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Michael Kiefer Contributing Writers Vice President for Mandy Ball ’11 DEPARTMENTS Institutional Advancement Charles Curtis ’04 Samantha Drake 2 View from Founders Chris Mills ’82 Thomas W. Durso Director of College Communications Bob Elwood ’82 4 Letters Ellen Freeman ’11 Eils Lotozo Greg Kannerstein ’63 6 Main Lines Communications Editor Adam Orman ’96 Parker Snowe ’79 Brenna McBride Cheryl Sternman Rule ’92 18 Commencement Staff Writer Editorial Advisory Committee 20 Reviews Acquire, LLC Jody Romano Graphic Design John R. Botti ’92 25 Ford Games www.AcquireVisual.com Kaye Edwards Virtual Communications Gregory Kannerstein ’63 29 Faculty Profile Committee Bradley J. Mayer ’92 William E. Williams Norman Pearlstine ’64, Chairman 67 Giving 69 Notes from the Alumni Association 70 Reunion Weekend 74 Annual Giving 76 Faculty Friends 77 Class News 92 Roads Taken and Not Taken fall 2008

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33 From Mom to Movie Mogul Nancie Ellis ’84 played a key role in the production of the independent film And Then Came Love. By Samantha Drake 40 New Order in the Court Skip Herman ’75 is helping to lead a revolution in the structure and operations of a law firm. By Thomas W. Durso 48 Ending the Culture of Disposable Women Two members of the class of ’07 are bringing hope and opportunity to the women of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. By Brenna McBride 55 Haverford Since ’83: Part One Haverford celebrates its 175th anniversary with a three-part history of the College since 1983. Haverford College Office of Communications By Greg Kannerstein ’63 370 Lancaster Avenue • Haverford, PA 19041 (610) 896-1333 • ©2008 Haverford College

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C Haverford Alumni Magazine is printed on recycled paper. “Looking ahead to the next two semesters, I see us building on the momentum of what we’ve accomplished in our first year together.” by Stephen Emerson ’74 view from founders

For me, September has always signaled a time of renewal, of Looking ahead to the next two semesters, I see us building rejuvenation—feelings I trace back to my undergraduate years on the momentum of what we’ve accomplished in our first year here at Haverford. Sure, I loved summer vacation as much as any together. To begin at the beginning (with the literal beginning other young adult — the beach! the parties! the follies of youth! of one’s Haverford experience!) our admission officers report that — but on even the most relaxing of summer days I always looked not one family told us that their child would attend a different forward to my return to campus and all it would bring. school because our financial aid package was less generous. None. Now, as president, I get to experience campus life once again That’s a wonderful thing, and something I credit to our decision and those “September feelings” remain, but they’re multiplied to replace student loans with grants, a move to make a Haverford by a factor of about 1,200 on account of the students I’ll get to education more accessible to more students as it eases their debt work with. Each has ambitions, dreams and challenges; all inspire burden upon graduation, which broadens career options to me to contemplate how I can help make the most of the extraor- include more social service opportunities. To help ensure this dinary opportunity we have here. remains the case, we’ll soon announce details of our Next Generation Fund, a new way for you to give direct financial sup- port to this hugely important part of our mission. (Meanwhile, you can expect details of our freshman class in our State of the College report, which will be included in the January ’09 issue of this magazine.) On the academic side, the Board of Managers has approved the faculty’s outline for academic enrichment. It is a breathtaking vision for our future and calls for the full-flowering of cross-dis- ciplinary study enabled by our small size and the opportunity for close faculty-student collaboration. As we’ll detail in our January magazine, we seek to move beyond the traditional dichotomy of “teaching-oriented” colleges vs. “research-orient- ed” universities by offering a third way: empowering students to create, through research and scholarship, the material that forms the basis of study. And who better to chart this new territory than the original, independent thinkers working in Haverford class- rooms, labs and libraries? Come spring and our May issue, we’ll detail the Campus Master Plan (currently in the works) that will guide our stew- ardship of the physical space that we all know and love. In this first year as president, I’ve been struck by your recollections of how the landscape and architecture have been setting and back- drop for so many of your defining college life experiences: from dorm rooms and the people with whom you lived, to favorite trees and the way they marked the passing of time, to the way The turf field is stitched together in the sunlight reflected off a certain building that you always passed 15-foot sections; some 12” of those on the way back from soccer practice. One cannot live here and stitches are mine! not be affected by this as a place. Our Master Plan will respect the history of Haverford as a physical space while enabling us to See the complete story online in the make changes to better serve the emerging needs of our campus. Haverblog at www.haverford.edu/turf. Throughout this academic year we’ll be celebrating the College’s 175th birthday, beginning in this magazine with the

2 Haverford Magazine Our Master Plan will respect the history of Haverford as a physical space while enabling us to make changes to better serve the emerging needs of our campus. first installment of Greg Kannerstein’s updated history of the College that covers the period 1983-2008—a companion to his The Spirit and the Intellect which was published upon our sesqui- centennial celebration. Surely nobody is in a better position to tell this story than Greg (class of ’63) who has served the College in so many capacities over the decades, including his current role as Dean. Look for a variety of events and ways in which you can participate in commemorating the College’s birthday. You may recall that my last column mentioned our plan to name the new artificial turf field after former Athletic Director Dana Swan. I’m deeply saddened to report that Dana passed away in June. It’s impossible to overstate the impact he had on so many Haverfordians. Perhaps it’s best to say simply that Dana was there for us—as mentor, coach, guiding influence, confi- dant, shining example. It was Dana who taught me to live by the motto “Rest when you get there.” He will be missed—and remembered. You can read more about his life in the tribute we’ve included in this issue. I want to thank all of you for making my first year so fulfill- ing. I came to Haverford for the people and returned for the same reason. You are a great reason to come to work every day and I look forward to working with you in the year ahead! All the best,

Steve

Ron Tola (right) heads up our Facilities Management Department. Here we are checking out progress on Swan Field, our new turf surface named in honor of former Athletic Director Dana Swan.

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Dissecting “Local” and “Sustainable” Food Options

It’s always interesting to take the cur- rent concern and dissect it a bit. With regard to the Dining Center’s new bills of fare: Good on em for thinking to put the fruit first and the pure calories last. Concerns about “local” and “sustain- able,” however, are interesting. The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University shows that only 4 to 7% of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with meat actually come from transportation over distance, this reported in Science News May 24, “Sustainable,” economically and in food production, 2008. Nearly all such emissions result from production. The question here, then, is not might mean a state of equilibrium: When profits one of our distribution system, which has are good, do they need to increase? been well documented to introduce pathogens, reduce nutrient content in food, and for which tough skinned varieties have Economies of scale are often invoked to extreme demands to eliminate wildlife near been bred over the past seven decades; indicate that “bigger is always better” and fields. On a smaller scale such measures rather this is a question of production that endless growth is a positive develop- would be unnecessary, and these large dis- methods. In the case of meat, the prob- ment. Were this growth part of your body, tributors and retailers wouldn’t occupy a lems with hormone and antibiotic treat- you’d have it cut out. “Sustainable,” eco- position to allow them to dictate policy. ments are documented in Michael Pollan’s nomically and in food production, might To wrap this rather long note up, the books as well as in Jeffrey Smith’s Seeds of mean a state of equilibrium: When prof- quality of what we eat certainly is deter- Deception. We see that cattle fed grain grow its are good, do they need to increase? mined by how it was grown, whether ani- obese, flatulent and dyspeptic, as well as As reported in the May 28 issue of High mal, plant or “other” (out here, there are a wasting grain that humans could eat, Country News, companies producing veg- half dozen collectible and delicious mush- whereas pastured cattle do not develop etables in California have been required rooms in the rainy season); how it is dis- these symptoms and eat grass which we recently to implement “scorched earth” tributed affects nutritional value as well, cannot eat, and provide the fatty acids that policies (elimination of all “harborage” for varieties suited to shipping are not best for benefit our physiology. Those flatulent, wildlife, including pollinators and preda- eating, meat grown in a sickly state will be dyspeptic cattle are producing abnormal tors of pest species—and consequent ele- less salutary than meat from healthy ani- amounts of methane due to poor diet. vated runoff in rainy seasons, escalated mals; and the closer to whole, unprocessed An additional aspect not addressed in removal of topsoil in dry seasons by wind, plant, fruit and animal products the bet- those sources is the divorce of pasture, cat- and need for more intensive chemical ter. This does mean quite likely buying tle and their droppings. In pastures, drop- methods of pest control at all times) in close by, but more important is how it's pings are a principal source of nutrient for response to bacterial pathogens introduced produced at least as regards greenhouse the grass; in feedlots they are a disposal by feral pigs in California spinach farms. gas emissions, which means buying from problem. This is a question again of dis- Distributors and large retailers are report- smaller, more attentive producers. tribution, and finally of an economic ed to be engaging in a game of one upman- model that has become superannuated. ship, seeing who can make the most Carson Barnes ’78

4 Haverford Magazine Encouraged by Human Smoke I can’t remember when in recent years Hiroshima in The New I read anything that has allowed me to feel Yorker. Rufus Jones better about the present time at Haverford spoke at almost every than does your review of Human Smoke in Fifth Day meeting for Haverford Magazine. Although I haven’t yet worship. Because of him managed to get the book, which now and Gilbert White, who moves to the top of my reading agenda, I brought to Collection have read several reviews. Yours surpassed speakers like Clarence Because of him [Rufus Jones] and them by far for establishing Baker’s per- Pickett, Milton Mayer Gilbert White...I became a pacifist. spective and scholarship in context, for and Norman Cousins, portraying the achievement of the book, and because of such fac- The ideas and purposes of my entire and for doing so with an impressive com- ulty members as Douglas life in activism and teaching resulted bination both of advocacy and hard-headed Steere, Lawrence Wylie, realism. Your review’s conclusion is espe- and Jack Lester, all in that from those four years. cially fine in that regard. I entered atmosphere of returning Haverford in the immediate aftermath of veterans and returning CPS and prison and purposes of my entire life in activism Hiroshima and Nagsaki and then c.o.’s, I became a pacifist. Somewhat later and teaching resulted from those four years. John Hersey’s revelation in publishing his I became a “convinced” Quaker. The ideas Allan Brick ’50 Refuting James House Your article on James House reminded ...without stating a position on the inequities built my why I never took sociology at into American capitalism, and without offering a Haverford. He’s obviously made a career out of stating the obvious, namely that program that would equalize the income of all, people with low incomes and low-status is simply meretricious scholarship. educations die sooner than, say, Haverford students. Yes, of course, poor people don’t But to make that the core of his work the income of all, is simply meretricious get the health care that rich ones do, there- without stating a position on the inequities scholarship. fore they statistically die sooner than built into American capitalism, and with- If Dr. House would simply look, as wealthy ones. out offering a program that would equalize Michael Moore did, at Canada, Great Britain and France, all of which have a pro- portion of their people who live in pover- ty, but all of which have greater longevity than the United States because they each have a single-payer, government-sponsored health care system, through which no one need go without food or any other neces- sity of life, in order to take advantage of the medical system, he would find a sim- pler, more effective and more efficient way to accomplish his goal. Robert Glatzer ’54

Fall 2008 5 main lines Giving New Meaning to nation of doubters.” She coverage, and amend a flawed believes that every child in the death penalty system. She also nation “should be dreaming praised his early and steadfast huge, gigantic dreams, and have opposition to the war in Iraq, an “Campus the confidence to go after them opinion he voiced during a and have the love and particularly contentious Senate Politics” resources of the whole nation race. behind them.” “It’s not a question of his The Democratic presidential campaigns Explaining to the crowd why being ready to lead,” she said. visited Haverford this April. they should vote for her “He’ll be ready on day one, day husband both in the April 22 100, day 200.” he campaign trail led bar only to get there and find Pennsylvania primary and in the This race, she reminded the T to the Nature Trail this that the bar has moved.” These November election, Obama crowd, is not about her past April when the same people, she said, become stressed, “I know this man—he husband. “It’s about us, and Democratic presidential naturally cynical, unable to gets it. Our greatest challenge is what we’re ready to do. If he candidates, sights set on believe that politics can have an not a deficit of resources or wins with you, he cannot lead capturing the college vote in the impact on their lives. They don’t policies or plans…it’s a deficit without you.” She concluded by Pennsylvania primary, brought vote, they become isolated from of empathy.We’ve lost our way leading the cheering throng in a their respective messages to the others, and they become as a nation; we don’t call and response: “Can we do College’s campus during an more susceptible to fear sacrifice for anyone it?” “Yes we can!” unprecedented week of political of everyone and else.” Two days later, on Thursday, activity. everything. She dismissed April 17, Senator Hillary It began on Tuesday, April “Fear is a veil of opponents’ claims of Clinton—accompanied by 15, when Michelle Obama, impossibility,” she her husband’s lack of daughter Chelsea and mother wife of Senator Barack Obama, said. “We talk about experience, pointing Dorothy Rodham—held a town came to Alumni Field House for what we can’t do, to his eight years in hall meeting in Founders Great a rally and community and we pass the Illinois state Hall. The purpose of the meeting gathering. “I’m honored and that negativity Senate, where was to address issues close to delighted to be here,” said on to the he worked to the hearts of women and Obama, who spoke at length next strengthen families. about America as a country generation. civil rights, In her introduction, Chelsea where “the bar is set, and We’re expand health Clinton expressed pride in her people struggle to reach that raising a insurance mother and the belief that

A Limit to “The Politics of Selfishness”? John Harkins: Hello, Sid. I really enjoyed your book and was surprised, as I read it, to John Harkins ’58 (l) gradually realize that you were and political science writing more about government professor Sid than you were about politics. Waldman discuss Sid Waldman: Hi John: I did Waldman’s recent write more about government, book, America and about the problems the country the Limits of the faces and what we should do Politics of Selfishness. about them, than about politics, which is about how to do that and

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Jon Delano ’71, political editor for KDKA-TV in lines Pittsburgh, and David Burstein ’11, a Haverford freshman and director of the documentary “18 in ’08” (about the role Clinton was the strongest and impact of young voters), have been chatting regularly her immigrant grandfather and candidate to address such about the 2008 presidential campaign in a special forum on called immigrants “a source of

issues as safety in schools. “My our website. Go to www.haverford.edu and strength for the country, giving mai n mother and my grandmother are search for “Burstein” or “Delano” using our us the gift of diversity.” my role models,” she said, “and Google-powered search engine. Answering the second part of I hope to be as good a mom as Leath’s question, Clinton joked, mine has been to me.” tribute to breast cancer The senator then took “You could knock on doors and Hillary Clinton began her survivors, honoring members of questions from the audience, say, ‘She’s really nice,’ or ‘She’s own speech by praising the National Breast Cancer first answering a query from not as bad as you think.’” Haverford: “[This is] an Coalition who were in the Maggie Bishop ’10 about the Will fall bring a renewed extraordinary college, with a audience. “I want, in your best ways to help Hurricane surge of campus politicking? well-deserved reputation.” She lifetimes, to find a cure for breast Katrina survivors who continue David Burstein ’11, director of the announced her intention to help cancer,” she told the group. to suffer, and how to handle documentary “18 in ’08,” says families throughout the country future natural disasters. Saying yes. “Our track record of events by “creating conditions so that it was “disgraceful” that this during the Democratic primary people can live up to their God- issue is still being discussed and during the 2004 election given potential and pursue their due to the current makes us a highly prized venue,” dreams.” These conditions, she administration’s failure, Clinton he says. “And of course said, include good jobs, a stable lauded students who had Haverford is in Delaware County, economy, health care for volunteered to help hurricane which, with its mixture of everyone, and education as “a victims and said, “This is a Democrats, Republicans, and passport to opportunity.” perfect example of what Independents, will make it even Clinton also spoke about the America can do together—we more important in the general continuing underpayment of can fulfill any mission, just give election than it was in the women in the workforce, and us the mission.” democratic primary. When we promised, as president, to invest Samuel Leath ’10, who were working on trying to get the more money in quality child sported a Hillary sticker on his candidates to come to Haverford, care, as well as put programs shirt, asked a two-part question: we used to repeat the line that in place supporting women how would she handle Haverford has the largest who opt to stay home, and immigration, and what would enclosed space in Delaware create tax credits for caregivers she want students canvassing County [the Alumni field house], of elderly and disabled family for her to say? Responding to and we’ll be repeating that come members. She paid special the first part, Clinton spoke of this fall.” how politicians maintain support. JH: Well, it was a constructive society—the problems the schools and on the plight of That is because I think the emphasis, particularly in the country faces, as you say. I people in other countries and problems the country faces are midst of the current campaign see that as the topic of what we might do about it. our prior concern, that is, what our for the presidency. I have government rather than These are practical purposes should be. It is because come to think of politics as the politics. Plato comes to mind. considerations as they may of the limits of what our politics process of campaign war affect the quality of our lives. can achieve, based on a careful chests, sound bites, opinion SW: Plato and other political Politics is supposed to be study of Congress, the presidency, polls, and speculations about thinkers focused on the good about solving some of the the public, and public policy, that I electability. Karl Rove and society and government, as I problems the country faces. focus on the problem of excessive James Carville come to mind. do. I consider this a very The focus on campaigns self-love or selfishness and on the Your book focuses more on the practical focus since America including money, sound bites, possible role of morality in questions of appropriate laws would be better off if we etc. reflects the media’s overcoming some of these limits. and decisions for our focused on our most failing Continued on the next page

Fall 2008 7 John Harkins ’58 and JH: Is it another situation of concern is legitimate and even motives was a crucial part of the Sid Waldman continued misguided self-interest that lets valuable, but it is excessive in that conclusions in your book. Are from previous page us tolerate easy-to-watch it ignores others too much. A such motives essential for good newscasters and lets more balanced approach would government or a good society? notion, especially TV’s broadcasters produce money- be in our self-interest. It would notion, of what will be making fluff? I have a question also involve a change in who we SW:I believe such motives are entertaining and get good about your critique of self- are, a change in ourselves, so that essential for a good government, ratings. The real question is interest. You describe the ways what we see as our self-interest a good society, and a good life. how and whether we can in which self-interest weakens changes. This would be in our There is only so much people in break out of that pattern. government and thereby hurts us self-interest both as we saw it political office can achieve Perhaps as people face real all. So, it would be better if we and also in the way you describe, without a change in our motives problems that are not being were less influenced (or should I that is, we would all be better off (including theirs). Even if they solved, problems that affect say governed?) by self interest. and, I believe, would feel better want the public good, what they their perceived interests, Isn’t there a circular argument about our lives and our country. can take on is limited by our they will demand something buried in there? It would be in limits. I focus on morality and else, but it is so easy to our self-interest to have less JH: So the key word is religion in the book because I “escape from freedom,” that self-interest? “excessive.” Your answer brings think each could be an aid to us. is, elect people to office and Plato back to mind. It sets the I of course believe in the expect them to solve SW:I am speaking about goal of being better people with separation of church and state, problems just as it is easy to excessive self-interest, an a better society.I noted that this but religion can be an important care only about oneself and excessive concern with yourself grounding of good government in force for good or ill. It depends one’s family. and your family. I think such a moral, and perhaps religious, on us, on the choices we make.

Distinguished Visitors’ Corner background in chemistry enables her to understand the function of DNA testing in wo distinguished Reno’s mother built the house criminal detection and public servants came she grew up in with her own prosecution. T to campus last spring hands, reaching for the help of Asked about being the to share their insights into law her husband only when heavy nation’s first female Attorney and public policy. lifting was necessary. General, Reno acknowledged Janet Reno, former Attorney Through that example, Reno that she felt she was treated General of the United Sates in resolved never to stand by in the differently. “After a hearing, I the Clinton Administration, face of wrongdoing, adding that would get calls complimenting spoke on April 6 as part of the she has tried to remain true to my new suit and others telling experience with the Civil Rights College’s Distinguished Visitors herself throughout her career. “If me I was being too rough on the movement, Wofford described Series while Harris Wofford, you equivocate, pussyfoot and defendant.” And regarding the Gandhi and King as “the keys to who spoke on April 4, was tell everyone what they want to 1993 confrontation with the peace for me.” He debunked invited to participate in the hear, you’ll wake up feeling Branch Davidians in Waco, Tex. published claims that he Tri-Co Peace Week celebration. miserable because you haven't (in which 74 civilians died), she deserves credit for introducing Reno focused on the how been true to yourself.” said, “Again and again people King to Gandhi’s philosophy (“not and why of her career path, Since leaving federal ask me ‘Why?’ and I answer, ‘I true at all”) and called for “the sharing a life story rooted in office, she has was doing what I thought was fierce urgency of ‘now’” as a the notion of “wanting to worked with the right.’ In the end I had to make way of invigorating activism and make the world a better Innocence Project, a one of the hardest decisions of civic involvement in today’s place.” She credited her movement dedicated my career.” world. mother with to exonerating That same week, Harris As for the upcoming election, instilling the prisoners Wofford, former president of Wofford said he was optimistic notion that “you wrongfully Bryn Mawr College, advisor to because “85 percent think that can do anything accused of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the country is on the wrong you want to do if crimes. She former senator from track.” you put [your] says her Pennsylvania, delivered a brief -Genna Cherichello ’11 mind to it.” academic lecture entitled “Gandhi, King, (Reno) and Ryan Fackler ’11 Indeed, and the Kennedys – Now!” (Wofford) Discussing his extensive Bi-College News

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here are many of business and government. the future will have tools unlike participants, which gives us T reasons to be a Maybe you’d like to expose the any imagined by earlier access to new facts and new journalist. Perhaps next Enron scandal—or thwart generations. ideas. you have a curious nature, and some future president’s plan to You will have new tools for Thanks to hyperlinks, you can journalism gives you license to invade the wrong country. finding things out, and tools to write accordion-like stories that scratch that itch. Maybe you get Well the good news is that all send your stories to the entire can be expanded to match each a craftsman’s satisfaction from those opportunities are open to world at the speed of light. reader’s degree of interest. One working with words. Maybe you you today. And, beyond that, Journalism has always been person might give your story ten enjoy the company of journalists there is better news. a one-way bulletin from seconds; another might spend a and share their outsider’s There will be journalism in journalist to public. Now it is a rewarding half day with it. perspective on the orthodoxies the future. And the journalism of conversation with millions of The journalism of the future

Haverford’s First Journalism “I loved talking with alums EXTRA! Seminars are a Success, one-on-one, having Say Students and Alumni my work critiqued EXTRA! with them,”

espite second semester I, along with 12 other students. “I decided to attend says D workloads, much- students whose journalism the workshop because I believe Brian F.Johnson ’08. needed recovery from resumes range from a few in journalism, in its power to Friday nights, and the once-a- articles in the Bi-Co News to change the world, and I want to promising graduates coming out week possibility of actually doing past internships with do what I can to help inspire of Haverford, I want to know nothing, a group of bi-co students publications, met with five smart, passionate young people about them.” took the opportunity to give up different alumni journalists every to get into the field,” says Adi Ariel Hansen ’01, assistant Saturday afternoons last seminar. Topics covered Ignatius ’81, executive editor of features editor for the Twin Falls semester and participate in a included journalism basics like Time Magazine. “I also went as a Times-News in Idaho, says, “I series of journalism seminars led writing news and feature stories, scout. Despite the problems our was very excited to come back by Haverford alumni. For four as well as the direction modern business faces, particularly the to campus, to meet with peers in Saturdays from 2-5 p.m., I went to journalism is heading: The decline in advertising, we’re still the industry who are also alumni, Chase Auditorium and listened to importance of blogs, video- always on the lookout for new and to get a sense of how Fords who’ve found success in editing and learning as much as talent. So I figured if there are current students are journalism talk about their you can about HTML and experiences. And not only did I do software programs was On the Web Search: www.haverford.edu it for no academic credit, I stressed. And they didn’t leave actually had homework: Each of out what we all really came Haverford alum panelists including us got assigned projects to for—how to actually get a job in Loren Ghiglione ’63 participated in complete in the weeks following journalism. the series of the seminars, which the panelists The alumni panelists were workshops this critiqued “distance learning” enthusiastic about returning to spring which were style. (OK, the cookie platter at campus and sharing their captured on video and can be seen each seminar was an initial draw.) experiences with current at www.haverford.edu/journalism.

