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I’m neither vegan nor food-allergic nor particularly activist when it comes to sourcing. But I am grateful for the work of those who are, because they are making our world—the one around us, and the one here on Lancaster Avenue in Haverford—a more interest- ing (dare I say ‘better’) place to be—and eat. Just yesterday I had my first vegan BBQ ‘rib’ in the dining center. Tasted great and is probably better for me—and easier to digest—than the steaks that my classmate Eve Bernstein Carlson ’82 recalls for us in our cover story about food service here on campus. Back then, choices were limited, not always the freshest, and subject to the profit-and-loss needs of the vendor. (I remember the day we transitioned to a new provider who dazzled us with things like freshly-baked bread and flavored yogurt—gee, thanks!—only to see that vendor ditch those welcome improvements when corporate needed budget relief...) With Haverford doing its own catering, the effort is much clos- er to the ground and John Francone, the guy who runs Dining Services, deserves all the praise he gets for both providing quality food and being so responsive to student requests. As a ‘then and 29 now’ diner, it’s a very different experience at every level (one thing that immediately struck me when I returned to campus last year was the near-total lack of lines. Let’s hear it for swipe cards). If you Steven Kavanaugh Contributing Writers haven’t been back to campus in some time, it’s worth a trip just to Interim Vice President for Janine Beaman check out the chow. Other changes: the Coop flew it, from its nest Institutional Advancement Kate Campbell Charles Curtis ’04 in the basement of the Dining Center for nicer quarters in the Chris Mills ’82 Brian Johnson ’08 Whitehead Campus Center, just beyond Sharpless. (One of our Director of College Communications Greg Kannerstein ’63 Beth Kephart Brenna McBride Roads Taken & Not Taken essays in this issue mentions yet another, Carlene Kirby ’01 Staff Writer earlier Coop in the basement of Union. Who knew?) Emma Lapsansky-Werner The new Coop is a welcome change consistent with all the other Acquire, LLC Frank Lyman ’59 Graphic Design Michael Matza food-related improvements that the College has made, someplace www.AcquireVisual.com Dave Merrell ’09 you’d expect to see at, say, the National Gallery of Art: a clean, Tom Nugent Virtual Communications Com- Cheryl Sternman Rule ’92 well-lighted and -tended place serving an array of sandwiches, sal- mittee Editorial Advisory Committee Norman Pearlstine ’64, Chairman ads and grill items at fair prices. There’s also a coffee bar-style cafe Jody Romano at the Center for Peace & Global Citizenship in Stokes (free lunch John R. Botti ’92 on Friday when topical issues are unpacked by any and all who care Kaye Edwards Gregory Kannerstein ’63 to come by—this means you, locals). Bradley J. Mayer ’92 Food is such an intimate part of life, and as Cheryl Sternman William E. Williams Rule ’92 makes clear in her story, we’re fortunate to have such car- Corrections ing, engaged—and talented—people looking after that side of In the Winter 2008 edition of Haverford Magazine, the woman wearing a gray sweater in the photograph on page 41 was incorrectly identified as Adaobi the house. Nwaneshiudu ’03. This woman is actually Nicisha Stephenson ’03; Bon appetit! Nwaneshiudu is second from the left, wearing a headscarf.

Also in Winter 2008, a photo caption in our profile of Richard Lingeman ’53 (“Dances With Words”) incorrectly attributed a comment to Calvin Trillin. In fact, Marvin Kitman was describing Trillin. In that same article, a paragraph on p. 49 should have read, “Navasky as a friend, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, as a Chris Mills ’82 sympathetic boss, have afforded Richard time to work on his major opuses: [email protected] “Rebel From Main Street”, the Sinclair Lewis book, clearly shows the calming influence of security, being 554 pp., but not Ferberish or Michener-esque, as the two-volume Dreisers were, painting “Red” Lewis more intimately and nov- P.S. For an exciting and insightful look at the Haverford of today— elistically. From the first frozen day of his homecoming funeral in Sauk Center, including the food, and much more—please check out the new Minnesota, through his brief, collegiate religious fanaticism, to his rebellion against the hackish heights he’d reached working for George Horace Lorimar’s video clips on our website, www.haverford.edu/admission. Saturday Evening Post, a magazine that relentlessly sold the American Dream (as, say, Rolling Stone, in its “Fear & Loathing” era, relentlessly sold its obverse), the book paints Red as a neurotic writing machine, revved like a motorcycle by the forces that moved him against American pieties.” spring 2008

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2 View from Founders 36 Today’s Specials Local flavors, broader choices: how Haverford’s food 4 Main Lines has evolved. 20 Reviews By Cheryl Sternman Rule ’92 25 Ford Games George L. Mosse: An Exile at Home in the World 44 29 Faculty Profile Born into one of Berlin's richest families, forced to flee Hitler's rise, George L. Mosse ’41 became a dynamic scholar and 33 Haverford Conversations teacher in the United States. 61 Giving By Kate Campbell 63 Notes from the Alumni Association Getting Beyond Sicko 50 64 Annual Giving What’s wrong– really wrong–with healthcare and health in the America of 2008? Sociologist James S. House ’65 67 Class News has an answer that may surprise you. 80 Roads Taken and Not Taken By Tom Nugent 58 The Universal Language of Health A clinic run by Steve Larson ’83 serves the needs of South Philadelphia’s Latinos. Haverford College Office of Communications By Michael Matza 370 Lancaster Avenue • Haverford, PA 19041 (610) 896-1333 • ©2008 Haverford College

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C Haverford Alumni Magazine is printed on recycled paper. “I never thought of myself as Mixolydian, but then again...” by Stephen Emerson ’74 view from founders

Not long ago, our Hurford Humanities Center present- influence on the musical superstructure that is built upon ed a workshop in jazz/funk improvisation. There must have it. What happens when you add a beat to the measure? Take been two dozen student musicians there in the basement of one away? Emphasize the “and-of” three? Move from Lunt, of varying degrees of skill and experience. Watching Phrygian mode to Mixolydian? (These are Fords, they can our video coverage of the event (which you can find at our handle it!) The bottom line: It doesn’t take many changes website with the search term “funk fest”), I’m to yield profound change. not surprised by the range of talent on And, as the music swirls from my computer, I realize how display, nor the friendly accommo- those of us who play stewardship roles here at the College are dation of all by all. And while I’m attempting something similar in that we’re exploring how amazed by the ease with which a few small changes in what we do can have a profound they comprehend the fundamen- impact on the future. tal lesson of improvisation and Here are two examples. its core message of listening to Concerned that the rising cost of higher education could others and allowing their state- be a barrier to a Haverford education, the College revamped ments to inform one’s own, its Financial Aid program last December such that incoming that too seems wonderfully freshmen who receive aid won’t have to take out student Haverfordian—and therefore loans; rather, we’re going to give them grants which, at cur- not unexpected. rent levels, will total some $15,000 over their four years. What struck me at first listen I could not have been more proud the day that our Board (and resonates with me still) is the of Managers embraced this notion, which received a good way in which slight and bit of news coverage and has become part of the same “news subtle changes in the cluster” that includes Harvard, Yale, Pomona and Swarthmore, underlying musical which also recently revamped their aid packages. But here’s foundation can the thing. We then asked ourselves, jazz improvisation- exert enormous style, how we might go further and build upon this funda- mental change to effect still greater change. What if, in effect, we did the equivalent of swapping out the major chord in favor of a ninth? How might that open the door to changing the overall composition? Within hours, we had our answer: Yes, we’d scrap loans in favor of grants but we’d add something different. We’d invite those who receive such grants to contribute to a new schol- arship endowment fund in the years after graduation “as their means allow and the spirit moves” to help ensure that future students—our next generation—enjoy similar oppor- tunity. We then went still further, noting that because gen- eral endowment so mightily contributes to our operating budget, every student benefits regardless of aid status— and so all will be invited to contribute to this fund as it evolves into our general scholarship endowment source.

2 Haverford Magazine So the Next Generation Fund was born, a process What if…we installed a field made of artificial turf? that illustrates how a change in the basics (Financial Overnight, our legacy of mud, divots and hopping balls would Aid) can have enormous impact on the larger composi- be a thing of the past; illuminate the field and suddenly games tion (scholarship and endowment). Many of you have and practices needn’t be limited to daylight hours…. noted the uniquely Haverfordian quality of this new ….and if they don’t have to be over by 6 p.m., students plan, your comments reminding me of how a musician’s could attend lectures from 4 to 6… unique voice (in this case, the voice of our core values) ...to say nothing of our leveling the playing field from a inflects a piece (Financial Aid reform) with unique char- recruiting standpoint (Haverford will soon be the only acter. We take our inspiration, our cue, from the col- Centennial Conference school without turf) and the environ- lective sensibility, formed over generations, that is mental and expense benefit of reducing our use of fertilizer Haverford. and the need for watering...

...we’d scrap loans in favor of grants but we’d add something different. We’d invite those who receive such grants to contribute to a new scholarship endowment fund in the years after graduation “as their means allow and the spirit moves” to help ensure that future students—our next generation— enjoy similar opportunity.

On to example #2. One of the beautiful things about ...finally, to make the effort resonate with everything that’s Haverford athletics is that our size enables so many to play good about Haverford, let’s call it Swan Field, in honor of for- varsity. Indeed, 35 percent of our students are on a varsity mer coach and Athletic Director Dana Swan... team. That’s a lot of good news. But there’s bad news: Soccer, Fast forward and we’re excited by the plan to put a turf field lacrosse and field hockey players suffer under the yoke of next to the tennis courts, and the dramatic response by many antiquated field conditions that are often muddy and frozen “varsity alums” whose generosity is making this possible. and, because they are unlit, unusable beyond late afternoon. In both cases, we heard the music and then worked with our Moreover, because most of this athletic activity happens fellow “musicians” to shape and grow it. Now that I’ve experi- between the hours of 4-6 p.m., it conflicts with research talks enced the jazz-funk workshop, I consider these two examples by faculty and distinguished visitors. Not even Jerry Gollub, a sort of “administrative Mixolydian”: Start on the fifth note of Haverford professor of physics and an elected member of the the scale rather than the root and see what happens. National Academy of Sciences, has figured out how to be two Just don’t ask me to try it with a guitar (ask my friends)! places at once. So student athletes often miss some of our most exciting academic activities—or miss practices or games. All the best, But, in the spirit of jazz, we asked whether one small change can inspire big changes, so that the solution to one problem might overcome others. Steve

Spring 2008 3 main lines FLYING Ben Wendel and Rachel Nehmer from the class of ’04 swing from Seattle to HIGH Paris as trapeze artists.

rom trees in But first came the tree. their apartment’s F Philadelphia to circus “My girlfriend has had a lot of property. schools in Seattle to peculiar hobbies, like boxing, Wendel decided After Wendel and Nehmer circus exhibitions in Paris, rugby and the trapeze,” Wendel to give it a try. graduated from college, they took trapeze artists Ben Wendel and explained of being introduced to “I was afraid of jobs in the biology department at Rachel Nehmer have turned a the art through Nehmer, who had heights, at least the University of Washington in hobby into a passion. begun training in circus arts in I was sure I Seattle. Moving was a temporary Wendel and Nehmer are the 1995 at a youth performing arts was,” he said. setback to their trapeze hobby fixed trapeze act Duo Madrona. camp. “It turned out, with nowhere to practice. In January they performed in the At the time, they were living in I wasn’t. “We moved out to the 29th Cirque de Demain, the Philadelphia attending Haverford, I was like Pacific Northwest, and we all premier festival of circus studying biology and working in a a fish in water.” know what spindly, crappy performing arts in Europe. lab. A coach who formerly trained Wendel said he likes new branches evergreen trees have,” The festival was part Nehmer on the trapeze stayed with challenges, too. Wendel said. competition, part exhibition and them for a period of time. As a gift “I was really getting into it, They were looking for a place part job fair. Duo Madrona was to thank them for their hospitality, beginning to have fun and relax,” to train, and in 2004 found the one of dozens of circus acts Nehmer’s old coach built them a he said. “I have a really obsessive School of Acrobatics and New chosen from around the world to trapeze bar. personality. If I try something and Circus Arts. Formed by Jo perform and compete and “Oh yes, it’s a common gift,” like it, I really try to empty it out. Montgomery, the school was a perhaps to launch a professional joked Wendel, as he explained And the trapeze presents itself as nonprofit organization formed to circus career. how they hung it in a tree on a wonderful challenge.” teach children circus arts as a

Haverford Appoints Michael Kiefer to VP Vice-Principal for Development & Alumni Relations at McGill averford College has a $270 million campaign (30 percent case by several orders of University in Montreal and more appointed Michael C. above the target) and a tripling of magnitude. We hope to than a decade with Ketchum, Inc. H Kiefer to be its next gift income during his tenure. While accomplish much in the coming of Pittsburgh, where he was a Vice President for he was at Amherst, the endowment years,” continues Emerson, who vice-president for the firm, which Institutional Advancement, a role grew from less than $500 million to was inaugurated last October, provides fundraising consulting that oversees the College’s more than $1.5 billion. “and the vice president’s role is services. development, alumni relations “Michael is legendary in the key to our success. Michael is a “I’ve always felt warmly and communications operations. advancement field,” notes perfect fit, and we couldn’t be towards Haverford,” says Kiefer. Most recently, Kiefer was Chief Haverford President Stephen G. happier that he’s coming to “It is such a humane place—a Advancement Officer at Amherst Emerson ’74, who led the six- Haverford.” place where I know I will be College, where his many month search. “To say that we Prior to his 13 years at happy and do my best work. The successes included completion of are ‘delighted’ understates the Amherst, Kiefer spent six years as college has a superb academic

4 Haverford Magazine haverford college “I was afraid of heights, at least I was sure I was. It turned out, I wasn’t. I was like a fish in water.” lines way to make health and fitness hours and hours with each Circus Arts and Acrobatics, fun. Wendel and Nehmer taught other,” he said. “We were totally Wendel credits the Teatro

classes there and found a up for it but realized some truths ZinZanni, a circus theatre in San mai n training home. about the nature of our Francisco, as another circus arts At this time, Nehmer was relationship and working institution that helped them on invited by creative director together as partners. It made us their way to Paris. Performers Lara Paxton, of Circus development,” he said. “It was a much more honest performers.” from Teatro ZinZanni taught at the Contraption, to join an all- taste of what it would be like Wendel said circus School of Acrobatics and New women’s trapeze act performing.” performance had limited Circus Arts and gave Wendel and called the Aerialistas. Then they performed at a opportunities in the United States Nehmer the professional support “It was quite a realization,” friend’s wedding. compared to Europe, and he and to apply to Cirque de Demain. Wendel said, “that this was no “That was a return to the Nehmer, as Duo Madrona, “They were a huge inspiration longer a hobby, that we were tree,” Wendel said. “That was needed to break into European to us, very supportive and gave good enough for the stage. She nice.” cirque. In Europe, Wendel said, us lots of good professional did this for the next couple of They performed next at the circus is a big part of the culture, advice because we had been years, and, of course, I became 2006 Moisture Festival, a Seattle so much so that the Russian coaching ourselves, which is a rabidly jealous because I wanted event that showcases both local government even finances it in truly silly endeavor,” Wendel said. to perform with her.” and international variety acts. their country. “We got lucky.” What put them back “It was awesome, people “The development of Wendel and Nehmer were one performing together was a loved it,” Wendel said, adding television left us almost numb to of only two acts representing the benefit performance for the that it encouraged them to move spectacle here in the United United States in a program that School for Acrobatics and New to the next step. States,” said Wendel of the was heavy on French, Russian Circus Arts in May 2005. Wendel “At that time, we made the historic decline of major circus and Chinese performers. Wendel said they practiced intensively for logical decision to quit both our acts after World War II. In said it was probably the first time three months to prepare for it, the jobs, travel the world, and blow Europe, he said, “These days, the the Cirque de Demain has had first time they had done so with all our money.” Wendel said. circus is a much more integrated more than one U.S. act. such focus. They traveled to New Zealand art form, more theatrically rich, Laura Millsaps It wasn’t a perfect performance, and Australia, training and with dance and performance art, This article originally appeared in the Dec. 25, 2007 edition of the Iowa according to Wendel. practicing everywhere they like Cirque du Soleil. They’re Tribune. It is reprinted with permission. “On one hand, some things could, to gain experience. humongous and great, full of we did were bad, but on the other “We were really working, and great, talented artists.” hand, it was very good for our it created a difficulty working Besides the School of New

reputation and a profound two academic years at the nationally-ranked varsity commitment to social Université de Fribourg in Ultimate team. Kiefer enjoys responsibility that is unique Switzerland and is a citizen of travel, tennis, skiing, and among its peers. I find both the U.S. and Canada. collecting oriental rugs. everything about Haverford Kiefer and his wife, Carol compelling. This job is a Solomon Kiefer, an art historian, meaningful ‘next step’ have two children. Zoe is a 2005 professionally for me because graduate of Amherst College and the cause and the company are is now a second-year student at great.” Kiefer is a cum laude Mount Sinai School of Medicine graduate of La Salle College in in New York City. Andrew is a Philadelphia and has an M.A. college-bound senior at Amherst with distinction in theology from High School and, for three years, Boston College. He also spent has been a member of its

Spring 2008 5 wenty years ago, Frank Popper ’65 and T his wife Deborah Where the Popper, Bryn Mawr class of ’69, wrote a paper for the land-use journal Planning entitled “The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust.” They didn’t know it at the Buffalo Roam time, but the article and its ideas would shape the rest of their careers. “Twenty years later I am amazed at some level, and delighted at another that people are still reading this article,” says Frank Popper, now a professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. “If no one had noticed it, Deborah and I would HaHavverforderford College College Senior Senior Aw Awardedarded Winston Churchill Scholarship

here aren’t many records and the ability to and we therefore are all the more applications. For non-physicists, T students who can contribute to advancements in proud of the fact that a foundation quantum information science is claim to have studied science. as selective as Churchill conferred the study of what happens when at a college that counts Stephen Physics major Drury is one of its scholarships on only our information is stored and Hawking among the faculty excited to study at a school second nominee. It reflects very manipulated in the states of members in its physics renowned for its strengths in well on both Byron’s talents and quantum mechanical systems. department—but next year, science and engineering. “My personal qualities and the high “The most important way in Byron Drury ’08 will become one passions are math and caliber of a Haverford education.” which this differs from classical of these privileged few. theoretical physics, and at At Haverford, Drury’s information is that a qubit—a Drury is one of only 12 Cambridge the theoretical research and senior thesis focus single unit of quantum students in the United States— physics department rolls them on quantum information and its information analogous to a and the only Haverford student both into a neat little ball,” he in the College’s history—to says. “It’s a fantastic receive a prestigious Winston opportunity.” Churchill Scholarship, which “Byron is an extremely provides for a year’s worth of talented and likeable, community- study at Churchill College, one minded individual who put a lot of of the University of Cambridge’s work into preparing his schools in the United Kingdom. applications for Churchill and Administered by the Winston Cambridge,” says Philip Bean, Churchill Foundation, the Dean of Academic Affairs, who scholarship was created when coordinates Haverford’s the former Prime Minister fellowship applications. “The approached American friends competition was formidable—he to create a mechanism for was up against candidates from young Americans to study at his Ivies, major research universities, eponymous college. The first and many of the country’s leading scholarships were awarded in liberal arts colleges. We were 1963; they recognize students added to their list of nominating with exceptional academic institutions only two years ago,

6 Haverford Magazine haverford college not have been in the least bit politicians, ranchers, and and Environmental Engineering surprised. It was a reasonably residents of the Plains. But now, Department at Princeton good piece of journalism that after years of hard work, the idea University’s Princeton could just as easily have is finally gaining traction. “A Environmental Institute. disappeared. But it didn’t.” large number of initiatives are At Haverford, Popper studied For years, the idea of a currently under way,” says psychology. “It taught me how to lines “Buffalo Commons”—a plan to Popper. “The project is no longer think,” he says. “Most of what I revitalize the Great Plains region intellectual—it’s in real life.” do, most of what I’ve done for by letting it return to its original As the Buffalo Commons based on the Poppers’ work. The the last 35 years, wasn’t taught prairie, complete with gains supporters, the Poppers film appeared in simultaneous at Haverford—or anywhere

buffalo—was derided by are gaining attention. They French- and German-language else—at that time. Haverford mai n were featured on the front versions in Europe on ARTE, the taught me how to master new page of USA Today, and in German-French public television material relatively quickly. January 2008 Westend station, under titles that translate “One thing that sticks in my Productions, a to “The Return of the Buffalo.” mind about Haverford is its Frankfurt-based During the 2008-2009 academic superb teaching,” he adds. “I film and year Frank Popper will be on spent graduate school at MIT television leave from Rutgers, and will be and Harvard, and never ran company, teaching and writing at the across teachers as good.” released a Environmental Studies Program Dave Merrell ’09 documentary with an appointment in the Civil d Winston Churchill Scholarship

classical bit—may be in a state Drury works primarily with a Ph.D. in physics, but he finds project,” he says. “After only a that is a superposition, or lie groups, a multi-dimensional math “fascinating and few weeks of Byron’s work I mixture, of different classical mathematical structure of beautiful” and will seize this was very impressed with his states,” says Drury. “When we smooth space. “They’ve been opportunity to load up on math progress, and I look forward measure the state of the qubit it used a lot by physicists in classes. “It’s valuable for both to continuing to work with contains the same quantity of recent years,” he says. “They physicists to have a solid up-to- him as we move towards information as a classical bit, but take what mathematicians have date grasp of math,” he says. writing the work up for the fact that it may occupy mixed been thinking and apply them to Drury feels well-prepared for publication, and to pursuing the states at intermediate steps in a physical situations.” his future in the UK and beyond, consequences of this project computation makes quantum “Byron is clearly especially after having worked with other Haverford students computation inherently different, as a student research assistant this summer and in the future.” and apparently more powerful, one of the most with Assistant Professor of “In my many years at than classical computation.” outstanding and Physics Peter Love. “It’s been a Haverford, Byron is clearly one The set of all quantum original students fantastic experience working of the most outstanding and operations, Drury adds, is called I’ve run across, with him, more collaboration than original students I’ve run the unitary group. “In order to so I am thrilled but I expected from undergraduate across, so I am thrilled but not build a quantum computer, we not wholly research,” he says. “It’s given me wholly surprised that he must be able to perform unitary a taste of how difficult research became Haverford’s first winner operations. They’re difficult to surprised that he can be—you can spend weeks of the Winston Churchill implement in practice; there’s became Haverford’s on end staring at an equation Scholarship,” says Greg only a small set we can do.” first winner of the that’s not simplifying.” Kannerstein, Dean of the Drury explores how to take Winston Churchill Peter Love, who calls Drury College. “Haverford physics these complicated elements and Scholarship.” “consistently the brightest majors have achieved some break them into steps that can Greg Kannerstein student in class,” says that the remarkable heights, such as the be easily performed. He also research that became Drury’s Nobel Prize won by Joe Taylor deciphers the mathematical During his year at thesis began as an experiment ’63, and I feel sure we will be theories and abstract algebra Cambridge, Drury will take on his part: “I was a little hearing a lot more from Byron in that allows one to perform additional courses in quantum curious to see how a Haverford years to come.” quantum computations. information and lie algebra student could cope with what I theory. He plans to later pursue considered a very difficult

Spring 2008 7 First Jill Sherman Fellow Joins Institutional Advancement

new program at “Jill is an educator, and Salisbury University and a “I feel fortunate to have A Haverford will provide takes that role very seriously master’s in education leadership someone focused on young professionals whether it is educating donors from the University of Arkansas. philanthropic education for with broad-based experience about the needs of the He is also an entrepreneur, current students, preparing in college relations and institution she represents, or having started a Maryland- them for life after college, and advancement from the educating the institution about based coffee shop called Rise helping them understand what it ground up. their donors and their Up Coffee, which serves means to give back to an The Jill Sherman Fellows philanthropic interests, or organic, fair trade and shade- institution,” says Deb Strecker, Program for Leadership in educating young professionals grown blends raised and Director of Annual Giving. “The Advancement, established in as they begin their careers,” roasted by friends. Fellow will perform work that the fall of 2007, is named for a says Catherine Koshland ’72, “I am thrilled to be will have incredible benefits for former Vice President of Vice Chair of Haverford’s Board embarking on this journey with the College.” Institutional Advancement who of Managers. “She herself the talented professionals that led the successful Educating to benefited from many mentors as make up the Annual Giving Lead, Educating to Serve she grew as a development team,” Williams says. “I am campaign; ending in 2004, the professional, and it seemed looking forward to being part of four-year campaign raised more fitting to honor her contributions Haverford’s tradition of than $200 million for the College. to Haverford and to the excellence and making The program was designed as a profession with this fellowship significant contributions to the way to thank Sherman for her opportunity.” College.” service to Haverford, and is The first Jill Sherman Fellow, As a Fellow, Williams will be funded by the College and by Terrence Williams, arrived at exposed to all aspects of donors who wished to support Haverford on Feb. 18 and will Institutional Advancement, from initiatives important to Sherman, work in the office of Annual conferences to committees to most notably professional Giving. Williams has an travel opportunities. As part of development, teaching and extensive background in Annual Giving, he’ll help to education, and the mentoring of student and residential life, most manage the Student Phonathon, new staff. recently at the University of volunteers, the Senior Gift Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s program and other Terrence degree in psychology from undergraduate initiatives. Williams

