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

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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 Patrick Montero Natalie Pompilio 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 Rebecca Raber Gabbi Bass 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.

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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. Their visit will conclude the creative work of Haverford students justice.” —Allison Wise ’20

Addressing the Sophomore Slump

ne of Haverford’s defining experiences is its yearlong Customs program, designed to give first-year students Oan introduction to the College and a sense of belonging from the moment they step foot on campus in August to the moment their boxes are packed in May for the summer ahead. And now, second-year students can continue those Customs- style conversations around place, identity, and purpose thanks to Sophomore House. Called “SoHo” for short, the new living and learning community, launched at the start of the academic year, aims to combat the “sophomore slump” and help guide peers through social and academic life on campus. The first cohort of SoHo residents consists of six members of the class Among the events organized by new living/learning community of 2021, who live together in apartment 11 at the Haverford Sophomore House was a “Meet Your Dean” ice cream social on College Apartments and work in on-campus internships cen- Founders Green. tered on aspects of student life. SoHo’s resident sophomores and their related internships So far, the SoHo residents have hosted a number of events, are: Tanisha Bansal (Office of Multicultural Affairs), Dexter including a bubble tea gathering to introduce the goals of the Coen Gilbert (Office of Student Life), Xiangruo Dai (Office of program, an ice cream social on Founders Green that gave Academic Resources), Alexandra Iglesia (Office of International second-years a chance to meet with their deans, a session with Academic Programs), Alexander Venturini (Center for Career juniors and seniors to share knowledge about potential majors, a and Professional Advising), and Sydney Woods (Center for movie night to help students unwind, and a conversation about Peace and Global Citizenship). double-majoring with Dean of Academic Affairs Philip Bean. In developing SoHo, said Dean of Student Engagement and “After having Customs all of first year, the transition to Leadership Initiatives Michael Elias, “our intention was to create sophomore year can be challenging for many,” says SoHo mem- a greater system of support for the sophomore class, and, in ber Bansal. “Not only is SoHo trying to help support students doing that, give the sophomores more opportunity to explore through this transition, but it is also aiming to improve the some of the academic questions and other things that come up experiences of sophomores through academic support, social during that year.” events, and focusing on health and wellness.” — A. W.

4 Haverford Magazine Life After Haverford

“In her campus talk,” Scott said, lines “Tiffany discussed the importance of n being authentic, building relationships ai

with peers and mentors, working to be m irreplaceable, honing in on your craft, taking care of yourself, and finding your happiness in your journey.” A second installment of Creating a Life You Love brought Shanel Campbell, an independent fashion designer from New York City, to cam- pus to give a talk and teach students how to use Photoshop to create mind- maps and mood boards. Among the sponsors for the event are the Office of Student Life, Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Information Technology Center, and the Black Students League. “If it’s for you, there’s nothing Scott connected with Bender this Said Scott about the speaker series, in the world that can change that,” summer during the Gyrl Wonder “I hope students are inspired to think Teen Vogue senior editor and Leadership Academy, a week- creatively about the life they want to producer Tiffany Bender (above) long mentorship program in New make for themselves after Haverford told a captivated audience. York City that pairs young women while also realizing that our liberal arts The inaugural presenter in the new with executives in media, beauty, education has prepared us to enter a Creating a Life You Love speaker series, journalism, and politics. wide variety of fields.” —A. W. Bender shared her story of breaking into the creative industry. “Be definite in the goal, but flexible in the process,” ON CAMPUS she said. “I didn’t always know I want- ed to be a producer, I just knew I want- ed to tell stories. Your goal shouldn’t be a title if you want to be a creative.” Inspiring words. And that is just what Talia Scott ’19 had in mind when she came up with Creating a Life You Love. Her idea: to spotlight creative career possibilities that may be less common among Haverford’s alumni base. “Thinking about my own career prospects led me to question the type of life that I wanted to have—one that didn’t just look good on paper, but one that I actually loved and enjoyed because it represented the complexities Food writer, historian, pioneer of the local food movement, and renowned chef Scott of my personality and interests,” said Peacock gave a talk in the Atrium Gallery in connection with the photography exhibit Scott. “What started as a result of my Edna Lewis: Chef and Humanitarian. Culinary legend Lewis was Peacock’s longtime anxieties about life after Haverford friend and collaborator. Together they published the best-selling cookbook The Gift has become an initiative to have more of Southern Cooking, and cofounded the Society for the Revival and Preservation of authentic conversations about the end- Southern Food, which laid the groundwork for the Southern Foodways Alliance, now less opportunities for myself and my based at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

PHOTOS: SARAH JENNINGS ‘21 (FRIENDS IN RESIDENCE); PATRICK MONTERO (SOHO HOUSE) ; CLAIRE CHENYU WANG ‘ 20 (BENDER); RUIMING LI ‘22 (ON CAMPUS) peers after college.”

WINTER 2019 5 Making History in Minnesota

n her career in academia, There, she started an innova- Joan Gabel ’88 is used to tive executive MBA program, making history. She was the became known as an effective first female dean of the busi- fundraiser, and was named a Iness school at the University “Shining Star” among women of Missouri-Columbia, and business school leaders by the first female provost at the The Wall Street Journal. She University of South Carolina. took on the provost’s post at This past December, she University of South Carolina was named president of the (USC) in 2015. University of Minnesota, mak- Within a few months of her ing her the first woman to be arrival in Columbia, students appointed to that post in the staged a peaceful demonstration university’s 167-year-history. demanding that discrimination While some may call it a and diversity on campus be trailblazing moment, Gabel addressed. Gabel spoke to the doesn’t think of her latest crowd and went on to develop accomplishment that way. “It’s a team of diversity officers, one OK to acknowledge that you’re for each of USC’s colleges and the first woman,” says Gabel, “but was planning on a pre-med major, but schools, and according to USC faculty, five minutes after you start, it’s about after a class with Professor Kathleen she worked hard to promote, retain, the work. I want to be a really good Wright, she was smitten with philoso- and hire a more diverse faculty. She president.” phy and changed focus. “I’d never been also effectively dealt with state bud- Gabel, who is married and the challenged in that way. I’d never read get cuts to higher education, and was mother of three, will take over the primary source materials that way, and considered a candidate to replace the 67,000-student University of Minnesota [been] asked to reflect and contextual- outgoing USC president. “She’s just a system on July 1. The university’s five ize and relate it back that way. The class down-to-earth, highly knowledgeable, campuses are closely connected to the was eye-opening and brain-opening, and well-spoken person,” said John von communities where they’re located, and I loved it.” Lehe Jr., chairman of the University which is why Gabel’s three-month job She went on to the University of of South Carolina’s board of trustees. interview was a widely-reported-on Georgia School of Law, practiced com- “People like her.” process. She traveled across the state, mercial litigation for several years in Gabel, who is spending the next stopping at each campus, in Morris, Atlanta, and then was invited to teach few months learning as much as she Crookston, Duluth, Rochester, and the business ethics and business and insur- can about her new job and the univer- Twin Cities, and meeting with every- ance law at Georgia State University. sity system she takes over, points out one from elected officials to students, Gabel, whose husband, Gary, that she won’t be the first Haverford staff, faculty, and local business own- is a K-12 educator, went from the graduate to hold a leadership position ers. She fielded questions in crowded classroom into administration when at Minnesota. She’ll join Garry W. auditoriums about the value of higher she was asked to become an interim Jenkins ’92, a professor and dean of education, preserving each campus’s department chair while still teach- the Law School (since August 2016). character, her commitment to diversity, ing. She was recruited in 2007 by “And there are lots of Fords in the Twin and even her knowledge of Minnesota Florida State University’s College of Cities,” she says. culture. In the end, she convinced both Business as a professor and chair of And she’s looking forward to what the Minnesota Board of Regents and the Department of Risk Management/ can be accomplished. “It’s hard to imag- Minnesota residents that she would Insurance, Real Estate & Legal Studies, ine a leadership position where you serve them well. and director of international relations could have a greater multiplier effect,” Born in New York and raised in for the College of Business. she says of being president. “If you get Atlanta, Gabel came to Haverford at Her next step up, in 2010, was it right, you can really do some very age 16 after skipping kindergarten and serving as dean of the University of good things for a lot of people.” graduating early from high school. She Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business. —Anne Stein

6 Haverford Magazine The Joy of Painting

In keeping with its “art is for everyone” ethos, stu- lines n dent-run arts space James House hosted a Bob Ross ai painting class that drew a packed house eager to learn the secret of rendering “happy little trees” and m other techniques from the encouraging, soft-spoken host of long-running PBS series The Joy of Painting. (Though Ross died in 1995, he’s won a new genera- tion of fans and become a posthumous internet star thanks to YouTube.) James House, which opened in 2007, is a 24/7 community space, funded by Students’ Council and run by a house board, that hosts events, art exhibi- tions, and performances, and welcomes campus clubs and College community members looking for a congenial space in which to create. Highly visi- ble on campus thanks to the distinctive murals (by street artists Gaia, Troy Lovegates, and Labrona) that decorate its exterior, James House has held poetry readings, knitting club sessions, a DIY holiday gift fair, a woodchip-carving session, and more.

IN THE GALLERY

Running through April 26 in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, the exhibition Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham: Syria in Ink presents vivid images and accounts of the Syrian conflict and the country’s partial occupation by ISIS, and reveals the besieged consciousness of a young Syrian man finding his voice as a writer. The exhibition includes more than 50 original drawings by artist Molly Crabapple and the voice of author and journalist Marwan Hisham. Together they capture Syria from before its precipitous fall to its current state of crisis and mass displacement. The drawings in the show, created over the course of three years, from 2014 to 2017, illustrate the pages of Hisham’s com- ing-of-age story, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War (One World/Penguin Random House), published in 2018, which the two co-authored. For the 82 illustrations included in Brothers of the Gun, Crabapple drew inspiration from photos she and Hisham shot, amateur photos and videos posted on so- Tareq, 2016. © Molly Crabapple. Courtesy the artist. cial media by Syrians involved in the conflict, Google Earth, and above all, Hisham’s memories. with beauty and the prosaic with force. It can reveal that which Writes Crabapple, whose work was inspired by Goya’s The power would otherwise be able to hide. I seek to accomplish with Disasters of War, “Syria is perhaps the most widely documented my art what photos cannot.” war in history. But oppressors, whether they are governments Molly Crabapple and Marwan Hisham: Syria in Ink is orga- or not, seldom allow cameras into the spaces where they inflict nized by BPL Presents, the arts and culture division of the Brook- their oppression. The lived experience of those under them dis- lyn Public Library. Support for its presentation at Haverford is appears into the memory hole. Thankfully, art is a slippery thing. provided by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and It can evade censorship, make history visible, invest the hideous Humanities. PHOTOS: ERIC MILLER/UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (GABEL); ALEXANDRA IGLESIA ‘21 (PAINTING)

WINTER 2019 7 Fords in the Workplace

Where do Fords go with their Haverford degrees? A new section of the College website called “Beyond Haverford” has answers. Aggregated information about chosen occu- pations and industry sectors is complemented by profiles of individual Fords whose lives resonate with Haverford values and uphold standards of excellence. Check it out at haverford.edu/beyond-haverford. Coming soon: an online form where alumni can upload their own profile informa- tion and share the ways in which Haverford continues to inform their life and work.

The Club Life @

SHIFT DANCE COMPANY WHAT: Shift Dance Company, which launched in fall 2017, is a student-run group that connects contemporary and ballet dancers across the Bi-Co. Meeting 12 to 16 hours a week for rigorous technique classes and rehearsals, Shift offers training and performance opportunities for dancers at Haverford and Bryn Mawr College. The group performs each semester, hosting and taking part in student dance concerts in Marshall Auditorium that feature both collective and solo pieces. Membership is determined by audition, and the group accepts new members at the beginning of each semester. WHO: Shift was founded by and is currently run by Shivani Parikh ’20, who serves as president. Hannah Misangyi ’19 serves as vice president. “Our main goal is to provide a company where dancers can maintain and build their technique,” said Parikh. “But we are a very tight-knit group and hold frequent social activities outside the studio.” WHEN: Shift’s classes, which are open to everyone interested in improving their skills, are usually held twice a week in the Swan Multipurpose Room. Beginning with a strength, conditioning, and flexibility warm-up, the sessions vary from technique to combo classes in varied dance styles such as contemporary and jazz.

FYI HAVERFORD’S visual culture, arts, and media facility (VCAM) was the subject of a glowing review in the February issue of Architectural Record. About the award-winning transformation of the former Ryan Gym by Minneapolis firm MSR Design, the writer had this to say: “There were some on campus who mourned the loss of the building’s shabby, ad hoc former self. The new VCAM, however, with its community kitchen and 24/7 access, has become a campus hub. MSR’s thoughtful intervention maintains a level of that old Quaker sobriety but adds a touch of warmth—all without sacrificing the quirk.”

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Spotlighting the holdings of Quaker and Special Collections m

Part of the Haverford Libraries’ Dime Novel Collection Beadle’s Frontier Series was among the thousands of is a complete set of the 100 volumes of Beadle’s Frontier dime novels published during the period that “reveal a Series, which were originally published from the 1860s to wealth of information about contemporary attitudes on the 1880s. The set was purchased in part to honor Emeritus race, ethnicity, and gender,” according to Sarah Berger, Professor of History Emma Lapsansky-Werner on her retire- a 2016 Swarthmore graduate who as a student curated a ment, and she has used them to teach her writing seminar digital exhibit drawn from Haverford’s collection titled “The American West in Fact and Fiction.” Librarian of the The Second Generation: Boy Heroes in American Dime College Terry Snyder has also used them in her “Materiality Novels, 1860-1910. The early novels, said Berger, like the and Spectacle” class, and Sarah Horowitz, curator of rare ones pictured here, typically feature “covers depicting vio- books and manuscripts and head of Quaker and Special lent altercations with Native Americans or wild animals. But Collections, uses them with classes looking at book history as the frontier closed, dime novels focused less on depict- and technology, as an example of mass-produced, inex- ing clashes with the wilderness and more on conflicts within pensive books. frontier society itself.” —Eils Lotozo PHOTOS: SOHA SAGHIR ‘21 (DANCE); DAN Z. JOHNSON (COLLECTION)

WINTER 2019 9 Mohamed Ali ‘22 with the robotic prosthetic hand he built using the resources of the VCAM facility’s Maker Arts Space, where he is a student worker. Helping Hand

hen Mohamed Ali ’22 on with his life,” says Ali, who is from printer in the Maker Space to print the became a student worker in Cairo, Egypt. Another thing he learned: hand and electronic enclosure. “Since Wthe Maker Arts Space, the The cost of efficient artificial limbs can I’m a prospective computer science first-year got a simple assignment from be prohibitively high, mostly because major and I’m still undecided whether Maker Arts Technician and Coordinator of the materials they are made of. “So, to minor in visual studies or math, Kent Watson: Follow your curiosity. we started working on research on what doing this project was really inspiring “With all my student workers, I have materials are best to use and how we for me because it introduced me more them set a goal at the start of the semes- could potentially cut down the price,” to the world of micro-controllers and ter,” says Watson. “The idea is that they he says. “The hand I made [in the how technology works.” (In fact, he learn what they want to learn, and along Maker Space] was meant to illustrate learned enough to conduct a Maker the way they become specialized in an how prosthetics work and what inputs Arts Space workshop in March on aspect of the Maker Space.” and outputs they take.” microcontrollers like the Arduino.) For Ali, his goal would be to build a While Ali wrote his own code, “I made sure he was trained on robotic prosthetic hand. he used an open source design for the 3D printer and provided what The project was actually something the robotic hand that he found on knowledge I could to guide him in the he’d first begun working on with two Thingiverse. “That’s an open source direction he chose,” says Watson. “That friends in high school. “I read a lot platform where anyone can post, said, much of what Mohamed did was about how amputation can impede a download, and, usually, modify 3D self-guided. I can’t wait to see what he person and prevent him from moving designs,” says Ali, who used the 3D does next.” —E. L.

