age of 79. He served in the began his legal career in Martinsburg, W.V. with University of Cape Town. In 1980, he and wife U.S. Army during the Korean War and worked the law firm of Avey, S teptoe, Perry, Van Metre & June Rabson Hare immigrated to Israel where as a computer programmer for Travelers Insurance Rockwell, the firm co-founded by his late father, Hare joined the faculty of Ben-Gurion University. Company. He is predeceased by wife Helen and Robert M. Steptoe. In 1997, he established his own Throughout his career, Hare edited many books survived by daughter Cynthia; sisters Edith private law firm and continued to concentrate his pertaining to sociology and served on the edito- Patterson and Susan Brandes; and one grand- practice in real estate, banking and estate plan- rial boards of numerous academic journals. Later daughter. ning and administration until his death. In addi- in life, he became involved in amateur musical tion to practicing law, S teptoe was an accom- theater. His memoir, Funny Things, was pub- Charles L. Fry died November 2 at age plished professional musician. He is survived lished in 2009. He is survived by his wife; their 54 77 in Scottsville, Va. He spent 39 years by his mother, Sarah Virginia Duff Steptoe; one two sons, Simon and Andrew; four children in the psychology department of the University sister, Sally Steptoe Hazard; and two brothers, from a previous marriage, Sharon, Diana, Mally of Virginia, retiring in 1998 as Associate Professor Robert M. Steptoe, Jr. and Philip P.Steptoe II. and Christopher; and two granddaughters. Emeritus. In retirement he became involved in (To read a full obituary, go to www.haverford.edu aprogram called “Retirement Volunteers for Charles Robert Pennington,of Yardley, Pa., died August 30. He was 49. He and search for “Paul Hare.”) Local History Projects” and had been Secretary 82 received a Ph.D. in archaeology from Boston to the Board of Directors for the Pine Knot University. His passion for excavating in the Foundation, the cabin retreat for Edith and Middle East was interrupted by war, and he Theodore Roosevelt during his presidency; and began a new career as a design engineer at SRA the Oral History Project Director for the local International, Inc. in Warminster, Pa. He is sur- Scottsville Museum. He is survived by his wife, vived by his wife, Mary Dieter; two sons, John and Patricia (Pat) Bergen Fry; four children, C. Luther Thomas; his parents, Harold and Helene (Hogan) III, Gordon, Charles, and Kathleen; and two Pennington; two brothers, Douglas and James; grandchildren. and a sister, Caroline Valle.

68 Haverford Magazine haverford college The Skate House, pictured here in 1955, looks thoroughly rustic, but it was designed by a Philadelphia architect in 1949. The building, outfitted with a porch, two fireplaces, and a sitting room with benches, regularly played host to crowds of skaters back in the days when the Duck Pond could be counted on to freeze solidly in winter.

Some blame it on climate change, but the Skate House—which was altered from its original design after a 1979 fire—hasn’t seen any actual skaters for decades. It’s still in use though, booked for receptions and student events such as club meetings and even poetry readings.

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