Koffi Anyinefa, professor of Anna Miller ’07) at the Meeting of scholars from Japan, Europe, and Ken Koltun-Fromm, associate French and chair of the department, the Eastern Psychological the U.S. to read texts together and professor of religion, gave a talk enti- gave a talk called “Maltraitance’ de Association, March 13-16 in Boston. present their scholarship. tled “Visualizing Heritage: The jeunes africaines: Témoignages et Assistant Professor of Economics Professor of Anthropology Laurie Covers of ‘Lilith’ Magazine” and médiatisation” at Colloque: Indradeep Ghosh’s article “The Kain Hart presented a paper enti- chaired a session on modern Jewish Enfances, February 27-March 3 in Relation between Trade and FDI in tled “Marseille: the ‘popular’ city in thought at the meeting of the Bayreuth, Germany. Developing Countries: A Panel Data the 2000s” as part of the panel Association for Jewish Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Approach” was published in Volume “Global Downtowns” at the Annual December 15-18, 2007 in Toronto. French Joanna Augustyn pre- 7, Issue 3 of the Global Economy Meetings of the American Associate Professor of History sented a paper entitled “Intertextual Journal. Anthropological Association, James Krippner attended a Consciousness: Les Voix Hank Glassman, assistant pro- November 29-December 7, 2007 in meeting called “Two Faces of intérieures of Victor Hugo” at the fessor of East Asian Studies, Washington, D.C. Mexican Music: Carlos Chavez Society of Dix-neuviémistes 6th attended “Gatherings Beneath the Shizhe Huang, associate profes- (1899-1978) and Silvestre Revueltas annual conference, “Memories in/of Dai: Seasonal Topics in Hyakushu sor of Chinese and linguistics and (1899-1940),” March 14-17 at the the 19th century,” March 25-27 at the and Utaawase” (UBC Waka C.V. Starr Professor of Asian studies, Library of Congress in Washington, University of Manchester in England. Workshop Number Three), March was an invited speaker at the 16th D.C. He participated in two public Professor of Psychology Marilyn 28-29 at Columbia University. He Annual Conference of the discussions: “Alvarado and the Boltz presented a paper called was an invited participant in this International Association of Chinese Making of Redes/The Wave” and a “Are You Lying to Me? Using international workshop on themes Linguistics (IACL-16), May 30-June 2 separate roundtable discussion of Temporal Cues for Deception in medieval Japanese poetry at Peking University in Beijing. the film. Detection” (co-authored by (waka), the third in a series spon- Rebecca Dyer ’07 and sored by the University of British Columbia that brings together

8 Haverford Magazine haverford college slow, non-turbulent flows. Now, The Christopher Clavius Professor of Physics high-resolution digital imaging Award from St. Joseph’s allows scientists to track University is named after Fr. Jerry Gollub Honored thousands of particles as a Clavius, a 16th-century Jesuit function of time to extract high- astronomer and mathematician by Two Universities resolution time-dependent who developed the Gregorian lines velocity patterns, or related calendar, numerous he universe is filled and internationally recognized quantities like local rotation. mathematical proofs, and with fluids scientist, who made significant “Sometimes the stretching or confirmation of Galileo’s T undergoing complex contributions to the field of low elongation of fluid elements is observations supporting a flow, and this spring, John and temperature physics. Previous important, and this quantity can heliocentric system. He is also mai n Barbara Bush Professor of lecturers include 20 Nobel now also be measured with credited with having inspired Physics Jerry Gollub was Laureates, and the most recent high space and time works by Kepler, Descartes honored by two universities for lecturer was president of the resolution,” says Gollub. and Leibniz. his work on fluid dynamics. American Physical Society, the “Stretching can give insights At the award ceremony, Gollub delivered the Fritz professional organization of into mixing and chemical Gollub delivered a public London Memorial Lecture at U.S. physicists. reactions. Finally, the curvature lecture on fluid flows similar to Duke University on March 25, The title of Gollub’s lecture of particle trajectories can be his London Lecture. The award and on April 18 received the was “Novel Ways of Studying measured, and this capability and lecture were given in Christopher Clavius, S.J. Award Fluid Flows.” Important in makes it possible to find special conjunction with a multi-state from St. Joseph’s University. physics, chemistry, geophysics, points where the fluid is locally student research symposium “I’m especially pleased to biology, and engineering, fluid at rest. The study of the attended by several hundred acknowledge the many flows have been studied for motions of these special undergraduate and graduate Haverford students and centuries by observing topological points can students from about 50 colleges postdoctoral collaborators who the behavior of dyes give insight into the and universities. have contributed essentially to or small particles origins of space-time During the next academic the work that is being deposited in the chaos in fluids.” year, Gollub will extend his recognized, especially my flow. However, Gollub’s talk will research in fluid dynamics to current research associate according to Gollub, show how advances biological systems at the Nicholas Ouellette,” says the presence of in flow measurement University of Cambridge. He has Gollub. space-time chaos can give new insights been appointed to serve as an Duke’s Fritz London makes it difficult to into fluid motion. Overseas Fellow at Cambridge’s Memorial Lecture is given in understand even Churchill College. memory of the former professor relatively

Benjamin Le, assistant professor David Snead ’08; “Model Visiting Assistant Professor of Alex Norquist, assistant of psychology, attended a meeting of Cysteine-containing Peptides Political Science Stephen Marr professor of chemistry, s the Society for Personality and indicate sensitivity of cysteine vibra- attended the Annual Meeting of the gave a talk called “Synthesis of Social Psychology (SPSP), February tions to conformational distribution International Studies Association, Noncentrosymmetric Molybdates” 6-9 in Albuquerque, where he pre- and specific side-chain interactions” March 26-29 in San Francisco, at the Zing Conference on Solid sented two papers: “Commitment, was co-presented with Rachel where he presented a paper called State Chemistry, March 10-13 in new relationship maintenance, and miss- Sennett ’08 and Matthew “From Filth to Fear: Sequestering Cancun. Poverty in a Gaborone Slum.” ing a romantic partner: A longitudinal Stetz ’08. Londergan also present- Professor of Chemistry Rob investigation of short-term geograph- ed his paper “A new semester-long Laura McGrane, assistant pro- Scarrow attended the Metals ic separations,” and “Predicting inquiry-based general chemistry lab- fessor of English, presented her in Biology Gordon Research daters’ sex-typed coping strategies oratory” at the American Chemical paper “Exploring the ‘Authentic’ Life Conference, held January in the context of geographic separa- Society National Meeting, April 6-9 in of Charlotte Charke” as part of a 27-February 1 in Ventura, Calif., tion.” Both papers list Miriam New Orleans. panel called “Fear of Fiction” at the where he presented a poster Korn ’07 as co-author. Danielle Macbeth, T. Wistar meeting of the American Society for called “Hydrogen-bonding Assistant Professor of Chemistry Brown Professor of Philosophy, 18th-Century Studies (ASECS), possibilities for ligands faculty Casey Londergan presented two wrote a chapter titled “Striving for March 26-28 in Portland, Ore. coordinating through neutral posters at the Biophysical Society Truth in the Practice of Mathematics: Assistant Professor of Political guanidine groups.” He listed Annual Meeting, February 1-6 in Long Kant and Frege” for the book Essays Science Barak Mendelsohn students Scott T. Kleespies Beach, Calif. “Cyanylation of Active- on Frege’s Conception of Truth, presented a paper called “Border ’08, Katherine A. A. Clark site Cysteines in Creatine Kinase published by Rodopi in 2007. security and the war on terrorism: ’09, Jeffrey V. Suell ’08, and Provides Site-specific Infrared an English School account” at the Matthew L. Eppright ’07 Probes of Local Structure and Annual Convention of the ISA as contributors. Dynamics” was co-presented with (International Studies Association), March 26-29 in San Francisco.

Spring 2008 9 illiam Earl Williams, Haverford Fine Arts W Professor of Fine Arts and Curator Professor Awarded of Photography at Haverford College, has been awarded the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Humanities Chair Professorship in the Humanities. The chair was established in 1983 by Haverford alumnus John L. Dusseau ’34 in honor of his first wife, Audrey, who predeceased him in 1979; the couple shared a commitment to writing and learning about the people and cultures of the world. Dusseau spent most of his professional career with the W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia publishers of medical books and journals. From 1950 until his retirement in 1977, he served as Vice President and Editor-in-Chief. He published two books of his own: An Informal History of W.B. Saunders Company, on

atmospheric carbon dioxide “Hotel Lautreamont” (whose Distinguished Visitors’ Corner and methane from the last pantoum form requires the millennia to show how the U.S. second and fourth lines of one Nobel Laureate, For example, what if everyone will be affected by the current stanza to become the first and a Pulitzer Prize- who voted for Ralph Nader worldwide mild temperatures, third lines of the next), “The A winning poet, and a could have listed Al Gore as the warmest of the last 10,000 Bobinski Brothers,” and “A renowned artist their second choice—how years. Cane placed the blame Linnet”—which Ashbery were among the distinguished might this have affected the squarely on human release of cheekily described as “a small guests who visited campus outcome? greenhouse gases. bird more common in poetry during the fall and winter. Speaking of 2007 Nobel Lovers of literature received than in nature.” On Nov. 16, Princeton Peace Prize winner Gore, his a rare treat when Pulitzer Artist Norman Turner, University mathematical theories on global warming Prize-winning poet John whose paintings and charcoal economist Eric Maskin, who were supported by Mark Ashbery came to Haverford drawings were exhibited in the won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Cane of Columbia Feb. 19 to read from his Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Economics, gave a lecture University’s Earth collections Notes from during the month of March, entitled “How Presidents Institute in a the Air and A Worldly gave a talk on March 5 and Should Be Elected.” Maskin Jan. 27 talk Country. Ashbery, also offered a video tour of his explained that every voting called a recipient of the works for Haverford’s website. system has its weaknesses, “Climate National Book Award He revealed that shapes are but one method—a specialty Change: Is Al and the National Book not always a priority—they of his called the majority Gore Right?” Critics’ Circle Award, “grow through the process of dominance theorem—seems Yes, recited such poems as painting,” and that some of his to work best most often, and according to “Finnish Rhapsody,” paintings “move towards the could have reduced the Cane, who used stable aspect of visual confusion and dissatisfaction graphs of perception—being able to see Eric Maskin of voters in the 2000 election. things in the real world as they

10 Haverford Magazine haverford college the Occasion of its Hundredth research stipend to travel to Smith College and the In his years at Haverford, Anniversary (1988) and Canada and the Lesser Smithsonian, and can be found Williams has been “ever Bugaboos, Chimeras & Antilles, hoping to enlarge the in many public collections productive, solo champion of a Achilles’ Heels: 10,001 Difficult scope of his pictorial including the Philadelphia program in need of support and Words and How to Use Them representation of slave culture. Museum of Art, Baltimore Art care,” according to Provost (1993). After his retirement, he Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Linda Bell. “He has mentored lines continued writing on topics in He has organized Metropolitan Museum of Art, countless students in medicine and science for a more than 70 Princeton University Art photography and sent many of variety of publications and Museum and the Smithsonian. our best well prepared and journals, including the exhibitions in 25 He has organized more than 70 forward bound to pursue

Haverford alumni magazine. He years, including exhibitions in 25 years, careers in photography of their mai n died on January 9, 1999. work by Lewis Hine, including work by Lewis Hine, own. He has always, in “This announcement was a Diane Arbus, James Van Der process, not narrowed complete surprise, and the Diane Arbus, Zee, Paul Strand and Hiroshi ambition to training magnitude of this honor has James Van Der Zee, Sugimoto. Williams has practitioners, but to cultivating not yet sunk in,” says Williams. Paul Strand and received individual artist intellectual and curricular “This honor comes at a crucial fellowships from the connections to the whole art of time in my own research as I Hiroshi Sugimoto. Pennsylvania Council on the photography.” begin to study the culture of Arts in 1986, 1997 and 2003, a slavery in the Lesser Antilles Williams has been affiliated Pew Fellowship in the Arts in where it was first introduced with Haverford since 1978, 1997 and a John Simon into the New World, and the after receiving his M.F.A. in Guggenheim Fellowship in Don’t Wait ultimate protest against slavery photography that year from 2003. He served as a member by the travelers and supporters Yale University School of Art. of the national board of the for Reunion of the Underground Railroad His photographs have been Society for Photographic with its terminus in Canada.” widely exhibited, including Education from 1997-2003 and Weekend to Williams will use the Dusseau group and solo exhibitions at as past member of its Professorship’s accompanying the Cleveland Museum of Art, executive committee. Come Back to Campus! are—while others move you’d be very foolish not to use our new Google-powered towards the flux of obey those impulses.” search tool to find the articles. perception.” He advised For full coverage of these Want to keep up with Sign up for the events artists to listen to their and other events (including Haverford happenings? Sign up E-newsletter at instincts during the creative video presentations), go to for the events E-newsletter at www.haverford.edu/news process: “You paint and you Haverford’s newsroom at www.haverford.edu/news. and you’ll always have have certain impulses, and www.haverford.edu/news and something to do. Photo Credit: Andy Kim ’10

Artist Norman Turner discusses his work with Kate Gilson ’10.

Watch Norman Turner’s video tour at http://www.haverford.edu/multimedia/video/2008Mar/turner/

Spring 2008 11 ost people might (likely from the nature trail), and avoid the spines maracas. He then played M of a cactus, but amplified cactus while reciting for composer an excerpt from James Joyce’s Christopher Shultis, they’re Finnegan’s Wake called “The nontraditional tone generators: Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Of John Cage Just clip a contact microphone Springs” (which is also a 1961 onto a barrel cactus and pluck. John Cage piece for voice and and An Shultis did that and more in a piano). performance at Cantor Fitzgerald His music has Gallery that complements the Amplified Cactus been performed The fascinating music and artistic haunting prints of Hee Sook Kim, philosophy of composer John Cage Haverford professor of fine arts, throughout the came to life at Christopher Shultis' which are currently on display. United States, Inspired by the life and work performance at the Cantor Europe, Latin Fitzgerald Gallery. of John Cage, Shultis’ appearance began with a America and performance of an early piece of Asia. his, “64 Statements re and not re Child of Tree,” which includes Shultis then spoke about the texts spoken out of the four relationship between corners of the room from “Encounter” and its companion cassette players as he performs piece “Openings” for winds and in four stations: pod rattles, percussion, of which he played a bamboo wind chimes, branches recording of the first movement Peace Pole and Garden Bring Message of Hope to the Haverford Community

ven Nature, it seems, Peace and Global Citizenship CPGC Executive Director Parker between Chase and Founders, is a fan of world (CPGC) summer internship at the Snowe ’79, who met her and everything fell into place. E peace. The clouds Peace Center in Langhorne, Pa. suggestion with immediate “We knew this was where it had were thick, but the As a co-coordinator and teacher enthusiasm. “Given Haverford’s to be,” says Weitz. “I love that I rain stayed well away as at the center’s Peace Camp, Quaker roots and the Quaker can see it every day. It’s a quiet Haverford’s new Peace Pole and Weitz was crafting a Peace Pole peace testimony, I thought that it place to reflect, but it’s also a Garden were dedicated in a for the children with paper and would be a good idea to have reminder to the Haverford ceremony held April 5 at the tubes and thought it would be some long-lasting monument to community that we all have the garden’s site next to Chase Hall. peace on campus that people ability to pursue lives of peace The four-sided Peace Pole, could see and touch,” he says. and social justice.” which bears the words “May Weitz and Snowe The Arboretum staff ordered Peace Prevail on Earth” in four approached the Arboretum the pole from Peace Pole different languages, is part of a about creating the Peace Makers USA in Northern global movement; there are Garden—”They were wonderful Michigan, and Weitz and Snowe more than 200,000 poles in 180 and supportive,” Weitz raves— chose to have the words “May countries across the world. The and teamed up with Staff Peace Prevail on Earth” Peace Pole project was started Robin Harper, who received a master's Horticulturalist Carol Wagner inscribed in English, Spanish, by the World Peace Society, a degree from Haverford in 1954, reflects to scout locations. “We wanted Chinese and Swahili. “We on the pole's message. non profit, non-sectarian to put it near Stokes, since that’s wanted to represent as many organization dedicated to uniting nice to have something similar where the CPGC is housed,” different continents as we people across the world through for Haverford’s campus. She also says Wagner. “We thought about could,” explains Weitz. the universal saying “May admired the Peace Center’s own the Stokes bus stop area and the A community bulb-planting peace prevail on earth.” pole and garden at its Quaker other entrance by the circular for the garden took place on Haverford’s pole and garden Meeting House, where it served patio, but neither of those sites March 21. Choosing plants, says were the brainchild of Jen as a quiet place for ’felt right.’” Wagner, was easy: “There were Weitz ’08, who came up with contemplation and reflection. Then they came to the spot already some ferns, hostas and the idea during her Center for Weitz shared her idea with underneath the spruce trees daffodils planted—all good

12 Haverford Magazine haverford college and concluded with a discussion University Press in 1998. His currently working on a book- performances of his of the poetry and sounds used in scholarly writings have been length comparison of musical compositions are available the installation, including photos published in many leading experimentalism in the United exclusively through ZERX of the place where the poems journals including The Musical States and continental Europe records. Shultis’s activities as a were written – the Manzano Quarterly, Neue Zeitschrift für titled The Dialectics of scholar and creative artist mountain wilderness in New Musik, and Perspectives of Experimentalism. continually draw upon his lines Mexico. New Music, for which he serves His music has been performed previous work as a solo Shultis is a writer, throughout the United percussionist and conductor of composer and scholar and See a video States, Europe, Latin the highly acclaimed UNM currently Regents clip of Shultis’ America and Asia and Percussion Ensemble. As

Professor of Music at the performance on featured at Director of Percussion Studies at mai n University of New Mexico the Haverford conferences and UNM from 1980-1996, Shultis where he has taught since site. Just enter festivals like the worked closely with many 1980. He received his “cactus” in the Society of Composers composers including, among bachelor of music degree search box. Incorporated national others, Ernst Krenek, Lou from Michigan State convention, the Harrison, Michael Colgrass and University, his master of music as an Associate Editor. In 1997 Percussive Arts Society John Cage. His performance of degree from the University of an article published by the international convention and the Konrad Boehmer’s Schreeuw Van Illinois and his Ph.D. in American Journal of Musicology won an Deutsch-Amerikanisches Deze Aarde for solo percussion Studies from the University of ASCAP Deems Taylor award. Institut’s (Heidelberg, Germany) (BV Haast, 1990) won an Edison New Mexico. His book, Recipient of two Fulbright Seventh Annual Festival of award for best new music Silencing the Sounded Self: awards, he taught at the Experimental Music and recording and various ensemble John Cage and the American Technische Hochschule Aachen Literature. He was also a featured performances under his direction Experimental Tradition was from 1993-94 and the Universität artist on KNME’s award-winning can be found on the Neuma, published by Northeastern Heidelberg from 1999-2000. He is Colores program. Recorded Wergo and 3D labels. of Hope to the Haverford Community

and displayed a plaque for the ceremony was the kickoff for Tri- garden, which reads “This College Peace Week, it garden connects Haverford with concluded with Swarthmore the world in peaceful unity and senior and Peace Week founder symbolizes our responsibility to Brandon Lee Wolff, who promote peace and social described upcoming events and justice.” Snowe praised the announced that Swarthmore Peace Garden bench, which would have its own Peace Pole was donated by Weitz’s parents. dedication at the end of the “The first time I saw people week. sitting on the bench…I wanted The evening was capped off to run up and say thank you,” he with a reception at the CPGC laughed. Café in Stokes, featuring a Snowe also told a story performance by folk singer and familiar to Quakers, about a peace activist Tom Mullian. At Left to right: Carol Wagner, Parker Snowe, Jen Weitz '08 and Elizabeth Turner '08 at young man coming across a the reception, attendees were the installation of the Peace Pole. Sunday morning Meeting, encouraged to write messages plants that love to grow in the Startup helped Wagner choose stepping inside, sitting in silence for peace on scraps of paper, shade. I went to a local nursery the stone for the walkway— for a while, then turning to a man which will be placed inside a that grows lots of little plants, Tennessee flagstone, whose beside him and asking, “When time capsule and buried in the including many great shade- “warm colors complement the does the service begin?” The Peace Garden. loving perennials. There are a lot garden and the red cedar Peace man replied, “The service begins “I want everyone to feel like of leaf colors—green, silver, Pole,” says Wagner—and install when Meeting ends.” this garden is theirs,” says burgundy and chartreuse—lots the walk. “Our service begins when we Weitz. of flowers from spring until fall. It At the dedication ceremony, leave this place,” Snowe will be very lush and restful.” Weitz briefly explained the echoed. Staff Horticulturalist Mike global Peace Pole movement Because the dedication

Spring 2008 13 Students Take Action to Prevent Spread of Malaria Natalie Zych ’11 and Darian Lunne ’09 raised more than $2,000 for the “Nothing but Nets” campaign.

hink “disease It all started when Assistant prevention” and you Professor of Biology Iruka Okeke T might think of billion screened the film Malaria: Fever dollar pharmaceutical solutions, Wars in her biology classes. The all hypodermic needles and documentary showed that while blister-packed pills. But as malaria is preventable, it is the Haverford students are learning, leading cause of death for one of the most effective children in Africa, killing more weapons against malaria than one million each year. After couldn’t be simpler, cheaper, or seeing the film in Okeke’s easier to administer. “Perspectives in Biology:

Haverford Receives Beckman Scholars Award for Fourth Time The award funds more than a year of scientific research for student recipients.

our graduated summa The award is used to fund 15 interview at least one of its been instrumental in my cum laude from months of research for primary authors. development as a researcher,” F Haverford. Four more exceptional science students; Beckman Scholars also says the med school-bound graduated magna cum laude. the Beckman Scholars program become mentors for Hinchcliff. “It allowed me to Seven were elected to Phi Beta is the only one at Haverford to underclassmen and other choose a project that I was Kappa. Two received Goldwater guarantee research support for Scholars, and initiate their own interested in, and, in combination Fellowships; three, Fulbrights. All more than one year. “This scientific activities at Haverford; with Jenni’s very hands-on have gone on to prestigious enables ambitious and long- for example, previous Scholars approach, let me develop my graduate programs at range planning in project design, started the Chemistry Club and own research question. I also institutions like Penn, Johns and encourages the students to led seminars in social medicine. learned how to create a Hopkins, and Berkeley. The take on innovative and The students work as research story—putting together future has been undoubtedly challenging projects,” says collaborative colleagues with the various research questions bright for the 11 Haverford Assistant Professor of Biology their faculty mentors, often co- into a flowing narrative really students who have been Iruka Okeke, who oversees the authoring papers with them and helps focus my ideas and drive selected as Beckman Scholars Beckman program at Haverford. accompanying them to regional the next experiment.” since 1999. “The scholarship also offers and national meetings. “The Beckman Science Now, Haverford has once academic flexibility and allows Current Beckman recipients Scholarship has been a defining again been chosen as a scholars to accomplish all they are Emily Hinchcliff ’08, who part of my experience at recipient of the Beckman can in their research.” studies T-cell development with Haverford,” says Tuttle. “The Scholars Award from the Arnold In addition to research, the Professor of Biology Jenni scholarship has allowed me to and Mabel Beckman Beckman Scholars program Punt, and Alexander Tuttle explore my interests in Foundation, which promotes supports students’ opportunities ’08, who explores the effects of behavioral neuroscience to a research in chemistry and life for mentored self-study and pain and empathetic behavior greater degree than I would have sciences at colleges and extracurricular training and with Associate Professor of thought possible as an universities across the country. projects, such as “Biography of Psychology Wendy Sternberg. undergraduate. Most importantly, Haverford is one of only a few the Experiment,” where students “The Beckman program, the scholarship has helped institutions to have received the read and annotate a classic along with Haverford’s strong define and strengthen my Beckman Award four times. scientific paper and travel to research program, has really passion for laboratory-based

14 Haverford Magazine haverford college “Our community is Through an online search, After Spring Break, Lunne malaria can be prevented, Lunne one that prides itself Zych and Lunne found “Nothing and Zych started the “Nothing and Zych plan on writing facts but Nets”, an Internet-based but Nets” Haverford Team. They about malaria in sidewalk chalk on raising awareness, campaign devoted to saving lives set a goal for their peers to raise along walkways throughout and we can do some- by preventing malaria. Every $10 $2,000 for the campaign, and campus. To raise money for nets, lines thing about this.” donation buys a mosquito- challenged the faculty to match they plan to ask for donations in repellent insecticide-covered the amount raised by the high-traffic areas such as Natalie Zych ’11 bed net. The nets are then students. In response to Whitehead Campus Tropical and Infectious distributed to needy malaria- Lunne and Zych Center. Diseases” class, Natalie Zych ’11 stricken areas worldwide by the soliciting donations Lunne and Zych

decided to take action. Zych sat Measles Initiative, a widely at a table during will continue to mai n in on Okeke’s “Molecular successful malaria vaccination meal times in the campaign for Microbiology” during a and prevention education Dining Center and “Nothing but screening of the film. program. sending a faculty Nets” during their “Natalie stood up at the end “Before seeing the film, mass email, remaining time at of class and said, ’So what are I didn’t realize the large students donated Haverford. “We’re we going to do about it?’” said disconnect that exists between $1,560 and faculty $385. talking about helping to Darian Lunne ’09. “Like Natalie, if us and this major issue. Our The students are looking save people’s lives. For both of I see a problem that’s community is one that prides forward to bolstering their efforts us, this is just the beginning,” preventable, it’s really hard for itself on raising awareness, and on campus in the fall. To raise said Zych. me to justify not doing something we can do something about awareness of the ease in which -Dana Eiselen ’11 about it.” this,” said Zych. the devastating effects of

Haverford Wins $1.4 Million Grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute The HHMI grant will allow students to continue their cutting-edge research in professors’ labs.

hen the Howard initiatives, technological “We are particularly excited Hughes Medical advances, and outreach about the ability to fund many W Institute (HHMI) programs. different programmatic elements issued a challenge to 224 Since 1988, Haverford has that cohere around our new undergraduate colleges across received approximately $5.85 initiatives in scientific the country to identify creative million from HHMI. This support computing. HHMI funding will new ways of engaging students has helped the College sustain support faculty development in biological sciences, Haverford several decades of innovation seminars, curricular innovation, College answered the call…and and excellence in the teaching of teaching [postdoctoral fellows], was rewarded. undergraduate science. and outreach, all centered on Beckman Scholar Alexander Tuttle '08 In response to a proposal John Mosteller, Assistant computer sciences and collaborates with Associate Professor Haverford submitted in October, Vice President for Academic scientific computing applications of Psychology Wendy Sternberg. HHMI has awarded the College a Resources, notes, “This year’s in chemistry and biology.” grant of $1,400,000, as part of the HHMI competition was intense, The HHMI grant will also research.” During the next two 2008 Undergraduate Science and we are delighted that allow Haverford to continue years, Tuttle will work in a biology Education Grants Competition. Haverford has succeeded in support for programs like wet lab at Children’s Hospital of Haverford is one of 48 securing its sixth consecutive Interdisciplinary Scholars and Philadelphia, after which time institutions across the United grant.” Multicultural Scholars, which he’ll pursue a Ph.D. in behavioral States to receive grants totaling “HHMI has had a profound give students opportunities to neuroscience. “I have no doubt $60 million over a four-year impact on Haverford College and conduct graduate-level research that the Beckman Scholarship period. has fundamentally changed in professors’ labs. was a primary influence on my The grant will help strengthen many aspects of the character of decision to pursue laboratory Haverford’s biological sciences our institution,” says Associate research after college.” by supporting research Professor of Biology and HHMI opportunities, curricular faculty advisor Rob Fairman.