10 Haverford Magazine lines n ai m Bi-Co Pickling Team co-heads Nicky Rhodes ‘19 and Katya Olson Shipyatsky BMC ‘19 talk about how to make quick pickles at a February pickling party that offered a selection of produce, herbs, and brines to experiment with. In a Pickle

here seems to be no limit to the range of extra-curricular to quick pickles—which are not canned and thus need to be activities that students at the Bi-Co can dream up. But refrigerated. “We used VCAM’s wonderful new community Tthe newest addition to the club roster just might be a kitchen, got a whole lot of produce and mason jars, made a first. The Bi-Co Pickling Team, launched at the start of the couple different brines, and then let people pickle whatever they spring semester by co-heads Nicky Rhodes ’19 and Katya Olson wanted,” says Rhodes. “We have plans to host a Fermentation Shipyatsky BMC ’19, was inspired by a true passion for pickles. Friday party in the future, which will be a similar concept but “We decided to start the club simply because we both really with fermenting and canning.” love pickles and wanted to have the opportunity to learn more And why a Pre-Plenary Pickling Party? about the process of pickling,” says Rhodes. “That was mainly just a timing coincidence,” admits The pickling team (no, they don’t wear uniforms) doesn’t Rhodes, who says the date they picked for the pickling event hold regular meetings, but instead organizes occasional pickling just happened to coincide with Spring Plenary. “However, sessions each guided by a different theme. In February they Katya and I thought that it would be nice to be able to snack hosted a Pre-Plenary Pickling Party that was an introduction on some pickles during a long Plenary.” —E. L.

TRAVEL WITH HAVERFORD JULY 14-24, 2019

ARCTIC EXPEDITION: UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN With Helen White, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies

On Stage: The Lion in Winter

The student-run “Haverford-based but Bi-Co friendly” Spotlight Theatre Company enjoyed a mostly sold-out run for its production of The Lion in Winter, directed by Veronica Walton BMC ’19. James Goldman’s classic 1966 play (which was made into an equally classic movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole) portrays the domestic and political intrigues of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and their family during a fraught Christmas in 1183. Next up for Spotlight, which stages its shows in the DC Black Box Theater, will be a spring semester production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. From left: Ana Legaspi ’22, Gaynor Norcott ’20 (kneeling), ShelDan Dalsimer ’21, Jesse Zeldes ’22, Ainsley Bruton ’21, and Ian Cumberpatch ’19. For more information, visit: hav.to/travel or call 610-896-4279 PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO (ALI); COLE SANSOM ‘19 (PICKLING); ASHLY SISTO ‘20 (LION)

WINTER 2019 11 academix

Out of the Classroom and Into the Ocean Biology students spent a week over winter break exploring tropical coral ecosystems in Honduras.

hen people say that Haverford to snorkel in the clear, turquoise waters blue-green algae is a marine cyanobacteria students are immersed in of the Caribbean Bay to explore coral found worldwide in tropical and subtrop- Wtheir studies, they usually diversity and identify fish, turtles, inver- ical waters.) “I studied Trichodesmium mean it figuratively. But the immer- tebrates, and algae on the second-larg- all summer, so that was a really exciting sion was real for five of the students in est coral reef on Earth, known as the moment for me,” said Donahue. Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Whalen organized the trip with sup- Whalen’s “Advanced Topics in Biology “It was the first time I had snorkeled port from the Center for Peace and of Marine Life” course who traveled to at a barrier reef, and I learned a lot about Global Citizenship, the Koshland Inte- Roatán, Honduras, in January for a field the inhabitants—we saw octopi, squids, grated Natural Sciences Center, and the study exploring tropical coral ecosystems. sea turtles, eagle rays, scorpion fish, nudi- Provost’s Office as a way to bring the At least twice a day, the students— branch, flamingo tongues, and more,” previous semester’s classroom work along with Whalen, Postdoctoral In- said biology major and environmental to life for her students. Her “Advanced vestigator Jamie Becker, and former studies minor Laura Donahue ’19. One Topics in Biology of Marine Life” is an Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology of the high points for her: swimming interdisciplinary seven-week course that

Matt Carrigan—hopped on a private boat through a Trichodesmium bloom. (This explores human impacts on the oceans. PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO

12 Haverford Magazine Along with diving into the primary lit- erature and interpreting data, students are also asked to use the resources in the Visual Culture, Arts, and Media facility to create an original piece of media that will engage the public in their chosen scientif- ic topic. The goals: to help students gain the skills to effectively communicate sci- ence to diverse audiences, and to increase awareness of the issues the oceans face while offering feasible solutions. Caribbean coral reefs are arguably the most impacted by human influence, from reef decline due to rising ocean tempera- tures and acidification, pollution from agricultural runoff or ocean plastics, and threats from invasive species from distant oceans. After first teaching the course in fall 2017, Whalen concluded that students would benefit from first- hand experience with these ecosystems and the problems that plague them. She hoped to attract both students interested in the field of marine biology, conserva- tion, policy, and those who had never seen the ocean before. “I remember the first time I snorkeled on a coral reef,” said Whalen. “I was 12 years old and it was so powerful, I decid- ed to become a marine scientist. I want Haverford students to have the same opportunities I had to become inspired and emboldened to make a change in the world.” Thus the trip to Honduras was born. For seven days over winter break, the Haverford cohort stayed at Anthony’s Key Resort, which is within a marine protect- ed area and is dedicated to conservation and education. Before their daily dives, the students met in an on-site classroom for lectures about the flora and fauna they would encounter underwater that day. (top) Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Whalen and her students with the captain The resort is also adjacent to the non- and dive master of the boat that took them on twice-daily snorkeling trips. (middle) Some of the rich marine life of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second-largest coral profit Roatán Institute of Marine Science, reef on Earth. (bottom) On board the boat, the group works together to identify ocean which has been tracking the health of organisms, including fish, crabs, algae, and slugs.

WINTER 2019 13 the reefs for decades and works with the local community to put in place mea- sures that will allow the reefs to thrive and humans to make a living from the ocean, said Whalen. Those conservation efforts, including protection from over- fishing and banning plastics, make the locale one of the last places to see the kind of coral reefs that were once prevalent all over the Caribbean. The field trip included plenty of time for fun, too. The Bi-Co crew—which Tackling Real-world Problems also included Elly Overton ’19, Scott Pol- lara ’19, Juliana Benitez ’20, and Shelby ens of millions of Americans face food insecurity, and at the same time, massive Hoogland BMC ’19—swam with dol- amounts of unused food are thrown away every day. Philabundance, the largest phins that are a part of the resort’s Dol- T food bank in the Philadelphia area, is keenly aware of this disconnect. Continuing phin Conservation Program, visited the its search for solutions, the food bank partnered with the Haverford Innovations Program nearby Ethnic Honduran Art Exhibit (HIP) and Swarthmore’s Center for Innovation and Leadership for an impact challenge—an Center, went paddle-boarding, and took applied-learning workshop in which students could confront a real-world issues with prob- a guided tour of the Animal Sanctuary lem-solving methodologies. and Rescue Center to see such native During the December event, Haverford and Swarthmore students used Design Thinking, Honduran wildlife as jaguars and mon- which aims to better understand the end user of a product, and Lean Startup, a concept for keys. They enjoyed meals of local sus- accelerating development, to address a question posed by Kait Bowdler, Philabundance’s tainable seafood and ate breakfasts of director of sustainability: How can Philabundance be a leader in creating a systematic ap- traditional balaedas—a thick tortilla filled proach to small-scale food recovery in Philadelphia? with mashed fried red beans and cheese. Learning the kind of problem-solving methodologies used in entrepreneurial work can pro- “We snorkeled in tongue-and-groove vide a framework to develop, test, and refine thinking when engaging with all sorts of ideas— reefs and over huge drop-offs, as well as entrepreneurial or not, said Shayna Nickel, HIP’s program manager. “This event brought a in 15 feet of water in the back reef where number of these elements together so students could learn and practice these skills using a sea grass environments are punctuated real-world problem. In this way, students are creating a toolkit to use on their own ideas or with giant coral heads,” said Whalen. for use in future work.” “We also did a night snorkel, which was Over the course of two days, the participants split into groups to focus on food-recovery a first for all the students. We saw octo- issues raised by Philabundance stakeholders, including staff, volunteers, and food donors. pi, lobsters, pufferfish, squirrelfish, and Using the Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies, groups came up with ways to much more—all of which are hidden recover otherwise wasted food, then presented their ideas, explaining the problem they were during the day.” solving, their solution, and next steps. It was, in fact, a trip of firsts: It marked “l learned the importance of narrowing down and being very specific on the product you the first time Whalen had taken her stu- want to come up with,” said Pelagia Maria Majoni ’22, who has participated in several related dents on a field-study trip, the first time HIP events including a Techstars Startup Weekend Philadelphia. “l also learned that there Scott Pollara had ever snorkeled, and the are so many problems and you can’t solve all of them at once, but you can at least, like Phila- first time Juliana Benitez ever swam in the bundance does, decide what appeals most to you and hit it with your best shot.” ocean. It was a shared adventure, but it Majoni worked in a group with Iryna Khovryak ’22 and two Swarthmore students to de- was also educationally rich and inspiring. velop a plan to compensate restaurant employees for dropping off unused food at a nearby That was the point, said Whalen. She food distribution agency at the end of their shifts. Majoni had been independently working on wanted her students not only to learn a food-related project here on campus, using mathematical modeling to predict the number about a unique marine environment, of daily patrons at Haverford’s Dining Center to optimize the amount of food cooked each but to inspire them to help protect and day. With the impact challenge, Majoni got to practice project brainstorming and prototyp- conserve it. ing, and also found another student willing to team up with her on the Dining Center project: “Haverford is about opening students’ Ruiming Li ’22. minds to new experiences and ways of The impact challenge benefited from the facilitation of Kevin Moore and Korin Folan, edu- thinking, and trips of this nature provide cators from Malvern Preparatory School. Moore was a mentor at the inaugural Tri-Co Startup new perspectives through immersive Weekend last spring, which offered immersive workshopping on entrepreneurial skills. learning that cannot be achieved any —Michael Weber ’19

other way.” —Rebecca Raber PHOTO: LEV GREENSTEIN ’20

14 Haverford Magazine STEM Classrooms and Accessibility COOL CLASSES mix team of Haverford faculty and in inventing methods for how to learn alumni have become part of physics alongside us as he was learning CLASS NAME: A the national conversation about the actual physics in his courses.” “The Vietnam Wars” acade making STEM fields more inclusive. In a (He did similar work for a linguis- paper recently published in The Physics tics course, and in 2014 he co-authored TAUGHT BY: Mellon Postdoctoral Teacher, Daniel Gillen ’17, who is legal- an article for the journal Teaching Lin- Fellow and Visiting Assistant Profes- ly blind, and his co-authors—Megan guistics with Assistant Professor of sor of History Huong Nguyen Holt ’14, Visiting Assistant Professor Linguistics Brooke Danielle Lillehaugen of Physics and Astronomy Kevin that focused on exercises and practices Here’s what Nguyen had to say Setter, Physics Laboratory Instructor usable for students who are blind.) about her class: “The Vietnam and Observatory Coordinator Paul Drawing on methodology developed Wars” is an in-depth analysis of Thorman, and Professor of Physics and by Holt in her senior thesis on physics Vietnamese history and the struggles Astronomy Suzanne Amador Kane— education at Haverford, Kane and the for independence and national unifi- provide much-needed advice, as well as rest of the physics department worked cation from antiquity to the present methods for making physics accessible with Gillen to rework aspects of STEM day. It covers the historical roots for students who are blind or visually learning that were previously inaccessi- and the contemporary contexts of impaired. ble to him. In particular, Gillen worked revolution and Traditionally, the teaching of physics with Setter and Thorman to develop war, various has been primarily visual, with a focus accessible physics laboratory courses, objectives and on complex and abstract theory and and he and Thorman presented these motivations of concepts. This new paper offers con- resources at the 2018 summer meeting its Vietnamese crete ways of making physics cours- of the American Association of Physics participants, and es more non-visual, emphasizing the Teachers (AAPT). While the recent the enormous importance of screen-reading software, publication deals mainly with accom- human costs which converts on-screen content into modations in physics lecture courses, suffered by the speech and/or Braille output. the co-authors are planning a second wars’ victims. publication in which the Employing a work presented at the multifaceted AAPT conference—on lab approach—in- course accessibility—will cluding several memoirs from differ- feature more prominently. ent perspectives, primary sources, Though he does not scholarly articles, literature, and plan to pursue further aca- documentaries—this course reflects demic work in physics— the wide array of issues, ideologies, he has developed a passion and participants involved in various for urban planning and conflicts regarding French colonial- design since graduation— ism, Japanese occupation, American Gillen remains committed intervention, and internal divisions. A to increasing accessibility core component of the course is an Daniel Gillen ‘17 speaking at an American Association of Physics Teachers meeting about the resources for accessible for students and other oral history project, which offers stu- physics labs he developed with Haverford faculty. individuals who are visu- dents the opportunities to think and ally impaired. write like historians by conducting Gillen, a physics and music double “In whatever field I enter in the future, interviews with the Vietnam War gen- major, was only the second legally blind accessibility will remain a primary focus eration. The students develop their student to attend Haverford. “When for me,” he said. “Whether it may be interviewing skills while exploring Daniel first arrived, we were all surprised assisting the design of future cities and firsthand human experiences, from and dismayed to learn how little help communities, spreading awareness about battlefield stories to antiwar activism. was out there when we reached out to Braille and other accessibility tools, or All interviews will be made available educators nationwide to learn about cur- increasing access to STEM subjects, all of to researchers on our project website rent best practices,” said Kane. “Daniel these pursuits are in line with this larger via the Haverford College Libraries. wound up having to be an active player calling of mine.” —Allison Wise ’20

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Associate Professor of Spanish and Spanish Department Chair Ariana Huberman to ride horses, how to work on the land, is known for being a patient and caring language instructor, able to gently guide even that kind of thing. There is a chapter on a rank beginner toward a basic grasp of her native tongue. Originally from Argentina, Jewish Gauchos that always catches peo- ple’s interest. I’m a descendant of one of the Huberman got her B.A. at Tufts University and earned her Ph.D. in Spanish and original Jewish Gauchos—my grandfather Latin American Literature from New York University in 2002. She taught at Alfred was one of them. University for a number of years, before joining the Haverford faculty in 2010. Since then, she has taught every level of the College’s Spanish language courses, along with ➋ Poster: I guess that my interest in such classes as “Writing the Nation: Perceptions of Violence in Latin American,” and cowboys is related to the fascination I have with the Gaucho character in my country. “Spanish American Colonial Writings.” What I like about that picture is that it Huberman, who has written about the history and changing representation of relates to what the gaucho represented. the Argentine cowboys known as Gauchos, is the co-editor of the book Evolving The overt masculine characterization of Images: Jewish Latin-American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2018), and has this figure—that was something that was a book forthcoming titled Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin highly admired. It’s also a mix between out of control and under control. The horse is American Literature (Academic Studies Press). clearly not completely tamed yet and the Haverford magazine editor Eils Lotozo spoke with Huberman in her sunny, man is trying to bring him under control. art-filled Hall Building office. And that is something that Argentine culture still, today, admires enormously: ➊ Her book Gauchos and Foreigners: being total pariahs to being icons of national bravery and wildness. Glossing Culture and Identity in the pride after the immigrants started arriving Argentine Countryside (2011): The in the early 20th century. Italian and Jewish ➌ Photos of her family: These are my original Gauchos—the Argentine cow- immigrants established colonies in the inte- daughters. That’s Mia on the right—she’s boys—were the offspring of indigenous rior of the country, and they learned from 10 and a half—and that’s Abby. Her name is

women and Spaniards, and they went from the Gauchos how to work with cattle, how actually Abril—it’s a Spanish name. She will PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO

