A Swarthmore TANYA HOKE ’07 (LEFT) AND ALEX ELKINS ’06 ENJOY THE VIEWFROMTHETHIRD-FLOORBALCONYOF SWARTHMORE’SNEWRESIDENCEHALL,WHICHOPENED INSEPTEMBER.PHOTOGRAPHBYJIMGRAHAM. Special Feature A Swarthmore Tapestry Fifty Swarthmoreans weave dynamic patterns around the world.

By Carol Brévart-Demm, Laura Stevenson Carter, Colleen Gallagher, Alisa Giardinelli, Andrea Hammer, Jeffrey Lott, Patricia Maloney, Audree Penner, Elizabeth Redden ’05, Lewis Rice, and David Wright ’69

20 Featuring Departments T. Alexander Aleinikoff ’74 Corinna “Cori” Lathan ’88 Christopher Leinberger ’72 3 L e t t e r s Charles Bailey ’67 Continuing dialogue Elizabeth Urey Baranger ’49 Ann Mosely Lesch ’66 Ninotchka“Nina”Bennahum’86 Julian López-Morillas ’68 4 Why Swarthmore? Patricia Blanchet ’88 David Lyon ’73 I’m still choosing Swarthmore. Paul Booth ’64 Allison Marsh ’98 By Lawrence Schall ’75 Dallas Brennan ’94 Kate Menser ’94 6 C o l l e c t i o n Anna Thompson Burr ’25 Alberto Mora ’74 Campus news Serena Canin ’88 Lisa Mosca ’94 Christine Crumley Ney ’02 4 6 Connections Arthur “Arky" Ciancutti ’65 Book groups and more Naamal De Silva ’00 Noah Novogrodsky ’92 Christopher Edley ’73 H’99 Beverley Bond Potter ’55 4 8 C l a s s N o t e s Susan Marie Frontczak ’77 Linda Randall ’78 Story exchange Ellen Schall ’69 Renée Stoetzner Fuller ’51 5 3 D e a t h s Isabella Horton Grant ’44 Anne Schuchat ’80 Recent losses Christopher Haines ’86 Stewart Schwab ’76 Dick Hall ’52 Ellen Singer ’83 62 Books + Arts Tom Snyder ’72 Professor of Economics Ellen Magenheim Ken Hechler ’35 reviews The Commercialization of Lisa Herrick ’79 Glenn Swan ’76 Intimate Life: Notes From Home and Marilyn Holifield ’69 Vaneese Thomas ’74 Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62 Randy Holland ’69 Darko Tresnjak ’88 Rebecca Van Fleet ’03 7 6 I n M y L i f e Wilson “John” Kello ’98 Letter From Kabul David Kennedy ’80 Kirsten Vannice ’04 By Sarah Hegland ’02 Seth Knopp ’85 Theresa Williamson ’97 David Kravitz ’86 Robert Zoellick ’75 80 Q + A Linda Echols, director of the Worth COVER PHOTOS SHOW THESE ALUMNI IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, STARTING AT TOP LEFT. Health Center, discusses wellness. By Alisa Giardinelli PARLORTALK

ast month, I had the opportunity to attend a gathering of Swarthmore alum- Swarthmore ni in Denver. In the dozen years since I became editor of this magazine, I’ve COLLEGEBULLETIN had occasion to participate in quite a few Swarthmore gatherings, from L Editor: Jeffrey Lott Alumni Council meetings to Connections events to class reunions. Perhaps because I am not a Swarthmore graduate myself—my alma mater is a similar small Managing Editor: Andrea Hammer liberal arts college in Vermont—I’ve been able to observe the social habits of the Class Notes Editor: Carol Brévart-Demm genus Swarthmoreanus with a more objective eye. Here is my report: Assistant Editor: Colleen Gallagher When Swarthmoreans meet each other, there appears to be a special sense of Staff Writer: Alisa Giardinelli recognition—an attractive force that, to an outsider, seems almost magnetic. Their Desktop Publishing: Audree Penner poles align and a special sort of secret energy flows between them. This magnetism Art Director: Suzanne DeMott Gaadt, is exhibited in behaviors that are often curi- Gaadt Perspectives LLC ous to the outsider, such as a furrowing of Administrative Assistant: In the dozen years Janice Merrill-Rossi brows or cocking of heads that implies Intern: Elizabeth Redden ’05 challenges of an intellectual sort. since I became editor Editor Emerita: Although Swarthmoreani occasionally Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 of this magazine, meet each other on unfamiliar terms before discovering their College connection, it has Contacting Swarthmore College I’ve had many been reported more than once that an intu- College Operator: (610) 328-8000 www.swarthmore.edu ition is in the air after just a few minutes of occasions to observe Admissions: (610) 328-8300 conversation. Quickly sensing something [email protected] the social habits about each other, Swarthmoreans (known Alumni Relations: (610) 328-8402 in today’s parlance as “Swatties” or [email protected] of the genus “Swats”) soon find a way to tap the button Publications: (610) 328-8568 that turns on the magnets. Inevitably, fur- [email protected] Swarthmoreanus. ther connections are found—a classmate or Registrar: (610) 328-8297 roommate; a Swattie mother, father, child, [email protected] Here is my report. World Wide Web or sibling; a similar course taken a decade www.swarthmore.edu apart from the same favorite professor; a team or fraternity; a shared College cause; or a larger social concern. Changes of Address But beyond these personal connections, the Swarthmorean’s almost measurable Send address label along magnetism appears to energize the conspicuous display of deeper habits of mind. with new address to: Alumni Records Office Swarthmoreans know that it’s OK to talk with one another in a certain way—to go Swarthmore College beyond the obvious, to take up serious questions more quickly than one might 500 College Avenue with any other stranger. Their shared experience of this College informs their lives, Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 work, and relationships in ways that crackle with energy and, if you pay attention Phone: (610) 328-8435. Or e-mail: carefully, actually seem to give off light. [email protected]. In this issue of the Bulletin—my 50th as editor—we have created in our pages The Swarthmore College Bulletin (ISSN another such gathering. It’s an almost random selection from our inexhaustible 0888-2126), of which this is volume CII, number 3, is published in August, Sep- lists of interesting alumni. Try to imagine yourself in a room with them—as you tember, December, March, and June by might be at a Connections event in your city. As individuals, you exude energy, but Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, in concert, that energy multiplies. The next time you find yourself with one or Swarthmore PA 19081-1390. Periodicals postage paid at Swarthmore PA and more of these people, you will be with a friend. But you knew that already— additional mailing offices. Permit No. because there appear to be no strangers in this remarkable genus. 0530-620. Postmaster: Send address changes to Swarthmore College Bulletin, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA —Jeffrey Lott 19081-1390. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN © 2004 Swarthmore College 2 Printed in U.S.A. LETTERS

CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTIONARIES much of the world. This statement sug- How We We supporters of President Bush try to gests that it is acceptable to own a $2 mil- VOTE EX AM IN IN G TH E FU ND AM EN TA L conserve those “historic roots of American lion house, when a downgrade to a $1 mil- AC T OF D EM OC RA CY idealism" that Paul Gaston ’52 (“My Yellow lion home could pay for a basic sanitation Ribbon Town,” September Bulletin) val- project in Chad, Africa, and save lives. We ues—and those social and governmental treat ourselves to luxuries out of moral institutions that embody and sustain laziness—not because, after thoughtful American ideals. To be a conservative reflection, a new iPod is more important defending the slow working out in history than vaccines for 300 Congolese children. of revolutionary ideals is paradoxical— Some Swarthmore alumni will earn big reimposing the old, escaped tyrannies: We bucks in the Fortune 500 honorably. But are conservative revolutionaries; our oppo- many better things can be done with nents are revolutionary conservatives. money than enhance our own comfort. Joseph Ellis put the commonalities this MATTHEW LANDREMAN ’03 paradox implies aptly in Founding Brothers: Oxford, England American conservatives and liberals share a EDUCATING FOR LEADERSHIP debate about liberty, which is the core of critical thinking, just as Swarthmore does. our shared values, not an exclusive inter- In the September Bulletin, Peter Darling’s [’84] letter in response to “A Profitable CLAIRE FELDMAN-RIORDAN ’01 pretation of how best to achieve liberty. I Durham, N.C. hope that Gaston's smug and self-loving Education” (June Bulletin) does not do jus- article is not the best that American liberal- tice to the curriculum. According to Dar- LIVING WAGE QUESTION ism can offer the nation in 2004. Much ling, Swarthmore fails to prepare students Having received the latest in a litany of tendentious cant is in it, but the worst is for careers in business by emphasizing the- publications trumpeting, but not defining, the disdain for “the mansions of the rich." ory over practice and a “theoretical toler- “the meaning of Swarthmore,” I’d like to If we are not free to spend our money as ance and egalitarianism” over leadership pose this question: What is the meaning of we will, to build ourselves a good life, and management training. I am not in the a wealthy, elite institution that proclaims enjoyable as we see fit, what good is our business field, yet I value my Swarthmore to the world how its budget reflects its val- freedom? If “idealism" echoes every aristo- education for the skills and experiences ues yet cannot manage to pay its most vul- crat who loathed those merchants and that Darling sees as lacking. nerable employees a living wage? poor men who dared to build themselves a Swarthmore taught me that leadership MARCIA HENRY P’03 better house, wear good clothes, read is not simply about choosing an “authori- Oakland, Calif. books, live without the stigma of deference tarian” or “egalitarian” approach but See p. 7 for news of a proposal that would and inferiority, what sort of idealism is it? involves well-defined leadership tools, improve compensation and benefits for staff. building on the best aspects of many DAVID RANDALL '93 approaches. I regret that Darling did not FORTHERECORD BROOKLYN, N.Y. have the same positive experience that I Farrell Bloch is from the Class of ’69, and MORAL COMPASS did at Swarthmore. I also hope that the Bob Kramer is with the Class of ’61. In “An Kudos to the Bulletin for “A Profitable Edu- business world continues to value creative ‘Unearthly’ Place” (September Bulletin), cation” (June), a thought-provoking article thinking as well as concrete skills, theory Charles Danforth ’95, Edgard Bertaut ’80, that made me question my sometimes as well as practice, and respect as well as and Tom Kornack ’98 appear left to right. skeptical attitude toward corporate careers. Alumni in business such as John Mont- STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION gomery ’77 and Adrian Merryman ’80 have 1. Publication: Swarthmore College Bulletin 11. Known bondholders, mortgages, or other security 2. Publications number: 0888-2126 holders holding 1 percent or more of total amount at least as much capacity to effect positive 3. Filing date: Sept. 30, 2004 of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: none change as our journalist, civil servant, and 4. Issue frequency: August, September, December, 12. The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of March, and June this organization has not changed during physician classmates. How many of us who 5. Number of issues published annually: 5 the preceding 12 months. have chosen academic careers can realisti- 6. Annual subscription price: none 14. Issue date for circulation data: Sept. 2004 7. Office of publication: 500 College Ave., 15. a. Total number of copies (net press run): 25,240 cally expect to donate $100 million a year Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 b. Paid or requested circulation through dealers: 0 8. General business office: same c. 1-Paid or requested mail subscriptions: 20,942 to charity on our retirement? 9. Publisher: Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., 4-Other classes mailed: 1,148 (ISAL) However, I was put off by the comment Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 d. Free distribution by mail: 29 Editor: Jeffrey Lott, 500 College Ave., e. Free distribution outside the mail: 2,314 of the alumnus who said, “Some of us have Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 f. Total free distribution: 2,343 to care about economics and do want to Managing editor: Andrea Hammer, 500 College Ave., g. Total distribution: 24,433 Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 h. Copies not distributed: 807 live comfortably.” What is comfortable to 10. Owner: Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., i. Total: 25,240 Swarthmore PA 19081-1390 an American is egregiously opulent to so DECEMBER 2004 3 WHYSWARTHMORE? I’m still choosing Swarthmore. By Lawrence Schall ’75, vice president of administration JIM GRAHAM

“WHY SWARTHMORE?” IS THE FIRST ESSAY aid needs of every student. I turned 50 last November, and that QUESTION students are required to answer My siblings came home mostly on holi- milestone (or is it a millstone?) has prompt- on the College’s admissions form—and has days, looking very different. Richard’s for- ed me to examine my accomplishments and been since the Dark Ages, when I applied. merly short hair now cascaded past his the things that have had meaning in my life. When did the question first appear on shoulders, and Ellen’s look was less refined. To answer these questions, Swarthmore has, Swarthmore’s application? I imagine, with Both talked passionately about politics, cul- once again, become a touchstone for me, some detective work, I could discover the ture, literature, and philosophy. How could and I have been thinking, “Why Swarth- answer to this bit of trivia; perhaps some of anyone study so many things at such a small more?” from another perspective. you will enlighten me. Yet whether it was college? Already, they were doing important Right now, the College is in the midst of 1901 or 1971, we all answered this question, real work. Rich was taking his political a six-year fund-raising campaign called The one way or another. ideals and transforming them into action, Meaning of Swarthmore. Many alumni, par- Can you remember why you chose working summers with field laborers pick- ents, friends, and foundations have already Swarthmore from among all the other col- ing apricots on the West Coast, and Ellen come forward with generous gifts to support lege choices you might have made? I can. My was working with children on the Lower this effort. Of the $230 million goal, sister, Ellen ’69 (see p. 38), and brother, East Side of New York City. They were on Swarthmore has, to date, raised close to Rich ’71, came to Swarthmore before me, so fire with what they were learning, and the $168 million in gifts and pledges. Two years I was able to see and experience the College heat was contagious. remain in this effort. As an administrator at even before I completed middle school. Over Why Swarthmore for me? Because it was Swarthmore, I’ve seen what is called a “giv- the dinner table, I heard stories about rela- a genuine community of people who cared ing pyramid” that sets out how many gifts tionships with professors that began in the about each other and the world. This answer of each size are needed to reach the goal— classroom and continued throughout their is still the one thousands of prospective stu- from one or two eight-figure gifts down to years at the College—and beyond. Professor dents give on their admissions essays each thousands of three- and four-figure ones. As of Philosophy Richard Schuldenfrei and year. Sometimes fervently, sometimes shyly, I’ve thought about my place in that pyra- Professor of Anthropology Steven Piker are they choose Swarthmore for the same rea- mid, I’ve wondered what it would mean if I two who figured prominently in my siblings’ son—to get the best education and to make significantly increased my regular contribu- stories, and both are still teaching at the world a better place. They may not yet tion to the College and made a substantial Swarthmore some 30 years later. fully understand what makes the Swarth- capital gift to this campaign—and why I As a teenager who lived near campus and more experience so intense and rewarding. should. visited often, I was able to experience the But, we, as alumni, know now. Let’s be honest. Swarthmore already has magical feeling of sitting in the amphithe- Swarthmore’s faculty members, so deeply a lot of money. I hear this sentiment with ater, looking up through the poplars to the committed to teaching each individual stu- some frequency when I talk to my own rela- blue sky overhead. I hung out with my sister dent, somehow remain current and produc- tives about the idea of a family gift to the as she studied late into the night in Parrish tive in their chosen fields. A vibrant student College (nine of us now share the Swarth- Commons, her manual typewriter churning body is drawn from public and private more experience). Isn’t the College’s endow- out a seminar paper due the next day. I came schools; from Bangladesh and Bangor, ment valued at more than $1 billion? Does to know many of my brother’s and sister’s Maine; from rural cornfields and urban Swarthmore really need our money? Would friends from across the country and around inner cities. These students and teachers it really matter if the College didn’t meet its the world, some who came from relative come together to learn on a beautiful and campaign goal? privilege and others from backgrounds I had enveloping campus. Swarthmore’s expecta- Those are the questions the College must never been exposed to before. Those kids tion and mission are that graduates are answer directly. Each of my family members were able to attend Swarthmore because of meant to give back, share our talents, chal- knows how meaningful Swarthmore has their academic achievements—and because lenge ourselves to improve the planet. In been in their own lives. They love this place of the College’s ability to meet the financial many ways, we have. and are extremely loyal to it. Clearly, the SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 4 powerful point is the scholarships the members anchor an exciting and developing College provides on the basis of need. program. These two enhancements to the Swarthmore has avoided making merit curriculum alone have required the equiva- awards, choosing not to compete with other lent of more than $21 million a year of colleges and universities that are increasing- endowment. ly trying to attract the best students with financial support. We use our scholarship THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE SWARTHMORE SO aid—now $16 million a year—to provide DISTINCTIVE cost a lot of money. Our choice access for students who otherwise could not to remain small and provide each student afford to come. Without this aid, Swarth- with a personal experience precludes in- more’s student body would not have the creasing income by simply enlarging the vibrancy, vitality, and character that it does. student body. From our extraordinary facul- It would fail students in need as well as stu- ty and low student-faculty ratio, to a cur- depth of their affection and appreciation for dents who need to experience economic riculum that offers both breadth and depth, Swarthmore are not the issue. Why does diversity. Even without any substantial to our beautiful and contemplative setting, Swarthmore need their support now? What enhancements to what Swarthmore offers Swarthmore has determined to lead. difference will their gift really make? its aided students, the cost of maintaining Swarthmore can provide this extraordi- I have been working at Swarthmore for the College’s current need-blind admissions nary education today—meeting the gap almost 15 years. I am not a fund-raiser. I do, policy has grown faster than the rate of between student charges and the actual cost however, understand the College’s finances inflation. Princeton recently eliminated the of education—because of the past generosi- because of my position here, and I would requirement that needy students take out ty of its graduates. These were people, just like to share the things I talked about with loans to attend. Brown has announced its like us, who recognized what their time here my family: intention to match that commitment. It meant to their lives. Today, a new generation The total cost of educating one student would take additional endowment of nearly of donors must step forward to make sure at Swarthmore this year is almost $80,000. $39 million to allow Swarthmore to be as that what others have built remains vital and strong; that the excellence for which Swarthmore is known continues undimin- Isn’t the College’s endowment valued at more ished; and that new generations of alumni are produced, committed to making the than $1 billion? Does Swarthmore really need world a better place. The College needs you because our country and world need our money? Would it really matter if the Swarthmore. The Meaning of Swarthmore concludes College didn’t meet its campaign goal? in December 2006. More than $16 million is needed to finish the new integrated sci- ence center and to complete the renovation That’s an astounding figure. As a “full-pay” generous to its students. of Parrish. Our goal for new endowment to student, I had always assumed my family Another consideration is facilities. The provide financial aid is $10 million. It’s our had paid the full cost of my attending current renovation of Parrish Hall and relat- turn. I can, in addition to my gift every year Swarthmore. I know now that my assump- ed infrastructure improvements will cost $18 to the Annual Fund, make a new pledge, tion was incorrect. Of the income on million. Each year, the College spends mil- substantially larger than those I have made Swarthmore’s $1 billion endowment, more lions of dollars of its operating budget to before. I’ve chosen to support the Parrish than $40 million a year goes to fill the gap maintain roofs, keep stone facades intact, renovation with a capital gift to the cam- between real costs and the tuition charged and replace outmoded boilers. To embark on paign. for full-pay students and between need— a project like Parrish—so ambitious yet so Why Swarthmore? Because if you don’t and ability to pay for our aided students. necessary—requires new funding sources. support the College, who will? T Today, more than half of Swarthmore’s stu- Now consider the curriculum that pro- dents receive need-based aid, with an aver- vides our students with the learning experi- Larry Schall, one of nine family members who age scholarship grant close to $20,000 a ences they need to make a difference in a share the Swarthmore experience, is the College’s year. changing world. Fifteen years ago, the vice president of administration. He would love The extraordinary level of budget sup- College did not offer computer science. to hear your version of “Why Swarthmore?”— port provided by the College’s endowment is Now, enrollment in courses offered by the why you have decided to join so many of your made possible largely by gifts that others Computer Science Department reaches friends in choosing the College again. His e-mail have made before us. Yet those gifts will not almost 300. Three years ago, the College is [email protected]. For more informa- allow Swarthmore to retain its position had only occasional offerings in Islamic tion about making a gift to Swarthmore, go to among the best colleges in the country. One studies. Today, two tenure-track faculty www.swarthmore.edu/support. DECEMBER 2004 5 COLLECTION