Spring 2008 15 Emily Hinchcliff ’08 Awarded a William Penn Fellowship

his summer, Emily mother” for the older students coaching, both my club team at Hinchcliff ’08 will and international boarders, home as well as for a Nike camp, The Haverford T take her love of mentoring and advising, helping so I’m sure that will come in senior will spend science and volleyball across with homework, and getting handy!” next year teaching the Atlantic. involved with what Chigwell calls Additionally, Chigwell has and living at The biology major will spend “pastoral” activities: “This asked Hinchcliff to spearhead a the 2008-2009 academic year means creating a home pre-med volunteer program England’s teaching, working and living at environment for the children and similar to the one she started at Chigwell School. England’s Chigwell School as a being as much of a role model, Haverford; “Haverford in recipient of the William Penn friend and confidante as Hospitals” places students at “It’s an incredible opportunity to Fellowship. The Fellowship, possible.” Lankenau, Bryn Mawr, Thomas be immersed in another culture named for Chigwell’s most Hinchcliff, who this season Jefferson, and Children’s Hospital and be there long enough to truly famous alumnus, facilitates led Haverford’s women’s of Philadelphia. “It helps students appreciate it.” understanding between the U.S. volleyball team to the third round who may be interested in Dean of Academic Affairs and Great Britain through shared of the NCAA Division III medical school get some first- Philip Bean encouraged intellectual and cultural Tournament and to a school hand hospital experience,” says Hinchcliff to apply for the experiences and is offered record in victories, also hopes to Hinchcliff. fellowship. “As someone who annually to graduating seniors at start a volleyball program at She’s excited not only to be studied in England for three both Haverford and Swarthmore. Chigwell. “[2006 William Penn teaching and drumming up years, I think she will make a “I will mostly be teaching Fellow] Cathy Carbonaro (’06) support for volleyball, but also to marvelous impression on the biology,” Hinchcliff reports, “and was involved in starting the travel throughout Europe, on students, parents, and fellow perhaps some American women’s soccer program there, school trips and during her time teachers at the Chigwell School,” history/politics, especially as it’s so her advice will definitely be off. “I’m also really looking he says. “All in all, she is an going to be an election year.” the starting point for me,” she forward to spending a long exemplary representative of She’ll also act as a “dorm- says. “I have experience period of time abroad,” she says. what Haverford can offer to the Students Screened for Genetic Diseases Common Among Jewish Population

In 1970, there were 55 cases by Paul Bloch ’09, who met “We are looking for expensive, but Haverford’s of Tay-Sachs Disease—a representatives of the Victor carriers, people screenings were offered free of genetic disorder common Center (which is associated with charge thanks to the Melvin A. among people of Ashkenazi Philadelphia’s Einstein Medical who are not affected, and Eunice A. Miller Foundation. Jewish heritage and fatal to Center) when he attended the but whose risk is in The foundation funded the infants—in the United States. General Assembly run by the initiative under the umbrella of Just a decade later, in 1980, United Jewish Communities passing the gene to their organization New Linkages, there were only five cases. This (UJC). their offspring. which helps Jewish students at dramatic decrease has been “One key value in Judaism is Haverford, Bryn Mawr and attributed to the rise of genetic ’Tikun Olam,’ or ’saving the This is a case of Swarthmore access their testing among those thought to world,’” he says. “In other knowledge is religious and cultural heritages be at risk for carrying the gene words, charity.” Bloch, who is by placing them with Jewish for Tay-Sachs and other interested in public health, adds power.” -Adele Schneider organizations that match their devastating diseases. that the tests help people career or social justice interests. On April 8, the Lois Victor understand the risks of having an to their offspring,” says Adele New Linkages collaborates with Center for Jewish Genetic unhealthy baby. “While testing Schneider, director of clinical 8th Dimension, Haverford’s Diseases provided Haverford does not force people to make genetics at Einstein Medical Office of Community Service. students with free genetic certain decisions, it lets them Center, who helped administer “With genetic screening, if screenings for diseases with know what their options are.” the screening at Haverford. “This you know ahead of time, you can higher frequencies among an “We are looking for carriers, is a case of knowledge is plan differently,” says Eunice Ashkenazi Jewish population. people who are not affected, but power.” Miller. “Today, there are all The screenings were organized whose risk is in passing the gene This type of testing is often kinds of different ways of having

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developmental stages respond differently to outside stimulation. lines “It’s been such a great experience,” Hinchcliff raves. “Jenni is an amazing mentor and always knows exactly how to

push you, and the research, mai n while still being incredibly supportive.” world and what our students can her year at Chigwell ends. Her Hinchcliff is also the “Emily has been a force in the contribute to making this an even specialization has yet to be recipient of a Beckman laboratory, in the major, and at the richer learning and living determined. “I have shadowed in Scholarship, recognizing College,” says Punt. “She is environment than it already is.” many different departments, so a outstanding undergraduate exceptionally motivated, but also a The William Penn Fellowship lot of different things look research in the biological motivator herself, and a natural is just one of the honors interesting to me. I think surgery sciences. As a Beckman leader intellectually and otherwise. Hinchcliff has received during is fascinating, so I may pursue Scholar, Hinchcliff has been She never seems to run out of the her time at Haverford. In that, but I’m sure everything will working in the lab of Professor energy to read papers, analyze February she was awarded an change and develop in medical of Biology Jenni Punt, data, conjure a new experiment, NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, school.” exploring the cytoskeleton mentor younger students, or help which provides grants to student In 2005, Hinchcliff received within mature and immature T- out at athletic events. She is athletes across the country. the Archibald MacIntosh Award, cells. The cytoskeleton behaves mature beyond her years as a Hinchcliff will apply her grant presented annually to Haverford differently in each of these two young scientist and has the toward her medical school sophomores who emerge as the cell types, and Hinchcliff and confidence and warmth to make funds—she’s in the process of top scholar-athletes in their class Punt believe this could explain her a beloved physician and a top applying and plans to attend after during their first year on campus. why the cells’ disparate class physician-scientist.” Among Jewish Population

In addition to babies, and you can avoid ”questions that should be open, welcoming and grateful.” anxiety while you’re pregnant.” asked,” says Paul Bloch. “When Forty-four students—not only Tay-Sachs, the The screening consisted of a we explained to students what from Haverford, but also from the Victor Center simple blood test, routine was going on, they were very tri-college community and the paperwork, and genetic greater Philadelphia area—pre- screened for counseling. Those tested will registered for the screening, and eight other Jewish receive their results six to eight there were at least 20 additional genetic diseases, weeks later. walk-ins. In total, 81 people were In addition to Tay-Sachs, the tested. Among the Haverford including familial Victor Center screened for eight students was Ben Zussman dysautonomia, other Jewish genetic diseases, ’08, who was screened in including familial dysautonomia, anticipation of his upcoming which affects the which affects the automatic marriage. automatic nervous nervous system and can result in “As a pre-med student, I unstable blood pressure and knew a fair amount about the system and can poor growth. “It’s like living in an diseases already, but now I’ve result in unstable unpredictable body,” explains learned a lot more,” he says. Adele Schneider. Above: Paul Bloch ’09. Watch a “There were many diseases they blood pressure and Because genetic screening video about the screening on the were testing for today that I’ve poor growth. can be a sensitive and Haverford website. Just put the never heard of.” controversial subject, many words "Paul Bloch" in the search ethical questions arose— box.

Spring 2008 17 Ruth Levy Guyer: I’d like to Author and but also includes the emotional ask you several things––about component of the reaction. When your work as a physician, about you are writing, do any of these your writing life, and your life in Pediatrician things go into your thinking or are public service––particularly the they simply “what happens” as a work you do for the literacy Perri Klass result of your work? program Reach Out and Read. I also want to ask you about Visiting Professor of Independent College PK: All of those things can writing in the context of your Programs Ruth Levy Guyer chats with Perri contribute to writing about family––You wrote a book with medicine––and to the personal your mother and another book to Klass, M.D. about her work as a physician, reactions you are writing about. your son. I am happy to start this writer, and her commitment to public service. And it’s always an interesting conversation wherever you question when you are looking at want. Or perhaps I should start medical narratives––and medical by asking whether you have charts––how to figure out when ever stepped back and said, “I is the time to include more and am a juggler.” more information and more and more perspectives––and when is Perri Klass: I don’t really think the time to focus down, maybe to of myself as a juggler, partly come back to the patient and because it requires real skill and what the patient knows and says grace, and partly because I and feels, leaving aside all the guess as a juggler, you would be interpretations that have been setting yourself challenges for offered by family members and the sake of challenges––can I observers...and in fact, that’s a handle four balls, can I handle process we also all go through five, can I handle knives...I think when we write: when to expand, of myself as someone with a when to trim down... relatively short attention span, Perri Klass (left) is active in the fight against illiteracy. Photo courtesy of the Reach who likes to do several things at Out and Read National Center. RG: What motivates you to take a once, and also, in the context of medical story and write it as medicine as a generalist–– fiction instead of in a direct way someone who is content to PK: I didn’t set out to think about you understand it––and the ways as an essay? For example, how know a little bit about many the connections between writing that you can work together to did The Mystery of Breathing end things, always acknowledging and medicine, but since they have arrive at narrative and medical up as a novel instead of a “case that for any given medical been two of the major intellectual understanding. history?” question, there will be someone engagements of my own adult life, who knows a great deal more. I have naturally given a fair RG: I’ve always thought that the PK: Well, that isn’t always easy to amount of thought to the overlaps medical chart should include not answer––some of these RG: But you clearly know so and the contrasts. So that’s part of just the doctor’s assessment of processes are pretty mysterious. much about so many topics...and what I want to talk about--how the patient’s condition but also But The Mystery of Breathing is a that shows up in your writing medical education shapes you as the patient’s assessment as well good example, because I had it and I’m sure in your practice a story-teller and a writer––and it as assessments by the nurses, both ways––I did write about the (although I am not one of your really does!––and how it also family members and others. In experience which touched off patients!). Your talk at Haverford changes the way you hear stories other words, the “story on the that novel first of all in memoir (April 7) is titled “Doctors as and the way you read. As far as chart” should be several stories. form, in an essay that was Writers, Doctors as Readers, narrative medicine, which can And only with all of the stories originally published in the NY Doctors as Characters.” For our mean different things in different there can one get a real grasp of Times Book Review, and is in my far-flung alums, can you say a contexts, I think that there is a what’s going on. One of the book, Baby Doctor. When I was bit about this talk and about the great deal to be gained by people who talks and writes an intern, I had a crazy person role that narrative medicine–– increased understanding of the about narrative medicine says it after me, who sent anonymous plays in enriching doctors’ and ways in which patients come to is the capacity to “recognize, letters about me, accusing me of patients’ understanding of their you with stories of what is absorb, metabolize, and all kinds of turpitude (I had own experiences and in happening to them––as they interpret” stories of illness and be plagiarized my articles, I had fostering good relations understand it––and the ways you moved by them. Her definition is faked my way through medical between them. create a medical narrative––as actually quite biologically based school and was notorious for

18 Haverford Magazine haverford college ruining other people’s constructed, was that my enemy the pressures go in the other in a busy clinic day. Reach Out and experiments, I had altered my was frustrated and infuriated to direction. We get yelled at for not Read is about looking at the whole resume, I was a terrible doctor see me telling the story...but being “productive” when child, and understanding that body and a danger to patients), to many anyway, when I made it into a “productivity” means seeing and mind grow together, and that people in the publishing world and novel, The Mystery of Breathing, it patients as fast as you can, which part of helping parents rear a in the medical world. It was quite was in some ways liberating, means no time for relationships. healthy happy child is about lines elaborate, and went on for a long though oddly, what ended up That’s what’s rewarded. I think language and learning and school time––lots of letters, including happening was that I found myself there ARE consumer-driven readiness–– and that many of the letters with what were supposed at times in sympathy with my changes in medicine––look at terrible discrepancies in our to be the “original” versions of the villain, and at times out of some of the changes in obstetrics society go back to early childhood

articles I had plagiarized (though sympathy with my protagonist. and gynecology. I thought that opportunities and development. mai n never with a date or a source so That is, I think that when I initially when the news stories hit about By bringing up books and reading they could be traced). sat down to make it into a novel, I “concierge medicine,” there in the context of health care–– meant it as a story of the terrible might be a consumer response to alongside other issues which Well, first I would thing that happens to this heroic say, hey, why can’t we have that parents know are very important, just like to say that and blameless doctor, who lives kind of care, we pay all this like nutrition, like immunizations most of us who go only to help children...but it was a money––but instead, you hear and disease prevention, you can much more interesting story if she doctors griping about the system, make this suggestion earlier than into medicine–– wasn’t so saintly, if she was and patients griping about care, might otherwise have been the certainly, who go someone who might engender a but they don’t seem to connect. case––and of course, we give a into primary certain amount of resentment, a book! certain amount of eagerness to RG: We’ve been talking about care––do it for see her get what she “deserved”... concierge medicine in my class RG: I wanted to ask you about the pleasure of this semester. I think it’s a new your memoir with your mother, relationships and RG: I read that book a number of name for the old form of your letters to your son, and also I years ago and I have to say that medicine, which did involve a wanted to see what else you connections, and you succeeded in making at relationship, and of course the thought I should have asked you. we tend to resent least one reader (me!) less concierge practices add onto that But I also promised to “release” bitterly all the sympathetic with the doctor than the requirement of big bucks! It you to your patients and students, she would have expected. As for definitely subverts the concept of so let me just ask if you’d like to pressures that take saintly doctors, do you find that justice in the distribution of say anything else. that away. contemporary medicine is making medical resources. You say that saintliness harder than it should you don’t get compensated for PK: I guess I would like to say RG: Wow. Where’s that person be? So much of medicine today is developing relationships, yet the that the combination of writing now? I hope s/he is locked up affected by the marketplace. Yet work you and other pediatricians and medicine has meant, for me somewhere. I’ve never written what most patients want and what do with Reach Out and Read at least, a lot of wonderful and fiction (at least I don’t think I many doctors yearn for is a seems to be to look at the child complicated and unpredictable have!) so I’m curious whether relationship. Patients want to know (and parents) and think about the opportunities to look at stories you feel some sort of liberation that the doctor cares not just for whole person and what it means and turn them inside out and when you write fiction that you but about them. Do you think there to be literate and to love reading approach them in different ways don’t feel when you write is hope that medicine will return to and learning. What is the process and use them to understand the nonfiction. Obviously the a more interpersonal enterprise? that you use to engage a world, to understand myself, characters can become whoever How would that happen? reluctant child or parent in this sometimes even to treat you want them to in fiction when reading is not something on patients... (although, of course, they have to PK: I think there will have to be the family’s radar screen? be true to life) but clearly the real consumer pressure––which RG: Perri. Thank you SO much for “facts” of the medicine must be so far there has not been––to PK: Well, first I would just like to this conversation, for all of your wholly accurate in both forms. make some market-driven say that most of us who go into wonderful writing, and for the customer-driven changes in the medicine––certainly, who go into wonderful example you set for PK: Oh, they never caught the ways that doctors get primary care––do it for the people through your writing and person. But the crazy stuff reimbursed. Nobody reimburses pleasure of relationships and your work. stopped, and it stopped after I us for time spent talking to connections, and we tend to published that initial essay in the patients or listening to patients or resent bitterly all the pressures PK: Thank you for this great Times about the weird experience calling people up to go over test that take that away. And of course, conversation––and for the of being accused of plagiarism–– results––and it’s not that doctors we look for ways to build those opportunity to come talk with so my own narrative, that I don’t want to do this, it’s that all connections, and to do it efficiently students!

Spring 2008 19 book reviewss Nicholson Baker ’79 a story whose ending we know all too well Against long odds, Baker answers that Human Smoke with main characters who have had more question affirmatively, to some extent by Simon & Schuster, 2008 written about them than anyone else in the introducing a fourth major voice, stiller and last century. Baker, who loves newspapers, smaller than those of the three leaders of t begins in August, 1892, when proves that he’d have been a great reporter warring nations, that of the pacifist. Baker Alfred Nobel predicted that his or columnist himself, weaving into his uses Haverford’s legendary alumnus and I munitions factories might end war narrative framework the quotes and factoids professor-philosopher Rufus Jones and sooner than peace congresses he’s mined from journalistic sources. He’s American Friends Service Committee head since armies would be disbanded when provided just enough editorial oversight for Clarence Pickett along with Mohandas nations saw them “mutually annihilate each his mini-articles, most of which run from one Gandhi as exemplars to show that some other in a second.” to four paragraphs, to keep the reader moving people thought there was another way. It ends on December 31, 1941, when a along with the fast pace of earth-shaking For Haverfordians, the book would be Romanian, Mihail Sebastian, wrote in his events and minor but revealing realities alike. worth its cost and the time to read it just to be journal, “We still have some time left” (to As Baker suggests in his Author’s Note, reminded of the incredible daring and avoid the carnage that lay ahead). Human Smoke, its title evoking the commitment that impelled Jones and two In 469 pages in between, Human Smoke, a crematoria, asks the age-old questions “Was other Quakers, businessman Robert Yarnall powerful new documentary history from the war necessary?” “Was it a good war?” and educator George Walton, to visit Gestapo Nicholson Baker ’79, amasses chronological “Did waging it help anyone who needed headquarters in Berlin in December, 1938, to snapshots and vignettes along the road to help?” help speed up emigration of Jews, which World War II which demonstrate both the Another unavoidable question is whether seemed the only way to escape what ultimate inevitability of the conflict and we need another book with hundreds of eventually became known as the “Final dozens of junctures at which it could have citations to tell us that Churchill could be a Solution.” Amazingly, the Quakers’ statement been averted. vengeful butcher and an alcoholic, that and their reputation for feeding Germans Baker, the brightest star in Haverford’s Roosevelt practiced genteel anti-Semitism after World War I succeeded briefly in easing current literary firmament, uses his novelist’s and did little to rescue future Holocaust departure restrictions on Jews. eye for detail and nuance (so keenly on victims while manipulating Japan into a war it Another Haverfordian, Arnold Satterthwait display in previous works such as Vox and might not have wanted, and that Hitler was ’44, then a student, would not accept The Fermata) to keep us intensely involved in unspeakable and had bad breath. conscientious objector status as many of his

Author Nicholson Baker ’79 and A Conversation Nicholson Baker: There was this Greg Kannerstein ’63 did a web mysterious alcove in the library, as I with Nicholson chat about Baker’s new book remember, the Rufus Jones alcove—so I Human Smoke. Here are excerpts. knew the name—but I didn’t realize what a Baker To read the entire conversation, visit powerful moral force he was till I was www.haverford.edu/news/stories/5971/51. working on this book.

Greg Kannerstein: Since our audience is You dedicate the book to Clarence Pickett Haverfordians, I should ask you when you and the other pacifists. Was telling the usually- first learned about the role of Rufus Jones ignored story of the pacifists one of your major and the other Quaker pacifists you mention motivations for writing Human Smoke? prominently in the book. Was it during your NB: Clarence Pickett was a quiet hero—and student days here or at another time? one of the jobs of a would-be historian is to find the true heroes of the past, I think. The picture of the prehistory of the war is enriched by the strength and intelligence of their hopes to help refugees and stop the logic of the march toward war.

20 Haverford Magazine haverford college anecdotes and historical moments. He adds pacifists) failed but they were right. Winston to the complicated counterpoint of comments Churchill, I’m sorry to say, was wrong.” Any from leaders and ordinary people an ominous judge hearing the evidence Baker brings threnody of dates woven into the text of many home would have to render the same verdict. of his entries. “It was October 10, 1941” and Human Smoke must also be read as a similar references soon take on the sound of cautionary tale for our time. It’s easy to drumbeats of death. imagine a similar book a half-century from Among the many individuals caught up in now showing how the war in Iraq led to the overwhelming events of the pre-war barbarities of which we don’t even dream. period and the Nazi conquest of Europe and In presenting his case, Baker leaves us bombing of Britain, Baker returns to a few with the most horrific question of all: If over and over again, dramatizing how fast pacifism cannot cure worldwide hostilities collegemates did, refusing even to register conditions were changing. These include (as it didn’t then and isn’t doing now, despite for the draft at all. Baker takes us to a bestselling writer Stefan Zweig; Victor the successes of non-violence in more crowded courtoom in Philadelphia on Klemperer, a retired teacher from Dresden; limited settings such as the civil rights November 26, 1941, when Satterthwait and a British General Alan Brooke; the Bucharest movement and India’s independence) and if Swarthmore student were sentenced to a writer Sebastian; Lord Halifax, one-time the world’s leaders and citizens can’t figure year and a day in federal prison. Satterthwait viceroy of India and wartime British out the future any better than Churchill and said then, “I cannot understand how a life Ambassador to the U.S.; novelist Christopher Roosevelt (and many others), then is there such as all of us desire can possibly be Isherwood, who arrived on the Paoli Local in any hope for humankind to stop ever-more attained by spreading hate, death, chaos Haverford to teach English to Jewish destructive wars and the eventual extinction throughout the world.” refugees at a Quaker center; journalist/spy of all life on the planet? Baker’s citing brave Baker achieves his chilling effect, Edgar Mowrer; and even the bizarrely- pacifists and his summing up suggests there showing how bad judgment, lack of vision, behaving Charles Lindbergh. may be; the weight of his evidence leads to a failure to understand history and culture, and Nicholson Baker obviously sympathizes far grimmer conclusion. inability to fight the common wisdom can do with the pacifists, dedicating the volume to -Greg Kannerstein ’63, just as much as the forces of true evil to Clarence Pickett and his colleagues. Baker’s Dean of Haverford College destroy millions, through careful selection of last words in the book are, “They (the

I’ve seen comments already by other writers The main controversy NB: Thank you for saying that. I worked on that Human Smoke will be controversial. Ron the book for something over two years, is simply the age Rosenbaum, author of Imagining Hitler, said reading sources, and following where those “It will be the most controversial book of the old question of how sources led. I was surprised actually to find year.” Do you have any predictions about to respond to violent that Haverford—the town and the college— what will be the most controversial aspects had something to do with these huge events. regimes. If you resist, of Human Smoke? Why did the world need another book about how do you resist? NB: The main controversy is simply the age the road to World War II? old question of how to respond to violent One doesn’t usually think of an almost-500- NB: Why another book? Because—because regimes. If you resist, how do you resist? The page non-fiction book as a “page-turner,” but the books out there are too big, in a way. They way the west resisted, guided by Churchill, I couldn’t put it down and read it in a talk too easily about what nations want, and was to build airplanes. The way the Quakers weekend. How long did it take you to do the they take the moments of decision away from were advising was a different one. If we take research and write the book? individuals acting in local places—doing good their concern seriously, a controversy is likely things or horrible things in a particular setting. to ensue.

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Spring 2008 21 tutor the young intern on the legacies of Jim Davidson ’68 slavery in the American South. The senior Reverend King gradually accepts Brewster ‘They Say’: as a confidant, revealing the painful Ida B. Wells and experience his family has endured and transcended. Daddy King’s struggle against the Reconstruction hate outside and within himself gives of Race insight into the strength from which Martin Oxford University Press, 2007 Luther King could draw. im Davidson had completed a Gurdon Brewster has Haverford history degree and J was already off in graduate written a memoir with a school when the College’s history department initiated its widely- message for all, particularly hailed Junior Seminar in Historical Evidence. But when “Junior Sem” (as it Haverford students and came to be fondly known) sent more than three decades’ worth of Haverford’s history Gurdon Brewster ’59 graduates. majors off to pursue history rather than just No Turning Back: to read about it, Davidson’s classic After This is not a story of good endings but the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection My Summer with rather an intimate look at a historic American (New York: Knopf, 1982) soon became the moment fraught with the complexity of hope text those students kept open on their Daddy King and frustration fused together. Brewster’s desks while they pursued their projects. Orbis Books, 2007 meetings with Martin Luther King, Jr. inspire Was it just nepotism that led us faculty o Turning Back: My Summer with him emotionally and intellectually, but his members to assign them that text: Daddy King inspires us to ask what meetings, conversations, and singing with supporting one of our own? I think not! We N we were doing and thinking about elderly and young black women, his youth assigned this volume to students because in the summer of 1961—and, for group, and other parishioners reach him at it’s really good history. those yet born (or too young to have been the deepest levels. These accounts will reach After the Fact, now in its fourth edition, is affected by national events) whether we, in the reader, too. It is easy to imagine that some the consummate historians’ handbook, our own time, have reached a place from of the Cornell students to whom Brewster blending the bread-and-butter issues of the which there is no turning back. ministered as an Episcopal chaplain received historians’ craft—historiography, material Gurdon Brewster’s story of his this Holy Spirit from his transforming culture, social, economic, and political experience with the family of Martin Luther experiences at Ebenezer Baptist Church. history, and the analysis of evidence—with King, Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Gurdon Brewster has written a memoir with a engaging readability. Davidson’s new Atlanta is a riveting reminder to us, as it was message for all, particularly Haverford work, ‘They Say’: Ida B. Wells and the to him, that we don’t know enough about the students and graduates. The Haverford ethic Reconstruction of Race, continues that racial division in American society. The book as I remember it is to dedicate skill and merger of lyrical writing and seamlessly is a kind of Pilgrim’s Progress through a energy to the understanding and service of transparent sharing of the nuts and bolts of physically, morally, and spiritually dangerous others. Gurdon Brewster has clearly done the historians’ craft. time and place. this in bold relief against a time textured with A savvy reader might want to begin with Beginning at Union Theological the necessity and opportunity to care. the volume’s “Afterword,” for in this tasty 24- Seminary in New York City with Brewster -Frank Lyman ’59 page essay, Davidson reveals himself, lays enthusiastically volunteering to intern at out his “take” on history and tells us how Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, this memoir much he likes his subject—the salty young takes the reader through a series of Werner Muller ’60 also writes: southern black woman of Reconstruction moving, often risky, episodes. Also I have read Gurdon Brewster’s book, and America who “refused to let others define remarkable are the conversations, the was, and still am, overwhelmed at his journey her” (p. 203). By the time Davidson gets to enlightening communication between with Daddy King. I was in tears for much of that afterword, he has treated his readers to Brewster and the new people in his life. the reading, and I felt as if I was among the eight tidy chapters on Ida B. Wells’ early life Day after day he sees more of what he angels and the saints of this earth, if not of and context, using multiple tools of the art of hadn’t known before. Questions build up our lifetime. I am not exaggerating. All of the historical detection—maps and trade cards, and are not always answered. Daily congregation and the people of Ebenezer newspapers and clothing, diaries and breakfasts with Daddy King and Baptist Church who Brewster brought into my games, postcards, mastheads, railroad interactions with the church youth group life are among the chosen people. tickets, city directories, and much more.