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be six in April. And that is a picture of my and in many other places in Latin America, with me ever since, wherever I’ve been. husband, Michael Perlis, and I at Hebrew and in the U.S. Southwest as well. She You can see they’re kind of old, the paper University in Jerusalem. I was there for appeared to an indigenous person in is getting darker. I bought them in New a Jewish Studies conference. Michael is Mexico, and at first he wasn’t believed; I York at the Museum of Modern Art. I a research scientist at Penn who does teach about the significance of this in one grew up thinking New York was the most work on sleep disorders. He specializes in of my classes. I went to visit the Basilica incredible place. My dad would go their for insomnia, a very popular field. in Mexico City that is a national shrine to work, and I would go with him and just her. They have all these markets outside go to the museums on my own. I still love ➍ Mate: We drink this tea in Argentina and I brought home all of these. I did have modern art. and Uruguay called yerba mate. You put the a funny moment once when my cousin, loose tea leaves in one of these containers, who’s a rabbi, walked into my office and ➑ Spanish language textbooks: The and it’s very strong because it’s more tea saw them. He said: “Is there something way we teach language in our department leaves than water, and then you suck from you need to tell me?” is always in the context of culture, and the straw. It’s something you actually share; the book that we use to teach beginner we’re not afraid of germs. So a mate is both ➏ Photo of coffee and a pastry: Spanish is unique. Each chapter is the container and the tea. We use the same That’s a cell phone photo my friend organized in a way that, by the end of it, word for both. We drink mate in a mate. [Associate Professor of Spanish] Graciela students are able to do a task. For example, Michelotti took. She was in Argentina, and one chapter is focused on creating a ➎ Virgin of Guadalupe figures: I we were texting and she said, “Look what guide—in Spanish—to healthy lifestyles in always had a fascination for Catholic I’m doing,” and she sent me this picture. college, and so everything in that chapter objects and images. I’m Jewish and my That image brings me back to Argentina: prepares them for that. There are even field of research is Jewish studies, but We always have time to sit in a cafe having instructions for yoga poses in Spanish that when you grow up in a Catholic coun- a café con leche and a croissant! I read out loud and we all have to do it in try this is part of your life. The Virgin of class. So, even for the beginners, we try to Guadalupe is a particular apparition of the ➐ Matisse prints: I was probably 16 make things meaningful for them. Virgin Mary that is venerated in Mexico, when I bought those, and they’ve been —Eils Lotozo

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Professor of FINE ARTS Markus Baenziger was one of more held at Colby College, where he gave a talk on “Ethical Global than 20 national and international artists invited to create Engagement and the Special Role for Liberal Arts Colleges.” site-specific public art installations along an urban path in  the Old Town of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India as part of the Benjamin R. Collins Professor of SOCIAL SCIENCES Anita Bhubaneswar Art Trail. Isaacs and Professor of ECONOMICS Anne Preston co-au-  thored an article, “Tear Gas and Intimidation Won’t Fix the Assistant Professor of PSYCHOLOGY Root Causes of Migration,” that appeared in The Washington Laura Been published an article, Post on Nov. 26. On Feb. 15, The New York Times published an “Towards a Neurobiology of Aggres- opinion piece they co-authored titled “The Democrats’ Latest sion,” co-authored with Alison Political Misstep on Immigration.” Isaacs and Preston have Gibbons ’19, in Neuropharmacology. spent the last few years researching migrant flows into the Been also took Gibbons and other United States, working with a research team that has conducted Haverford students Dylan Gearinger, interviews with roughly 300 returned Central American and Achint Singh, and Hannah Wild—all Mexican migrants. from the Class of 2019—and Kagan  Harris ’21 to the annual meeting of the Associate Professor of MUSIC Heidi Jacob had three of her Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, Calif., where they gave musical compositions performed, including “Scherzo for Flute three poster presentations. and Marimba” at Festival Osmose in Belgium; “Metamorphosis  I” at San Francisco Music Days in California; and “Fantasy Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of for Piano” at both a Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy/ MUSIC Curt Cacioppo presented a Academy of Vocal Arts concert and a Music of the Americas series of seminars and master class- concert at Temple University’s Rock Hall. es on Native American music at a  conservatory in Milan, Italy, and also Robert and Constance MacCrate gave a recital. Also in Italy, Cacioppo Professor of Social Responsibility and attended the Time Zones Festival in Professor of RELIGION Ken Koltun- Bari for a performance of his “Hamlet Fromm ’88 co-edited Comics and Elegy” and traveled to Venice to hear Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion the Quartetto di Venezia play his and Graphic Narratives (University of “String Quartet No. 7,” which the Mississippi Press, 2018), which was ensemble commissioned. Back in dedicated to late Associate Professor of the United States, he saw his new Walt Whitman setting (“I, CLASSICS Robert Germany. Koltun- madly struggling, cry”), commissioned by the Post Classical Fromm organized a “Comics and Ensemble, receive its world premiere at the Washington Sacred Texts” symposium on campus National Cathedral. in 2016 and has co-taught the course “Reading Comics and  Religion.” Assistant Professor of CHEMISTRY Lou Charkoudian ’03  and Visiting Assistant Professor of INDEPENDENT COLLEGE Associate Professor of RELIGION Naomi Koltun-Fromm PROGRAMS Kristin Lindgren, along with Lindsey Lopes ’15, co-edited The Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (Routledge, Sarah Waldis ’15, and Stephanie Terrell ’18, published a 2018), whose 35 chapters provide a broad spectrum of stud- manuscript, “Vibrant symbiosis: Achieving reciprocal science ies related to the city and its history. outreach through biological art,” in PLOS Biology. This man- Several of Koltun-Fromm’s graduate uscript describes a collaborative project between Haverford and postgraduate years were spent in College and the Center for Creative Works, an arts studio Jerusalem at the Hebrew University, focused on developing the creative potential of and a cultural and at Haverford she has taught the identity for people with intellectual disabilities. course “Jerusalem: City, History, and  Representation,” which features a field Eric Hartman, executive director of the CENTER FOR PEACE study trip to the city. Koltun-Fromm AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP, served as a plenary speaker for also contributed a letter to American

the annual Global Engagement in the Liberal Arts conference, Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO (BEEN); VICTORIA MERINO ‘20 (CACIOPPO); HOLDEN BLANCO ‘17 (TRI-CO PROGRAM)

18 Haverford Magazine Letters (University of Cincinnati Press, 2018), a book created by biblical scholar Andrea L. Weiss and graphic designer Lisa M. Weinberger, who solicited letters written by some of America’s mix most accomplished and thoughtful scholars of religion during the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. While the letters

are addressed to the Trump administration and members of the acade 115th Congress, they speak to a broad audience of Americans looking for wisdom and encouragement, and highlight core American values connected to our diverse religious traditions.  Visiting Assistant Professor of RELI- GION Brett Krutzsch published Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics with Oxford University Press. The book examines how secular gay Students participating in the new TRI-CO PHILLY PROGRAM activists used public mourning and in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall during a tour and orientation at the start of the semester. The program, which memorialization as strategies to influ- aims to connect students and faculty to the city, holds classes ence political debates over LGBT at the Center City Friends Center and includes a core course, rights, encourage assimilation, and “Philadelphia: Inventing a City,” taught by Visiting Assistant achieve social acceptance. The book Professor of English Thomas Devaney, and a choice of two focuses on the events surrounding the deaths of Matthew other courses: “The Politics of the Creative Class in American Cities,” with Associate Professor of Political Science Stephen Shepard, Harvey Milk, Tyler Clementi, Brandon Teena, and McGovern, or “Narrativity and Hip Hop,” with Bryn Mawr F.C. Martinez; campaigns like the It Gets Better Project; and Assistant Professor of English Jamilah Mecca Sullivan. national tragedies such as the Pulse nightclub shooting. It counters the common perception that religion and LGBT politics have been oppositional and, instead, demonstrates how secular gay activists used religion to bolster the argument significant Japanese art and literary that gays are deserving of equal rights. magazine of the early 20th century,  Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910–1923), Associate Professor of POLITICAL SCIENCE Barak Mendelsohn’s and explores the fluid relationship book Jihadism Constrained: The Limits of Transnational Jihadism that existed among different types of and What It Means for Counterterrorism was published by modern visual media, exhibition for- Rowman & Littlefield. In the book, mats, and artistic practices embraced Mendelsohn outlines the three serious by the artists and writers associated challenges faced by transnational ter- with what was known as the White rorist organizations and jihadi groups: Birch Society. creating a polity based on religious  affiliation instead of national identi- Associate Professor of CHEMISTRY and ENVIRONMENTAL ty, generating political effects across STUDIES Helen White published “Chemical characterization borders, and creating unity among all of natural and anthropogenic-derived oil residues on Gulf of components of the transnational move- Mexico beaches” in Marine Pollution Bulletin. The paper was ment. These groups, he argues, have co-authored by Alexandra Morrison ’18 and Charvanaa been struggling on all three fronts. Dhoonmoon ’19 and was based on Morrison’s senior thesis  research. In the same journal, White also published a paper Associate Professor of POLITICAL SCIENCE Zachary Ober- on the origins of tar balls collected in the North Atlantic field contributed a chapter titled “Public Sector Diversity Ocean and Caribbean Sea; the paper was a collaboration with Research: Taking Stock” to The Handbook of Public Admin- researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and istration (Edward Elgar, 2018). the Sea Education Association.   Assistant Professor of EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & Associate Professor of ENGLISH Christina Zwarg contributed CULTURES Erin Schoneveld published Shirakaba and Japanese the chapter “Temporal Effects: Trauma, Margaret Fuller, and Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early ‘Graphicality’ in Poe” to The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Avant-garde (Brill, 2018). The book examines the most Poe (Oxford University Press, 2018).

WINTER 2019 19 The Zooniverse and the Future of Citizen Science mix pace, the “final fron- Haverford students. Lintott tier,” has long cap- was a distinguished visitor in acade Stured imaginations mid-February and gave two and driven humans to seek a talks, “Seeking the Unusual: greater understanding of the Citizen Science in the LSST universe. Thanks to Galaxy Era” and “From Peas to Zoo, a citizen science project Penguins: Adventures in the that allows any interested Zooniverse.” He also toured individual to classify galax- the Strawbridge Observa- ies by their shape and char- tory, particularly the facility’s acteristics online, scientific 16-inch telescope and CCD- research on astrophysics is imaging capabilities used reaching new heights. by Masters’ “Observational Recognized around the Astrophysics” students. globe for its user-friendly “Chris is well known in and meaningful approach the United Kingdom as a keen to citizen science, the proj- amateur astronomer, as well Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karen Masters (right) ect is overseen by Oxford and Oxford University astrophysicist Chris Lintott work together on as a professional astronomer, University Professor of Astro- the international citizen science project Galaxy Zoo. and has appeared on the TV physics Chris Lintott with show The Sky at Night since Haverford Associate Professor of Physics The platform has more than one he was a teenager,” said Masters. and Astronomy Karen Masters, the million registered volunteers who assist After his visit to Haverford, Lintott Galaxy Zoo project scientist, and a team in a variety of projects including “Shake- said, he will return to Oxford with a of nearly 30 other researchers. speare’s World,” “Solar Stormwatch,” renewed focus on “Planet Hunters,” “Citizen science is an important tech- “Orchid Observers,” “Modern Muses,” another Zooniverse project. nique to help us deal with the data deluge and “Bat Detective.” The Zooniverse has “As for next steps, he said, “I’m real- in science today,” said Masters. “It opens been recognized with numerous awards ly interested in combining the efforts of up kinds of analysis which are not possi- for its contributions to citizen science, our volunteers with the best of modern ble with computers, as well as working including a Google Impact Awareness machine learning—something my team with computers to improve automated Award, and the Royal Astronomical in Oxford is working on—and I’m very analysis. More than this, citizen science Society’s 2019 Group Achievement much enjoying hunting for planets at is a way to involve thousands of people Award for Galaxy Zoo. planethunters.org.” in real research online, and teach about “Chris is the principle investigator of Meanwhile, Masters has focused her the methods and processes of science.” both Galaxy Zoo and the Zooniverse,” attention on collecting the next genera- Masters and Lintott have watched said Masters. “He conceived the projects, tion of big data on galaxies, specifical- Galaxy Zoo grow from a single project and led many of the funding proposals ly working with the Sloan Digital Sky to the foundation for a multidisciplinary to provide funds to build and run the Survey to observe rich, three-dimension- platform called the Zooniverse. Zooniverse. He works directly with the al “data cubes” of a set of galaxies, and is Zooniverse projects call on citizen developers and others involved in run- working with students to apply citizen scientists to analyze data in fields rang- ning the site.” science techniques to analysis of these ing from archeology to medicine, and This is why Masters invited her collab- data in two Galaxy Zoo spinoffs, Galaxy Zooniverse data has been cited in hun- orator to campus this semester to speak Zoo 3D and Galaxy Builder. dreds of publications on these subjects. about his work and the Zooniverse with —Allison Wise ‘20

For the seventh time since 2006, Haverford was named a “Top Producer” of Fulbright Fellows. For the 2018–19 academic year, five  Fords earned one of the highly competitive grants. George O’Hara ’18 is in Ukraine researching addiction treatment and HIV ser- vices; Brett Pogostin’18 is doing Parkinson’s research in a lab in Sweden; Charles Hale ’17 is in the Czech Republic studying an invasive reedgrass; Julian Schneider ’17 is pursuing a law degree in England; and Anna Russell ’14 is studying theater in Germany. PHOTO: OLIVIA S. WONG ‘22

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WINTER 2019 21 ford games What It Takes Learning about leadership—on the field and beyond.

ulia Blake ’19 is a student-athlete to the fullest degree. The family that plays together… On the softball field, she’s been a team captain since she was a junior, is Both my parents played sports in a star player at second base, and has increased her batting average in each college. My mom was a gymnast at of her first three seasons at Haverford. Rutgers, and my dad played baseball JOn campus, the New Jersey native and political science major worked her way at Lafayette. I have two older siblings up to being Students’ Council co-president in 2018 during a tumultuous year in who played sports, including my which the College’s Honor Code failed to be ratified. That required Blake and her sister, who played softball. To this council to put together a Special Plenary to help the student body vote on a revised day, I say she has a better arm than Honor Code, a process that turned out to be successful. me. I played soccer, field hockey, So how did she balance being the best leader she could be for both her team- basketball, and travel and club softball mates and student body constituents? Blake shared her secrets and insights with growing up. My dad is a Philadelphia Haverford magazine, including the inspiration she gets from a future Hall of Fame Phillies fan, and my mom is a New baseball megastar, the messages written in her glove, and what she’s learned about York Yankees fan. Every June in high

the importance of staying in the moment. school, I’d be in my living room doing PHOTO: DAVID SINCLAIR