10 Haverford Magazine haverford college Wall StreetJournal careers atsuchplacesasthe on tosuccessfuljournalistic number ofgraduateshavegone impressive thatsuchalarge journalism program,it’s small schoolwithnoformal in andlearningasyougo.” pieces aspossible. lines” onasmanypublished success wasgettingyour“by- stories, andthatthekeyto talking topeople,andlookingfor journalism byhittingthestreets, that youcouldlearnmoreabout recommended it.Theyallagreed had, andevenfewer but Ilearnedthatfewofthem School” asthealumnicalledit), on tojournalismschool(or“J- majority ofthemmusthavegone stories astheycanbestbetold. of will beflexible,makingfluiduse Y there’ far Icameinthattime—and years, butIwasremindedhow onlyfour professional journalist my roots,asI’vebeena journalism. 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These surfaceshave Magill Library. tac polishers hasbeen A At thesametime,I’mhoping My hopeisthatthenew So, amongtheoldmedia, team ofbrass kling theentry today isalmostexactly t bad.You candoalot Herald- to my owncreativity the firsttime,fragileflowerof go further, unveilingperhapsfor unprecedented, evenhistoric.I’ll might evenacknowledgeas Something ajadedoldeditor on somethingquitewonderful. hard work,couldbeembarking new—we, withalittleluckand two—the oldmediaandthe and otherbiginstitutions. up decisivelytothegovernment and, whennecessary, tostand definition ofethicaljournalism, propagate theirtraditional professional journalists,to to employlargeteamsof that theoldmediawillcontinue golden ageofjour might livetoseeanewage, possibly—just possibly—we not With thecombinationof , nalism. by sayingthat Fall 2008 11 main lines you figure out how to pay for ork Times yourself, and you can keep A Downtown going,” said Oskar Eustis, who New Y took over as artistic director of Impresario’s the Public Theater in 2004. “Bragin did that brilliantly.” New Uptown He did it by tripling the number of presentations to more than 700 Damon W inter of the a year, which increased revenue, Campus and expanded its musical reach. Its diversity has limits, though. An Bill Bragin ’89 now leads two intimate room with red, romantic lighting; pricey drinks; and a summer programs at Lincoln Center. capacity of 150, Joe’s Pub specializes in mellow music — etween sets backstage summer series, Midsummer Night multidisciplinary, it’s multiethnic. I very little hip-hop and rock — B at Joe’s Pub one Swing and Lincoln Center Out of have always been a generalist that appeals to upmarket adults. evening recently, the Doors. Many in the industry are working in those boundaries The annual operating budget crew was busy carrying out a now waiting to see if he can bring between popular art and high art.” of the Public Theater is $19.5 menagerie of African drums for his golden touch to such a large With curls of jet-black hair million. A spokeswoman declined one act and carefully loading in a and rigid uptown institution. and a boyish excitement in his to break down what portion of piano for the comedy-cabaret “Bill had a vision,” said David voice, Mr. Bragin is known as a that is for Joe’s Pub, which has group coming up next. Inches Bither, senior vice president of musical omnivore who is often fund-raising money specifically away, fans crowded the Nonesuch Records. One of that several steps ahead of the hype. earmarked for its programming merchandise table while the label’s stars, Audra McDonald, He got his start promoting and also takes a portion of the artists squeezed through to their was the club’s first booking when concerts at Haverford, and while profits from the independently dressing rooms, and patrons it opened in 1998, and Mr. Bither owned company that operates from a play down the hall rushed said he had discovered one of his “There was a the food and beverage service at to the restrooms at intermission. newest artists there, the singer managerial Joe’s. Cross-cultural juxtapositions Christina Courtin. “It’s not a jazz statement to By embracing Mr. Bragin, like these are part of the plan at club, it’s not a cabaret, it’s not a whose new title is director of Joe’s Pub, the tiny, upscale club poetry club,” he added, “but it is Joe’s Pub: public programming, Lincoln at the Public Theater that for nine all of those things.” basically, you figure Center is aiming to capitalize on years has served as a center of The Public has appointed out how to pay for the Joe’s Pub cool factor and downtown eclecticism, Shanta Thake, Mr. Bragin’s further its slow and sometimes presenting a nightly travelogue of second-in-command for five yourself, and you fitful effort to attract younger world music, jazz, singer- years, as his successor. And Mr. can keep going.” audiences. Jane S. Moss, the songwriters and genres in Bragin’s move comes just as one vice president for programming at between, from unknowns to of his signature achievements, still a student there, began Lincoln Center, who hired Mr. superstars like Elvis Costello and the rock musical “Passing working at Festival Productions, Bragin, said it was also a chance Norah Jones. Strange,” transfers to Broadway, which presents JVC Jazz and to give greater credibility to two Its philosophy is largely the opening Thursday at the Belasco other major festivals. outdoor series that have often work of Bill Bragin, a 40-year-old Theater. As with “Passing He booked five seasons of been perceived as lightweight. music obsessive from Long Strange,” by the acid-tongued Central Park SummerStage, “We are eager that they not Island who has become one of indie songwriter Stew — a show beginning in 1994, and then went be perceived simply as a kind of the most influential figures in the he helped shepherd in its earliest to Symphony Space before community-outreach audience New York live-music business, stages at the Public Theater — starting at Joe’s Pub shortly access point but as significant wooed by talent agents and Mr. Bragin’s own uptown transfer before Sept. 11, 2001. Operating artistic entities in their own right,” record company executives is a natural and carefully thought- under the aegis of a nonprofit arts she said. eager for the endorsement of a out move, he said. institution, the club was ailing Mr. Bragin says the substance prominent booking. “The way I define myself and financially when Mr. Bragin took of his presentations will not But in an unusual move, Mr. my work is as an arts presenter, it over, and his first job was to change with the move uptown, Bragin left Joe’s Pub for Lincoln not a nightclub booker,” Mr. bring accounts into the black. only the scale. “The metaphor Center at the beginning of this Bragin said in an interview. “This “There was a managerial I’ve been using,” he said, “is that year, where he will oversee two was exactly the right move. It’s statement to Joe’s Pub: basically, you’re painting watercolor

12 Haverford Magazine haverford college express isprohibited. writtenpermission retransmission oftheMaterialwithout The printing,copying,redistribution, or the CopyrightLawsofUnitedStates. Used bypermissionandpr The NewYork Times From Ben Sisario be evenmor opportunities onabigstagecould do for2,000or3,000people.” for 100-oddpeoplethatyoucan’t Productions. “You coulddoalot artistic directorofFestival Absolutely Liveandtheformer Danny Melnick,thepresidentof you cantakealotofrisks,”said and morepublicstage. might becurtailedonabigger Mr. BraginenjoyedatJoe’s Pub business notethatthefreedom other.” you’re paintingmuralsonthe miniatures ontheonehand,and bridges.” grab apartner. You build The nextsongcomesup,andyou dancing togetherontheplaza. that periodoftime.You getpeople community that’ he added.“Butit’s alsoaboutthe might notbethemostexpected,” together incombinationsthat Bragin said. dancing feetoftheaudience,Mr. is ultimatelyinthehandsand McCar and theindie-rockconcertsat River toFestivaldowntown r already expandedsignificantlyin offerings inthecity range ofsummerconcert influence couldalsowidenthe concer Lincoln Center—andofany ecent years,withserieslikethe Mr. Braginsaidthe “Because Joe’s issosmall, Some inthelive-music “It’ The successofhistenur The NewYork Times s r t, en ParkPoolinBr about puttingar uptown ordowntown— e extensive, andhis s being builtin All rightsreserved. , which have 2008. © , otected by tists ooklyn. e at Aditya Vora ’08meetsPopeBenedictXVIinWashington, D.C. respect foralllife(“MostJains main principlesnonviolence, India, Jainismcountsamongits faiths intheworld.Originating Jain religion,oneoftheoldest Washington, D.C. John PaulIICulturalCenterin which tookplaceatthePope Conference ofCatholicBishops, organized bytheU.S. interfaith peace-buildingevent met withthePopeaspartofan one offiveyoungpeoplewho publicized U.S.visit.Vora was the pontiff’s firstandmuch- Pope BenedictXVIcameduring meet thePope? react.” Howoftendoyougetto didn’t knowhowtofeelor ever happenedtomeinmylife.I concludes. “Nothinglikethishas about it. and disbeliefwhenhethinks with Pope BenedictXVI A Papal Privilege: I Vora wasrepresenting the His April17encounterwith “It wasunreal,”he Recent Graduate’s Encounter exhales inwonder Aditya Vora ’08still t’ s been months,and selecting youngrepresentatives bishops wereintheprocessof people’s viewpoints.” accept andrespectother whole picture,youhaveto thing weseeistrue;tograspthe can’t graspeverything.Each limited perspectivesonlifeand “is thatweeachhaveourown broom.” its tailandsays,“Itfeelslikea pillar.” Onetouchesthebristleson its legandsays,“Itfeelslikea “It feelslikeahose.”Onetouches is. Onetouchesitstrunkandsays, tr gathered aroundanelephant, popular tale:Sevenblindmenare illustrate thelatterconceptwitha during thePope’ the adultJainr Jain communitywhoservedas Ar multiple worldviews.V living”) andacceptanceof don’ ar ying todetermine exactlywhatit e vind, aprominent figureinthe This winter, whentheU.S. “The wholepoint,”saysVora, vegetarians,” saysVora, “and eat t anything thatwasonce epresentative s event, likesto ora’ s father , be travelingtoD.C.inApril. later, Vora thathewould learned liked whatheheard;justweeks more abouthim.Obviously, he the NewJerseyTurnpike tolearn coffee earlyonemorningalong Catholic Bishops,metVora for director oftheU.S.Conference Bias Task Force. from theSmithtown,N.Y. Anti- Student HumanRightsAward survivor. Hehadalsoreceivedthe dialogues withalocalHolocaust programs, andhisongoing and multiculturaltraining involvement withanti-prejudice day” athishighschool), organize “culturalawareness whichhehelped Forum (through with theLongIslandMulti-Faith detailing hishighschoolactivities impr America inNewYork. Theywer Jains attheJainCenterof the Pope,theymetwithyoung tointeractwith of worldreligions Continued on the nextpage Despite hiselationatbeing Fr. JamesMassa,executive essed withVora’s resume, Fall 2008 e 13 main lines Papal Privilege continued in keeping with the Jain principle presenting the gift to the Pope. prayer service for Jewish from previous page of aparigraha, or multiple “It even had my birthday,” attendees, Vora shared his chosen, Vora reacted with viewpoints: “When you look at a laughs Vora, “so no one else will anxiety and excitement with the typical Haverfordian modesty. “I cube, you can’t see all six sides be confused as to which Aditya youths representing Judaism, thought there were much more at once.” The sides were Vora it is.” The top of the cube Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism: deserving Jain youths,” he inscribed with texts including bore the face of Mohandas “We were all really nervous.” says. “But I recognized it as a five Namokar mantras that are Gandhi, who, although not born Vora had briefly rehearsed what once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, recited daily by faithful Jains and into the Jain religion, adopted he might say during the ride to quite an honor.” also featured the symbol of many of its principles of D.C.—he figured that he would Vora planned to present the ahimsa, a hand that serves as a nonviolence. at least wish the pontiff, who Pope with a gift, a metallic cube Jain representation of On the day of the event, turned 81 on April 16, a happy largely designed by his father: nonviolence, and a which was billed as “Religions birthday—but practicing didn’t “It was his blood, sweat and documentation of the date and Working for Peace” and prevent his heart from tapping tears.” The idea of the cube was the fact that Aditya Vora was included a papal speech and a out an uncomfortable staccato Plaque Honoring Gilbert and Anne White

he Gilbert F. White shared the goal of bringing Service Committee in France and T Science Library was potable water to the world’s was taken prisoner and interned created to people as a human right, and in Germany for a year before commemorate the life and together they conducted being exchanged. After leaving scientific contributions of the pioneering research on domestic Haverford, White taught at the former Haverford president, but water use in East Africa. During University of Chicago and until recently, there hadn’t been World War II, White did relief University of Colorado. He anything permanently displayed work with the American Friends passed away in October of 2006. inside the library explaining to “Gilbert White was a students and visitors just who tremendous mentor who meant Anne and Gilbert White in front of White was. so much to so many,” says 1 College Circle at Haverford, December 1954, with children Mary, That changed on Friday, April James Wood ’50, who was Frances, and Will. 25, when the Gilbert F. White and instrumental in both the creation Anne U. White Memorial Plaque of the plaque and the campaign attended a memorial service for was formally unveiled in the to raise funds for the White White in Colorado and briefly White Science Library on the Science Library. “He came to all discussed with White’s children third floor of Hilles North. of the reunions and considered the idea of a memorial plaque. White, who served as all classes at Haverford his boys. That spring, William White ’67 president of Haverford from He was always challenging us to (father of Lydia ’10), Mary White 1945-55, was a world-renowned do more, to become active in and Frances White Chapin met expert on floods and natural political processes.” with Alumni and Friends hazards. He and wife Anne Gilbert and Anne, doing field work in In the fall of 2006, Wood Associate Dee Delaney to put Egypt, 1977. Assistant Professor of Political and the Struggle for Accountability” journal Emotion. “Random Organization in Periodically Science Craig Borowiak attend- was published in New Political Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Driven Systems,” appeared in ed a conference called Thinking Science, Volume 30, Issue 2. Arts Gerald Cyrus’ one person Nature Physics. Gollub was award- (With)Out Borders: International Professors of Astronomy Stephen exhibition of his jazz photographs ed a Visiting Professorship at Political Theory in the 21st Century, Boughn and Bruce Partridge titled “Stormy Monday: Harlem’s 1990 Cambridge University by the June 12-13 in St. Andrews, Scotland, co-authored an article called “Radio Jazz Scene” showed at the Leica Leverehulme Trust, as well as a where he gave a talk entitled Source Contributions to the Gallery in New York City May 2-June research grant entitled “Disorienting Cosmopolitan Microwave Sky” for Volume 120, Issue 21, 2008. His first monograph, with the “Spatiotemporal Chaos and Particle Democracy: The Predicament and 865 of the journal Publications of the same title as the show, made its debut Dynamics in Complex Flows” by the Promise of Democratic Astronomical Society of the Pacific. at the opening reception on May 2. National Science Foundation. He Accountability.” His article completed three years of service on “Theorizing Europe and its Divisions” Associate Professor of Psychology An article co-authored by John and the National Academy of Sciences was published in the journal Political Rebecca Compton co-authored Barbara Bush Professor of Physics governing Council in June. Theory,Volume 36, Issue 1, while the article “Error Detection and Jerry Gollub called “Polymeric Post-error Behavior in Depressed Filament Thinning and Breakup in Assistant Professor of Biology another article entitled “The World Rachel Hoang presented a poster Tribunal on Iraq: Citizens’ Tribunals Undergraduates,” which was pub- Micro Channels” was published in lished in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Physical Review.E. Another article, entitled “Evolution of the Drosophila

14 Haverford Magazine haverford college Unveiled in inApril ScienceLibrary White at Roberts Hallin1946. at Roberts ofHaver inauguration asPresident Gilbert F. Whitespeaking athis of AsianStudies Linguistics andC.V. Starr Professor Associate Professor ofChineseand Developmental Biology, July26-30. annual meetingoftheSocietyfor Folded GastrulationGene”atthe67th Committee oftheInternational general membershiptotheExecutive was alsorecentlyelectedbythe University inBeijing,China.Huang (IACL-16), May30-June2atPeking Association ofChineseLinguistics Conference oftheInternational Structure” atthe16thAnnual Puzzle intheStudiesofModification gave aninvitedtalkcalled“ANew W taking aquickstudybreak,”says could beeasilyreadbyastudent who Gilbert would givepeopleasenseof was tohavesomethingshort the planinmotion.“Theidea Jainism, thePopethankedhim explained itssignificanceto presented thecubeand no morethan40seconds:Vora serene andpeaceful. movements, Vora reports,were practically glowing.”His “When hewalkedin,was describes asanauraabouthim: appeared, Vora noticedwhathe meeting neared. rhythm asthetimeof wanted to“captur W illiam White. illiam Whitesays,thechildren The actualmeetingitselftook When HisHolinessfinally In choosing photosandtext, and Annewere,but Shizhe Huang e some sense for that d published inVolume 38,Issue3ofthe Northern SchoolSegregation” was Cr Science Resear Because IamaFriend?” roots: “WhatisitThatIDoDifferently of ateacheratcollegewithQuaker Yoko Koike Senior LecturerinEastAsianStudies Bir Education conferencein At theFriendsAssociationforHigher North America. for atwo-yeartermrepresenting Association ofChineseLinguistics transformation offantasyinto altering. “Itwasthe tradition tokisshisring.” also didn’t knowitwasa thinking straight,”hesays.“I would haveliked;Iwasn’t rushed throughitmorethanI savor themoment.“IthinkI wishes he’dtakenmoretimeto entourage. Inretrospect,Vora member ofthepontiff’s commemorative coinfroma and hereceivedaspecial convinced thatmancannomore occupation ofFranceIbecame “While watchingtheGer “This IBelieve”radioprogram: White onEdwardR.Murrow’s quote froma1951interviewwith issues inEgyptthe1970s. performing fieldworkonwater Gilbert andoneof inaugural address, Circle, oneofWhitegivinghis standing infrontofOneCollege photos—one ofthefamily Wong, theyselectedthree White ScienceLibrarianDora the helpofDeeDelaneyand Quakerism intheirwork.”With integrated scienceand together andhowthey time atHaverford,buttheirlives not onlyofGilbert ow MovesNorth:TheBattleover mingham, England,June19-22, Vora callsthemeetinglife- For text,thechildrenpickeda ch Professor ofSocial and AnneWhite Roger Lane addressed thequeries and Anne’ ’s article “Jim man s W Alumni andFriendsAssociateDeeDelaney(l)WhiteScienceLibrarianDora Professor ofHistory Benjamin Le Journal ofInterdisciplinaryHistory Short-Term GeographicSeparations: Relationship Maintenance During Pr Biannual Conference,July17-21in Association forRelationshipResear papers attheInternational Lapsansky-Werner Assistant ProfessorofPsychology in Birmingham,England. Historians andArchivists,June26-29 17th BiennialConference ofQuaker and on “ThomasClarkson’ back onitanddrawinspirationfor fabric ofmylife,andIcanlook become alustrouspartofthe this magnanimousceremony, has and Iwasabletoparticipatein universal peace.Thatitactualized, and Islam,inthejointcausefor as themoreuniversalJudaism Hinduism andBuddhismaswell eastern religionslikeJainism, Pope wasunitedwithleadersof imagine aneventinwhichthe before theceremony, Icouldonly reality,” hesays.“Afewmonths Wood andremembrances from included atributefromJames but cannotchangethem.” can repressmen’s basicbeliefs army oraconcentrationcamp force. Ifoundthatanoccupying nature by warthanhecanconquer conquer orpreservecivilization ong infrontoftheGilbertF. andAnneU.WhiteMemorialPlaque. ovidence, R.I.:“Commitmentand The April25plaqueunveiling the QuakerBookTrade” atthe solely byengineering pr esented two Emma s Manuscript gave atalk ch . Holyoke College. Confer Vibrational SpectroscopyGordon Biomolecular Environment” atthe based Vibrations totheLocal poster on“ResponseofCysteine- Assistant ProfessorofChemistry Relationships.” Health inGeographically-Separated Communication, Coping,andMental Relationships: Exploring Partner” and“LongDistanceinClose The MediationalRoleofMissinga Casey Londergan oppression.” tolerance ratherthan him willfollowhisleadof “I hopemanypeoplewhoadmire event wasagoodstep,”hesays. figure tomillions,headthis Pope, arespectedauthority on theworldatlarge.“For an evenmoresignificantimpact dialogue andcooperation,has peace throughinterfaith with itsintentionofpromoting day toactivities.” the bettermentofmankind.” can beeffectivelyharnessedfor belief thatscientificknowledge a hospitality, togethertheyshared natural sociabilityandsenseof by loveandaffection anda team whower only weremyparentstrulya W mission toserveandadeep illiam White,whosaid,“Not He hopestheeventitself, ence, August3-8atMt. e bound together presented a Fall 2008 15 faculty news main lines Preparing for Bright “Futures” Haverford’s partnership with Philadelphia Futures helps Philly high school students succeed in college.

Left to right: Students in the Sponsor-A-Scholar Class of 2010 who attended the Haverford Futures Program this summer: Kareem Norton, Malieka Champion and Asia Norton.

very weekday, Asia enrichment, and financial Commonwealth of Pennsylvania something out of it.” Students E Norton gets up at 7:30 incentives. through the Philadelphia Youth also meet Career Development a.m. to take a bus, the “This program is changing Network with funds granted by staff to discuss possible careers subway, and a train from her the way I think, what I think, how the federal Work Force and majors, and talk with interns home in Philadelphia’s Olney I think,” says Norton, who hopes Investment Act. This funding about what it’s like to be a neighborhood to her “desk job” to be a lawyer (“because I love allows Philadelphia Futures to student of color at a primarily at Haverford College. What to argue and get the big point partner with local colleges to white school. makes it worth the effort for her? across”). provide intense instruction in On the last day of classes, the “I love meeting new people,” The core of the program pairs reading, writing and research students give presentations on she enthuses, “and we’re being students like Norton with adult during the summer. what they’ve learned throughout taught so many things I didn’t mentors and a sponsor who helps “It’s a taste of what college the month. Students are paid know before.” pay for books and transportation will be like—learning critical three dollars an hour for the time For Norton and other to and from college. Norton and thinking, developing ideas and they spend in class. The summer students like her, this is more the other scholars are making them your own,” says curriculum and teaching support than a summer job. It’s part of a encouraged to take the most Dean for First-Year Students is provided in collaboration with much larger effort by challenging courses available at Raisa Williams, who Alison Cook-Sather, associate Philadelphia Futures, a non- their schools and are required to spearheaded the summer professor of education. profit organization that prepares participate in after-school program (and was also a “I admire the students,” says Philadelphia public high school activities and summer programs. Philadelphia Futures staff Heather Curl ’03, a teacher in the students for college through Philadelphia Futures’ summer member before coming to summer program. “They are mentoring, academic programs are funded by the Haverford in 2001). “We all get intelligent, dedicated and funny. I

Associate Professor of English Assistant Professor of Political of the journal Computational Professor of Classics and Maud McInerney gave a talk Science Barak Mendelsohn Statistics and Data Analysis. Comparative Literature Deborah entitled “Barbarians at the Gates: attended the annual meeting of the Assistant Professor of Chemistry Roberts gave a talk called The Late Medieval Fantasy of a American Political Science Alex Norquist gave a talk called “Somewhat Undeservedly Neglected: Fallen Rome” at the 43rd Association August 28-31 in Boston, “A Synthetic Strategy for Style in the Ancient Novel and the International Congress on Medieval where he presented papers entitled Noncentrosymmetric Molybdates” at Ambivalence of the Translator,” Studies, May 8-11 in Kalamazoo, “Bolstering the State: A Different the Gordon Research Conference on exploring the changing attitudes of Mich., and also organized a round- Perspective on the War on the Solid State Chemistry, July 27-August 20th century translators towards the table on Arthurian geographies at Jihadi Movement” and “Border 1 in New London, N.H. He also gave a elaborate and mannered prose style the 22nd Annual International Security and The War on Terrorism: talk on “Synthesis of of several of the ancient novelists and Arthurian Congress, July 15-19 in An English School Account.” Noncentrosymmetric Molybdates” at their corresponding strategies of Rennes, France, where she present- Associate Professor of Mathematics the American Chemical Society translation, at the International ed a paper entitled “Universal Weiwen Miao co-authored the National Meeting, August 17-21 in Conference on the Ancient Novel VIII, Arthur: The Once and Future King in article “Confidence Intervals for the Philadelphia. July 21-26 in Lisbon, Portugal. Medieval and Early Modern Difference Between Two Means,” Encyclopedic Chronicles.” which appeared in Volume 52, Issue 4

16 Haverford Magazine haverford college College’ award inJune,honoringthe Haverford its“HatsOfftoYou” Philadelphia Futurestogive before.” Herdedicationinspir how muchtheyhaven’t helpful, andthey’resurprisedat education: “Theythinkit’ program studentslovetheextra 21st centur ofthe will bethebiggestproblem focused onthequestion:What all leadinguptothefinalpr terr discourse ondiversity. organization andtothenational June 15-20inWaterville Valley, N.H. 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learn to say it just as the student prefers. Now track to own it for life. Kosman points out that What’s In only 294 more to go. “What’s a poor boy students don’t always know the proper A Name supposed to do?” he implores with wide eyes pronunciation of their own names, and so, and raised hands. transitioning from orator to genealogist, (“Neym”) But Kosman is not a “poor boy” in this Kosman will research its proper arena, as he knows several languages and pronunciation. This often occurs due to the “If you’re a graduating senior,” begins the can easily adopt accents, though when asked lost legacy of heritage, and so for a student, outgoing voicemail greeting, “please about which languages he speaks, he laughs. learning how to say a family name correctly pronounce your name slowly and clearly two “I don’t speak many languages…I fake many can become a reconnection to this ancestry. times.” And if there’s a secret to Professor languages.” He has been praised by many grandparents Aryeh Kosman’s success, the voicemail As he points out, there are many ways to for recovering this proper pronunciation. solution is it. pronounce one name; even one that is While there have been few mishaps, they As Faculty Marshal at Commencement, seemingly easy could prove to be tricky. To do occur. But with so many names to read, a Kosman reads the 295 names of those who’ll avoid the possibility of confusion or a mistake, few flubs would seem like a good night to walk across the stage. And with just two he writes down the phonetic pronunciation of anybody else. Most memorable of these weeks to learn how to pronounce each each name along with something it rhymes occurred when instead of reading the senior’s name correctly and with the proper with. Why does he do it? “It’s a lot about student’s name, Kosman read the rhyme he inflection, all seniors are expected to phone vanity on my part,” he admits, though it’s also had put beneath it. The 2008 commencement, his voicemail and do their duty at the sound of about the students; Commencement is an however, was yet another chance to prove his the tone. important part of life—for them, and for their dedication to this uncommon yet critical job, On this day in early May, he plays one of parents—and Kosman wants to get it right. as he took on the challenge of pronouncing so the recordings then repeats the name twice. He assumed this job 20 years ago many names just-so. And while many might regard this particular “because somebody had to do it,” but enjoyed -Mandy Ball ’11 name as hopelessly challenging, Kosman will it so much (and is so good at it) that he is on

18 Haverford Magazine Fall 2008 19 book reviewss Herbert H. Blumberg ’63 policy and international relations, religion, Wars and Crises,” he covers one of Peace Psychology: A education, ethics, and language and humanity’s major concerns: direct and communication. Finally, it offers a way of institutionalized violence. Blumberg begins Comprehensive studying the effects of conflict on victims, the chapter discussing the nature of war, Introduction with special emphasis on women and including its cultural factors, perceptions children. around the effect of bombing civilians, and Cambridge University Press, 2006 the scripts used by various nations to justify n academia, the field of peace According to entry into conflict. Using the 1991 Gulf War as studies is becoming a discipline in Blumberg, peacekeeping an example, Blumberg chooses to cite I its own right, moving out from Herbert C. Kelman’s list of psychological under its parent disciplines of has played an increasingly assumptions that influenced decision making political science, anthropology and history. important role in dealing that led to war. Among them are the fear of In light of this trend, scholars have begun to with the aftermath of war “rewarding aggression,” the call for “rallying augment direct research with overviews of around the flag,” and the need to overcome this burgeoning field to provide students and with conflict in the “Vietnam Syndrome.” with the resources they need to contribute general. According to Blumberg, peacekeeping to its continued growth. One of the subsets has played an increasingly important role in of this field is peace psychology. Peace The book is organized in five parts: an dealing with the aftermath of war and with Psychology: A Comprehensive Introduction introduction to current trends in peace conflict in general. Given the increased role by Herbert H. Blumberg ’63, A. Paul Hare psychology; interdisciplinary aspects of the of UN peacekeepers in recent years, he and Anna Costin is an academic text that field such as the interplay between draws attention to the psychological needs of attempts to provide a broad overview of government policy and international relations; peacekeepers placed in areas where both the topics that make up this discipline primary psychological problems such as violence remains rife. He underscores the and the leading research to date. developmental issues, language, and need for impartiality on the part of Herbert H. Blumberg ’63 is a reader in communication; descriptions of core topics in peacekeepers in order for this action to be the department of psychology at Goldsmiths peace studies, such as conflict resolution, successful, along with other factors, College, University of London. He has crisis management and peacemaking; and including 1) a clear mandate, 2) sufficient written numerous articles on social terrorism. Each part is broken down into psychology and is the review editor of chapters by one of the three authors. While Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace the introduction assumes a fair amount of Psychology. His two collaborators are A. previous knowledge of the field, the section Paul Hare, professor emeritus in behavioral on core topics provides the reader with science at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, helpful definitions of various terms (e.g., and Anna Costin, a journalist with Jane’s peacebuilding, sustainable development) that Information Group in London. Hare has have crept into the modern lexicon. written extensively on social interaction and In addition to providing an overview of was editor of Sociological Inquiry and each topic, the authors heavily cite others’ founder of Israel Social Science Research; research and related opinions in order to Costin writes and reports on terrorism and guide the reader toward a broader security issues. understanding than is possible in one tome. In In its broadest sense, peace psychology fact, the last 100 pages of this book contain a is the application of principles of social list of references cited throughout the book, psychology and personality toward the study by author. There is also a complete index, of ethnopolitical conflict. As such, it attempts which runs another 30 pages. to explain the psychological causes of It seems appropriate to focus on one of conflict, such as war and terrorism. It also the chapters written by Haverford alumnus tries to explain social behaviors related to Herbert H. Blumberg as a way to provide a war and peacemaking, including government small taste of this work. In “Peacemaking,

20 Haverford Magazine haverford college trained personnel and other resources (i.e., A Conversation intelligence), 3) a plan for a political outcome to the conflict, and 4) adequate motivation for with Colin Harrison achieving comprehensive peace and Bob Elwood ’82 chats with classmate economic agreements. Colin Harrison ’82 about his new book, Although he acknowledges that the line between them is fuzzy, Blumberg does The Finder. explain that peacekeeping implies the short- term procedures for maintaining a ceasefire, Bob Elwood: Ray Grant, the hero of whereas peacemaking suggests a more The Finder, is clearly a man with an durable condition that addresses direct impressive code of personal behavior. violence. Peacebuilding entails a broad Was your experience at Haverford restructuring of society so as to foster College, particularly with the Honor political, economic and social systems that Code, instrumental in crafting such a minimize institutional violence – racism, Colin Harrison ’82 memorable character? poverty and sexism – and foster justice and sustainable development. In citing M. Brinton The Finder: A Novel Colin Harrison: My daughter Sarah Lykes, he urges psychologists to be aware of Sarah Crichton Books, 2008 recently applied to and was accepted by the cultural contexts in which conflicts take et in New York City, this edgy Haverford (though she ended up at a new place so that they can better understand the thriller from Harrison (The Havana dual degree program created by Brown perspectives of marginalized peoples and S Room) showcases his and RISD) and when she was applying we other victims. Often this cultural awareness extraordinary storytelling ability. discussed the Honor Code at length. When can contribute in significant ways toward Jin Li has been running a scam on Tom Reilly I told her that Haverford students have to successful mediation. and his company, Good Pharma, by stealing ratify the Code—that they choose to Blumberg mentions four specific areas information under the cover of a paper- adhere to it—she understood that it was a where peace psychologists could make shredding operation. She then passes it on to good thing and not a set of laws imposed contributions to peacebuilding. These include her brother, Chen, who uses it to make stock on them from above by the College. I sensitization or consciousness-raising; trades. Under pressure from a ruthless remember the Honor Code fondly. But you consultation, from primary schools all the billionaire investor who stands to lose his know, for a novelist, people doing bad way up to the United Nations; activism fortune if Good Pharma fails, Reilly asks a things are more interesting than people through education; and public policy work. shady underling to deal with the leak, doing good things. In my book, the The concept of peacemaking/ resulting in the horrible murder of two of Li’s character of Ray navigates by a kind of peacebuilding appears to be gaining Mexican employees. Li escapes and goes on street code, though it is not articulated. I acceptance by national and international the run. Li’s former boyfriend, Ray Grant, is think my ability to see things his way has bodies, and the contributions of caught in the middle, hounded by Chen and more to do with the fact that I’ve lived in psychologists to the field is beginning to be the minions of Good Pharma, both of whom Brooklyn for 20 years than it does with documented. Not surprisingly, Blumberg believe he knows Li’s whereabouts. With the anything else. Brooklyn is its own reality. posits that peacemaking and conflict help of his dying father, a former cop, Grant resolution can be taught in the classroom. must find Li or face the consequences. The BE: Much of the book consists of things or With its Center for Peace and Global action builds to a deeply satisfying people not being what they appear to be, Citizenship and the new Peace, Justice and conclusion involving a sadistic kidnapper and such as the heroine Jin Li’s work as a Human Rights concentration, Haverford a stock market power play across two financial spy while apparently running a College is an institution well organized to continents. (Starred Review) cleaning service or the false impression carry out this work. –Publishers Weekly most of the world initially has of the -Parker Snowe ’79, Executive Copyright © Reed Business company Good Pharma. Is there something Director of Haverford’s Center Information, a division of Reed Elsevier about these sorts of secrets that inspires you as a writer? for Peace and Global Citizenship Inc. All rights reserved.