A BIG HOLE IN PARRISH THE DEMOLITION PHASE OF THE RENOVATION OF PARRISH HALL provided this unusual view of two familiar spaces. Below beams supported by the building’s original cast-iron columns lies the former Admis- sions Office space—known to older alumni as the College’s dining hall. This room will become the College’s post office. Above, the familiar windows of the former Parrish Commons will be pre- served as part of a new Admissions reception and meeting room. The floor has been partially removed to allow construction of a new central staircase leading from the first-floor hall to the second-floor Admissions Office and administrative floor. The $18 million project that includes Parrish renova- tions; remodeling of Sproul Observatory, now the home of the Alumni Relations Office; and related infrastructure improvements is scheduled to be com- pleted in December 2005. —Jeffrey Lott JIM GRAHAM SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 6 e t o V o t d r a o B h proposal. the under covered employees to hour per cents 90 additional an provide will coverage ly fami- for dollars bank benefit use to need the Reducing salary. cash as taken or coverage— health or dependent family for used be may that dollars bank” “benefit plus employees, benefits-eligible for insurance health vidual so. doing in them assist would College the and children, their of costs insurance health the cover to state, the by administered Program, Insurance Health Children’s federal the of use make to expected be would employees Eligible scale. sliding a on based hour, per $14 to up earn who employees of spouses or partners for insurance health of costs the cover means-testing—to on a subsidy—conditional add to College the for calls also proposal The 2002. in set hour, per $9 of minimum cur- rent the from increase an is This wage. minimum College’s the as hour per $10.38 establish would 2005.) March in meeting that of outcome the on (The month. this meeting their at Managers of Board the by considered be will proposal the students, and staff, faculty, among sions discus- campuswide of years two than more Following workers. lowest-paid College’s the of tion compensa- the improve will that staff his and Bloom H. Alfred President by developed plan a endorse to November in 58–0 S WARTHMORE rsdn lo n his and Bloom President indi- provides College The proposal the adopted, If e g a W g n i v i L n o ’ Bulletin AUT VOTED FACULTY S ilreport will

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SPEAKING TO MORE THAN 800 STUDENTS, faculty, staff, and community members on Oct. 28, former Vermont governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean came at the end of the beginning—and the beginning of the end. He came to Swarthmore five days before Nov. 2 as a messenger from the John Kerry campaign for con- tinued perseverance after

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support of local and national ʼ 07/ candidates. “After we leave this room,

there are tables outside. We EMILY FIRETOG need your help. We need to win Pennsylvania. If we lose Penn- STUDENTS GATHERED IN CLOTHIER MEMORIAL HALL ON ELECTION NIGHT TO WATCH THE RETURNS ON A LARGE SCREEN. sylvania, we’ve lost the election. MANYSTUDENTSWEREACTIVEINPOLITICSTHISFALL—ONBOTHSIDESOFTHEELECTION. We need to win Pennsylvania, it’s close, we need your help can- lege Republicans brought nantly Democratic campus. for get-out-the-vote activities vasing, we need your help Delaware County’s incumbent “The conservative voice is aimed at potential Democratic knocking on doors and getting Congressman Curt Weldon to definitely smaller on campus, voters. ACT alone had 130 vol- people out to vote all over this campus on Oct. 31. Weldon but I don’t think it is any way unteer student canvassers on region,” Dean told the near- endorsed George W. Bush for oppressed,” said Swarthmore Election Day, according to a vol- capacity crowd gathered in Pear- president and spoke of his work College Republicans President unteer organizer, Emiliano son-Hall Theatre of the Lang in strengthening American Maria Macia ’07.There are Rodriguez ’05. Performing Arts Center. defense by building a strong about 40 subscribers to the After a night of phone bank- Students capped months of alliance with Russia. About 40 group’s e-mail list. ing, a 3:30 a.m. wake-up call for get-out-the-vote efforts with a students attended, many wear- Most political activity this a morning of putting voter flurry of activity in the final ing pro-Kerry buttons, there to fall, though, was sponsored by reminders on doors in Chester, weekend. The Swarthmore Col- challenge Weldon on a predomi- the Swarthmore College Young and a day spent trudging door- Democrats, led by President Eva to-door the grassroots way, Barboni ’06,and the Swarth- hundreds of students settled BOOK AWARD FINALIST more Voter Registration Coali- into the Tarble all-campus space Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (University tion (SVRC), a nonpartisan on election night to eat pizza of California Press, 2003) by Nathaniel Deutsch, associate profes- group aimed at increasing regis- and watch the returns on a big- sor of religion, is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. tration and voter turnout. Celia screen broadcast sponsored by It is the first book-length account of one of the most fascinating Paris ’05 (see p. 10) described the SVRC. figures in modern Jewish history. Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, the SVRC as a clearinghouse for Students and faculty mem- a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born get-out-the-vote activities, and bers were there well into the in early 19th-century Russia and became famous as the only SVRC members sponsored voter next morning, many bundled in woman in the 300-year history of Hasidism to function as a registration drives in Chester, blankets, helpless to do any- rebbe—or spiritual leader—in her own right. Deutsch follows Pa., and on campus, while work- thing but cheer the results they the traces left by the maiden in both history and legend to explore ing with local progressive voting had worked for, scream at the her story fully for the first time. Deutsch, whose expertise is in groups. Many students volun- results they hadn’t, and wait to Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity, has taught in the teered with America Coming see how Ohio would swing. Department of Religion since 1995. Together (ACT) and Move-On —Elizabeth Redden ’05 —Tom Krattenmaker SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 8 PRESCOTT WINS increases in productivity. ing—especially when reacting NOBEL PRIZE Prescott, who was Kydland’s to such shocks—a consis- EDWARD “CHRIS”PRESCOTT ’62 Ph.D. adviser—and later col- tent policy over a long time SHARED THE 2004 NOBEL PRIZE league—at Carnegie Mellon Uni- would keep inflation under for economic science with his versity, currently teaches at Ari- control and benefit the longtime collaborator Norwe- zona State University. He is also economy,” he says. gian-born economist Finn Kyd- a senior monetary adviser at the Prescott becomes the land, for their work on under- Federal Reserve Bank of Min- fourth Swarthmore alum- standing the causes of business neapolis. According to Associate nus to receive a Nobel COURTESY OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY cycles. In the late 1970s and early Professor of Economics Philip Prize. Howard Temin ’55 1980s, they found that real Jefferson, Prescott and Kydland’s and David Baltimore ’60 shocks—not nominal shocks— ideas have influenced how cen- shared the 1975 prize in medi- are responsible for economic tral banks conduct monetary pol- cine with Renato Dulbecco for fluctuations. Such shocks could icy. “They were among the first their discoveries concerning the be of a negative nature, such as to emphasize in an analytical interaction between tumor virus- EDWARD “CHRIS” PRESCOTT the oil embargo of the 1970s or context the importance of con- es and the genetic material of IS THE FOURTH SWARTHMORE the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but stancy and credibility. Their work the cell. Christian Anfinsen Jr. ALUMNUSTOWINANOBEL they could also be positive, as argues that, although the Federal ’37 won the 1972 prize in chem- PRIZE. when the introduction of new Reserve had strong incentives to istry for his work on ribonucle- technology leads to rapid be inconsistent in its policy mak- ase. —Jeffrey Lott

HHMI TOUTS LIBERAL ARTS SCIENCE EDUCATION USING SWARTHMORE AS A PRIME EXAMPLE in a special report on under- graduate science education, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has praised the model of science education being pursued at America’s best small liberal arts colleges, saying that “when it comes to producing science Ph.D.s, liberal arts colleges are at the head of the class.” HHMI is one of the leading biomedical research foundations in the world. In the summer 2004 issue of the HHMI Bulletin, Swarthmore faculty members Julie Hagelin, assistant professor of biology; Amy Vollmer, professor and chair of biology; and Scott Gilbert, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology, discuss the research opportunities and personal attention that they offer their biology students. And Swarthmore alumni David Baltimore ’60, Hadley Horch ’93, David Page ’78, and Joseph Takahashi ’74—all prominent researchers or teachers at other institutions—tell how their undergraduate experiences shaped their careers. National Science Foundation data on the undergraduate degrees of science and engi- neering Ph.D.s show that although liberal arts colleges enroll just 8 percent of all four-year college students, from 1996 to 2002, their JIM G RAHAM graduates earned 15.5 percent of the Ph.D.s awarded. Among such schools, Swarthmore ranks second (after THOMASCECH,PRESIDENTOFTHEHOWARDHUGHESMEDICALINSTITUTE, Oberlin College) in doctorate recipients. LECTURED ON CAMPUS IN EARLY NOVEMBER. HE CHATTED WITH AMY CHENG Readers interested in obtaining a copy of the HHMI article may VOLLMER, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF BIOLOGY, AFTER HIS TALK. CECH WON call the College’s Office of News and Information at (610) 328-8533, THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY IN 1978 FOR THE DISCOVERY OF SELF- or e-mail [email protected]. SPLICINGRNAMOLECULES. —Jeffrey Lott DECEMBER 2004 9 10 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN a itrclyifune aercocs mla nevee the interviewed Smulyan choices. gender career where influenced world historically a has in college career arts renegotiate liberal and a challenge, at explore, students female how Smulyan examine choice, to occupational aimed in gender medicine. of or role education the either Considering in interest col- shown their had in experiences early lege who women, junior and sophomore Swarthmore 28 of lives and choices career 1991, the Since tracking project. been research had a Smulyan with Smulyan Lisa Education of sor job perfect the was me.” which for down, knowing people not letting trapped, wasn’t feared and reading I unhappy future. my being my all about if anxious failure was a I like done. feel and out wiped be I’d night, sword.” double-edged a is though, year, “intensity junior that her recognize of to beginning began the she By living.” in joy and ance, exuber- passion, to youthful equivalent exploration, “was intellectual says, good: she everything mind,” my students in by “Intensity, surrounded her. being like just of idea the loved calls intense,” mother “too whose her major philosophy and Celia intellectually. education soar an ’05, can Paris they where environment an seeking lege S f o e l b i c u r C e h T ere ocanlhrintensity. her channel to learned has Paris experience, Swarthmore her from drawn wisdom the Using ATMR TDNSAEDIE OEXCEL TO DRIVEN ARE STUDENTS WARTHMORE ai’attd tre ocag hnsebgnt sitProfes- assist to began she when change to started attitude Paris’ the of end the “At says. she cooker,” pressure own my was “I hycm oteCol- the to come They .

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CrlBrévart-Demm —Carol might.” now—it h Para- The “THE CRUM Free-Speech IS A JEWEL” ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF V i c t o r y BIOLOGY José-Luis Macha- IN SEPTEMBER, A CALIFORNIA FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT RULED that two do has received a $15,000 Swarthmore juniors, Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith, had been ille- grant from the Christian R. gally pressured by Diebold Election Systems to remove what Diebold and Mary F. Lindback claimed was copyrighted internal memos from the students’ Web Foundation to study the site at the College. (See “Students Win Net Fight,” December 2003 Crum Woods in summer Bulletin.) The case is thought to be an important interpretation of 2005. Working with stu- copyright law under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. dent research assistants, The court said that in asserting that the leaked memos—which Machado will use the discussed apparent problems with computer-voting machines manu- woods to examine how factured by Diebold—were copyrighted, the company violated the forests in suburban areas law. Diebold sent letters last year to the College demanding that the serve as storage pools for memos be removed from the students’ site. The College complied at atmospheric carbon diox- first but encouraged the students to pursue legal action. When ide produced from fossil Diebold officials then failed to counterfile a copyright-infringement fuel consumption. For this claim, the students were allowed to repost the memos. work, the Crum Woods will Although the controversy came at a time when electronic voting effectively serve as an outdoor laboratory. machines were receiving much public scrutiny, Pavlosky told the “The Crum is a jewel,” says Machado, a native of Colombia Chronicle of Higher Education: “We’re not really interested in voting who this semester took his advanced-seminar students for a 10- per se. We were worried about freedom of speech on-line.” Pavlosky day field trip to several ecosystems in the Republic of Panama and Smith are leaders of the student group Swarthmore Coalition including coral reefs, mangroves, rainforest, mountain, and dry for the Digital Commons, which advocates reform of copyright laws. forests. “Some students, even seniors, have never been there. It’s Their attorney, Jennifer Granick of Stanford Law School’s Center cool to show them the woods are a 75-year-old experiment and for the Internet and Society, called the court decision “a great ruling still going.” The woods consist of more than 200 acres of forest for free speech…. What it says is copyright owners can’t use false and 30 acres of swamps, marshes, and floodplains. claims of copyright infringement to squelch public debate.” —Tom Krattenmaker —Jeffrey Lott

CO-OP REOPENS On Oct. 14, the new Swarthmore Co-Op opened its doors to reveal a large, bright space, twice the size of the store’s old quarters. Cus- tomers wandered through wide aisles dividing shelves stocked with expanded selections of seafood, organic foods, and local produce. Tables near the large window at the front of the store invite visitors to sit and enjoy a snack or a cup of coffee. Planned as the nucleus of an ongoing effort to revitalize the Ville, the new co-op was funded by a loan from the National Coopera- tive Bank, community membership fees, and a $50,000 contribution from the College. —Carol Brévart-Demm JIM GRAHAM DECEMBER 2004 11 POETIC VISIONS The paintings of Professor of Studio Art Randall Exon depict both actual places and those remembered from his past. Character- ized by the interplay of light, color, and shadow on objects and scenes, his works transform ordinary subjects into personal and poetic visions. From Oct. 14 to Nov. 20, more than 30 of Exon’s recent works, including landscapes, interiors, and still lifes were exhibited at New York City’s Hirsch & Adler Modern gallery—Exon’s first solo exhibit there. —Carol Brévart-Demm

Polyglots Around the World SENIORS GREG AND STEVE HOLT ARE IDENTICAL TWINS. Sometimes one “It showed me what a life involved in the dance world would be like, speaks for the other. Sometimes they speak in unison. They both when the focus of your day—and that of most of the people you’re love to dance. Although they attended different high schools, meeting—is dance. It was very illuminating.” Greg learned Polish because of their parents’ wish that they develop “a sense of our- quickly because of its similarities to Russian, which he had learned selves” (they say in chorus), they both ended up at Swarthmore. at Swarthmore. Since his experiences with the Silesian Dance The- Although they don’t share a dorm room, they almost always eat lunch and spend a lot of time together. Between them, they speak eight foreign languages. And during the past two years, they each “Thanks to the time-zone change,” pursued various study abroad programs, which culminated in a reunion that took place against say the twins in unison, Steve made all odds. In spring 2003, Greg, who it back to Berlin 1 hour before his began dancing in high school, went to Bytom, Poland, with Tuesday-morning class. the College’s foreign study program, primarily because atre, Greg is considering a future in dancing more seriously, he was interested in train- although he is also interested in the revitalization of endangered ing with the Silesian Dance languages. Theatre. He traveled with As Greg’s program in Poland ended, Steve, who became fluent in the troupe to festivals in Spanish during a stay in Paraguay while still in high school, chose to Kalisz, Poland; Bratislava, spend fall 2003 in Salvador, Brazil. “During my time in Paraguay, I Slovakia; Vilnius, Lithuania; lived right on the border with Brazil and was exposed to a lot of and Kuopio, Finland. “It Portuguese. Living in Brazil was the only way I wouldn’t forget what was amazing,” he says. Portuguese I knew, and the Salvador program was one of only two Portuguese programs that Swarthmore supports,” he says. Steve was interested in more than just the language, how- BETWEENTHEM,IDENTICAL ever. “Salvador is the center of black culture in Brazil and TWINSGREG (UPSIDEDOWN) home to many cultural manifestations such as capoeira, ANDSTEVE (STANDING) HOLT, candomble, axé, and other traditions involving music,” he BOTH ’05, SPEAK EIGHT FOR- continued. His enthusiasm for capoeira, an Angolan dance EIGNLANGUAGES.THEIRFOREIGN form that involves singing and playing drums, continues STUDY EXPERIENCES HAVE TAKEN through his participation in a Swarthmore capoeira group. “I, too, see dance in my life, although I don’t think I’ll be a THEMFROMSOUTHAMERICATO dancer, whereas Greg might,” says Steve. SIBERIA,WHERETHEYSLEPTINA During spring semester 2004, Greg went to Irkutsk, RUSTICCABINANDHADAREUNION Siberia; and Steve chose to spend a semester in Berlin, ONTHESHORESOFLAKEBAIKAL. Germany. Both studied at universities, taking classes SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 12 WARTHMORE HOSTS STUDENTS FROM BELARUS

S THIS YEAR,SWARTHMORE IS HOST- Philadelphia, arriving at Swarth- ING TWO STUDENTS FROM BELARUS more on Sept. 2. If they want to whose university was recently remain for both semesters, they closed by the former Soviet cannot return home, even for republic’s government. More the winter holidays. than a dozen colleges and uni- “I always dreamed of study- versities around the United ing in the United States,” says THE PHOENIX States are hosting a total of 19 Herasimovitch, who studied ʼ 07/ such students. Swarthmore is international law in Belarus one of two colleges in Pennsyl- and, after one week on campus, vania to do so; the other is had already helped register peo-