22 Haverford Magazine homework and watching the College ing the most impact it could for all voices are heard. As a softball co-cap- Softball World Series at the same time. the students on campus. At Spring tain, [I was] accountable for being Just watching how much those girls Plenary, students voted to open rati- on the field and not thinking about love softball inspired me to work fication, but it ultimately didn’t pass. Special Plenary the next day. I found hard enough to play at that level. At I and my co-president had to plan a ways to juggle all of that and put my a point I had to choose one sport, Special Plenary that required 75 per- full self where it had to be. and it was softball. cent of the student body—instead of the typical 60 percent—to attend. We Secret No. 1: Find a way to connect. Sports aren’t just a game. I play also had to facilitate the revision of the One thing that’s been effective for me sports because I love to compete and Honor Code. is creating meaningful relationships win, and when I don’t win, I love to with people I’m leading. I love talking learn. I really learned to love lead- to people—my mom taught me to ership through sports. I love being talk to everyone. It’s about finding in charge and getting up in a clutch “I really learned common ground that you don’t think situation and having a lot of pressure. to love leadership exists between people from so many Those skills translate to so many other different backgrounds, and finding areas of life. In softball and baseball, through sports. I love where your stories cross over. I tell when you’re failing a large percent of the softball team all the time: Think of the time, you become a bigger and being in charge and the team as a big web. If we don’t have better person. strong one-on-one relationships, we getting up in a clutch can’t play as a team and be unified. The captain was inspired by the Yankees’ captain. I love Derek situation and having a Secret No. 2: Find motivating Jeter. I was a starting shortstop in high messages to keep you centered. I school all four years before I moved lot of pressure.” meditate every day for 10 minutes, to second base at Haverford. The way which has helped me be in the Jeter carried himself as a shortstop and moment. On my glove, I’ve written leader, that’s how I wanted to be on Special Plenary was planned for a a few Bible quotes. One is from the the field. Before games, I’d pull up two Sunday. On that Friday, [the softball book of Proverbs: “She is clothed videos. One was a Derek Jeter high- team] found out it was supposed to with strength and dignity, and light reel and the other was a Derek rain on the weekend and there was a laughs without fear of the future.” Jeter error reel, and I’d watch both of possibility our Saturday doubleheader That reminds me to be resilient, play them. It was obviously inspiring to against Gettysburg would be moved fearlessly, and have fun. I also have a watch him make amazing plays and to Sunday. I was in my coach’s office, quote from the Bruce Springsteen to watch his technique, how smooth telling her I had been planning this song “New York City Serenade”: and crisp he was with the ball, but also event for three weeks and a thousand “Walk tall or don’t walk at all.” to watch him fail, too. That reminded students would be there and I need- —Charles Curtis ’04 me that he and I are human. I’d always ed to be in the front. We ended up Charles Curtis is a sportswriter for USA remember when I made mistakes in playing that Saturday, but it reminded Today’s For the Win and the author of games, that one of the greatest to play me you have a lot of accountability the Weirdo Academy series, published by the game made mistakes, too. as a leader. As co-president, you have Month9Books. He lives in New York City accountability to make sure everyone’s with his wife and son. She plans ahead, but pivots when there’s a curveball. At Fall Plenary, Keep up with your favorite Haverford team at there was a student protest by a group  haverfordathletics.com. that felt the Honor Code wasn’t mak-

WINTER 2019 23 mixed media Books Q&A: Margaret Morris ’90

In the late 1990s, Margaret Morris ’90 was credentialed as a clinical Then there was the story of psychologist, but she was troubled by the late 19th-century paradigm a doctor who practiced primar- of that profession, which is practiced outside the contexts of daily life, ily by telemedicine. With vid- and mainly relies on a one-on-one “talking cure” between therapist eoconferencing, she at first just and client. Looking at the burgeoning tech landscape, Morris began had a blank wall behind her. to wonder: What if there were ways new media and emerging tech- Then she shifted the camera so nologies could assist people seeking positive change in their lives? patients could see more in the So she conducted research on health technology at Intel, consulted background of her home, and for Amazon on people’s experiences with technology, and taught she found that this cultivated courses with names like “Design and Emotion” at the University of greater rapport with her pa- Washington. Most recently, she’s written Left to Our Own Devices: tients: They could comment on Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, the armoire behind her or on Health, and Focus (The MIT Press, 2018). The book is the focus of a the plant. And for a doctor-pa- conversation Morris recently had with journalist Joan Oleck about why tient relationship that has a lot we should relate to our iPhones and Androids in a whole new way. of asymmetry, this was a way of bringing in more reciprocity. Joan Oleck: I was intrigued involves technology, because edness with her family because by your stories and the it’s so woven into our lives. she shared the data with them. JO: The book’s foreword is by quote, “I’ve spent almost two These weren’t all serious con- MIT Professor Sherry Turkle, decades talking with people JO: I loved the stories in the versations about her health, but who has written about the about what they want to book about people’s uses for also playful teasing prompted negative effects of technol- change in their lives and how technology that the original by the exchange of data. ogy use on our lives and cul- that ties in with their devic- designers never intended. Another of my favorites was ture. But your message about es.” How does Left to Our What were some of your a woman who used Words With bringing people closer via Own Devices sum up your favorites? Friends, not to kill time but to devices seems the opposite research over the years? MM: One of my favorites was help a family member who was of Turkle’s concerns about the Margaret Morris: What I’ve about Jessica, a woman who very socially anxious. If he did potential for addiction posed been most impressed by is the has struggled with Type 1 dia- come at all to family events, he by digital devices. resourcefulness and creativity betes her whole life. It was stig- wouldn’t talk to anyone. So she MM: What I’m saying here people bring to the way they matizing and required a lot of started playing with him online is that there are some bright use technology. That’s what effort to manage her diet and and could see that he was actu- spots around how people have I wanted to showcase, with insulin when she was young; it ally incredibly verbal and eager used technology to find more real examples. So I think Left was a big source of stress. At a for contact, but more comfort- intimacy or find insights about to Our Own Devices speaks certain point, she got a continu- able in this asynchronous game their health. It’s those bright to the strategies that people ous glucose monitor that gives environment than at family par- spots that I’m hoping will in- come up with for taking care of continuous readings to her ties. So one of the things she spire people reading this to themselves and other people. iPhone and Apple Watch every did was start telling other family think about how they could use I think that a certain amount of five minutes. It not only helped members about how fun it was technology differently. resourcefulness is required of Jessica keep an eye on her playing with him on this game us—there are a lot of service blood glucose in more of a fine- and how good he was. That JO: Given the advancements gaps in mental and physical grained way than she had been really changed his status within coming down the road—artifi- health care, so I think it’s neces- able to before, but she also the family and other people cial intelligence, virtual reality, sary to be creative. Part of that started having more connect- started playing with him as well. continued on page 29

24 Haverford Magazine TOM BARBASH ’83 A Writer’s Journey

erhaps more than most, author Tom Barbash ’83 understands versationalists at heart—and Barbash has long appreciated a good the sometimes-tangled relationship between a parent and conversation. P child—the engine that drives his latest novel, The Dakota Whatever your profession, he recalls his father telling him, “The Winters (Ecco), about a flamed-out talk show host and his son. reason you should work hard and succeed [is] to be around the When Barbash was a student at Haverford, his mother died. He smartest people and best conversations.” says he remembers his father, a labor lawyer, breaking into tears in At Haverford, Barbash says he found classes “full of exciting, vola- a cab ride they shared, one in which he’d expected to be consoled. tile conversations and different points of view” as he studied political “I resented it at first,” says Barbash, 57, also an associate professor of science with an eye to law school. Then, in the midst of writing those writing and literature at California College of the Arts, not far from onerous why-I-want-to-be-a-lawyer essays, he had an epiphany. his Bay Area home. “I’m 19. … You’re the father. “In that moment, when I was writing and not You’re supposed to be strong. That he would break able to convince myself with my argument of why down and need my support eventually became I should go to law school, I started to have sec- a comfortable place. But right in the moment, I ond thoughts,” he says. “That’s when I decided I remember it being startling.” should be a writer, one way or another.” The Dakota Winters is a story about second He started as a Syracuse Post-Standard report- chances. Talk show host Buddy Winter, à la er, catching a break when Doug Unger, a Syracuse Dick Cavett, is expert at teasing personal stories University instructor and novelist, noticed his from his guests until a nervous breakdown ends series—and evocative writing—about carnies at his career. Twenty-three-year-old Anton, fresh the state fair and encouraged him to write fiction. from the Peace Corps, helps navigate his father’s That led to a spot in the university’s elite writers’ comeback even as he confronts (or not) their too- workshop, led by novelist and short-story writer close relationship. The backdrop is New York Tobias Wolff. City, 1980—a year that proved pivotal to the city “I felt like I was pulled out of the sandlot by and country. the baseball team manager,” he says. “It was a Along with a consequential presidential elec- thrill. I was around really smart people. I loved tion, and a new media landscape (the launch of Tom Barbash with his son James, 11. talking about stories, reading intensely and writ- CNN), 1980 also featured a shocking assassina- ing, and being part of the conversation.” tion. John Lennon, a heavy presence in the story, was murdered Barbash’s first novel, The Last Good Chance, outside the Dakota, the famed apartment building where he lived about a young urban planner who returns to and where Barbash sets the novel. his struggling hometown in Upstate New York, “That is the exact moment everything is changing,” he says. was published to good reviews in 2002. During Barbash, who grew up near the Dakota on the Upper West Side, the final editing process for the book, 9/11 hap- has earned kudos for channeling Lennon so well, including his trip pened. Barbash, who was friends with Howard as an apprentice sailor to Bermuda, at the helm through a life-threat- Lutnick ’83 and others impacted by that terri- ening storm. “It was a pretty daunting challenge,” says Barbash, ble day, ended up chronicling those personal who watched “tons of YouTube videos” and read biographies of the stories in his 2003 New York Times nonfiction ex-Beatle, including a memoir by Lennon’s tarot card reader. bestseller On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, The 336-page novel, which Publishers Weekly called “immensely Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. In 2013, he pub- entertaining,” also allowed Barbash to explore his fascination with lished his darkly funny short-story collection, Stay Up With Me. talk show hosts, especially the way they create outsize celebrities In each case, he says, he strived to take his craft to a new level. So, while also revealing their too-human foibles. “I’d love that—to come too, with The Dakota Winters: back as a talk show host in another life,” he says. “I say to my students, each book should be something you couldn’t After all, the Johnny Carsons or Buddy Winters are great con- do when you set out to do it.” —Lini S. Kadaba

WINTER 2019 25 More Alumni Titles

KATE (GRETZ) GEHAN priceless scrolls, evade the Inquisition, MIKE WERNER ’63 ’96: The Girl and The and, along the way, fall in love, and join and Peter Eisenhardt: Fox Pirate (Mojave forces with the son of Robin Hood. More Things in River Press). the Heavens: How Gehan’s debut collec- BURTON PIKE ’52: Infrared Astronomy Is tion of flash fiction Rainer Maria Rilke: Expanding Our View of features 34 stories that Where the Paths Do the Universe (Princeton explore the ways we Not Go (World Poetry University Press). manage relationships Books). This selection Though astronomers with our families and of Rilke’s poems, have been studying ourselves. In Gehan’s magical realist tales, translated by Pike, the heavens for thousands of years, until a family’s discord manifests as an escaped includes the German recently much of the cosmos has been dragon they must tame, a grieving mother originals. “Rilke’s invisible to the human eye. But in 2003, finds solace in conversations with a talking poems have too often the Spitzer Space Telescope brought the pig, and a woman harnesses unusual pow- been translated to conform to an older infrared universe into focus as never ers to seek revenge on her harasser. The standard of poetry in English,” writes Pike, before. Werner and co-author Eisenhardt winner of the Midwestern Gothic’s Flash “but they are far more radical, breaking are among the scientists who worked Fiction Summer 2016 series, Gehan’s the mold of traditional German poetry.” for decades to bring this historic mission work has been nominated for the Pushcart Pike is a professor emeritus of comparative to life. Illustrated with many of Spitzer’s Prize, The Best of the Net, and Wigleaf’s literature and Germanic languages and spectacular images, this book offers the 50 (Very) Short Fictions. literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. inside story of how Spitzer continues to He is the author of two books and has pro- carry out cutting-edge infrared astronomy ROBERT JONES ’04: duced seven translations, including works to help answer fundamental questions, The Light (Healthy Life by Goethe and Robert Musil, as well as such as: Where did we come from? How Press). Originally writ- Rilke’s novel, The Notebooks of Malte did the universe evolve? Are we alone? ten as a good-night Laurids Brigge. Werner is a senior research scientist at prayer for his young the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, daughters, The Light ANDY LEE ROTH California Institute of Technology. He has is intended to help a ’90 and Mickey Huff, been the lead scientist for the Spitzer Space parent spark a con- editors: Censored Telescope since 1984. versation with a child 2019: Fighting the about the wonders of being alive and the Fake News Invasion JUAN WILLIAMS spiritual life. The text is punctuated with (Seven Stories Press). ’76: “What the Hell illustrations of the beauty in our world and The latest installment Do You Have to the love and kindness that exist within us of this annual series, Lose?”: Trump’s and all around us. Jones is also the author produced by the War on Civil Rights of Happiness: A Lesson With Lulu. nonprofit Project (PublicAffairs). The Censored, spotlights the top censored bestselling author, F. SCOTT KIMMICH stories and media analysis of 2017-18. political analyst, and ’51: The Fiery Furnace Among the featured articles: “Open- civil rights expert (CreateSpace). The Source Intelligence Secrets Sold to Highest delivers a forceful second installment of Bidders,” “ICE Intends to Destroy Records critique of the Trump his trilogy Ordeal by of Inhumane Treatment of Immigrants,” administration’s unprecedented rollback Fire, Kimmich’s novel “Indigenous Communities Around World of the civil rights movement. Williams is is set in France in the Helping to Win Legal Rights of Nature,” cohost of The Five on Fox News. early 1200s during the and “The Limits of Negative News and Albigensian Crusade, Importance of Constructive Media.” also known as the Roth coordinates the Project’s Validated  FORD AUTHORS: Do you have a new Cathar Crusade. It follows the adventures Independent News program and has book you’d like to see included in More Alumni Titles? Please send all relevant and travails of cousins Odon and Rainier co-edited nine editions of the Censored information to [email protected]. as they try to save the family castle, rescue yearbook.

26 Haverford Magazine Design/FaBrication media mixed

(left) Jayme Guokas in his Kensington workshop. (above) One of a pair of benches he made from an oak tree felled on campus for the College’s renovated library.

hen Haverford’s renovated and expanded library videos and read a lot of books. It’s a specialized skill. I had to fail many opens in the fall, among the new furnishings will be times until I was able to fine-tune how to do concrete countertops. ” a pair of 8-foot-long benches made of wood from As his skills grew, people began hiring him to work on their homes, W a tree felled on campus. The striking live-edge oak and he turned his side projects into a full-fledged business that op- benches, which will grace a gallery space, are a memento of the oak erates out of a spacious Kensington workshop, where enormous that once stood near Founders Hall, and, fittingly, they were crafted stacks of reclaimed and locally milled wood await future use. A na- by a Haverford alum. tive of Bucks County, Pa., Guokas counts local woodworker and de- Jayme Guokas ’97, with his Philadelphia company Craftwork, signer George Nakashima as an influence, along with Arts and Crafts has become known for his woodworking and design skills, which he movement leader Henry Mercer, another Bucks County figure, who brings to unique home renovation projects. His sustainability-minded founded the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and built a fantastical modern interiors typically feature an eclectic mix of reclaimed mate- home out of poured concrete. rials, custom cabinetry, and counters made of cast concrete—often Guokas shares a renovated Kensington row house with his wife, sporting artfully embedded bits of glass, tile, metal, and even fossils. Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer, who works as a librarian at Haver- “I have had people bring me antique gears [to embed in their count- ford, and their daughter, Lilah, age 2. The residence, which he gut- ers],” says Guokas. “And one time I had a woman who loved horses ted down to the studs, has some pretty fantastical elements itself, give me a horseshoe to use.” featuring bottle-green concrete counters, a “stream” of river rocks An art history major at Haverford, Guokas says he particularly loved embedded in the kitchen floor, a clever built-in couch, exposed brick the painting, drawing, and photography classes he took. “I learned a walls throughout, and a vivid hand-painted mural of birds and bugs lot there. It just took me some time to figure out how to use it. “ in Lilah’s room. Along with ornate reclaimed interior doors, Guo- After graduation, Guokas spent a few years working at a book- kas used slate tile from a local quarry, and repurposed a galvanized store, then took a job at the fine arts photography journal The Photo metal tub meant for watering cattle as a shower base. The home has Review, before moving on to an administrative position at the Univer- been featured on popular design websites Apartment Therapy and sity of the Arts. Along the way, he’d begun renovating an 1890s row Design Sponge, which described it as “a warm and stylish industri- house he’d bought in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. al-modern abode.” Then he bought the house next door, and gutted and remodeled “I like working with my hands and designing things,” says Guokas, that. Eventually, he would purchase and renovate three more houses who also has won a commission to design and build 31 reading room in the neighborhood. tables and study carrels for Haverford’s renovated library. “And I really “I was a weekend warrior,” says Guokas, whose dad was a hobby like collaborating with people to make things they can use in their woodworker and woodturner. “I just kind of learned on the job. To homes—from a piece of furniture to a whole kitchen.”