22 Haverford Magazine haverford college s Cyrus Copeland ’86 Farewell, Godspeed: The Greatest Eulogies eview

of Our Time r Harmony, 2003 yrus Copeland’s initial entry into publishing is aptly titled Farewell, C Godspeed: The Greatest Eulogies of Our Time. A moving tribute to celebrated visionaries—scientists, book musicians, politicians, and actors among them—this compelling collection honors individuals who have contributed immeasurably to the world.

Through a “biography” that ends when the Perhaps subconsciously subject is only 30 years old—just at the an interesting parallel beginning of a long career of leadership in From the introduction, to the racial and gender justice—Davidson helps emerges when we realize interspersing of humor throughout the text, readers see how, from her early family that another one among us to the inclusion of not only the saints experiences, her focus on her identity as a has completed their among us, but the saint within us, this work “genteel” lady, and her drive for autonomy in reveals the profound and intricate nature a society where what “they say” by way of life journey and see intrinsic to the very minds we esteem. increasingly-restrictive racial definitions the profound simplicity Perhaps subconsciously an interesting worked against her, Wells chipped a with which their loved parallel emerges when we realize that dignified and ground-breaking existence out another one among us has completed their of the rock of American racism. She did so, ones mourn. life journey and see the profound simplicity Davidson tells us, by “refusing to be The inspiring life portraits of people with which their loved ones mourn—some tractable” (p. 52). who taught us to believe, to dream more in eloquent prose, some in thoughtful ‘They Say’ is part of a series of New expansive dreams, to invent, to explore, reminisces and personal recollections. In Narratives in American History, which dare us as individuals and, collectively, as that moment one realizes that many Davidson is editing for Oxford Press. While a society, to be better tomorrow than we monumental moments in life and history Davidson uses his biography of Wells to were in our yesteryears. They remind us are made possible by the lesser known and help frame a discussion of lynching, he also that genius does not preclude humor and sometimes unheralded human interactions uses it to introduce her place in a network humility; to give of ourselves; to not lose sight that encourage and inspire us. of nineteenth-century black leaders— of our humanity or that of another when -Carlene Kirby ’01 including Memphis’ Robert Church, and his blessed with success; and to rise up powerful daughter Mary Church Terrell; should we wind up on the ground after the journalist T. Thomas Fortune; and proverbial bump in the road. Additional Alumni Titles Mississippi black town-founder Isaiah Farewell, Godspeed speaks of our Montgomery. Other works in the New humanity and of the traits to which many Roy Gutman ’66 Narratives series similarly enrich, and offer ascribe the highest societal value— a faith How We Missed the Story: new perspectives on the lives of “well- in God, faith that allows us as individuals to Osama Bin Laden, the Tal- known” historical figures, including Alamo be decent and kind to one another—faith iban, and the Hijacking of hero Davy Crockett and environment expressed by so many in the collection. whistle-blower Rachel Carson. Davidson’s Copeland skillfully constructs the text, Afghanistan well-honed talent for page-turning prose, successfully interweaving the eulogies and United States Institute of Peace, 2008 infused with solid historical technique, synopses like an internal and external makes all of his work praiseworthy. It’s nice dialogue. The latter contains a R. Brigham Lampert ’98 that Haverford can lay claim to a little of his chronological delineation of sorts, written Advanced early experience. with greater thought than the run-of-the- Placement Classroom: -Emma Lapsansky-Werner, mill chronology of life events. The former Romeo and Juliet allows access to the private persona of the professor of history at Haverford Prufrock Press, 2008 public figure.

Spring 2008 23 Continued from page 21 I couldn’t agree more. Let’s go back to Nick, I was born eight days after Pearl your Haverford days—were there influences Harbor and spent my first five years with a Now that I’ve climbed out from that period that stick with you that father off in the South Pacific and the next from under the umbrella of particularly shaped your writing or choice five years getting used to his being around research, of course I’m struck of subjects? and following him to Navy postings and then his return to civilian life. So I grew up with by the fact that so little has NB: I think Haverford had a timed-release the war and then the stories he brought changed. I quote one of the effect on me. The simplicity of the Meeting, back—naturally I’ve always been fascinated signs of a peace marcher at the simplicity of the buildings, the Quaker by that period. How do you think more recent tradition—it takes a while for the real import generations will react to the book? one point: Mass Murder is of those things to dawn. I was an English No Defense of Liberty. lit major and was fascinated by old poetry NB: My late father-in-law (who went to and loved Joanne Hutchinson’s senior Swarthmore) was in the army in the war. He conference class. But I saw that there were became a pacifist. It’s probably unfair to A device you use in Human Smoke which people at Haverford who were thinking hard veterans to generalize about how they view helped the separate items flow more about the moral side of small decisions—I the war. But later generations do possibly smoothly together were the recurring voices remember the taste of the rice in the simple have something to contribute—a lack of of certain individuals such as Stefan Zweig, food side of the dining hall. I also was very personal experience can be a weakness and Victor Klemperer, Christopher Isherwood and interested by Richard Bernstein’s philosophy a strength. At least I hope so. a Romanian named Mihail Sebastian. How classes, where we thought about how you did you choose those people to focus on? reach a state of moral conviction—and how You seem both fascinated and appalled by you can or can’t justify it with arguments. Winston Churchill. In your afterword, you NB: Klemperer, Isherwood, and Zweig were say Churchill was “wrong.” Was Churchill such beautiful human beings—I would read NB: What parts of the book do you think will one of the great villains of the saga you about some terrible new phase in the war and be most controversial? present or is there room for some then go to their diaries and would be led to ambivalence in your mind about his role? see it in a private way. Klemperer, especially, I think your focus on the pacifists will of course lead to discussion and controversy. NB: I cut out the part about how Churchill is someone I came to admire and even love was wrong in the final printed edition of the because he was able to carry on with his Folks here are shocked when I tell them the book (it’s in the galley) because that’s too work of the mind in the midst of this brain- story of the Quakers who went to see the simple a conclusion. Churchill was an killing confusion and dislocation and Gestapo in 1938. For the younger generations, immensely complicated man, with great uncertainty. I believe they will find the many possibilities qualities—but in the years through which I which could have slowed the seemingly- followed him, he seemed to be in a kind of Thank you for introducing me to those inexorable march toward war so clearly manic high that was fueled by the widening wonderful people. I worry that sooner or later demonstrated. And finally, the ability of carnage of the war in which he was there will be a similar book picking up the people like Klemperer to retain their humanity materially participating. He wanted the war story of how all the roads not taken in the in the midst of terrible events should unsettle to widen. He was shockingly unconcerned Middle East led to a disaster on or beyond the all of us and make us look into ourselves to about the suffering of civilians—Yugoslavian scale of World War II. Was anything like that see how we can do that. civilians, Polish, German, French, Italian, prospect explicitly on your mind as you wrote Japanese, even British civilians. He Human Smoke? NB: Yes, the strangeness of that visit riveted me when I read about it. And the truth is that predicted, ahead of time, that British men NB: There may have been historical parallels would be roused to action by aerial in my mind in the beginning—but once you it saved some families’ lives. bombing, and he wanted the German attack get going in a work of history, its horizons One last question for today, Nick, and I to come, so that the reality of the war would become your horizons and you stop making understand that many writers don’t like to talk be brought home to those who weren’t near comparisons. Now that I’ve climbed out from about their works in progress or works any war zone. That’s a very dangerous way under the umbrella of research, of course I’m contemplated. Is there anything you might be to proceed—it releases massive antipathies. struck by the fact that so little has changed. I able to say to us about your writing plans—or It’s also, I think, simply the wrong thing to do. quote one of the signs of a peace marcher at even whether you will continue to write both I believe I’m being fair to Churchill as he one point: Mass Murder is No Defense of fiction and non-fiction? acted during one period of his long and Liberty. And of course Isherwood says, very amazing life. simply, that we must keep uppermost in our NB: I’m half way through a novel, in which minds “the plain moral stand against killing.” nobody dies. I’m rewriting a screenplay. I’d These are good simple lessons that apply like to try to write more history—or at least now as always. write the kind of proto-history that I seem able to write, but for a different period.

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Orthopedic surgeon Joe Czarnecki ’91 gets rewarded for his work in sports. by Charles Curtis ’04

Joseph Czarnecki ’91 Super Bowl ring: for many, one of the Czarnecki is quick to point out that he doesn’t wear stands by the sidelines at most coveted pieces of jewelry known it: He’s a low-key guy who only wears his wedding Super Bowl XXXIX. to man, for others, one of the gaudiest. band and a cross that belonged to his father. But he A With a total of 124 diamonds totaling was proud to receive it. “I was elated. A lot of effort, 4.94 carats in weight, the ring exemplifies the concept which may at times seem thankless, went into sup- of “bling” and high achievement. porting the team. It was a substantial and generous This particular sample’s face features the logo of acknowledgement of my time.” As he tells it, the jour- 2005’s winning team, the New England Patriots, along ney that brought him into the world of professional with representations of the three Lombardi trophies sports is far more important to him than the jewel- for championships won by the team in the previous encrusted souvenir of a Super Bowl past. four years. It is also inscribed with the name of a Czarnecki grew up in Philadelphia, the son of two Haverford graduate, Dr. Joseph Czarnecki ’91. family medical practitioners. His father, legendary team

Spring 2008 25 Marcus Errico says, “He is so thankful to be able to take his sons to games and introduce them to dic surgeons already in service, Czarnecki players. That’s what’s so rewarding for him, had to practice general medicine instead. The Czarneckis moved to Dyess Air giving back to his kids.” Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a training ground for C-130 and B-1 pilots and a place physician for Holy Ghost Preparatory Air Force. In exchange for his four years that ultimately provided as much of an edu- School, was recently inducted into their ath- of active duty as a doctor, the government cation as the years spent in college and med- letic Hall of Fame. Czarnecki says his inter- would pay for medical school. “My grand- ical school. “The military is a very tight-knit est in medicine was inspired by his parents’ parents on both sides were immigrants, my community. It’s not a game; it’s a way of life. vocations, but it was early in his college father’s family from Poland and my moth- People who are outside can theorize about career that he really found his focus. er’s from the Ukraine, so the country was the demands and stresses. But until you’re After graduating from Holy Ghost, important for me. I felt like I owed some- in it, it’s hard to fathom,” Czarnecki says. Czarnecki arrived at Haverford as an all- thing,” he explains. Just three months into his service, the around athlete, joining the track team at Czarnecki’s wife, Wendy, a fellow mem- doctor encountered precisely the kind of first while balancing intramural basketball, ber of the Class of ’91 who met her future stress he had never imagined. Czarnecki’s softball, soccer and club volleyball through- husband at a Yarnall House party, says the neighbors were a young couple hoping to out the year. Two procedures to correct decision to sign up for service reveals his start a family, the husband a C-130 pilot injuries suffered in athletic competition selfless nature. “He wanted to go to medical assigned to fly a military mission to piqued an already burgeoning interest in school but the price was so outrageous,” Jackson Hole, Wyo. The plane crashed sports medicine. Those memories remind says Wendy. “With three other siblings and and he was killed. Wendy and Joe wit- Czarnecki why he enjoys the field he chose. his parents offering to put him through med- nessed firsthand the kind of support the “It’s very concrete. People come in with ical school, Joe said, ‘Then that leaves noth- community provided. “At the time Joe was problems, and you can identify and fix them ing for the others. I’m not doing that.’ It just sworn in, I didn’t understand the magni-

From left to right: Friend Marcus Errico ’91 shows off the ring; Joe with sons Matthew, Jacob and Alex at Fenway Park; Wendy, Joe, and the boys.

and restore the high level of function they shows the kind of person he is.” Czarnecki’s tude of what we were committing to,” had before,” he explains. “With primary actions also took the burden off Wendy, Wendy says. “You saw the dedication and care, a lot of it is prevention. There’s a whom he married in 1992, and their future outpouring for the family from this group tremendous amount to be said for that, but family. He attributes the ultimate success of of people who put their lives on the line. I like more the gratification of restoring his decision to Wendy’s love and support. It was truly unbelievable.” [patients] back to their active lifestyles. It’s There was much more sacrifice involved Czarnecki had a similar reaction, espe- a good fit. Some people are good at dealing in that enlistment decision, however. After cially since he was now expected to put his with counseling but that’s not my strength.” completing Jefferson’s program, Czarnecki life on the line as well. “It wakes you up,” Having majored in Spanish, Czarnecki passed up a residency at Harvard and he remembers. “I wasn’t an immature per- was set to attend Jefferson Medical College, Massachusetts General to fulfill his requi- son, but anybody matures in that situa- where his mother had been the school’s first site four years of service. “It shocked me tion.” Both husband and wife also recall female graduate. But just before Haverford when he did it [enlisted],” says close friend the nights he was awakened at two a.m., graduation, he signed up for a Health Marcus Errico ’91. “He’s not a rah-rah, strap- expected to gather with other soldiers at Professions Officers’ Indoctrination Course, on-the-guns kind of guy.” In addition, due the base to await word as to whether the part of a contract with the United States to the overwhelming number of orthope- exercise they were engaged in was just a

26 Haverford Magazine drill or instead an assignment that would share of treating millionaire athletes and has attitude toward integrating work and fam- take him away from his family for 90 days become a part of the locker room and club- ily. “Even before I went to Holy Ghost, my or longer. Luckily, Czarnecki’s action was house camaraderie—even if he doesn’t seek father would take my brother and two sis- limited to something rewarding: a human- it. His favorite sports story is the moment ters to games and always did a good job of itarian mission in El Salvador. he made it to the big leagues, so to speak. making [his work] a family experience,” On July 4, 2000, Czarnecki celebrated After one home game on a balmy sum- Czarnecki says. “With the Sox, I’ve been what he calls his personal “Independence mer night, Czarnecki prepared to tend to able to take my sons down to spring train- games Day,” the completion of active duty. a patient in the clubhouse. This quiet, ing. And the Bruins have a very informal Reflecting on Czarnecki’s time in Texas, unassuming player suffered from a viral atmosphere where the boys sit in the front d Marcus Ericco remarks on how the experi- infection and was severely dehydrated. row behind the bench. I don’t ever feel like ence impacted on his friend: “I think it gave Czarnecki prepared to give him fluids I’m losing time with my kids.” Errico Joe a different perspective. He was in intravenously. That’s when a veteran pitch- agrees, “He is so thankful to be able to take for Philadelphia his whole life, and he went to er with a well-known wicked sense of his sons to games and introduce them to a small town in Texas, surrounded by dif- humor sidled up next to the doctor and players. That’s what’s so rewarding for him, ferent politics and different points of view.” asked, “Doc, did you ever pitch in front of giving back to his kids.” Wendy reports that the moment her hus- 55,000 fans hating you, screaming at you?” In 2005, Czarnecki watched his home- band finished his active service she could Czarnecki, of course, responded that he town Philadelphia Eagles lose the Super finally sleep, knowing he would be fine. had not. Bowl to the Patriots. But he then celebrated But Czarnecki was more than fine. Harvard The jokester then replied, “I’m going to with his employers, and during a small cer- had held his Mass General residency spot give you first-hand experience.” emony inside owner Bob Kraft’s office, open for four years, and during the com- Moments later, he started Czarnecki and his fellow team doc- pletion of his residency and a subsequent screaming at the top of his tors were rewarded for their fellowship, Czarnecki worked with ortho- lungs: “You’re going to hard work and dedication

Patriots CEO Robert Kraft joins Joe in front of the Joe’s sons (left to right), Patriots’ three Super Bowl Trophies. Jacob, Matthew, and Alex. pedists moonlighting as physicians for the f—k it up! He’s going to bleed with Super Bowl rings. And as for that Boston Red Sox, the Bruins and the New to death! He’s going to have to five-carat Super Bowl bling, as men- England Patriots. Czarnecki’s duties includ- go on the disabled list because tioned earlier it isn’t on his hand. It isn’t ed attending home games for all three fran- you’re gonna hit his artery.” With even in his house or his office (where you chises, making game-time decisions for the poor dehydrated position play- will find displayed a commendation for his injured players as to whether they were er, in Czarnecki’s words, “turning pale as service in the Air Force). The ring is figura- physically able to play, and tending to those a ghost,” the routine procedure went on tively on the bench, stored in a bank safe injured on the field and ice, assignments without any major problem and the big deposit box. And soon, it will have some that continue today as an assistant team league joker walked away disappointed. company: Czarnecki just learned he will physician for both the Red Sox and Bruins. The soft-spoken, hard-working doctor had receive a 2007 championship ring from the Czarnecki says his work with the teams stared down his opponent—and won. Red Sox during Opening Day this season. is only a small gig, while his private prac- An important component of Czarnecki’s Despite being a “Lord of the Rings” tice, Excel Orthopedics, is where he spends tenure in the demanding world of profes- of sorts, Czarnecki is satisfied to be a most of his time. Nonetheless, he’s had his sional sports was inspired by his father’s Regular Joe.

Spring 2008 27 In Short Time, Byrnes Has Put D-Backs in Enviable Position By Jonah Keri, ESPN.com

n February, Arizona Diamondbacks General Manager Josh Byrnes: It gives you continuity in how you do business, in your Byrnes ’92 sat down with ESPN.com’s Jonah Keri to talk about philosophies, and in having discipline when it comes to long-term long-term contracts, the role of luck in baseball and the considerations. challenge of developing young players and contending at the Knowing there’s more job security attached, does that reduce I same time. Here are excerpts from that interview, reprinted the temptation to make deals that could sacrifice the future for with permission from ESPN.com: the sake of a marginal short-term gain? Jonah Keri: I have to start by asking you about the Haverford Byrnes: Any general manager would hopefully take himself out of that College connection, since my wife went there and I spent more equation and would hopefully make the best decisions for the organization. time on your campus than my own when she and I were dating. Even coming in, we were doing things in 2006 and 2007 where we felt like Among Haverford alums in the game, there’s you, [Rangers those were years where we might have had a better chance to win. Market assistant GM] Thad Levine ... size figures in. In a lot of markets, there’s a risk of being too short-term Josh Byrnes: Ryan Isaac with the Padres, Jim Thompson’s a scout with oriented, where if you make mistakes, you can’t recover from them. the Mets; on the agents side, Ron Shapiro [father of Indians GM Mark Teams that have been really successful, large market or small market, Shapiro], Arn Tellem ... they tend to have quite a bit of stability, in the front office, with scouts, ...So what is it about that coaches, everyone. That’s very valuable. The goal is to make the playoffs small school, or maybe year after year. In the long view, it’s taking advantage of times when you smaller liberal arts can be competitive and having the fortitude to plan for it. schools in general, that Last year, the Diamondbacks won 90 games, even though you might produce careers in allowed more runs than you scored. Can teams consistently rise Major League Baseball? so far above their run differential? Is there a way to outperform Byrnes: Well, there are all

Jonathan Willey/Arizona Diamondbacks/ MLB Photos via Getty Images your expected record other than through luck? kinds of other schools Byrnes: The rule still applies—it’s hard to dispute the fundamentals of run represented in the game, too. Haverford’s just a great school, though. From my differential as a predictor of wins and losses. Last year, we would talk about perspective, Ron Shapiro was the biggest influence on the front end, not just this a lot, debating how much luck was involved. There were a lot of negative, with his great advice, but also in helping me get that first interview, when blowout games, where runs were being scored that were of little Cleveland hired me as an intern. I think these things can just snowball. One consequence, to that game or to the season. When there’d be a 6-0 score, person gets a job, helps someone else out, and that person then helps others we’d joke that we’d lose 11-1 if we were down 6-0, and win 10-6 if we were up. out. Late in the season, we started having success. That’s really when the debate Fifteen years later, you’ve got a division title to your credit as gen- started: What’s a better predictor at that stage, won-lost record, or run eral manager, and you just got an eight-year contract extension. differential? I think that a lot of it was that we had a good team. We led the Taking you specifically out of the equation for a second, what Cactus League in wins, and we were .500 or better in all six months. does that kind of long-term deal for a GM do for a team?

Tony Petitti ’83 Named President and CEO of MLB Network

ony Petitti has been named President and Chief Executive Officer became the Vice President and General Manager of WCBS-TV in New York of the MLB Network, which is scheduled to launch on January 1, before re-joining CBS Sports in 2002. The five-time Emmy Award winner was 2009, and will oversee all of the network’s day-to-day operations. named Executive Producer in July 2002 and later appointed Executive Vice Petitti joins the MLB Network after serving as the Executive Vice President in December 2005. In 2000, Sports Business Journal honored T President and Executive Producer for CBS Sports, where he Petitti as part of its “40 Under 40” top executives in the industry. oversaw all daily operations, including production, personnel and editorial “Providing baseball dedicated programming 24 hours a day, seven days content. In January 2008, Petitti assumed responsibility for day-to-day a week on a year-round basis is a tremendous and exciting opportunity,” operations of CSTV and was instrumental in its transformation to the CBS said Petitti. “Major League Baseball has a vast amount of valuable content, College Sports Network. “Tony has extraordinary experience in the television both live and historical, and a passionate fan base. There is enormous field and we are pleased that he will lead the MLB Network and prepare for its potential and a great opportunity for success with the MLB Network’s 2009 launch,” Commissioner Bud Selig said. scheduled record launch in approximately 50 million homes.” “Throughout his career, Tony’s ability and knowledge have led to Prior to joining CBS Sports, Petitti served as Senior great success, which will benefit our great game in the years to Vice President, Negotiations for NBC Sports and as Vice come.” President, Programming for ABC Sports. With ABC, Petitti originally joined CBS Sports in February 1997 as Senior Vice Petitti was responsible for the acquisition of college President, Business Affairs and Programming, in which he played a key football regular season and bowl games, college role in negotiating contracts for continued coverage of the PGA Tour basketball, the Little League World Series and and the network’s re-acquisition of the NFL. In August 1999, Tony NASCAR events.

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A World Apart faculty

Born with a seeker’s will and a compassionate heart, Associate Professor of Political Science Anita Isaacs finds herself most at home among the people of Guatemala, struggling with basic human issues of survival, fidelity and respect. By Beth Kephart

Top: Anita Isaacs with he truth is: Anita Isaacs had been look- Looking back on it now, Isaacs, who joined the Lucila Quila, a widow ing to get away. A high school senior Haverford political science department 20 years who lost five family T trapped in a Connecticut boarding ago, recognizes in her long-ago self the nascent members in the school, a Canadian by birth already miles from home, stirrings that would subsequently define her: a Guatemalan conflict. Isaacs was infected with a certain wanderlust, a yearn- desire for immersion in the far away. An irrepress- ing to see differently. She had spent part of her junior ible passion for indigenous cultures. A talent for Above: Isaacs interviews year in Spain and now a teacher was suggesting paying attention, for listening. When her stint in widow Carmen Cumez. Ecuador. Ecuador, she thought. That must mean a Ecuador was over, Isaacs took some of that coun- country located—well—somewhere between North try home with her—photographs of the homeless and South America, at least. This was 1976. She was 17 children she’d watched playing near the market, a years old. Within months she’d be on a plane alone, sense that she must find a way to make a differ- headed for a world apart from any she had ever known. ence in the world.