Fall 2008 21 Amy B. Trubek ‘85 CH: I adore secrets, illusions, lies, falsities, exaggerations, scandal, intrigue, The Taste of Place: malfeasance, and skullduggery. This is the A Cultural Journey gold that novelists mine. That my mind naturally and easily seeks out this dark Into Terroir strata of human reality is typical of writers. University of California Press, 2008 ew would quibble that a fresh BE: You have quite a poetic way with baguette and a hunk of brie eaten prose. How did you manage to develop that F in the French countryside taste skill? Was it your many years of honing different than bread and cheese your craft as an editor and as a writer or nibbled in a suburban American office park. are you simply blessed with the gift? Any It’s not just the scenery that’s different. It’s the advice for aspiring writers? actual food.

CH: I’ve been an editor for 20 years, first Throughout her book, at Harper’s and now at Scribner. So I’ve Trubek emphasizes the worked with a number of first-rate writers and editors and learned a great deal. But I importance of grew up in a literary household. Both my goût de terroir, parents were good with the pen in their a concept that Institut National des Appellations d’Origine, own ways. Of course, writing so much a governing body designed to protect and while at Haverford helped a lot. I think I translates, roughly, promote certain French agricultural didn’t really get the hang of it until about as the influence of products such as wine and cheese. junior year, with a great class taught by the natural environment (Champagne, for example, is a protected Jack Lester. label that can only be applied to sparkling on our notions of taste. wines from the Champagne region of BE: Many of the scoundrels in The Finder France.) The institute’s goal, she explains, have achieved considerable financial In The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey is to “protect terroir.” success and now wield power from sleek Into Terroir, Amy Trubek ’85 examines the Of course, with today’s globalized corporate offices and plush penthouses. relationship of food and drink to culture, economy and large-scale, industrial food Are you pessimistic in general about such agriculture, and, above all, place. Trubek, production systems, protecting terroir, “masters of the universe”? Some of these who teaches in the department of nutrition whether in France, the U.S., or elsewhere, is people in real life appear to me to be and food sciences at the University of more complicated and politically fraught than reasonably moral. Vermont, holds a Ph.D. in cultural ever. And Trubek wades into these waters anthropology and received her culinary carefully, describing the nationalistic furor CH: I don’t think human nature is any training at Le Cordon Bleu in London. that can result when a community rejects better or worse than it was 10, 100, or 1,000 Throughout her book, Trubek emphasizes outside efforts to reproduce its celebrated years ago. Greed is a constant. Again, if the importance of goût de terroir, a concept food products, and discussing the importance you are a novelist, you seek out the stories that translates, roughly, as the influence of of small scale, localized production to the of the bad guys, not the good guys. But the natural environment on our notions of creation of what she calls “culturally unique let’s not forget that some of today’s good taste. To illustrate this concept, she takes the handiwork.” guys are merely bad guys who haven’t reader on a journey to France, California, been caught yet. Wisconsin, and, finally, her current home Touring a winery, state of Vermont: four places, among many others, where producing local food is speaking with a farmer at inextricably tied not only to geography, but your local outdoor market, also to cultural mores. or asking your favorite chef “The French are unusual in the attention they place on the role of the natural world in where she sources the taste of food and drink,” she writes. her ingredients “When the French take a bite of cheese or are all ways one can sip of wine, they taste the earth: rock, grass, hillside, valley, plateau.” And so Trubek express an appreciation begins her discussion in France, exploring for terroir. French viticulture and the founding of the

22 Haverford Magazine haverford college The Taste ofPlaceandtheconceptterroir Cheryl SternmanRule’92talkswithAmyTrubek ’85abouthernewbook A low. However, whatIamalwaysinterested two booksaboutFrenchcuisine, highand AT professionally? you beentoFrancebeforegotintofood time inFranceeatingandresearching.Had CSR: campus andatvariousjobsinthesummer cooking throughoutcollege—inHP started asmallcateringbusiness.Ikept dinner parties.AfriendandIeventually that entertainsalotandIlovedhelpingoutat all throughhighschool.Icomefromafamily Amy T for you? professionormore culinary natural extensionofapriorinterestinthe studying food post-Haverford? 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Other students, praises to other Americans, to help create a garden and then start cooking! especially those not particularly momentum for regionalizing our food system, passionate about food, take a little longer to help every American region have a vibrant CSR: If you had to pick a single Vermont- to convince! I have found that tasting farming and food culture that will become grown food that most tastes “like Vermont,” generic apple cider versus local apple tourist draws for anyone. what would it be? Would there be one cider from many varieties of apples is a particular cheese, perhaps? terroir knockout. To me, it is important to AT: It would have to be maple syrup, a wild CSR: Excellent point. It’s probably the same understand terroir as an food originally harvested by the Abenaki and out here in No. Calif. with locally-grown ongoing dynamic between continuously harvested for centuries in berries versus supermarket berries... the human and natural Vermont. 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No Holding Back for

Lindsey Dolich ’06 proves no challenge is too great. by Charles Curtis ’04

Lindsey Dolich ‘06 at her indsey Dolich ’06 took a deep breath Don’t think that Dolich views herself as handicapped well-adorned desk at in an effort to calm herself. During in any way. Rather, she feels empowered by overcom- ESPN the Magazine. L the last few years she had watched in ing a hurdle, a challenge she believes we all face in our awe as U.S. soccer forward Abby lives. “Everyone learns to adapt to their circumstances. Wambach tore her way through the World Cup and Matters of the heart, work shortcomings, academic the Olympics. And now she was about to speak to studies—everything is a lesson we can learn from,” one of her all-time favorite players, in her first she says. “So why let a hearing loss hold me back? I chance as a professional sportswriter to interview say face it head on and embrace the contradictions, a star athlete. Dolich, who starred on Haverford’s whether it’s being a hard-of-hearing reporter in the soccer team, had played in front of thousands, but communications field…or a world-class double- this situation posed a different sort of challenge, amputee sprinter.” That perspective and drive has made because Dolich is hard of hearing. her a success in anything she’s attempted.

Fall 2008 25 The fact that she was relying complete- ly on every sense other than hearing is a testament to her playing style,” she says. “People don’t understand how dif- ficult it is to play without hearing. She had to be hyper aware and be attuned to everyone else’s playing style.” Even while being blessed with athleti- cism and successfully compensating for her hearing deficit, Dolich still found high school a struggle. “I would come home absolutely drained from watching teach- ers, friends, coaches with a hellacious stare, scared to miss a word. Every few years, I would gather at conventions around the country with other oral-deaf teens like myself and realize how much was missing,” she says. That’s when she decided in May of 2002 to undergo a pro- cedure to receive a cochlear implant. No. 25 Dolich helped lead Haverford’s women’s soccer team to victory. Dolich knew she would have to start from scratch after surgery, coping with a world Dolich is a twin, born five minutes humor,” she says. They all contributed that would be far more intensely, aurally ahead of sister Caryn, who became her to keeping Dolich involved in what she detailed. childhood best friend, assistant, and calls the “hearing world.” The surgery was a success, and the Haverford classmate. Growing up in That world included sports. The moment her audiologist activated the Alameda, Calif., Dolich was just three Dolich twins were stars in every sport more than 20 electrodes wired into her years old when her parents discovered they played, from basketball to soccer, cochlea, Dolich was on auditory over- she had suffered profound hearing loss- both of which Lindsey Dolich played to load: “The sounds were more a vertigi- es. Exploratory surgery revealed a birth great success from a pee-wee level at five nous sensation, like mini sledgehammers defect known as Large Vestibular years old to high school varsity and var- burrowing inside my head. I screamed Aqueduct Syndrome (LVAS) in which ious travel teams. Never did her hearing at my sister when she crumpled up a parts of the inner ear develop abnor- loss take away from what she did on the piece of paper, thinking it was an ava- “She has a tenacity that is unparalleled. The fact that she was relying completely on every sense other than hearing is a testament to her playing style.” -Caryn Dolich

mally. “As scary as the whole process field. “I sent my optical nerve into over- lanche. Wearing the implant was painful. was, it was a protected haze that fol- drive,” Dolich explains. “I became real- But finally things started clicking.” lowed after,” Dolich recalls. “After a ly good at reading body language and Sounds people take for granted, like rain- great deal of research, my parents decid- being able to tell when play stopped if I drops hitting the windshield while sit- ed to keep me on the oral mainstreamed didn’t hear the whistle. Some of it was ting inside a car, or crickets chirping in path with hearing aids, building on the team chemistry with my teammates the evening, or even the hum of a refrig- oral and auditory skills I had already learning to anticipate my movements erator, were finally accessible to her. acquired in my three years.” She and vice versa. My play was always kind “She had to go back into the deaf world worked with a speech teacher through of chaotic, probably more so because I so to speak,” Caryn Dolich says. “They eighth grade and had a support system couldn’t hear simple phrases like ‘Man normally do this surgery with little kids. that brought her already intimate fam- on!’ or ‘Left flank.’ I relied on hard work, But she had the verbal skills to describe ily even closer. “My sister was my speed and desire to make up for the tac- what she heard. She’d use words like, ‘it social translator, my parents the advo- tical holes in my game.” Caryn Dolich, sounds ugly and mechanized.’” Two cates and my brother the jokester, who chosen as captain her senior year, agrees. months later, she was listening to music taught me the value of self-deprecating “She has a tenacity that is unparalleled. and talking regularly on the phone.

26 Haverford Magazine During their time at

When Dolich arrived in the fall of Haverford, the Dolich guage. “It was a transforming experi- 2003 for Haverford soccer preseason, she ence. I felt uncomfortable in my own concentrated her efforts on being chosen sisters led the women’s skin because I was in the middle of two for the varsity team while coping with worlds: deaf and the hearing. Playing the humid Philadelphia weather that soccer team to one of ‘deaf’ always held a certain trepidation wreaked havoc on her implant. Both she for me, but when I finally played with and Caryn survived through three prac- the greatest winning my Deaflympics teammates, implants games tices a day with two rounds of cuts before and hearing aids off, it was liberating,” Lindsey Dolich was shocked to find out stretches in school says Dolich. Caryn Dolich, watching d she’d be starting for the Fords as a fresh- history. from the stands in Melbourne, saw how man. “Having Caryn there by my side her sister had to struggle in surprising- was a huge advantage, for emotional sup- loss to eventual winner Messiah, in a ly unfamiliar conditions. “It gave her a for port,” she says. tough 1-0 defeat. Former head coach and perspective on how lucky she was. It was The twins’ closeness did not go unno- current Athletic Director Wendy Smith very segregated and I think she felt like ticed. “They have a healthy relationship. calls Dolich “an incredibly hard worker an interloper in the deaf culture. It was Each of them has different abilities and who’s real aggressive. She never backed a weird dynamic. I’ve never been proud- strives to excel and help each other get down. Tactically, she knew the game very er of her,” she says. With three assists where they want to go. They’re a formi- well and was globally team oriented.” and one header for a goal, Dolich led the dable duo to have on a team and are each Dolich finished her college career with national team to an undefeated record other’s biggest fans,” says Dean of the 13 goals and seven assists in 66 games and a gold medal. College Greg Kannerstein, who was played. Back at Haverford, Dolich occasion- Director of Athletics that year. Her biggest sports accomplishment, ally wrote for the Bi-College News when During their time at Haverford, the however, came outside of Walton Field. breaks from soccer practice allowed her Dolich sisters led the women’s soccer Dolich was chosen to play on the U.S. to cover events like the first Midnight team to one of the greatest winning women’s national soccer team at the Madness held in Gardner Athletic stretches in school history. The Fords 2005 Deaflympics in Australia. When Center and the Dining Center’s own ver- had a record of 42-27-5 with an amaz- Dolich arrived, she realized she was in sion of “Iron Chef.” An internship at a ing run to the NCAA Tournament in a different world, one in which every- soccer magazine in the Bay Area piqued 2005 that ended in the second round one communicated through sign lan- her interest in sports writing, so after

Cochlear Implants: The Sound of the Future?

cochlear implant can’t necessarily restore hear- The benefits, as Dolich herself points out, are numerous, ing to a profoundly deaf individual, but can the most important of which is understanding speech, some- create the sense of sound. The first step is sur- times without the benefit of lip reading. That’s why it’s more gery in which an electrode array is attached common for children between the ages of two and six to A to the cochlea, the bone in the inner ear that receive a cochlear implant, at a time when they’re first learn- normally converts vibrations created by sound ing language and speech. into impulses sent to the brain. A microphone Researchers are working with different attached to a speech processor is then con- types of electrode arrays that can help indi- nected to the outside of the patient’s ear. The viduals unable to hear certain types of final step is a receiver, also located on the exte- sounds at higher frequencies. Other stud- rior of the ear, which does the work of the ies focus on whether a patient benefits cochlea, turning signals from the speech proces- more from having implants in both ears as sor into electric impulses. opposed to just one, as well as on improv- The electrodes receive the impulses created ing ways to understand speech. Since by the processor and send them to the audito- cochlear implants have only been used for ry nerve, which the brain then recognizes as about 30 years, there’s much more scien- NIH, Medical Arts & Photography Branch sound. But the implant should not be mistaken tists and physicians will learn as they con- for a hearing aid, which simply serves to amplify sound that tinue to enhance the auditory world of the hard of hearing. travels through the ear normally. A cochlear implant directly To hear audio samples of what speech and music sound like passes any damaged parts of the ear. It can take many ther- through a cochlear implant, go to http://tinyurl.com/5b7son. apy sessions to get used to this way of experiencing sound.

Fall 2008 27 “Lindsey never saw what

she had as a disability. What’s most fascinating here is the per- spective she will bring to the classroom. People don’t even know Dolich says she wants to concentrate on disabilities studies, a lens used to study she’s hard of hearing. disability in literature in the sense of characters feeling marginalized or unfa- She would still choose miliar in certain situations. This is, of course, exactly what Dolich referred to this life for herself.” earlier in explaining how people adjust -Caryn Dolich to unexpected circumstances. “It’s breaking ground because she’s No. 7 Dolich goes for the experiencing it herself,” Caryn Dolich goal at the Deaflympics. grand total of 10 people,” she jokes. The says. “She makes connections that no perks included meeting and interview- one else does and she’s going to bring graduation, she reached out to an edi- ing some of her personal heroes, includ- another level to the field. But Lindsey tor at ESPN the Magazine and immedi- ing Billie Jean King, Heather Mitts and never saw what she had as a disability. ately began working with Executive the aforementioned Abby Wambach, People don’t even know she’s hard of Editor at Large Steve Wulf on a startup who was the subject of her first piece hearing. She would still choose this life project for young athletes and their par- published in ESPN ; she’s also met David for herself.” A lesson for us all. ents. Dolich seized the opportunity to Beckham and Pele. Phone calls that once continue writing, pitching stories to made her nervous are now just another both ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. part of her job. Coincidentally, the online soccer editor This fall, at Stanford University, was looking for a columnist to cover the Dolich is taking on yet another chal- U.S. Women’s National Team. “It really lenge. This time her goal is a Ph.D. in was a dream to have my very own col- English literature and the possibility of umn, even if the readership reaches a ultimately teaching on the college level.

Former Athletic Trainer Dick Morsch Dies at 92

Dick Morsch, Haverford’s legendary athletic trainer for 27 years, passed away on May 20, 2008 in Boynton Beach. Known for both his healing expertise and his genuine The late former athletic director Dana Swan, Morsch’s respect for and interest in others, Morsch was a favorite of immediate superior at the time, also greatly respected students and faculty alike. As one student said after the both the trainer’s healing abilities and his emotional sensi- announcement of the trainer’s retirement, “He’s just a tivity, which helped and inspired so many people. He once great man; it’s a simple statement, but it’s true. He epito- commented that this combination made Morsch a rare and mizes all that is good about Haverford—doing what’s very special individual: “Dick is the last of a vanishing breed required and then some. All the testimonials will never do of people. He might be the strongest, most positive con- him justice.” tact many students have with the athletic department. And Before coming to Haverford, Morsch was a Pharmacist’s he’s just a heckuva person.” Mate, First Class in the Navy, and later took a position as Morsch credited Haverford and its intimate atmosphere an athletic trainer with the United States Marine Corps for allowing him to take the approach he did. “I can take a at Paris Island. Morsch came to Haverford in April of 1951 more personal interest in each individual. I like to treat and became a mainstay of the College despite numer- each individual as equally important…Haverford is a unique ous enticing offers from other institutions. A visit to his institution, where people look out for one another.” training room often meant more than receiving expert -Mandy Ball ’11 injury care; students also found much-needed guidance, support, and friendship. “He always seem[ed] to have fresh perspectives for troublesome problems,” another student recalled, “and his experience and insight help[ed] people make greater sense out of their lives.”

28 Haverford Magazine ofile pr Tell Her Where it Hurts

...and She’ll Tell You Why faculty

A twist of fate led Professor Wendy Sternberg to become an expert on pain. by Brenna McBride

Wendy Sternberg and our life is often decided by small “Pain was not my first choice of topic,” she says. Emily Alspector ‘08 “ moments,” declares Wendy Sternberg, “I wanted to do a presentation on bipolar disorder. observe a stained slice Y professor of psychology and a foremost But I realized it was the same day as a similar presen- of the mouse brain. authority on pain and the behavioral quirks it inspires. tation I had to make in another class, so someone She should know, as she wouldn’t be where she is switched with me.” today if not for one such moment during her under- Ultimately, she came to love her accidental topic. graduate days at Union College. She was taking a sem- “It’s really interesting for psychologists to study,” she inar called “Brain and Behavior,” and one of her assign- says, “and it’s not obvious at first why it should be.” ments was to essentially teach the class one day in the For one thing, pain affects just about everyone on the form of an hour-and-a-half presentation. (She has res- planet, and as people grow older, their pain lasts for urrected this assignment for her present-day Haverford longer periods of time due to the onset of age-relat- courses.) ed conditions such as arthritis and back trouble. Also,

Fall 2008 29 Sternberg’s project investigates the hypothesis that early pain, as a stressor, can cause a heightened stress response in adults that may result in their reduced sensitivity to all types of pain. research projects since her arrival at Haverford is a National Science Foundation-funded study of how untreat- ed pain at birth can lead to altered pain sensitivity in adults. “There have been other studies showing that exposure to stress early in life alters the adulthood stress response,” she says. “The nature of that alteration depends in part on the nature of the stressor, how prolonged and chronic it is, and whether you’re male or female—there are interactions with the hormonal gender system as well.” Sternberg’s project investigates the hypoth- esis that early pain, as a stressor, can cause a heightened stress response in adults— Mouse at the ready, Sternberg prepares to test a hypothesis with Alex Tuttle ’08. and perhaps higher levels of a certain stress hormone—that may result in their reduced says Sternberg, pain can teach researchers After her fortuitous seminar presenta- sensitivity to all types of pain. things about the brain in ways that are dif- tion, Sternberg dove into the study of pain, To test this hypothesis, one of ferent from every other sensory system. and the depth and breadth of her knowl- Sternberg’s students, Aditya Vora ’08, per- “In no other system is the fact that the sen- edge made her an attractive applicant in formed abdominal surgery on a group of sation is unpleasant, or the hedonic value, the eyes of many prestigious graduate newborn mice who had been cryoanesthe- part of its definition. Pain is not pain unless schools. She chose UCLA, where she had sized (encompassed in ice), while observ- it has a negative hedonic quality—it is an what she describes as a “wonderful” men- ing a “sham” group of mice who under- unpleasant sensory and emotional expe- tor, John Liebeskind, a prominent pain went the same stressful conditions as the rience. In no other sensory modality is the researcher at the birth of the field. “When surgical group but didn’t undergo the actu- emotional content of the experience part I started in 1990, this was a much smaller al surgery. He also included a control group of its defining features.” area of study. The American Pain Society that was not manipulated at all. When the One aspect of pain that is often over- was a tiny organization; now it has to mice reached adulthood, Vora measured looked—especially by those suffering from change the nature of its annual meeting so their response to induced stress behav- it—is its necessity to survival. Sternberg it can accommodate everyone.” Liebeskind iorally and hormonally, and discovered that points out that people with congenital knew everyone in the field, and introduced the surgical group showed a trend towards insensitivity to pain actually live short, them all to Sternberg. She also inherited having enhanced levels of the stress hor- injury-filled lives, unable to determine his research equipment. “A lot of things mone corticosterone. when they’ve burned an extremity or expe- in my life today,” she says, “flow directly “We don’t know the mechanism,” says rienced a burst appendix. “Without pain from being in his lab.” She finished her Sternberg, “whether it’s a habituation or sensation, you’re doomed,” she says. “Pain doctorate in 1994 and joined Haverford’s a change in the opioid (endorphin) sys- gives you warnings about what’s harmful in faculty in 1995. tem. The expression of pain at any your environment.” One of Sternberg’s longest-running moment in time is not just how much heat

30 Haverford Magazine is applied at the periphery of the body or competition to couples during the spring Sternberg and her collaborators had stu- the state of the incoming pain signal, but and fall of 2007, collaborating with dents in romantic relationships, as well as ofile also the state of the brain at the time it Assistant Professor of Psychology Benjamin same-sex friend pairs, view their partners receives the signal.” Le and class of ’07 students Stephen Selsor undergoing pain testing while having their pr Gender disparities come into play and Heather Shafi on a study focusing on own pain tested themselves. The because the male and female brains show the associations among empathy, human researchers videotaped each partner mak- marked differences in stress behavior, both social relationships, and pain experiences. ing a facial expression of pain, and assem- in the hormonal state of the brain and how It was funded by the Provost’s Office bled a package of clips to show the other the brain is able to effectively shut out pain Faculty Research Grant, and was present- partner. While watching the video, the during times of extreme stress. Sternberg ed at the Neuroscience Annual Meeting in partners’ pain sensitivity and level of empa- found in previous studies that the effects of November 2007. The project’s impetus was thy were measured; heat stimuli was neonatal stress appear to be greater in a high-profile paper published in 2006 by applied to their forearms, or their arms faculty females than in males, but these effects were dunked in buckets of ice water. could be eliminated by removing the Another group of subjects watched female hormones. Therefore, many aspects strangers undergoing pain testing, and a of early stress seem to be dependent on third group watched a nature video. hormones. The research team anticipated that This isn’t the only one of Sternberg’s those who viewed videotapes of their studies to address gender differences in romantic partner or friend in pain would pain sensitivity. In 2002 she explored the show heightened sensitivity to painful effects of competition on pain in a project stimuli, as opposed to those who watched funded by the National Institutes of Health, a stranger or a nature video. But that’s not in which the Haverford students who at all what they saw. served as her subjects (“We pay them,” “In fact, we didn’t see any change over Sternberg explains, “and there is never time, no effect of manipulations,” says enough pain to cause tissue damage”) were Sternberg. “But we went back and looked assigned to compete against same-sex at the data on the day the subjects viewed opponents in a track meet or an auto race the video and had their pain tested, and video game. Another group completed a ran an analysis to see if the subjects who non-competitive treadmill run. The stu- reported empathy also had higher pain dents’ arms were then submerged in buck- sensitivity. And we did find significant cor- ets of ice water for 90 seconds after the relations between empathetic feelings and event, and their reactions were rated every pain behavior: The more they were empa- 15 seconds on a scale of zero (no pain) to Timothy Ouellette ’09 readies a syringe thetic, the more pain they felt.” 20 (intolerable pain). for an experiment. To the researchers’ surprise, many sub- “Being in a competition activates the jects seemed to be amused at the sight of same mental state as escaping from a pred- Sternberg’s McGill University colleague Jeff their partners expressing pain. “It may sim- ator,” says Sternberg. “It’s a sense of, ‘I can’t Mogil, revealing that mice’s pain sensitiv- ply have been a positive emotional state deal with this right now, I will ignore all ity was heightened when viewing anoth- from viewing a significant other, or it could pain signals.’ It’s not a conscious ignoring er mouse in pain, but not if the mouse in be because, frankly, asking people to make of pain.” question was a stranger to them. The pain faces makes them look a little goofy,” Results showed that both men and strength of the empathy was modulated says Sternberg. “Next time we’ll try to get women manifest pain-inhibitory respons- by the degree of closeness between the ani- a better manipulation.” es to athletic competition, but they differ in mals. This project, like many of Sternberg’s what exactly they find stressful about the “We wanted to try this with humans,” studies, gave her students opportunities events. “For men, the stress-induced anal- says Sternberg. “There had been some pre- for hands-on participation in the imple- gesia at the track meet and with the video vious brain imaging studies [by neurosci- mentation and analysis of the tests. In the games was due to the head-to-head compe- entist Tania Singer] showing that, when empathy study, both Stephen Selsor and tition,” says Sternberg. “Women also had female subjects watched their relationship Heather Shafi recruited subjects and stress-induced analgesia from the track partner in pain, the female’s brain showed administered the pain tests themselves. meet, but the video game didn’t do any- activation as if she was in pain. It was a “Wendy was wonderful to work with,” says thing for them. We could mimic the effect self-other overlap. They had never actu- Shafi, now serving an internship in the they got from the track meet by having ally tested the female’s pain sensitivity General Surgery Department of Bellvitge them run on a treadmill.” when she was viewing her significant University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Sternberg turned her attention from other in pain.” “She was most helpful in showing me how

Fall 2008 31 “Given the real world problems associated with the

prevalence of pain as a clinical condition, researchers research earned him a Beckman scholar- ship last year. need to understand how the brain produces pain expe- Tuttle, who has begun conducting dia- betes research at the Children’s Hospital of rience, and how subtle environmental (or conversely, Philadelphia, is thrilled to have explored a topic that intrigues him with Sternberg constitutional) factors affect one’s experience of pain.” as guide. “She has a wonderful teaching style,” he says, “and in the lab she’s hands- to write a professional scientific report, a behavior changes when a mouse it knows on, teaching all of the methods herself. skill that will be useful as I continue my is in pain.” It’s been a dream to work directly with academic career.” Alex Tuttle ’08 has been assisting her, to have individual attention and all Aditya Vora also considers himself lucky Sternberg with this project since his soph- my questions answered on a fundamental to have Sternberg as a teacher and mentor. omore year. Initially, they observed that level.” “She’s always ready to help, dedicated to male mice downplayed their behavior and Sternberg believes that her research has her students, and she goes above and did not express pain readily in the pres- a great deal of relevance outside of the lab. beyond the responsibilities of an adviser.” ence of other male mice who were “Given the real world problems associat- He also feels fortunate to have been able to strangers to them; when isolated or with ed with the prevalence of pain as a clinical design his own study within the context of their cage mates, they did not inhibit their condition,” she says, “researchers need to Sternberg’s research on early life pain, and pain responses. Most recently, Tuttle inves- understand how the brain produces pain to have experience with sophisticated lab tigated the role of testosterone in the pain experience, and how subtle environmen- equipment. “It’s really taught me disci- behavior of male mice by observing the tal (or conversely, constitutional) factors pline,” he says—something that will come interactions of hormonally intact mice with affect one’s experience of pain.” in handy in his future as a doctor. two groups that had been castrated; one With everything Sternberg has accom- Sternberg’s own future may hold a new group had testosterone injected back into plished in the field of pain studies, it still National Science Foundation grant; she’s their systems via capsule, while the sec- awes her to think how close she was to in the process of applying. She is seeking ond group had an empty capsule put into traveling a completely different path. “I funding for two new projects: One con- their systems. The intact mice had been think all the time: What would have hap- centrates on the relationship between injected with a substance that caused mild pened if I’d done that presentation on bipo- neurogenesis (new cell growth in the abdominal cramping; their way of express- lar disorder?” she muses. “I wouldn’t have brain) and pain sensitivity, and the sec- ing pain was to stretch out in an effort to known the big theories. I wouldn’t have ond looks at the effects of a mouse’s social relieve discomfort. He and Sternberg found been able to talk to the people at UCLA environment on its pain expression. “It’s that mice exposed to the testosterone- about pain.” about how animals behave when other fueled group expressed less of this pain- Never underestimate the life-altering animals are in their presence,” she says. related behavior in their company. power of small moments. “I’m interested in how the presence of a Now, they want to replicate these results mouse ‘observing’ alters pain behavior in using female mice. “We want to know, if Editor’s note: On July 1, 2008, Wendy another mouse, and also how the mouse’s you introduce testosterone, does it create Sternberg began a three-year term as the same kind of behavior in Associate Provost of Haverford College. A females as in males?” member of Haverford’s faculty since 1995, says Tuttle, whose Sternberg has served as chair of the psychol- involvement in ogy department from 2002-2003 and 2004- Sternberg’s 2008, and was the recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Teaching Award in 2003. She has also been an elected member of Academic Council and the Presidential Search Committee, and is currently the Middle States re-accreditation co-chair. “A model scholar-teacher, and a highly respect- ed and trusted colleague, Wendy brings intel- ligence, drive, institutional expertise and per- sonal warmth to her new job as Associate Provost,” says Provost Linda Bell. “I am hon- ored that Wendy has accepted my invitation to serve Haverford in this important way.”