PHOTOS: PATRICK MONTERO figure out how to do the poured concrete, I watched a lot of YouTube More information: craftworkhome.com —Eils Lotozo

WINTER 2019 27 Music

here’s not really a road map for success as a non-classical cello which freed him to develop his own nontraditional style of playing player and composer, so Nick Takénobu Ogawa ’05 has been and writing music. Tmaking his own path, one instinctual step at a time. When he returned to Haverford for his junior year, Ogawa began Ogawa, who is 36 and based in Atlanta, has been playing shows playing the pop-inflected material he’d written in Japan at concerts in and releasing recordings under the nom-de-music Takénobu since Lunt Basement and the occasional late-night performance at Drinker he graduated from Haverford. The Takénobu catalog mostly features House. “The response I got from fellow students at Haverford was low-key melodic pop songwriting, centered on Ogawa’s cello and incredibly encouraging and strengthened my desire to pursue music vocals. At its core, this is singer-songwriter music, but with atypical professionally,” he says. instrumentation and a gently offbeat sensibility. After graduating, Ogawa continued to write new material and hone Like most cello players, he started out focused on classical music, it at open mics, and within a year he won the 2006 Williamsburg Live getting lessons at age six from Dieuwke Davydov, an instructor at Singer Songwriter Competition in Brooklyn and used the prize money Middlebury College (where both of Ogawa’s parents taught) and to record his debut, Introduction, which he released independently in playing in youth orchestras during high school. But, he says, “I was 2007. “Not much came of it at the time, but at my mom’s suggestion turned off by the atmosphere” of classical orchestras, and he chose East I submitted the album to Pandora,” he says. “Four years later, the Asian Studies as his major in college rather than anything music-re- algorithms and stars came into alignment and Pandora started playing lated. But Ogawa never entirely turned away from music, and during my music to enough people that I could pay my rent with iTunes sophomore year he took “Intro to Western Music” and “Philosophy downloads, and I quit my job and went full-time with music.” of Music” classes, which pointed him in the direction of other cellists Since then, Ogawa has put out five albums of his original songs, who had unconventional approaches to the instrument, such as Mark including Exposition (2011) and Reversal (2016), and he’s composed Summer of the Turtle Island Quartet. scores for feature films, podcasts, and other projects. Just as his ears were opening to the wider variety of cello styles out He also brought a new violinist and vocalist into the core lineup there, Ogawa took a year off from Haverford to live in Kyoto with his of Takénobu in 2017, which turned out to be life-changing. Kathryn father, who was teaching in Japan as part of an academic exchange Koch, who also plays in the Buffalo-based band Tiny Rhymes, took program. “I taught English at elementary schools and spent most of up Ogawa’s offer to record some new songs he’d written. They then my time dedicated to practicing cello about four to six hours a day,” started touring together, and during a leg of 2018 dates in the Pacific

says Ogawa of his time in Kyoto. He didn’t have a teacher in Japan, Northwest, Koch and Ogawa got engaged. PHOTOS: GREGORY MILLER

28 Haverford Magazine He notes that having both a musical and is an interesting challenge, because while life partner on the road has changed his atti- I have my own input I’m ultimately try- tude about touring. “It can be exhilarating ing to please the director,” he says. And media and enriching, and it can also be exhaust- although his scoring work requires different ing and expensive,” he says of being on the strategies than writing Takénobu songs, road, but touring with Koch is “something Ogawa hears his pop music benefiting from more akin to a vacation.” The duo are plan- the scoring assignments, with more of the mixed ning to tour together throughout the year instrumental compositions’ sparseness and beyond. affecting his approach to pacing. In the studio, Ogawa and Koch can cre- He’s also become proficient in managing ate full-bodied arrangements to enhance the the business side of music—with the help of songs, but on stage they use digital looping pedals to build layered some College pals. “It’s funny, but a lot of my friends from Haverford beds of music over which they can then play and sing. “She has a great went on to become lawyers,” Ogawa says. “I negotiate a lot of my own musical sensibility, and our voices complement each other,” he says contracts, and my friends have really impressed on me the importance of the sound they create. “She brings both a depth and a sweetness of intellectual property rights.” to the music that I can’t achieve on my own.” In the last decade-plus, each new collaboration and opportunity They’ve recorded the sixth Takénobu LP in Nashville and plan has helped Ogawa grow from performing in the basement of Lunt Hall to release it this summer, preceded by online releases of a few of the to a steady schedule of writing, recording, and playing. He recently songs. The first of these, “Fight to Make It Up,” is almost six minutes of finished adding cello to the next record by fellow Georgia musician Ogawa and Koch’s instruments dancing around each other alongside Kishi Bashi, and he’s planning to tour with him in the summer with their sweetly harmonizing vocals. Takénobu opening the shows. The tour will coincide with the release Also coming this year, Ogawa’s original score will accompany of Still and his new Takénobu record with Koch. Still, a feature film set to stream on Netflix. The movie, about a hiker Along the way, he constantly seeks opportunities to create some- who stumbles into a mysterious secret along the Appalachian Trail, thing new and follow his creative instincts. “I try to come up with was written and directed by fellow Atlanta resident Takashi Doscher. some kind of musical idea every day,” he says. “I used to try to It’s the latest in Ogawa’s second line of musical work, compos- wait for inspiration to strike, but I’ve learned that making a habit ing scores for short- and long-form projects, which have included of just trying to write something every day is much more effective, the cooking documentary 42 Grams, the podcast Invisibilia, and and I’m more equipped with the tools to execute something when the Netflix sports docu-series Last Chance U. “Working with film inspiration does in fact come.” —Brian Glaser

Q&A: Margaret Morris ’90 continued from page 24 the Internet of Things, and sarily tied to just one device. So, loaded with meaning for this especially “the cloud”—how I consider the term “device” in a woman—what Sherry Turkle do you see our relationships couple of ways. calls an “evocative object.” My with our devices evolving? interest in our attachment to MM: Well I do think our at- JO: Was there anything you objects may have been sparked tachment to individual physical studied at Haverford or in that discussion and in many technical devices is weakening anyone you knew there that of my literature classes at Haver- because of a loose assurance set you on the path you’re ford and Bryn Mawr. that everything is backed up on now? It became clear as we somewhere. In the introduction, I MM: The seminar-style English analyzed texts that things that write about Sherry Turkle talking classes influenced my thinking could be considered trivial—for to someone in 2005 whose Palm and interest in stories and crit- example, a scarf or some other Pilot had lost its charge and who ical analysis. Similarly in one possession—were often very said “I nearly died.” I think that psychology class, Randy Milden, significant. I became intrigued reliance on a particular object [a former professor and dean], by our relationship to clothing, may continue to weaken. I liked once asked what it might mean the environments in which the phrase “left to our own ogies like apps and services and if a woman wasn’t wearing a we live, and the technologies devices,” because it speaks to data and things like augmented watch that she had worn every that are woven into our our strategies as well as technol- reality and AI that are not neces- day for decades. The watch was relationships. —Joan Oleck

WINTER 2019 29 30 H a verfor d M a gaz i n e Revolutionizing Hip Revolutionizing Hip Replacement WILLIAM HARRIS’47 TELL USMORE ber of times those articles are cited, then ber oftimesthosearticlesarecited,then research canbemeasuredbythenum cles hepublishes,andthevalueofhis can bemeasuredbythenumber of arti If aresearcher’s productivity ing discovery of a mystifying condition ing discoveryof amystifyingcondition primarily focusingonhiscareer-defin professorship today. where he holds anemeritus endowed ty memberatHarvardMedical School, surgery forthreedecades,andas afacul lab andwaschiefofadultreconstructive Massachusetts General,whereheleda their lives.Hedidmostofthisworkat financial setbacksandoftenevensaving sparing patientsyearsofphysicaland solve itsvarioushitches—intheprocess far fromabedofroses”andsetoutto he realizedCharnley’stechnique“was Massachusetts GeneralHospital. ing atBostonChildren’sHospitaland Harris completedhisspecialtytrain surgeon JohnCharnleyshortlyafter ment, aprocedurepioneeredbyBritish work toenhancetotalhipreplace 2011, whenthearticleappeared). been citedmorethan1,786times(asof 1969 paper onarthritis of the hip has Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery surgery. Accordingtoan article in the cited paperintheannalsoforthopedic he istheauthorofnumberone of his60-yearcareerexceed600,and of orthopedicshaseverseen. tive andvaluableresearchersthefield Bill Harrisisoneofthe most produc Harris details many of his endeavors, Harris detailsmanyofhisendeavors, While HarrisidolizedCharnley, Now 91,Harrismadeithislife’s Harris’s publicationsoverthecourse , his , his ------

PHOTO: WEBB CHAPPELL called periprosthetic osteolysis, in his a patient’s skeleton. The fixation would als lab looking for a better plastic that 2017 book, Vanishing Bone: Conquering loosen over time, causing joint disloca- would not release those tiny particles. a Stealth Disease Caused by Total Hip tion. I co-designed the first successful My friend Ed Merrill, a plastics engi- Replacements (Oxford University Press). cementless hip socket, which allowed neer at MIT, suggested we use energy He talked about his long career in a the body’s bone to grow into pores in in the form of electron beams to cross- recent conversation with Haverford the implant and lock it in place bio- link the molecules, or fix them per- magazine: logically. This design is now universal. manently into their positions. It was trial and error—we added too much Why hip surgery? You’re best recognized for your role in energy and melted the plastic or set I chose hip surgery before total hip identifying and curing periprosthetic it on fire, and once even caused it to replacement existed because very few osteolysis, the condition alluded to in explode—but eventually we got it just surgeons were operating on hips—and your book title. Can you decode that? right. It was a long process through even fewer were doing it well. After With hip replacement FDA approval and to Sir John Charnley introduced total patients, we started see- market, but in 1998, the hip replacement, we saw enormous ing severe bone erosion first artificial hips using positives but enormous negatives, too. hap pening directly adja- our highly cross-linked I was up for the challenge of taking a cent to their prostheses. polyethylene were used very demanding procedure and mak- People were returning with patients. Today, ing it better. Hip surgery’s long recovery years after their surgeries nearly eight million period also fostered deep, intimate inter- in extreme pain because people walk on cross- actions with patients, and I found those their thigh bones were linked polyethylene, and relationships very rewarding. being eaten away. Early among them there has on, we thought bone not been a single re-op- What were the earliest problems cement was the culprit, eration required because you tackled? but the destruction con- of this bone destruction. Alarmingly, two percent of hip replace- tinued after we did away The disease is gone. ment patients were dying due to pulmo- with the cement. It took Harris’s 2017 book chronicled nary emboli. Hip surgery often caused more than 30 years to his quest to solve a medical What have your blood clots to form in the legs, and those unravel what in the mystery connected to hip advances meant in clots could become lethal if they migrat- world this disease was. replacement. terms of economics? ed to the lungs. Making an effort to fix Dislocation and bone a condition that doesn’t kill anyone— How did you figure it out? erosion surrounding a hip prosthesis arthritis—and as a result killing one out I asked patients to agree to give their were the major reasons patients used of every 50 patients was unacceptable. implants back to me after they died. We to need repeat hip replacements, and After one of my own patients died in used scanning electron microscopy to now the number of repeat operations my arms from a pulmonary embolus, I study what happened to the polyeth- is way down. Just in the U.S., we used vowed to see that this would never hap- ylene plastic after years in the body and to spend $2.5 billion per year in repeat pen again. I initiated the first effort to observed drastic changes. Initially, the operations, but we’ve since cut that prevent fatal pulmonary emboli follow- material was amorphous—long, thin number in half. Cross-linked polyeth- ing hip surgery by administering just the polymers jumbled haphazardly like ylene has saved the healthcare industry right amount of blood thinner to protect spaghetti in a bowl. But the repetitive more than $1 billion a year through the against clots without causing excessive motion of walking was reorganizing elimination of periprosthetic osteolysis. bleeding. That practice brought the rate the spaghetti into alignment and wear- Throughout my career, I was motivat- of fatal pulmonary emboli in hip surgery ing the material down, causing tiny bits ed by saving lives, not money—but patients down from 20 in 1,000 [surger- of plastic to shed. The body’s natural the financial implications have been ies] to three in 1,000. defense mechanisms didn’t know how an added bonus. to destroy these foreign particles, and How did you get involved in a panic, the immune system inadver- How is retirement treating you? with implant design? tently activated cells called osteoclasts, I spend a lot of time with my four kids From the start of my career, I saw room which actually break down bones. and five grandchildren—but I’m still for improvement in both the design on staff at the lab and just submitted a of the various implants available and How were you able to stop paper last week, so even though I don’t with the techniques of applying them. that from happening? operate anymore, technically I’m not One major problem was the “bone I changed my lab from a biomechanics retired! cement” used to connect the implant to lab designing implants to a biomateri- —Karen Brooks

WINTER 2019 31 INNOVATORS Collecting Ancient Climate Data By analyzing compounds from animal bones, archaeologist Kevin P. Smith ’81 and colleagues are revealing climate conditions in the distant past. BY ANNE STEIN

When it comes to tracking climate change and its effects on humans, lines how he and other Brown scien- scientists depend on records that go back just a few hundred years and tists and students extracted climate data rely on evidence that covers huge swaths of land. It can be difficult from bones at several sites, giving them information that is more chronological- to pinpoint with certainty when and what conditions transformed or ly precise and closely related to the lives seemingly wiped a particular group off the map. of those who once occupied those areas. But an innovative method is allowing and climate change in that location,” While Smith credits his Brown col- researchers to recover temperature data says archaeologist Kevin P. Smith leagues for pioneering the new meth- from bacteria that remains in animal ’81, deputy director and chief cura- od’s use for archaeological samples, he bones as they decay, from as far back as tor of Brown University’s Haffenreffer played a key role on the team, helping 30,000 years ago. “If this method works Museum of Anthropology. to assess its potential for understanding as well as it seems to, it has the potential Smith is co-author of a paper pub- the past. Among the questions the team to turn virtually any archaeological site lished last summer in the Journal of sought to answer, he says: Beyond track-

in the world into a library on climate Archaeological Science. The paper out- ing change across centuries, could the PHOTOS: STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

32 Haverford Magazine method provide information on climate tral Pennsylvania. “Our playground was 33 years has focused his research on changes, such as decreased rainfall or the forest and learning about the trees, Iceland, the North Atlantic, and Norse plummeting temperatures, that would rocks, and fossils inside of them,” says (Viking) exploration. Much of his work have been meaningful during people’s Smith. During one of his father’s sabbati- is done at the earliest known North life spans? The answer seems to be yes. cals in Britain, Smith visited Stonehenge, American Viking outpost, L’Anse aux “Right now we have a lot of discus- old castles, and Roman ruins, furthering Meadows, in Newfoundland. sion on if climate change is even hap- his fascination with the past. For now, Smith and other scientists pening, or if what’s happening now By the time he got to Haverford, are continuing to test the bone-dating is human-induced,” Smith says. “For Smith was focused on the Vikings, and theory, and are currently pulling out some people it wouldn’t matter how a class taught by Richard Luman on the bones from 1450–1900 AD from an much data we show them, because they Icelandic Sagas particularly inspired archaeological site in Iceland. “We have have an ideological perspective. But for him. Smith worked in Barrow, Alaska, good records from there,” he says. people who are more data driven, the at an archaeological site after graduation Understanding past climate change, more we can understand the natural and became enamored with the Arctic, says Smith, “will help us understand cycles of Earth’s climate change in the where, he says, “Everything is frozen in climate change currently, fit it into pat- past, the more possible it is to under- the ground and you have a chance to terns, and see how other people handled stand what’s happening now and the see everything that was left behind and it. The longer series of data we get, the effects on humans.” really understand it.” more precise and better the information If the Earth is growing warmer, for He went on to earn his M.A. in is. It opens up ways for us to connect example, it’s important to know how anthropology at the University of climate variations and transformations much of that is due to natural fluctu- Michigan, Ann Arbor, and for the past in societies.” ations and how much is the result of human behavior. “We need to see not just the past 10 years, we need to see how the Earth’s climate has varied over the past 100,000 years,” Smith explains. “Getting that right means having as many data sets as possible, from as many parts of the world as possible. If we can extend our climate records to hundreds of thousands of years, that’s potentially revolutionary.” Smith, who is married to fellow archaeologist Michèle Hayeur Smith, fell in love with bones and archaeolo- gy at age seven. He was inspired by his dad, who was a medieval historian at Juniata College, and he loved exploring the fossil beds around his home in cen-

How they do it Major implications

Obtaining data on past climate from While the innovative method allows researchers to gain new individual bones is a complex process data on ancient climates from the bones recovered from that takes weeks from the initial stages archaeological sites, it is not limited to locations or times when of crushing the bone to powder, humans were on the landscape. Initial data sets, for example, through chemical processes to extract included bones from Ice Age animals that roamed the Alaskan the lipid compounds, to utilizing mass tundra perhaps 10,000 years before humans arrived on the spectrometry before the raw data can scene. And work done by other teams, assessing similar be calibrated and transformed into compounds in lake sediments and soils, indicates that the estimates of past temperature and, in bacterially produced compounds that provide data on past some areas, precipitation. climate can survive for more than 100,000 years.