Spring 2008 29 Poli Sci 233: Trip to Guatemala Guatemala, a country just emerging from During spring break, the students 36 years of genocidal armed conflict, in History/Political Science 233 seemed, to Isaacs, the perfect case study. “Perspectives on Civil War and The peace accords had been signed on Revolution: Southern Europe and December 29, 1996, after all. The United Central America”—a class co-taught States, among others, had played a broker- by Anita Isaacs and Alex Kitroeff— ing role. The purpose of Isaacs’ initial trip spent eight days traveling in and south was to conduct a series of interviews studying the history of Guatemala. with representatives of foreign governments Here are excerpts from their blog, and international organizations actively which can be read in its entirety at: Students meet with widows of the civil war engaged in the peacemaking process. www.haverford.edu/blogs/guatemala/. at Iximche, an ancient Mayan ruin. She brought all the zeal of a research- ing scholar to the exercise. Within a week, Undergraduate years spent at McGill, in her words, “to teach the next generation however, Isaacs found herself more keen- then. D.Phil studies in politics undertaken of leaders to care about Latin America and ly engrossed in the domestic challenges at the University of Oxford. A thesis that to find ways to influence policy so that the associated with peace building. She found took her straight back to Ecuador. When it United States would find itself on the right herself wanting to talk to survivors. True, came time to find a job, Isaacs was torn. side of complicated issues.” She was 30 she knew not a single indigenous soul in She sought a definitive answer to the ques- years old, married, pregnant with her first Guatemala. True, she didn’t know if it tion: How could she live her life doing the and only child, a daughter. She steeled her- would even be possible to get people talk- greatest good? self against excessive hope. She had no idea ing in a country so infused with residual “At some level I understood that that what to expect from a Haverford student. fear, sorrow, ache. But she also sensed— question could never be easily answered,” “I had a Canadian’s stereotype of she felt called, in fact—to get to the real says Isaacs now, during a conversation in Americans that was blown out of the water heart of the matter. Almost overnight, an office crammed with books, photo- in my first weeks on this campus,” she Isaacs had become a woman irrevocably graphs, transcripts, a spill of winter light. says. “I worried that I might meet elitist, committed to understanding, in absolute “If I went to work in Ecuador, I’d always establishment, driven kids. The kids I met terms, the aftermath of war. be a foreigner, a meddler. If I worked in were instead really smart, really engaged, Every few months since, Isaacs has Canada, I’d have no impact on Latin truly concerned with social justice.” returned to Guatemala—a tape recorder America. If I became an academic I’d be Years passed. Isaacs taught and moth- in hand, a translator sometimes at her side, removing myself from the field. In the end ered, even as her wanderlust heart kept her daughter, too, sometimes her husband, I chose to take a job with the Ford pumping. By October 1997 she was ready Alex Kitroeff, associate professor of histo- Foundation as a program officer funding to go to someplace new, to another world ry, and now, increasingly, her students initiatives related to Latin America and the apart. With a grant from the United States walking the dusty streets with her. She has Caribbean. I chose to take that chance.” Institute of Peace in hand, Isaacs set about come to know the wealthy Guatemalans, Between 1985 and 1988, Isaacs, work- answering the question: Can internation- the country’s political class, civil society ing from the Foundation’s New York City al actors contribute to peace building? activists, defense ministers, and former office but traveling frequently, developed programs designed to build democracy, Poli Sci 233: Trip to Guatemala promote higher education, and strength- en international relations. But the more she steeped herself in the issues, she says, March 12 “The amount these people the more she understood the terrible com- have had to suffer was simply over- plexities of change making. Dollars can be whelming. We’ve taken a step back wired to a region. Policies can be construct- from our intimate involvement with ed. But consequences cannot, in the end, Santiago to personally explore the be legislated, nor can they necessarily be deep, lasting wounds of the armed foreseen in countries mired in years of con- conflict in Guatemala. This connection flict and uncertainty. with the widows, too, is exactly what There had to be another way, Isaacs con- we came here for. In a way we’re here cluded, to advance social justice and just to listen and to truly hear and human rights in Latin America. Teaching, absorb these experiences. It became a profession she’d once dismissed as a tick- clear to us today that while we may et to isolation from the field, now emerged sometimes feel helpless in the wake of as an intriguing possibility—as a chance, all of this violence, poverty, and hard- ship, our presence can indeed give a Becca Varon `10 participates in a local small sense of empowerment.” 30 Haverford Magazine ceremony by throwing a candle into the fire. - Ahmad Sultan ’10 Poli Sci 233: Trip to Guatemala Two years later, Isaacs accepted an invi- March 14 “Elite ladino and foreign tation to update her Freedom House report ofile capitalists have always seen Guatemala’s for a volume called Countries at the society, government and military as Crossroads. Though a new, pro-business, pr tools to maximize their own economic pro-trade government was emerging, Isaacs interests with no regard for the indige- still saw problems and said so, calling for, nous population of the country. We saw in her words: this first hand, having spent the week- • The elimination of ethnic and gender end in Santiago among a community of discrimination entails addressing its which 97% lives in extreme poverty on embedded structural causes, poverty, the same lake as the Campero Chicken inequality, and the continued political magnate family’s estate worth 35 million exclusion of women and the indigenous. faculty Jen Trowbridge `04 (left), who now works quetzals. Don Andres makes less in a • The government must review labor leg- for the Forensic Anthropology Foundation year than the cost of a dinner for a fami- islation to ensure that it meets interna- (FAFG) in Guatemala, holds a blackboard ly of four at a steakhouse we dined at in tional standards, including the right to with another FAFG employee containing Guatemala City.” form unions, engage in collective bar- information about the exhumation of Don - Jeremy Sanders ’09 & gaining and stage strikes. Andres’ family. Rachel Schwartz ’11 • The government must dedicate itself to building a climate in which the rule of law prevails. This includes: guerrilla commanders. More profoundly, was important to me to understand all - Upgrading the investigative and prose- more searingly, she has been sitting on sides—to listen as much to those who cutorial branches of the Public Ministry. stoops and standing in the markets listen- killed as to those had been targeted,” she - Building more courtrooms and more ing to the stories of indigenous survivors— says. “I needed perspective.” But the more trained personnel to address the back- honoring lives ravaged by a war in which Isaacs listened, the more deeply rooted log of cases, and to confront the demands annihilation of one class of people had she became in the lives of the indigenous likely to arise from the Cadastral Law. been the ambition of another. In which people. She walked the rim of earth about - Improving security so as to protect survival required inconceivable heroics. their lake. She joined forensic anthropol- judges and lawyers. In which living with the past requires hero- ogists as they dug for the bones of the lost. - Purging the judiciary and the security ics, too. More and more, she has come to She ate at their tables. She stepped in forces of those with ties to organized believe, in her words, that “Guatemala’s when the mudslides devastated the com- crime and the clandestine security appa- democratic and peaceful future depends munity she’d come to love. ratus. less on implementing the blueprint for the “My heart was always with the sur- - Ensuring that customary legal traditions future outlined in a series of ambitious vivors,” she says. “My concern became, are incorporated into judicial decision peace accords and more on the leadership’s what do I do with all the stories I’ve been making. political will to reckon with its undemoc- told. How can my knowing make a real • The government must stand firm in its ratic, exclusionary, and violent past.” difference?” commitment to modernize and reform Isaacs is urgent, intense, emotive, rarely Something was bound to happen, the army. It should consider carefully still as she recalls her many travels to something always is, and that something, proposals to create a regional security Guatemala. Her eyes flare; her fingers cast for Isaacs, revolved around a report she force and to replace the army and police shadows against a sunlit wall. She demon- was asked to produce for Freedom House, with a National Guard. It should also strates impatience, most of all, with her- a non-partisan organization that describes insist that officers charged with crimes self—cognizant, always, of all it takes to get itself as being “a clear voice for democ- be tried in civilian courts. a people’s story honestly told. “I believe,” racy and freedom around the world.” With the report done and a publication she says, “that those who have been dis- Asked in 2004 to summarize the state of date set for early 2007, Isaacs went back to criminated against, repressed, and exclud- Guatemala—its progress since the peace teaching and traveling, listening and record- ed have real things to say about the most accords, its ripeness for democracy— ing, expecting the same calm reaction of important political issues there are. That Isaacs agreed, tentative, she says, but just two years before. But things had they have things to teach us, that it is our hopeful that her insights might stir a changed. Now Isaacs’ recommendations responsibility to learn how best to listen.” greater understanding of the country that and conclusions were viewed by many as Listening, of course, is never passive— she loves. The report, says Isaacs, was an affront; now she herself was suddenly not when you do it the way Isaacs has damning, but no controversy was stirred; under attack. By March 2007 Isaacs was, done it. At times, listening can be a pow- this was a time, she says, when the gov- in her words, being accosted by USAID. By erful means of bearing witness. It can also ernment was hard to defend—corrupt, the time summer rolled around, Isaacs require, at others, a certain posturing. “It run by a genocidal general, in disarray. found herself embroiled in meetings with

Spring 2008 31 Poli Sci 233: Trip to Guatemala written it. And yet, I absolutely stand by March 14 “Many students joined in the exhumation process, digging holes over a the document. It does contain the truth.” meter deep, always looking for soil disturbances, such as changes in soil color and Suddenly skyrocketed to the status of a consistency; these qualities that can, even 26 years later, indicate a grave. After much “notorious celebrity,” suddenly “outed” as digging, there was some excitement—an area of looser, lighter soil had been found. a subjective woman with a compassionate At that point the hired workers from the community began to do the vast majority heart, Isaacs found herself facing the very of the digging, with Haverford students jumping in to clear out the hole of the soft dirt demons that had chased her years before before the workers began picking at it again. At the time that this was going on every- at the Ford Foundation—the uncomfort- one began to gather around the hole that had been started by Haverford students and able reality that foreign aid is often, quite had now become the space where everyone gathered expectantly to find the bodies of frankly, foreign meddling; that the arbitra- Don Andres’ family members. tion of ideals for any country by an out- The workers continued to touch the soil every once in a while and it continued to sider—however well-informed—is an act stay soft in the hole that we had uncovered. After many minutes of us gathering around of the very sort of neocolonialism Isaacs that hole, they found it. ¡Aqui esta! What they had found was the clothing of one of the had sought, throughout her career, to avoid. victims with her corpse underneath. Today Isaacs is a voice to be reckoned It was difficult for all of us to be gath- with—and as a woman who has to decide ered around and to know that we had just what she will do with her voice. There found the bodies of Don Andres’ family are theories and there are realities. There who had been brutally killed by the is policy; there are people. If the scholar military over twenty-five years ago. in Isaacs can do an A-plus job of defining When Don Andres approached the democracy and assessing its attributes, the grave and saw the clothing he could human being in Isaacs is rubbed raw by not hold back his tears. Tears for his the trembling possibility of getting the poli- two daughters, and a granddaughter cies all wrong. Students participate in the exhumation killed at the age of four months. The truth is: Any time one puts one’s of Don Andres’ family. Innocent victims of an armed heart on the line, there will be conse- conflict that created almost 500,000 quences, and now that Isaacs is almost Don Andres’s and left innocent people dead, innocent people who had no ties to the 50, her journey has only yet begun. She’s insurgency, but happened to be of the indigenous race and were therefore annihilated. still taking her students to Guatemala— Don Andres had been carrying the pain that he expressed today for twenty-five opening that door to them, letting them years, and for the first time in twenty-five years he was able to see the tangible evidence see and weigh that world for themselves. of his children. With that context in mind we have a glimpse as to why his reaction to She’s still listening to the survivors, bear- seeing a tiny piece of fabric resulted in sobs of sadness. Don Andres received support ing witness, carrying those bones. She’s that day from everyone gathered around that grave, but as soon as the evidence was still at work on the books she hopes will found because of the time the grave had to be sealed and work would begin again on expose the beauty of Guatemala as well the following morning. As the grave was sealed off by the members of the forensic as the ravages of the war, books she hopes lab we finally got a sense of what it meant for all of us to be there.” will inspire a next generation of leaders to do right by Latin America. - Michael Hildner ’09 & Fabrizio Barbagelata ’10 For, yes: Isaacs is now a voice to be reck- oned with, but she has no plans to wield the Guatemala military and the business lion in all—to give the new government a an undue power. “I’m still wrestling with elite, trying to explain her point of view. chance. I recommended against.” It was a the consequences of all of this,” she says, By late November, Isaacs had become decision that even her closest friends in after hours of self-searching conversation. a key actor in a formal Freedom House- Guatemala questioned—even the survivors “I’m still struggling with whether or not it sponsored meeting. “The timing of the she felt she was representing. Wouldn’t for- is up to someone like myself to help shape meeting was designed to coincide with the eign financial aid be better for a starving the future of democracy in a country like change of power that was anticipated for people than no aid at all? she was asked. Guatemala. What I do know, though, is January 14, 2008,” says Isaacs. “The coun- Shouldn’t the new government be allowed that it is my role to help people understand try was purportedly moving toward a busi- the luxury of time to prove itself? the gaps between what should be and what ness-oriented, conservative, self-labeled “My report deeply upset lots of peo- is, so that bridges might be forged.” democracy, but in fact the election cam- ple,” says Isaacs now, replaying the story, paign had been brutal, and all the imped- weighing its import on the lives of others, Beth Kephart is the award-winning author iments to democratic governance were still on her own life. “Had I known the report of nine books and a partner at Fusion in place. I was being asked whether I’d rec- would have been used for the purposes it Communications. ommend the granting of funds—$500 mil- has been used for, I’m not sure I’d have

32 Haverford Magazine Connecting with alumni at www.haverford.edu/conversations

What’s it like to work for one of the most innovative companies on the Web and in the world? Four alumni—Peter Allen ’78, Joe Malin ’78, Aaron Kaliner ’97, and John Saroff ’98—chat about their experiences at Google Inc.

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Haverford College: HC: So, I’m not sure Aaron: Great class—wish I Joe: Good point. First and Hi friends. if you all know each could go back in time. foremost I’m a Googler. I am also other, but could you an information engineer for Peter: Hi. Joe: Oh yeah! For one thing, I’d all tell what you studied internal documentation in make much better friends with Aaron: Hi. at Haverford and when Mountain View. I joined in late Emo (Steve Emerson, HC’s new you graduated? 2006. Peter: Welcome to Google. president), he was only one year Aaron: I graduated in 1997 with John: Hello! ahead of me, and with Barry Peter: I am the director of a history degree. (Barry Zubrow, Chairman of the Google University (very much a Joe: Hi! Peter: Sure. 1978 (same as Joe, Board of Managers), who was work in progress). Joined Google Thanks so much for but we never knew one another in my original class! last April. agreeing to do this. very well). English and classics. HC: LOL! How are each John: I’m a strategic partner I can’t tell you how This is Joe. I was originally of you involved with development manager on our TV jazzed we all are. Joe: class of 1975, but I graduated in Google? team in New York—joined in Your fellow alums are early 2007. going to love it! 1978. I studied chemistry (one Peter: We’re Googlers! Maybe reason I never met Peter). you wanted a more specific John: (If you can figure out Aaron: Good stuff. answer... Peter: Yup, didn't do any what any of us actually does by Joe: I think the honor is all chemistry in college... Aaron: I’m the manager of our our title—free prize!) mine. Google Publisher Solutions Team John: I was 1998, history (I think in NYC—joined the company in that Aaron and I were in Roger late 2005. Lane’s Western Civ together).

Spring 2008 33 used that word at Haverford.) Aaron: I’ve always been Basically, we work with big impressed with the way websites on advertising-related decisions get made here—it’s partnerships. such a consensus-based culture. Reminds me of Peter: Hmm. Well, Google Haverford. University focuses on developing innovative education for Peter: Except faster! Googlers in a variety of areas, John: Great point, Aaron. It’s from leadership and people totally different from other management to basic business places. I’ve worked at two other and professional skills. companies (a traditional NYC law HC: Is it targeted firm and a “big media” company) toward Nooglers, and the pace here is much faster Peter Allen ’78 Peter? and much more forward-looking. Peter: We do Noogler Joe: Yes, fast consensus. HP HC: I was just Aaron Kaliner ’97 orientation, but also have (the old Bill and Dave HP) was going to ask! programs for folks at every level. Aaron: It all seems to come consensus too, but very slow Aaron: Am I the longest and traditional. running Haverford employee at together though. Google? It’s amazing that two Peter: And particularly if you Joe: I find it very motivating. years here makes me a long- think about how new the HC: And so how did timer. company is—and how much your experiences at we’ve grown... Peter: Another free prize Haverford help prepare you? awarded. “Haverfoogler”? Joe: I would say that we have a bias towards action. Let’s do Peter: I’d say Haverford was Joe: Forgler. something instead of talking helpful in teaching me how to Peter: Sounds vaguely about it. think, how to write, how to learn criminal. ... and how to be respectful of John: Build early, iterate often. other people’s opinions. Joe: Squirgler. Peter: Well...we assume we Peter: I think we may be having can’t find the perfect solution the more fun than you intended... Joe Malin ’78 first time out, in isolation. Part of Joe: LOL the “iteration” process is getting feedback from the market—and Aaron: Just to give some Peter: This is all very new—it from within and adjusting as you context, we call ourselves just started last spring—so go. From the market—and the Googlers and new employees we’re planning and building at company— Nooglers. the same time. Someone Peter is right. described it as “building the Joe: Joe: It’s part of Google culture. airplane while flying it.” HC: How is that HC: Fun is great! We kind of culture/attitude HC: Is Google a lot like fun. So really what different from other like that, flying while is Publisher Solutions? places you’ve worked? Or Google University? building? Joe: OY! Yes. I’ve worked for Aaron: No question about it— Aaron: Google Publisher about 6 or 7 Silicon Valley with so much experimentation Solutions is a team focused on companies, including both throughout the company, it’s a providing web publishers with a startups and powerhouses (HP, constant juggling act. John Saroff ’98 variety of monetization options. Oracle). Google has the most (Believe it or not, we use the John: Absolutely. Exhilarating brilliant, forward-looking culture word “monetization” a lot and windy at the same time. of all of them. around here—definitely never

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Joe: At Haverford, nobody told Joe: Well, we have regular HC: Do you all have any Aaron: Also, I think that people me what to think. They always meetings that gather various advice for HC students from Haverford tend to overlook asked “What do you think?” And levels of the company. It’s as they are considering sales as a great career op- also, “Do you agree with this accepted that people will ask career paths? portunity. I didn’t consider it when writer, and if not, why?” important questions and expect Joe: Study hard, come to Google. I graduated, and now I’d strongly good answers. suggest a sales role to anyone John: I think Haverford got me Especially people in computer with good communication skills, ready to be really participatory— Peter: Another interesting science. Or not. Go do what you who enjoys working with people no place to hide in small thing—and this chat shows it— really love doing. You’ll be richer and is goal-oriented. environments like HC (socially or I’ve never worked anywhere for it, and you will be successful. academically) and much the where written communication is John: The company I work for Joe: I hope that HCers don’t same skills are required at so important. How well you deal didn’t exist 10 years ago and my overlook anything as a career. Google. Know your stuff, have an with e-mail (both volume and job didn’t exist 10 months ago. HC: Sage advice, opinion, and advocate it. quality) really matters. Follow your passions (in my case really! I want to thank Aaron: I was on a few different Aaron: Also, it’s pretty typical media) and be prepared to find you all so much! interesting challenges in places committees at Haverford and that we’re running this interview Joe: Our time was too short... saw how it was a great model for through a Google chat—so many you wouldn’t expect them. Aaron: Thanks. decision-making (if a bit slow). decisions get made quickly Joe: Good point, John. I’ve been By forcing everyone to come to online in small groups. working in Silicon Valley for 26 Joe: Say hello to Emo for me, consensus, you had to learn to Peter: Folks, with regret, I have years, but only 2 years at a time maybe he remembers me after listen, think creatively, respect to head to another meeting. doing the same thing. all these years... other people and move forward. Please let us know when this is Aaron: I would definitely HC: Oh I will Joe: Excellent point, John! I published, and thanks for the recommend that students reach definitely do that. agree. At Google it’s never opportunity. out to alumni, but make sure John: He is super impressive— “somebody else’s job,” it’s yours. HC: Peter, thanks so you’re prepared for the great to have him on board! We are all the company. much! I’ll keep you in conversation. Think ahead of time Joe: Oh yes. I was totally blown Which is not so different the loop! about what you want to get out of Peter: away when that was announced, from Haverford—the sense of our time together. Peter has left as in “Hey! I KNOW HIM!” :) I collective responsibility and John: I would REALLY emphasize John: When we have X- also think he was the smartest ownership. your point. COME PREPARED. I Functional Meetings of any size person I ever met at H’ford. want to help students very much, Aaron: That’s true—at with product, engineering, sales, but they’ve got to come prepared John: I’m co-chairing my 10- Haverford, if you saw a problem, business development—it really and smart about what they want year reunion in May—so we’ll you were empowered to do is important to pitch your ideas and are willing to work hard and see you there! something about it. Same with with the same critical thinking that use critical thinking. Google. we learned at Haverford and to Joe: Kewl! Joe: Haverford also gave me a really LISTEN to the feedback that very participatory education in comes from the audience. science. I deal with very Joe: I learned the value of “I wasted a lot of time trying to be smartsays Rick technical issues here, and it information and communication about achieving musical success,” Pressler ’81, guitarist and Alumni Year in the Arts panelist. helps to have analytical training. at Haverford. I studied science, Aaron: I do think Google has a but my writing was as important “People wishing to be musicians should cultivate and pursue their very open culture—our as my other work. Which is why I own musical vision without regard for market or convenience. In the executive group encourages went from software engineering end, all that matters is finding a voice and communicating something. open questions, critical thinking, to technical writing! I wasted a lot of time trying to be smart about achieving musical constructive criticism—similar to success. I should have just done what I liked. Also, it seems like all what I remember from Haverford. that matters is persistence.” Read Pressler’ s chat with Haverford about jazz and klezmer music and hear his insights for future.” musicians at www.haverford.edu; search for “Pressler

Spring 2008 35

tod ys Local Flavors, Broader Choices: How Haverford’s food has evolved

By Cheryl Sternman Rule ’92

36 Haverford Magazine s specials If you are a lactose-intolerant, peanut-allergic vegan with a penchant for fair-trade, organic soy lattes and a burning desire to grill your own panini, you’ll do just fine at today’s Haverford. Of course, this wasn’t always the case. When reminiscing about the food from his college days, Stephen Fleischman ’40 recalls the creamed chipped beef on toast, which students christened with a far more illustrious (and unprintable) nickname. But it wasn’t so bad, he admits. “I don’t think anyone ever com- plained. The waiters brought the food out on a plate and, whatever it was, either you ate it or you didn’t.” (Yes, waiters. Work-study students waited tables in Founders Hall, the nexus of campus dining until the construction of the cur- rent Dining Center in 1967.) Fleischman and his roommate even started an after-hours sandwich and dessert-making venture called the Campus Crumb from their dorm rooms in Lloyd. Thanks to them, Haverford’s hungry young men no longer had to trek into Ardmore when felled by the post-dinner munchies. Freshwomen arrived on the scene in 1980, though Haverford’s gender bal- ance remained skewed for several more years. Eve Carlson (nee Bernstein) ’82 transferred to Haverford the year before it went co-ed and recalls watching her male classmates eat. “I remember they loved steak night,” she says, “which con- sisted of these small, thin, tough cuts of beef with a large margin of fat and car- tilage.” Carlson earned “major points” by slipping her male friends her meal tickets on steak night. In the nearly seven decades since Fleischman’s era and the nearly three since Carlson’s, more than a little has changed with Haverford’s food scene. Some of the dishes look comfortingly familiar, but the number of options has soared and sustainability is very much on the current agenda.

Spring 2008 37 John Francone helps local farmer Dan Landis with a Dining Center employee Ransford Johnson delivery of sweet potatoes to the Dining Center. flips latkes in the kitchen.

The reason lies, in no small part, with bread loaves and, along with student-work- der where their food came from. Was it today’s students, who came of age in the er Emma Bartlett ’08, putting finishing flown in from across the world, losing 1990s and arrived on campus with culi- touches on Groundhog Day cupcakes. valuable nutrients in transit and contribut- nary expectations borne of 24/7 Food At the beating heart of this swirl is ing to greenhouse gas emissions? Or was it Network programming and Starbucks on director of Dining Services John Francone, produced nearby, supporting regional farm- every corner. (Current freshmen were still who arrived at Haverford in 1988, my ers and, by extension, local economies? in diapers in 1992, the year Starbucks went freshman year. Over the past 20 years his Though campus environmental groups national.) Many know their nigiri from telltale moustache has disappeared and have mulled these issues for years, one of their maki, their chicken tikka from their his ponytail has given way to a clean- the first students to bring the issue to chicken korma, their pasillas from their shaven pate. Although he cuts an impos- Francone’s direct attention was Stephanie chipotles. Most expect considerable variety ing figure (students regularly see him at Rudolph ’06, a psychology major who, upon and global flavors, and an increasing num- the gym), he’s far from menacing. Not only graduating, accepted a fellowship with ber seek allergy-friendly selections, vegetar- does Francone sign his e-mails with end- Haverford House. (Haverford House, part ian and vegan entrees, and ethically and less strings of smiley faces, but his office of the College’s Center for Peace and Global environmentally-sourced cuisine. boasts an impressive Hot Wheels collec- Citizenship, enables recent graduates to live tion in a riot of colors. A big kid? Maybe. communally in Philadelphia and work in Haverford dining But like a kid who aims to please, area nonprofits.) Rudolph spent four days comes of age Francone’s credo is a simple one: to be as each week at a public interest law firm, and Passing through the double doors sep- responsive as he can to any request, at any on the fifth day she sold local and organic arating the student-packed serving area time, for anyone. Within reason, of course. produce at the Fair Food Farmstand, a sub- from the campus’ expansive kitchen is like Fortunately, the lines of communication set of White Dog Community Enterprises entering a parallel universe. Cooks buzz between the students and dining services are (the nonprofit arm of the White Dog Café), about, prepping vegetables for the salad wide open. The napkin board, which once located at the historic Reading Terminal bar, grilling chicken for that night’s din- served as a decidedly low-tech but function- Market. Eventually, Rudolph introduced ner, and pressing strawberries decorative- al conduit, has since been replaced by the Francone to Lindsay Gilmour, Fair Food’s ly into grapefruit halves. Having not been “Food for Thought” forum on the interac- Farm-to-Institution project manager, who back here since I was a student 16 years tive Go-Boards. On this online portal stu- happened to be putting together a working ago, I’m startled by how many familiar dents discuss everything from social activities group to explore how to connect institu- faces I see. There’s assistant catering man- to upcoming lectures to, well, food: the food tional food service providers with local ager Leon Joyner, dressed impeccably, and they like, the food they hate, and the nation- farmers. Haverford soon got on board. In he smiles as I walk by, a flicker of recog- al, and often political, food issues about the past year, the nonprofit has held sever- nition crossing his face. This delights me which they’re most passionate. It should cer- al foodservice seminars to educate institu- no end since so much time has passed, and tainly come as no surprise that Haverford tions about pooling resources with one it’s so very Haverford that he’d recognize students are a passionate bunch. And the another to consolidate demand. And the my face. Joyner has been at Haverford way they feel about food is no exception. working group is currently discussing how nearly 33 years, and he and his colleagues else to create efficiencies that benefit not are an important part of the fabric of the Fair Food only the farmers but the institutions as well. Haverford experience. I slowly make my One recent issue to pique student inter- At first blush, buying from local farms way down the stairs to the basement, est was the dining services’ sourcing. A might sound straightforward, but Haverford where Carmella Quagliariello (at Haverford small but vocal group of students, echo- is currently feeding 895 students (875 on for 24 years) and Teresa Ziccardi (here for ing the concerns of food professionals in the full meal plan and 20 on the partial meal 28 years) are busy in the bakery, forming the larger culinary world, started to won- plan), so any shift in sourcing, pricing, or