CHRISTINA TEMES Cabrini College, which is host- ple to vote in Chester, Pa., for ANASTASIA HERASIMOVITCH AND YULIYA ing one student. one of her classes. “If we had SAVITSKAYA HAD ATTENDED THE EUROPEAN “These were students with- prepared for this, it would be out a home, and we thought it great. But not knowing the HUMANITIESUNIVERSITYINMINSK, the right thing to do,” says future is very hard.” BELARUS,BEFOREITWASSHUTDOWN. Dean of Admissions Jim Bock It is unclear where the stu- entirely in Russian and German, respectively. Steve also took classes ’90.“We’re glad we can be part dents will be next fall. Even if in Galician and Portuguese, continued to study capoeira, and of the solution while also pro- they do well, Swarthmore can- enjoyed the German capital’s abundance of public art, either by moting cross-cultural under- not guarantee them residency bicycle or the “cheap public transportation.” standing and the study of the visas. In addition, the College’s Greg, whose choice of Irkutsk reflected an interest in the history liberal arts.” own policies don’t allow for and cultural diversity of Siberia, enjoyed the feel of a small provin- Anastasia Herasimovitch students to transfer in as cial city and the proximity to outdoor activities such as cross-coun- and Yuliya Savitskaya, who seniors. try skiing. He also performed with a local dance company and arrived on campus just days Funding is also an issue. learned to play the bayan, a type of accordion. before classes began, both had Currently, the students are sup- The three-semester separation of the twins ended in a reunion completed three years at the ported at Swarthmore by assis- in Russia in May 2004. “We hadn’t seen each other for a very long European Humanities Universi- tance from the U.S. State time, so we came up with this plan for Steve to visit me in Irkutsk,” ty in Minsk, Belarus, before it Department and the Andrew W. says Greg. was shut down last month. Mellon Foundation. The Wash- The timing of the trip was crucial. Because Greg’s program was In July, the government ington, D.C.–based American ending in May and a summer internship in Alaska awaited him, he announced it was terminating Councils for International Edu- had little time. With his German semester running until the end of the lease on the university’s cation administers the project. July, Steve was hesitant about missing classes. In a masterpiece of main academic building because Whether this support could planning, Steve arranged a 12-day absence, including two weekends the government needed the continue through next year is and two German feast days, which permitted him to miss only one space. Two days later, a team far from assured. week of class. Hurtling back and forth across Berlin for various con- from the Ministry of Education This is not the first time in frontations with German bureaucracy, he “flirted” his way into announced it would recom- its history that Swarthmore has obtaining a German residence permit in record time—documenta- mend revoking the university’s hosted students whose educa- tion needed for a tourist visa to Russia; pleaded for a new airline operating license on the tion has been interrupted by ticket after his original one was canceled; flew to Irkutsk via grounds that it would soon no government action. As presi- Moscow; spent time with Greg and his host family; admired spec- longer have adequate facilities. dent of the National American tacular Lake Baikal; spent 87 hours on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Herasimovitch and Savit- Student Relocation Council stopping to tour cities such as Yekaterinburg and Kazan; and, skaya were already in the United during World War II, Swarth- “thanks to the time-zone change,” say the twins in unison, made it States on work-study programs more President John Nason back to Berlin 1 hour before his Tuesday-morning class. when this happened but with helped liberate more than Now both are back at Swarthmore. Greg speaks Russian, Polish, plans—and visas—to stay only 4,000 interned Japanese-Amer- and Spanish fluently and has studied Hebrew. Steve speaks Span- through the summer. Instead, ican students from the War ish, German, and Portuguese fluently, can read Galician, and is they had barely a week to quit Relocation Authority’s camps studying Arabic. Currently, they are taking ASL classes together. their jobs, pack up their belong- and found places for them in And as for Greg’s trip to Mongolia, his sleeping penniless on ings, and fly to Toronto to apply 600 colleges and universities Finnish beach, or Steve’s camping trip above the Arctic Circle— for new visas. Once allowed around the country, including well, that’s another story. back into the United States, Swarthmore. —Carol Brévart-Demm they took a 13-hour bus ride to —Alisa Giardinelli DECEMBER 2004 13 C h i m e s o f M e m o r y

THE TOWER ON THE HILL, looming over the Crum’s tallest trees as a larger-than–life presence, Clothier Memorial Hall stands right alongside Parrish Hall as one of Swarthmore’s most recognizable landmarks. It was named in memory of Isaac Hallowell Clothier, a manager and patron of the College for 47 years. For Victor Mandes of Ridley Park, Pa., it will always stand for someone else. “Clothier Memorial to me is the memorial to the genius of my father’s ability for his craft, and I do believe it was the one project he was most proud of.” Mandes, 81, comes to campus frequently in summer to “feel the presence of my father.” Joseph Mandes, an Italian immigrant stone mason who arrived in New York City in 1890 at the age of 21, fathered seven sons and two daughters and in 1913 moved to Ard- more, Pa., to found Joseph Mandes and Sons, Inc., the construc- tion company that would build Clothier Hall in 1929. The compa- ny, which numbered more than 100 employees at the time of Clothier’s construction, also built Bryn Mawr College’s Rhodes Hall, Princeton University’s Firestone Memorial Library, and all of the original stone buildings at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Del.—the setting for the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. Joseph Mandes had only seven years of formal education. “He was a self-made man,” says his son. Victor Mandes, the only survivor among his siblings, who was only 6 years old at the time of Clothier’s construction, built his own career first as a bricklayer, then foreman and superintendent. He climbs the hill toward Clothier slowly on a rainy October day, JIM GRAHAM his father’s memory in mind as the 2 p.m. chimes ring from high within the tower. —Elizabeth Redden ’05 COURTESY OF VICTOR MANDES

TOP: VICTOR MANDES OF RIDLEY PARK, PA., WAS 6 YEARS OLD WHEN HIS FATHER’S CONSTRUCTION COMPANY BUILT CLOTHIER. HE SAYS THAT THE GOTHIC BUILDING WAS HIS FATHER’S PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENT.

BOTTOM: JOSEPHMANDES, 1869–1952, IN 1929, THE YEAR OFCLOTHIERMEMORIALHALL’SCONSTRUCTION (LEFT). COURTESY OF VICTOR MANDES SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 14 FIRED UP expensive for-profit companies. KEVIN O’NEIL ’01 WAS IN CHILE ON A WATSON “I think my presence was more impor- FELLOWSHIP when he heard the news: A huge tant in terms of, ‘Hey, we can do this,’—as a fire had raged in the impoverished Bolivian confidence booster.” city of Santa Cruz, and no one was there to The arrival of two more Swarthmoreans fight it. gave the squad a second crucial boost. The tragedy led some Santa Cruz resi- “I was leaving to go home, and I felt my job dents to start the city’s first volunteer fire wasn’t done,” O’Neil recalled. So Tim Bragg company—and it led O’Neil to help them ’99 and Abby Lowther ’02 went down in do it. 2003 to conduct formal training. Soon, he and fellow former Swarthmore “They really kicked things into high

firefighter Mike Dougherty were pursuing a gear,” O’Neil said. Besides teaching first aid HUMBERTO SARAVIA shared dream: Supporting volunteer fire and and helping write bylaws, they raised money rescue squads in some of the most squalid in the United States to build a dormitory for KEVINO’NEIL (RIGHT) BROUGHTFIREFIGHTING cities in the world. female firefighters. EXPERIENCE, MATERIAL ASSISTANCE, AND “It turned out very few organizations do The crew is equipped with American MORALSUPPORTTOAFLEDGLINGBOLIVIAN that,” said Dan Hammer ’07,who will spend castoffs, including donations coordinated VOLUNTEERFIRESQUADTHROUGHRESCUE a second summer in Bolivia on a Lang by Ed Kline, Larry Luder, and other mem- CORPS(WWW.RESCUECORPS.ORG). Scholarship helping the organization that bers of the Swarthmore Fire & Protective O’Neil and Dougherty ended up found- Association. “They’re all wearing Swarth- unteers and dealing with crises and manag- ing—Rescue Corps. more firefighter jackets,” Hammer said of ing their budget and just doing day-to-day Only after O’Neil had been in Santa the Bolivians. business,” O’Neil said. “In Bolivia, the real Cruz for a while in 2002 were the volun- Medical and firefighting know-how has hard nut to crack is that lack of experience.” teers ready to turn on their sirens and serve turned out to be less difficult to impart than “As we’re finding out, this is slow, slog- their city of 1.3 million people. Until then, organizational savvy, O’Neil said. ging work,” he said. “But the most impor- residents had been forced to rely on mini- “The Swarthmore fire department has tant thing is, we’re seeing results.” mally trained police and prohibitively nearly a century of experience in having vol- —Colleen Gallagher

SCHOOLHOUSE SCORECARD ment, Tennessee’s Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement BLACK CHILDREN SCORE 3 TO 6 PERCENTILE points higher in math and Ratio). Project STAR, which began in 1985, was designed only to reading when randomly assigned to a classroom with a black study the achievement benefits of being in a small class. Students teacher. So found Professor of Economics Thomas Dee ’90 in a and teachers from 79 schools were randomly assigned to small and study recently published in The Review of Economics and Statistics. large classes and tracked from kindergarten to third grade for aca- “The persistent achievement gaps between minority and nonmi- demic achievement. This experimental design also matched teachers nority students are, arguably, the nation’s most pressing educational and students of different races randomly. His analysis of data from problem,” he said. the experiment indicated not only that black students performed Ongoing efforts to recruit minority teachers aggressively hinge better when placed with minority teachers but also that white stu- on the assumption that the racial dynamics within classrooms con- dents excelled when placed with white teachers. White children per- tribute to these achievement gaps. For example, the role-modeling formed 4 to 5 percent higher in math, and white boys, but not white argument stipulates that simply by their presence in the classroom, girls, performed 2 to 6 percent higher in reading. minority teachers present minority students with effective profes- “What this evidence suggests is that there’s something about the sional role models. Another argument claims that teachers may racial dynamic in classrooms that does have a substantive effect on show subtle biases toward students of races other than their own. student achievement.” His study could not address whether class- Dee based his analysis on data from a large-scale social experi- room dynamics matter in later grades or by gender and ethnicity. Dee plans to engage some of these questions by using ASTUDY BY ASWARTHMORE a more representative sample than the STAR data, which ECONOMISTSUGGESTSTHAT contained virtually no Hispanics, consisted of teachers RACIAL DYNAMICS IN THECLASS- who were almost invariably female, and was available for ROOM HAVE A“SUBSTANTIVE only elementary school students from one state in the EFFECT ON STUDENTACHIEVE- 1980s. In an upcoming study, Dee plans to use data from MENT,” CAUSINGBLACK CHILDREN a nationwide study, the National Education Longitudi- nal Study of 1988, to determine whether the interactions TO SCOREHIGHERINMATHAND of race, gender, and ethnicity of teachers and students READINGWHENTHEYARE TAUGHT influence test scores or teacher perceptions of students. BY TEACHERS OF THEIROWN RACE. —Elizabeth Redden ’05 DECEMBER 2004 ©MARK PETERSON/CORBIS 15 Men’s Soccer Makes History MEN’S SOCCER (12-7-2, 6-2-1 fell to No. 7 Wesley in the final, CC) With 12 victories, the Garnet 3–1. The freshman duo of posted its most wins and first Michael Bonesteel and Brandon winning season since 1995. Washington led the team in Swarthmore reached the Cen- scoring. Bonesteel recorded tennial Conference (CC) play- seven goals and four assists for offs and the Eastern College 18 points, and Washington Athletic Conference (ECAC) added five goals and a team-best Southern Region Championship seven assists for 17 points. Three for the first time ever. Its six CC Garnet players earned All-CC victories, the most in program honors. Senior goalkeeper Nate history, earned Swarthmore the Shupe and juniors Alex Elkins No. 3 seed in the conference and Andrew Terker all received play-offs. The Garnet fell to No. second-team honors. Shupe, a 2 seed McDaniel, 1–0, in over- co-captain, finished second in time in the semifinal match. The the CC with a 0.765 goals- team then earned a spot in the against average and an 85.9 save ECAC championship as the No. percentage and recorded a 4 seed. Swarthmore knocked off career-best six shutouts. Elkins

Lebanon Valley, 4–1, in the first anchored the defense at center- SWARTHMORE’S MEN’SSOCCERTEAMLOST 1–0 IN OVERTIME TO MCDANIEL round, and when the top three back before moving up to mid- COLLEGEINTHE SEMIFINALROUND OF THECENTENNIALCONFERENCETOUR- seeds all fell, the Garnet was field late in the season. As a mid- called on to host the remainder fielder, the co-captain post- NAMENT.INACTIONAGAINST MCDANIEL WERE MIDFIELDER CHARLIETAYLOR of the championship. The Gar- ed a career-high three goals and ’06 (ABOVELEFT), DEFENDER PAULTHIBODEAU ’06 (ABOVERIGHT), AND net dispatched the No. 8 seed three assists for nine points. Ter- GOALIE NATHAN SHUPE’05 (RIGHT). SWARTHMORE HADITS BEST RECORD Washington & Jefferson, 5–3, in ker led the team with eight goals, SINCE 1995, WINNINGSIX CONFERENCE GAMESAND FINISHINGSECONDIN the semifinals to advance to the including four game winners. THEECACTOURNAMENT, THE FINALROUNDSOFWHICH WERE HELD ON THE final. Unfortunately, the Garnet —Mark Duzenski NEWALL-WEATHER CLOTHIER FIELDATTHE COLLEGE.

A STROKE OF PLUCK A Swarthmore sophomore slipped away from campus recently to help a boatload of his fellow Americans capture a cherished victory in the obscure sport of dragon boat racing. After securing permission to skip a couple of classes, Dan Hammer ’07 shipped out to Shanghai for a long weekend in October to participate in the Fifth World Drag- on Boat Racing Championships. By a fraction of a second, the Americans won one of the key events in the international competition, earning a gold medal for the open 1,000-meter race in the so-called Premier category. EVELYN ORENBUCH The host team from China, where dragon boating originated more DAN HAMMER ’05 (NO. 4 ROWER IN FOREGROUND) WAS AMONG THE than 3,000 years ago, won the most gold medals, 11. But the Canadi- AMERICANS IN DRAGON BOAT NO. 1. THEY WON THE 1,000-METER GOLD an team was deemed preeminent for winning a gold and two silvers MEDAL AT THE DIANSHAN LAKE NATIONAL WATER SPORTS CENTRE IN CHINA. in the top three events. The gold medal won by the United States, which was host of the previous World Championship in Philadelphia by the fierce eyes and flaring nostrils of carved dragon heads jutting in 2002, was only its second win in a world competition, Hammer from their bows. said. Hammer, 20, began rowing 10 years ago. His crewmates in Shang- Unlike crew, in which the sculls are rowed, dragon boat racers hai included several former Olympic rowers. “I was by far the paddle their craft canoe style, each bearing 20 paddlers, a steersman, youngest,” he said. and a drummer to keep the pace. Dragon boats are also distinguished —Colleen Gallagher SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 16 WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY Sarah Hobbs ’06 ’06 scored the game winner with 4:12 left in earned a trip to the National Collegiate Ath- the second extra frame. Sophomore mid- letic Association (NCAA) Division III cross- fielder Neema Patel led the Garnet in scor- country championships when she placed ing with four goals and seven assists for 15 sixth at the NCAA Mideast Regional, cover- points. The Garnet displayed a balanced ing the 6K course in 22:25 to earn All- offense with 13 different players scoring Region honors. Carrie Ritter ’06 earned All- goals this season. Julie Monaghan ’07 and Region honors by finishing in 32nd place Saranne Perman ’07 each set records for and seventh of 35 in the Garnet team stand- defensive saves to finish in a tie for 10th in ings. Hobbs placed second at the Centenni- the conference, and goalkeeper Melissa al Conference championships, covering the LaVan ’07 finished in sixth place with a 1.53 hilly 6K course in 23:15, to earn All-Confer- goals-against average. ence honors. Ritter placed 12th, earning All- WOMEN’S SOCCER (4–13–1, 2–7–1 CC) Conference honors, and Kavita Hardy ’08 Senior co-captain Jordan Shakeshaft and finished in 18th place to lead the Garnet to sophomore Jane Sachs earned All-CC hon- a fifth-place finish. orable mention. Shakeshaft, a defender, MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY Lang Reynolds ’05 started 16 games at middle back, anchoring and James Golden ’05 claimed All-Mideast the Garnet defense. Sachs, a midfielder, Region honors in leading the Garnet to a started all 18 games and was second on the seventh-place finish at the NCAA Regional team in scoring, with three goals and three championships. Reynolds earned All-Region assists for nine points. She also scored the honors for the fourth time with a 22nd- game-winning goal in the Garnet’s 1–0 vic- place finish, covering the 8K course in tory over Bryn Mawr. Natalie Negrey ’07 led 26:42. Golden earned his first All-Region the team in scoring with seven goals and nod by finishing in 32nd place in 26:59. The one assist for 15 points. duo led the Garnet to a third-place finish at VOLLEYBALL (9–18, 2–8 CC) Sophomore the CC championship, equaling its best fin- Erica George was named to the 2004 All- ish ever. Reynolds CC team. George, an and Golden placed outside hitter, led the 12th and 13th respec- Garnet in kills per tively, earning All- game (3.32) and hit- Conference honors, ting percentage (.211) finishing the 8,000- and was second in meter run in 27:08.1 digs, averaging 4.4 and 27:11.11. per game. George, FIELD HOCKEY (8–9, who was ninth in the 3–7) Junior defender conference in kills Chloe Lewis was and digs, earned named to the 2004 honorable mention. All-CC second team. Natalie Dunphy ’05 Lewis made 16 starts closed out her career while anchoring the MARK DUZENSKI with a handful of Garnet defense. She SARAH HOBBS ’06 (ABOVE)PLACEDSIXTHIN school records. The led all Swarthmore THE CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE MEET AND 37TH two-time captain set defenders in scoring school career records with two goals and INTHENCAADIVISIONIIINATIONALCROSS- for kills (755), service an assist for five COUNTRYTOURNAMENT.SHEISTHEFIRST aces (176), and total points. She also SWARTHMORECROSS-COUNTRYRUNNERTOBE blocks (235). Karen made two defensive NAMEDASANALLAMERICAN. Berk ’08 finished saves. The Garnet third in the CC in jumped out to a fast start, winning its first blocks per game (0.97), Patrice Berry ’06 four games but struggled in conference play, finished fifth in digs per game (5.08), and winning just three of 10 matches. The squad Emily Conlon ’06 tied for fourth in aces (51) did post a thrilling, 2–1 double-overtime and was sixth with 777 assists.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM GRAHAM victory at Haverford, as Heidi Fieselmann —Mark Duzenski DECEMBER 2004 17 STATEOFTHEART

INSCIENCE,ITCHANGES.

he College’s DuPont Hall, dedicated in and is joined by a bridge to Martin, which 1960, was a product of the Sputnik also underwent significant renovation. Two Tera—a time when American science parts of DuPont—the lecture hall and the and technology education was striving to mathematics wing—were replaced by new win the space race and the Cold War. construction, and all of the remaining labs, Designed by renowned Philadelphia archi- classrooms, and offices were completely ren- tect Vincent Kling, the modern science com- ovated. plex housed the departments of chemistry, Designed by Helfand Architecture (with mathematics, and physics. Biology remained principal Margaret Helfand ’69) and a few steps across the quad in Martin, but Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, the soaring, envi- teaching computer science at a liberal arts ronmentally “green” structure anchors the college was unknown. north end of campus. Two new lecture halls Fast-forward 44 years (and turn to page draw classes and events from across the 44 in this issue), and behold the new state College, and the large commons at the cen- of the art. Swarthmore’s new integrated sci- ter of the building, recently named in honor ence center, which opened fully this fall and of College Vice President Maurice Eldridge will be dedicated in May 2005, houses five ’61, buzzes with activity day and night. natural science disciplines. It envelops the —Jeffrey Lott Cornell Science and Engineering Library

SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETINLAWRENCE S. WILLIAMS 18 2 0 0 4 DECEMBER 19 Written by Carol Brévart-Demm Laura Stephenson Carter Colleen Gallagher Alisa Giardinelli Andrea Hammer Jeffrey Lott Patricia Maloney Audree Penner Elizabeth Redden ’05 Lewis Rice David Wright ’69 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 20 A Swarthmore

Alumni have passed through the College’s loom. Wherever they go, whatever they do, it has changed and connected them.