WINTER 2019 33 As one of the lawyers featured in both seasons of Making a Murderer, Steven Drizin ’83 plays an important supporting role in the Netflix hit. While the series’ popularity has InsideMaking a brought Drizin celebrity, it’s also brought him something more important: a much larger platform to advocate for change in the legal system’s treatment of juveniles. Murderer BY TOM KERTSCHER PHOTO: HOLDEN BLANCO ‘17

34 Haverford Magazine To the Netflix generation, it would be nearly impossible he served as the supervising attorney at for a lawyer to do anything more significant than appear in Making a Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center. Two highlights mark this Murderer, the streaming service’s megahit series that captivated 19 mil- period. lion viewers within a month of its debut just before Christmas in 2015. In 2002, he won the reversal of a Steven Drizin ’83 plays an import- Nirider, and their students fight to pre- murder conviction of one of his juvenile ant supporting role in what Netflix calls serve Dassey’s legal victory, only to see his clients. Identified only as A.M. because of its “real-life thriller,” which raises dis- conviction reinstated by a higher court. his age, Drizin’s client was 11 years old turbing questions about whether police The season ends as the United States at the time he was arrested for the mur- framed the two men convicted of killing Supreme Court refuses to hear Dassey’s der of an 83-year-old Chicago woman Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old photog- appeal. in 1993. As in Dassey’s case, Drizin was rapher. Drizin appears in the inaugural As big a phenomenon as Making a unsuccessful in his attempts to get the season as well as in Season 2, released Murderer has been, it pales beside Drizin’s boy’s conviction reversed in state court. It in October 2018, as one of the attorneys more significant legal triumph—one took a federal judge to rule that Chicago representing Brendan Dassey, who was that occurred before Netflix ever started police had illegally arrested and coerced just 16 when he confessed to partic- streaming. That is: abolishing the death his confession. The boy had initially been ipating with his uncle Steven Avery in penalty for juveniles like Dassey. questioned as a potential witness; then, Halbach’s murder on Halloween 2005 after other leads didn’t materialize, he in rural Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. EARLY WORK IN was interrogated nearly a year later and Both Avery and Dassey were convicted WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS allegedly confessed. of Halbach’s murder. And in 2003, Drizin cowrote a brief Avery was the focus of the first season A Philadelphia native, Drizin, whose in a case that led the Wisconsin Supreme because, before the murder, he had spent parents were public-school teachers, Court, two years later, to issue a rule 18 years behind bars for a sexual assault spent three years at Haverford before requiring Wisconsin police to electron- in the same county before DNA evidence he thought about becoming a lawyer. ically record all juvenile interrogations. eventually proved he didn’t commit the The trigger was a summer internship in In that case, the court determined that crime. The looming question for Making Washington, D.C., when the political police had coerced a confession from a a Murderer: Could he have been wrongly science major worked as an investigator 14-year-old boy in a robbery. convicted a second time? for the Public Defender Service, which “Without a contemporaneous record Yet much of viewers’ visceral reaction represents indigent people charged with of the interrogation, judges are forced to was provoked near the end of Season 1 by crimes. rely on the recollections of interested par- footage from a video of seasoned inves- “I saw lawyers who were heroic on a ties to reconstruct what occurred,” wrote tigators interrogating Drizin’s teenage daily basis, and that gave me some direc- the state supreme court. “The result is client, the unsophisticated special-edu- tion for what I wanted to do after I gradu- often a credibility contest between law cation student Dassey, who eventually ated,” Drizin says from his Northwestern enforcement officials and the juvenile, confesses to the murder. office in downtown Chicago. which law enforcement officials invari- Then in Season 2 Drizin, a clinical In 1986, Drizin earned his law degree ably win. The existence of an objective, professor of law at Northwestern Univer- at Northwestern, where he met his wife, comprehensive, and reviewable record sity’s Pritzker School of Law, and North- Beth Levine, now a family therapist will safeguard juveniles’ constitutional western colleague Laura Nirider achieved and college counselor. (The couple rights by making it possible for them to a rare legal feat when their habeas corpus has four children: Ben, 27, Jeremy, 25, challenge misleading or false testimony.” petition for Dassey was granted. An esti- Gabriel, 22, and Hannah, 20.) For four mated 99 percent of such petitions fail. years he practiced commercial litigation But the pair convinced a federal judge in Chicago, taking a year off to serve as ABOLISHING THE that the way investigators had pressured clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Ilana and made promises to Dassey violated Rovner in Chicago. JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY his constitutional rights and rendered his (Twenty-eight years later, Rovner What Drizin calls the most meaningful confession involuntary and unreliable. would be among the federal appellate work of his career occurred in 2005, in Eleven years after the murder, a feder- judges, acting on Drizin’s habeas petition, what was a banner year for him. Besides al magistrate judge threw out Dassey’s who ultimately decided Dassey’s fate.) the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on conviction. The work Drizin became known for recording juvenile interrogations, Drizin Viewers of Season 2 watch as Drizin, grew out of the 12 years, starting in 1993, became legal director of the renowned

WINTER 2019 35 Inside Making a Murderer

Center on Wrongful Convictions at sentences for six dozen people convicted While working to abolish the death Northwestern. And he and Haverford as juveniles. penalty, Drizin also represented a num- graduate Stephen K. Harper ’76, a pub- In that case, Drizin had cowritten a ber of juveniles who he believed had lic defender in Miami, along with other brief that said in part: falsely confessed to crimes, so he began lawyers, devised the legal strategy that led All told, this recent research confirms documenting and analyzing such cases. to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that that 16- and 17-year-olds as a class are less That work culminated in a journal abolished the death penalty for juvenile capable of controlling their impulses than article he cowrote on 125 cases of false offenders. adults, and thus are less likely than adults to confessions. Drizin notes they had begun devel- be deterred from committing capital crimes Drizin says the article became very oping the strategy in late 1999 during a by the prospect of execution. On a separate influential; it has been cited several times time when teens who were charged with but equally important front, social science by the U.S. Supreme Court, and many serious offenses had come to be viewed research has recently demonstrated the spe- times by state and federal courts, and as remorseless, cold-blooded criminals. cial vulnerability of 16- and 17-year-olds to is frequently cited by lawyers and aca- “We were ambitious,” Drizin recalls. confess to crimes that they did not commit. demics around the country. It increased “People thought we were crazy: ‘Why The high court decision (made two judges’ awareness of false confessions, are you trying to get rid of the juvenile years before Netflix introduced streaming he says, and was a precursor to a 2009 death penalty in the age of the juvenile in 2007) had ripple effects. book he co-edited, True Stories of False super-predators?’ ” “The reality is that, as long as you Confessions. Harper, he says, “had been reading all live in a world where it’s OK to execute Of course, it was a confession—no about new developments in adolescent juveniles, then sentencing them to life physical evidence—that led to Dassey’s brain science that revealed that teenage without parole, or 65 years before they’re conviction in the Making a Murderer case. brain development continues in the eligible for parole, becomes acceptable areas of the prefrontal cortex that gov- and seems like you gave the juvenile a MURDERER erns decision making, well break,” Drizin says. “And MAKING A through your teens and into Drizin’s client my main goal in working to Drizin and Nirider began representing Brendan Dassey your early twenties. And so was 16 when he abolish the juvenile death Dassey in 2007, after the state court now there was a new scien- confessed to helping his penalty was to open these jury in Wisconsin convicted the teen in tific basis for distinguish- uncle commit a murder. draconian sentences for the Halbach murder. (Avery was tried Eleven years after the ing between children and killing, a federal judge study, debate, and ultimate- separately.) Avery was sentenced to life adults, in terms of their cul- ruled that interrogators ly abolition, because there without parole. Dassey was sentenced pability. And that became a coerced his confession were thousands of kids to life in prison with the possibility of and threw out his new platform upon which conviction. But the serving juvenile life-with- parole after 41 years. Drizin’s efforts to we could argue for the abo- victory was short-lived. out-parole sentences.” reverse Dassey’s conviction in appeals in lition of the death penalty.” Wisconsin’s state courts failed. In 2004, the high court accepted the But then Drizin and Nirider made Missouri case of Christopher Simmons, the move to federal court. In 2016, nine who at age 17, with an accomplice, kid- years after Dassey’s conviction, a feder- napped a woman, tied her up, and threw al magistrate judge in Milwaukee, for- her off a bridge, drowning her. Simmons mer business litigation lawyer William was sentenced to death in 1993. But Duffin, shocked the legal and Making a around the country and throughout the Murderer worlds by granting their habeas world, there was a growing consensus petition, saying investigators had violated that juveniles should be treated differ- Dassey’s constitutional rights in gaining ently than adults when it comes to capital his confession. Citing how the interroga- punishment. tors used “leading questions and disclo- “Our determination finds confirma- sure of non-public facts” in questioning tion in the stark reality that the United Dassey, Duffin wrote: “It is clear how the States is the only country in the world investigators’ actions amounted to decep- that continues to give official sanction tive interrogation tactics that overbore to the juvenile death penalty,” Justice Dassey’s free will.” Anthony Kennedy wrote in the 5-4 For a time, there was hope that Dassey

decision, which struck down the death would get a new trial—without his con- PHOTOS: ERIC YOUNG/POOL (DASSEY); HOLDEN BLANCO ‘17 (OPPOSITE)

36 Haverford Magazine fession made available as evidence—or that the State of Wisconsin might decide not to retry Dassey and instead set him free. After the state appealed Duffin’s ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Chicago, in a 2-1 vote in June 2017, upheld his decision throwing out Dassey’s conviction, raising Dassey’s hopes of freedom even higher. That panel was headed by Rovner, the Murderer has gone a long With the start throughout the country, federal judge (and Bryn Mawr College way to changing percep- of Season 2 of Making and later traveled to speak alumna) for whom Drizin had clerked. tions about the criminal a Murderer, Drizin and in the United Kingdom. In colleague Laura Nirider— (In an odd twist, on that same judicial justice system. who worked together March their speaking tour panel, and ruling against Dassey, was “I think the general to represent one of took them to Australia and David Hamilton ’79.) public really had no idea the show’s two central New Zealand. In addition figures—embarked on an The victory, though, was short-lived. that you could interrogate international speaking tour. to speaking about false A reversal came six months later, after a child outside the pres- confessions, Drizin has the state appealed again. This time, a ence of their parents, that you could lie to taken action to prevent them, helping seven-member panel of the appeals a child,” he says. “I think they had never lawyers in Illinois and California to pass court decided, 4-3, to reinstate Dassey’s seen before the way in which police offi- laws requiring that attorneys be present conviction. The majority were swayed cers will feed facts to a suspect during an when juvenile suspects are questioned that Dassey had given “many of the most interrogation.” about a crime. damning details himself in response to “I think people are under the impres- Drizin was also well received on open-ended questions” and had resisted sion that they would never confess to a the screen. USA Today said that in suggestions of other particular details. murder they didn’t commit,” says Drizin, Season 2, he and Nirider “are refresh- The three dissenters, including Rov- winner of the 2018 Haverford Award, ingly, well, grown-up. Their logical, ner, called that decision “a travesty of jus- which recognizes alumni who put their reasoned arguments for Dassey’s inno- tice.” But the U.S. Supreme Court refused “knowledge, humanity, initiative, and cence and their professionalism are to consider the case. individuality” to highest use. in stark contrast to the state prosecu- Drizin says he initially believed that “A major part of the last 20 years of my tors and investigators from the earlier Dassey would win, figuring that the vote career has been trying to disabuse people years of the case, many of whom loiter would be 4-4 and the decision to over- of that idea—to try to take them inside around the new court proceedings.” turn Dassey’s conviction would stand. the interrogation room and demonstrate Drizin says he is continuing to look But Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner, for them the kind of pressure that is for ways to try to free Brendan Dassey. whose past opinions on confession issues brought to bear, which includes tactics “The exonerations are important. It’s gave Drizin some hope he would rule that manipulate people into thinking that a tremendous feeling of satisfaction in Dassey’s favor, abruptly retired before it’s actually in their best interest to con- when you essentially get the system to Dassey’s case could be heard. Drizin says fess. And I think that Making a Murderer acknowledge a mistake and you have he knew at that point that Dassey would has shined the brightest spotlight on how the power to rewrite history. That’s lose, 4-3, and all seven votes turned out these tactics easily overwhelm juvenile what it’s about: changing the legacy the way he had expected. suspects and increase the chances they of this person’s life,” he says. “But it’s “That was frustrating because it will falsely confess.” the cases of unrequited innocence that seems like our best chance of winning The series’ popularity also has trans- stick with you more than the victories. was lost through no fault of our own; formed Drizin’s life as a lawyer by giving The victories sustain you, but it’s the it was just bad luck,” Drizin says. “Had him a much larger platform to continue losses that motivate you.” Judge Posner chosen to retire three to advocate for change in the legal sys- Tom Kertscher was a 35-year newspaper months later, Brendan Dassey’s case tem’s treatment of juveniles. He’s active reporter, finishing that career as a PolitiFact may have been resolved in our favor, on Twitter (@SDrizin), posting daily Wisconsin reporter at the Milwaukee Journal and he’d be a free man today. It was his takes on wrongful convictions and Sentinel. His reporting on the Steven Avery trial extremely painful to lose by one vote, false confessions that turn up in the was featured in Making a Murderer. Follow but not unexpected.” news. He says that in 2017 alone, he him at TomKertscher.com and on Twitter: Nevertheless, Drizin says, Making a and Nirider gave roughly 40 lectures @KertscherNews and @KertscherSports.