32 Haverford Magazine

Nancie Ellis ’84 played a key role in the production of the independent film And Then Came Love, now out on DVD.

When Nancie Ellis agreed to review some paperwork for a screenwriter friend, little did she know that in just a few months she would go from a stay-at-home mom to a movie producer. Ellis soon found herself hanging out with actresses Vanessa Williams and Eartha Kitt, arguing with the film’s Hollywood director, and making sure nobody got sued. “I basically did this to help my friend,” says Ellis, who graduated from Haverford in 1984 with a degree in economics and from Columbia University Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A. in 1989. It all started when Ellis was eight years old, when she met future writer Caytha Jentis at Fox Meadow Elementary School in Scarsdale, N.Y. They became friends and their enduring bond is memorialized in the name of Jentis’ company: Fox Meadow Films.

That’s What Friends Are For The friends stayed in touch over the years, and Jentis asked Ellis to look over the financial paperwork to produce a screen- play she had written. After shopping the screenplay around Hollywood, Jentis received positive feedback but no deal. Jentis, who had once been a literary agent and Hollywood talent agency executive, decided to make the most of her industry connections to be her own producer and drum up the money herself. By Samantha Drake

33 From Mom to Movie Mogul Left: Kevin Daniels and Vanessa Williams rehearse the final pivotal scene in And Then At first, Ellis hesitated to get more Came Love. Below: Nancie Ellis ‘84 on the involved. “I was a stay-at-home mother set of filming And Then Came Love., Below with no experience in the industry, and right: Nancie Ellis and screenwriter Caytha about to move from Manhattan to the sub- Jentis at the Screen Actors Guild screening urbs of Westchester.” She was returning of the film in New York City. to her native Westchester County in March JENNIFER DEMEREE 2006 with her husband, Geoff Domm, and The “Mommy Posse” two daughters, Michelle, 12, and Allison, As Ellis’ involvement in the movie grew, 10. she became part of the self-proclaimed Despite her doubts, Ellis was soon “Mommy Posse,” a core group of six women working on the production’s shoestring who all had some connection to Jentis, JENNIFER DEMEREE budget from her new home in Westchester whether they attended Syracuse University by cell phone. She noted that her past together, or their kids played on the same work as a PTA treasurer, coordinating auc- soccer team in Ridgewood, N.Y. tions and managing budgets, served her Among the Posse, Diane Sims, one of well. Her hard work earned her a co-pro- Jentis’ Ridgewood friends, first showed the ducer credit on the film. screenplay to Williams, who Sims also Jentis’ screenplay became the romantic knew from Syracuse. Sims also sings back- comedy And Then Came Love, starring Kitt, up for Williams on tour. Kirby Garbarini, Vanessa Williams, Ben Vereen, and Kevin a fellow soccer mom, became the firm’s Daniels, and was released in theaters in location manager; Ridgewood moms Trish June 2007. Williams’ character, Julie, is a Manzo and Rosie Gunther rounded up high-powered magazine writer dealing nearly 100 volunteer extras; and local pho- with her increasingly difficult six-year-old tographer Josephine Dworkin provided son’s questions about who his real father photos for the movie poster art. “Caytha and I started our day emailing is. For the boy’s sake, she decides to track Many people the Mommy Posse each other at 6:30 a.m., broke at 7:30 to down the anonymous sperm donor she worked with in the industry had no idea get our children ready for school, and selected years before, who turns out to be the women possessed zero experience resumed work at 8:30 after we dropped a young, handsome but struggling actor. making films—at least, initially. “We were them off at school. After 3 p.m., we would Romantic and familial complications flexible, we learned quickly and then we connect on any issues via cell phone,” Ellis ensue. ran with it,” Ellis says. recalls. The Mommy Posse improvised when- ever necessary. Ellis participated in some Russell Crowe Class of ’?? off-beat assignments, including serving as Set designers working on the upcoming thriller the film’s laugh track by standing in the State of Play loaded up on Haverford swag last spring back of at least one screening and chuck- in the course of decorating an apartment belonging ling conspicuously in all the right places. to Russell Crowe’s character, who is a Haverford alum. Here’s a synopsis, courtesy of the producer: The Good, the Bad Academy Award winner Russell Crowe leads an all- and “Ugly Betty” star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising Ellis marveled at the rollercoaster of Congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled RICKY CARIOTI/ THE WASHINGTON POST good and bad luck the Mommy Posse expe- in a case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Russell Crowe filming on location in rienced before, during and after filming. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street Washington, D.C. last spring. The first stroke of good luck was that smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder and collusion among some of the nation’s most promising political and corporate figures in State Williams saw the script and liked it. of Play, from acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland). Getting a star on board drew other big Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is the future of his names, including Kitt and Vereen. But it political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee oversee- seemed their luck might run out when ing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party’s contender for the ABC unexpectedly picked up a television upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and pilot Williams had recently filmed. buried secrets come tumbling out. Williams, however, was so interested McCaffrey has the dubious fortune of both an old friendship with Collins and a ruthless in filming And Then Came Love that she editor, Cameron (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren), who has assigned him to investi- rearranged her schedule so she had time gate. As he and partner Della (Rachel McAdams) try to uncover the killer’s identity, McCaffrey to shoot the movie and also promote the steps into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation’s power structures. And in a town of series that became “Ugly Betty.” spin-doctors and wealthy politicos, he will discover one truth: When billions are at stake, no one’s integrity, love or life is ever safe. Film at the ‘Ford, 2008-09 The Hurford Humanities Center is nurturing arts programming both in and alongside the curriculum. More good fortune came their way Documentary filmmaking is part of that effort. when the production qualified for the Working with the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Screen Actors Guild’s low-budget agree- Center helped bring to Haverford MacArthur Fellow ment, which meant the actors and crew and award-winning documentarian Louis Massiah worked for minimal pay. (left in photograph) as Distinguished-Artist-in- But, a final unlucky break occurred as Residence to teach a course with Professor of History Emma Lapsansky on social class and doc- Williams began to make the rounds to pro- umentary filmmaking, and to offer what proved to mote the film, including an appearance on be a highly successful workshop for faculty, stu- the morning talk show “Regis and Kelly.” dents, and staff in film production. Concurrently, Someone kidnapped Williams’ dog, and the Center hosted “Beyond the Lens,” screenings the untimely theft got more press than the and conversations on documentaries featuring film, Ellis said. The dog was safely award-winning filmmaker Vicky Funari. returned, but the dognapping was all Regis Both Massiah and Funari will return this year Philbin wanted to talk about. with a new program of courses, workshops, and screenings that will etch documentary filmmaking All “Clear” into the fabric of Haverford’s emerging culture of Perhaps most important, Ellis took on visual studies and arts activism. the daunting task of making sure the pro- duction remained litigation-free by secur- ing “clearances” for the film. Films may the character of Julie’s son brags to a class- footage of a train from another transit only be distributed and screened in pub- mate that his father is a New York Yankee. company to insert into the sequence. lic if written permission is provided for Originally, the script called for the boy to Alert viewers may notice the train certain things that are said or shown in say his father was Derek Jeter or Hideki footage is set in a different season than Matsui. So, the producers duly approached the rest of the scene. the Yankees to get permission to use their names in the film. The players apparently Everyone involved, didn’t mind, but the Yankee organization objected, she said. The reference was including the stars and scrapped. The Yankees did, however, approve the limited use of team memorabil- the director, agreed to ia, which can be seen throughout the film. pay for their own lodg- Taking a Stand As the resident clearance expert, Ellis ings or stay with friends

JENNIFER DEMEREE frequently found herself at odds with the film’s director, Richard Schenkman, over during the whirlwind the film. “It’s all about not getting sued,” what exactly needed to be cleared. Ellis explains Ellis. said her philosophy was, if it was ques- four-week shoot. To become a film-clearing expert as tionable, it had to be cleared or cut. “I soon as possible, Ellis read up on the sub- wanted it to be very clean. We could not Ellis said she had no problem fighting ject, and consulted with an intellectual afford to be sued!” she emphasizes. for what she thought was right despite property attorney friend and a firm called While viewing the director’s cut of the being a novice in the movie-making busi- IndieClear, which specializes in clearing film weeks after shooting ended, Ellis ness. She was an investor in the film, while independent films. She learned she need- watched in horror as a New Jersey Transit others, such as the director, were employ- ed permission to use any copyrights and train glided into view, knowing full well ees and weren’t going to be the ones who trademarks that would appear in the film, that permission had not been obtained got sued. “I was going to follow the letter such as the copyright for the children’s beforehand. Schenkman thought it was no of the law,” Ellis says firmly. book Williams’ character reads to her son. big deal, and anyway, the sequence would She credits her Haverford education Ellis also found out it was often easiest be too expensive to reshoot, Ellis recalls. with giving her the strength and wisdom to to avoid the need for clearance altogeth- Her thought? “Not in my movie!” succeed in such a difficult industry. “At er. For example, very few characters in the New Jersey Transit agreed to have one Haverford we didn’t assume we knew movie have last names to avoid using of their trains in the film; unfortunate- everything, and we were taught to listen, names belonging to real people. ly, the company insisted on having the analyze, and solve problems,” she says. Other questions were not so easily scene re-shot with a paid representative “These basic skills have helped me more resolved. In the final version of the film, on site. Instead, Ellis scrambled to get than my other professional training.”

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Sticking to the Budget unions. The Screen Actors’ Guild allowed could accommodate the needs of our Ultimately, the film was a wonderful them to pay all actors the minimum salary, crew.” Jennifer Schecter ’84, a real estate experience, says Ellis. With such a tight and the Teamsters allowed them to film attorney (and one of Ellis’ Lloyd suitem- budget—$750,000 by the end of filming— without “honey wagons” provided the ates), helped with location contracts. people were there because they wanted to locations had “dressing rooms” for the The actors were hired on handshake be. Everyone involved, including the stars stars. Kirby Garbarini drove around New agreements and got just a few days to and the director, agreed to pay for their Jersey and convinced many locations near rehearse. The actors couldn’t be given writ- own lodgings or stay with friends during and around her home in Ridgewood to let ten contracts until solid financing had been the whirlwind four-week shoot that start- them film there. “When we filmed in some secured, Ellis explains. If contracts were ed in June 2006, notes Ellis. homes,” says Ellis, “bedrooms were used as signed and the film fell through, the pro- Because the budget was so low, the ‘dressing rooms’ and the neighbors gave duction company would have to pay the group received some concessions from the us access to their homes as well, so we actors anyway. No one indulged in any kind of diva behavior, not even 79-year-old Kitt, who “The Library and Joe” wins Diamond Screen may have had a right to expect a little pam- pering. Kitt, in fact, was “fabulous,” in Ellis’ Film Festival Award for Best Editing words. She laughs as she describes her “The Library and Joe,” a short film by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal ’06 that documents the unexpected meeting with the legendary life work of Joe O’Donnell, longtime maintenance manager of Magill Library, was awarded “Catwoman.” Upon hearing that Ellis once a prize for Best Editing in a competition at Temple University. It was screened on Thursday, lived near her daughter, Kitt promptly May 22 at the Ambler Theater, as part of a winners’ showcase from the 10th annual Diamond Screen Film Festival. It’s Blumenthal's first project as a grad student in film. An alternate called Ellis into her dressing room for a version of the short film, which made its world pre- chat with her and Kitt’s daughter while the miere at the gala retirement party thrown by actress finished dressing. O’Donnell’s friends and family in December, 2007, can Ellis says she was nervous talking with be seen on Blumenthal’s website, shotbykarl.com. Kitt, not because of her star status, but When asked about his “love affair” with Haverford because Ellis felt like she was barging in on College, O’Donnell says, “Well, Haverford turned my the half-dressed actress. Much more relaxed life around. It really did. That’s the love affair I have was a conversation with Williams, centering with Haverford. They always treated me with the on dogs and local school politics. “It was utmost respect... I hope I gave back as much.” much more fun to talk about all this other View the film on Haverford’s website at stuff than the boring movie stuff,” says Ellis. www.haverford.edu/news/stories/9111/51. And Then Came Love saw a limited release in theaters in June 2007. Only a

A Look Back at the Filming of Eddie and the Cruisers at Haverford by Bob Elwood ’82 The large sign in the Dining Center read “$40 per day and all you Perhaps some of us dreamed of a taste of Hollywood glamour as can eat—Be an extra in the film Eddie and the Cruisers.” I was a sen- the filming began. The reality was, well, not especially glamorous. ior at Haverford in the spring of 1982, with my exams completed. It Among the lessons we all learned was that making a movie was a pretty tempting job offer. Along with several hundred other involved very long days full of repetitive work. I recall a lot of standing Haverford and Bryn Mawr students, I was an extra in the fabled film. around and waiting. Merle Bari (BMC 1982) observed: In the movie, Ellen Barkin plays a reporter tracking down a story “I thought it would be great money but it turned out to be 12 hour about a fictional 1960s rock band named, oddly enough, Eddie and days filled with tedium. So I got my suitemate Margrit Bergholz to be the Cruisers. At the start of the film, the group is content to play cov- my double and we would switch off playing the extra. I still remem- ers at a small club at the Jersey shore. Things change when the mem- ber that I wore a fifties dress of my mother’s.” bers of the band meet cerebral and sensitive Frank Ridgeway, played During a scene filmed on Lloyd Green, a production assistant asked by Tom Berenger, whom Eddie, played by Michael Paré, hires to be Kevin Rush (HC 1982), “Who’s crazy and wants to earn an extra 40 the band’s keyboard player and lyricist. bucks?” Kevin’s arm shot up along with a guy beside him. The pro- Ridgeway is a gifted musician who loves the poetry of Arthur duction assistant pointed at the guy beside Kevin and said, “Okay, Rimbaud. Under his guidance the band stops playing covers and when they say action, you pour beer on his head.” Then he pointed releases an album of original material that becomes a big hit, especial- to Kevin. “You chase him across the lawn.” So they did about forty ly the song “On the Dark Side”, which sounds uncannily like a Bruce takes with Kevin pumping the keg, the other guy pouring a beer on Springsteen song. his head, and Kevin chasing him across the lawn. It got to the point Near the peak of its success, the band performs at a “Spring that Kevin looked like a greaser, his hair slicked back with beer, and his Madness” concert at the fictional college Ridgeway attended. These sweater much darker than when we had started. were the scenes filmed at Haverford. Another lesson was that not all of the scenes filmed ended up in the

36 Haverford Magazine PBS Premiere for Jon Fein ’72 In the aftermath of destruction, human beings struggle to find hope. Loss renders the physical world vacant, and the spiritual world seems incomprehensible. As PBS’ national- few venues screened the one hour and 38 ly broadcast prime time special this September in commemoration of the seventh anniver- minute film because working with a dis- sary of 9/11, Objects and Memory—a film by Jon Fein ’72—explores horizons of hope dis- tribution company was too expensive, says covered in things imbued with recollection, and also in the things we create on our complex Ellis. Screenings were held in Peekskill, journeys of grief and recovery. N.Y., and Ridgewood, N.J., where much Objects and Memory asks the questions, “What things mean the most to us? How do oth- of the filming had taken place. erwise ordinary items come to symbolize experiences, aspirations, and identity?” Guided A grant from SAG for films using by Frank Langella’s narration and set to the music of Philip Glass, the film reveals items recovered from or offered minority actors enabled the Mommy Posse in response to dramatic and pervasive American expe- to screen the film at the New York riences, along with stories of people who find them impor- Directors Guild Theater in New York City tant. In doing so, the film helps viewers better understand (more good luck!). But another screening their own thoughts, emotions, and behavior; the intangi- at a prime NYC location put And Then ble values they hold dear; and the tangible objects that Came Love on The New York Times’, radar represent them. which panned the film in a 300-word Check local listings for broadcast dates and times, review. Still, it was a review by The New and find out more at www.objectsandmemory.org. York Times, Ellis says pragmatically, not- ing that the film received more favorable reviews from screenings at independent wasn’t all that much fun, though. With all Mommy Posse were involved. “They were film festivals. the waiting to set up lights and camera an incredible group of women—they never angles, “it was quite boring,” says Ellis. said, ‘I can’t do that,’” she notes. Now on DVD “But we weren’t doing it for the glamour.” Everyone in the Mommy Posse worked Viewers can judge the movie for them- With post-production details still being similar non-traditional schedules, fitting selves. And Then Came Love is available on wrapped up, Ellis predicts the film will work around their family, which some- DVD through Netflix and Amazon, Ellis says. break even. As a co-producer, Ellis will be times meant putting 10 hours’ worth of Be sure to check out Ellis and the rest of the one of the last to recoup any of her mod- work into five. Yet with all the juggling moms in the “Mommy Posse” interview on est monetary investment. Time was actu- going on, nothing got lost by the wayside, the DVD. The Women’s Entertainment chan- ally the biggest investment for the Mommy says Ellis. “We knew that by working nel also secured the rights to the movie. Posse. “We all worked tremendous hours together we could truly have it all.” Some of the Mommy Posse appeared in for free because we couldn’t afford to hire small roles in the film, including Sims, ourselves,” Ellis says. Samantha Drake is a freelance writer based Manzo and Gunther. Look for Ellis’ cameo After the film’s release, it was back to in Lansdowne, Pa. in the Woman’s Club luncheon scene (she suburbia for Ellis, who says she would be is wearing a green sweater). Being an extra happy to work on another film if the

movie. Sam Angell (HC 1982) was an extra Haverford in 1982. One dramatic scene during a scene in which Founders Great Hall that did make it into the movie was an was set up like a cafeteria. We were sitting enormous bonfire on the cricket field. In around when a production assistant asked the background, the President’s home had for someone about six feet tall. Sam’s hand been made to resemble a frat house. Al shot up. Sam was picked and, on a number Kulik (HC 1982) noted, “I think the great- of takes, walked into Founders Great Hall right est irony is that the closest Haverford in front of Tom Berenger. The director wanted came to behaving like a ‘real’ college with a food fight and told everyone to throw their frat parties, pep rallies, and bonfires was food at Sam! Later, Sam went to see the sneak during a ‘pretend’ movie.” preview with a group of other Haverfordians full of anticipation, thinking it would be his big Editor’s Note: Careful viewers of the film break. As the time for the scene approached, can spot Bob Elwood on Lloyd Green just Sam’s anticipation mounted: “I waited and behind Tom Berenger in the scenes pre- waited, but then the story line passed the ceding the “Spring Madness” concert. scene by. There was no scene. My big chance evaporated into thin air.I had ended up on the cutting room floor.” The college life depicted in the film was The Bi-Co News covered Eddie and the not at all like what we experienced at Cruisers’ filming on campus

Fall 2008 37 An Alum’s Adventures in Indie Filmmaking By Adam Orman ’96 Adam Orman ’96 just wrapped production of an indie film he co-wrote and directed called Fifth Form. While at Haverford, he studied film with Ed Sikov ’78, with whom he has remained personally and professionally close. In this essay, Orman—who, like Sikov, did graduate work at Columbia University—details how Sikov’s classroom lessons have guided him in the art and craft of filmmaking.

skill, was priceless both in pre-production and on the set of Fifth Form.I was blessed Though I find with a talented director of photography, myself drawing upon Liz Hinlein, who was concerned with the Ed’s advice at nearly implication of each setup (camera place- ment). Liz didn’t want to just make a pret- every stage of the ty movie. She pushed us to shoot what was moviemaking process, in my head. We walked around the loca- here’s a short list of tion for weeks talking through every scene and creating a shot list. what has proven “What are you trying to say here?” she particularly helpful. would repeat. Every shot choice leads you down a different narrative path. When I tried to shot list on my own, the infinite possibilities were paralyzing. But, in my Know what you like Director’s Cut conversations with Liz, the options nar- and be able to describe it. Ed wants his students to learn how to rowed. What size was the frame going to This is a gross oversimplification of what write about film. Though we covered fem- be? Were our characters going to be short- I’ve learned from Ed over the last 13 years, inist and queer theory, film trivia (like the sided (looking into the close border of the beginning in his “Sex and Gender on Film” story of Barbara Stanwyck’s George frame) or open to the frame? Were the course. Since then I have worked as a Washington wig in Double Indemnity) and, reverse shots going to be dirty (with fore- research assistant on Ed’s Billy Wilder and of course, Freud, Ed’s focus was on film grounded people or objects) or clean? Was Peter Sellers biographies and we have grammar and scene descriptions. He insist- this a 2-shot or a single? Close-up or medi- become close friends. The practical appli- ed that before analyzing story, every stu- um shot? Was the camera going to tilt up cation of his forming me into an attentive dent should understand that the camera or boom up? Were we going to track with viewer and skilled writer did not become panned, tilted and tracked but it never ever the character or pan? And what will the apparent until this June, when I directed cut. Directors cut. next shot be? As our relationship flour- Fifth Form, my first feature film. We were watching film, and without ished, the film found meaning through our Fifth Form, which I wrote with my knowing how to describe exactly what we vocabulary. Haverford classmate Bill Stern ’96, is the were looking at there could be no discus- story of a prank war that divides a small sion. Our final papers were not arcane aca- boys’ dorm along ethnic lines at an elite demic essays with titles like “The (M)other prep school during the First Gulf War.I Half in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.” They raised money to finance the production were simply scene descriptions: Pick a through both the non-profit Film Arts scene from anything we’ve watched and Foundation in San Francisco and private describe it in detail. investments. We shot for three weeks in As a teaching assistant in Columbia the Bay Area and are currently editing in University’s graduate film program, I preparation for festival applications. naively led my first course on internation- It is a crew’s nature to be skeptical of a al film from ’60-’90 with a discussion of first-time director until he earns their masks in Godard’s Breathless. Our theme respect. Had I stood in front of them on proved too apt, as I looked at a classroom that first morning and said, “Don’t worry, of blank stares. Fortunately, I remembered I took a gender studies class over a decade my Sikov. At the end of the semester, our ago so I know all there is to know about final paper assignment was to simply write filmmaking,” I would have witnessed the a scene description: Pick a scene from any- fastest crew mutiny in film history. Granted, thing we’ve watched and describe it in I do have other experience and training but detail. Adam Orman ‘96 directs Fifth Form cast Ed’s course was foundational. This ability, which is not a talent but a members Josh and Allie on how to hold hands.

38 Haverford Magazine somewhere in the middle between the visually obvious (“shouldn’t he have a toothbrush in this scene?”) and the more challenging problems of geometry (“we were over mom’s right shoulder and dad was on frame right looking left, so where’s Josh looking?”). In this instance, the whole crew weighed in, the volume of the room grew and (a testament to the civility of our set) I raised my voice for the first time dur- ing the shoot. I knew how we had covered the other scene and quickly explained our editing options to avoid showing the sill- less window. The sill could now stay with- out risking our credibility, and the debate had been resolved with little time lost because I knew how to describe a scene. Just Shoot It set. We were shooting in that room again One of my proudest moments on set in daytime, and I needed the curtains to It’s Orman came during a continuity dispute. To design be open for the one and only time in that Ed Sikov has shown a remarkable abil- the rooms that we were using at St. Mary’s location. But hadn’t we already shown that ity to jump in at moments of great anxi- College in Moraga, Calif., we had to dress there was no windowsill behind the cur- ety and break things down for me. Once the sliding glass doors with false win- tain? Opinions flew. Someone rushed off was when I was sending my incomprehen- dowsills so that they would look like nor- to look at the dailies to see if the sill’s sible thesis script to everyone I knew look- mal windows. It would not have been real- absence was obvious. What were our ing for approval. I didn’t have much time istic for boarding school students to have options? Put in the sill and hope that peo- to get it finished and was expecting sage sliding glass doors in their rooms, after all. ple didn’t notice. Leave out the sill and advice about how to proceed on this par- One day in a rush to shoot before we lost float with the idea that a boarding school ticular project from my mentor. Ed’s advice the sun, I decided that if the curtains were somewhere is nice enough to allow its stu- was, “Just shoot it.” It was the reminder I drawn we could shoot without the fake sill dents balconies. I opted for the sill and needed that I was still at the beginning of which hadn’t yet been installed. Installing opinions flew again. my education. It’s not going to be perfect. it would have taken time and would have This sounds like a minor problem, but I just needed to shoot and keep shooting if changed the way the gaffer was reflecting every day on a film set is made up of a I was going to learn anything. the last of the sunlight into the room. dozen of these conversations. They range More recently, we were discussing the Several days later, I heard panic on the in scope with the sill dispute residing aesthetics of Fifth Form. “Should it be more Ophuls or more Rohmer?” I asked. Ed told me simply, “It’s not either of those. It’s Orman.” I responded like a good film stu- dent: “How am I supposed to know what that is?” To which he replied, “You’re about to find out.” I do have some idea now. I’ve spent a lot of time since college figuring out what it is that I like and, thanks to an amazing crew, have now made a movie to those specifications. I can’t wait to hear what Ed will teach me about my film.