38 Haverford Magazine Potato Leek Soup was just one of the offerings at the Linden Elder ‘08 (center) dishes up a side at the Food Fight local dinner. Food Fight local dinner. even delivery can have major repercussions. or pre-shucked corn, smaller family farms Yeung ’08 became inspired during two days From a purely financial perspective, local deal, for the most part, in whole foods. of intense information-sharing with 170 food may cost up to five percent more since According to Gilmour, procuring fresh-cut student delegates from 47 schools. Upon family farmers can’t compete with big dis- or pre-prepped items isn’t currently possi- returning to Haverford they founded Food tributors on price. (During the peak grow- ble through the direct farm-to-institution Fight, a student group intent on educating ing season, however, some local items will route, but as the movement gains momen- the campus community about sustainable actually cost less.) Fortunately, any uptick in tum such conveniences may follow. food issues. (To read Food Fight’s complete cost is generally offset by an increase in mission statement, visit http://www.haver- quality and flavor and a corresponding Food Fight ford.edu/organizations/foodfight.) Food reduction in waste. For example, local kale As Haverford has become more involved Fight immediately began working with costs Haverford $5 per bushel more than with Fair Food on an institutional level, Dining Services, and on Feb. 28 they non-local kale and local apples cost an extra several students have begun examining co-sponsored a special dinner made entire- $10 to $12 per case. But Fair Food’s Lindsay these issues on an individual level. In ly of locally grown ingredients. Gilmour points out that because the local November 2007, Linden Elder ’08, a sen- In late January, Elder accompanied produce comes straight from the farm, it ior biology major, attended the Real Food Francone to one of his Fair Food seminars spends little to no time in cold storage, Summit at Yale University. There, she and which can both deplete its nutrient content friends Felicia Hutchison ’08 and Christina and substantially reduce its shelf-life. Fresh food also tends to be con- sumed more readily by the students (Francone calls the local apples “100 percent better” than what he aste of Going away to college means a lot of exciting and sometimes frightening changes: newfound independence, had been buying), and shorter tran- ford, Dining Services has instituted the “T sit times means less food is tossed due to spoilage. unfamiliar faces, and strange food, to name a few. At Haver Plus, from a purely environmental Home” initiative, a new program that aims to bring the comforts of home cooking to campus. Now students standpoint, local farms use far less s sloppy packaging to transport their crops have a chance to eat pasta fagioli, latkes, and meatloaf just like Mom used to make. than do giant distributors who truck This year, Genevieve Andreas ’10 didn’t have to wait to go home to Minnesota to enjoy her mom’ perishables across state lines. For joes. Director of Dining Services John Francone and his crew whipped up a tasty batche encouraged as a lunchtime to send specialrecipes example, when packaged for retail sale ovide a little “Taste of Home” ar and long-haul transport, apples must for all the students to enjoy. Parents looking to pr ford.edu). be covered with layers and layers of s favorite foods to John Francone (jfrancon@haver protective packaging. This simply isn’t for their children’ the case for apples trucked from nearby Another innovation designed to take some of the mystery out of campus dining is taste testing. farms. Several times a year students have the opportunity to sample chicken fingers, There are, however, some real poten- tial challenges when moving to a buy- puddings, juice, etc and give their comments and suggestions to local model, especially in terms of food Francone, who recognizes the power of choice. prep time and increased labor costs. Whereas large-scale suppliers can pro- “It’s important for me to know what the students e involved vide pre-prepped carrots, for example, like and want,” he says. “The mor

they are, the easier my job is.” Spring 2008 39 Today’s Specials: Local Flavors, Broader Choices

in Philadelphia. Her passion for sustain- Whenever she talks with similarly involved explaining, “A lot of people may not have ably-raised, locally-sourced food is palpa- students at other schools, she says, “I feel played in the dirt like I have.” He’s well- ble, and she firmly believes that the more so lucky to have a dining services director versed in the literature of his passion, students know about these issues, the more who is as enthusiastic and proactive as the speaking freely of the profound impact likely they’ll be to jump on board and work students in Food Fight. We have yet to run Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma within the existing system to effect posi- into any differences between what the stu- and Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, tive change. “We want Food Fight to be dents want and what John can provide.” Miracle have had on his thinking. He and the link between John and the students,” Sophomore Evan Raskin ’10, another the other members of Food Fight also says Elder. “For many students charter Food Fight member, grew up in brought the documentary King Corn to there’s a huge disconnect. They rural North Carolina, where his neighbors campus during spring semester. The film think their food comes from raised goats and cattle. “My family eats beef shines a critical light on industrial corn John rather than from from cows grazing across the street from production and examines its overwhelm- the ground.” She’s thrilled my house,” he says.” Our neighbors invite ing influence on our nation’s food system. that Haverford is taking people from the community to milk their As a sophomore, Raskin holds the key strides to move “towards cows, and they make butter and cheese.” to Food Fight’s future success since Elder a green, sustainable, Raskin finds that his rural roots make him and the other seniors will graduate this and healthy future.” something of an anomaly on campus, May. His priority is not merely to move

Students Dish It chicken strips in the lunch line. masher? No? Use the bottom of over by forced meticulousness. They gather their ingredients in this cup then. Sliding food from Can’t have the dish all jumbled “Iron Chef” Style bowls. And what a motley group one plate to the next. Some of it together, you know. Gotta have Teams of students of ingredients it is: apples, yogurt, got on the floor. Oh well, too bad. it look nice. Radiating the chick- chop, slice, dice, onions, feta cheese, cayenne To an observer, Haverford’s en strips around the applesauce, peppers, granola, curry, nutmeg. Iron Chef Competition seems so gently ladling the milk into the and drizzle in a Wait, there’s no nutmeg? Are breakneck, so hectic, you might cored apples. Don’t let it run Dining Services- there sunflower seeds? Good, wonder why the contestants vol- down the sides! that’ll do. unteered to do it at all. One stu- With so much enthusiasm for sponsored “Iron Back to their tables in dent was bluntly materialistic Iron Chef, it’s surprising that the Five Chef” competition. the alcoves of the dining about her motive: She was in it competition took a three-year hia- teams room. Knives, spoons, for the free T-shirt. Another admit- tus since its first occurrence. The arrive in cutting boards, peel- ted he had his eyes solely on the competition, based on the hit TV the Dining ers, spatulas, burners, $300 prize. But most of the com- show “Iron Chef” from Asia and Center sunken sauté pans all there petitors said they joined in simply the U.S., started in 2004 when lounge, each for them to use. for the sake of cooking. Faye several students approached with five members. Convection ovens, Strongin ’10 said she would have director of Dining Services John They put on their red microwaves, and participated even if no awards Francone. The first go-around competitors T-shirts, and freezers at the were given out: “I live in E-Haus was a success, attracting over 70 as a sign of their allegiance, other end of the [Haverford’s vegan dorm],” she spectators. The challenge? Each one group’s members choose Dining Center. says. “I love to cook.” Andrew team must prepare an appetizer, to wrap their shirts around Now to pre- Lipstein ’10 signed up even before an entree, and a dessert using their heads. pare the ingredi- he knew there was a prize! food straight from the DC, includ- ents. Alright, you No matter what the motive, ing one surprise ingredient that The announcer speaks. The cut the apples, I’ll get the pan demand for contestant spots in is not announced until just before secret ingredient is apples. heated up. Wait. I need salt. this year’s Iron Chef Competition the competition—all within a half Apples, apples. What can we Where’s the salt? So-and-so, far outweighed supply. Mary hour. The secret ingredient of that do with apples? The teams hud- grab me some salt would you? Welsh ’08, a leader of the year’s competition: mangos. dle and discuss their options. Not And get more plates while you’re Haverford club Fords Against Francone says he was blown too close though. Don’t want the at it! How much time is left? 20 Boredom and an organizer of the away by what the students came other teams to hear us. minutes. Good. Still, no time to event, says that when she post- up with: tofu cheesecake with The announcer halts them: waste. Is the water hot enough? ed advertisements for the com- mangos, mango lassies. How Alright, teams. You have 30 min- My finger says yes. Add the tofu petition online, 13 teams applied good was it? “Good?” he replies utes. Get ready, set, go! and the peanuts to the sauce for the six possible spots. “But incredulously. “It was phenom- Like the breaking of the balls now. Add the chicken to the what else would you expect?” enal!” at the start of a pool game, the Italian spices. I’ll stir. Okay, I’ll fin- insists Welsh. “Everyone loves But a lack of student initiative teams disperse into the DC ish getting the apples ready. Iron Chef, right?” put the event to rest for the next kitchen, bouncing to the fruit Someone looks up at the clock. The announcer: Five min- several years. Before now, says rack, to the salad bar, to the 10 minutes left. Do we have a utes! Hurried movement is taken Francone, several students had

40 Haverford Magazine these issues to the fore of students’ varied environmental,” says Francone, a found- Services has also recently purchased agendas, but to help publicize the positive ing member of CER, “but hearing how sprouts from a Swarthmore-based farmer, steps Haverford has already taken. “Most of important it was to the students helped to adding five hydroponic “sprouters” in parts the stuff John was working on I didn’t even strike a chord in my life. As an individual of the Dining Center where students can know about,” he admits. Indeed, many I can only do so much, but when students watch them grow. Francone even bought students don’t realize how far the College offer to help it becomes a team effort.” an extra sprouter to give to the members of has already come. Dining Services soon began purchasing Ehaus, who have worked closely with him corn-based biodegradable cups instead of on a number of food- and environment- Eco-Accomplishments Styrofoam and currently sources 95 percent related initiatives. to Date of its apples (based on availability) from The Committee for Environmental Highland Orchards in West Chester, Pa. Ehaus Responsibility (CER), a widely-representa- Half the egg budget goes toward free eggs. In fact, Ehaus, the campus’ environmen- tive campus group formed in response to On Feb. 14, 2008, Haverford received tal house/co-op, has significantly expand- a 2000 plenary resolution, successfully its first shipment from Allentown-based ed its role on campus in recent years. The moved recycling, and later local sourcing, Fresh Tofu, a vendor whose products are group now hosts three, and sometimes to a more prominent place on the dining all certified organic and, as such, free of more, vegetarian or vegan meals each week services’ agenda. “I’ve always tried to be genetically modified ingredients. Dining that are open to the entire Haverford com-

brought up the possibility of hold- munity. We [the DC staff] have crusted the chicken slivers with applesauce that was spiced ing another Iron Chef, but their our community,” he says. “But sesame seeds and sautéd them with cinnamon and a touch of notice was too short given all the we are also part of a greater lightly. We minced, we sprinkled, cayenne pepper. On top, drizzled cooking supplies and T-shirts that community, and when you com- we drizzled, we garnished. with balsamic reduction and go into a proper competition. This bine things together it makes for The judges take their sweet then garnished with cherry year Welsh approached him just a better place.” time, smacking their lips, nib- tomatoes. Dessert: A base of in time, he says. Francone adds that Iron Chef bling, rolling the food in their crunchy granola followed by a The announcer beckons: 30 also embodies the role the DC mouths. Wait, did that first judge layer of vanilla ice cream and seconds! And a cherry tomato on plays in students’ social lives. He just nod approvingly? Did she then topped with apple slices top. says many students don’t realize just grimace? The judges’ pro- that had been caramelized with Francone expresses hope how often they meet with nouncements: over all, good! butter and brown sugar. Then that the competition will stimu- their friends over DC food. Still, The contrast between the gra- drizzled with a little melted late more interaction between the Francone, who was one of this nola and the apples was nice. chocolate on top. student body and DC staff. “You year’s judges along with students The toast with sautéd apples and And all that with DC food? You guys [students] have your com- Jake Ralston ’10, Tovak Tripp ’10, cheddar cheese was good. betcha. Mike Fratangelo ’07 and Profes- However, the chicken in yogurt Of course, there can only be sors Fran Blase and Indradeep curry could have had more taste. one Iron Chef team. No losers, The winning team carefully Ghosh, admits that his favorite The teams take the judges’ though, insists Francone. This cuts Granny Smith apples for part of the competition is the food. comments in stride. Nobody’s year he provided $10 gift an appetizer. And apparently the students don’t perfect. The judges mostly liked certificates to the Coop and have a reputation for disappoint- it, right? Blockbuster as consolation ing. After 75 dishes, the judges prizes. These smaller prizes “The students are incredible,” must confer. There is no sure also make Francone’s job as a says Francone. “Extremely cre- answer; this year’s competition is judge a little easier. He says the ative for the challenges we give a tough one. Who should win it? decision in this year’s Iron Chef them. There are of lot students And the winner is: Team #5. was much harder than in 2004. who can cook!” 300 bucks to winning team! High This reporter is still mesmer- Announcer: Time’s up! Is it fives at the center of the room. ized by the fact that so many good? Do you think it’s decent? The other teams admit disap- delicious-smelling dishes came The teams gather their culinary pointment with their faces. And from the DC, making him think regiments: appetizers, entrees, what did it take to win? twice before complaining about deserts—who will win the Appetizer: Granny Smith apple the food here at Haverford. judges’ taste buds? boats filled with feta cheese, And if one day you find you don’t One by one the teams go forth. toasted walnuts, and raisins. like the DC menu? Then Iron Now the acting comes out. Long Then drizzled with honey and Chef reminds us: Make your flowery descriptions of the prepa- garnished with banana slices. own! ration. Dainty verbs. Residual The boats were chilled in a bed heat softened the apples and of ice. Entree: Chicken sautéd -Brian Johnson ’08 brought out their sweetness. We with Italian spices served with Sarah Gilarsky ‘10

PHOTO: SARAH GILARSKY ’10 Spring 2008 41 Today’s Specials: Local Flavors, Broader Choices munity. According to Ehaus member Sarah In the Works for example, crave bolder flavors and foods Turkus, a sophomore from New Jersey, 30 to Even with all the initiatives that have that more widely span the cultural spec- 40 students come to these meals, which are successfully been institutionalized, more trum. The Dining Center’s serve-yourself prepared and served in the group’s apart- projects are underway. Soon, as Fair Food’s condiment rack now boasts sriracha (a ment in HCA 15. Ehaus had an $11,000 Farms-to-Institutions project solidifies Southeast Asian hot sauce), which Francone budget this year, and much of it has been plans with the Common Market, a non- buys at the Asian grocery store, and the spent feeding fellow students and sharing profit distributor, the flow of produce from kitchen’s walk-in refrigerator holds piles of environmental principles at these dinners. local farms to the Dining Center should knobby fresh ginger and fat jars of red curry These principles, of course, include a com- increase. Greens (kale, Swiss chard, col- base, items you’d be hard-pressed to find in mitment to locally-sourced food, and Ehaus lard greens, cabbage), along with blueber- there a few years ago. Themed internation- members order much of their food from ries, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, pota- al dinners are a regular feature in the DC as Farm to City Produce, a Philadelphia-based toes, yams, winter squash, and corn on the well. At a Japanese-themed dinner in program that supports sustainability and cob are all grown locally and may very well December, the dining services team offered direct connections with local farmers. find themselves on a much shorter trip miso soup, sushi, dumplings, and edamame In addition, Ehaus members routinely from the fields to Haverford’s kitchen. as well as green tea cake and green tea ice co-sponsor Dining Center-based meals to Dining Services, Ehaus, and members cream for dessert. One student even reach a larger audience. “We like hosting of the Earthquakers (another student-led approached Francone about holding an meals at the Dining Center,” Turkus says, environmental group) have also been Iraqi dinner as a way to educate students “so we’re not perceived as an isolated com- working to identify companies that can about Iraqi culture. “She designed the munity. Being in the DC also allows us to pick up the College’s compost. (The cost menu,” he said, “and I went out and bought be visible and to cook for way more people has thus far been prohibitive.) A compa- a cookbook.” The meal, also served last that we could ever cook for by ourselves.” ny called Waste Oil Recyclers out of Silver December, included flatbread with fava bean At these events, Turkus and her Ehaus Spring, Pa., has been picking up used fryer dip, lentil salad, chicken with pomegran- cohorts tend to plan the menus and prep shortening and turning it into biodiesel ate syrup, and milk pudding. the food, leaving the actual cooking to the since January. Sometimes the requests are more mun- trained kitchen staff. Recent meals featured dane, like for a greater variety of cold cere- butternut squash soup, assorted crepes, Choices, choices, choices al. At a college with a third-party food serv- fried rice with seitan and vegetables, heart- Students’ food-related needs and wants ices contractor, the simple act of ordering shaped teriyaki tofu, and apple crisp. extend beyond the environmental. Some, a new cereal could entail weeks of bureau-

Haverford’s Caterer Extraordinaire From baked tofu charmoula served under a model mosque, to fried plantains accompanied by Cuban mambo—if you’ve enjoyed one of Haverford’s catered events, thank Bruce Levine. Manager of catering for the past decade, Levine organizes eating for all Haverford events, from cookie plates at departmental teas to President Emerson’s recent inauguration ceremony (oysters included). And with an average of 20 commissions a week, it doesn’t look like Levine is taking a break any time soon. Not to mention all the planning that can go into food ordering and prop building; it can take days to set up an event, says Levine. And even once an event gets started, he says, keeping the party going is a constant effort. Take last year’s dinner by the Duck Pond for Haverford’s summer camp program, Serendipity, which served 500 people. “It took 25 trips with a truck to get tables and chairs and heaters there,” recalls Levine. “I had two golf carts shipping dirty dishes back to the DC.” But it’s those massive efforts that make a catered event a success, says Levine. “I’m a firm believer in team effort. Cooks, managers, bakers, dishwash- ers— without a complete staff, it would be impossible to make an event successful.” So far, that team effort has been getting noticed. A post board in DC kitchen displays the latest thank-you emails, and Levine proudly notes that the Haverford staff has placed in the Loyal E. Horton competition, which recognizes college and university catering, every year it’s entered. Keep it coming, Bruce! -Brian Johnson ’08 cratic wrangling with no guarantee of suc- can have a major impact,” Francone says. environmentally-responsible purchasing, cess. Not so at Haverford. Because Haverford’s cooks also prepare more foods and the kitchen team’s lightning-quick Haverford’s dining services are self-oper- from scratch than ever before (75-80 per- responsiveness to student needs. In fact, ated, Francone can act on requests imme- cent now versus 30-40 percent when Haverford’s dining services is a reflection diately. When students asked for Kashi Go Francone first started, he says), which ulti- of Haverford itself: small and intimate, Lean cereal, Francone ordered 96 boxes. mately means fewer preservatives, stabi- with students’ passions driving the food And when there was a delay in the ship- lizers, and other additives so common in scene in a positive, forward-moving ment, he hopped in his car, drove to Trader processed institutional food. direction. “I’m really thankful that I’ve Joe’s, and picked up a few cartons to tide There are also students who must be always had the outlook that change is the students over. Then he posted an extra cautious about what they eat, like inevitable,” says Francone. online update on the Go Boards so they sophomore Kristina Birkel ’10 from Seattle. knew their wish had been fulfilled. Coping with both lactose intolerance and Cheryl Sternman Rule ’92 is a San Jose-based When on campus in February, I made dangerously high cholesterol, Birkel must food writer and restaurant reviewer. To read my way through “the line” to see what avoid fatty foods at all cost. For her first few more of her work, please visit www.cheryl- kinds of food choices Haverford offered that weeks at Haverford she tried to “make do,” sternmanrule.com. weren’t there 15 years ago. I saw an enor- though she’s at especially high risk for hav- mous variety of sandwich breads—flat- ing a heart attack. Eventually, though, she breads, pita pockets, white bread, raisin brought her unique situation to Francone’s bread, twelve grain bread, marble rye, attention and they discussed her options. sesame bread, English muffins—plus fresh “If there was a special food I wanted he crusty loaves baked onsite. I could choose would immediately order it and bring it into roads taken from three kinds of Green Mountain fair the rotation,” she marvels. Because she trade organic coffee, green tea, chai latte, as needs a high-fiber diet, he ordered special and not taken well as flavored waters and traditional juices. high-fiber cereals. Birkel even regularly sent There was a hot chocolate and cappuccino Francone recipes. She eventually took a machine. (The soda machines are still there, campus job in the bakery, where she would Alan B. Colsey ’74 too. “If I took the soda out I might as well occasionally bake lower fat desserts for all hang myself out front,” Francone quips.) the students from recipes she’d cull from ooking back in the rearview George Foreman grills are available near the health-oriented food magazines. mirror, the body of a life’s dining tables for students who want to grill Other health concerns include food L work shows much clearer their own panini, with a separate grill allergies, the numbers of which have direction than it likely could when reserved strictly for vegetarians. steadily risen over the years. Students with looking out of the windshield. For the Vegetarians and vegans, in fact, have celiac disease (a gluten intolerance) or Class of 1974, the road most traveled more options than ever before. Vegan wheat allergies, for example, can avail seems to have been pre-med with a muffins are regularly available at break- themselves of the separate gluten-free heavy volume of M.B.A.’s, J.D.’s and fast, and seitan, tofu, soymilk, and vege- refrigerator just beyond the kitchen doors. Ph.D.’s trailing behind. tarian and vegan entrees are always well- It’s packed with gluten-free cereals, cook- For me, I see hats.... stocked and prominently displayed. ies, breads, bagels, scones, muffins, soy At Haverford, two sauce, salad dressing, and often freezer entrepreneurial friends Health waffles and French toast. and I ran a campus Health in the context of an on-campus sandwich shop called dining operation can mean two very dif- A look back, a look ahead Hoagies Carmichael. ferent things: offering more nutritious For all the changes that have taken This was a bridge between the old Coop options and offering “safe” foods for stu- place, it might come as a surprise to learn in the catacombs of Union Hall and a new dents with special dietary needs. The that the vast majority of Haverford’s food is facility in the basement of the Dining kitchen switched to transfat free cooking still recognizable. Students aren’t nibbling Center, a long time before Whitehead oil several years ago and students now haute cuisine or noshing, pinkies out, on Center was imagined, much less built. immediately encounter a fruit stand instead high-end organic microgreens. Haverford Then, senior year, I was running The of a dessert display upon entering the serv- is still a college, and this is still very much Coop at the new location, along with ing area. (The desserts are still available, college fare. When on campus recently to Chris Fleming and Rob Galford. This of course, just a little further along.) Whole research this piece I filled my plate with turned out to be a very significant fruits (apples, oranges, pears) and sliced macaroni and cheese and loved that it tast- responsibility, and taught me how much melon (cantaloupe, honeydew, watermel- ed pretty much as I remembered it. the food industry demands of time, on) perch colorfully in a wooden display The real advancements are in the for easy grabbing. “Minor changes like this number of options, the commitment to continued on page 80

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GEORGE L. MOSSE: An Exile at Home in the World By Kate Campbell

George L. Mosse ’41 was born into one of Berlin’s richest families, a son of privilege. Forced to flee Hitler’s rise, this shy yet mischievous 15-year-old would in due course shape a new life for himself. As a scholar in the United States and Jerusalem, he evolved into a dynamic lecturer, rarely referring to notes, smoking a pipe and pacing as he addressed auditoriums packed with hundreds of students eager to hear him speak.

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He was an exiled German Jew, and for When he died at the age of 80 in est legacy may well be the body of stu- much of his career, a closeted gay aca- Madison, Wis. in 1999, Mosse had become dents, many now internationally acclaimed demic. In his life at Haverford and then one of the most influential historians of teachers and thinkers in their own right, as a renowned student and teacher of his- his generation. His time at Haverford (he so inspired by the professor that 10 years tory, George Mosse wrestled with issues was class of ’41) was the beginning of his after his death their devotion to Mosse still of isolation, assimilation and prejudice. American journey. About it he writes in thrives. Their own work is informed by Witness to a pivotal moment in modern his memoir, Confronting History: “It was their experience of a man whose knowl- European history and fueled by an insa- here that I was truly initiated into schol- edge of cultural history was surpassed only tiable curiosity, his command of cultural arship as a lifelong preoccupation.” by his curiosity about life itself. history and the passion to teach brought Though his intellect and generosity are *** a new voice to the study of mass move- indisputable (he left his estate to the Mosse was the precocious youngest son ments, nationalism, sexuality and gender, University of Wisconsin in Madison to of a German Jewish newspaper magnate, anti-Semitism and the study of the rise of endow an exchange program with the Hans Lachmann, and his wife Felicia fascism in Europe. Hebrew University in Jerusalem), his great- Mosse. His grandfather, Rudolf Mosse,

“He had been to some Nazi rallies as a youth as an onlooker. He saw that with the truly powerful poli- tics of the 20th century the question is, how do you move people in their hearts to come into a cause?” -Paul Breines

46 Haverford Magazine Left to right: Mosse (center) meets president of Israel Zalman Shazar (left) in 1970 (Gershom Scholem is on the right); “He was a riveting presence, a charming person Mosse with his students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 1982; Mosse and a charismatic teacher. He was able to in Assisi, Italy in 1989. transcend the personal and make history a force for improving the world.” -John Tortorice

founded and was publisher of the vener- itics of the 20th century the question is, pranks. After the appointment of Hitler as able BerlinerTageblatt, Germany’s chief lib- how do you move people in their hearts Chancellor in early 1933, his family fled eral newspaper of its era (1872-1933). As to come into a cause? What he reported and left him behind at Salem to finish his Hitler was gaining power, the teenaged seemed to be a widespread response to the semester in the belief that Nazism was a Mosse was largely sheltered from the grim rallies, and that was the passion. At the short-lived phenomenon. His parents used reality unfolding across his country. core of this, in the fascist movement, he their influence to help him escape in “He had been to some Nazi rallies as a understood the role of male bonding in March, 1933. He passed through a line of youth as an onlooker,” says Professor Paul forming national political movements and SA soldiers at the border, and took a ferry Breines of Boston College, a former stu- the homoerotic dimension to modern across Lake Constance, out of Germany dent and close friend of Mosse who today nationalism.” and most likely away from a terrible fate. teaches courses in modern European intel- Sequestered at Salem, a boarding school Unmoored, Mosse continued his edu- lectual history and gender and identity. in the south of Germany, Mosse was learn- cation in England at the Bootham Quaker “He saw that with the truly powerful pol- ing military discipline, but still pulling School and Cambridge University. In 1939

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he found his way to Haverford when a for- Mosse enjoyed provoking and challeng- I took his course I wanted to be him,” says mer nanny, a Quaker, suggested that ing his students, says Rabinbach, and Breines. “He became my ego ideal.” By the Pennsylvania’s Quaker schools would recalls that his first assignment from second semester of his freshman year open their doors to exiles. His mentor Mosse was to translate a 16th-century offi- Breines had bought his own tweed jacket, when he entered Haverford as a junior was cial document in antiquated German in a pipe and a little tin of Three Nuns English professor Leslie Hotson. “He one week with footnotes. Rabinbach Tobacco in an effort to imitate many per- taught me how to do research, though I remembers him as “ruthless” and notori- sonal traits of his new idol. could never follow in his footsteps; I had ously impatient with students who “His voice got inside me and I never too little patience for that kind of schol- showed pretense. “He’d start to drum his looked back,” says Breines, author of Tough arship and was always keen to see the big- hands on one knee; that was his bs-meter.” Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral ger picture,” he writes. Mosse soon encountered Haverford history professor His early studies William Lunt. “It was under his direction that I wrote an honors thesis, which was focused on English my very first venture into serious schol- arship—for good measure I changed my constitutional history, major to history.” Puritanism and the Refor- After graduation from Haverford, Mosse pursued his interest in English mation and his Protestant history at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1946. From 1944 to more than 25 books 1955 Mosse lectured at the State examined themes of University of Iowa—where teaching Western civilization in the cavernous halls National Socialism, with no microphones meant projecting and thus, his trademark resonating lec- fascism, Nazi Germany, ture voice developed. He left for the Jewish history, the University of Wisconsin in 1955 to help strengthen the European history program history of gender and and was a faculty member until his retire- ment in 1988. He also taught at the masculinity, and more. Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1969 to 1985 and was awarded an hon- But he knew how to talk to all sides. orary doctorate from its president just “He had friends all over the political spec- moments before he died. trum,” says Rabinbach. “He was a tremen- “He was a riveting presence, a charm- dously engaged person. You’d have gradu- ing person and a charismatic teacher,” says ate seminars in his house in his study and John Tortorice, who lived with Mosse for you had to trek out to his house so you the last 10 years of his life and is the direc- would have to have a car. And he would tor of the George L. Mosse Program at the sit behind his desk with his dog Schnootzie Mosse and John Tortorice in Leipzig, Germany University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He was for three hours and talk. Then you would in 1997 in front of the Volkisher Denkmal, a able to transcend the personal and make have a glass of wine and everyone went monument to the victory of the German people history a force for improving the world.” home.” over Napoleon. “He was an extraordinarily powerful There was no heady political atmos- and persuasive speaker and attracted stu- phere when Paul Breines arrived at the Dilemma of American Jewry (1990). “I’m dents in ways I have never seen since,” University of Wisconsin-Madison as a 66 years old now, and his presence as a recalls Anson Rabinbach, professor of his- freshman in 1959, and he freely owns up teacher changed my life. It was simply tory and director of the program in to being politically unaware. “My dream astonishing to me that there was a voca- European Cultural Studies at Princeton was to be a basketball player,” says Breines, tion that involved thinking about the University. Rabinbach has published one of a small group of Jewish undergrads world, how it got to be the way it is and extensively on Nazi Germany, Austria, at the time. But at the urging of fellow stu- what are our social and moral obligations. and European thought in the 19th and dents, he enrolled in Mosse’s course George was passionately engaged in figur- 20th centuries and was one of Mosse’s 10 “European History, French Revolution to ing out how it got to be the way it was.” teaching assistants at University of the Present.” “It was either the first 10 min- “He had this big, booming voice and Wisconsin–Madison in the early 1970s. utes or the first week but very soon after when talking about European history he