If the College is the warp—those strong, straight cords that stretch away from the weaver—then students are the weft, the bright, young, and ever-changing threads that dance across the warp, guided by the hands of the weaver. They spend but a short time on the loom and then become part of the whole cloth. What emerges over time is a living tapestry of promise and purpose, sent into the world by skilled weavers who stay behind, waiting for new skeins of weft to arrive each September. The warp is their connection—the threads that bind the whole cloth together, stretching back through Swarthmore’s history and, if the weavers stay at their task, forward almost to infinity. The tapes- try is a rich one; its stories and colors bring energy and light as it spreads almost invisibly around the planet. Wherever Swarthmoreans go, whatever they do, the College has changed and connected them. Every day, Swarthmoreans weave tales still to be told. In this special issue, we have filled the Bulletin with 50 of those stories. As part of the larger tapestry of life, these are one small sample of the power of this College and the extraordinary people whom it has intertwined. —Jeffrey Lott DECEMBER 2004 21 HIGH STANDARDS People have always expected a lot of Elizabeth Urey Baranger ’49, and she has never disappointed. Looking back, she says that’s no surprise: “People flourish when they’re expected to do well.” Baranger was a theoretical nuclear physicist and a mother who worked outside the home when women rarely did either. But with a Nobel Prize–winning father who wanted his chil- dren to go into science and a department chair at the University of Pittsburgh who expected her to come back to work, she says, “They were not hard decisions to make.” As a Pitt professor in the 1950s and 1960s, she didn’t have any women graduate students. There was no day care available. The women’s movement got her thinking more about these things. When she became an administrator and had more of a bird’s-eye view of her institution, first as an associate dean, then dean of graduate studies of arts and sciences, and ultimately as vice provost, she was startled by how many fields treated women differently from men. “I had standing in the university,” she says. “It was impor- tant that I express support for women.” And she did—in hiring practices, on committees, and in grievance proceedings, among others. “It was the quiet pressuring I felt I was supposed to do to make things better,” she says. Perhaps it’s only natural that someonewho benefited from high standards would hold others to her own. —A.G. COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

FRIENDSHIP BUILDER GYPSY SPELL For 26 years, Charles Bailey ’67 has been work- Dance has captivated ing as a grant maker for the Ford Foundation in Africa Ninotchka “Nina” Ben- and Asia. His assignments have included stints in New Delhi, nahum ’86. A choreographer, Cairo, Khartoum, Dhaka, and Nairobi. dance historian, and associate profes- During the last seven years, he has been representing the foun- sor of performance studies and the- dation in Vietnam and Thailand, living in Hanoi with his wife, atre communication studies at the Ingrid Foik, and their two daughters. Bailey oversees grant pro- Brooklyn campus of Long Island Uni- grams in sexuality and reproductive health, arts and culture, and versity (LIU), she also teaches at the

social sciences. He is responsible for grant making in international American Ballet Theatre’s Summer ELLEN CRANE relations and poverty reduction in Vietnam’s Uplands. Institute. This year, Vietnamese Vice President Truong My Hoa presented In 1986, Bennahum received a Watson Fellowship to study Bailey with the Vietnam Friendship Medal, for his “actively con- dance companies in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, tributing to help and the former Yugoslavia—where she moved to choreograph and Vietnam through shoot a film on the avant-garde in modern dance. In 1991, she humanitarian proj- founded the Route 66 Dance Co., blending flamenco, modern, bal- ects and rural devel- let, and Afro-Cuban styles to develop a “cross-cultural language of opments and dance.” strengthening the In 1998, Bennahum completed a Ph.D. in performance studies relations of friend- at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts after traveling to ship between the Spain to film a documentary about Gypsies dancing flamenco. Her people of Vietnam book Antonia Mercé, “La Argentina”: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant and the people of Garde (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) grew out of her disserta- America.” —C.B.D. tion; in this work, she concentrates on the role of La Argentina as a SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETINCOURTESY OF CHARLES BAILEY 22 hr’ utr fslnew aea atasta ’ iet break.” to like I’d that Haitians as society. have our we on silence regime of that culture of a There’s impact been the I’ve “My about and says. 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PATRICIA BLANCHET 23 DECEMBER 2004 dance Film Festival in 2004 and was “It’s not a system we routinely look into. broadcast on network television as a two- It tends to be people with the least access to hour NBC special in July. An estimated 5.5 communication who are routinely incarcer- million people tuned in. ated,” Brennan says. “I have no idea what 5.5 million people The film features interviews with former look like,” said Dallas Brennan death row inmates, activists, lawyers, and ’94, producer of the film. “We work on journalists who were involved in Governor something for three years, asking ourselves Ryan’s decision-making process as the final if it’s worth it.” days of his term ticked away. “But after a film like this comes out, we In granting clemency, Governor Ryan see that people are stopping and talking also placed a moratorium on executions about the issues, and that makes it so that is continuing under current Governor rewarding.” Rod Blagojevich. Brennan is a producer for Big Mouth Brennan’s future projects include Arctic Productions, a New York–based company Waltz, a documentary about the conflicts that specializes in social issue films. Docu- that arise when a remote, traditional Arctic KIBRA JOHANNES mentary film producing, Brennan said, is community meets the 21st century, and an opportunity for her to meld business Election Day, a profile of how Americans CLEMENCY and creative instincts, “making an idea into vote. Big Mouth Productions dispatched Over haunting music, sons, moth- a reality.” film crews to 10 different polling locations ers, and fathers of murder victims Researching and creating Deadline gave on Nov. 2, chronicling in particular voters speak against the death penalty, Brennan and the film’s two directors, Katy who had been disenfranchised in previous as Deadline, a 2004 documentary, folds into Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson, the oppor- elections. its conclusion: Illinois Governor George tunity to delve into issues of racial discrimi- Brennan is also writing her first novel as Ryan’s blanket clemency for all 167 of the nation, poverty, and equity within a crimi- a side project: “It’s about the responsibility state’s death row inmates in January 2003. nal system that is not often critically ques- of telling a story.” —E.R. The 90-minute film premiered at Sun- tioned.

LIVING HISTORY An educator for more than 40 years, Anna Thompson Burr ’25, a.k.a. Anne Burr, prepared generations of students for their future. As a high school principal for many of those years, she was known as “two-gun Annie” for keeping both hands in the front jacket pockets of her business suits. After she retired in 1964, she spent almost another 40 years researching her family’s past, ultimately publishing four genealogical volumes. Yes, her family tree includes the famous dueling vice presi- dent, to whom she is related by marriage. By blood, she can claim William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great. Of her life’s work? “I’m glad I did it,” she says. “That’s all I can say.” Now, she’s the oldest resident in her retirement community in Med- ford, N.J., where she stays busy corresponding with her many family members and friends. A number of fellow residents happen to be her former students. Although Burr says she’s now “on the down hill,” she describes her limitations with good humor. “What can you expect at 104? Circumstances are circumstances,” she says. “You have to live with what you’ve got and can hold onto. And be cheerful. That’s all I’ve got for sale.” —A.G. GEORGE WIDMAN SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 24 A Swarthmore

UNCOMMON ENERGY The Brentano String Quartet is only a dozen years young, a tender age in the world of the venerable chamber ensembles with which the Brentano is often compared. Serena Canin ’88, a founding member and second violinist, thinks her group’s reputation for energy and vitality stems not from its relative youth but perhaps from its interpretive niche. “Our style has evolved into playing with minimal vibrato. We don’t play with a really lush, romantic sound, which I think suits our interests in early music and 20th-century repertoire. We tend to look for the quirky and bizarre in our interpreta- tions,” Canin says. The quartet, which is in residence at Princeton University, gives 60 to 70 performances a year in the United States and abroad. At Princeton, the four musi- cians coach chamber groups, help students with their compositions, perform works by

faculty members, and co-teach music history. This fall, the quartet was off to Amster- TEINER

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DOCTOR IS INN endary Dr. Benjamin Spock. Pediatrics took days and gave way to emergency medicine days to get one He’s a pinball wizard. where Ciancutti discovered a real log up. We did At one point, Arthur “Arky” need to teach emergency teams how not use ma- Ciancutti ’65 held the top score on to relate better to patients and each other. chines because pinball machines all around northern Cali- To meet this need, in 1976, Ciancutti we did not want to disturb the natural habi- fornia. That was after he decided to quit launched the Learning Center to teach tat of the river,” Ciancutti says. The logs practicing medicine but before he built an teamwork skills to medical professionals. ranged from 40 inches to 12 feet in diameter inn in Mendocino—and a lot happened in Today, the company offers teamwork and and were up to 20 feet long. The wood was between. executive training to clients in many fields. milled within a year and then needed four After Swarthmore, Ciancutti went to One of his early clients was a bed-and- years to properly dry. Case Western Reserve School of Medicine breakfast (B&B) in Mendocino. After a visit When sawed, they totaled between in Cleveland where he studied pediatric to the B&B, Ciancutti decided he wanted to 30,000 to 40,000 board feet. Ciancutti medicine under the tutelage of the leg- live in Mendocino along the Pacific Coast. started working with an architect to design He bought an old farm for his family, an inn to be built with the wood. A century later refurbishing the original farmhouse and a half under the mineral-rich water had and opening it as a B&B. However, the colored the logs deep chocolate, gold, and direction of Ciancutti’s life would soon vibrant red. change again—because of a game of pin- The 10-room arts-and-crafts–style Brew- ball. ery Gulch Inn opened in 2001, and the A pinball fanatic since childhood, giant redwoods salvaged from the Big River Ciancutti was playing at a watering hole again stood in the California sun, offering in Mendocino, when he got into conver- shelter. sation with some bridge workers, who Ciancutti is still involved at the Learning told him about some giant redwood logs Center coaching CEOs on teamwork issues submerged in the silt of the Big River. In and is co-authoring a second book on busi- the 1800s, Mendocino was the primary ness leadership. However, his primary focus supplier of redwood lumber to Califor- is the inn, where his passion for gardening nia, and the Big River transported the is given full expression. logs to the mill. Many sank before reach- “The inn is a total joy,” Ciancutti says. “I ing their destination. Ciancutti decided enjoy turning people on to the idea that he would eco-salvage as many of the logs there can be a balance in life like we have as possible. here.” For more than a year, Ciancutti and a But if you want to play pinball, you’re out partner raised these giant treasures from of luck. “My staff won’t let me have one; the river, using a specially built river craft they say it would be too loud,” Ciancutti pontoon and a winch. “Sometimes it says. —P.M. JAY GRAHAM DECEMBER 2004 25 ELEPHANTS IN to make while in Sri Lanka was that the SRI LANKA working elephant, like the wild elephant, is Naamal De Silva ’00, born in threatened,” De Silva says. “The majority of Sri Lanka, moved to the United working elephants is aging, and the whole States when she was 6. In 2000, she institution is in danger of dying out in the returned to her homeland for three months next 20 years. As the domesticated elephant to study Asian elephants and their trainers. has a very long and rich cultural, religious, She observed elephants dragging trees and historical heritage in Sri Lanka, many “felled in hilly areas where heavy machinery individuals are now searching for solutions, cannot be used. Timber hauling is the most which may involve captive breeding. Cap- important traditional occupation of domes- ture from the wild is no longer an option, ticated elephants in Asia,” says De Silva, nor should it be.” who spent time at a Sri Lankan elephant She added: “I traveled and talked to peo- orphanage, where many exhibited behaviors ple and learned the history behind domesti- COURTESY OF NAAMAL DE SILVA that are characteristic of wild herds. She cated elephants. It was very valuable from a national in Washington, D.C., as outcomes also interviewed several elephant owners research standpoint, but it was a cultural manager for the Asia Pacific Program; in this and trainers as well as animal rights experience, too.” capacity, De Silva traveled to China and activists and others who strongly oppose Later obtaining a master’s in environ- anticipated future trips to Indonesia, the elephant domestication, which can lead to mental management from the Yale School of Philippines, and other parts of Asia to help cruelty to elephants. Forestry and Environmental Studies, De set directions and targets for conservation “One of the main conclusions I was able Silva currently works at Conservation Inter- funding. —A.H.

TOP LAW SCHOOL DEANS fornia ballot ini- tiative passed in A Harvard Law School faculty member for more than 1996 that pre- 20 years, Christopher Edley ’73 H’99 had vents the state never considered leaving. Then, he had triple bypass heart university system surgery last year, spurring a midlife crisis. from using race “It forced me to ask the question of whether I wanted to spend and ethnicity as the next 25 years the same way I’ve spent the last 25 years,” he says. factors in admis- Committed to opening a West Coast outlet of the Civil Rights sions decisions.

Project (CRP)—a research and policy think tank he founded at JIM BLOCK After graduat- Harvard in 1996—Edley (top) began in July as dean of the Univer- ing from Harvard sity of California School of Law at Berkeley, Boalt Hall. He is one of Law in 1978, he three Swarthmore contemporaries now heading top U.S. law served in the schools: T.Alexander Aleinikoff ’74 (bottom left) Carter adminis- is Georgetown University Law Center dean, and Stewart tration as assis- Schwab ’76 (bottom right) is Cornell Law School dean. tant director of “The search committee at Berkeley was very persuasive about the the White House opportunities I’d have to continue the work I’ve been doing at Har- domestic policy vard and build an important institutional base at Berkeley with the staff and was Civil Rights Project,” Edley says. “California is ground zero for all ©SHERYL D. SINKOW PHOTOGRAPHY MARK FINKENSTAEDT national issues the racial and ethnic changes sweeping the country. What better director for the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis ’55. place to build an institution that can help lead the national discus- Later, he served in the Clinton administration, including as special sion of these issues?” counsel to the president, where he led the White House review of Edley faces major challenges in his new position, including a affirmative action and helped shape the “mend it, don’t end it” worsening fiscal crisis in California. He is immediately embarking approach to the policy. Although as Boalt Hall dean, Edley will have on a fund-raising campaign, helping to bolster new initiatives like to juggle several other institutional priorities in addition to civil the Berkeley location of the CRP. Among other successes, Edley rights, he will continue as a commissioner with the U.S. Commis- credits the CRP with influencing the Supreme Court majority that sion on Civil Rights until his six-year term expires next year. last year upheld affirmative action at the University of Michigan. The late Christopher Edley Sr. H’76 devoted his life to civil rights Earlier this year, CRP issued a report outlining the persistent issues. “It was his engagement on racial justice and public policy segregation of public schools. In his own efforts to increase diversi- issues while I was growing up that was really powerful to me,” ty, Edley must contend with the effects of Proposition 209, a Cali- Edley says.—L.R. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 26 A Swarthmore

DO THE EXPERIMENT Susan Marie Frontczak ’77 gave up a well-paying job as an engineering manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP) to tell stories. Her storytelling abilities are a talent that neither she nor her friends could ignore. “After 15 years of telling, I couldn't fit enough stories into my schedule. So I decided to take a leave of absence from HP in 1994 and officially left in 1995. Coworkers said I was brave to do that. They told me, ‘You won’t make money at it,’ and ‘You won't like doing a hobby as a job.’ But as a scientist, I decided the only way to find out was to do an experiment. I defined suc- cess as finding out whether or not I could earn enough while enjoying the process. As it turns out, I do make a good living, and I love what I do. I would advise Swarthmore students, allow your life to be an experiment,” says Frontczak as she watches the iridescent origami Sonobe modules (stellated poly- hedrons) she constructed blow in the breeze in her Boulder, Colo., office. Frontczak brings her characters to life in schools, theaters, universities, conferences, and corporate settings. She formed her own company, Storysmith (www.storysmith.org), in 1998. A recent addition to her repertoire is her portrayal of Polish- born scientist Marie Curie. The depiction is so accurate in voice, appearance and demeanor that it made a Polish woman cry and a hospice worker in Scotland ask, “Are you sure she’s dead?” “The word ‘storytelling' is misleading,” Frontczak says. “I aim to give stories, not tell them. I am a conduit for the story.

Stories open avenues for conveying a message, awakening the PAUL SCHRODER imagination, and communicating thoughts and feelings that we otherwise have no way to express.” —A.P.