You can follow Orman’s progress and find out about screenings at www.FifthForm.com. The site also includes information on how to donate to the project, which has yet to cover anticipated post-production and mar- Above: Josh and Penelope finally meet in the final scene of Fifth Form. keting costs. Ed Sikov can be reached at Top: Adam amazed at what a production designer can do to a white brick dorm room. EdSikov.com.

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F U R L A P E T R

New Orderin theCourt Skip Herman ’75 is helping to lead a revolution in the structure and operations of a law firm. By Thomas W. Durso

Herman shoots hoops in the Forum, a large, open area—with basketball court--his firm uses as a combination conference/prep room.

40 HaverfordMagazine The old Cook County Courthouse, with its stately stone exterior and its mere six stories, is dwarfed by the muscular glass and steel skyscrapers that surround it just north of the Loop in downtown Chicago. Yet there is quiet pride in its presence along Honorary Clarence S. Darrow Way, and why not? For this building possesses legacy, and quite a bit of it, which is one big reason that Sidney N. Herman ’75 chose to cofound his pioneering law firm here 15 years ago. It was in this building that Darrow himself, defending the infamous murderers Leopold and Loeb, delivered one of the finest summations of his storied career, stem- ming an anti-Semitic groundswell calling for their execution. Carl Sandburg and Ben Hecht launched their writing careers in the courthouse pressroom; Barack Obama worked here briefly as a young lawyer. And eight members of baseball’s Chicago White Sox were tried here on charges they conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series; just outside the courthouse doors is where a young fan implored Shoeless Joe Jackson, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” Fifteen years ago Sidney N. “Skip” Herman ’75 cofounded a law firm in a single large room that took up a quarter of one of the building’s floors. Today Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott occupies four stories of the old courthouse and is adding to the structure’s legacy with a progressive approach rarely seen in the shark-infest- ed waters that represent the practice of law in the United States. An emphasis on winning cases instead of billing hours, a reliance on the power of the visual to persuade juries, an effective, pioneering use of technology, an unpar- alleled leveraging of physical space, and an atypically egalitarian organizational struc- ture have helped establish Bartlit Beck as “one of the country’s elite trial firms,” accord- ing to one law publication. “Our job is to take complex matters and make them simple,” Skip Herman says. “That’s really what we do. It’s not learning all the laws. You’re getting a trier of fact, which could be a judge, a jury, an arbitrator, and you’re taking some complex set of Court events or patents or anything like that and trying to make them understandable. It’s all designed to focus on that point, not how many depositions are we going to take.” After graduating from Haverford with his bachelor’s degree, Herman proceeded to Northwestern University School of Law, where he earned a J.D., cum laude, and served as articles editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. He then went to work at Kirkland & Ellis, a large global firm, and worked his way up to equity partner in the litigation department. Along the way, though, Herman and a handful of his colleagues found them- selves at odds with that staple of firm financials, the billable hour. “It drives all kinds of things within a firm,” he says. “It drives how late people are at the office every day, often just for face time. It drives how much the client gets charged based on how long it takes you to do something, as opposed to how well you do it, which is a massive difference.” After a brief, unsuccessful attempt to implement a fixed-fee model at Kirkland & Ellis, Herman, four of his fellow partners, and 12 associates struck out on their own. They were giving up the security—and income—of working at a well-established firm, but by launching a fixed-fee firm, they were making a loud statement that han- dling and winning cases efficiently was better for all involved—for the firm, for its clients, and for a taxed judicial system where matters drag on seemingly without end.

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“We decided we’d rather get paid on the operations. The firm has expanded from facing several whiteboards with the story- basis of the results as opposed to how many the quarter-floor it occupied at its found- line of a current case scrawled on them. hours we put in,” Herman says. “We ing and now has four stories in the court- Bartlit Beck attorneys meet clients and thought, if we got things done more effi- house. Exposed brick, high ceilings, and prospective clients in the reception area ciently, we’d like to get paid more like any metal spiral staircases make visitors feel as and walk them through the Forum on their other business in America. You do some- if they’re strolling through an ad agency, not way to their offices. That’s no accident, thing efficiently, you should be paid more a law firm, and the collaborative feel the Herman says; Bartlit Beck has settled cases than if you do it slowly. You shouldn’t get design imparts has had important benefits. in this room. paid the same if you win as if you lose.” “The physical space has been very “When you get in, you’re immediately The affable Herman is sitting in his cor- important to us and has actually, I think, in a place where you can look around and ner office, the room where a Chicago grand brought us clients and made us better,” say, work gets done here,” he says. “It’s a jury indicted Leopold and Loeb in 1924. Herman says. “That first moment when forum, which means ‘exchange of ideas,’ It is a bright, airy space with large windows clients walk in, they see there’s something which is the first thing a client sees. It’s not that actually open. Herman is dressed casu- different here. You have firms, some in down a marble hall which intersects with ally, in black slacks, an olive henley, and a white t-shirt. Later he’ll knock off early to head uptown to Wrigley Field; the fact that the Black Sox were tried in his building tickles the lifelong Cubs fan to no end. That he and his wife Meg live a 15-minute walk “Clients often don’t hear the other away from the venerable ballpark is no acci- dent, nor is his daughter Katy’s middle side of their case. We have them name, Banks, after the legendary Chicago come to the mock trial, and we shortstop Ernie Banks. Most of Herman’s have one of our guys argue the remaining free time is spent at the Montana ranch he owns. other side. They hear things put in For now he is expounding passionately a way they’ve never heard before.” and eloquently on the innovative philoso- phies that have turned Bartlit Beck into a successful firm and a highly desirable place to work—20 percent of its attorneys are former U.S. Supreme Court clerks. But per- haps nothing captures the firm’s essence so well as a small ceramic magnet Herman keeps in his office. He has held on to the Herman in front of the historic former Cook County chip for 15 years, ever since the founding of Courthouse where his Chicago law firm is housed. the firm. On it are written four words: “Thou Shalt Not Committee.” Philly, that are down and off the street; you a bunch of conference rooms and stuff.” Indeed, in some ways Bartlit Beck may have some nice row houses that have been One floor up is an equally significant be more noteworthy for what it lacks than turned into offices. But Chicago is not a lot feature, a mock courtroom constructed what it possesses: No committees. No bill- like that. Most of it is all big high-rises. using photographs from Darrow’s day. able hours. No cutthroat competition Right away, our building says something is Bartlit Beck’s lawyers pass through the room among associates. going on, it’s different.” regularly, a reminder that “everything you Instead there is innovation and initia- The firm’s central physical feature is a do should be related to whether you’re tive and equality. large, open area called the Forum. A basket- going to be able to get it into evidence in Oh, and success. Lots of it. ball hoop and net, attached to a Plexiglas court,” Herman says. The firm uses the “It has turned out to be extremely prof- backboard, hang at regulation height at one room to mock-try every case it takes to trial, itable,” Herman says of his firm’s approach, end of the room, and on the floor are paint- going so far as seating a person, black robes “because we’ve won. Our whole thing is ed free throw and three-point lines. A com- and all, to serve as judge and hiring a jury that we should make more if we win, and bination conference room and prep area, the to hear evidence and render a verdict. we should make less if we lose. Well, we’ve Forum sits between two small offices occu- “Clients often don’t hear the other side been winning.” pied by the firm’s primary trial attorneys, so of their case,” Herman notes. “We have Even aside from Herman’s interest in his that associates are encouraged to pop in and them come to the mock trial, and we have building’s back story, the office’s innovative chat about cases. On this day tables are one of our guys argue the other side. They design is an important part of Bartlit Beck’s shoved together in the center of the Forum, hear things put in a way they’ve never heard

42 Haverford Magazine before. It educates the client about what’s as a very different kind of law firm. going to be said about them, and they “The environment was exactly the ought to know that in advance, both for same—collaboration and an exchange of publicity purposes and for their own case ideas in a setting that’s small enough to allow assessment purposes for settlement.” that to happen,” he says. “The model I saw Clients aren’t the only beneficiaries. The at Haverford of a small, cooperative, open firm’s younger attorneys get a chance to society that freely exchanged ideas both on practice in conditions they’re likely to the matters in front of you and on matters encounter at trial, and potential witnesses in the world is what I tried to create here.” can be assessed for their effectiveness. That approach to law, including the firm’s “We do trials as somewhat like a play,” innovative billing philosophy, has helped it Herman in the firm’s heavily used mock courtroom. Herman says. “You’ve got to script it, you’ve recruit and retain the country’s best associ- got to produce it, you’ve got to hire a cast. ates—what Herman refers to as a “quality What’s your story going to be? What are bump.” With no hours to track and no com- of highly trained, smart lawyers, they beat some of the props? Who’s going to tell your mittees to clog up matters, Bartlit Beck is a the 10 guys that are just guys, that are just story? Some people sell, some people don’t. lean, efficient operation, with far fewer inter- learning it...our young guys are almost How are you going to present it, in what nal politics to pit its lawyers against each always up against much more senior order? How is it going to flow? What are other. That is enormously appealing to new- lawyers, and they’re arguing the case. The the different acts?” comers, says Herman. people that are their age on the other side A big part of Bartlit Beck’s emphasis on “We hire extremely few people, but of the case are still carrying bags.” trial litigation is its reliance on the power once we do, we work with them to get The firm offers other incentives to its of visual information and cues to influence them better and find their strengths and associates as well: Intensive use of technol- juries. Every lawyer who joins the firm is go with those, and they stay,” he adds. ogy allows Bartlit Beck’s lawyers to work given a copy of Edward Tufte’s Envisioning “There is no competition between friends from virtually anywhere, so they’re not Information, an influential work about infor- coming into a firm to see who’s going to chained to the office; Herman himself keeps mation design and the visual communica- get that one slot. The pay is not depend- tabs on the firm each summer from the tion of information. Hanging on a wall at ent on what they bring in. You now have ranch he owns in Montana. Each associate the firm is a copy of Charles Joseph Minard’s no hourly work, no internalism, no com- is given an all-expenses-paid weekend— graphical rendering of Napoleon’s disas- petition among your friends, and no com- flight and lodging, with spouse—once a trous march on and retreat from Moscow petition for credit on client generation. It’s year. And the firm has built a fitness cen- in 1812, which depicts in astoundingly gras- all for one, and we’re able to recruit very ter that it strongly encourages everyone to pable ways the links among time, weather, good people because we present that kind use; the facility includes a full-time mas- and casualties during that campaign. Tufte of model, as opposed to the one that most sage therapist and trainer. himself called it “probably the best statisti- often is offered by the big-name firms.” Perhaps the greatest benefit Bartlit Beck cal graphic ever drawn.” Those attorneys have opportunities to can offer its attorneys and support staff is “We spend a lot of time on demonstra- shine that most firms simply cannot offer. trust, another deeply ingrained trait from tives,” Herman says. “A big part of our belief Since it is not billing clients by the hour, Herman’s days at Haverford. He speaks is that people take things individually, and Bartlit Beck has a strong incentive to keep fondly of the College’s “honor system,” in what we do when we start a case is not a costs down. That means using small, tal- which professors trusted their students not whole lot of legal research, but to put the ented strike forces to win cases—not large, because huge classes gave them no choice entire case in a single visual. If you can show unwieldy teams to pad invoices. but because small classes fostered it. it in a graph, if you can show it in a chart, if “At our old firm, the incentive was to Herman has implemented a like mindset you can show it in a picture that moves in put as many people on the case as possi- at his firm. front of a jury’s eyes, they’re going to take ble, because at the end of the year when “It’s very similar, and I’m very proud of it in a lot better than if you speak. They may you went in to get more money, more that,” he says. “We trust our people. It’s not not follow you, but they will follow this.” shares, your pitch was that you had a place where people are monitored close- Bartlit Beck’s relatively modest size has employed all these people,” Herman says. ly. We trust our guys, and we’d like them fostered institutional agility, intellectual “That was really the only measure. It was- to learn that and to trust each other and curiosity, and an egalitarian mindset, and n’t what you won. In fact, the more inex- act in a cooperative manner.” the philosophies that Herman holds so perienced lawyers took longer, which made close to his heart have meant success. None you more money. Thomas W. Durso is a Philadelphia-area of it is coincidental. Herman credits “Here, on a fixed fee, instead of having freelance writer who has contributed to Haverford’s influence—its people and its seven or eight people on a case, our incen- numerous higher education publications. Quaker heritage—as playing a “huge” role tive is to have as few experienced people in the careful construction of Bartlit Beck as possible. When you have a SWAT team

Fall 2008 43 Beyond Nice:

The stories in Dare to Prepare come from other walks of life, but author/attorney Ronald M. Shapiro ’64 says his new best-seller’s heavy dose of cross-training can lay a foundation for lawyers’ success. by Liz Farmer Maryland Daily Record

44 Haverford Magazine A pillow on the couch in his office displays the Winston Churchill quote, “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” The walls in his 20th-floor office in downtown Baltimore are covered with framed photos of family and friends and sports memorabilia, while three pictures of him with presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are relegat- ed to a spot next to the picture window. When asked about the presidential pho- tos, he steers the discussion to the others in the scenes, like the boy in the Reagan photo who died of cancer a few months later. Or the law professor with him in the Clinton photo, Larry S. Gibson, who helped Liberian candidate Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf become the first elected female head of state in Africa. He even asked to take off his suit coat for the photo accompanying this article, explaining to the photographer that he didn’t want to look “too posed.” But then, what would you expect from a guy who trademarked the slogan, “The Power of Nice”? A jack of many trades, Ronald M. Shapiro can bounce from attorney to sports agent to business owner to author on any given day. Perhaps best known for repre- senting Hall of Famers including Cal Ripken Jr. and Brooks Robinson, Shapiro also was instrumental in bringing the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra strike of the mid- 1980s to an end and helped resolve the 1994-95 Major League Baseball players strike. The key in both situations, he said, was doing the work to create a “win-win” result. “When I met with the parties, I didn’t come in to suggest to them how to do Nice: something; I spent days on end asking questions and listening and learning about their feelings and aspirations,” he said. After starting the law firm that is now Shapiro, Sher, Guinot & Sandler and sports management firm Shapiro, Robinson & Associates in the 1970s, he went on in 1995 to found Shapiro Negotiations Institute, a seminar and consulting firm, where he put “the power of nice” both into practice and in the title of his first book in 1998. His third book, Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin, co-authored with Baltimore writer Gregory Jordan, hit bookstores on Jan. 8 and is already a best sell- er on the New York Times advice and how-to books list as well as the Wall Street Journal’s nonfiction list. In one sense, the book builds on “The Power of Nice,” which stressed preparing better than the people you’re negotiating with. However, Shapiro said this book is dif- ferent from his first two in that it doesn’t focus on negotiations but on the broader array of life’s transactions. He interviewed 38 people—from Ravens’ owner Steve Bisciotti (for whom he also consults) to a firefighter in California to wine guru Robert Parker—each of whom shares personal experiences about laying the ground- work for a successful career. “The key to this book is to create a methodical preparation that would convince people to stop making the excuses for why they don’t prepare fully,” Shapiro added. Shapiro’s son Mark, general manager of MLB’s Cleveland Indians, and son-in- law Eric Mangini, head coach of the NFL’s New York Jets, also contribute to the book.

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Mark Shapiro’s success has included successful,” said Shapiro. “But it does mean of sports and one of the things we learn in being named Major League Executive of that you know you will have done every- sports is that cross-training is a very effective the Year by The Sporting News twice in the thing you could, and even if you didn’t suc- tool. And reading stories about them or doc- last three years. Last year his squad beat the ceed, it will get you back on track to being tors at Hopkins dealing with medical chal- New York Yankees in the American League successful.” lenges or firefighters dealing with the dan- Division Series and held a 3-1 lead over the Shapiro attributes his own achievements gers of forest fires out in California really Red Sox in the AL Championship Series to his diligence in preparation, a family that does help convince you that the steps of the before losing three straight to eventual holds him accountable and his business col- preparation principles checklist, although World Series champion Boston. leagues. He shared with The Daily Record universally applied, can apply to the chal- Mangini earned the nickname “Man- his own stumbling blocks in life and lenges we as lawyers face. genius” in 2006 when he unexpectedly thoughts on the legal profession today. All of the stories are powerful and we coached the Jets to a first-round playoff appear- lawyers should not confine ourselves to what ance, where they lost 37-16 to New England. What can lawyers learn from a book we tell each other as a way to do things; we But he fell on harder times this season when with stories written by sports figures, ought to look for innovative approaches and his team finished with a 4-12 record. business people, musicians and other ideas from other professions and people from “Eric’s story is in there because prepara- seemingly unrelated professions? other walks of life. So the book has a heavy tion doesn’t always mean you’re going to be I’m a lawyer who comes from the world dose of cross-training in it.

Dean Greg Kannerstein has a few more questions for Ron Shapiro

You quote your history professor, Roger Lane, as providing back- How has the book been received? ground for your work and writing. How did Haverford College in The cumulative reaction exhibited by making the New York Times, general influence your “preparation” ethic? Wall Street Journal, and Business Week Best Seller Lists was espe- Haverford surrounded me with people who were high achievers and cially satisfying. In addition, endorsements from the likes of George provided a curriculum that demanded more from me than any chal- Will and Billy Beane were meaningful, but none meant so much as the lenge that I’d previously faced. Early on I came to the conclusion critical praise given the book by my former Haverford roommate and that if I was to perform successfully I had to prepare effectively... world renowned editor and writer, Norman Pearlstine. I’ve also received Professors like Roger Lane and Aryeh Kosman challenged me to numerous emails and letters from people thanking me for writing the invest time in methodical preparation to grasp the material of their book. Just this week I got a letter from the Pricing Manager for a major courses. government contractor saying he “often wanted to prepare for meet- What’s the relationship between preparation as you define it and ings and proposals but didn’t know where to begin.” He now calls DTP choosing one’s objectives? his “blueprint for success.” Preparation to me should be methodical and not merely based on This book demonstrates your fascination with organizational team- intuitive steps that we follow. Hence I utilize a Preparation Checklist building—and one suspects it's no accident that your son Mark chose for steps ranging from gathering necessary information to setting an that line of work and has been so successful as General Manager of effective strategy. One of the items, or principles, of that Preparation the Cleveland Indians—and one should also mention how you spot- Checklist, is to state your Objectives. And stating your Objectives ted and encouraged Josh Byrnes ’92 to become a successful GM. What requires not only stating your most important goal, but also sub- are the qualities you look for to ascertain whether a young person has sidiary goals as well. For example, mountain climbers may state an the potential to build and/or lead an organization? Objective as scaling the summit and then ultimately suffer the fate, Both Mark and Josh are highly intelligent, but what really stands out as some have in recent years, of meeting their tragic demise on the about them are their listening skills, openness to the ideas of others, descent. A statement of their Objective should not just be climbing humility, passion for what they do that becomes contagious, and their Mount Everest or K2, but also to come down safely. willingness to take risks and assume responsibility for the outcomes of What kinds of reading do you find people who prepare successful- their decisions. While I would not have seen the trait prior to their ly are likely to do? attaining their leadership positions, I also admire their ability to surround themselves with, and delegate to, very talented colleagues. Among those I interviewed, everything from fiction and economics to philosophy to history and current news sources seem to play a Within an organization, what specific kinds of communication part. If, however, I were to pick one area that stands out, it is histo- enhance preparation and successful leadership and team-building? ry. That conclusion may be tied to my bias as a former Haverford Speaking a common language and having a common tool for method- history major, but it is also supported by a primary principle of the ical Preparation, like the Checklist, helps build team spirit and Preparation Checklist being Precedents. In the book I make refer- enhances the likelihood of success. In addition, scripting presenta- ence to the reading lists of historical success stories like Abraham tions and proposals and submitting them to other team members for Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, whose reading lists were rich with devil’s advocacy input not only strengthens the position to be expressed a broad array of literary works. Yet in both cases they seem to place and readies one for unforeseen contingencies, but also builds orga- their primary reliance upon lessons learned from reading history. nizational camaraderie... Were you born prepared? What life les- lawyers are split because there’s a perception What can law firms do to attract good, sons have you learned or what mistakes that sometimes, some are low on integrity and young attorneys? have you made along the way? some are looking at the fee before the client. I would hope that young lawyers be When I was in law school, I had one of When we turn to the world of Scott given the opportunity to…interact with the best tax teachers in the world…so I would Boras, sadly, he’s laughing all the way to the clients early in their careers so they can feel like I was a tax expert. Then I’d go home, bank. The bottom line is he’s being paid his develop the satisfaction that comes with and the third year in law school my relatives full fee by A-Rod for the next 10 years, seeing a client getting the result that he or would ask me a question and I would go “oh which is millions and millions of dollars. she seeks. I learned that, I know how to do this,” and To me, by the way, that doesn’t define I can recall one lawyer that I worked without going in depth into the problems success, but A-Rod is a confused young man with early on who gave me all my assign- they had, I would give them answers. and I think Scott is confused in some way ments by memo and I didn’t think the client Well, it took a very wise senior partner in but nevertheless very effective. His goal is was real. Everything was on paper and I the law firm I started at, a fellow named to get the most money. My goal as an agent rarely—if ever—met the client. Another Robbie Goldman who’s still around, to tell is to get the client what he wants out of life. lawyer, [Robbie Goldman], would bring me me that off-the-top-of-my-head legal opin- Cal Ripken could have gotten more money into everything and help expose me. If ions were dangerous based on the knowl- by going to New York or someplace else. any[one] helped stimulate my enjoyment edge I had without digging in and making But there was a tie to a community and cer- of the law it was Robbie because he allowed sure I was fully prepared… tain values and living in a certain place for me to feel the pulse and the heartbeat of the We lawyers and business executives are his family that meant more to him. So he client from my earliest days, and the satis- really susceptible to multi-tasking. I could [wanted as much as he] could get while faction I got from that helped build my love have been the president of the multi-taskers achieving that, not the most money he for the law. club years ago because sitting in my car and could get on any absolute basis. driving to work, I’d do it with the newspa- Reprinted with permission from the Maryland per at my side so sitting at red lights I could [Anecdotal evidence] has it that peo- Daily Record (www.mddailyrecord.com). read the newspaper…There are a range of ple now change careers at least three things we do that distract us because we times in their life; you are pretty much don’t have time. Well, if we only realized an example of this. What implications that if we focused on the one task at hand— does this have for young lawyers? researchers revealed this—rather than multi- You know there is something, whether tasking, we’d come out ahead rather than you’re a young lawyer or a young business roads taken make the mistakes that put us behind. person or a young professional, to shifting gears along the way…It’s brought me a level and not taken (The conversation turns to Scott Boras, of excitement in my life and a level of fresh- who urged Yankee Alex Rodriguez to ness of dealing every day, and the ability to Allison G. opt out of his contract. Rodriguez found draw from one of those experiences things (Cohen) Marvin ’93 limited interest and sought advice from I can use in another experience. financial guru Warren Buffett for re- I will never ever feel like I made the s a comparative literature negotiating his contract with the team.) wrong decision to be a lawyer initially. major at Haverford, my Because I could use that to build into being A favorite assignments What do you think about clients going a sports agent, to build into being a law pro- allowed me to juxtapose over their agent’s or attorney’s heads— fessor, to initially writing law books and art and language, like looking at an do you see this as a trend? Also, a then writing books that are much broader, early cubist painting by Picasso recent article in the New York Times and ultimately to being a business person through the lens of a two-line poem noted that lawyers are losing prestige and a consultant. by Ezra Pound. I considered graduate and respect—do you agree? So I would say to any young lawyer or school in comparative literature or art First of all, sports agents are way behind business person today, if they had the oppor- history (which I minored in), but the the 8-ball in terms of esteem…Lawyers still tunity through their lives to change the hefty foreign language requirements have the opportunity to build and maintain direction of their career, to do something and the notion of more academia respect. But they have to remember that in different, grab the opportunity because it without a clear professional goal had addition to the talent we have as lawyers, we will bring a freshness and a sense of renew- no appeal. have to deliver the kind of preparation that al to their lives which is just unbelievable. I knew I loved art. shows we are committed even beyond our I’m 64 years old today and some of my com- I just didn’t know fees to deliver the best possible product for patriots talk retirement and I’m just think- how to channel the our clients, and at no moment can we afford ing about how exciting it is to be doing what interest. to sacrifice our integrity for some other end. So I do for as long as I can do it. continued on page 92 STACY ZARIN GOLDBERG

Fall 2008 47 Care to share your story of roads taken (or not taken) since graduation? Drop us a line! roads taken and not taken [email protected]

So I headed to the University of finding just the right work of art for a And here I am, 15 years Virginia law school to become an “art client. When the click happens, it’s a lawyer.” Rather than study art for art’s powerful moment. out from that uncertain sake, I would learn how to advise artists, Other days I wonder why I got a law galleries and museums. I landed a job at a degree instead of a master’s in museum Haverford freshman, major D.C. law firm, where I was or curatorial studies. However, practicing fortunate to work with clients like the law did train me to parse through a lot of diagnosing the problem Smithsonian Institution. But after several options and to understand client years, I realized that no matter who my aspirations and needs, important skills and fixing it, a doctor clients were, it wasn’t enough to advise for an art consultant. art world players; I wanted to be an art I figure if I stick to what I love, then after all, just for world player. my path will be enjoyable, no matter the mix. I’d like to curate gallery exhibitions, artifacts, not people. I figure if I stick to write reviews and offer more art tours in San Francisco, D.C. and New York City. though) and an administrative assistant what I love, then my Or even Miami during the Art Basel mega at the U.S. Agency for International fair, where around every corner, I can Development (ditto), and after watching path will be enjoyable, revisit a favorite work or discover a new a best friend leave her promising career artist, for a client or myself. to take a leap of faith and start medical no matter the mix. school, it was time to make some hard Allison G. (Cohen) Marvin ’93 can decisions. As a young lawyer, I’d started a modest be reached at [email protected] I wasn’t happy with where I was, but art collection and informally advised or www.sightline.biz I had learned several things. First, I friends on what to buy. I’d also befriended missed the arts, and second, I didn’t want leading galleries and dealers in D.C. and a job where I had to wear panty hose. I learned how the market worked. A high E.D. (Tully) Rambo ’93 realized that I had previously stumbled school friend who owns a successful hen I started Haverford, I upon the career for me. During one of my gallery in New York City encouraged me wanted to be a doctor. I loved summer museum internships while at to turn passion into career. It was the W science, and the prospect of Haverford, I had been sent to the boost of confidence I needed. I left the discovering and fixing what conservation laboratory to polish silver. law firm to start [art consulting firm] was wrong with people intrigued me. This I had disloyally thought that what they Sightline, four years ago this June. interest lasted approximately half way were doing seemed so much more I recently married a fellow contemporary through freshman year organic chemistry. interesting than what I was doing down in art fan, moved to San Francisco and then, Luckily, the waning of my medical the curatorial department. within the same year, we moved back to ambitions mirrored a budding interest in Art conservation combined science D.C. Now, I’m working to build Sightline my Introduction to Art History course. I and art, it was dynamic: a steady diet of on both coasts. I offer city-wide art tours, became an art history new challenges with each piece of art, and participate on art collecting panels, and major, interned at the I didn’t have to wear panty hose unless I collaborate with well-known designers and Museum of Fine Arts in wanted to. Newly motivated and focused, architects. Through these activities, I’ve Boston, and thought I felt ready to overcome some of the generated some good press in both D.C. seriously about teaching obstacles that I had avoided in the past. and San Francisco. and an academic career. I buckled down, retook chemistry and But it’s hard to operate as a small After graduation, the organic chemistry, got internships with business owner. Some days I’m tempted need for self-sufficiency (and the realities conservators, took my prerequisites and to give up the art consulting gig, which of graduate school and getting tenure) headed off to graduate school. And here I requires an endless supply of self- appeared too daunting, and, once again, am, 15 years out from that uncertain motivation, and instead work for a boss my wandering career eye cast about, this Haverford freshman, diagnosing the who hands me duties, art-related or time for an entry level position that might problem and fixing it, a doctor after all, not. Certainly that would be easier in provide insight into careers that could just for artifacts, not people. some respects, but probably not as provide a steady income and a degree of satisfying. Really, there’s nothing I job satisfaction. After stints as a E.D. (Tully) Rambo runs Tully Art enjoy more in a professional sense than receptionist at a law firm (nope, thanks Conservation in Washington, D.C.