WINTER 2019 37 HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LEADER

Leadership has been on the mind of David said I think I deserve to have another go Spitulnik ’76 for a long time: From his ear- at it. So Coach Donnelly said, “OK, run liest experiences as a Boy Scout patrol lead- another quarter-mile, and if your time er and captain of the Haverford track team is better, you can displace somebody.” to his years as a manager at Motorola and I did it better, but then he said, “You’re his current job as a consultant focusing on the Captain, you go and tell them.” I leadership issues and executive coaching, thought about it and said, “Maybe I Spitulnik has been gathering the experience won’t.” It was one of those lessons and expertise that form the basis of his book, where I look back and realize what Tom Becoming an Insightful Leader: Charting did for me. He helped me understand Your Course to Purposeful Success. We that sometimes a leader has to sublimate asked Spitulnik to tell us about the quali- his personal desires to what’s better for ties and approaches that can help forge a the team, and it was better for the team true—and truly insightful—leader. if I let it go.

TEAM  Be sensitive to the environment. There’s a notion that you Be a leader, but don’t stop being a member of the team. can fall into a leadership role where you say, “This is the Leading isn’t dictatorial, it’s a collaborative enterprise. At way I’m going to lead and this is the way it’s always going Motorola, they believed strongly in the notion of involved, to be.” An insightful leader operates in a world that’s situa- engaged, values-based leadership—being present as a leader, tionally dependent. You need to understand what’s going on instead of being remote. You have to solicit opinions and around you. You need to understand what’s needed at that collaborate, but then sometimes you have to stop talking specific point in time. You need to be aware of what’s going and say, “OK, let’s move.” on with the people whom you’re leading. Each day, they’re  going to need something different from you as a leader. An Acknowledge your mistakes. You might think that if your insightful leader will moderate based on what is needed, will organization sees you make a mistake, that’s bad; but if they understand the environment and how it’s impacting people. see you make a mistake and ignore it, that is what’s bad. The ? real mistake leaders make is not learning from their mistakes. Ask questions, and be open to being questioned. To be a good leader, a key element is communication—asking the team questions and then explaining what led you to make Sometimes a leader has to take one for the team. My senior the decision you made. If you share with the team why you year at Haverford, Coach Tom Donnelly asked me to be cap- made the decision, they may disagree, but they respect that tain of the track team. At the Penn Relays there’s a mile relay you shared why. And I don’t want people on my team who named after a Haverford coach, the Haddleton Relay, and it’s never question me, never help me think about what I’m an open race; Division III schools are invited to participate. doing. A good leader gets feedback on a decision, listens to I was one of the better quarter-milers, but we had a runoff the team, and sometimes says, “I hadn’t thought about that to see who was going to run, and somebody cut me off. I before. Let me give it some more thought.”

tripped, and finished out of the top four. I complained and —Brian Glaser PHOTO: JESSICA KAPLAN

38 Haverford Magazine Announcing the NEXT PRESIDENT

Wendy Raymond, a T WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CROWDS THE NEW VCAM FACILITY HAD distinguished molecular seen since opening a year ago. Packing the place were students, faculty, staff, and other members of the greater Haverford community, some of them lining the former biologist with national Ryan Gym’s old running track above the main floor, to catch a glimpse of—and standing on issues of hear from—the College’s next president. diversity, equity, and Current president Kim Benston introduced Board of Managers Chair Rick White inclusion, will become ’81, and White in turn introduced Haverford College’s 16th president: Wendy Haverford’s 16th E. Raymond. Currently vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at president on July 1. Davidson College, she will take office July 1. Smiling broadly, and speaking informally without notes, Raymond needed less BY TINA HAY than four minutes to win over the audience. “I am so incredibly honored and privileged and humbled by being here with you, in this community that I think is unlike any other in the nation,” she said. She pointed out her Haverfordian husband, David Backus ’82, in the back of the room—noting that he was wearing a red tie, which drew laughter and applause—and she talked of moving onto campus in the summer. “We’ve got a little beagle named Peanut, and we’re pretty sure that she’s going to be a good opener for a lot of conversations,” she

PHOTO: PATRICK MONTERO said, to more laughter. She talked of collaborating with the Haverford community

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on the next strategic plan and the next mittee members with her science creden- ular biology, immunology, and genetics, fundraising campaign. tials, her administrative experience, her among other topics. “Thank you for inviting me to join commitment to inclusion and diversity, Alvaro Sagasti, a Williams gradu- you in this vigorous and exciting time,” her embrace of the liberal arts, and her ate who is now a professor in molec- she added. “Together we will have a lot easygoing demeanor. ular, cell, and developmental biology of adventures, and I’m sure a lot of joy Committee member Hunter Rawlings at UCLA, worked on a yeast genetics and fun.” ’66, former president of Cornell Univer- project in Raymond’s lab for his senior sity, praised Raymond’s work as a scien- thesis. He credits Raymond with teach- tist, and noted that she made an outstand- ing him how to design and carry out HEN KIM BENSTON AN- ing first impression: “I thought, ‘Here’s an experiment and how to interpret the nounced in early 2018 that someone who carries herself strongly but results. More than that, Sagasti recalls, W he would be stepping down isn’t the least bit arrogant.’” “she made me feel more like a colleague as Haverford College president in 2019, Emily Lin ’20, a student member of than a student.” Raymond “created a Charley Beever ’74 was named to chair the committee, says: “You could tell that strong ethical environment, teaching us the search committee charged with iden- she has the ability to connect with peo- to have respect for colleagues,” he says. tifying Benston’s successor. The commit- ple. She also has the awareness that she “It didn’t feel competitive. She created tee’s first order of business was to gather needs to talk to everyone who might be my expectations for how people should input from faculty, students, alumni, a stakeholder and engage them in a col- treat each other in science.” and others in the Haverford community laborative, cooperative way.” It was also at Williams that Raymond about the qualities it should seek in the “In many respects she’s prototypically began to become known as a champion next president. Haverfordian,” Beever says. Says Board of diversity and social justice. “It’s in her “We had the benefit of having an Chair Rick White: “It’s a wonderful fit.” DNA—it’s in her being,” says Michael excellent president in place,” says Beever, Reed, the vice president at Williams a retired vice president at Booz Allen who in 2007 named Raymond to the Hamilton. “Kim has done a wonderful AYMOND GREW UP IN THE newly created position of associate job. People joked, ‘We want another Milwaukee suburb of Mequon, dean for institutional diversity. (Reed Kim.’” RWis. The youngest of four chil- is now senior vice president for inclu- The selection committee ultimately dren, she was the first of her siblings to sion and diversity at Bowdoin College.) identified 15 criteria that would make a graduate from college. She enrolled at “I worked to have Wendy as the first presidential candidate a good fit. Among Cornell University, where she ultimately person in the role because I couldn’t them: Administrative experience, prefer- majored in chemistry. After graduating afford someone who was using it for ably at an academic institution. A track magna cum laude—and considering law on-the-job training,” he says. “Wendy record of inclusivity. An appreciation for or medical school—she went on to earn brought the expertise, and the passion.” the College’s Quaker values. Humility, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecu- Raymond spent three years in the posi- patience, compassion, and a sense of lar biology from Harvard University. tion, developing a training program for humor, as well as the ability to “take (It was during her time in Boston that department chairs in inclusive hiring pleasure in being accessible to, listening she met Backus, her future husband; he practices and recruiting and mentor- to, and engaging with all constituencies.” had just graduated from Haverford and ing faculty members of color. She also Finally, the committee determined, a was working at Harvard’s Museum of directed a Howard Hughes Medical strong candidate would be a scholar capa- Comparative Zoology.) Institute program aimed at expanding ble of leading an academic community Raymond spent four years as an research opportunities for students from and a “strategic and visionary leader.” American Cancer Society postdoctoral underrepresented groups. From a group of about 10 finalists, fellow in genetics at the University of While at Williams, Raymond was Wendy Raymond stood out as the top Washington, then began her career as an named to a national committee creat- candidate, checking off every box on the assistant professor of biology at Williams ed by Congress to advise the National list. A molecular biologist, Raymond has in 1994. Her research—funded by the Science Foundation on ways of fostering spent the past five years as vice president National Science Foundation and the the involvement of women, minorities, at Davidson. Before that, she was on the National Institutes of Health—focused and people with disabilities in scientific, biology faculty at Williams College for 19 on the molecules involved in regulating engineering and technology, and mathe- years, and served as Williams’ first-ever cell division and how cell division goes matical fields. She served on the commit- associate dean for institutional diversity. awry in cancer cells. She taught under- tee for six years, including two as its chair. She impressed the Haverford search com- graduate courses in biochemistry, molec- In 2013, after 19 years at Williams,

40 Haverford Magazine attracting outstanding new faculty, the increased diversity of the student body, and the strongest applicant pool in the history of the College. Meanwhile, in the time between now and July 1, Raymond is wrapping up at Davidson while trying to get a jump on making the transition to her new role at Haverford. She plans several trips to campus to meet with the Board of Managers, Benston, senior staff, and oth- ers. She’s doing a lot of reading, includ- ing two books about the College—The Spirit and the Intellect: Haverford College, 1833-1983, by the late Greg Kannerstein ’63, and Haverford College Arboretum, by the arboretum’s plant curator, Martha AFTER GIVING SOME BRIEF REMARKS J. Van Artsdalen—as well as The Edu- at an on-campus reception that marked her public introduction to the community, cational Odyssey of a Woman College Raymond headed to the Dining Center to have dinner with students. President, the autobiography of Joanne V. Creighton, who devoted a chapter to Raymond was named vice president for her time as Haverford’s interim president academic affairs and dean of the faculty AVERFORD’S NEXT PRESI- from 2011–13. Creighton was the first at Davidson College. She is in charge of dent arrives at a time of strength woman to hold the College’s top post, recruiting and retaining faculty, oversees Hand opportunity. Under Benston, albeit on a temporary basis; Raymond curriculum development, and is respon- who has served as president since July 1, will become the first woman to hold the sible for everything from the registrar’s 2015, and who will be returning to the position on a permanent basis. office to the library to international study classroom, the College recently finished Raymond also plans to seek advice programs. She cites the leadership experi- the Lives That Speak fundraising cam- from several current college presidents. ence she’s gained at Davidson as helping paign, which raised a record-breaking “I want to ask, ‘What did you do that was her prepare for the Haverford role, call- $269.5 million, and is preparing to wrap terrific, and what do you wish you had ing Davidson President Carol Quillen “a up an ambitious strategic plan called done, to set up the institution for long- generous mentor.” the Plan for Haverford 2020. Both the term success?’” “Carol has involved her senior staff in campaign and the strategic plan have That process of learning won’t stop input and decision-making on issues in emphasized access and affordability, when she takes office. Mindful that the running an institution and in higher edu- new academic programs, and diversity current strategic plan is designed to carry cation generally,” Raymond says. “I’ve and inclusion, among other priorities. the College through 2020, she’ll make been involved in conversations around The 117-year-old Ryan Gym was trans- it a priority to engage the Haverford fiscal sustainability and fiscal resilience, formed into the new Visual Culture community in discussions about what educational excellence, access for all tal- Arts and Media facility, and the Magill the next strategic plan will look like. “I ented students, how we integrate athletics Library is undergoing a major renova- look forward to learning what the com- with student life, how we live a student tion—it will reopen later this year as the munity will want to do next,” she says. honor code and serve as good role models Lutnick Library. “I plan to do a lot of thorough listening as faculty, how to have difficult dialogues “Under Kim Benston’s leadership, we and real engagement. Someone told me, across differences.” established a lot of momentum,” says ‘We don’t just need you to listen—we Quillen, in turn, gives Raymond high White, the Board of Managers chair and need you to hear.’ marks for building a more inclusive com- a managing partner at Minot Capital in “So I want to make sure I’m a gener- munity at Davidson, for encouraging Boulder, Colo. “It’s really a credit to Kim, ous listener. I’m up to that challenge, and students in interdisciplinary study and as well as the senior staff, the faculty, and excited about it.” research, and for her support of faculty. the students.” White points to not only Tina Hay is editor-at-large of the Penn Stater Says Quillen: “Wendy leaves Davidson a the capital campaign and the strategic magazine, after serving as its editor for 22

PHOTO: DEX COEN GILBERT ‘21 better place.” plan, but also the College’s success in years. She also is a freelance writer and editor.

WINTER 2019 41 Exhibitions BOOM Thanks to its flexible Create Spaces, and resources and support,VCAM has made possible a surge in faculty-inspired, curriculum-related, and student-initiated creative projects on campus. By Eils Lotozo and Natalie Pompilio

hen the exhibition The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial the Create Spaces, along with the expansive Exhibition Wall Terror in America opened in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery in on the main floor, have played host to 42 exhibits, installa- October, its reach extended beyond the walls of the gallery. tions, and other projects. Linked to the exhibition, originally created by the Brooklyn Among them: Museum and the Equal Justice Initiative, was a daylong In Progress, part of the course “Theory and Practice of symposium organized by Assistant Professor of English and Conceptual Art,” featured work by students in the class along Visual, Culture, Arts, and Media Fellow Lindsay Reckson, with a collaboration with artist Mariel Capanna, who donat- who was instrumental in bringing The Legacy of Lynching to ed a large painted mural she completed during a Haverford Haverford. In addition, Reckson worked with student research residency and asked visitors to cut out their favorite sections, assistant Drew Cunningham ’20 to organize an evocative leaving verbal descriptions in their place. Wsatellite exhibit on campus that brought the subject closer to Somatic, created by Cole Sansom ’19 and Katie Hulihan home. The Lynching of Zachariah Walker detailed the 1911 BMC ’20 for the class “The Documentary Body,” featured a lynching of a man in nearby Coatesville, Pa.—just a 40-minute plastic mannequin that was used to explore themes of embod- drive from campus. iment via interactive live-streaming video. Featuring photographs, newspaper and journal articles, Shedding City, created by Colin Fredrickson ’20, which and other materials, that exhibit went up in one of the two focused on the discarded or “shedded” items that are designed flexible Create Spaces in the visual culture, arts, and media to be forgotten, and drew on recyclable materials collected facility (VCAM). And it’s just one example of the many facul- over a month on campus. ty-inspired, curriculum-related, and student-created exhibits Offering a space for collaboration and conceptualization that have been made possible by VCAM. Call it an exhibitions was exactly what Haverford leaders had in mind when they

boom. Since the VCAM facility opened its doors in fall 2017, decided to convert the old Ryan Gym into a creative center PHOTOS: OLIVIA S. WONG ’22 (LEFT); PATRICK MONTERO (RIGHT)

42 Haverford Magazine Micah Maben ’21 (left) talks about her project Turnover, which explored the connection between human intervention in the natural environment and natural reclamation of the human environment. (above) Reproductions—made with a 3D printer—of the ancient Greek sculpture Laocoön and His Sons were part of an exhibit staged by Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan in connection with his course “Tales of Troy.” for the 21st century and beyond. Besides housing the John always said, ‘We love doing this kind of work, but we want B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the proper facilities in which to do it.’ They finally have those. In College’s new visual studies interdisciplinary minor, VCAM some ways, VCAM marks the College’s facilities catching up has a screening room, an equipment check-out room for with programming realities.” audio-visual gear, a film/media editing studio, and a Maker With its three dedicated project spaces—and range of Arts Space that houses 3-D printers, laser cutters, and other resources for presenting ideas and information in a way that machines. is immersive and multi-media—VCAM has expanded oppor- VCAM Director and Associate Professor of English Laura tunities for students to share their course-related learning with McGrane says VCAM is part of the College’s vision of a mod- a wider audience, and has allowed an increasing number of ern liberal arts education. faculty to move their teaching beyond the classroom. For “Traditionally, you take a class, create a project, and then many Haverford faculty that’s a welcome development. show the work in a science poster session or a fine arts lab,” The first exhibition to grace one of the Create Spaces, in fall McGrane says. “VCAM underscores and emphasizes that the 2017, was American Queen, a component of Assistant Professor process of making is part of what we do and it in itself can be of Visual Studies Christina Knight’s course “American Queen: visible to the public, and we can learn from that.” Drag in Contemporary Art and Performance.” Featuring a “It’s been exciting to see how VCAM both satisfies exist- collection of images from Haverford’s own Special Collections, ing needs and also prompts new faculty and new students to the show explored drag culture and its influence on American imagine their projects here,” says James Weissinger ’06, culture. associate director of the Hurford Center and VCAM’s opera- Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies tions manager. “There are some professors and students who Anne Balay also took her “Oral History and Activism” course have been staging projects like these for years and they’ve beyond the classroom, working with students to mount the

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Ainsley Bruton ’21 (above) with a self- portrait that was part of Coming to Terms, which featured her paintings of Haverford students. (right) The Lynching of Zachariah Walker brought issues explored in the concurrent Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery show The Legacy of Lynching closer to home.