BALL, STICK, BIRD for feet. “What’s astonishing is that the sys- tapping into TS I A R T / In the Massachusetts Berkshires, tem works down to 20 IQ, which means our this tenden- L G fall comes to Renée Stoetzner entire conception of intelligence is not cy to think T Fuller’s [’51] mountain, coloring true,” Fuller says. She couldn’t figure it out. narrative- old ideas and replacing them with brighter “It was one of our retarded students who ly, Fuller and more hopeful ones. Such could be a kept trying to tell me, and I just kept brush- not only metaphor for Fuller’s career. ing him aside—but one day he cornered me, eased the Fuller, chief of psychological services and we went back to my office, and he sat process from 1967 to 1973 at Maryland’s Rosewood me down and explained what happened. of learn- Hospital Center, a 3,000-bed facility for “I had not understood the importance of ing to read mentally retarded patients, is one of the story development and what it does to the for those nation’s leading experts on mental retarda- human brain.” with normal tion—and so what she discovered in 1972 Fuller’s system, which has reached thou- IQs but also facili- baffled her as much as anyone. Fuller’s Ball- sands of learners with IQs from across the tated the development of basic communica- Stick-Bird reading system uses the three scale, involves readers within a story from tion skills among those with very low IQs. familiar circle, line, and angle shapes to the first lesson. Her story-as-engram theory People who otherwise could not communi- teach children the alphabet. Using develop- posits that humans develop to think in cate at all are able to make very simple sen- mental linguistics, the student is thrust by terms of stories even before they have the tences, mainly using basic nouns, verbs, and the fourth letter into a series of stories she words to tell them—“Cookie,” when said by adjectives, as a result of this reading system. wrote following the adventures of “Vad of a toddler, is said and understood as part of a “It makes their lives worthwhile,” Fuller Mars,” a science fiction hero with rockets larger narrative—“I want that cookie.” By says. —E.R. ’05 DECEMBER 2004 27 JUDICIOUS “So sue me,” goes the common epi- thet. And sue we do, over just about any- thing—millions of times a year. As a judge in San Francisco, Isabella Horton Grant ’44 saw it all—business and fami- ly disputes, contested wills, landlord-tenant

problems, discrimination claims by workers. COURTESY OF ISABELLA GRANT First appointed to the city’s municipal court by then Governor Jerry Brown, Grant joined the Superior Court in 1982, retiring in 1997 as the presiding judge of its probate depart- ment. In that role, she worked to improve the way the court serves the elderly, especially those for whom the court must appoint a “conservator,” or guardian. According to Resolution Remedies, a Bay Area group that pro- motes alternative dispute resolution (ADR), she developed a repu- tation as a judge who helped litigants reach equitable settlements, using her knowledge of the law and her people skills to get to the heart of the matters before her. Since her retirement, Grant has been active in ADR, serving with other retired judges as a mediator and arbitrator in all sorts of disputes, often keeping those cases from reaching the court system.

She is often asked to provide expert advice in actual litigation as PHYLLIS CHRISTOPHER well. One case involved a scholarship fund left over from a class action lawsuit brought by San Francisco’s exotic dancers. The This year finds Judge Grant as busy as ever. She conducted a study case—which resulted from a dispute over “stage fees” charged to for the Superior Court on access to the court by the elderly, recom- dancers by club owners who claimed that the dancers were contrac- mending that—in addition to eliminating remaining physical bar- tors merely “renting” their performance space—led to a report by riers—there be better representation for the elderly and more pro- Grant on the proper disposition of the scholarship fund. In that fessional conservators and guardians. Last month, she gave a pres- role, she learned “more than I ever knew” about the lives—and entation to the National College of Probate Judges on sim- legal challenges—faced by the city’s sex workers. ilar issues. —J.L.

NO SHENANIGANS As a managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, Christopher Haines ’86 runs the magazine’s Web site, oversees the in-house programming department, and manages the data collec- tion and analysis group, which is responsi- ble for creating the magazine’s famous rank- ings of colleges and graduate schools and, most recently, a national directory of hospi- tals. Haines has worked for U.S. News since

2000. Previously, he had managed the Web U.S . NEWS & WORLD REPORT site for the Tony Awards and worked at an Internet start-up company that collapsed in

2000. He fictionalized the bursting of his JIM LO SCALZO/ own personal Internet bubble in an unpub- lished novel, Heaven.com. Haines laughs. “It’s usually a horse race second with Amherst in this year’s rankings. The question begs, though—if a Swarth- between Swarthmore, Williams, and “Since I’ve been in my role, Swarthmore more alumnus oversees the college rankings Amherst. The algorithm is pretty complicat- hasn’t been first, which is a good sign. It nowadays, why is Williams first among lib- ed; factors like alumni giving or graduation means I’m not pulling any shenanigans.” eral arts colleges this year? rate make an impact.” Swarthmore tied for —E.R. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 28 A Swarthmore

TURKEY THE MAVERICK Dick Hall ’52 played his This year, as he has nearly every election year first game in the major since 1958, Ken Hechler ’35 traveled across West leagues on April 15, Virginia in his red jeep, canvassing for votes. He developed an 1952—the spring of what addiction to this mode of transport during World War II while was to have been his senior serving in Europe. Plus, he says, “The greatest vote getter is to pull year at Swarthmore. He had people out of a ditch.” signed a professional con- Trained to be a teacher, Hechler’s professorial days at Columbia tract with the Pittsburgh were interrupted by war and then by government service as a Pirates the previous fall. speechwriter to his political mentor Harry Truman. Back in the After playing for a few classroom at Marshall University in West Virginia, he told his stu- weeks in the Mexican League dents they should participate in community service. They chal- during fall 1951, he “took a chance” by lenged him—“What is your excuse?”—and convinced him to run going to spring training in 1952. When the for office. Pirates told him that he could start for the team that very Hechler loves a good fight, and he’s had plenty. He’s defended year, he postponed his final semester at Swarthmore until the fall. himself against charges of being a carpetbagger, a communist, and Pirate teammate Joe Garagiola nicknamed Hall “Turkey,” a an “out-of-touch liberal.” He’s tangled with fellow Democrats, moniker that stuck throughout his career. It was the manner in including a governor who tried to legislate away his job as secretary which the 6-foot 5-inch 21-year-old ate that so impressed the future of state. One of his most satisfying victories is the legislation he sportscaster and baseball funnyman, recalls Hall: “Joe said, ‘Hey, pushed through Congress in 1969—against considerable opposi- look at that turkey gobbler eat!’ And the name stuck.” tion from the mining industry and a threatened Nixon veto—that Hall went on to a 19-year career with the Pirates, Athletics, greatly improved conditions and practices in the mines. No major Phillies, and Orioles. The Pirates moved him from outfield to the mining disaster has occurred since. So it’s no surprise that his most mound in 1956, where—despite an unorthodox pitching motion uncomfortable time in Congress was when he ran unopposed.. that one sportswriter said “looks like a drunken giraffe on roller “There was no one to debate with.” Hechler ultimately served 18 skates”—he became known for his control. “In the equivalent of 14 years in the House of Representatives. full seasons as a pitcher,” says Hall, now 74 and living outside Balti- Hechler, 90, did not succeed in his latest bid for statewide more, “I threw just one wild pitch.” office, but don’t count him out. Hall played in four World Series for the Orioles. In 1971, the last “I want to get in there and fight so year of his baseball career, he studied for and finished second in the truth and justice are served rather state on the exam to become a certified public accountant. “I fig- than the status ured I had gone to Swarthmore, so I could probably play ball and quo.”—A.G. study accounting at the same time,” he says. A second successful career followed and, currently, a retirement that includes the occa- sional trip to Camden Yards to see the Birds play ball. —J.L.

LIGHTBULB life-changing dream. ner said: “If you have lemons, group throws another party. Weeks before, a physician make lemonade. If you have “Helping people on a small MOMENT friend at the dinner who treats women, make Womenade." scale makes a huge difference," After an annual potluck Washington's homeless lament- The first WashingtonWom- Herrick says. “It doesn't cost dinner with friends in ed the small financial crises in enade potluck (http://washing- much to keep someone from Washington, D.C., several years her patients' lives. For years, she tonwomenade.org) in March being evicted or to fill a pre- ago, Lisa Herrick ’79, had written personal checks to 2001 drew nearly 100 women scription." a clinical psychologist, had a help with basics including rent who had a meal together and After a story about the group and medicines. Her small donated $35 each. After raising appeared in Real Simple two checks had gradually mounted $3,500—for items such as den- years ago, offshoots based on to almost $10,000, and she tures, groceries, and heating the original model started needed help. bills for DC's needy—the group sprouting up around the coun- Herrick conceived of a way to raised another $5,000 with a try. Now, more than 23 other raise donations through potluck second party and then $7,000 Womenades have formed. gatherings and later dreamed with a third. The most money “The spread of Womenade about the name for this new that Womenade ever had in the across the country has been group. In her dream, an air- bank was $14,000; whenever a surprise—but a total thrill," plane with an advertising ban- the account is depleted, the Herrick says. —A.H. COURTESY OF LISA HERRICK DECEMBER 2004 29 SUCCESSION OF CHALLENGES Marilyn Holifield ’69 is joyful today. She has just returned from court, where she successfully defended against a temporary injunction of a noncompete clause. “There’s nothing like calling the client to say we were successful and on the right track,” says Holifield (left), who primarily litigates corporate governance cases, commercial lawsuits, class action law- suits, and employment cases. “I like to put my arms around issues and facts and persuade a judge or jury that our position is appro- priate,”she adds. In 1981, Holifield was the first African American attorney to join Holland & Knight, the eighth largest law firm in the country, where in 1986, she became Florida’s first African American female partner of a major corporate law firm. Holifield, a Harvard Law School graduate, says her life is not about overcoming barriers but about meeting the challenges set before her. In a critical civic involvement in 1993 she helped negotiate an end to a three-year tourism boycott by African Americans of Miami hotels when Nelson Mandela was refused an official welcome by elected officials. “We brought together people who had never engaged in conver- sation before,” Holifield says of the negotiations. “We sought to bring the entire community forward.”

© PAUL HARTMANN The outcome of the negotiations brought about an increase in the number of African Americans in the hospitality industry and the opportunity for an African American group to develop and own MASTER OF THE BENCH a luxury class ocean side resort, a first for the nation. Even as her practice becomes international, her civic involve- In 2004, Justice Randy Holland ’69 of the ment continues. As a member of the University of Miami’s Board of Delaware Supreme Court became only the third Trustees, her challenge is to raise $5.5 million for the university’s American judge to become an Honorary Master of the Bench museum to support curator positions for African and Latin Ameri- at Lincoln’s Inn, a historic London legal institution. The other can art collections and educational programs. Americans who have received this award are U.S. Supreme Court Holifield, with her husband, Marvin Holloway, has acquired a Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John collection that embraces artists of Africa and the Americas includ- Paul Stevens. ing Sam Gilliam, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Purvis Young, Wosene Honorary “benchers” are dis- Kosrof, and Manuel Mendive. tinguished lawyers and judges “I like to think the work I do is a result of curiosity, interest, or

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THE SAME and department stores around the world, including Bloomingdale’s,one of their DIFFERENCE newest accounts. “On day one, if someone had “All our energies are going into the fall said, ‘Here are all the impedi- 2005 line,” Kello says. “The plan is to pro- ments,’ I probably would have said forget duce eight to 10 works of fine art, from it,” says Wilson “John” Kello which we’ll glean inspiration for the appar- ’98. Lucky for the fashion world no one el. It drives home the point that we’re artists did. Instead, Kello and his partner Karina making clothes. Putting art on bodies, get- Erdelyi began SAME in 2002. They based ting it out of the gallery and onto the street, their enter- prise on the simple idea that if that’s still a major goal.” they put their designs “out there,” people And the name? “We are all essentially the would same,” Kello says. “Just a fraction of genetic buy them. data defines us as individuals. Plus, you Many trade shows and sleepless nights could have a closet full of our clothes and later, that idea became a reality. SAME because they are so different, no one would clothing can now be found in 52 boutiques know.” —A.G.

BROOKE THOMAS matic: Call together residents and the com- munity’s prime instigators (usually a core of hardened offenders well known to police); admit to them that traditional tactics have been inadequate and have alienated the community; announce that key acts such as homicide and drug dealing must stop imme- diately (a message perpetrators rarely hear to their faces); tell them that if they fail to stop, everyone from beat cops to parole boards to probation officers to prosecutors to judges is ready to pounce on even minor

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MEGHAN KRIEGEL MOORE In High Point, N.C., this fall, the ap- proach had immediate results. FIGHTING in Criminal Justice Policy and Management “We shut down their worst drug market CRIME—AND at Harvard University. cold, overnight,” Kennedy says. Drug crime MIND-SETS Kennedy was a prime architect of and violent crime fell 60 percent, he says— Boston’s Operation Ceasefire, which gained with “virtually no arrests.” Society has tried to fight the national acclaim and won the Ford Founda- Sustaining such success has proved diffi- crime that wracks cities across tion’s Innovations in Government Award cult in Boston. Gun deaths there began America with two very different when that city’s homicide rate plunged in climbing again a few years ago. In an op-ed tactics: One promotes alleviating poverty, the 1990s. A philosophy major at Swarth- piece in The Boston Globe in 2002, Kennedy racism, underfunded schools, and the whole more, Kennedy says he embraces the need declared Ceasefire dead and urged the com- litany of societal ills widely blamed for to address deprivation, discrimination, fam- munity to revive it. But police recently warping the young. The other cracks down ily disintegration, and other ills—and reverted to a “sweep” strategy that, accord- with tougher laws, heightened sanctions, respects the role of state authority—but ing to the Globe, resulted in more than 400 and more arrests. insists they cannot be the focus of effective arrests in September. Some argue that both approaches are crime-fighting. Ceasefire’s phenomenal results helped vital. “No matter what the problem is, we grav- doom it in Boston, Kennedy believes. David Kennedy ’80 argues that itate toward one of those images—either “Lots of people treated it like a miracle,” he both get us nowhere. more criminal justice or more prevention,” says, “rather than what it was, which was a “As prescriptions, they’re empty,” says he says. “Neither one of them works.” job of hard work, and hard work must be Kennedy, a senior researcher at the Program Kennedy’s alternative is bracingly prag- continued.” —C.G. DECEMBER 2004 31 A LIFE IN MUSIC Seth Knopp ’85 has never known life without music. His music-loving parents took him to concerts as a tod- dler. Playing piano from age 6 and chamber music beginning in high school, he studied at the New England and San Francisco conservatories. Knopp (below left) went on to found a trio that was invited in 1987 to become the ensemble in residence at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Md. It was renamed The Peabody Trio and is recognized as one of the leading piano trios in the world. Winner of the 1989 prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the ensemble, which also includes Knopp’s wife, violinist Violaine Melancon (right), and cellist Natasha Brofsky (center), has per- formed all over North America as well as in Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East. Besides performing about 25 to 30 concerts a year with the trio, Knopp teaches piano and chamber music seminars and coaches chamber music at the conservatory. In addition, he directs the annual summer Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Vermont. The trio has made several recordings, most recently of Beethoven’s SINGING AT THE BAR Trios (Opus 70, No. 1 and No. 2). Torn between a life singing on stage and an inter- “The most amazing thing about a life in music is the music esting (and more so-called practical) career in law, itself,” Knopp says. “The pieces that one gets to live with on a daily David Kravitz ’86 did what many sensible people would basis are just such extraordinary works of art. The nice thing is that not do—he chose both. Not that the choice was easy. In fact, quit- when you live with a piece for a while, it’s wonderful to feel it ting his job in the Massachusetts governor’s office five years ago so become increasingly a part of oneself, even though a great work he could have more time for auditions and rehearsals felt a lot like reveals more of itself every time you play it. You’re peeling away “jumping off a cliff,” he says. “But I knew this was my chance to see deeper and deeper layers and finding more and more in them. It’s if it would work. Not knowing would have been worse.” such a privilege to be living with these works and to be recreating It didn’t take long for the verdict to come in. Kravitz found them for an audience.” —C.B.D. steady work as a freelance appellate brief writer, his expertise honed largely during his clerkships for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and for future Justice Stephen Breyer, when he served on the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. And his baritone has since been featured in numerous opera productions in Boston and around the country. He’s even taken the stage at Carnegie Hall for a solo—twice. “We do a lot of auditioning in the music world,” he says. “It’s no fun, and a lot of people get stressed out by it. But don’t be too worried. Don’t be afraid to try.” —A.G.

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Children can interact with CosmoBot adopted their toddler daughter, Lindsey, being poked, scanned, tested, through voice and body movement or 16 months ago. and measured. Although she was disquali- through more traditional inputs such as a CosmoBot was named the Maryland fied because of her eyesight, she plans to joystick. CosmoBot mimics the child or Innovation of the Year in 2002. That same reapply. In the meantime, a space flight leads the child in games such as Simon year, Technology Review named Lathan one of experiment created in conjunction with a Says. Participating in interactive play, a child the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators for colleague in France is under way with experiences movement and control, often her contribution to transforming the nature NASA. “It looks at the perception of 3D for the first time. The robot tracks and of technology. This year, AnthroTronix was objects in space,” she says. “How space records the child’s movements via wireless named a Technology Pioneer by the World affects the interplay between perception and remote monitoring. Economics Forum and was featured in Time motor control.” “A child may have a hard time concen- magazine and The Washington Post. Until her space dream becomes a reality, trating for any length of time, but in our tri- In fifth grade, Lathan was chosen “Most Lathan is satisfied to solve earthly prob- als, a child with ADHD played with the Likely to Go to Mars.” Her plans have not lems. robot for half an hour. That’s almost changed. Chosen by NASA in 2003 as one “CosmoBot is really for all children,” unheard of for any young child,” says Lath- of its top 100 candidates for the astronaut Lathan says. “It will forever change the way an, who with her husband, David Kubalak, program, she spent a week in Houston we think about education and play.” —A.P. DECEMBER 2004 33 WHAT A PERFORMER! Rhode Island-born actor and director Julian López-Morillas ’68 has been a favorite with Bay Area theater audiences for 30 years. Recently, he toured major regional repertory theaters at Berkeley; La Jolla; Long Wharf in New Haven, Conn.; and McCarter in Prince- ton, N.J., as the lecherous male lead in Fräulein Else, based on Austrian playwright and novelist Arthur Schnitzler’s short story.Having performed in every Shakespeare play except Henry VIII, he is desperately seeking someone to produce it. López-Morillas reads books by Einstein and Stephen Hawking for Audio Editions, a books-on-tape publisher. He knows the batting averages of the New York Giants’ entire roster. He won $14,899 “plus a rather good bedroom set” on Jeopardy.Because of the program’s rules—not because he pleaded while on the show for a producer for Henry VIII—he is now barred from Jeopardy for life.He has also won $1,350 of Ben Stein’s Money and passed the test to be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He says, “I begin preparing to perform when I reach for the doorknob to the set.” —D.W. KEVIN BERNE

years in Brazil, he resented how behind he in 1999. With the American Embassy in Bei- felt culturally when he was back in the jing under attack from students venting States. “It wasn’t until I got to Swarthmore their rage, Lyon slipped out during a lull that I went from being different to being and set up a satellite embassy in his apart- special,” he says. After that, a life spent ment complex for the duration of the five- abroad in the Foreign Service became more day seige. appealing. Now in his first ambassadorship—to Deliberately staying away from Europe, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu in Lyon mainly chose posts in the developing the South Pacific—he’s also in his last post world—Nigeria, Brazil, Ghana, and China, before retiring. After 30 years in the Foreign among others. Along the way, he has suc- Service, following international protocol cessfully navigated a dozen or so coups and still holds surprises, such as having to pres- civil disturbances. The first happened in ent his credentials in a rented morning coat, Nigeria when, just one year out of college, top hat, and gloves to Tonga’s 86-year-old he was posted to Lagos and played on the king, the world’s last near-absolute heredi- national basketball team with a forward tary monarch. who was also a colonel in the Nigerian But Lyon’s role requires more than