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Ending theCulture of Disposable Women“ Her name was Claudia Urias Berthaud. She was 14 years old. She had been walking to her grandmother’s house in Chihuahua City,” south of the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, when she disappeared... Two members of It wasn’t unusual. Since 1993, 400 young women from Ciudad Juarez and the surrounding area have been murdered, and 600 more have vanished. These the class of ’07 are killings and disappearances have become so epidemic that they claim their own name: feminicidio, serial sexual feminicide. The victims are poor young women, bringing hope and powerless in Mexican society, many employed by the maquilas (factories) on opportunity to the the outskirts of Juarez, working 45-hour weeks to make $35 a month. Many women are single mothers with few opportunities to improve their economic women of Ciudad position through education or job training. According to local human rights activists, the crimes perpetrated against them are largely ignored by local, state Juarez, Mexico. and federal police. In their minds, in the minds of many townspeople, the By Brenna McBride women cease to exist. But in the minds of those such as Claudia’s family, they will live forever. In 2006, Amy Pennington ’07, in Ciudad Juarez to conduct research for her senior thesis, accompanied Claudia’s family and local activists from the group Justicia Para Nuestras Hijas (Justice for Our Daughters) to a memorial held at the site where the girl’s body had been found the year before; she had been dumped in a ravine in a desert field on the outskirts of Chihuahua. They carried a cross crafted by area steelworkers, to honor their daughter, sister, niece, friend. At the site, year-old police tape flapped in the breeze, flags made of sticks haphazardly marking the area as a crime scene; it was obvious to the mourners that the investigation, such as it was, had been abandoned. On the way to the site, activist Lucha Castro (the leader of Justicia) pointed out to Pennington the places along the highway where 10 more women had been found. She knew all of their names.

left to right: Anna Marschalk-Burns and Amy Pennington (both class of ’07) Fall 2008 49 Ending the Culture of “Disposable Women”

In the days following, Pennington bare- ing we could do, we’d put ourselves in ly ate, barely slept, driven by what she’d danger and at this point it was voyeuris- heard and witnessed to complete an appli- tic,” says Pennington. “She recommend- cation for the Davis United World College ed starting a scholarship fund and con- 100 Projects for Peace grant. Her hope: tributing to the cause of ending the With this money, she and fellow applicant incredible economic and educational Anna Marschalk-Burns ’07 could give the divide between poor women and wealthi- women of Ciudad Juarez the opportuni- er men.” Education would bring long-term ties that had been denied Claudia and her empowerment to the women, giving them peers. Opportunities for higher education, access to resources otherwise out of their for meaningful employment, for a life that reach. A larger goal: transform the socie- extended, as it should, well beyond ado- tal attitudes towards lower-class working lescence. women, the idea of them as irrelevant, Pennington and Marschalk-Burns first insignificant. left to right: Claudia Berthaud’s mother learned of the dire situation in Juarez in Just a couple of days after she was crouched at the spot in the dry riverbed Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology inspired to start this fund, Pennington where her daughter’s body was found; and Peace and Conflict Studies Leslie received an e-mail about the United A detail of Claudia’s memorial cross. Dwyer’s class, “Violence, Terror and World College Projects for Peace initia- Trauma.” In the fall of ’06, anthropology tive. Affiliated with an educational move- perfect opportunity to put their ideas into major Pennington also attended a confer- ment that brings high school students action. Once they had been selected as ence on the feminicidio at Swarthmore, from all over the world together to foster recipients, they traveled to Ciudad Juarez where she met activists and mothers of vic- peace and understanding, the fund was in the summer of 2007 to meet the tims. She planned to base her senior the- started in 2006 by philanthropist Kathryn women they would help, and to under- sis on this topic. Wasserman Davis, who celebrated her stand first-hand the situation they hoped “One of the activists [Irasema 100th birthday by committing $1 million to combat. Coronado, a dean at the University of to fund more than 100 $10,000 grassroots Pennington had been in Juarez before, Texas-El Paso] suggested that the best way projects for peace across the country. but it was Marschalk-Burns’ first visit, and for people to help out was not by investi- Pennington and fellow anthropology the true nature of the city defied everything gating—it had been done, there was noth- major Marschalk-Burns saw this as the she had imagined. “I pictured a deserted

Because Love is Finally Hope By Beth Kephart

We traveled with hammers, work boots, We imagine heartache in a squatter’s sunscreen, caps, good if somewhat lofty intentions. We landed in El Paso, then village, despondency, despair. We drove across the border to Juarez—35 of us in rented vans. We were to stay in a imagine chaos and fractures, the brutal gated church located on a hard-dirt road in a part of Juarez where we were (we had politics of mere survival, and while the been cautioned) not ever to go walking. Some of us were to sleep in the chapel, conditions of Anapra absolutely broke some in the kitchen, some in two tight rooms designed for storage. I headed up my heart, the people somehow healed it. a flight of loosely planked stairs, toward a room with a single, dust-grazed window. ing in the sky. Some slept that night. I did roads. We were driving past junkyards and If you looked across the street you not. I lay listening to the laughter of the fish vendors, along the dry gouge of the could see the house of an old woman and men on rooftop perches and thinking river. After some 15 miles and 50 minutes of her pet goose; you could watch the goose about my traveling companions—two antic traffic, we took a left turn onto the crank its long neck and honk. On neigh- dozen teens and 10 parents on a mission thick sand streets of the colonia called boring rooftops men sat perched on fold- to build a community bathroom for a vil- Anapra. There was the stench of open sewer ing chairs; we were their theater. A white lage of squatters. We had a week. We had lines, a legion of wild dogs. There was a doll dog, Lobo, stayed on our side of the gate, an architect on board, equipment. that had been thrown to the roof of a tar- barking at the slip of moon that was ris- Early the next day we were out on the paper house, sacrificed, it seemed to me, to

50 Haverford Magazine “We had the foolish expectation that in a month we would find girls, hand out scholarships, find people to mentor the girls, give all the money away and have it monitored.” –Anna Marschalk-Burns ’07

five days at Casa Eudes, a home run by However, Marschalk-Burns was sad- nuns for neglected and abused young girls dened to learn that even the maquilas and women. “The dearth of resources was would not be viable employment options obvious,” says Marschalk-Burns, “and was for much longer: During their tour, the contributing to the fact that the girls were manager showed them machines that bored. They weren’t even conscious of the would perform all of the necessary work fact that they were lacking in opportuni- in the future, resulting in the dismissal of ties.” However, their talent and intelligence 50 employees. “That moment was heart- were evident: “We saw how they were breaking to me, that even these jobs were drawn to certain things. Amy and I being erased,” says Marschalk-Burns. brought computers, and they were “The problem with maquilas is not just obsessed with them.” that they don’t pay well,” says Pennington, road, sparse back roads,” she says. “But it’s The Fords also got a tour of a maquila “it’s that the workers are totally dispos- incredibly modern, Westernized, and there’s from its manager, where they saw hun- able.” a really obvious divide between the wealthy dreds of women working by hand to make Pennsylvania State University profes- and poor sections.” The wealthy areas, she invisible tooth alignment retainers. “The sor Melissa W. Wright, Pennington says, are like “America times 10”—huge purpose of our project was to allow the explains, has taken this theory of the “dis- buildings, gaudy advertisements—while women to look beyond the maquilas for posable woman” a step further, pointing up in the hills, the poorer communities, or job opportunities,” says Marschalk-Burns, out the town’s idea of women from the colonias, are stark shantytowns, where some “but currently, that’s a good job for women maquilas being associated with immorali- houses are made of cardboard and plastic in Juarez. It pays horribly, but it’s better ty. “These women are independent, earn- bags discarded from the factories. than the alternatives (one of which is the ing their own money, going out to bars on Marschalk-Burns and Pennington spent illegal drug trade).” their own—it’s all new,” says Pennington.

tumbleweed. There were houses built of clamor of ourselves, we soon enough were ple somehow healed it. For when I remem- mattress springs and milk crates, picket joined by the people of Anapra—by the ber Anapra now I remember color—the posts, stucco, and tin. There was a sign for children, their mothers, their fathers, who tea rose ribbon in a child’s hair, the ver- Coca-Cola. There was a truck, there was one by one left the barricades of their million plaid on a young boy’s shirt, the another truck, there was a crew of workers homes and emerged to welcome us, per- periwinkle dress of the girl, the black on a distant rooftop, a church being paint- haps; to leaven us, certainly. To learn the patent shine of a borrowed pair of shoes. I ed on a far-off hill, but by and large this songs that we were singing. To teach us remember the hopefulness of children bowl of white earth was still, and all seemed their own. To crayon their stories onto planting seeds in Dixie cups as, day by day, peculiarly silent. As if our coming was a construction paper beneath the shade of this bathroom on a hill took its modest suppression, a cause for disappearance. the minister’s roof. form. Love in a place like Anapra is not On a site wedged between a chapel and A father rarely left his daughter’s side, just a triumph. It is the thru-line, the a minister’s home, we began. We divided for she was shy and anxious in his absence. schism of light before dawn. the earth from itself, we dug a pit, we An older sister kept a brother near. secured the foundation with masonry An impeccably dressed child offered Beth Kephart is the award-winning author block. We laid out two-by-fours and two- gracias at every turn, her mother nearby, of nine books. Her work has appeared in the by-eights; mastered the art of driving nails encouraging manners. New York Times, the Washington Post, the straight through and clean; celebrated the We imagine heartache in a squatter’s Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, Real Simple, sweet yield of a properly held hammer.We village, despondency, despair.We imagine Parenting, Philadelphia Magazine, and else- worked beneath the hottest possible sun chaos and fractures, the brutal politics of where, and is frequently anthologized. She and cautioned one another against dehy- mere survival, and while the conditions of was a visiting student at Haverford in 1980. dration, and if at first all we heard was the Anapra absolutely broke my heart, the peo-

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Maquila employees need to be young the money should be spent, but they aren’t and female because it is believed in Juarez allowed to make the final decisions about that women’s “agile hands” are appropri- where the money goes,” explains ate for this menial work. “The longer you Pennington. “There’s a fear that someone work there, you get worn out and can’t might be funding terrorist cells some- work anymore. You get arthritis and bad where.” vision,” says Pennington. “You’re like a On the advice of University of Texas product, no longer efficient.” Most trou- Dean Irasema Coronado, Pennington and bling is the fact that many of these women Marschalk-Burns gave the $10,000 to her have daughters who drop out of school to El Paso-based organization, Frontera support their families by working in the Women’s Foundation, which is dedicated factories—and in time, their daughters will to improving the social status of women do the same. and families living along the U.S./Mexico It was a cycle that seemed destined to border. Frontera would then set up an remain unbroken, but Pennington and advisory committee that would oversee Marschalk-Burns were determined to stop the distribution of the scholarships. “The it. idea was to have someone down there who At the start of summer 2007, both would more or less take over the project,” on the interest accrued each year.” Setting women had idealistic—and ultimately says Pennington. They also found a site up an endowment meshes with the unrealistic—visions of how they would from which to recruit applicants, a Haverford women’s original idea to create use their 100 Projects for Peace award. women’s organization based in a poor sec- something that would end the cycles of “We had the foolish expectation that in tion of Ciudad Juarez called Siglo 21, poverty and meager education in the com- a month we would find girls, hand out where they could build an infrastructure munity. scholarships, find people to mentor the of women mentoring young girls. “If we funded the women all at once, girls, give all the money away and have it It was Coronado who encouraged the they would do their thing and scatter,” says monitored,” says Marschalk-Burns. Haverford women to structure their schol- Marschalk-Burns. “But if it’s rooted in a They didn’t consider the post-9/11 arship fund as an endowment. “It will be specific community, the women who are restrictions on bringing $10,000 across the better to give out fewer scholarships each funded will then mentor women who will U.S. border and donating it to a foreign year but have it continue further into the be recipients in the future. When you help individual or nonprofit. “The original future,” says Marschalk-Burns. “It enables someone get ahead and make something donors can have opinions and advise how us to fund the women’s scholarships based of themselves that she otherwise couldn’t,

2008 Projects for Peace Grant Recipient Focuses on Fair Trade Apparel

In 2005, the town of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala was still recovering from the “If JA grows as I hope it will, it will allow for the atrocities of a 36-year civil war when dis- artisans of Santiago Atitlán to better their own lives aster struck again: A massive mudslide left 900 families without homes. while preserving ancient customs and practices.” Katie Johnston-Davis ’10, the 2008 recipient of the UWC-Davis 100 Projects –Katie Johnston-Davis ’10 for Peace $10,000 grant, believes that in order to strengthen and rebuild the town, Santiago Atitlán to produce customized, for the artisans and their families. The com- the citizens need to be empowered with hand-embroidered apparel—including pany funnels its profits back into a commu- the tools to improve their lives, such as sweatshirts, T-shirts, polo shirts, and tote nity investment program, which offers employment that allows Atitecos (as the bags—for conscientious consumers in the scholarships to students in Santiago Atitlán residents are called) to provide for them- United States. The women will earn a liv- and in the future will finance health, educa- selves and their families. ing wage, three to four times the local mar- tion and technology programs in the vil- That’s why Johnston-Davis has teamed ket rate for a day’s labor. lage. up with Just Apparel (JA), an initiative of JA also prioritizes education, offering “Just Apparel perfectly satisfied my desire the International Humanitarian Foundation optional Spanish language and literacy class- to work with development issues while still that was co-founded by Heidi Jutsum ’06. es, financial management workshops, and preserving local cultures,” says Johnston- JA has partnered with 26 artisan women in lessons in healthy cooking and sanitation Davis. “Though there is no doubt that we

52 Haverford Magazine she ends up being the most willing and left to right: Baking workshop for the women of Siglo 21; Anna Marschalk-Burns with one of the hardworking in terms of giving back to girls from Casa Eudes; Amy Pennington distributes going-away gifts to the Eudes girls. others.” In establishing the fund, Pennington and Marschalk-Burns had to be aware of Because of the nature of the endowment, Frontera cultural sensitivities, especially in creating the application. “We didn’t want it to be won’t be giving away all $10,000; instead, each year intimidating so that people would be dis- couraged from applying,” says Marschalk- they will give as scholarships the money earned by Burns. “But we also struggled with how we would choose the women, what qual- the endowment, approximately eight percent of ities we were looking for—they’re so neb- ulous, and it’s awful to have to choose the money invested. among worthy applicants.” They tried to as a Means of Helping Women in a Distressed Guatemalan Village

live in a global economy, I believe that there student organizations at colleges and uni- are many concerned U.S. consumers who versities throughout the northeast, and do not support a race to the bottom.” invest in marketing strategies like Google A portion of Johnston-Davis’ grant will Ad Words and small magazine ads. go towards new artisan selection and train- “Ultimately, I hope to see Just Apparel ing, which she will help organize and over- become a recognized name for fair trade see. Because there is also a need to expand customized apparel in the U.S.,” says JA’s advertising and marketing efforts in Johnston-Davis. “All the women with the United States, Johnston-Davis whom Just Apparel works lived in spent the summer working in extreme poverty before partnering with Santiago Atitlán and creating a pres- JA. If JA grows as I hope it will, it entation about JA and the bene- will allow for the artisans of fits of fair trade in promoting Santiago Atitlán to better their stability, vitality, and global own lives while preserving peace. Upon returning to the ancient customs and prac- U.S., she will use another tices.” part of her grant to travel and talk about JA with Left to right: Heidi Jutsum ‘06 and Katie Johnston-Davis ‘10 model Just Apparel clothing.

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include open-ended questions, unlike the says Pennington. “If the money was given as Center for Peace and Global Citizenship traditional Western application where stu- directly to the women, how could they interns, checking on the distribution of dents need to sell themselves. excuse hanging onto it for education?” the money and the progress of the young “Activists down there told us not to use Because of the nature of the endow- recipients. [See epilogue.] Pennington and the question: ‘What are your good quali- ment, Frontera won’t be giving away all Marschalk-Burns will also continue ties?’” says Marschalk-Burns. “These $10,000; instead, each year they will give fundraising to ensure a long and healthy women have such intensely low self- as scholarships the money earned by the life for the scholarship fund. esteem that if they see that question, they endowment, approximately eight percent It goes without saying that both are won’t even complete the application.” of the money invested. “This is part of the thankful for UWC and the 100 Projects As it stands now, the advisory commit- importance of our continuing work to for Peace program, for allowing them to tee will choose among the applicants based expand the fund, since more money invest- help the women of Ciudad Juarez. “After I on its own criteria, and will make home ed means more money earned, and thus visited the first time and went to Claudia’s site visits to ensure that the women seek- more scholarship money each year,” says memorial, I kept imagining her family and ing scholarships are truly the most in need. Pennington. thinking, ‘I have to do something,’” says Frontera will give the $10,000 directly to Although Marschalk-Burns and Pennington. “I’m so grateful to have been select universities in Ciudad Juarez, who Pennington have commitments that keep able to give something back.” will then award it to the women who are them in the Philadelphia area—Marschalk- For more information or to contribute to chosen. This system of distribution is due Burns was a Haverford House Fellow and the Juarez Women’s Scholarship Fund, contact not only to post-9/11 rules against giving paralegal at Community Legal Services www.juarezwomensfund.org. money to an individual, but also to an through July 1, 2008, and Pennington effort to cement relationships with trust- works for a local women’s shelter—they ed schools and to put less family pressure are keeping a close eye on developments on the young women themselves. in Juarez. They expect a current Haverford “Everyone has dire financial needs,” student or two to spend the summer there EPILOGUE This summer, the work begun by Anna and legal—gathering information that will been able to see a copy of such a policy. In Marschalk-Burns and Amy Pennington assist us in better facilitating scholarships addition, our legal sources tell us that there was continued by CPGC intern Elizabeth when more capital gains are available.” should be no such policy.” Through the Gray ’08, who researched and networked Gray learned that many girls from Casa Fund advisory committee, Gray and for the Juarez Women’s Scholarship Fund Eudes are unable to enroll in school Frontera have made connections at the with the goal of better preparing the Fund’s because they don’t have copies of their Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez advisory committee of professional women birth certificates (and many are far from (UACJ) in hopes that a professor acquain- to distribute scholarships in the years to their place of birth), and that transgender tance will help make inroads with the come. Gray worked primarily in Frontera’s women face difficulties enrolling in administration. El Paso office, but also traveled into Juarez Mexican universities: “They have been told Gray also had the opportunity to spend and met with hopeful scholarship recipi- by university officials that university pol- time each week at an albergue (center/ ents—the girls at Casa Eudes, the women icy precludes their admittance—this youth house) in Ciudad Juarez where of Siglo 21, and a transgendered because of the fact that they are not pre- immigration authorities bring Mexican women’s group. senting themselves as the gen- minors who have been found crossing the “Our goal, as I see it, is to der recorded on their iden- border without immigration documents. continue working with our tification documents. This There, they wait for arrangements to be three base groups, even whole practice is suspi- made for their return home or transfer to though the granting cious and pretty obvi- another shelter. “Being there, whether process will begin on a ously discriminatory engaging in activities with kids or hearing small scale with one or because no one has their stories, gave me another window into two granted this win- issues of immigration and education,” says ter,” says Gray. “At this Gray. stage, some support will be financial and Left to right: Elizabeth Gray ‘08, Frontera some will be logistical executive director Pat Graham-Casey and pro- fessor Irasema Coronado of the University of Texas El Paso.

54 Haverford Magazine

By Dean of the College Greg Kannerstein, with Amanda Ball ’11 and Associate Dean of the College Steve Watter

Haver ford celebrates its 175th birthday during the academic year 2008-09. We'll be commemorating the anniversary with a number of special events on- and off-campus, along with a three-part history of the college since 1983 that will be serialized in this magazine during the current year (see box).

Fall 2008 55 Haverford Since ’83

averford College seemed in great shape in 1983. The decision

to go “fully coed” was five years in the past, and the first women

who’d entered as frosh were preparing for senior year. Students

eminently worthy of their predecessors, academically and oth-

erwise, were clamoring to attend. President Robert Stevens was

transforming the faculty and administration. Alumni Field House,

showing 30 years of hard use and beginning, literally, to smell

bad, was set for a full renovation and a new multipurpose

polyurethane surface to provide space for an athletic program

that doubled as women joined the student body.

But Haverford’s cost of attendance Haverford and Diversity formed and the Minority Coalition became ($10,900), amazingly modest by today’s The issue eclipsing all others since a strong student voice. standards, was worrisome. Three straight Haverford first tried to attract a racially and As the ’80s began, only nine faculty HIdouble-digit tuition increases had been ethnically diverse student body in 1968 was were of color (and only one tenured) while needed to balance the budget in the face “diversity,” which means different things to 39 black and 18 Hispanic students were of rising expenses, including expanded different people but signaled to almost enrolled. These numbers might have costs of augmenting financial aid to keep everyone the importance of adding more seemed significant to older Haverfordians, pace with peer colleges (with much larger students and faculty of color to the College. but distressed the current generation, and endowments); increasing diversity; the After a brilliant series of demonstra- percentages trailed many peer institutions. challenge of finding and matriculating stu- tions by black and Puerto Rican students The promise of the late 1960s and early dents from diverse backgrounds; the repair here in 1971-72 resulted in an agreement 1970s of a more diverse Haverford was or replacement of aging facilities; all against between students of color and the admin- threatened by institutional stasis, financial a backdrop of poor name recognition istration for the “institutionalization of pressures, and ambivalence on the part of nationally in an era when publicity and diversity,” a Director of Minority Affairs alumni, both white and of color, to recom- overt competition for top students was on and an Admission Officer to head recruit- mend Haverford enthusiastically to minor- the rise. ing efforts for students of color were ity students due to the difficult experience Could Haverford deal with these issues appointed, a Committee on Diversity was of minorities on campus. and maintain traditional Quaker values, academic excellence, and what some called “the invisible college”—the combination of student autonomy, life under an Honor Code, and close community that many believed distinguished this college from its liberal arts peers? How did its efforts to meet these challenges shape the College of today?

Broadway in Roberts: City of Angels, 1994

56 Haverford Magazine Dean Greg Kannerstein's three-part update on the life of the College covers the quarter-century since the 1983 Sesquicentennial History of Haverford, The Spirit and the Intellect, which he edited. Part One (in this issue) focuses primarily on student life at Haverford, especially student traditions, diversity, and the Honor Code.

Part Two (coming in January 2009) will focus One on the academic scene and athletics. The final installment, to appear in May just before the end of Haverford's 25th year of full coeduca- tion, will examine the coeducational experience and the presence of women students and others as partners in the previously predominantly-male Haverford environment. We encourage alumni and others to suggest possible angles for the next two installments by contacting Greg at [email protected]. Part

The comedy improv group Looney Tunes, 2005.

Words Into Action The Minority Scholars Program One step that helped pull the College (now Multicultural Scholars out of the doldrums was the creation in Program), guided for many years 1984 of an academic Diversity Requirement, by biology professor Slavica mandating that each student take a course Matacic, pairs incoming frosh of studying a non-Western culture, women or color with professors as mentors. the minority experience. By spring 1990, A program of the early 1980s spon- this requirement was about “social justice,” sored by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and stressing the study of prejudice. (The “Social Swarthmore that provided six weeks Justice Requirement” remained in force until of academic enrichment in the sum- this past spring. The faculty decided that, mer for students from weaker high for many reasons, the “SJR” was not accom- schools morphed into “Tri-Co,” a The Lighted Fools comedy troupe, 2000. plishing its original purpose. Plans are week-long introduction to college held just underway to provide a range of options in before Customs. It allows students of color summary of current efforts and proposed social justice education and leadership train- to get to know faculty, administrators and new ones. President Tom Tritton said, ing across the College experience.) upperclass students and become familiar “We’ve done enough talking. It’s time to with issues affecting them. (Tri-Co was act.” A coordinator was hired to allow for later broadened to include white stu- greater programming in the Office of dents after federal court decisions.) Multicultural Affairs, and events such as These and other efforts helped but UnityFest fostered understanding and progress was slow. The class of 1995 was awareness of racial issues on campus. 20% of color, still trailing many other The number of students of color colleges. A student Plenary in 1992 increased by 500% during these last 15 called for doubling the pool of minority years, but numbers were clearly not every- applicants. The administration felt the thing and achieving diversity was a moving problem was one of “yield.” Lack of target. Understanding, awareness, and dia- “critical mass” made lack of diversity logue remain key features in the definition almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. of diversity as most here see it. The 1999-2002 period saw major Students of color continue to feel frus- steps forward. The Board of Managers tration at other students’ and faculty mem- asked the administration to prepare a bers’ ignorance of the situations with which

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they are confronted, at times shading into insensitivity. The “achievement gap” in grades and academic honors affecting a cer- tain percentage of students of color as well as white students from rural and inner-city backgrounds has been a focus of attention nationally as well as at Haverford. In a year when the U.S. presidential election res- Willy Lebowitz onates with the theme of diversity, progress concert in the at Haverford and in the nation seems clear. Lunt Cafe. But the vexations in achieving a truly diverse community here and elsewhere are also evident. The number of students from The Humtones, 2006. diverse backgrounds, however, continues to rise. The class of 2012, which entered this fall, includes 36% students of color: Black (9%), Latino (12%), Asian (14%). Haverford and The Honor Code Haverford’s Honor Code faced new challenges, particularly its adaptation to the new electronic universe as well as to a coeducational and increasingly diverse col- lege community. A student survey in April, 1983, showed that while the Code remained a crucial feature of Haverford By that fall, publication of a case life, many students thought confrontation abstract revealing a lenient outcome to a was too rare and too many people violated plagiarism case inspired creation of a cam- the Code. That spring also saw Plenary (an pus-wide committee chaired by chemistry all-student assembly) become the vehicle professor Colin MacKay which conclud- for ratifying the Honor Code annually. Nate Zuckerman, one in a long line ed that changes were needed in the jury of Hiram bass players. system and trial procedure, and that roles The Jazz Band, 1987. of the faculty, students and administration needed more clarity. The 1984 spring Plenary revised the jury make-up by requiring random selec- tion of four jury members from the stu- dent body (who would join eight Honor Council members). A move to involve fac- ulty more closely in Honor Code trials failed in 1985 and by that fall, faith in the system had been sufficiently restored such that a suggestion for a second campus Honor Code retreat found little favor. By the time a new student generation came of age in 1987, new tensions had arisen around the Code. New Director of Minority Affairs (later Dean of the College) Matthews Hamabata, himself a Japanese- Hawaiian, said that the Code should not hold victims of racism responsible for con- fronting offending individuals. In February, 1988, renewal of the Code failed by 80 votes in Plenary.

