Meeting the Next President Steven Drizin ‘83 Exhibitions Boom Wendy Raymond Making a Murderer VCAM’s game-changing will take office July 1 and the quest for juvenile justice Create Spaces The Magazine of Haverford College WINTER 2019 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM Studying coral reefs in Honduras 2 24 Editor Contributing Writers Eils Lotozo Karen Brooks DEPARTMENTS Charles Curtis Class News Editor 2 Main Lines Mara Miller Johnson ’10 Brian Glaser Tina Hay 12 Academix Giving Back Editor Lini S. Kadaba COVER STORY: Out of the Classroom Pat Laws Tom Kertscher and Into the Ocean Photography Editor Joan Oleck Natalie Pompilio Patrick Montero 21 In Season Anne Stein Graphic Design College Communications editorial 22 Ford Games Tracey Diehl, assistants: Michael Weber ’19, Eye D Communications Allison Wise ’20 24 Mixed Media Director of News 48 Roads Taken and Not Taken and Social Media Contributing Photographers Gabbi Bass Rebecca Raber 49 Giving Back/Notes From Holden Blanco ’17 the Alumni Association Assistant Vice President for Webb Chappell College Communications Stephanie Alvarez Ewens 55 Class News/Obituaries Chris Mills ’82 Christopher Fragapane Vice President for Gregory Miller 81 Then and Now Institutional Advancement College Communications photography Ann West Figueredo ’84 team: Claire Blood-Cheney ’20, Dex Coen Gilbert ’21, Lev Greenstein ’20, Alexandra Iglesia ’21, Sarah Jennings ’21, Ruiming Li ’22, Soha Saghir ’21, Cole Sansom ’19, Ashley Sisto ’20, Claire Chenyu Wang ’20, Olivia S. Wong ’22 On the cover: Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Whalen and students from her course “Advanced Topics in Biology of Marine Life” explore a coral reef in Honduras on a winter break field trip. Photo by Patrick Montero. Back cover photo: A wintry scene on campus. Photo by Claire Blood-Cheney ’20. Haverford magazine is printed on recycled paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste fiber. winter 2019 39 42 FEATURES 30 TELL US MORE 38 HOW TO: Become a Better Leader William Harris ’47: Revolutionizing Hip Replacement Tips from executive coach David Spitulnik ’76, By Karen Brooks gleaned from his new book, Becoming an Insightful Leader: Charting Your Course to Purposeful Success. 32 INNOVATORS: Collecting By Brian Glaser Ancient Climate Data By analyzing compounds from animal bones, archaeologist 39 Meeting the Next President Kevin P. Smith ’81 and colleagues are revealing climate Wendy Raymond, a distinguished molecular conditions in the distant past. biologist with national standing on issues of equity By Anne Stein and inclusion, will become Haverford’s 16th president on July 1. 34 Inside Making a Murderer By Tina Hay As one of the lawyers featured in both seasons of Making a Murderer, Steven Drizin ’83 plays an important supporting Exhibitions Boom role in the Netflix hit. While the series’ popularity has 42 Thanks to its flexible Create Spaces, along with brought Drizin celebrity, it’s also brought him something resources and support, the College’s new visual more important: a much larger platform to advocate for culture, arts, and media facility (VCAM) has change in the legal system’s treatment of juveniles. made possible a surge in faculty-inspired, By Tom Kertscher curriculum-related, and student-initiated creative projects on campus. By Eils Lotozo and Natalie Pompilio Haverford magazine is also available in a digital edition. CHECK IT OUT AT Haverford magazine is published three times a year haverford.edu/magazine by College Communications, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, 610-896-1333, [email protected] ©2019 Haverford College main lines America in Color here is a photo of federal housing dripping with creams and glazes. time, color film—Kodachrome—was in rural Puerto Rico, circa 1940, These are part of a trove of pho- in its infancy. Complicated to use and Tshowing the little box houses tographs taken by U.S. government expensive, it would not be available painted brilliant red and yellow and photographers more than 75 years ago, for the average consumer for a few scattered on a scrub hill. In Fort Worth, now on display in the Atrium Gallery of more decades. Texas, many women working as Haverford’s Marshall Fine Arts Center “These are the very first Koda- machinists in factories, preparing for through April 28. Altogether, they offer chromes,” said William Williams, the possibility of World War II, wore a vivid look at prewar America. Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau their hair in red kerchiefs—like Rosie Around 1940, photographers were Professor in the Humanities and pro- the Riveter. A woman with soiled sent out across America to document fessor of fine arts. “This is the first arms working a metal lathe, however, the country. They were working for time Americans could see themselves preferred a yellow cap. Two women the Farm Security Administration and in color.” in Pie Town, N.M., cut up sweets for the Office of War Information—the Williams, an accomplished pho- the State Fair barbecue, the cakes and FSA and the OWI—and given equip- tographer himself and the curator of pies arranged on a raw wood slab ment to do their survey in color. At the Haverford’s extensive photography 2 Haverford Magazine collection, put together an exhibition They are in the public domain. drenched with sweat. Had Williams of 55 prints from this government pho- Due to sometimes-poor chemical not taken pains, the sweat discolor- tography project. This was the moment processing in the 1940s and subse- ation would have been lost. in history when America was emerging quent decades of deterioration, some “I’m looking at this wonderful from the Great Depression, and the of the images could use a spit-shine. picture here of a haystack,” said agricultural lifestyle was giving way to Williams’ project is in part a vehicle to Williams, pointing to golden wheat an industrial one. The FSA’s most icon- teach students the subtleties of digital stacked high against a brilliant blue ic images came from black-and-white image correction and photographic sky. “That’s Pennsylvania, Lancaster photographers such as Dorothea Lange, restoration. “The insights gained are County. The photographers covered whose pictures of impoverished farm- already an important aspect of instruc- the entire country to make a portrait ers during the Depression are still part tion provided to students taking the of America.” of our visual vocabulary. These color ‘Materials and Techniques’ course in “I can show you the dark side of pictures, though, were never printed or color photography this semester,” America,” said Williams, walking published by the government. If pro- he said. He also wanted to show a across the gallery to a photo showing a cessing color film was expensive, print- rare slice of America’s visual history. group of women outside a barbershop. ing it was even more so. About 1,600 As far as Williams knows, many of They’re in an internment camp in Tule color slides were put into a box and these images have never before been Lake, Calif., in 1942, when American more or less lost until the 1970s. cleaned, printed, framed, and hung as citizens of Japanese descent were “It’s sort of like [the film] Raiders an exhibition. rounded up and imprisoned as possible of the Lost Ark, when they get the Ark Williams and Photography Lab threats to national security. The women of the Covenant and they stick it into Technician Daniel Burns spent hun- are beauticians: Their dresses are clean this big government warehouse,” said dreds of hours digitally cleaning and and white, their hair neatly set. They Williams. “That’s what happened to color-correcting the files. However, he are smiling. these files.” points out the danger of too much col- “In the picture, you don’t see any of The pictures, rediscovered acciden- or-correction. In one photo, for exam- the barbed wire, you don’t see any of tally by a historian, were published as a ple, a black farmer in St. Croix, Virgin the guards. You see none of that,” said book, Bound for Glory: America in Color, Islands, 1941, took a break from tilling Williams. “You see these fresh, crisp, in 2004, and more recently posted as the soil to look up at photographer freshly coiffed ladies.”—Peter Crimmins high-resolution, downloadable files Jack Delano, his eyes receding into the A version of this article originally on the Library of Congress website. shadow of his hat brim and his shirt appeared on the WHYY news website. (facing page) A lathe operator in an aircraft factory in 1942. (above left) Farm workers in the deep South, c. 1940. (above right) Beauticians in a World War II-era internment camp for Americans of Japanese descent. WINTER 2019 3 Friend(s) in Residence The usually singular Friend in Residence participating in the City Love residency. program became plural this semester with “I hope that students will see once the arrival on campus of West Philadelphia- again that Quakers come in very different based music educators and social justice packages, live very different lives, and advocates Sterling Duns and Caselli work more with questions than answers, Jordan, who perform under the name more with approaches and practices City Love. Unlike previous residencies, than conclusions and prescriptions,” which hosted guests on campus for two said Director of Quaker Affairs Walter or three consecutive weeks, City Love Sullivan ‘82 have scheduled events throughout the , who coordinates the entire semester under a single theme: decade-old Friend in Residence program. “Community Over Chaos.” Among the “I hope they will take the opportunity to get events planned by the duo is a series of with a capstone experience called “Wake to meet and engage with both Sterling and themed office hours they’ve dubbed “Ice the Mic—Creative Convergence,” which Caselli and see how their lives and choices Cream Social Justice,” which will invite will combine elements of an art exhibit might offer helpful models and insights for students to explore topics related to conflict and a performance showcase to highlight creative engagement in the work of social and dialogue.