COURTESY OF DAVID LYON army. adherence to ritual. “I’ve found that avoid- “One day, I woke up, and he had taken ing ‘my country right or wrong’ rhetoric TACT AND over the country,” he says. “Six months actually gives me more credibility with for- later, the new president was assassinated by eign audiences,” he says. DIPLOMACY the uncle of a girl I was dating—the cousin So after a life of moving every few years, The grandson of a war correspon- of the guy who was overthrown the first where is home? Three places: Washington, dent who entered Berlin with time. I was able to figure out what was hap- D.C., although he’s only lived there a total of allied forces in 1918 and son of a pening, and in diplomacy, knowing what’s nine years since 1959; central California, diplomat who met Stalin in 1948, David going on is what it’s all about.” where his wife’s family lives; and Melbourne, Lyon’s [’73] career choice—to Another strange experience occurred in his post before Fiji and where his children become a diplomat—might seem a given. China after American warplanes accidental- have chosen to stay. Retiring won’t mean Far from it. After spending key childhood ly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade settling down anytime soon. —A.G. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 34 A Swarthmore

ON THE MOVE objects, and much of the front-end user interface. I personally added more than 500 artifacts into the database (with pictures) and Horses. Trains. Cars. Buses. Planes. wrote two of the thematic tours that appear on the Web site.” The Smithsonian’s America on the Move (AOTM) exhibit, mount- Marsh’s previous Web site experience creating the international ed in 2003, explores the role of transportation in American history section for Harley-Davidson’s e-commerce site helped her as she from before 1876 to the present day. See http://americanhistory.- coordinated the work for the large team of AOTM curators. si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/ to learn how people travel for work “It was a fascinating project,” Marsh says. “The goal of the Web and leisure as farmland, cities, suburbs, and international site was to expand the physical exhibit and to get more of the economies change—and to marvel at the magic of Allison Smithsonian’s collections available on-line. It was complicated Marsh ’98, who offered curatorial support on the massive because we were trying to reach a wide range of potential audi- project. ences—students, teachers, museum professionals, collectors, and A graduate student at Johns Hopkins in the Department of the history buffs.” History of Science and Technology, Marsh knew that she wanted to Marsh is currently teaching a museum studies class at Hopkins. work in a museum-related field. So for the past three years, she has “For their final class projects, the students are using the AOTM been working as an intern and fellow at the Smithsonian’s American database to design their own exhibits. If their projects meet Smith- History Museum. sonian approval, they will be posted in the Themes section as guest “For one of my school requirements, I worked on designing the curators. The undergraduates love that they have the opportunity to collections database for the AOTM Web site,” she says. “I helped post their work on the Smithsonian’s Web site—it’s much more with the database structure, the field requirements for all of the rewarding than getting an A on a term paper,” she says. —A.H.

COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION

BOATLOAD OF BOOKS South Pacific, Indone- sia, Africa, and the In 1999, during a six-month edu- Caribbean; and to cational voyage on the tall ship create an interactive Picton Castle, teacher Kate Web site that allows Menser ’94 spent a day visiting a schoolchildren world- school in a poor suburb of Cape Town, wide to have a virtual South Africa. In a building meant to hold experience of a voyage 800 students, Menser (bottom center) found on a tall ship. 1,200, packed 60 to a classroom, sharing 20 After soliciting in- broken desks. And they had no school- kind donations from books. “They shared notebooks and pencil schools, institutions, stubs that most North American children and organizations would have thrown away. Yet all the stu- from around the Unit- dents were friendly, welcoming, polite, and ed States and Canada,

well dressed. They put on a presentation of Menser and World- COURTESY OF KATE MENSER traditional music and dance, rivaling any- Wise team members thing put on by theater groups in the States, set sail in June 2000 on a 20-month, Web site during the ship’s most recent voy- and we only had a few boxes of crayons and 36,000-mile voyage around the world on age. She plans “to continue bringing books some stickers to give to them,” she says. the Picton Castle to deliver more than 30 around the world, expand beyond the Picton Inspired by her visit, Menser founded tons of schoolbooks, maps, blackboards, Castle, and return to full-time teaching, WorldWise, an organization whose three- and stationery supplies to poor and remote eventually starting [her] own charter school, fold aim was to collect educational supplies island schools throughout the world. based on the values of community service, for needy schools around the world; to con- Since 2002, Menser, who says she suf- global understanding, and tolerance.” nect with schools in remote islands and iso- fers “horribly” from seasickness, has been —C.B.D. lated tropical communities throughout the maintaining the organization’s land-based DECEMBER 2004 35 Perhaps most of all, what if a patch of old cornfield could become a prime source of produce for residents of surrounding sub- divisions and Center City chefs alike—and a model for a new kind of American agriculture? “The average vegetable that people purchase in a store is trans- ported about 1,300 miles and is usually grown in an unsustainable way,” says Mosca, director of Pennypack Farm Education Center for Sustainable Food Systems in Horsham Township, Pa., Montgomery County’s only so-called Community Supported Agriculture project. “We’re fighting a system that’s completely subsidized. A lot of [the work] is very low paid and in terrible working conditions.” When a group of Ambler-area residents founded Pennypack Farm on a Quaker summer camp’s 280-acre spread in 2003, they envisioned a place where the locals could buy farm-fresh food and where at least a sliver of land would be spared from sprawl. They hired Mosca, who had majored in biology at Swarthmore, to do the plowing, planting, tending, and picking with a staff of four labor- ers—who she insisted at the outset be paid a living wage of $10 an hour plus health insurance. About 200 dues-paying members of the nonprofit experiment come by regularly to pick up boxes of the latest harvest; some volun- teer their labor to belong at a reduced rate. The remaining bounty is donated to needy families via Philabundance and Ambler’s Hope Gardens. Seven or eight local school groups and 1,000 summer campers from the inner-city—some of whom she says had never seen an apple—got a taste of life on the farm this year. Scores of West Philadelphia high school students in the University of Pennsylva- nia’s Urban Nutrition Initiative got hands-on farming experience to JIM GRAHAM augment their entrepreneurial skills for their neighborhood garden program. UP ON THE FARM Pennypack’s lease with College Settlement Camp will expand On a mere 24 acres in a rapidly developing suburb next year to put 20 more acres under cultivation—after intensive of Philadelphia, Lisa Mosca ’94 is planting ideas: amendment to bolster the soil’s badly depleted nutrient level, result- What if kids who live so deep in the urban grit that they’ve never ing from decades of growing only corn. The farm’s reliance on only been in a supermarket, let alone on a farm, could supplement their natural soil conditioners and its strict avoidance of chemical pesti- cafeteria lunches and take-out dinners with heaps of fresh fruits cides, herbicides, and fertilizers mean it could take five to seven and vegetables—and learn to love them? years for the farm to live up to its mission as a self-sustaining enter- What if suburban high schoolers subsisting on soda and chips prise. came to recognize how nutrition affects their brains and bodies— The goal, Mosca says, “is to not just produce food but make peo- and how international agribusiness affects nutrition levels worldwide? ple more aware.” —C.G.

LEGAL EAGLE legal office consumes 10 percent of that on As The Washington Post and The New York about 1,400 cases a year. Times reported in August, Mora’s private Alberto Mora ’74 describes Mora was sworn in as the 20th general protest led to the rescinding of a memo his job nonchalantly: “Well, I'm the counsel of the Department of the Navy on signed by Secretary of Defense Donald chief legal officer for the Navy and Marine July 25, 2001. The former private practice Rumsfeld in December 2002 that allowed Corps. As chief legal officer, I am in charge, lawyer for DC’s Greenberg Traurig law firm, the use of intimidation by dogs and strip- broadly speaking, of all legal issues of both foreign service officer in Portugal, and edi- ping of detainees in Guantanamo. Mora forces.” tor of the University of Miami’s law journal protested on moral, legal, and policy “These are fairly large operations,” he made national news this summer for his grounds, and Rumsfeld annulled the docu- continues. “The fiscal budget for the Office advocacy of humane prisoner treatment in ment in January 2004, four months before of the Navy in 2004 was $120 billion.” The Guantanamo Bay. the Abu Ghraib scandal. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 36 A Swarthmore

ANCHORS AWEIGH by experiences—and I wanted to expand my “The greatest satisfaction I derive horizons. There’s a way of thinking that I from being a naval officer in time still had not experienced when I graduated.” of war is the feeling, late into the night, Ney is the communications officer on the when I am standing watch in the dark in a Hué City, responsible for the ship’s voice, e- dangerous part of the world, that the fear I mail, Web, and cryptographic traffic. She has have in me prevents those whom I love back top-secret security clearance, but she’s also a home from needing to be afraid.” warrior who recently earned surface warfare That’s Ensign Christine Crumley officer (SWO) classification. To receive this Ney ’02 describing how she feels on the classification, she attended a six-month bridge of the USS Hué City, a Ticonderoga- SWO training course and passed oral exami- class guided missile cruiser. Ney enlisted nations in weapons systems, engineering, shortly after graduating with a degree in administration, navigation, and “all warfare biology. Although she had considered a areas.” medical career, she was looking for another “Swarthmore taught me how to think,” sort of challenge. she says. “I am a better naval officer because “I had the gut feeling that I would be I can think clearly and quickly—and because very dissatisfied with my life if I had not I can communicate my thoughts to others.” served my country in the military,” she said Recently married to another naval officer, in an e-mail interview from the ship, cur- she’s considering a 20-year career in the rently sailing in the Arabian Sea. “I strongly Navy. —J.L. desired a broad education—one formed

HUMAN RIGHTS JUNKIE junkie.” “Think globally, act globally.” In the 10 years since, Novogrodsky has Noah Novogrodsky’s [’92] worked with human rights advocates in version of that maxim may sound incredibly Eritrea, Cambodia, South Africa, and Sierra ambitious. But as an activist lawyer working Leone, among others. He handles many on the international stage, he really is individual asylum cases personally. He’s changing the world, one case at a time. involved as an outside party—sharing While he was attending graduate school Canadian case law—in support of Califor- in international relations at Cambridge Uni- nia’s same-sex marriage case. The interna- versity, the 1994 Rwandan genocide erupt- tional human rights clinic he established ed. “The international community failed last year in his native Toronto—the only Rwandans,” he says. “To devote my life to one of its kind in Canada—is overwhelmed state-to-state relations seemed a pale alter- with requests. He turns many of them native to learning how to advocate for peo- down; he simply can’t afford the staff it ple individually.” Yale law school came next, would take to say yes more often. With nine cases currently open, a fix for the self-described “human rights including one in front of the European Human Rights Court and another in Belize, he and his University of Toronto law stu- dents are maxed out. “I think there’s a lot of thinking the He admits that the work of addressing nation needs to do regarding the legal human rights abuses, although often satis- aspects of the war on terror,” says Mora. fying, can sometimes still leave him feeling For now, though, he is certain de- “soiled.” But he draws on other parts of his tainees at Guantanamo are being treated life—like 2-year-old daughter Ruby with humanely and can concentrate on super- wife and partner Isadora Helfgott ’94—for vising the 620 civilian attorneys, 750 satisfaction. “The singing circle Ruby and I Navy judge advocate generals, and 500 attend every Friday morning is the cutest Marine Corps staff judge advocates direct- thing on the planet,” he laughs. “I also have ly and indirectly under his supervision. a terrific human network. My best friends —E.R. are people I know from Swarthmore.” CRAIG STRAWSER —A.G. DECEMBER 2004 37 RUSSIA’S ROCKY RIDE In the years since they toppled Lenin’s statue, Russians have been less than eager to embrace capitalism, says Linda Randall ’78. She recently has been writing on how globalization of workers affects communication styles between distinct cultures while she has served as chair of the Department of Man- agement, director of the Organization Strategic Development Human Resources

ELEFTHERIOS KOSTANS Program, and associate professor of Interna- tional Management for the Graduate Divi- BOOKLOVER sion of Business and Management at Johns multitude of topics and eras is represented, Hopkins University. Something about the look and from contemporary children’s paperbacks to Her research in the former nexus of fragrance of old books invokes feel- antique, scholarly books. Among her most world communism showed how old prac- ings of history, of stability and comfort. prized possessions is a 1490 treatise in tices aren’t so easily toppled. Inside The Title Page, a used-book store in Latin by the Greek philosopher Diogenes, “Historical traditions play a large part in Rosemont, Pa., just steps away from enclosed in an 18th-century wood binding. the formation of informal notions of doing Philadelphia’s busy Main Line, narrow aisles “The printing is gorgeous, isn’t it?” Potter business,” she says in her 2001 book, Reluc- are stacked with piles of books, and floor- says. “That’s not the original binding tant Capitalists: Russia’s Journey Through Mar- to-ceiling shelves bulge with some 30,000 though. I would never have put it in ket Transition. volumes. Title Page founder and owner wood—wood’s acidic, and that’s not what it Randall Beverley Bond Potter ’55 ought to be in.” was prepar- enchants with her wealth of knowledge and Although much of Potter’s business is ing to take a anecdotes. transacted via the Internet, which she began new position A longtime book collector, Potter, 70, using only two years ago, she cherishes per- this fall as “kind of slipped into” the used-book busi- sonal contact with her store customers, who associate ness well over two decades ago. Besides the describe her as “magical” and “brilliant.” provost of store inventory, she keeps a warehouse The store is a venue for kindred spirits who, academic stocked with an additional 30,000 to she says, may be reluctant to use traditional affairs at the 40,000 books, which she sorts through on meeting places like bars but who enjoy University of Sundays, the only day the store is closed. A books. —C.B.D. Baltimore. —C.G. LOUIS RANDALL

CROSSROADS On the corner of E. Houston and Lafayette Streets in RSITY New York City, Ellen Schall ’69 peers out of her second floor window—City Hall and Wall Street lie to the south, the multi- ethnic Lower East Side to the east. As dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Schall, a native New Yorker, has prime real estate in the school’s new headquarters in the historic Puck Building. NYU, Schall says, is a university in and of the city, a place defined by its surroundings as the Wagner School’s 889 students peer from AI AZNTI/E OKUNIVE YORK KATZENSTEIN/NEW DAVID their own windows to question, reframe, and invent solutions for public policy, planning, and management problems from their posi- tions at a crossroads of a city. “We really are a place in which the boundaries are more blurred in our understanding of where learning takes place,” Schall says. Outside her window, the Empire State Building blurs with the stratosphere. —E.R. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 38 A Swarthmore

DR. SLEUTH Weigong Zhou) has had some high-profile assignments that she She had dreamed of becoming a doctor from the wishes hadn’t been necessary. Not long after the Sept. 11 terrorist time she was a little girl but never imagined that one day attacks, she found herself part of CDC’s Anthrax Emergency her profession would take her all over the world. Response Team. She was the principal liaison for the field team As chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch at the U.S. Centers charged with investigating the anthrax spore-laden envelopes sent for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Anne to the House and Senate office buildings in Washington, D.C. Schuchat ’80 practices and teaches the principles of epi- During the 2003 SARS outbreak in China, she headed the Bei- demiology and applies these to infectious disease research, preven- jing-based SARS epidemiology and disease control team for the tion, and control. China Office of the World Health Organization. The largest SARS After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School in 1984 and outbreak—more than 2,500 cases—occurred in Beijing, a city of completing a residency in internal medicine at the Manhattan Vet- more than 14 million people. eran’s Administration Hospital, Schuchat joined the CDC as an “That was the most incredible experience of my public health Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer. “I really thought I was career,” declares Schuchat. “The people that I worked with on the going to do two years of applied epidemiology ... and [then] go on Beijing task force ... decided to build a hospital when it looked like to clinical work,” she says. “But instead, I never left CDC.” there weren’t enough One of her early assignments was investigating a mysterious isolation beds for the outbreak of listeriosis in newborn babies at a hospital in Costa cases that were oc- Rica. The infection is “a rare cause of meningitis and sepsis and curring. They built a pregnancy complications,” she says. After about three weeks of hospital in eight sleuthing, she determined that the infection was being spread by a days for 1,000 shared bottle of contaminated mineral oil used to wash the new- patients.... I have born babies. “Our team helped put in place a change so that the quite a bit of admira- washing of babies would be done in a safer manner.” tion for the Beijing Schuchat’s primary focus at the CDC has been on endemic, public health author- common infections. She spends most of her time doing “research, ities who led the public health response, surveillance, [and] training—training control measures.” either EIS officers like I had been, training students or visiting sci- —L.S.C.; adapted with entists,” she says. “It’s been a very rich experience in terms of get- permission from ting to see an impact in a few years.” Dartmouth Medi- Schuchat (right, in Beijing last year with CDC colleague cine, spring 2004

ADDICTED TO HORSES Ellen Singer ’83 is a self- welfare issue,” she says. proclaimed horse addict. Her Singer and her team provide veterinary love for the strong, elegant creatures led cover at competitive events. As a backup her to veterinary medicine and a posi- hospital facility for six racecourses in North- tion as senior lecturer in equine ortho- west England as well treating horses that pedics at the University of Liverpool’s are referred nationwide, PLLAH is the busi- prestigious Department of Veterinary est specialist equine hospital in the country. Clinical Science as well as orthopedic sur- In April 2003, against all odds, Singer geon at the university’s Philip Leverhulme and her team performed lifesaving surgery Large Animal Hospital (PLLAH). on Grand National contender Youlnever- Singer’s work focuses on teaching walkalone, after he broke his right front leg the veterinarians of the future and in a fall during the famous steeplechase. improving horse welfare by diagnos- With 10 bone screws in his leg, the horse ing and treating lameness. Her recuperated for two months and was then research includes investigating the released to his owner—with the optimistic risk factors for falls in competitive prognosis for a full recovery and the possi- horse trials and those for distal limb bility of someday racing again. fractures in racehorses. “I am a great fan of horse racing and “These fractures often necessitate other horse sports,” Singer says. “Horses are the humane destruction of the great athletes, who deserve to exhibit and

COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL horse, so their prevention is a horse achieve their full potential.” —C.B.D. DECEMBER 2004 39 chairman of Tom Snyder Productions, devoted his career to proving himself wrong. A former teacher, Snyder served as head designer of educational software products—designing, among other pro- grams, Decisions, Decisions, a program that placed entire classrooms in simulat- ed situations and required students to do research to develop productive solutions. Snyder developed his own animation technique, Squigglevision, to economize his computer programs. He tested his technique with a short 5-minute sketch involving a therapist, his slacker son, and a scary secretary—and somehow, Come- dy Central found it. “Within six months, we had an Emmy,” Snyder says of Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. The cartoon was the first animated show to air on Comedy Central, where it was shown for six seasons, from 1995 to 1999. Snyder’s SQUIGGLEVISION completely accidental foray into televi- sion led to Squigglevision, an animated science show aimed for chil- Tom Snyder ’72 still isn’t sure he buys it. Buys dren on ABC’s Saturday morning lineup from 1997 to 2000, and is what he based an entire career and company on, that is. now keeping Snyder busy freelancing for his former company. He “I was really pretty obsessed to see if there was any role at all for just completed writing a pilot of an animated FOX show to feature technology in the classroom. I’ve always been suspicious, which is the voice of Lisa Kudrow. odd seeing as how I ran an educational software company,” he says. Snyder is spending his free time since retirement composing a “Learning is a social function, and I think schools are maybe one musical comedy, “rewriting it for the eight trillionth time.” The of the last public forums, and it’s worth preserving that quality in a comedy follows a jaded young woman Robinhood who steals from school, where you get great conversations going and great discus- the rich and gives to the poor—before, of course, falling in love with sions. I think there’s a way in which computers interfere with that one of the rich ones. It’s in “the good old, sweet, romantic, senti- project.” mental” school, he says. Snyder, who retired in 2001 after 21 years from his position as From a time before computers existed. —E.R.