58 Haverford Magazine Above: The Women’s Center, 1996. Right: Spring, 1989: 4 ’Fords + 10 minutes when the guard house on the path to HCA was predictably unattended (pee break?) + 2 cans of paint. Right, below: Customs Week “trust walk,” 2000.

Faced with the certainty of administra- During the next sev- tive imposition of academic and social eral years, student con- behavioral codes, another Plenary two cern about the Honor months later renewed the Code. A higher Code revolved around level of commitment was sought by insti- the Social Code as well as tuting the need for students to sign indi- confidentiality and how to vidual ratification cards even after Plenary maintain privacy while re-adopted the Code. Many felt the Code bringing up issues to the needed to recognize that racism, sexism, community. The next rat- heterosexism, etc., lessened some commu- ification crises came in nity members’ sense of acceptance. The 1997 (again against a back- screening of a video about racism on cam- drop of concern about puses catalyzed wide campus dialogue dur- diversity) and in 1998 (per- ing 1988-89 on how racism could be dealt ceived student apathy), and with by an Honor Code. For the second in both years a second straight year, the Honor Code failed at Plenary had to be held. administrative “interference” with Honor Plenary, though this time it took only two During 1998-99, student worries about Code issues. This situation became con- weeks for another Plenary to be called and the health of the Honor Code evoked a dif- flated with other issues in many students’ pass the Code. ferent sort of response. Students “confront- minds. ed” Honor Council because of a decision to The spring of 2005 was a difficult one Evolving Code, delay an abstract for more than a year in for Haverford’s president and many others Evolving Process order to protect identities of those who were caught up in a dispute about Emotions around the Code seemed qui- involved. In the springs of 1999, 2002, and students’ roles and administrative credi- eter for a few years but Plenary again 2006, the Code passed at Plenary but did bility. A foreshadowing of that case had rejected the Code in 1992, though some not achieve ratification by subsequent sig- occurred in 1993-94 when President said procedural errors were responsible for natures, so special Plenaries had to finish Kessinger had to deal with a problematic the defeat (no hanging chads in this con- the ratification process. outcome of a case in which a white stu- test, but close). One month later, the Code A different sort of controversy domi- dent was confronted by black students was ratified after a long debate on “minor- nated the spring of 2004 and much of 2005 after posting signs that many saw as ity alienation.” A forum on this topic was after President Tritton changed an Honor derogatory toward students of color. held in the Haverford Friends Meeting Council jury resolution in a case involv- Angst about the Honor Code was a con- House, resulting in a requirement that ing two white students donning “black- stant during these 25 years. While proce- three of 12 members of each jury must be face” at a party at Bryn Mawr. Some stu- dural issues seemed behind the issues of “minorities.” dents were extremely unhappy about the first part of the period, more recently

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concern about effectiveness has surfaced, over into classes or bi-co even though no one is claiming that aca- suites. demic or social violations are on the rise. In time, though, as Senior Constant renewal has kept Haverford’s Associate Dean Steve Watter Honor Code alive and vibrant; the next puts it, “the benefits of aca- few years undoubtedly will see efforts demic cooperation seemed across the community to adapt the Code clear to most students and to the changing needs of the community. other forms of cooperation much less so.” The academ- Haverford and Bryn Mawr ic exchange did flourish. The 1970s represented for many the More students than ever took Haverfest, 1986. flowering of the “bi-co” arrangement. courses and even majored at The student newspapers had merged in the “other school.” Removal of the tension comparable areas could work as colleagues 1968 and the dorm exchange of the '70s associated with the decade-long coeduca- free from institutional politics. Deans continually expanded until it involved tional decision-making process for worked closely together to help students more than 30% of students in the three Haverford meant that administrators in with involvements on both campuses. upper classes. While some feared that The only bi-college administrative Haverford’s decision to go fully office, Career Development, has coed would destroy the rela- Scenes from Haverfest, 1984. staff members on both campus- tionship between the two es, and director Liza Jane schools, this anxiety proved Bernard shuttling between the unfounded though there were two. This arrangement allows changes, including the eventu- “COD” to diversify staff and al withering away of the dorm resources far more than if each exchange. college had its own career In the 1980s, the presidents office. An advisor for business- of both institutions, Robert related positions came on Stevens and Mary Patterson board for 2008-09, spending McPherson, worked hard at half-time at each institution. championing the relationship and An unusual example of bi-co keeping it visible. They even cooperation was BMC’s leas- sponsored meals and desserts after ing of an attractively renovat- HC vs. BMC sports events to ed and expanded 6 College ensure that any rivalries formed Circle to serve as a branch on the athletic field didn’t carry of the Phebe Anna Thorne School, Bryn Mawr’s historic An '80s party circa 1999... opportunity for students to work with younger children and experienced professionals. Whether students at the two colleges will find new ways of working together remains to be seen. Institutional identity clearly seems more important to them these days than bi-co identity, though the newspa- per, dramatic, dance and musical groups are all going strong on a bi-co basis, and the athletic scene demon- strates much cross-use of facil- ities and a healthy rivalry in intercollegiate sports. Many students cite the bi-co rela- ...and the real thing—the Suitcase Party, 1984. tionship as one of their main

60 Haverford Magazine reasons for getting interested in Haverford Rufus Jones and Douglas Steere. Dean of es for years, with three-to-four dozen stu- or choosing to attend it. In an era in Admission and Financial Aid Jess Lord, dents finding their way to the Meeting which regional cooperation is increasing- appointed in 2005, is the sole Quaker cur- House at that time until the need for bet- ly important, the BMC/HC relationship rently in the senior administration, but ter coordination with Bryn Mawr classes is the envy of college presidents all over Helene Pollock has served both Presidents led to its abandonment. Both Collection the country and is still vital to the two Tritton and Emerson as an active and and Meeting, for so long the twin pillars colleges’ competitive appeal. In 2008-09, engaged assistant for Quaker affairs. Parker of “Quaker community” at Haverford, con- Bryn Mawr welcomes a new president Snowe ’79, Executive Director of the tinue but don’t occupy a prominent posi- (Jane McAuliffe) who will work with Center for Peace & Global Citizenship, is tion. Steve Emerson to define the shape of the a member of the Religious Society of However, those who argue that bi-co relationship for the early part of the Friends. Quakerism at Haverford is attenu- 21st century. ated beyond recognition overlook Plenary, 2005. Once in Roberts, now in Alumni Field House. just how much is going on. Quakerism at Between 6-8% of the student body Haverford are members of Friends’ Meetings, If you asked a dozen a far higher proportion than one Haverfordians—alums, stu- would find at any non-Quaker dents, faculty—“Is Haverford institution and a reflection of then- still a Quaker college?” you’d president Tritton's engagement on likely get a dozen different this issue. More than 100 students answers. From the legal perspec- at any given time are graduates of tive, the answer is clear: “It sure Friends schools or “attenders” at is.” The College is owned by the Meetings. Corporation, almost all of whom The student Quaker Activities are Quakers. Haverford’s Board Committee (QUAC) was active members are not trustees (as at throughout the quarter century, most institutions), but managers. livelier in some years than oth- The number of managers appoint- ers. In the last two years, Quaker ed by the Corporation, however, student organizational activity had diminished from 18 to the has noticeably picked up. One current 13 by 1987. group began holding small The number and influence of Meetings and pot-luck suppers Quakers on campus is also an in the Haverford College important measure of the Quaker Apartments, leading to the for- influence here. Two of the four mation for 2008-09 of “Quaker presidents chosen in the period— House,” a group of 11 students both Toms, Kessinger and who will live together in a ren- Tritton—were members of the ovated full-floor apartment at Society of Friends. The quiet, HCA, sponsoring activities and intense long-time Dean of discussions to enhance the Admission, Bill Ambler ’45, and Quaker presence. the ebullient, outspoken Vice The Corporation continues President, Steve Cary ’37, repre- to meet yearly, but plays its larg- sented Quakerism and a Quaker er role in the College principally through viewpoint for many. Ambler retired in 1990 Haverford’s world-renowned Quaker its Advisory Committee of 15 individuals, and passed away five years later at age 71, Collection offers students rich material for currently led by Jonathan Evans ’77 and while Cary remained near campus and research and senior thesis work. The next including Board of Managers members very much a part of the scene until he died few years will see intense discussion of Irene McHenry and Joan Countryman, fac- at 87 in 2002. curricular and staffing possibilities to keep ulty members Kaye Edwards and Doug In the faculty, Doug Davis (psycholo- Quakerism vibrant and provide courses Davis, and alumni Steve Kauffman ’70, gy), Kaye Edwards (independent college about the College’s Quaker history and Samuel Angell ’82, Anjan Chatterjee ’80 programs), Yoko Koike (Japanese), Sue Quakerism generally. and Gabriel Ehri ’00. The Corporation Stuard (history) and Emma Lapsansky Required Meeting for Worship was itself has been pruned from some 500 (history, Curator of the Quaker Collection) abandoned in the ’60s but the Fifth-Day members in 1987 to about 200 today, have stepped into the shoes of icons like Meeting hour was preserved free of class- which has allowed members greater focus

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in their work. for peace, and now has a Quaker The Advisory Committee also as Executive Director, Parker contributed several members to a Snowe ’79. The continuing suc- college-wide committee that met cess of 8th Dimension, headed throughout 2006-07 and made rec- by Marilou Allen, and volunteer ommendations to assure continua- programs in general grow out of tion and enhancement of the Quaker the current generation’s commit- tradition. With increasing interest ment to service, which finds fer- among college students in religion, tile soil for growth and renewal. both in terms of spirituality and aca- Quakerism is evolving at demic study, attempts to position the Haverford, but its roots are still Quaker presence at the College’s nourishing and its branches center may surprise those who seeking new light. Warmly wel- thought Quakerism at Haverford comed in this regard is the pub- was doomed once Meeting and lication of Quaker Elements, a Collection and some of the Quaker brochure coordinated by then- leaders of the past were gone. president Tritton. For many students today, Candlelight vigil, Sept. 11, 2001. Quakerism is visible only as wel- Student Life at Haverford come moments of silence before events, House at 4 p.m. to reflect and comment Student organizations always played a and in the consensus process; for others it “out of the silence” on the day’s tragedies. major role in Haverford student life, but an offers a chance to see Haverford and the For Haverfordians, it seemed the only pos- explosion of such activities marked the last education it provides as a legacy of an iden- sible thing to do. 25 years. Increasing diversity of the student tifiably Quaker college of the past. The The establishment of the College’s body led to formation of more than a dozen Haverford response on September 11, 2001 Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, groups defined by personal heritage. At first, was one marker of how deeply Quakerism with both strong academic and experien- Black Students League and Puerto Rican had permeated the fabric of the College. tial components, in 1999 is right out of Students at Haverford were the primary eth- The community gathered in the Field Haverford’s long-standing Quaker witness nic organizations. Today, BSL remains while varying racial, ethnic and religious groups have created the Alliance of Latin American Students, Asian Students Association, Barkada (Filipino students), Caribbean Essence Organization, Haverford Hindu Organization, International Students

The Bookstore when it was located in the base- ment of the Dining Center. The Coop as it looked in the basement of the Dining Center.

62 Haverford Magazine Left: The Quaker Activities Committee, 1987. Bottom step: Laura Taylor HC ’87, Holly Coryell ’88, Kathy Fountain ’87, Nick Bruel ’87; Step 2: Anna Little ’90, Lisa Greene BMC ’87; Step 3: Terry Hayden ’88, Ellen Kennedy ’87, Jen-Luc Jannick ’90; Step 4: Eldora Ellison ’88; Top step: Mark Silver ’87, Emily Murase BMC '87, Kitty Ufford ’88, Tom Hartmann ’88. Below: President Tom Tritton heralds the start of Dorm Olympics 2001. Bottom: Dorm Olympics, 2002.

Association (and a newly-formed popularity and Alumni Weekend Committee on International Initiatives), never fails to inspire band mem- Jewish Student Union (Hillel), Korean bers from distant eras to try to re- Students Association, Muslim Students capture the old magic. Today’s Association, and Sons of Africa, among undergrad bands trace their descent others. from the seminal group, Hiram, Perhaps the only other area to rival the which formed in the first half of the multiplicity of identity groups is a cappel- ’90s and continued with an ever- la singing. Currently, Haverford students changing cast of characters well into support nine different a cappella groups, the current decade. A plethora of surely the largest number per capita of any musical styles and genres are repre- institution in the country; the groups are sented in these student bands, all-male, all-female, co-ed, Haverford only, appealing to the eclectic musical bi-co and even one tri-co group. They per- tastes of today’s students. Lunt form in front of large crowds in Roberts Basement was renovated in the past Hall and bring in groups from other col- leges and universities while also tour- ing during fall and spring break. Student theater has waxed and waned over the years, but Haverford currently is seeing a theater boom. Broadway South, active from the late ’80s to the mid-90s, has morphed into Greasepaint Productions, with a focus on musical theater. Budding thespians, directors, producers and dramaturgs have put on a dizzying array of dramas, come- dies, and one-act performances lately, including controversial productions such as The Laramie Project and The Vagina Monologues. Students of color, especially African-Americans, have also mounted vibrant affecting performances, such as For Colored Girls…. Student bands have enjoyed enormous

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decade and serves as the epicenter of the Student-initiated dance was given a big during both fall and spring breaks. student band culture at Haverford. And boost with the creation of a dance studio in Eighth Dimension, an office which sur- yes, there is still a practice room in the the new athletic center. Groups such as vived the demise of the seven academic basement of the Dining Center. Bounce, DUI (Dancing Under the dimensions that led to its name, has been Improv and sketch comedy took root Influence), Indian Fusion Dance Team and a trailblazer for campus-based communi- during the past 15 years, with “The Pulso Latino expose students to dance ty action, volunteerism and service. “8D” Lighted Fools” leading the way in 1991, styles of many cultures while offering phys- has been active in addressing issues and followed in 2000 by “The Throng,” origi- ical education credit in the process. sponsoring programs to deal with home- nally “The Sketchy Players.” Both produce lessness, hunger, poverty, domestic vio- shows each semester. The “Fools” host an Activities = Activism lence, AIDS and failing schools. Under the improv workshop each fall, bringing in Haverford students’ commitment to vol- leadership of Marilou Allen, it has become such masters of the form as Second City unteer and service activities picked up even powered by student initiative: Any student to stoke the creative fires of Haverford stu- greater support during these years. The with a creative idea or a program to address dents. HOAP trips (Habitat for Humanity-style a real societal need can, with 8D’s support, house-building programs) have make it a reality. grown from one or two expedi- Allen also oversees Haverford’s Women’s tions annually to multiple trips Center. A safe space that advocates for the

Above: Team-building during Customs Week, 1993. Above, right: The a cappella stars who started it all: the Humtones, captured on their 1984 tour that took them at least as far as the hamlet of Broomall, down Route 320. Clockwise, starting from the red hockey hel- met: Todd Nissen, Mike Patrick, Dan Dorsky, John Berman, Chris Hess, Dave Kwass, Bob “Bob” Davis, Steve Albert, Ruben Jubinsky, Ben Trelease, Sarah McDuffie, Carl Metzger, Wayde Weston. Right: 15th Reunion of the S Chords, 2006

64 Haverford Magazine The Coop on a slow day in the base- ment of the DC. This pic is from the 70’s but we couldn't resist running it: check out the prices and the cig machine!

needs of women on campus, the Center Other programs aimed at frosh devel- opened and the services from the DC base- has also been a valuable resource for the oped as American and campus society ment moved south. The new WCC was entire campus, bringing forward gender- became more complex. The quarter-cen- the first big step toward utilization of the related issues in a timely and provocative tury brought an Honor Code Orienteer South Campus, joined in 2001 by the manner. Its existence reminds the com- program (HCOs) whose volunteers intro- Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences munity that coeducational Haverford is a duced students to the Honor Code. A com- Center and in 2005 by the Gardner relatively recent development and that the prehensive Peer Awareness Program (PAF) Integrated Athletic Center. The WCC process of re-inventing the College to serve helps the entering class identify and face made life at Haverford far more civilized, all of its students is an ongoing one. the issues frosh will likely encounter. PAFs and gave badly needed new homes to the This time period also saw the establish- are assigned to each Customs group to Admission Office and other activities, but ment and growth of an LGBTQ commu- engage students in dialogue about race, did not solve students’ need for a comfort- nity on campus. The original student class, sexual orientation, alcohol and other able gathering place. Indeed, too often our organization, comprised of sexual minori- areas. This alphabet soup of frosh resources public spaces have been almost complete- ties and their allies, was BGALA (Bi-sex- has been rounded out in the last few years ly underground. That situation will change ual, Gay and Lesbian Association), and by “AMAs” (Ambassadors of Multicultural this fall as the erstwhile Ryan Gym gets grew into SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Awareness), serving Customs groups to made over into a “student living room,” Alliance). SAGA’s mission is to support the help them join and improve a community perhaps en route to becoming a full-fledged Haverford LGBTQ community while edu- that celebrates difference and the success student center. Students have already cating the campus about issues of gender, of all constituent parts. cheered the improvement in study and sexuality and prejudice. The Lambda research space through the arrival of the Alumni Group is an important resource to A Need for Space Koshland Integrated Sciences Center, espe- the whole campus and in particular to The student-driven expansion in per- cially the Zubrow Commons, which also Haverford’s queer community. forming arts highlighted a chronic hosts events, as well as new cafes and Haverford problem—deficit in spaces avail- meeting places in Stokes (the Center For Customs able to support activities. The arts are clear- Peace & Global Citizenship and the Multi- Haverford Customs remains one of ly among Haverford’s highest priorities for Cultural Center). the few student-developed, student- the future and currently play a central role The student-run pizza parlor, Skeeter’s, run first-year orientation programs with the Master Planning Steering moved to the WCC from cramped quar- anywhere. In 1983, the Customs Committee. Important improvements seem ters in Leeds Hall but in time, enthusiasm Committee, which selected and trained sure to come soon, including a black box for Skeeter’s waned and it was taken over Resident Customspeople who lived theater in the basement of the Dining by the College’s Dining Service and became with and shepherded groups of new Center, which was without question the folded into a new coop, relocated to the students (the fabled “Customs group”), center of student life in 1983. WCC from the basement of the DC. The was augmented by the Upper Class The entire community literally bumped opposite occurred in Lunt Café, which Advisor (UCA) program. UCAs are into each other in the basement as it thrived in the basement of Lunt Hall and trained live-in peer academic advisors, checked mail, bought books, ate in the became a student gathering spot for a and quickly became a vital resource for Coop and procrastinated in the game “Starbucks-era” inspired menu of coffee, first-year students and helped limit the room. That all changed 10 years later, exotic teas and tasty pastries. The arrival number of academic horror stories. when the Whitehead Campus Center in 2004 of a café in Stokes Hall allied with

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the Center for Peace and Global wheels and pink flamingoes mysteriously is far less visible. A striking change was Citizenship and the development of a cof- appear there on the first warm spring day; the abandonment of the “Comment Board” fee bar in the Coop in 2006 tripled the caf- Latin culture is celebrated by La Fiesta, (moved from the DC to the WCC in feine options on campus, significantly one of the year’s social highlights as is the 1993), where students carried out lively increasing informal interaction among stu- South Asian Society dinner; the “Class exchanges on local and larger issues. The dents, faculty and staff. Picture” during Customs still lures unsus- apparent replacement for the Comment pecting frosh to a place where seniors can Board was the electronic “Go Board,” HPA Becomes HCA [SPOILER INFO REDACTED BY EDI- which encouraged a different kind of dia- The dawn of the 1990s saw HPA TOR!] and students are still diligent in logue characterized by an expanded vari- (Haverford Park Apartments) change to meeting informal “graduation require- ety of topics and rather more extreme lev- HCA (Haverford College Apartments). The ments” such as “tunneling” (exploring the els of linguistic articulation. In 2007-08, changes went far beyond the name. The underground network of steam conduits as at other colleges, an anonymous com- trail from main campus to the apartments around the campus). Resurfacing the Field ment board appeared but rather quickly was widened and paved with decorative House roof made it too slippery to climb, lost traction with a great majority of the brick and a fence at the east end of as the Department of Safety & Security fre- students as it drew disparagement from Hannum Drive, the better to define HCA as quently reminds us. Honor Council, which saw the anonymous part of the campus generally. In the last “Dorm Olympics,” with Gummere comments as problematic given our Honor two years, three apartments were convert- frosh wearing green, Barclay blue and HCA Code. ed to full-floor dwellings, conducive to the red, is a major bonding tradition of formation of living-learning units and Customs Week. It is enhanced by the prac- A Look Ahead theme houses. As the student body grew tice, begun by Tom Kessinger, of the pres- The nation is now in the midst of its to its current 1160, HCA saw an ever- ident opening the festivities by running, most serious financial recession of the past dwindling number of “real people” (the toga-clad, with a flaming torch from Ryan quarter-century at a time when Haverford students’ term for commercial renters). Gym to Founders porch to open the College is taking major steps to augment Now, almost 40% of residence hall occu- games. Torch technology has, of necessi- the faculty and the curriculum. The col- pants live in HCA, including one-third of ty, changed, especially when tiki torches lege has also replaced loans with scholar- the first-year class. were abandoned after intrepid Dean of the ship grants for incoming students, and HCA has its admirers and detractors. Its College Randy Milden narrowly avoided soon must find solutions to faculty and future will be one of the most complicated self-immolation while filling in for student space issues as well as needed issues for the next decade’s planning since Kessinger in 1995. development in arts and performance facil- repair and renovations could cost a consid- Customs evolved in other ways as well. ities. These are all vital issues and are cer- erable amount; there's also the question of Honor Code orientation now includes a tain to become part of the next compre- whether having a large frosh contingent in post-discussion “trust walk,” and Primal hensive campaign. the apartments is best for all concerned. Scream often arouses the interest of local The years between Haverford’s 150th police, who usually get advance word of birthday and its 175th proved that Treasured Pastimes other stunts such as sending all the frosh Haverford can adjust to changing times Other Haverford student traditions con- to the International House of Pancakes at and maintain its historic identity. No tinue, some fall by the wayside, and some 6 a.m. (Acting President Cary had to inter- doubt, the College’s Bicentennial in 2033 evolve. Class Night, which once featured vene to avoid a mass arrest when the IHOP will see a very different institution, but one brilliantly-written dramatic and musical staff was startled to see several hundred which today’s students and alumni from sketches by each class commenting on people descending at that early hour.) We 1983 through 2008 will easily recognize. College issues and caricaturing faculty, also tell them about Primal Scream to avoid administrators and other students, drifted an incident such as the one in 1990 when into mediocrity and worse and was finally a Customsperson was arrested during a The author wishes to thank Amanda Ball ’11, abandoned, though some would like to police response to a noise complaint cheerful and diligent researcher-writer-pho- see it restored to its original vibrant place lodged by someone in the neighborhood. tographic analyst throughout the summer, in the community. But students still hand The police saw mayhem and cacophony Michael Casel, editor Chris Mills, Diana the College President a small gift as they in progress, but it was just Customspeople Peterson in Magill Library Special cross the stage at Commencement (this waking frosh at around 3 a.m. by banging Collections, Steve Watter and G. Richard year, the 2008 grads gave Steve Emerson on trash can tops outside their windows. Wynn for their help and advice in this RSVPs to his wedding reception since he Changes in communication methods process, but...Greg takes full responsibility was soon to marry Professor of Biology and modalities since the advent of e-mail for all opinions expressed. Jenni Punt, BMC ’82). and the Internet could fill an article far Haverfest remains a year-ending bac- longer than this one. The ritual of check- chanalia on Founders Green, while pin- ing campus mailboxes several times a day

66 Haverford Magazine Inspired by his parents’ example and his Haverford experience, John Botti ’92 has established a scholarship to encourage future generations of givers. by Brenna McBride Planting Seeds for the Future

It was ultimately Director of Financial Aid David Hoy who made it possible for John Botti ’92 to truly call Haverford College home. “My family situation was financially very difficult,” Botti recalls. “My father had been chronically unemployed, and had different periods of sickness which made him unable to work. My mother worked hard to sup- port the family.” If not for Hoy and Haverford’s financial aid pro- gram, says Botti, it may not have been possible for him to finish his John Botti ‘92 with son Michael and wife Donna. education at the College. “I just remember David Hoy telling my father and me, ‘Don’t worry. You don’t need to worry. “I wanted to give back. What We’re going to make it work.’” Botti, who grew up in central better way than to endow a scholarship New Jersey, was the first person in his all-boys’ Catholic high that would enable students school to attend Haverford: “At the time, liberal arts colleges were in similar situations as mine not as well-known.” He was impressed with Haverford’s high to continue attending Haverford?” rating in the Fiske Selective Guide to Colleges, and had a “good feel-

Fall 2008 67 “What better way than to endow a ing” during the campus visit with his lenged me: If you don’t like some- parents. But unbeknownst to him, he thing, go do something about it and scholarship that was in for a rude awakening his fresh- fix it. So I did.” Twenty years later, man year. HOAP is one of the most popular 8th would enable “I came to Haverford thinking I Dimension programs on campus. was really smart, that school is easy,” During his sophomore year, Botti students in similar he says. “That was my reality in high arranged for the College to begin school.” But at Haverford he found offering Pepsi as well as Coke prod- situations as mine to classmates who were just as intelligent ucts, and running the Pepsi conces- as he, sometimes more, and with bet- sion became one of his three on-cam- continue attending ter study habits. pus jobs (in addition to working at “I lacked discipline,” says Botti, who Sharpless Library and as a fire safety Haverford?” managed to improve his academic out- coordinator). He also started a T-shirt look by his junior year, while working printing business with a classmate, the Richard J. Botti Memorial and being very active in sports and and broke the record for number of Scholarship, which he established in community service activities. shirts sold for one event: a Hood 2005. A member of the men’s track and Trophy basketball game against “I wanted to give back,” he field team, Botti was fortunate to find Swarthmore. Botti took advantage of explains matter-of-factly. “What bet- a mentor and friend in Tom Donnelly, an early ’90s cultural fad to have ter way than to endow a scholarship who he still counts as a strong influ- shirts made up with “Bo Knows” that would enable students in similar ence in his life. “When I think about printed on the front and “Swat Sucks” situations as mine to continue attend- leadership, I think about people like on the back; he and his business part- ing Haverford?” He is a strong believ- Tom Donnelly and John Whitehead ner went door-to-door to every dorm er that true happiness comes from [class of ’43],” he says. “They’re not room on campus selling shirts for the being passionate about one’s career up on the big stage looking for praise; game. They ended up selling 700. and activities and serving a higher they’re just passionate about what they “The bleachers were packed that moral or social purpose. do, and they do it for a higher moral night,” he remembers with a chuck- “All Haverford scholarships are and social purpose. They love what le. “Everyone on campus was wear- seeds being planted, people who will they do and excellence is the result.” ing them. We won big that night.” be grateful for these opportunities,” Haverford also awakened Botti’s After 12 successful years on Wall he says. “I am confident that they will entrepreneurial spirit, beginning with Street as a trader and hedge fund be givers in some way going forward.” his creation of the Housing Outreach manager, the former economics Botti named the scholarship in Action Program (HOAP), which major—who now lives in Vancouver, honor of his father, who passed away sends students on spring break serv- British Columbia with his wife in 2001. “My parents [father Richard ice trips to places like Appalachia Donna and 18-month-old son and mother Marcia] were amazing under the umbrella of 8th Dimension, Michael—is using his entrepreneur- influences,” he says. “They’re the reason Haverford’s Office of Community ial know-how to help non-profits why I grew up as a person who perse- Service. He had participated in such involved in environmentally friend- veres. I have learned that there is always a trip while in high school and was ly “green” ventures access funding. a creative solution, and have faith that dismayed to find that there was no And Botti is looking for Haverford things work out. I’m grateful for every- such opportunity available at the students who exhibit some of his thing they’ve done for me.” College. “Marilou Allen [director of own enterprising skills—as well as 8th Dimension] encouraged me to leadership and a commitment to start a program,” he says. “She chal- community service—to benefit from