48 Haverford Magazine was erudite and comprehensive,” says Goethe Medal, and the Prezzolini Prize, devotion was one of Mosse’s major themes. Rabinbach. “When I arrived in Wisconsin are proof both of his scholarship and his He took German Jewry’s passion for in 1976 with all my belongings still in the peers’ respect. German culture seriously. Rather than dis- car, there was George on the student Though his public persona was confi- missing it as a form of self-betrayal or an union terrace debating with students who dent and charming—Mosse was legendary abjectly one-sided love affair, he revealed it were planning to occupy a building. The for his dedication to his students—his per- to be a complex phenomenon that evolved place was popping and George was in the sonal life was often enigmatic. He could over many decades and was, by the end of middle of it.” discuss literature in one breath and then the 19th century, both a distinctive cultur- Considered a giant in the field of intel- cut short the conversation to tune into his al tradition and mode of social integration.” lectual and cultural history, Mosse was an favorite episode of “Bewitched.” Fearing Reitter often considers how Mosse’s his students’ rejection at learning he was work influenced his new book The Anti- “He took German gay, or worse reprisal from his colleagues Journalist. The book looks at turn-of-the- at a time when exposure would mean the century Vienna and the new style of media Jewry’s passion for Ger- end of his career, Mosse was most at ease criticism developed by Karl Kraus, a Jewish lecturing and writing. When he became journalist who was notoriously harsh in man culture more open about his sexuality, the encour- assessments of his fellow Jewish journal- seriously. Rather agement and acceptance of friends often ists. “Among the many things I find took him by surprise. Indeed, his struggles appealing about Mosse’s scholarship,” says than dismissing it as a with personal identity both as a Jew and a Reitter, “is its poise. He wrote emphatical- gay man sharpened Mosse’s precision at ly at times, but he didn’t moralize.” form of self-betrayal untangling—and making sense of—histo- One of Mosse’s greatest accomplish- or an abjectly one-sided ry from the perspective of an outsider. ments, says Rabinbach, is that he was one “George Mosse tends to conceive of cul- of the first to write about the cultural roots love affair, he revealed ture and cultural process in terms of a of Nazism. “George changed overnight the dialectical relationship between centre and field of studying National Socialism,” says it to be a complex periphery,” writes Steven Aschheim in his Rabinbach, “and the ways that these move- phenomenon that article “George Mosse at 80: A Critical ments were exciting. He was also the first Laudatio,” which he wrote for the Journal to write about memory and monuments, evolved over many of Contemporary History. Aschheim is a and the history of masculinity. George was professor of cultural and intellectual histo- always five years ahead of the curve and decades and was, by ry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, always looking beyond the horizon of his the end of the 19th and was a student and close friend of contemporaries.” Mosse. “The insider acquires identity and The fabric of Mosse’s life was, in the end, century, both a defines himself in terms of the outsider he defined not by the circumstances of his exile creates. There can be no ideal types with- or identity, but by the compassion he felt distinctive cultural out antitypes; the victor cannot be under- for humanity. Recently Steven Aschheim tradition and mode of stood apart from his victim. The concern talked about his last visit with his close with the outsider and the ‘abnormal’— friend and mentor. He had traveled from social integration.” with processes of exclusion and victimiza- Jerusalem to be with Mosse one weekend tion—critically illuminates the ‘inside’ and before he died. “He had this amazing -Paul Reitter the ‘normal.’” strength…never complained about his ill- When Haverford alumnus Paul Reitter ness. He kept talking and finally I was inexhaustible writer and worked seven ’90 first learned of Mosse’s work through getting concerned and said, ‘George, you’re days a week. His early studies focused on Rabinbach, it opened a door. “I had never tired, I should go,” Aschheim said in English constitutional history, Puritanism heard of him before, so I read his book, a phone call from Jerusalem. “And he and the Reformation and his more than 25 German Jews Beyond Judaism, about two said to me, ‘Steve, I’ll always have time books examined themes of National years out of college,” says Reitter, who is for you.’” Socialism, fascism, Nazi Germany, Jewish now an associate professor at Ohio State history, the history of gender and masculin- University specializing in German-Jewish Kate Campbell is a freelance writer in ity, and more. He founded and was co-edi- literature and culture. “Initially, Mosse Philadelphia. She has written for The tor of The Journal of Contemporary History helped me with a personal question. I had- Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe with Walter Laqueur. His awards, includ- n’t yet decided to go to graduate school; and People Magazine. ing many honorary degrees, the American however, I had wondered about why my Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, remained Distinction, the Leo Baeck Medal, the so devoted to German high culture. Such

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Sociologist Jim House ’65 says that the looming U.S. health crisis is actually caused by low income and a lack of education. Getting Beyond Sicko By Tom Nugent

What’s wrong—really wrong—with healthcare and health in the America of 2008?

After more than 20 years of groundbreaking research on that key question, James S. House ’65 has come up with an

answer that may surprise you– particularly in light of Sicko, by documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. A widely

published and award-winning sociologist at the University of Michigan’s nationally renowned Institute for Social Research,

Professor House is convinced that lack of health insurance and lack of access to high-quality medical care are not the root

causes behind the increasing deterioration of public health in this country relative to all comparably developed

countries and some less developed ones as well.

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When the moment of his “epiphany” son who I know is 45 years old, and they decades. Describing that career (which arrived, Jim House was so startled that he look to be 65 or 70.’” earned him the prestigious Leo G. Reeder nearly jumped out of his chair. For Jim House, who has spent most of Award in Sociology in 2001), the co-author “I remember looking at the data from the past three decades working to uncov- of the forthcoming Making Americans our [national] study,” he says with a smile er the hidden “psychosocial and socioeco- Healthier: The Health Effects of Social and of nostalgia, while recalling the moment nomic factors” that largely determine the Economic Policy (Russell Sage) doesn’t in the late 1980s when he first became con- life expectancy and chronic health issues mince his words: vinced that the root causes of chronic ill- for most Americans, the cold numbers on “We aren’t the only researchers to have ness and early mortality in America might that statistical chart would ignite a burning come up with a lot of data in recent years have less to do with the quality of medical desire to lay bare the sociological dynam- showing that income and education are care people receive than with their socioe- ics at work in public health, and lead to actually crucial factors in determining pub- conomic status and their education level. the ACL study continuing to the present lic health—but I do think we’ve been at “I was looking that day at the numbers on day, having interviewed the survivors of the cutting edge of these kinds of findings, people’s health from the first (1986) wave the original cohort up to four times, and and we certainly have a sense of urgency of our Americans’ Changing Lives (ACL) hopefully a fifth in 2009/10, while tracking about them. national survey of the role of psychosocial the mortality status of all. “If we really want to improve our public health—and thus reduce the cost of health- “The numbers were care, which is now spiral- ing toward outer space in startling—because they this country—we’ve got to find a way to reach the seemed to show that the policymakers with our real causes of our findings, which is one rea- son that I have taken up deteriorating public an appointment in our School of Public Policy. I health system haven’t don’t think there’s much doubt now that socioeco- been publicly nomic factors like income and education are the addressed yet.” most important public health problem now fac- ing our nation. factors in health, and all at once, the data Recalling the key insight he gained from “The numbers speak for themselves… just started popping off the page! such data in an influential 2002 article that but getting them across to the politicians “Those numbers were absolutely stun- was published in the Journal of Health and and the administrators who control health ning, because they suggested a new way Social Behavior, House would later note: “In care policy in this country has been enor- of thinking about public health in this a project designed in the mid-1980s to mously challenging and difficult.” country. They indicated that better edu- explore the role of broad ranges of psy- cated and higher income people were chosocial risk factors in maintaining health Health Care Costs: increasingly living into their late 50s and and effective functioning over the adult life Running Out Of Control? early 60s with only minimal health prob- course, I had my own epiphany on the lems, while the health of low educated importance of psychosocial factors in health, Drop by Jim House’s busy research lab and income persons began to decline lin- especially by socioeconomic position. on the campus of the University of early by their late 20s or early 30s. Hence When we examined variations in health... Michigan during a typical day, and you’ll those with low education and income we found that socioeconomic position was probably find him neck-deep in a tidal were experiencing levels of health prob- the most powerful predictor [of future wave of computer printouts, grant appli- lems in their 30s that were not experi- illness and death].” (To read the article: cations and abstruse-sounding social sci- enced by those with better education and http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs.html ence publications with such titles such as higher incomes until 20-30 years later in ?ID=1518.) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin the life course. Or as a colleague who does For Jim House, the discovery of these and the Journal of Health and Social ethnographic research on disadvantaged “hidden dynamics” in U.S. healthcare has Behavior. portions of the American population later been the major quest in a social science For the congenial and laughter-loving put it to me: ‘I will be talking with a per- career that stretches back over three House—a tall, slender-looking man who

Above: James House with Terry McDonald, Dean of University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts. 52 Haverford Magazine Poverty in

Here’s the latest breakdown America: on poverty in the U.S. The Numbers Poverty Threshold Family of four ...... $19,971 Tell the Story Family of three ...... $15,577 According to several groundbreaking Family of two ...... $12,755 studies by University of Michigan Unrelated individuals ...... $9,973 sociologist James House, “low yearly Americans now living in poverty ...... 37 million income” is, along with low education, Percentage living in poverty...... 12.6% the most important factor for Percentage of poor U.S. families ...... 9.9% developing the kinds of “psychosocial” U.S. families living in poverty...... 7.7 million problems (smoking, excessive Poverty Rate drinking, overeating-obesity, For U.S. blacks...... 24.9% lack of emotional support from For Hispanics ...... 21.8% others, etc.) that have the For Asians ...... 11.1% greatest negative impact on For whites ...... 8.3% long-term health among Americans. Americans without health insurance coverage ...... 46.6 million Percentage without health insurance coverage ...... 15.9% Percentage of uninsured children ...... 11.2% Percentage of uninsured blacks ...... 19.6% Percentage of uninsured Hispanics ...... 32.7% Major Cities with the Highest Rates of Poverty Cleveland ...... 32.4% Detroit ...... 31.4% Smaller Cities with Highest Rates of Poverty Camden, N.J...... 44% Brownsville, Texas...... 43%

SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States, 2005

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moves with the easy grace of a lifelong ten- University and then the University of lems at all levels of our economy, and soon. nis aficionado (he won the the Virginia Cup Michigan, while also producing an end- And yet it’s very difficult to get the policy- at Haverford and in summer of 1981 the less stream of scientific reports, journal makers to see that the huge health prob- singles trophy in the “B level” men’s tour- articles and essays on topics which in one lems created by disparities in income and nament staged by the city of Ann Arbor)— way or another explore the relationship of education in this country are going to wind the study of public health in America is a social factors to human health. In his long up costing all of us a fortune. deadly serious pursuit…a perpetual strug- career as a cutting-edge thinker in this “What’s frustrating for many of us in gle to defend the economically powerless field, he’s written groundbreaking papers this field has been our inability to show against the early morbidity and mortality about the links of stress to health; of social decision-makers how addressing the socioe- that are so often part of being underedu- isolation to mortality; and of low income conomic factors will reduce the need and cated and poor in America. and lack of education to mortality and the the demand for health care, by eliminating “I do think it’s unfortunate that the pol- early onset of chronic illnesses and asso- many of the root causes of chronic illness icymakers have paid so little attention to ciated disabilities and limitations in func- and early mortality in this society.” the impact on health of psychosocial fac- tioning that often erode quality of life. As a passionate but soft-spoken advo- tors like income, education and stress While Professor House has often cate for applying “the tools of rigorous social science” to public health policy in this coun- “We’re spending over try, Jim House has gained a national reputation in 15 percent of our GDP recent years for writing and lecturing on the hid- on health care right den factors that are actu- ally responsible for the now, and there’s no hugely expensive chronic reason it won’t go to illnesses that continue to drive up health care costs. 20 or even 25 percent “Jim has a great instinct for getting to the heart of by the middle of this what really matters in pub- lic health issues,” says century.” University of Michigan epidemiology professor George A. Kaplan, the when making decisions about public described the harmful impact of these director of the school’s Center for Social health in this country,” he will tell you with socioeconomic factors on the health of the Epidemiology and Population Health. a mournful sigh, when asked to explain disadvantaged, he’s also done his best to “I don’t think anyone in our field would why his findings often seem to be over- warn U.S. policymakers that the dispari- question the fact that his work is at the looked by the politicians and the health ties he describes in his work are having a cutting edge of trying to understand how bureaucrats in Washington. “highly destructive effect” on the national to reduce the socioeconomic disparities “Year after year, I and others keep trying economy, and especially as it relates to that are impacting on health in this coun- to get that across on the policy side—the increased spending on health. try. Jim has been a terrific colleague in this recognition that the decline in the health of “These days, I think everybody’s con- effort, and his research speaks for itself.” Americans compared to people in over 30, cerned about the increasing intractability of now moving toward 40 or more, other the health-expenditure problem in this coun- Refusing To Take nations in the world is only partially a try,” he says with a thoughtful frown. “It’s Himself Too Seriously function of the fact that we don’t have uni- a really troublesome economic issue, yet versal health insurance, and much more a there doesn’t seem to be anything that any- Raised in suburban Philadelphia function of the discrepancies between the one can do. We’re spending over 15 per- (Springfield) by an artist-father who taught people at the top of our society and the cent of our GDP [Gross Domestic Product] fine arts for many years at Penn, Jim House people at the bottom.” on health care right now, projected to rise arrived on the Haverford campus back in Intent on pinpointing and then pub- to 20 percent within a half dozen years, and the fall of 1961…and soon found a dynam- lishing the data that will illustrate his there’s no reason it won’t go to 25 percent ic and unforgettable mentor in a psycholo- theme, House has spent the past 38 years or more by the middle of this century. gy teacher named Sidney Irwin Perloe (who’s teaching sociology to graduate students “Health-care costs are spiraling off into still working and teaching as an emeritus and undergrads alike, first at Duke space, and that’s got to create massive prob- professor of psychology on campus).

Above: University of Michigan Dean Terry McDonald, Jean Campbell (wife of former Haverford Phillips Visiting 54 Haverford Magazine Professor Angus Campbell), James House and Wendy Fisher House. For groundbreaking sociologist Jim House In Detroit’s and his longtime University of Michigan col- league Amy Schulz, the destructive public- Economically health consequences of racial and economic discrimination often seem painfully obvious. Battered Inner City, To pinpoint those harmful health effects, they say, all you have to do is take a walk to any It’s A Long Walk inner-city supermarket in Detroit. What you’ll soon discover—according to a to the Nearest recent study co-authored by Professor Schulz, who has conducted research with House on Supermarket health-related issues among low-income Detroiters—is that the typical African-American resident of the inner city has to walk much far- ther to get to a full-service supermarket than those who live elsewhere in the city. Says Schulz, whose 2005 study (http://tinyurl.com/22kzkp) was published by the authoritative American Journal of Public Health: “We looked at the distance to the near- est supermarket for 869 neighborhoods in met- ropolitan Detroit, and we found that among the most impoverished neighborhoods in which African-Americans lived, people had to travel 1.1 miles father to get to a standard ‘chain’ supermarket. “Since these supermarkets are critical to providing important nutritional items—such as fresh fruits and vegetables—it was clear that the racial residential segregation we encountered was resulting in adverse public- health impacts on these inner city residents.” Adds Schulz, who describes herself as a “longtime admirer” of Jim House’s “phenom- enal scholarship” on questions that explore links between poverty and discrimination and public health: “Supermarket access in the inner city is certainly an equity issue, and the circum- scribed access to fruits and vegetables experi- enced by inner city residents is clearly related to risk factors for chronic cardiovascular dis- eases and other ailments. “By showing how inner city residents had to travel much farther to get adequate nutri- tion, we were able to uncover a hidden con- nection between racial discrimination and poverty and public health.”

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“I remember taking an introductory social and conducting research at Duke Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral psychology course in my sophomore year, University and the University of North Sciences—Jim House’s “smarts” are exceed- and Sid taught the section of it that dealt Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health. ed only by his keen sense of humor. “Jim’s with ‘social psychology,’” House recalls. He, quite unexpectedly, returned to pretty smart, there’s no doubt about that,” “He considered issues of prejudice, dis- Michigan to launch what has been a bril- says Williams, “but his best feature may crimination and genocide from the Nazi liant, 30-year career as a leader in his field. be his sense of humor. He’s low-key and era in Germany to race relations in the For nearly half of those years, he has also he’s easygoing and he’s got equanimity of U.S., with an eye to exploring the dynam- served first as chair of the Department of the highest order. ics that were at work. And I was absolute- Sociology and then director of the univer- “Jim House is extremely serious about ly fascinated by that…by the way you sity’s highly influential Survey Research his research—but he doesn’t take himself could look at it as a window for under- Center at the Institute for Social Research. too seriously. And in many ways, I think standing what can go wrong in a society, The father of two adult children (his that’s been the key to his success. He’s a and how it happens. It seemed a more sci- son Jeffrey Taylor House ’92 was also a star in the field of sociology today, no ques- entific way of approaching many of the sociology major and now serves as the tion about it…and yet he’s as down-to- issues that had attracted me to history, principal at an inner-city charter school in earth and as unassuming as anybody you’d which was about all in the way of social Hartford, and his daughter, Erin, a gradu- ever want to meet.” Ask Jim House whether he intends to “retire” any- “Jim House is extremely time soon, and he smiles at the question: “As I approach serious about his 70, I’ll let go of the formal teaching, administration, research— but he and service I do at the doesn’t take himself University, but I will contin- ue my research and writing too seriously. And in as long as I am able and feel I have something real to many ways, I think that’s contribute. “Why would I want to been the key to his stop doing what I love so much, when I’m lucky success.” -Redford Williams enough to be at the best place in the world to do it, and one which kindly science that we got in the primary and sec- ate of Michigan and then UNC Law facilitates senior faculty staying involved?” ondary schools I attended in suburban School, is a special assistant attorney gen- he says. “I enjoy coming into the Center Philadelphia. eral prosecuting domestic violence in three each day, and I also still enjoy teaching and “I was deeply impressed by that—by northwest Michigan counties), House is mentoring graduate students about the the passion and also the analytical rigor married to clinical psychologist Wendy wonders and value of social science, which that Perloe brought to his subject. And Fisher House, whom he met when both I first discovered with Sid Perloe at although I continued with my original plan were graduate students in social psychol- Haverford.” to major in history, I was hooked on social ogy at Michigan, and spends much of his psychology from that day forward. I want- spare time trying to maintain his tennis Freelance journalist Tom Nugent often writes ed to understand the forces that operate game in the face of the inexorable muscu- about health and science. He has reported in society, that cause events to unfold. loskeletal problems of older age. “I played for the Washington Post, the New York Perloe had earned his own Ph.D. in social varsity tennis in high school and at Times and the Chicago Tribune in recent psych at Michigan, and fortunately for me, Haverford,” he says with a laugh of sheer years and is the author of Death at Buffalo he recommended that I sign on for the delight, “even though I wasn’t all that good. Creek (W.W. Norton), an investigative report same interdisciplinary program in Ann If you’re like me, and you don’t have a lot on the impact of coal mining on West Arbor.” of natural ability, you better play the game Virginia. Before even nailing down his own social as smart as you can!” psychology doctorate in 1972 with a dis- According to longtime friend and fel- sertation on occupational stress and coro- low scientist Redford Williams—an M.D nary heart disease risk, House embarked psychiatrist who runs a major research pro- on eight years teaching sociology and gram in genetics at Duke University’s

56 Haverford Magazine If you’re one of the 76 million American “Baby Boomers” (born between 1946 and 1964) who will soon be hitting retirement age, medical sociologist Jim House has a helpful suggestion for you. Do not plan to spend your golden years lounging on the sofa or snoring in the back- yard hammock...not if you want to remain healthy into later old age. According to House—who has studied thousands of older Americans in order to find out how staying active and performing volun- teer work impacts on their well-being during their seventies and eighties—dozing in the hammock all day could actually be hazardous to your health. “Over the years, we’ve analyzed several in- depth surveys designed to measure health outcomes for people who remain physically active into later old age,” says the University Research Shows of Michigan researcher, “and the data we came up with are crystal-clear. that Staying Active “The numbers show conclusively that those who continue to stay physically active—whether by playing tennis or walking daily or simply rak- & Volunteering Can ing leaves and hoeing weeds in the backyard garden—tend to enjoy better health in later Help Senior Citizens life than those who become sedentary.” House also points out that the latest research to Remain Healthy on aging has established “a clear association” between volunteerism and positive health out- Longer comes. Says the nationally renowned researcher on American lifestyles: “The statistical evidence tells us that staying involved in your communi- ty as a hospital volunteer, let’s say, or maybe as a tutor in a literacy program, seems to help older people remain healthy longer. “The data also confirm that people who remain connected to a ‘social support system’ of friends, relatives, church groups, clubs or other organizations will enjoy better health, on average, than those who become isolated in older age.”

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A clinic run by Steve Larson ’83 serves the needs of South Philadelphia’s Latinos. By Michael Matza THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF HEALTH Learning to paint and sculpt inside a Haverford studio, Steve Larson came away Charles Stegeman and Chris Cairns, both since with values and ideals that he has drawn on retired—who taught him to paint, sculpt and view throughout his life. the world through the tough-love lens he has incor- After graduating from the college as an art major porated into his own teaching now as an instruc- in 1983, he earned a medical degree at the University tor of Penn medical students. of Pennsylvania, and studied health-care delivery “I still remember (department chairman systems in Southeast Asia and Central America. Stegeman) saying, ‘Look, everything you paint is But even while he traveled the world, Larson’s (crap). And within that (crap) is good (crap). emotional center of gravity remained in Ardmore, Your job is to see what’s good. You’re not going near his alma mater. When he bought a house in to go to the canvas and get it right the first time. 1991, he deliberately chose a cozy Colonial an easy But you have to be willing to go to the canvas trot to the campus. every day,’” Larson recalled. Now, when the pony-tailed, 47-year-old doctor For a kid from South Jersey, whose dad, a West needs to unwind after a long shift in the emer- Point grad, used electric shears to administer week- gency room, or as medical director of Puentes de ly buzz cuts to his three sons (but spared the daugh- Salud, the Spanish-friendly, free clinic he co-found- ter), the “somewhat cloistered” environment of the ed four years ago to treat Philadelphia’s fast-grow- Quaker-inspired college, its “genuine tolerance for ing Mexican-immigrant community, he makes time other people’s perspectives” and its “willingness to to stroll Haverford’s winding paths to decompress engage in dialog” was “intoxicating,” and “laid a and meditate. foundation for future growth,” Larson said. Before a towering oak, he chuckled recently as That foundation proved especially valuable as he he recalled the times he and prankster classmates trained to become a doctor. used to launch water balloons hundreds of yards “Medical education is very regimental. ‘Take across campus using a large slingshot they fash- this book and cram it in your head. Take this ioned from a funnel and surgical tubing. stethoscope. Take this lab coat.’ It’s not tunnel Near the Fine Arts building, he reminisced vision. It’s funnel vision. It gets narrower as you about two particularly cherished professors— go along, which is even more insidious.

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“You can lose your perspective,” said like Loyola and others interviewed, don’t Against the backdrop of the nation’s Larson, who credits his extensive foreign volunteer it. fierce immigration-policy debate, Larson travel and the liberal arts grounding he got Though most patients receive basic pri- is unwavering. at Haverford for helping him achieve “a mary care, there are occasions when some- “Legal? Illegal? My job is to take care point of view that is outside the main- one presents with a serious problem, like of people,” he said. “A life is a life.” frame” of traditional medicine. the woman who needed a CT scan to rule Raised in Woodbury Heights, N.J., Clearly outside the box is Larson’s out brain damage after she slipped and Larson had his eyes opened to the prob- Puentes de Salud, the clinic held Thursday fell on her head, or the woman who had lems of providing low-cost health care for nights in donated space inside the base- persistent blood in her urine with no obvi- marginalized people when he worked at a ment of St. Agnes Medical Center in South ous cause. public hospital in Guatemala during that Philadelphia. The clinic, whose name In serious cases, which present the country’s 1988 civil war. means “bridges of health,” was established potential for loss of life, limb, or perma- In subsequent years he explored in 2004 as a charitable partnership nent damage to internal organs, Puentes health-care delivery systems in Honduras, between medical and nursing students Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico and Costa from area teaching institutions and non- Rica. profit organizations, including the Then, for 13 years beginning in 1993, Hispanic advocacy group Juntos, to focus he worked at Project Salud, a well-known on the needs of Philadelphia’s burgeon- migrant health center in Kennett Square, ing Latino population, which was 6,200 Chester County, Pa. in 2000 and estimated at 15,000 to 18,000 “The majority of my patients made last year. less than $13,000 a year; housing oppor- Typical of the clinic’s clientele is Mexican tunities were limited; public transporta- immigrant Leticia Loyola, 41, who studies tion was nonexistent in the rural coun- English at home using CDs and videotapes, tryside; lack of immigration papers and and like many language learners compre- language barriers were the norm,” hends more than she speaks. Larson said. With a pain in her belly, and concerned “Today I realize that these variables that it could be a liver ailment, the mar- which impacted so heavily on the health ried mother of four went to Puentes recent- and well-being of my patients have a name: ly for a checkup. social determinants of health.” “The fact that I can speak in Spanish Grounded in that holistic ethos, here makes me feel more comfortable,” Puentes, which serves 15 to 20 patients a Loyola said through an interpreter in an Silvano Tlapechco talks with physician night, strives to be more than a take-these- examining room where volunteer medical Matthew O'Brien at the clinic. He was there pills-and-call-again operation. and pre-med students took her health his- for a follow-up appointment for treatment On any given night its sofa-lined waiting tory and a volunteer doctor examined her. for an inflamed prostate. room might be the setting for a short pres- “Buenos dias. Me llamo Dr. Mallya,” entation by law students about landlord- Larson’s colleague, Dr. Giridhar Mallya, helps patients apply for emergency med- tenant relations or immigration and cus- said as he entered the room. A few min- ical assistance, which is federal money dis- toms enforcement policies. “Promotoras,” utes later he prescribed an oral medicine pensed by the state. lay people trained to promote Puentes in available to Loyola through a discount- In an examining room next to Loyola’s, the Latino community, might give a pres- program at a local pharmacy. 42-year-old Silvano Tlapechco had a man- entation on public health. Nursing students In addition to the peace of mind she ageable problem. He was there for a fol- might speak about nutrition. gets from speaking about her health prob- low-up appointment to monitor treatment Through an active word-of-mouth net- lems in her native language, Loyola is for an inflamed prostate. work, student-volunteers—including those grateful for the free services. Tlapechco (pronounced “klah-pesh- from Haverford—find their way to Larson “I have no health insurance and no ko”) said he barely supported his family and to Puentes’ door. money,” she said, adding that her family of four as a farmhand in Puebla, Mexico, “They show up. They are kids, look- came to the United States from Mexico before they came to the United States in ing for something,” said Larson. “Pretty City in 2006, lived in Denver for a year 2003. Now he works for a produce com- much the way I was”—30 years ago at and a half, and last September moved to pany in the Italian Market district, which Haverford—“when I showed up at that Philadelphia, where her husband works he described as a “10 times better” job than art department door.” as a shipping-and-receiving clerk. he had in Mexico, but he still asked that The Puentes staff never asks about it not be named, fearing possible fallout if Michael Matza is a reporter with the patients’ immigration status; most patients, it were publicized. Philadelphia Inquirer.