RACER custom builds bikes that range in price from Engineer by day, world-ranked $1,500 to $4,000. competitive cyclist by night (and Swan’s cycling honors include winning weekends) best describes Glenn the Hill Climb event at the World Masters Swan’s [’76] life. As a research Championship in Austria in the 1990s. He equipment engineer in Cornell Universi- also won the National Time Trials three ty’s Engineering Department, Swan builds times, in his age group, when he was in his the tools that researchers blueprint for mid-40s. This past June, at age 51, he won their projects. Currently, the largest chunk the New York State Time Trials. He has won of metal on his desk belongs to a Couette this event, in which he competes against cell he’s building for a professor doing riders of all ages, each of the 20-plus times research on fluid dynamics. he has entered it. After he completes his daily 8-mile, “The competitions aren’t as important to round-trip bike ride from work back to his me as they once were. I have enough tro- wood-heated house on 50 acres just out- phies. At this point, it’s not about a rank- side Ithaca, N.Y., he opens the bike shop ing, it’s about making it a good game, a that is attached to the home he shares good challenge,” says Swan, who has been with his wife and two Labradors. Here, he clocked downhill at 72 miles an hour. PHOTO COURTESY OF COUPE DES AMERIQUES SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 40 A Swarthmore

dreds of credits as a backup vocalist the albums of artists ranging from Céline Dion and Bette Midler to Spyro Gyra and The Black Crows; and she is the voice of Clio in Disney’s animated movie Hercules. Friends hear her distinctive voice “in just about every car and every detergent commercial. They call me up and say, ‘Was that you I heard in the Bounty commer- cial?’” It was. Her personal musical tastes run the gamut from treadmill-worthy fast-paced West Indian music to the classical station on the radio in her car. In addition to her furthering her own recording career, she directs the youth choir at her church, the Alumni Gospel Choir at Swarthmore, and AN WARNECKE WAYNE she is a voice coach to young professionals on their way up. are well known She and her husband of 15 years, Wayne to her. As a Swarthmore student, Warnecke, who is also her recording engi- Thomas tried not to sing, not to be heard. neer, produce her music on their own label, She majored in French and thought she’d be Segue Records (www.seguerecords.com), in an interpreter. But the music found her, and their home studio and are constantly MUSIC: politics compel her. Both are in her DNA. As researching new talent to produce. A LIFE FORCE the daughter of R&B legend Rufus Thomas, As she talked from her Westchester “It was very clear from the begin- she sang her first professional gig at age 8 County, N.Y., home, she held a Kerry- ning. I knew I had it. I just didn’t and grew up carrying a protest sign with her Edwards campaign button in her hand. She want it. But it’s one of the things of which mother, Lorene, who was active in the civil had performed at the Democratic National I’m sure in this world,” says Vaneese rights movement. Convention in Boston. “People called and Thomas ’74 of her vocal talent. These days, Thomas welcomes being said even though they couldn’t see me, they The challenges of a life in music, with its heard both musically and politically. She has knew that was my voice when the balloons financial struggles, management complica- cut her own swath across the music land- were coming down, and we were singing tions, complex deals, and promotion issues, scape, with three solo projects including her Celebration. I got calls from around the coun- recent CD, A Woman’s Love; literally hun- try,” Thomas says. —A.P.

“THE TRESNJAK TOUCH” It’s also about giving back. It’s not uncommon for Swan to win a charity Darko Tresnjak ’88 is a native of the race—as he did during a recent fund- former Yugoslavia who came to the United raiser for a children’s cancer center—and States at age 9. Now, at 38, Tresnjak is a renowned then give the winnings back. director of theater and opera. In 2001, he won the Alan “It’s cool to still be an inspiration to Schneider Award for Excellence in Directing. In 2002, his younger riders, even if only because you’re production of Pericles won numerous awards for directing old—at least in their eyes—and still com- on the West Coast. He has been in demand at theaters peting,” Swan says. “What is important to and opera houses all along the East Coast, including a me is that when I show up, others feel the two-year stint as resident-director of the Huntington

race is better because I was there. It mat- RICHARD FELDMAN Theater Company in Boston, which ended last season. He ters little whether I win or lose, as long as is currently artistic director of the Shakespeare Repertory I ride my best. When it makes someone’s at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, where he recently directed Anthony and Cleopatra day to have beaten me in a race, I know and The Two Noble Kinsmen. they respect me—that shared respect is a Writer Edward Karam described him in “The Tresnjak Touch,” in American Theater statement of success in and of itself.” (March 2004) as a lover of “bruised beauties,” Tresnjak’s name for dramatic pieces in which —A.P. not everything works but which may yield unexpected and wonderful rewards to those will- ing to confront the challenge of staging them. —C.B.D. DECEMBER 2004 41 COURTESY OF BECCA VAN FLEET

POTS WITH PERSONALITY “I strive to make pottery that incor- porates movement, gesture, and a Rebecca Van Fleet ’03, a potter who opened a sense of personality. I want each of my gallery last year in wooded Eaton, N.H., says that the pots to be both useful and playful, creative process is integral to her sense of well-being. thoughtful and fun. I am influenced by

“Working in my studio fulfills me in a way nothing else can,” so many things in the world around COURTESY OF RANDY BILLMEIER says Van Fleet, who was recently accepted as a statewide juried me; a day’s work may be made in member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. “Never before response to the undulating shadows of tree trunks on the snow in have I been so attuned to the natural world around me. The way I my front yard or by a moss-covered stone wall rambling along a dirt have come to notice details in my life—the changing location of the road. Each time I touch the clay, I am looking to achieve a complete- sun in the sky and the colors and smells of my surroundings—has ness of form in my work that satisfies my own aesthetic and my been particularly grounding and inspirational.” commitment to making objects that will be treasured.” After Swarthmore, Van Fleet worried that she had “lost a sense She adds: “To have a stranger admire and subsequently want to of belonging to something greater” and feared she might never find make one of my pieces a part of their life is, in my estimation, a very it again. “I knew no one in my small town when I first moved in sacred transaction. When someone responds to a piece, I feel that alone, but over the course of the past year, the outpouring of sup- person sees and understands something that I have seen and port for me and my endeavors has been, at times, overwhelming. To understood, and that shared moment is special—it keeps me work- see car after car of new friends pull up my driveway at my grand ing day to day.” opening in May was so special.” Van Fleet fires most of her pots in a large downdraft kiln. “The Van Fleet believes that “the creation of ritual—whether through art of pottery and these firing processes can yield both delightful morning tea in one’s own mug or a favorite meal in a special bowl— surprise and disappointment, but the unpredictability of the results can add joy and freshness to what can so easily become a routine is fuel for continuing to create and to learn about clay—and, ulti- existence. To hold and use a handmade object is to consider more mately, about one’s self,” she says. fully our own senses as well as the intimacy of sharing such an Visit www.beccavanfleetpottery.com to see an on-line gallery and object between human hands, an essential element of life that learn more about the artist, whose work has also been featured in seems to be increasingly absent,” she says. juried craft shows. —A.H. SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 42 A Swarthmore

INTERNET EMPOWERMENT The Internet’s potential to boost business productivi- ty has become a given. But its potential to empower the world’s poor is just beginning to be appreciated, Theresa Williamson ’97 believes. Her four-year-old Catalytic Communities aspires to be the chief medium for the disenfranchised to share their dreams, frustrations, and concrete solutions. Its database at www.catcomm.org details 85 projects undertaken in communities from Brazil to Sudan. More than 4,000 people from 50 countries visit the three-language site

©YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND/CORBIS monthly, she says. It could be “the first time a practical means was developed for such communities to break past the isolation that his- torically has limited and weakened them.” —C.G. CHIMPANZEE ANDRE WILLIAMSON CHALLENGE In 2003, then rugby co-captain Kirsten Vannice ’04 received a Eugene M. Lang Summer Initia- tive Grant to study the behavior of chim- panzees and humans at the San Francisco Zoo. She observed both the human-like behaviors of chimps and people's reactions to them. In her thesis, she examined the challenge that chimpanzee biology and THERESA WILLIAMSON behavior presents to human uniqueness and definitions of self. “I was most surprised by people's seem- FREE TRADER ingly unconscious recognition of related- As U.S. Trade Representative, Robert ness," Vannice says. “A phrase I heard a Zoellick ’75 has been a member of number of times was, ‘look at his eyes.' As President George W. Bush’s cabinet since with the rest of the face, chimpanzee eyes the beginning of the administration. Serving as the are very powerful and had a large impact on president’s principal trade policy adviser and chief observant viewers. However, there appeared trade negotiator has taken Zoellick all over the world. to be little recognition of chimpanzee He worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of exceptionality beyond these initial respons- 2002, which revived Trade Promotion Authority, and es. Personally, after spending hours in front launched the new round of global trade negotiations of the exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, it is in November 2001. He completed Free Trade Agree- hard to deny that there is a cognitive brain ments (FTA) with 12 countries—Chile, Jordan, Singa- behind those eyes." pore, Australia, Morocco, Bahrain, the Dominican Vannice is now a research technician in Republic, and five nations in Central America—and

the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and OFFICE OF THE U.S. TRADElaunched REPRESENTATIVE FTA negotiations with Panama, Thailand, Behavior at Rockefeller University. three Andean countries, and the five countries of the “Much of my Swarthmore course study Southern African Customs Union. He was also instrumental in the ratification of the focused on human evolution and genetics African Growth and Opportunity Act Acceleration Act. and culminated in my thesis. This topic Zoellick served as a top policy adviser to President George H.W. Bush during his 1988 really excites campaign—a job that mirrored that of Christopher Edley Jr. ’73 (see p. 26), who was domes- me, so my tic policy chief for Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis ’55. He served as undersecretary of current work state for economic and agricultural affairs as well as counselor to the State Department. He is perfect for was the senior American official in the German unification talks and worked closely with allowing me Secretary of State James Baker on policies pertaining to the end of the Cold War. to think fur- Between stints in government, Zoellick was executive vice president at Fannie Mae, the ther about government-guaranteed mortgage lender, where he managed the company’s affordable hous- these ques- ing business. He also taught at the U.S. Naval Academy, was a research scholar at Harvard tions," she University (where he had earlier received both a law degree and a master’s in public policy), says. —A.H. and served as a senior international adviser for Goldman Sachs. —J.L. DECEMBER 2004 43 44 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN . S E G N A H C T I , E C N E I C S N I S a hne o ic then. since art lot the a of changed state has The 1960. in from spot taken same photo the a see 18 page to Turn EFGOLDBERG/ESTO JEFF © T R A E H T F O E T A T S omrDPn alwsdedicated. was Hall DuPont the former after years 44 fall, this opened center science new warthmore’s efe Lott —Jeffrey 2 0 0 4 DECEMBER 45 CONNECTIONS

Boston: Ted Chan ’02, Boston Connec- tion co-chair, writes: “Recently, the Boston Connection held a well-attend- ed planning meeting at Anthem, a styl- ish new restaurant in Boston. During the rendezvous, the group came up with many new initiatives for the coming year, ranging from social events like wine tastings and pub nights to social outreach/community service opportunities to panel discussions. ʼ 97 Building on the success of the Museum of Science event last May, we also hope to find more alumni with unique knowledge to provide expert commentary or lead events. Based on the meeting, we’re happy to report that the rest of 2004 and 2005 will be full of great

Boston Connection activities for alumni of all ages. Watch your mail MEGHAN KRIEGEL MOORE for more information.” ALUMNI COUNCIL MEMBERS SAM AWUAH '94, DAVID VINJAMURI '86, AND Cleveland: Sharon Seygarth Garner ’89 arranged a wonderful NEW YORK CONNECTION CHAIR JOHN RANDOLPH '97 (LEFTTORIGHT)VISITED potluck picnic for Cleveland-area alumni at the farm of Jane Dixon THE NEW HOME OF THE ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE IN SPROUL OBSERVATORY McCullam ’62. More than 30 Swarthmore alumni and their families enjoyed the day. Many thanks to Sharon for organizing the event and DURINGTHECOUNCIL’SNOVEMBERMEETING. to Jane and her family for sharing their home and farm. ate director of capital giving, was also a guest at the event, which Denver: Bulletin Editor Jeff Lott spoke informally about the College was organized with help from Phil Weiser ’90. At the evening’s and the magazine with about 25 Colorado Swarthmoreans at the end, alumni were talking about future get-togethers along the home of Amy Blatchford Hecht ’52 on Nov. 14. Anne Bonner, associ- Front Range.

Nominate a Great Faculty Take to the Road Community Volunteer AS PART OF A CONTINUING EFFORT to bring “Election 2004—Why We Are Facing ARABELLA CARTER, who lived in the Swarthmore faculty members to alumni Another Cliff-Hanger,” was attended by early 1900s, was one of the great across the country, Professor of Political Sci- more than 100 alumni. unsung workers for peace and social ence Carol Nackenoff presented a lecture Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguis- justice in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. on the 2004 presidential election in Cleve- tics K. David Harrison gave a talk to the Similarly, many Swarthmore alumni land, Minneapolis, and on campus in newly relaunched Atlanta Connection on dedicate themselves to volunteer activ- Swarthmore for alumni. The talk, titled the topic of “Documenting Endangered ities of all kinds throughout their Languages.” Chirag Chotalia ’03 is the new lives. In 1997,the Alumni Council Connection chair in Atlanta. If you are decided to start the tradition of recog- interested in hosting or assisting in the nizing such an everyday hero at planning of Connection events in Atlanta, reunion, and the Arabella Carter contact Chirag at [email protected].

Award was created. The award is ʼ 89 The New York Connection heard from intended to honor alumni who have Associate Professor of History Allison made significant contributions as vol- Dorsey in October. Professor Dorsey dis- unteers in their own communities or cussed the issues raised and explored in her on a regional or national level but have recently published book To Build Our Lives not been recognized for their efforts. Together.

If you know such a person, please SHARON SEYFARTH GARNER We plan to send faculty members to contact the Alumni Office at (610) Los Angeles; Seattle; San Francisco; Wash- 328-8402, and request an award appli- KATHRYN SHARP O'NEAL '70, DAVID BAMBERGER ington, D.C.; Miami; St. Louis; and Durham, cation, or visit http://www.swarth- '62, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE CAROL N.C., in the spring. If you live in these areas, more.edu/alumni/arabella_form.htm NACKENOFF,ANDCAROLABAMBERGER(LEFTTO watch your mail for an invitation in early to fill out an on-line nomination. RIGHT) GOT TOGETHER AT THE RECENT CLEVELAND 2005. CONNECTIONS EVENT. —Patricia Maloney SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 46 Alumni Book Groups A Bit of Swarthmore in Your Hometown

n 1997,when book club mania swept the ed little time starting a Swarthmore book Icountry, Sue Willis Ruff ’60 asked a few group, first mentored by Weinstein, in 1999. of her Swarthmore friends if they would be Today, the New York–area group breaks into interested in a book group that would func- between five and eight subgroups—one in tion under the guidance of a Swarthmore Connecticut despite the distance between faculty member. Their response was enthusi- the group members. astic. Eight years later, the group boasts “We work with a professor because it more than 80 members. ʼ 94 provides sort of an extension cord to the “It is a multigenerational group. The old- campus and the opportunity to benefit from est participant graduated in 1945, and the professors we loved or regretted not taking a youngest members have just graduated," SANDA BALABAN class with as well as those who came to Ruff said. Swarthmore after we left,” Balaban said. FARHA GHANNAM, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF Early each fall, the book group members Balaban also arranges for a meeting in gather for an introductory lecture by the ANTHROPOLOGY(LEFT), CHATS WITH ERIKA the fall with the faculty member, including professor, who provides the unifying theme TEUTSCH ’44 AT THE PLANNING MEETING OF THE an organizing session where members and the book list. Eight or nine smaller dis- NEW YORK CITY BOOK GROUP. divide into groups that match their location cussion groups meet monthly, dissecting and availability requirements. Balaban says each book with the help of discussion ques- “We decided to create our own list of this makes for a random grouping that tions provided by the professor. Usually, he books—difficult books—that we wanted to allows the groups to be intergenerational, or she comes back for a wrap-up lecture in read along with other folks who felt up to which leads to richer dialogue. the spring. Book group participants con- the challenge,” Smith said. Over the years, the New York group has tribute $10 a year, which covers the cost of The group currently has about 20 “hard- been mentored by Peter Schmidt, professor the faculty member’s travel. core” members who meet monthly at of English literature (“Border Crossings in This year, with the help of Farha Ghan- Smith’s house, and everyone brings a 20th-Century Novels”); Carolyn Lesjak, nam, assistant professor of anthropology, refreshment to share. They choose the associate professor of English literature, the group is discussing “Beyond Oriental- books they will read from a list of about 50 (“Coming of Age in a Global Economy”); ism: Voices from Middle Eastern Fiction.” books that Smith prepares with the help of Sibelan Forrester, associate professor of Professors who have participated with a few group members. Russian (“The Great Russian Novel of Con- the DC group include Philip Weinstein, “One of the joys of being part of this science”); and Kendall Johnson, assistant Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of group is the fact that we are a diverse group professor of English literature (“Legacies of English Literature; Ken Saragosa, assistant with our one commonality—a connection American Exceptionalism”). professor of Asian American literature; to Swarthmore,” Smith said. “Swarthmore “Each month, the professor posts ques- Gilbert Rose, Susan Lippincott Professor has been the stuff that binds us to the text.” tions for the book of the month; groups Emeritus of Modern and Classical Lan- Once settled in New York, Balaban wast- draw on these in various ways, but we all guages; Nathalie Anderson, professor of appreciate the degree to which they illumi- English literature; Elizabeth Bolton, profes- nate literary trends on campus,” Balaban sor of English literature; and Rosario Mun- ALUMNI WEEKEND: said. son, professor of classics. JUNE 3–5, 2005 Anyone can start a Swarthmore book “I give 90 percent of the credit for our MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW for June 3 to 5 group. A new one is being formed in success to Phil Weinstein, who immediately for Alumni Weekend on campus. There Austin/San Antonio by Susan Morrison ’81 agreed to be our mentor in 1997.He provid- will be faculty lectures, a parade of and in Chicago by Marilee Roberg ’73. You ed a list of books and discussion questions,” reunion classes, Collection, class din- can follow in the footsteps of the DC and Ruff said. “All of the faculty members have ners—and much more.Everyone is wel- NYC groups and work with a professor—or been so generous with their time.” come, but graduating classes ending in a forge your own path like the alumni in In 1998, Sanda Balaban ’94,inspired by 5 or a 0 are the guests of honor, with Boston. Either way, the result is the joy of the launch of the DC book group, decided to the Class of ’55 celebrating its special reading with the intensity and depth start one in Boston. Within the year, Bala- 50th reunion. Watch your mail for a reg- learned at Swarthmore. ban moved to New York, but she left the istration form in late March 2005. We To join a group or to start one in your fledgling group in the hands of Steve Smith hope you’ll join us for a wonderful week- area, contact Tricia Maloney, assistant direc- ’83. This group also followed the recommen- end to enjoy your classmates and the tor of Alumni Relations, at pmalone1@- dations of Swarthmore professors for a few campus again. swarthmore.edu or (610) 328-8404. years but then took a different tack. —Patricia Maloney DECEMBER 2004 47 48 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN

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and the Abduction of Feminism,” she Care for Sale explores the popularity and content of wom- en’s advice books and argues that feminism Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62, The Commer- has been used to create and legitimate “a cialization of Intimate Life: Notes From Home commercialized spirit of domestic life,” draw- and Work, University of California Press, ing a relationship between feminism, mar- 2003 kets, and the emphasis on individualism. In “Children as Eavesdroppers,” rlie Russell Hochschild’s latest book Hochschild pursues a puzzle that she first Aextends her work on the relationships encountered in research she did for The Time among work and family, caring, and mar- Bind. She observed two young girls, both of kets. Hochschild, a professor of sociology at whom had parents working long hours: One the University of California, Berkeley, has child seemed to resent deeply her parents’ consistently challenged her readers to think work commitments and another who THIS BULLETIN COVER FROM FEBRUARY 1991 about what it means to deliver caring as a appeared more accepting. Hochschild’s product sold through a market (The Man- analysis of these differing reactions focuses ILLUSTRATES THE WORK-FAMILY TENSIONS aged Heart: The Commercialization of Human on how and what children learn about the EXPLOREDINARLIERUSSELLHOCHSCHILD’S Feeling); to work in the formal labor market relationship between their parents and paid BOOK THE SECOND SHIFT: WORKING PARENTS AND and then provide caring work at home (The caregivers and how that understanding THE REVOLUTION AT HOME, WHICH WAS FEATURED Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolu- affects the child’s participation in the rela- IN THAT ISSUE. HER NEW BOOK EXTENDS HER tion at Home); and to blur the lines between tionship. RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WORK family in the traditional sense and the “fam- In “Love and Gold,” Hochschild exam- ily” offered by the workplace, with the sec- ines the related migration of women from AND FAMILY, CARING, AND MARKETS. ond sometimes becoming the more appeal- problems with that approach. First, these ing and less stressful refuge (The Time Bind: Hochschild’s work is workplaces tend to be provided to only When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes upper-income workers. More generally, Work). Her new collection of essays builds readable and engaging, workplaces that become warm and friendly on and extends the themes developed in ear- “families” may seduce workers into seeking lier works, particularly within the context of but each chapter the comfort of their work “family” at the a feminist revolution that is no longer new expense of their home family. and a global economy that is still expand- deserves a return visit. The foregoing examples do not do justice ing. low-income countries to become nannies to the far-ranging insights this book offers. The book comprises sections on culture, and caregivers in higher-income countries, What is important is that the reader walks emotion, family and work, and care. It ends leaving their own families behind. Economic away with a challenging new understanding with a personal essay that encompasses all hardship at home, coupled with higher eco- of how everyday relationships are shaped by of these topics, which she describes as form- nomic rewards in richer countries, provide the culture and economic system in which ing a “larger portrait of personal life under the incentive for this migration. This essay they exist. Hochschild focuses particularly American capitalism.” At the broadest level, provides a nuanced look at the experience of on those difficult situations in which some this includes—but is not limited to—exam- the migrant caregiver, who cares for a child elements change while others stay the same ination of the transfer of many functions not her own while her own children are (e.g., more women enter and succeed in the traditionally provided within the family cared for by others—and supported, in part, formal labor force yet will still take predomi- (child care, elder care) to the marketplace, by the higher income she earns caring for nant responsibility for managing the fami- where the family has become a consumer another’s child. (Readers wishing to learn ly). Hochschild’s work is readable and rather than a producer of care. The essays do more about how such work is evolving in a engaging, but each chapter deserves a return not simply document this trend. Beginning global economic context will also want to visit to grasp fully the challenges she poses with trenchant examples that are achingly read Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex and to integrate the insights offered. This familiar to anyone with a family and a job, Workers in the New Economy, co-edited by book enriches our understanding of the Hochschild offers a rich and insightful Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich.) apparently—but not truly—impersonal exploration of why it has happened and Many researchers and policy makers transactions between work, family, and the what has been lost and gained as a result. applaud the development of “family-friend- market, and it challenges us to find strate- Her subsequent analyses are not only vivid ly” workplaces. But in “Emotional Geogra- gies to improve them for all involved. and moving but, quite often, surprising. phy and the Flight Plan of Capitalism,” —Ellen Magenheim In “The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life Hochschild forces the reader to confront the Professor of Economics SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 62 Other Books Ann [Mosely] Lesch ’66 and Osman Fadl Kenneth Turan (eds.), Coping With Torture: Images From the ’67, Never Coming Rikki Abzug ’86 and Jeffrey S. Simonoff, Sudan, Red Sea Press, 2004. Originally to a Theater Near Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts, exhibited in Cairo in 2000, these 53 art- You: A Celebration Corporate Social Responsibility Series, Ash- works express the pain that Sudanese suf- of a Certain Kind gate Publishing, 2004. This book draws on fered during the period since the military of Movie, Public- advances in neo-institutional organization- coup d’état in June 1989. Affairs, 2004. al theory to explore the environmental and Murray Levine, Douglas Perkins ’80, David The Los Angeles contextual influences on the structure and Perkins, Principles of Community Psychology: Times and composition of boards of nonprofit organi- Perspectives and Applications (3rd ed.), Ox- National Public zations. ford University Press, 2005. This updated Radio’s Morning Amy Fine Collins ’78, The God of Driving: and expanded edition presents new infor- Edition film critic How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the mation on social and physical environmen- describes his top 155 must-see films in Driver’s Seat With the Help of a Good and tal influences on behavior and well-being, revised and updated reviews. Turan, the Mysterious Man, Simon & Shuster, 2004. problems in planned change on a statewide director of the Los Angeles Times Book This true story describes how the author, a level, ways to make community psychology Prizes, has been a film critic at the Los Ange- socialite and chief style writer for Vanity more interdisciplinary, and more. les Times for more than 10 years. Fair, confronted her lifelong fear of driving Darwin Stapleton ’69, Creating a Tradition John Yinger ’69 after her instructor gave her a new outlook of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the on life. (ed.), Helping History of The Rockefeller University, Rocke- Children Left Ken Hechler ’35, Hero of the Rhine: The Karl feller University Press, 2004. As executive Behind: State Aid Timmermann Story, Pictorial Histories Pub- director of the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Pursuit of lishing Co., 2004. A master storyteller of the author developed this work from the Educational Equi- World War II, the author offers a full-length Rockefeller University’s centennial obser- ty, MIT Press, biography of Lt. Karl Timmermann, the first vance of 2000 to 2001. 2004. This book officer to cross the famed Ludendorff Bridge Richard Valelly ’75, The Two Reconstructions: addresses reform in Remagen, Germany. The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement, Uni- of state aid to William “Bill” Hirsch ’49, Passing the Baton: versity of Chicago Press, 2004. Comparing education and The Norman “Joe” Hirsch Story, PublishAmer- the two eras of southern political recon- details case stud- ica, 2004. A family saga with ethnic accents, struction—the period after the Civil War ies of recent school finance reform efforts in this fictional story travels from Brooklyn’s and the period between the 1940s and the Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Texas, and Ver- tenements to East Anglia, England—via an 1965 Voting Rights Act—the author fuses mont. In addition to editing this work, ocean voyage, Ebbets Field baseball and historical research and political science Yinger wrote the chapter titled “State Aid football, and a murder case along the way. theory to reveal the full significance of these and the Pursuit of Educational Equity: An Amey Hutchins ’93 with the University of periods in shaping American democracy Overview.” Pennsylvania Archives, University of Pennsyl- and deepen readers’ understanding of the vania, Arcadia, 2004. This photographic col- evolution of African American political Valeria lection focuses on the school’s history, pro- rights. Jokisch ’01, Matt Mur- viding images of more than a century of Patricia McKissack and Arlene Zarembka phy ’01, and student life inside and outside the class- ’70, To Establish Justice: Citizenship and the Joel Price room. Constitution, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. A tool ’00, take for educators to use when teaching about Katie [Moore] Kauffman ’64 and Caroline what you will, the Supreme Court and civil rights, this New, Co-Counselling: The Theory and Practice omission book covers a broad spectrum of cases, from of Re-evaluation Counselling, Brunner-Rout- music, 2004. the plight of Native Americans to women’s ledge, 2004. Challenging much of “good This Phila- desire to vote. practice” in mental health services, this delphia model particularly offers support to those acoustic trio was formed while all three facing or recovering from discrimination, Art Exhibit members attended Swarthmore. For the prejudice, and oppression. last three years, the group has performed Christine Hiebert’s[’82] exhibit, drawing as Arnold Kling ’75, Learning Economics, Xlib- in the Philadelphia area and toured around structure: works in blue tape, charcoal, and ris, 2004. According to the author (arnold- the eastern and midwestern United States. graphite, ran from Nov. 5 to Dec. 18 at kling.com), this book “tries to improve eco- This new album was released at a fall Philadelphia’s Gallery Joe (www.galleryjoe.- nomic literacy”; others recommend the work concert at the Friends Meetinghouse on com). for “learning how economists think.” campus. DECEMBER 2004 63 INMYLIFE

alone. But I got only as far as noon and one briefing today when my boss called to say A Letter From that the New York headquarters had decided that the security situation was too risky, and the United Nations Development Pro- K a b u l gramme staff members were to return home immediately. I thought this was unnecessar- ANALUMNAWATCHESDEMOCRACYCOMETOAFGHANISTAN. ily risk averse, given that there had been no incidents, but have returned home to hun- By Sarah Hegland ’02 ker down with my housemates over cooking, reading, and DVD watching. as well as for out-of-country refugee voting O c t . 8 in Iran and Pakistan. The sheer logistics of O c t . 9 Since I arrived in Kabul in November 2003, the project are impressive: 97 flights to Last night, there was a dust storm in Kabul. a new Thai restaurant, English pub, and a bring materials into the country, 532 don- The temperature dropped 20 degrees, the French café—serving authentic cappuccinos keys to transport materials, 6,500 satellite winds picked up, and a thin layer of brown, at French prices—have all opened in the phones used, 21.5 million ballot papers gritty dust covered everything in the house. city. The first traffic light appeared a few printed, 150,000 Afghan staff working at It was eerily quiet—there were no cars on months ago; roads have been paved, and the polling centers on election day, and 36 the street, and those of us internationals banks opened. When I first landed at Kabul different nationalities on the electoral staff. who hadn’t already left the country were International Airport, I was greeted by a The last few weeks, in particular, have ordered to stay at home with supplies of runway strewn with airplanes and tanks been crazy with election preparations. water and food, our radios on all the time. that had been bombed during Afghanistan’s Everyone was working 12- to 14-hour days. Being restricted is called “White City”—no 25 years of conflict. Now the rubble has Every small crisis felt like the success of the public places, restaurants, or bazaars; 8 p.m. been cleared, and red flags mark out the elections—democracy itself—hinged on it. curfew; twice-daily radio checks; and no U.N. de-mining operation. The conference room’s been triple-booked! nonessential movement. Some agencies had The international community has invest- It was a logistical nightmare because every issued baby-blue flak jackets and helmets to ed billions of dollars here since the fall of meeting was important: an emergency their staff. We were waiting for the sound of the Taliban. Some changes are obvious and Security Management Team meeting, where rockets, riots, mad helicopters, or evacuation heartening: I see fewer women wearing final updates on security and decisions on orders over the radio—and in the meantime burqas on the street and more Afghan movement in the country would be made; a watched Tom Cruise in Minority Report. policemen with new, black uniforms and meeting of all 18 presidential candidates We were hungry for reports all day today, shiny belt buckles. The rocket attacks have with the U.N. secretary general’s special rep- and they trickled in from a variety of become more sporadic and less devastating. resentative in Afghanistan; and our training sources. I received updates from friends at But with some of the highest malnutrition, session for 70 Afghan journalists on polling the press office about “Inkgate,” the scandal poverty, and maternal mortality rates in the and counting procedures. All week, I was wherein indelible ink intended to mark the world, the country still faces a daunting writing press releases and updates, fielding thumbs of voters so that no one could vote development challenge. questions from journalists, coordinating twice, proved washable. The ink was sup- With the approval of a new constitution interviews, and preparing talking points for posed to allay concerns that people had reg- last January, presidential elections were set U.N. staff. istered to vote in more than one location, for Oct. 9 and parliamentary elections Today and tomorrow, only essential staff but it turned out that the ink was a bit like scheduled for April 2005. I began working members are supposed to be in the U.N. henna—it could be removed if washed for the United Nations in December 2003, offices, and I received permission to work immediately. Candidates running against and, since then, I’ve been watching and par- for the U.N. press office at the Media interim President Hamid Karzai seized on ticipating in the intense preparations for Results Center (MRC) for the duration. The the opportunity to call the elections a fraud. tomorrow’s election. The $200 million proj- MRC was built for journalists covering the The ink problem was a small component of ect has covered the long process of building election; it’s where the press briefings take a massively well-prepared process. a fair and accurate list of registered voters, place, and it provides reporters with inter- Everything else went so well that it’s a civic education to teach citizens about their view rooms, 60 Internet-linked computers, shame to see this taint the perception of rights and duties, elaborate security training and real-time updates on the election fairness. The Afghans I talked to thought it and planning, building the government’s results. My job was to assist the U.N. was ridiculous—only a minor flaw. My ability to run a fair election, and the massive spokesperson Manoel de Almeida e Silva, friends and I exchanged messages all day, polling day operations, both in Afghanistan with the briefings—three on election day making fun of the incident—“Inkinerated SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN 76 “Every small crisis felt like the success of the elections— democracy itself— hinged on it.”

women walking down the streets to the polling stations, eager and calm voters, and effective security forces. It has been interesting to observe how much influence the American government has had in this election. Some Afghans are cynical—even if they like Karzai, they see his victory as inevitable because the Americans back him. I don’t think American officials did anything overt to affect the elec- tion—they had more of a public-image interest in transparent elections than in Karzai winning. What they did instead was to take every opportunity to tie the $1.2 bil- lion given so far in American aid to the cur- rent Afghan government. The American ambassador appeared with Karzai at every ceremony, from the opening of a new paved road to the construction site of a girls’ school, making it clear that Karzai’s develop- ment achievements are supported by

AP PHOTO/ELIZABETH DALZIEL American money. “I’VE BEEN TRYING TO LEARN DARI, BUT IT’S FRUSTRATING,” SAYS O c t . 1 0 SARAHHEGLAND(RIGHT).“AFGHANSUSESOMANYCOLLOQUI- As I write, the vote counting has been put ALISMS.” SHE LEARNED ONE PHRASE THAT SHE LOVES: “‘CHESHMETAN on hold for three days, pending the resolu- MAQBULAST!’ITMEANS,‘YOUREYESAREBEAUTIFUL!’YOUUSEIT tion of Inkgate, and it will take several WHEN SOMEONE PAYS YOU A COMPLIMENT,” SHE SAYS. “IT TURNS IT weeks for all the ballot boxes—some travel- AROUND AND COMPLIMENTS THE OTHER PERSON FOR SEEING BEAUTY.” ing by donkey—to trickle in to the regional COURTESY OF SARAH HEGLAND counting centers. But Kabul is quiet, and everyone is pleasantly surprised by the lack elections!” “Taliban conspinkacy!” down empty, shattered streets to the nearest of violence. A few rocket attacks occurred in Despite dire warnings of possible securi- mosque, today doubling as a polling station. the provinces, several narrowly averted ty threats and orders to stay at home, after a The men stood calmly outside in one line, explosions, and various reports of intimida- year of watching the election preparations, I women in another, and the police stood tion and threats, but my Afghan colleagues had to see something. As a woman, it’s guard at the periphery. Although my Dari came into the office this morning excited unsafe to walk alone on the streets, so I conversational skills have been improving, I about the day and eager to tell stories about dragged one of our guards with me to go for was afraid to talk to any of them—there was their first experience with democracy. T a walk late in the afternoon. Things were a sense that after a year of preparations, this quiet—the government had stopped all traf- day wasn’t mine, and it felt rude to intrude. After spending a year working in journalism in fic coming into Kabul yesterday, and the We walked home. London, Hegland—who majored in political sci- Afghan National Army, police, and NATO Journalist friends who could travel freely ence and minored in English—joined the United security forces blanketed the city. We walked brought back stories of droves of happy Nations in Afghanistan in December 2003. DECEMBER 2004 77 80 SWARTHMORECOLLEGEBULLETIN . 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