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Alumni Association Dear Fellow Alumni, Executive Committee It is my pleasure to write this, my first letter, as the Alumni Association Executive Committee’s new president. It has been an incredible experience serving on the committee for the past eight years, and I am now delighted to have the opportunity to represent the College’s 13,000 alumni. One question which committee members are often asked is: What exactly is the Alumni Association Executive Committee (AAEC)? The AAEC provides leadership and direction to the College regarding alumni affairs and is comprised of 26 alumni representing a diverse array of backgrounds, class years, professions, geographic locations and interests. In its three yearly meetings on campus, the AAEC focuses on addressing ongoing college affairs of interest to alumni and presenting an alumni perspective on a wide range of college issues and policies. Additionally, the AAEC also looks at the development of communication between the College and its alumni and strives to foster an open dialogue between the two. President The Committee is responsible for proposing alumni nominees to serve on the College’s Bradley J. Mayer ’92 Board of Managers and recognizing outstanding achievement and volunteer contributions to Haverford through an alumni awards program. Our collective work is supplemented by Vice President additional assignments, such as Multicultural Affairs, Athletics, Admissions, and Career Julie Min Chayet ’91 Services who work with College staff and administration, or liaison work, providing alumni Members and programs in cities throughout the U.S. and abroad. Liaison Responsibilities We are always on the lookout for active, enthusiastic alumni volunteers to join the Lisa S. Berenson ’01 committee so please feel free to forward recommendations to myself or the Alumni Office. Anita V. Crofts ’92 Typically our members have been active volunteers for several years either in local activities Kyle W. Danish ’89 (ranging from conducting alumni admissions interviews to helping coordinate regional Emily D. Davis ’99 events), class activities (serving a class chair), or on-campus events (career development Robert Eisinger ’87, ex officio panels, multicultural weekend, etc.). Jamie Ersbak ’01 In addition to contacting any of the AAEC members who are in your area (see the list David Fogelson ’73 below), I invite you to find out more about the committee, as well as the wide range of Elliot Gorden ’78 alumni activities, issues and services anytime by visiting www.haverford.edu/alumni. Garry Jenkins ’92 Lastly, I hope you will join me in wishing a hearty welcome to Michael Kiefer, our new Neil Kahrim ’04 Vice President of Institutional Advancement. Michael is a most exciting addition to the Scott Kimmich ’51 College, bringing great experience from similar roles at both Amherst College and McGill Douglas Mason ’81 Ghebre Mehreteab ’72 University. We are looking forward to working with him and his team to take Haverford to Erik D. Muther ’94 the next level. Thalia Myrianthopoulos ’95 Thank you for reading. As always I welcome your comments and suggestions at any Jim Pabarve ’72 time. Theo Posselt ’94 Best regards, Polly Ross Ribatt ’90 Alex Robinson ’96 Benjamin Rose ’80 Burton R. Saidel ’53 Gabriella Sarnoff ’95 Brad Mayer Bruce Segal ’83 Student Representatives Jeff Bumgardner ’09 Paul Minnic ’09

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

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70 HaverfordMagazine Fall 2008 71 72 HaverfordMagazine Fall 2008 73 1833 Jerry Crossan James W. Friedman Wm. James Howard Deirdre Cryor Louis S. Friedman Ta Chun Hsu SOCIE TY Fred Curlin Paulette Meyer & David Friedman Mark A. Hudis R.T. Curran David S. Friedman Herbert A. Huene H AVERFORD C OLLEGE Sam Dalke David L. Gaetjens Karen E. Hughes During the fiscal year 2007-2008 which ended on June Mary Esther Dasenbrock John R. Gailey, 3rd Mark J. Hulbert 30, 2008, more than 530 of the College’s alumni, Mark W. Dauenhauer Diana Curran Galejs Eric & Paula M. Huttner parents and friends stepped forward to make Bradley T. Davis, CFA Timur F. Galen Marc R. Inver leadership gifts to the Haverford Fund. As members Emily Davis James C. Garahan Thomas E. Isenberg of the 1833 Society, these donors gave $1,833 or more Trayton M. Davis Thomas J. Garbaty Lamel S. Jackson last year. Young alumni are recognized for gifts of $750 Francois de Gaspe Beaubien J. Brooke Gardiner Benjamin Jacobs or more (classes 1999-2003), $250 or more (classes Frank De Mita Sally Gardner Steven Jaharis 2004-2007), and $100 or more (class of 2008). We are Jonathan M. Debrich Stephen G. Gellman William P. Jeffcock pleased to recognize the 1833 Society members here. Paul Denig Marlis Gildemeister Michael Jenkins Thank you for your generous support! Mark A. Deuber Spencer Golden Christopher W. Jenko Tina Deuber Caroline B. Goldstein Robert W. Jevon, Jr. Rob Deutschman Bonnie R. Golub Andy Jewel Anonymous (8) J. Theodore Borter David M. DiPietro Bruce Gorchow Karen Egerer & Peter Abramenko John Botti Michael B. Donham Jeph Gord Douglas H. Johnson Edna & Kenneth Adelberg Jacqueline V. Brady Doug Donsky Elliot K. Gordon Richard Johnson Marc D. Adelberg Daniel I. Branovan Beth & Kevin Dooley William F. Gorin Curtis T. Jones Richard L. Adelmann Zhanna E. Branovan Williams P. Dorr Christopher P. Goutman Harold Jordan William J. Adelson Michael E. Bratman William Dorsey Neal S. Grabell Fritz Kaegi Dale Adkins Roger E. Breitbart James A. Dunbar Noah Graff Roger B. Kafker Norio Akashi Robert J. F. Brobyn Geoffrey P. Dunn David F. Graham Neil C. Kahrim John L. Allen Michael Bromberg Christopher E. Dunne Henry H. Gray Richard C. Kain Aaron Ambrad Andrew L. Brooks Matthew E. Duques Emily L. Green Emily K. Kandel Steven M. Andelman James D. Brown James P. Durling Lisa Sharf Green Paul I. Kandel Debbie & David Andreas James D. Brown, III Linda Durling Robert D. Greenbaum Homi & Shireen Kapadia Tim Arling Philip Y. Brown A. Theodore Eastman Marshall G. Greenberg Lawrence & Ann Kaplan Carol Jaffe Armstrong Cheryl & Edwin John Buckingham Kenneth C. Edgar, Jr. Paul Gregory Laura A. Kasakoff Peter H. Armstrong Andrew E. Budson Jeff Edwards Stephen Greif Seth G. Kates David Mark Aronowitz Scott Burau Mitra M. Eghbal Jonathan Griffith Marilyn Machlowitz & Arthur G. Ashbrook, Jr. Julie O'Connor & Daniel Burstein Robert M. Eisinger Stanley Griswold Edward Katz Steve Aurand Brian J. Buttigieg Thomas Elkinton Jonathan Gross Robert S. Katz Brian D. Baird Kurt Geoffrey Calia Catherine Cella & John Ellingboe Stephen L. Gross Jeffrey Paul Kehne Frank D. Ballantine Carlos C. Campbell, 3rd David W. Ellis Rick Grossman William S. Kelley Robert A. J. Barry, Jr. Oscar W. Carlson, Jr. Nancie J. Ellis Gay C. Grunfeld Christopher Gerard Kelly Edward L. Bartlett & Anne Carney Robert M. Elwood Carl Grunfeld Matthew W. Kelly Cynthia Maier E. Kearney Carpenter David L. Emanuel Steven C. Guggenheimer Doug Kerr Elizabeth D. Bassel John S. Carroll Steve Emerson David P. Hackett Charles T. Keusters Robert H. Bates Daniel F. Case Jonathan Wood Evans Henry Hadad Charles Kibel Richard L. Bazelon David H. Caskey Lucretia W. Evans Allan C. Hamilton Michael C. Kiefer Mark R. Becker Anjan Chatterjee Morris Evans David Ley Hamilton David M. Kies Maureen D. Becker Mark Chehi William E. Evans Christian M. Hansen, Jr. Michael B. Kim William L. Becker Elizabeth A. Cheung Elizabeth Fanlo Lee R. Harper Andrew & Linda Kittler Charles G. Beever Daniel H. Clare Nino S. Fanlo Henry J. H. Harris Mark A.R. Kleiman David I. Begleiter Jim Coffman Peter M. Farrehi William H. Harris Steven N. Klein Steven L. Begleiter David Lloyd Cohen Paul F. Fehlner Philip C. Hart Alan M. Klein David E. Behrman David P. Cohen Robert Feitler, Jr. David T. Hartmann Alexander C. Kleinman Terry Belanger Richard L. Cohen Marian Harer Fetterman Phillip L. Henderson Margaret K. Klineberg Susan E. Bell Mitchell A. Cohn Leah R. Fiasca John K. Henne Stephen L. Klineberg Steven F. Bellon Jason R. Coleman Ann W. Figueredo Amy Heon Norman R. Klinman Elizabeth Cohen Bercow John M. Coleman Vincent M. Figueredo Dennis Heon Gabi Dvorine Koeppel Carol & Michael Berenson Susan L. Coleman Molly Finn Sidney "Skip" Herman Roger L. Kohn Lisa Berenson Chris Coletti Lawrence A. First Frank B. Herzel, Jr. Kit Konolige Daniel L. Berger Susan Coletti Michael T. Fischette David M. Hilbert Catherine P. Koshland Seth H. Berk Alan B. Colsey Paul G. Fishbein Emily M. Hinchcliff Douglas E. Koshland Seth P. Bernstein Gary J. Connell Michael R. Fogel Nicholas G. Hoenemeyer James M. Koshland Jacob L. Bilhartz Philip I. Cook Charles E. Fox John T.R. Holder Mitchell H. Kossoff Luther E. Birdzell, 3rd Brian P. Cooper David S. Fox Edward P. Hollingsworth, III Jim Krause Mr.& Mrs. Lewis S. Black, Jr. Richard M. Cooper Peter D. Fox Rick A. Holman Alfred D. Kulik, M.D. Lauren H. Blitzer Jonathan Copulsky Allison M. Frank P. Donald Hopkins Sara D. Kunin Daniel M. Bloomfield Dr. David H. Corddry Daniel H. Frank James S. House Dana Shanler Ladden Jennifer Boal Maura K. Cosetti S. Mitchell Freedman Jessica Hirschhorn & Quang H. Lam Thomas H. Bonnell Joan Cannady Countryman Samuel B. Freeman Henry Howard Gregory J. Lane Gary Born Cassin W. Craig

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Emily J. Lawrence Yurika Morita Greg Reed Laird H. Simons, III Matthew Y. Watt Paula Hinton & Steve Lawrence Sarah H. Morris Joe Reinhardt Barbara & Tom Slaight Ellen B. Weaver Thien Le Bethany H. Morrow Russell R. Reno, Jr. Sara T. Slocum Kent Weaver Evan R. LeFlore John M. Morse George G. Rhoads Curtis R. Smith Michael J. Weber Jonathan E. Lehman Angela Grindon & Thomas M. Ridington Robert H. Smith Maurice A. Webster, Jr. Raymond H. Lemisch James Morton Robert C. Riordan Elon Spar Scott T. Weiss Ilo E. Leppik Andrea P. Moser Janet Miranda & Henry J. Shanin Specter David E. Wennberg Mark Lerner Gregory V. Moser Ritchotte Harrison C. Spencer, Jr. Michael W. Werner Liz Lesnick Benjamin J. Moyer Holly Robbins Jonathan H. Sprogell David M. Wertheimer Nancy R. Lewin Jeffrey K. Mudrick Alexander C. Robinson William K. Stafford William N. West, IV Doug Ley Christopher B. Mueller Carlos A. Rodriguez-Vidal Joan Shook & Jeffrey Starke Miranda White Norm Liang Pratap Mukharji Joseph E. Ronan, Jr. Edward M. Steele Rachel White Greta L. Lichtenbaum Alexander Neubauer Lewis J. Rose Eve Kurtin & Michael L. Steinberg John C. Whitehead Jeffrey M. Lichtstein Paul Gustav Neumann Timothy L. Rose Dennis L. Stern Jennifer Whitlock Marcus B. Linden Alida Evans & Joseph Newman Jerome A. Rosenthal Kathleen Mary Stewart Karen Wiedemann Robert Linn William L. Newmeyer, III Mark S. Rosenthal Allen W. Stokes, Jr. Eliot Williams Don H. Liu George H. Nofer Bill Ross Francis Stokes Juan A. Williams Douglas P. Lobel Christopher K. Norton Rodman S. Rothermel J. Robert Stoll Jennifer L. Wilson-Buttigieg Kristin Lokvicic Katherine H. Norton Cheryl Sternman Rule Mr. & Mrs. John Stossel George F. Winfield Samuel Louie Amy A. Null Colin A. Rule David Strickler Amy M. Withington Ted Wendell Love Beth O'Donnell Christina Fanlo Russell Margaret R. Strickler Lee L. Wittenstein Joel R. Lowenthal Christopher M. O'Donnell Margaret S. Russell Matthew McC. Strickler David Wittenstein Alexander Lowry Heidi Olson Jeremy B. Rutter Geoffrey M.T. Sturr Charles H. Wolfinger, Jr. Eugene A. Ludwig Martin J. Oppenheimer Kurt V. Ryden Thomas D. Sutton Nancy Wong Kenneth D. Ludwig Elisa Maria Pansini Sheila Sachs Robert A. Swift Horatio C. Wood, 4th William & Jane Lundquist Yooah Park Stephen H. Sachs Ronald Szabat Natalie A. Wossene Howard W. Lutnick Garth R. Parker, Sr. Deborah Sagner Kathy Taylor Kenneth A. Wright Allison B. Lynn George G.C. Parker Benn C. Sah Kim Hollingsworth Taylor Charlotte Ip & Fred Yeung Richard G. Lyon Lee Parker Judith & David Sanders Timothy T. Taylor Christine V. Yeung William A. Macan, IV Michael Keith Parks Robert A. Sandhaus Jeremy H. Temkin Jeffrey H. Yormak Robert MacCrate William S. Patzer Frederic G. Sanford Jillian Kurtz Temkin Irving & Carol Yoskowitz John J. Magovern Jonathan D. Paul Anne Santoro L. Peter Temple Llewellyn P.Young David Mallery Michael A. Paulson Michael H. Sargent Susan S. Temple David E. Youngerman Morton S. Mandell, M.D. Tim Paulson John S. Saroff David L. Thomas, Jr. Yonas Zegeye Jonathan M. Mansbach Nicholas Pavlidis Deborah Lafer Scher Jim Thompson Andrew B. Zimmerman John D. Margolis Norman Pearlstine Laurie Heath Schiet Mark E. Thompson Betsy A. Zimmerman Leslie Dymond Marks Perkins C. Pedrick Robert Schiff Elaine Tint Edward M. Zimmerman Jonathan H. Marsh Richard C. Peet Mark David Schneider Larry Tint Paul Zoidis Samuel R. Marshall Alfredo Perez Lawrence P. Schramm Neelam & Pawan Tomkoria Barry L. Zubrow David J. Maue John S. Perkoff Richard E. Schramm Bill Tompsett Clark N. Maxfield Kelly T. Petersen Karen Schran Joseph Steven Torg, Jr. Alexandra B. McCoy Veronica Stinnes Petersen, M.D. Paul Schroeder Peter M. Trueblood Anne B. McCoy Anthony J. Petitti David L. Schutzman Robert N. Tucker Elisa A. McDonagh Lisa Piraino Leah Gordon Schutzman Stanley Tuhrim Thomas J. McDonagh, Jr. Hermann K. Platt Barry Schwabsky Rosemary Twilley Hugh C. McLean Jordan Pober Andrew P. Schwartz Joseph R. Urgo Miriam L. Meister Jonathan D. Polkes Michael David Schwartz Lesley Urgo Michael M. Meistering Claire Pomeroy Mrs. Richard M. Segal Don D. Urie Jean-Charles Meyer David L. Poolman Daniel Serwer Bernard Van Arkel Michael R. Meyer Brian J.M. Poon Skip Mason Shakespeare Ross Van Denbergh Gary J. Mezzatesta Jane Nofer Poskanzer Adam M. Shapiro John R. Van Ness Donna F. Miller Robert L. Post Benjamin L. Shechtman Philip G. Vance Joshua Miller Daniel M. Price Linda Sherman Constantinos G. Vassiliou Lawrence S. Miller Joe Quinlan William E. Sherpick Donald E. Vaughan Jeffrey M. Millman Jonathan Quinn Shruti Shibulal William W. Vogel Robert J. Min Thomas E. Quinn Mark K. Shimoda Yon & Daniel J Wacker Christopher D. Mitchell Rebecca Rabin Katie Shotzbarger Karina G. Wadhwani Robert W. Mong Ramanathan & Samanthi Raju Jesse Sigelman Kurt Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Moore Hunter R. Rawlings, 3rd Benjamin A. Silbert Seth M. Wallerstein Annelise Cooney Mora Andy Ray Jennifer Silbert Marshall J. Walthew Keiko & Yuri Morita Sara E. Recktenwald Julia Lee Simonds William Lynn Watson

* Donors who have requested that their gifts be listed anonymously and donors who have requested not to be listed within gift club circles are included here as “Anonymous.” The 1833 Society specifically recognizes leadership donors to the unrestricted Haverford Fund (annual giving). This list only recognizes members for the 2007-2008 fiscal year (July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008). If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Finley, Haverford Fund Leadership Gift Officer, at [email protected] or 610-896-2959.

Fall 2008 75 Faculty Friends Catching Up with Former Faculty Members

Professor Wallace McCaffrey taught history at Haverford from 1953-68 and returned to campus on Reunion Weekend to reflect on his life and career while part of a panel discussion featuring former Haverford professors. Here are excerpts of a conversation he had with Director of Communications Chris Mills ’82.

Chris Mills: Tell us about how and why you job and was interviewed and so on, and duly Haverford, the change had begun before I came to teach at Haverford. received it, and it was the best decision I ever arrived, but just begun. Gilbert came here in made. I found my own qualities—what I could ’46 and this was ’53. From my point of view, he Wallace McCaffrey: I’m a graduate of do best. I realized my own capacities. was one of the most important, influential, Reed College, which is an institution very distinguished men I had met in the academic much like Haverford. The best of the men and CM: What about this place or this approach world. professors at Reed was a man named Rex enabled that to happen? Aragon. So around 1950 Gilbert White CM: You left Haverford for Harvard then WM: Well first of all dealing with a small [president of Haverford College from 1946- retired in 1990. How did the two group of students. It was so much more 1955] invited Aragon to come here for a year. I experiences compare? exciting and interesting to be exchanging think Gilbert was engaged in a large scale ideas, to be in personal contact with your WM: A lot more of my time was devoted to revival of Haverford. Teaching here was a students than, in UCLA, to give a lecture to a research. I had much less contact with the rather old-fashioned, pretty straight-forward course of 300. I had no sense at all of students. I saw them in large classes, maybe lecture way of learning and history—learning relationship with the students. I didn’t have 60, something like that. And it’s interesting how of the facts of who preceded whom and so on. any sense of my profession as a teacher. In few of them were going to go on to an And he wanted to bring a new order in. So he this situation, I was a teacher, very directly, academic career of any kind. Their interests brought Aragon here for a year to demonstrate influencing individual students, working with a were in their profession, which was not an how you do it. He [Aragon] never lectured, all small group. So Haverford just suited me and I academic one. The faculty who were here the courses that I took with him [while at was able to do the kind of thing I wanted to do [Haverford], many of them were doing Reed], there were maybe half a dozen or and learn how to do it much better than I might research but it wasn’t a requirement for maybe 10 people sitting around a table and we have been when I first started doing it. It just continuing here at the college. As a young were discussing or he was leading us in a suited me. Well of course it was very much like professor at Harvard, you’ve got to get a discussion. Reed in terms of the number of students and couple of books out if you’re going to stay at CM: Did that seem like a the general atmosphere and so on. And in that Harvard permanently, tenured. Here there was radical approach to you? sense, I was reliving a part of my life which not that kind of expectation, what quality you had been very important to me. had as a teacher determined whether you had WM: I was innocent when I began college. tenure or not. That you should do research He [Aragon] didn’t do very much talking. He I think by the time I left, Haverford was a very was a matter for you, a matter which the made us talk, and he made us talk in sensible different place than what it had been just college approved in that it probably enriched ways to learn how to express views and ideas. before I came. And Gilbert worked, in my mind, your abilities, but you were here as a teacher. So he came and visited here for a year. Gilbert a miracle. wrote to Aragon and said “could you suggest CM: Final thoughts? CM: What characterized that difference? anybody as a possible candidate?” and WM: I can only say I hope that the students Aragon recommended my name. Well at that WM: Student interest. A number of my who are here now are of the same quality as stage I was teaching at the University of students went on to do Ph.D.s, who found the they were (when I was teaching here). The California Los Angeles; it was my first job. The study of history, that’s what they wanted to do changes which Gilbert brought about chance to go back to the kind of teaching with their lives. I think that the students profoundly affected the character of the situation and the kind of academic atmosphere enjoyed coming to class. We had to increase college. As far as I know, and this is a very in which I had been myself educated was very the size of the department very quickly, as it limited knowledge, they were very lasting attractive to me. So I applied for the Haverford was the same with a number of other effects. I hope that’s true. departments. Now the whole atmosphere of

76 Haverford Magazine Care to share your story of roads taken (or not taken) since graduation? Drop us a line! roads taken and not taken [email protected] So I headed to the University of finding just the right work of art for a And here I am, 15 years Virginia law school to become an “art client. When the click happens, it’s a lawyer.” Rather than study art for art’s powerful moment. out from that uncertain sake, I would learn how to advise artists, Other days I wonder why I got a law galleries and museums. I landed a job at a degree instead of a master’s in museum Haverford freshman, major D.C. law firm, where I was or curatorial studies. However, practicing fortunate to work with clients like the law did train me to parse through a lot of diagnosing the problem Smithsonian Institution. But after several options and to understand client years, I realized that no matter who my aspirations and needs, important skills and fixing it, a doctor clients were, it wasn’t enough to advise for an art consultant. art world players; I wanted to be an art I figure if I stick to what I love, then after all, just for world player. my path will be enjoyable, no matter the mix. I’d like to curate gallery exhibitions, artifacts, not people. I figure if I stick to write reviews and offer more art tours in San Francisco, D.C. and New York City. though) and an administrative assistant what I love, then my Or even Miami during the Art Basel mega at the U.S. Agency for International fair, where around every corner, I can Development (ditto), and after watching path will be enjoyable, revisit a favorite work or discover a new a best friend leave her promising career artist, for a client or myself. to take a leap of faith and start medical no matter the mix. school, it was time to make some hard Allison G. (Cohen) Marvin ’93 can decisions. As a young lawyer, I’d started a modest be reached at [email protected] I wasn’t happy with where I was, but art collection and informally advised or www.sightline.biz I had learned several things. First, I friends on what to buy. I’d also befriended missed the arts, and second, I didn’t want leading galleries and dealers in D.C. and a job where I had to wear panty hose. I learned how the market worked. A high E.D. (Tully) Rambo ’93 realized that I had previously stumbled school friend who owns a successful hen I started Haverford, I upon the career for me. During one of my gallery in New York City encouraged me wanted to be a doctor. I loved summer museum internships while at to turn passion into career. It was the W science, and the prospect of Haverford, I had been sent to the boost of confidence I needed. I left the discovering and fixing what conservation laboratory to polish silver. law firm to start [art consulting firm] was wrong with people intrigued me. This I had disloyally thought that what they Sightline, four years ago this June. interest lasted approximately half way were doing seemed so much more I recently married a fellow contemporary through freshman year organic chemistry. interesting than what I was doing down in art fan, moved to San Francisco and then, Luckily, the waning of my medical the curatorial department. within the same year, we moved back to ambitions mirrored a budding interest in Art conservation combined science D.C. Now, I’m working to build Sightline my Introduction to Art History course. I and art, it was dynamic: a steady diet of on both coasts. I offer city-wide art tours, became an art history new challenges with each piece of art, and participate on art collecting panels, and major, interned at the I didn’t have to wear panty hose unless I collaborate with well-known designers and Museum of Fine Arts in wanted to. Newly motivated and focused, architects. Through these activities, I’ve Boston, and thought I felt ready to overcome some of the generated some good press in both D.C. seriously about teaching obstacles that I had avoided in the past. and San Francisco. and an academic career. I buckled down, retook chemistry and But it’s hard to operate as a small After graduation, the organic chemistry, got internships with business owner. Some days I’m tempted need for self-sufficiency (and the realities conservators, took my prerequisites and to give up the art consulting gig, which of graduate school and getting tenure) headed off to graduate school. And here I requires an endless supply of self- appeared too daunting, and, once again, am, 15 years out from that uncertain motivation, and instead work for a boss my wandering career eye cast about, this Haverford freshman, diagnosing the who hands me duties, art-related or time for an entry level position that might problem and fixing it, a doctor after all, not. Certainly that would be easier in provide insight into careers that could just for artifacts, not people. some respects, but probably not as provide a steady income and a degree of satisfying. Really, there’s nothing I job satisfaction. After stints as a E.D. (Tully) Rambo runs Tully Art enjoy more in a professional sense than receptionist at a law firm (nope, thanks Conservation in Washington, D.C.

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Don’t try this on moving-in day! Once upon a time in the early 1900s Founders Hall featured a large, raised plaza at the steps of the building with a wide circular drive for wagons and later cars. Nowadays only security and service vehicles are permitted on the Green. And as an over-eager group of alums discovered during this past Reunion Weekend, the opposite—security golf carts venturing off campus and onto real roads—is also forbidden: Lower Merion Township’s finest were not amused when the “kids” (now old enough to know better, in theory) commandeered a Security golf cart to make a midnight hoagie run to the Ardmore Wawa. The driveway in our “then” photo made sense given that Founders was once a dormitory and dining hall—imagine moving in to Barclay and not being able to park out front on Harris Road. Currently, Founders is a mixed-use building that houses the President’s office, Institutional Advancement, classrooms and faculty offices and the Great Hall, which hosts myriad social functions.