60 Haverford Magazine By establishing a scholarship at Haverford, the members of the Gant family aim to “share what’s been given” to them. by Brenna McBride

The Family that Gives Together

Donald Gant, a retired invest- ment banker who once worked for Goldman Sachs, graduated from a large university—and as a result, he wanted his children to attend a small liberal arts school. “In a small school, you’re more connected, and it’s a better atmos- phere for one to grow,” he says. “I also strongly feel that undergrad- uates should study the liberal arts. They should be devoted to learn- ing what will be important in life—art, literature, science, which “We are strong believers in the power mean more as you get older.” His son, Christopher Gant ’83, of education to give people new perspectives first heard about Haverford from the brother of a high school on themselves and the world. They become friend: “I remember riding in a car with him, listening to him talk enlightened enough to change their own about this school he loved.” He situations and change the world for others.” found more information about the school in the “most competitive” section of his college guide, and the more he learned, the more he liked. “The spirit and culture mentioned in its description was borne out when I took a tour,” he says. “Of all the schools I had vis- ited, this was the most comfort- able of environments.”

Spring 2008 61 Donald was also impressed with independently: These are the things vides assistance to Haverford students Haverford the first time he visited. “I I identify with being at Haverford.” with superior drive and potential from liked the friendliness of the faculty She has particularly fond memories economically disadvantaged families. and the students, and the opportuni- of a sociology class about African art “It’s a direct way of helping students ties to take classes at Bryn Mawr, with Wyatt MacGaffey, professor emer- and the College,” says Donald. “It’s Swarthmore, and Penn,” he says. “It itus of social sciences and anthropol- rewarding to see the effects of your was the kind of school I would have ogy. “I remember doing a presentation donation on the students themselves. liked to have attended.” on the Sande tribe of Sierra Leone and When a scholarship recipient writes to While at Haverford, Chris majored their ritual masks,” she says. “The you about a research project or intern- in English at Bryn Mawr, tried fencing masks were from a women’s coming ship he or she completed, you know and the bi-college Chorale, and soaked of age ritual, which was interesting you’ve made a tangible impact on up what he describes as the atmos- because part of it involved a masked someone’s future.” phere of “trust and respect that per- figure who was very androgynous in The Gant family has a history of meates Haverford.” The Honor Code appearance. It was interesting to wit- honoring the schools that have been made a strong and lasting impression ness a culture that is not threatened by important in their lives. Donald Gant on him: “Plenary was an inspiring, alternative representations of woman- has established scholarships at the powerful experience, this common hood that cannot be pigeonholed as Kent Place School in Summit, N.J., consciousness of everyone deciding ‘feminine.’ As a westerner, I saw how which three of his daughters had to behave in a certain way.” much my own culture could learn attended, and at Harvard Business Chris also relished his freshman year from this very different culture about School, where the fund supports “Introduction to Western Civilization” raising strong women.” M.B.A. candidates who want to course, taught by Professor of History Like her brother, Alison was also devote their careers to improving the Linda Gerstein. “She was phenomenal, inspired by the Honor Code and by quality of public education. “We my first introduction to great teachers plenary, and keeps the lessons they are strong believers in the power of at Haverford,” he says. “She had a taught her close at hand today. “When education to give people new per- somewhat intimidating intellectual style I’m teaching, I try to encourage an spectives on themselves and the and a huge interest in her subject and atmosphere of respect,” she says. “My world,” says Chris. “They become her students.” students come from diverse countries, enlightened enough to change their The next Gant to attend Haverford, language backgrounds, and life expe- own situations and change the world Alison Gant ’88, experienced the riences, but even if we disagree, there for others.” school vicariously through her broth- should be a baseline of respect for each “My father did not come from a er before becoming a student herself. other. At Haverford I saw that this was lot of money,” says Alison, “and he “I liked the atmosphere on campus,” possible.” worked hard to build a successful life.” she says. “I knew I’d get a good edu- Both Gant siblings currently work It makes sense, she says, at a place like cation there.” She lived in Yarnall in higher education: Chris promotes Haverford—“idyllic in so many House (“with international students, executive development programs at ways”—to provide opportunities for musicians, activists—people who Harvard Business School, where both people with talent and motivation to opened my eyes and helped me he and his father received their M.B.A.s, become leaders and develop their grow”), pursued photography and and Alison teaches English as a Second potential much as her father did his. writing poetry, and got involved with Language at Santa Rosa Junior College “By giving people access to a high- the Women’s Center and the early in California. In 2002, the family elect- quality education,” adds Chris, “we’re stages of a gay/lesbian campus organ- ed to give back to the school that had making available for others what was ization. “Becoming aware of who I given them so much by creating the available for us. We’re sharing what was, learning to think critically and Gant Family Scholarship, which pro- we were given.”

62 Haverford Magazine notes from the alumni association

Alumni Association Dear Fellow Alumni Executive Committee As my term as president comes to a close, I am struck by how much has occurred and evolved at Haverford during the past two years. At every moment along the way I continued to be impressed by the spirit of the College and its graduates, and would therefore like to take this final opportunity to share some thoughts with you on our wonderful community. As we celebrate the 175th anniversary of the College’s founding this year, I am reminded of what remains and what has changed about our institution throughout its history. The College was founded on principles of academic excellence and close faculty-student interactions. We can be proud that Haverford and its values continue to endure. As recounted in The Spirit and the Intellect: Haverford College 1833-1983 , Greg Kannerstein’s wonderful monograph published to celebrate our sesquicentennial, the affection between the College and its alumni has always been strong and vital. In fact, in 1846, 90 alumni rallied together to rescue the College from permanent closure by raising the necessary funds to reopen after President a suspension of activities for nearly three years. Garry W. Jenkins ’92 Today we are a vibrant, diverse learning environment of more than 1,150 students, 161 accomplished faculty, 380 staff, and 13,000 alumni. We come from a variety of backgrounds, Vice President but we are bonded by our desire to see Haverford flourish, reaching new heights of excellence. Bradley J. Mayer ’92 I have met many Haverfordians during these past two years, and I have been inspired by Members and their accomplishments, diversity, passions, individuality, and commitment to serving and Liaison Responsibilities leading others. Every day our graduates use their Haverford education, skills, and values to make a difference and serve as agents of change in their corporations, organizations, and/or Sarah G. Ketchum Baker ’91 communities. Ours is truly a singular and distinctive alumni community. Lisa S. Berenson ’01 John R. Botti ’92 Given your many competing demands and interests, I take enormous pride in all of Anita V. Crofts ’92 you who give of your time or resources back to the College. Today, alumni are volunteering Kyle W. Danish ’89 and connecting with Haverford in record numbers and in a wide range of ways. Emily D. Davis ’99 I particularly encourage you to return to campus for Reunion Weekend—which is getting Robert Eisinger ’87, ex officio bigger, better, and more festive each year—to celebrate your class reunions in the coming Jamie Ersbak ’01 years. For example, this May we are planning an exciting expansion to Saturday night’s David Fogelson ’73 festivities: a Latin-themed “Concert Under the Stars.” Robert Kautz ’80 If a trip to campus is not possible, be sure to attend local events, especially the tour of Scott Kimmich ’51 Haverford faculty and administrators currently traveling across the country. You will find Jonathan LeBreton ’79 it tremendously rewarding. Douglas Mason ’81 As of June 30, it will be time for me to step down, but I look forward to remaining actively Ghebre Mehreteab ’72 involved in the Alumni Association. I extend a warm welcome to our new leadership: Erik D. Muther ’94 Theo Posselt ’94 Brad Mayer ’92, president, and Julie Min Chayet ’91, vice president/president-elect. Finally, Alex Robinson ’96 I want to thank you for giving me this most treasured honor and rewarding experience of Benjamin Rose ’80 being president of our Association. Burton R. Saidel ’53 Gabriella Sarnoff ’95 Very truly yours, Bruce Segal ’83 Student Representatives Garry W. Jenkins ’92 Jeff Bumgardner ’09 [email protected] Susannah C. Henschel ’08

If you would like to nominate an alumnus/a for the Alumni Association Executive Committee, please contact the Alumni Office at (610) 896-1004.

Spring 2008 63 The Annual Giving Office Salutes Its Volunteers Fiscal Year 2006-2007 The annual giving staff would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank its class chairs for their assistance during fiscal year 2006-2007. These volunteers communicate with their classes regularly through emails, phone calls and letters and are instrumental in meeting our Haverford Fund goals. We applaud and thank them for the help.

Frederick M. Burgess ’28 Richard C. Weston ’68 John Hurvitz ’86 Judson Redmond ’01 David D. Dunn ’35 Dennis L. Stern ’69 Katherine N. Irvine ’86 Nicholas E. Saunders ’01 Joseph T. Rivers, Jr. ’37 Christopher E. Dunne ’70 Chris Kluchman ’87 Jamel A. Velji ’01 Samuel R. Evans ’38 Bill Tompsett ’70 Jay Stokes ’88 Loftin Flowers ’02 Francis G. Brown ’39 Jonathan W. Delano ’71 Alan Weintraub ’88 Rachel W. Melroy ’02 Arthur G. Ashbrook, Jr. ’41 Thomas L. Gowen, Jr. ’71 Kyle W. Danish ’89 Diandra L. Bobe ’03 Samuel M. Snipes ’41 Marc R. Inver ’71 Jonathan E. Mangel ’89 Vincent Indelicato ’03 L. Paul Saxer ’42 Martin E. Heller ’72 Bruce H. Andrews ’90 Rebecca Odessey ’03 Horatio C. Wood, 4th ’50 Charles J. Durante ’73 Julie Min Chayet ’91 Elizabeth J. Bacon ’04 Scotty Kimmich ’51 Charles H. O’Donnell ’73 Laura A. Herndon ’91 Brian Bejile ’04 Peter O.C. Austin-Small ’52 Alan B. Colsey ’74 Emilie Heck Petrone ’91 Tirzah Deering ’04 William G. Kaye ’54 Samuel Mason ’75 Beth Stockmeyer Cohen ’92 Jeph Gord ’04 Henry I. Hamburger ’55 Joseph E. Ronan, Jr. ’76 Michael A. Sklar ’93 Joe Hoffman ’04 Henning Sieverts ’56 John H. Bartels ’78 Kathie Jordan ’94 Felicia A. Jadczak ’04 William L. Newmeyer, III ’57 James A. Dunbar ’78 Erik D. Muther ’94 Neil C. Kahrim ’04 Michael R. Fogel ’58 Jonathan LeBreton ’79 Jennifer L. Robinson ’95 Nicholas D. Kerr ’04 John G. DeJong ’59 Rich Putter ’79 Gabriella Sarnoff ’95 Lisa Piraino ’04 Arthur W. Wright ’60 Donald E. Vaughan ’79 Andrew P. Schwartz ’95 Jennifer Whitlock ’04 J. Daniel Heilman ’61 David F. Belton ’80 Hilary S. Comerchero ’97 Lauren L. Blitzer ’05 Robert S. Tannenbaum ’62 Reid B. Blackwelder ’80 Ellen Winn ’97 Jonathan M. Debrich ’05 William S. Kelley ’63 Joseph Steven Torg, Jr. ’81 Kathryn Benanti ’98 David Langlieb ’05 R. Max Bockol ’64 Samuel J.B. Angell ’82 Norm Liang ’98 Kathryn A. Sassorossi ’05 A. Bob Baker ’66 Robert M. Elwood ’82 John S. Saroff ’98 Steve Spaulding ’05 Thomas H. Bonnell ’66 Philip Y. Brown ’83 Emily Davis ’99 Evan R. LeFlore ’06 Lawrence C. Davis ’66 Richard A. Glaser ’83 Jesse M. Ehrenfeld ’00 Christine Priori ’06 Charlotte Williams Lutton ’66 William S. Patzer ’83 Mike C. Ranen ’00 Greg Reed ’06 Michael McKeehan ’66 Richard M. Rosenthal ’83 Anthony J. Distinti ’01 Alexandra M. Shookhoff ’06 Ron Schwarz ’66 Nancy R. Lewin ’84 Carlene Kirby ’01 George N. Stavis ’67 William A. Walsh ’84 Andy Ray ’01

Special thanks to the Annual Fund Executive Committee: Rob Eisinger ’87 (Chair), David Belton ’80, Tom Bonnell ’66, Hilary Comerchero ’97, Jonathan Debrich ’05, Jesse Ehrenfeld ’00, Bill Kelley ’67, Alex Lowry ’99, Rachel Melroy ’02, Joe Ronan ’76, and Kyle Danish ’89.

As our alumni body grows so does our need for new volunteers. If you are interested in becoming a class chair or co-chair, please contact Eileen Haupt at [email protected].

Lambda Alumni Leader: The Lambda Alumni network is looking for a new national chair. As the chair, you’d coordinate the national alumni group. If interested, please contact Theo Posselt on the AAEC at [email protected] Wanted: 64 Haverford Magazine annual giving

Founders Bell Award Class of 1982 with 66% Participation – awarded to Class Chairs Robert M. Elwood and Samual J. B. Angell

Scarlet and Black Award Congratulations Class of 2002 with 52% Participation – awarded to Class Chairs to our 2006-2007 Loftin Flowers and Rachel Melroy Haverford Fund Awards Winners

Alumni Association Cup Class of 1966 with 99% Participation – awarded to Class Chairs A. Bob Baker, Thomas H. Bonnell, Lawrence C. Davis, Charlotte Williams Lutton, Michael McKeehan, and Ron Schwarz

Barclay Tower Trophy Class of 1957 – awarded to Class Chair William L. Newmeyer, III

Career Development Volunteer in Seattle: The Seattle New York Alumni Association Needs Space: The New York Alumni Chapter is seeking a dynamic volunteer to serve Haverford Alumni Association is in need of alums who can as our Career Representative in the NW. This position provide space for events such as the Freshman Welcome Party, works directly with the Seattle Regional Coordinator to faculty and alumni presentations, career development and design networking events, host career discussion forums, admissions events, and a variety of other events that take place and field inquiries from local Haverfordians. Contact throughout the year. Please contact regional coordinator Anita Verna Crofts ’92 at [email protected] if Gabriella Sarnoff ’95 at [email protected] if you can help! interested.

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First Annual Joe Schwartz ’83 Memorial 3k Run/Walk a Success

The first annual Joe Schwartz ’83 The run was organized by Haverford’s Fitness Memorial 3K Run/Walk set off Sunday, Center director and strength and conditioning coach April 20 from Haverford’s Featherbed Field. Cory Walts, along with women’s soccer coach Jamie The event included over 100 participants and raised Gluck, Fitness Center intern Bernard Fisher, and more than $2,500 in donations. The money will go Annick McIntosh ’10. toward research for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Walts says that he has wanted to promote health (ALS)—also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease—with and fitness through a race since coming to Haverford which Schwartz was diagnosed at age 34. in July, but lacked a specific cause. This year’s run was particularly meaningful for the “After a couple months of brainstorming,” says participants because Schwartz passed away just last Walts, “Peter Leibold, class of ’85, contacted me with March. the interest of having an event to honor Joe Schwartz, “Joe was a really special guy,” says Bob Hasson ’83, who was still alive and battling ALS at the time. Peter who ran with Schwartz and now serves as assistant told me a little about Joe, and it sounded like this coach for Haverford’s cross country, indoor, and would be the perfect cause.” spring track teams. “Throughout the whole ordeal he Walts says he hopes this year’s event becomes an remained upbeat. I don’t remember him saying any- annual tradition for years to come. thing bitter about his illness.” “I hope to honor Joe, raise money for ALS research, Hasson recalls how Schwartz continued to attend and promote fitness and a healthy lifestyle for Haverford running events despite becoming increas- the Haverford community, something ingly debilitated—up until last year when he Joe exemplified.” could communicate only with his eyes. -Brian F. Johnson ’08

Joe Schwartz ’83

66 Haverford Magazine Care to share your story of roads taken (or not taken) since graduation? Drop us a line! roads taken and not taken [email protected]

continued from page 43 So here I am, this man of many hats. summers working as an emergency room energy and talent. This lesson left me After many years of “chiefing” in the police technician, suturing lacerations, taking with a lasting reluctance to do anything in department, I have changed my uniform histories, and assisting the orthopods. My food service on a full time professional level. hat of blue to a mortar board of black, and father is a doctor as is his brother. Dad’s While still attending Haverford I entered sometimes to a uniform of white coat, father was a plastic surgeon, and from an the volunteer services of the Nyack F.D. and checkered pants and toque—the white early age, it was clear that I was expected Nyack Community Ambulance Corps, as chimney, smoke stack hat of a chef. My to follow family tradition and to become well as joining the local police department. experience at Haverford has led to many an MD. Eventually, after a disappointing trip to law hats, and roads less taken. Throughout my time at Haverford, I school, I earned two graduate degrees—an enjoyed seeking out new dining experiences M.S. from Iona College (honors) and Alan B. Colsey ’74 lives and cooks in Valley in Philadelphia and its environs, and I have M.B.A. from St. Thomas Aquinas College Cottage, N.Y. fond memories of Frog and Le Bec Fin. (honors). Ultimately, I decided on a career While living in D.C. I took my first job in in public safety and got involved with many the restaurant industry as a waiter at a assorted activities, cooking for fun and Peter Hochman ’75 swanky dinner spot off DuPont Circle; and family, but nothing really “official” in food t was the tenth morning of the I fell in love. The din of a crowded dining service. New York City transit strike of room intoxicated me. The clamor of sauté Over the years I have been a volunteer I 1980. I walked from the just- pans on the grill simply sparked my ambulance and fire department member, cleaned kitchens of Windows adrenalin, and as I’ve come to say many police officer, Rotarian, U.S. Coast Guard on the World into the dining room, and times, “There’s little difference between a Auxilarist, board member or officer of any watched as the sun came up over Brooklyn crowded restaurant on a busy Saturday number and variety of community or and Queens. I had been night and a packed ER on a full moon. public service organizations. Most such relegated to night steward, Hopefully, no blood is spilled in the former.” affiliations have their own “brand” with overseeing the cleaning Deciding to pursue a career in the the requisite hat and logo to go along with crews, tens of which hospitality industry was one of several I the rest of the gear. And so began my converged on the made within several years of leaving collection—hats, hats, hats—hats by the restaurant at midnight to Haverford. I broke my engagement to be hundreds! restore and replenish it for married and moved to Provincetown, Having retired from my 24-year the next day. My usual job where I came out of the closet and sought position as Police Chief, I relish my new was expediting by means of a microphone to embrace my true self. My parents and path away from the 24/7 headaches of law and my hands the firing and picking up of I didn’t speak for the better part of the next enforcement. However, I have flunked up to 1,200 dinners on a busy night from year. I really don’t know which was more retirement badly, as I am still a badge- a line of cooks, and transferring these difficult for them to grapple with: my carrying sworn Deputy Sheriff, teach plates to servers, who carried the meals to deciding not to be a doctor or the fact that graduate level Management and waiting guests. I had broken my left wrist I was gay. Marketing, have a consulting business in in a roller skating mishap on the second I have never looked back, though. The public safety technology and am partner day of the transit strike while making my restaurant biz has been a wonderful and in a line of BBQ sauces, rubs and related way to work, and so, found myself fulfilling experience. My career has taken condiments. spending my nights and early mornings me from NYC to San Francisco, Las Vegas, When I left the police department on the 107th floor in the north tower of Canada and most lately to Portland, everyone knew that I spent far more time the World Trade Center. I remember softly Oregon, where I opened my own place, engaged in the subtleties of smoked saying as I looked out the expansive Alberta Street Oyster Bar & Grill. I sausage links than on the links, and that windows, “Top o’ the world, Ma!” and operated it for two years, garnering local my idea of greens had much more to do thinking that this was a far cry from where and national accolades, and sold it several with the marriage of fresh herbs and spices I was supposed to end up. months ago. I am presently looking for a in red wine vinaigrette than with hitting I graduated from Haverford in 1975, new project—anyone want to buy a a little white ball around. A very kind, armed with a degree in psychology and building with me and open a bar? clever and generous group had a moment the full gamut of premed coursework. I of divine inspiration when they decided did not get into med school on my first try, Peter Hochman ’75 lives in Portland, Ore. to send the Chief to the CIA: The Culinary and subsequently took post grad courses in and is actively seeking his next endeavor in Institute of America, “The World’s Premier biochem at Columbia and George the food industry. Culinary College.” Washington Universities. I had spent

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I’m neither vegan nor food-allergic nor particularly activist when it comes to sourcing. But I am grateful for the work of those who are, because they are making our world—the one around us, and the one here on Lancaster Avenue in Haverford—a more interest- ing (dare I say ‘better’) place to be—and eat. Just yesterday I had my first vegan BBQ ‘rib’ in the dining center. Tasted great and is probably better for me—and easier to digest—than the steaks that my classmate Eve Bernstein Carlson ’82 recalls for us in our cover story about food service here on campus. Back then, choices were limited, not always the freshest, and subject to the profit-and-loss needs of the vendor. (I remember the day we transitioned to a new provider who dazzled us with things like freshly-baked bread and flavored yogurt—gee, thanks!—only to see that vendor ditch those welcome improvements when corporate needed budget relief...) With Haverford doing its own catering, the effort is much clos- er to the ground and John Francone, the guy who runs Dining Services, deserves all the praise he gets for both providing quality food and being so responsive to student requests. As a ‘then and 29 now’ diner, it’s a very different experience at every level (one thing that immediately struck me when I returned to campus last year was the near-total lack of lines. Let’s hear it for swipe cards). If you Steven Kavanaugh Contributing Writers haven’t been back to campus in some time, it’s worth a trip just to Interim Vice President for Janine Beaman check out the chow. Other changes: the Coop flew it, from its nest Institutional Advancement Kate Campbell Charles Curtis ’04 in the basement of the Dining Center for nicer quarters in the Chris Mills ’82 Brian Johnson ’08 Whitehead Campus Center, just beyond Sharpless. (One of our Director of College Communications Greg Kannerstein ’63 Beth Kephart Brenna McBride Roads Taken & Not Taken essays in this issue mentions yet another, Carlene Kirby ’01 Staff Writer earlier Coop in the basement of Union. Who knew?) Emma Lapsansky-Werner The new Coop is a welcome change consistent with all the other Acquire, LLC Frank Lyman ’59 Graphic Design Michael Matza food-related improvements that the College has made, someplace www.AcquireVisual.com Dave Merrell ’09 you’d expect to see at, say, the National Gallery of Art: a clean, Tom Nugent Virtual Communications Com- Cheryl Sternman Rule ’92 well-lighted and -tended place serving an array of sandwiches, sal- mittee Editorial Advisory Committee Norman Pearlstine ’64, Chairman ads and grill items at fair prices. There’s also a coffee bar-style cafe Jody Romano at the Center for Peace & Global Citizenship in Stokes (free lunch John R. Botti ’92 on Friday when topical issues are unpacked by any and all who care Kaye Edwards Gregory Kannerstein ’63 to come by—this means you, locals). Bradley J. Mayer ’92 Food is such an intimate part of life, and as Cheryl Sternman William E. Williams Rule ’92 makes clear in her story, we’re fortunate to have such car- Corrections ing, engaged—and talented—people looking after that side of In the Winter 2008 edition of Haverford Magazine, the woman wearing a gray sweater in the photograph on page 41 was incorrectly identified as Adaobi the house. Nwaneshiudu ’03. This woman is actually Nicisha Stephenson ’03; Bon appetit! Nwaneshiudu is second from the left, wearing a headscarf.

Also in Winter 2008, a photo caption in our profile of Richard Lingeman ’53 (“Dances With Words”) incorrectly attributed a comment to Calvin Trillin. In fact, Marvin Kitman was describing Trillin. In that same article, a paragraph on p. 49 should have read, “Navasky as a friend, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, as a Chris Mills ’82 sympathetic boss, have afforded Richard time to work on his major opuses: [email protected] “Rebel From Main Street”, the Sinclair Lewis book, clearly shows the calming influence of security, being 554 pp., but not Ferberish or Michener-esque, as the two-volume Dreisers were, painting “Red” Lewis more intimately and nov- P.S. For an exciting and insightful look at the Haverford of today— elistically. From the first frozen day of his homecoming funeral in Sauk Center, including the food, and much more—please check out the new Minnesota, through his brief, collegiate religious fanaticism, to his rebellion against the hackish heights he’d reached working for George Horace Lorimar’s video clips on our website, www.haverford.edu/admission. Saturday Evening Post, a magazine that relentlessly sold the American Dream (as, say, Rolling Stone, in its “Fear & Loathing” era, relentlessly sold its obverse), the book paints Red as a neurotic writing machine, revved like a motorcycle by the forces that moved him against American pieties.” H LMIMGZN FHVRODCOLLEGE HAVERFORD OF MAGAZINE ALUMNI THE THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE spring ’08

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