VCAM exhibit Bus(t) the Bubble, which highlighted the Tri-Co Lecturer in Japanese Kimiko Suzuki showed examples from bus and van drivers who knit together the Haverford, Bryn an indigo-dyeing workshop they’d attended and shared what Mawr, and Swarthmore communities. they’d learned about the historical and political backgrounds of For Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan, mounting a small the traditional craft. The multi-media project was designed to exhibit had always been a way for him to provide context for teach advanced students one of the more sophisticated aspects his course “Tales of Troy.” In the past he’d used the tiny Alcove of the Japanese language, says Suzuki. “Namely, how words can Gallery of Magill Library. But with Magill undergoing renova- assume different meanings in different contexts.” But the exhibit tions during the fall semester, he says, “it seemed like a great had a wider aim as well. Along with giving visitors an oppor- opportunity to explore staging an expanded exhibit in VCAM.” tunity to enjoy the textiles and learn a bit about indigo-dyeing So, with the support of the Hurford Center and Quaker and culture in Japan, Suzuki saw the show as a chance to spotlight Special Collections, and utilizing both the Exhibition Wall and her “Advanced Japanese” course. “My secret agenda was to cases in VCAM’s Object Study classroom, Mulligan gathered expand student interest in taking Japanese courses, ” she says. prints and antiquities that depict scenes from the Trojan War, as well as digital versions of two recent graphic novels, one a isual Media Scholar John Muse, who has modern retelling of the War at Troy, and the other a sci-fi take staged student-curated “pop-up” exhibits on The Odyssey. Two of his students helped out with the exhibit, connected to his course “Theory and Practice and Mulligan also worked with Maker Arts Space Technician of Exhibitions” in various spaces on campus, Kent Watson to create 3D-printed reproductions of ancient says VCAM made the College’s new visual sculptures, all based on open-source designs available online. studies interdisciplinary minor possible. The In an end-of-semester VCAM exhibit titled The Power of Vfacility, he says, showcases the vitality of the existing media arts

Words, students in the “Advanced Japanese” course taught by and film scene on campus, and builds upon it. PHOTOS: CLAIRE BLOOD-CHENEY ’20 (LEFT); PATRICK MONTERO (CENTER); OLIVIA S. WONG ’22 (RIGHT)

44 Haverford Magazine The Power of Words featured textiles created in a traditional Japanese indigo-dyeing workshop and showcased students’ learning in the class “Advanced Japanese.”

“By literally bringing these people together under the Callinan says he has particularly enjoyed seeing how stu- same roof, we could develop a curriculum for a minor that dents use the Create Spaces to showcase their work. During captures the exquisite work going on,” Muse says. “Students the 2017–18 academic year, VCAM hosted 20 different stu- who were doing the work already could do it together and in dent projects. And so far in the 2018–19 academic year nine the full view of faculty.” student-initiated exhibits have gone on view. Booking a VCAM space is a straightforward process. The “The demand is amazing,” Callinan says. “All three spaces two Create Spaces and the Exhibition Wall may be reserved at VCAM are booked and have been since the fall. All of this for up to two-weeks for curricular and co-curricular experi- activity was looking for a home and it finally got one.” mental media and performance projects, course-related digital Even before the renovation that turned Ryan Gym into projects, and small-scale exhibitions. Faculty members with VCAM, students were appropriating the space for art projects, an idea for an exhibit are asked to reach out to McGrane and turning the old squash courts into “guerilla galleries,” with Matthew Callinan, associate director of the Cantor Fitzgerald one artist collective honoring the sporting space by taking Gallery, VCAM, and Campus Exhibitions. For students, the the name “Drop Shot.” Other students staged performances process involves filling out a detailed form that goes to the there, including one whose artistic statement was to recreate Hurford Center Postbac Fellow (a position currently held his dorm room and live there—until he was politely asked to by Courtney Carter ’17) and submitting a 500-word essay move back to his own room. “The ethos of that student work describing the project concept and how it will be executed. has informed the wealth of activity in the building today,” Students also must submit a detailed budget for their project, says Weissinger. including any materials, transportation, technology, personnel, Among the student-initiated exhibits that have found a or other resources needed. (For help with those budgets, stu- home at VCAM: Please Touch The Art, organized by Tess Haas dents may apply to the Hurford Center’s Student Arts Fund.) BMC ’18, which aimed at total accessibility with textile works

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(above) Taylor Murphy ’19 discusses one of the displays featured in Black Art + Politics, part of Assistant Professor of Visual Studies Christina Knight’s visual studies capstone seminar. (right) Off the Wall, inspired by three students’ CPGC summer internships, presented 17 Philadelphia graffiti and street artists via photos and oral histories.

meant to be touched; Marisol, a multimedia performance and VCAM exhibitions. In one, titled Lay/Lines, she visualized exhibition created by Cristian Espinoza ’18 that explored the three “layers” of Philadelphia neighborhoods and drew them intricacies of an embodied intersectional life; and Coming to onto sheets of clear acetate that were hung from the ceiling Terms, a series of portraits of Haverford students painted by and allowed visitors to rearrange them to bring layers to the Ainsley Bruton ’21. front or push others behind. More recently, she collaborated “ Students learn a lot just from the staging of a project— with Phillip Norman ’19 and Colin Fredrickson’20 on Off the the nitty-gritty of what it takes to conceptualize an exhibit, Wall, which explored the creations of 17 Philadelphia artists source the materials, express ideas through the materials, put with photos of their graffiti, street art, and public art and together a time line and a budget,” says Weissinger. “Then included oral histories in which the artists speak about their there’s installation, getting the AV to work, getting the video work. (The exhibit was sparked by the trios’ Center For Peace file to render properly, and then getting people to come to the and Global Citizenship 2018 summer internships. Siegel and opening. At every step of that process, students are learning Fredrickson worked with a New Orleans public art project, conceptual and concrete skills that will be helpful in all sorts and Norman did an independent project that collected oral of avenues of their lives.” histories in Philadelphia.) Siegel says she and her collaborators Before VCAM, “there was really no place to exhibit student got lots of support from Hurford Center postbac fellow Carter. art,” says Isabella Siegel ’19, a fine arts major and visual stud- “We could not have done it without Courtney,” she says. “It ies minor. Prior to the opening of VCAM Siegel staged two was like a crash course on how to put an exhibition together.” art installations: one in Woodside Cottage, the other on the All in all, the Create Spaces in VCAM are a real inspiration, lower level of the Dining Center. Neither space was designed Siegel says. “People are constantly muttering, looking around, to showcase art, she notes drily. thinking, wondering ‘What can I do next?’

But in less than two years, Siegel has participated in two —Additional reporting by Michael Weber ’19 and Allison Wise ’20 PHOTOS: SARAH JENNINGS ’21 (LEFT); PATRICK MONTERO (RIGHT)

46 Haverford Magazine HOW TO STAGE AN EXHIBITION: Learning on the Job at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

Aubree Penney ’13 had a plan: She would major in English and religion, then pursue a Ph.D. Then Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and Campus Exhibitions Associate Director Matthew Seamus Callinan asked if she’d take a last-minute opening in the gallery’s Assistantship Program, which gives students the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of staging exhibitions. She accepted Callinan’s offer, and ended up getting to try her hand at every aspect of exhibition planning and execution. She broke down temporary walls with hammers, proofed catalogs, hung lights, and promoted the gallery on social media. She coordinated staff, wrote an accessibility strategy, designed layouts, and learned to render galleries virtually. She connected with curators, led gallery tours, and printed and installed exhibit labels. Every day was different, she says, and she loved it, so much so that she decided to change her life’s course. She recently earned her MFA in curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is applying for museum jobs. Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein ‘16 at a 2015 “I never imagined I would end up working in contemporary event connected to The Wall in Our Heads art,” Penney says. “Matthew hired me for a Saturday shift and show at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, changed my life. I am so grateful.” where she was a gallery assistant. The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (CFG) began offering paid assistantships in 2009, when the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities assumed stewardship. Each year, the history and your critical theory. It’s another to know how to hang gallery has two student co-managers who work with Callinan lights, how a nail actually goes into a wall, and the type of paint in choosing seven or eight assistants. Students in all majors are that will cover up the fact this [gallery] wall was painted blood- welcome. red last month.” “What you can learn through exhibit-making certainly goes Rushmore returned to CFG in 2017 as curator of ALL BIG back to other areas,” Callinan says. “It’s not a huge leap from LETTERS, an exhibit showcasing Philadelphia’s long history of being an English major wanting to tell stories to being a curator graffiti culture. He is also working with artists and curators he wanting to tell stories.” met while in school as he makes plans for the future. James Weissinger ’06, associate director of the Hurford “I can’t say I took the assistantship to make connections, but Center, calls the program “a hidden gem.” in hindsight, that’s been one of the greatest benefits,” Rushmore “Some students who work for the assistantship program go says. on to MOMA or take other arts jobs. Some don’t,” he says. “It’s Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein ’16 says the network she a wonderful mix. Some find it a complement to their studies and started building as a CFG assistant has paid off. She currently plans beyond Haverford. Some find it a chance to do something works as a film series coordinator at SAVVY Contemporary in completely different.” Berlin, Germany, and as a curatorial advisor to Kundura Cinema For Michael “R.J.” Rushmore ’14, who worked at the in Istanbul, Turkey. CFG through all of his four years at Haverford, the assistantship Recently, a well-known artist reached out to get her thoughts was a way to explore more deeply an already-established on exhibiting work at Haverford after seeing her name in a interest. During a gap year after high school, Rushmore CFG publication. He was seeking her advice about the Cantor had organized a street art exhibit in a gallery in London and Fitzgerald Gallery and she encouraged him to exhibit at the published a book related to the show. But working as a gallery College. assistant took things to another level. “Now I count him as part of my network,” says Chakraverti- “The gallery prepared me for a lot,” says Rushmore, a Wuerthwein, who majored in art history and Spanish. “It was an political science major and art history minor who is now a project amazing moment to both see how far I have come in my career coordinator for the NYC Mural Arts Project. “It was like taking an and to be able to give back to the gallery.”

PHOTO: CALEB ECKERT ‘17 extra class—a class I got paid for. It’s one thing to know your art —Natalie Pompilio

WINTER 2019 47 Roads Taken and Not Taken

Hilary Leichter ’07 read a short story in the style of a noir mystery. No, I’m not joking. It’s called “Murders in Wide Open THE ROAD TO writing a novel Spaces,” and I am writing the final is paved with bad sentences. Is sentences in a cramped subway that how the saying goes? Or is it car, sitting next to one of my best paved with overdue library books? friends, an alum from Bryn Mawr Overpriced office supplies, coffee, College. We no longer need to take student loans, and assorted day the Blue Bus to hang out. Now, we jobs—my road boasted all of the travel in style on the MTA. I’m above. To be clear, it was less of a wearing sneakers without socks paved road and more of a gravel and jeans that have been mutilated situation. Here are some of the pit into shorts, and a long cardigan, the stops I remember. billowing kind where you could maybe store some fountain pens, a Haverford College, paperback, a microwavable dinner. Barclay Hall, 2003 I’m typing the story’s ending with Erasable pens, mechanical pen- my thumbs, on a tiny computer, cils, clunky desktop computers. inside a phone, underground. These are the days when we are tethered to ethernet like little pets New York City, on leashes, not yet the fierce and Columbia University, 2011 feral 4G creatures we would someday cular and glued it to a page: “When it’s After a lecture on creative writing craft at soon become. I write poems in the soft three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 Columbia University, I meet one of my screen-light of dawn and keep my poor in London.” favorite novelists (and fellow Haverford roommate bathed in a crude procrasti- alum), Nicholson Baker ’79. People are natory glow (the poems sound like this; Haverford College, Leeds Hall, 2007 requesting autographs and advice, signed they are not good poems). I write ideas I’m writing a play where no one is an books and tricks or tips. But I want to for plays in a soft-covered journal that I insect. It’s late, both in terms of clocks know where he wrote when he was on keep near my pillow: “What if all of the and deadlines, and my suitemates are campus. (A carrel in Magill Library, he characters were insects? What if the ele- all watching Friends or Frasier or some says, not missing a beat!) I believe that vator gets stuck for 15 minutes, and it’s such ’90s curiosity. These are the days the places where we write are both sacred a 15-minute play?” when we are tethered to our little discs, and mundane, like subway cars, or twin discs of music and discs of images, stor- beds in dorm rooms, or at work, or on the A Flight to Israel, 2004 ing them in—can you believe they were go, or in half-loved journals, or at desks A new soft-covered journal—it even says called—“jewel cases,” like buried trea- deep in libraries, wedged between stacks “journal” on the front, so no one will get sure or royal bling. I am typing furiously of books. I try not to be precious about confused. It’s December. The heading: in bed, pillow-propped and laptop-sad- where I write, but the places become pre- “Between Time Zones and Years.” And dled, adopting a pose that my friends cious in hindsight. then there’s a poem that, no, I shall not have come to call “melty face.” This is reprint here. I’m trying to be kinder to how they will find me hours later: melted, New York City, An Unnamed those bad, bad sentences. without nearly enough sentences written. Financial Institution, 2012 I’m working as a temp and simultaneous- London, England, 2006 New York City, Brooklyn, 2009 ly writing a short story on my temporary I’m studying abroad and taping lots of The same soft-covered journal, taping in computer. The computer belongs to an flowers into my journal. (The very same a photo of me and the guy I will some- executive assistant who has amassed a soft-covered journal. It’s possible I am day marry. small mountain of vacation days. I’m just a very slow journaler.) There’s a poem filling in. I take breaks from documenting I’m writing about truly “getting the city New York City, The R Train, 2011 travel expenses and pull up a secreted under your nails”—oh, lord. I’ve clipped I’m on my way to a literary reading series document from the depths of the screen, this Bette Midler quote from a local cir- at a wine store, where I am supposed to continued on page 77

48 Haverford Magazine giving back

The founding donors of the Los Angeles Scholarship were excited to meet their inaugural scholar. From left, Rob Deutschman ’79, Michael Jenkins ’75, Sophie Frank ’19, and Andy Gavin ’92. L.A. Story The Los Angeles Scholarship brought three alums together to share their ties to Haverford, the liberal arts, and their home city. Their hopes of creating a better future for local young people are inspired by more than geography. By Pat Laws

ot long after Sophie Frank ’19 “As I was driving up the hill toward nity of Fords in Los Angeles.” learned that she had been this amazing house, I was just awestruck Frank is among the nearly 25 per- Nnamed the first recipient of and wondered if I should be nervous,” cent of Haverford students who will the Los Angeles Scholarship—target- she says. But Frank was soon at ease receive funds from endowed scholar- ed to Haverford students who call L.A. when she met the host, Andy Gavin ’92, ships as part of their aid packages of home—she found herself back in the and his scholarship cofounders Michael grants, loans, and work-study jobs. In city for winter break with a surpris- Jenkins ’75 and Rob Deutschman ’79. total, more than half of all Haverford ing invitation. So she borrowed her “They are all so nice, and I felt welcome students rely on some kind of financial grandmother’s car and drove to Pacific immediately. I was surprised to learn aid. The College’s financial aid policy Palisades to meet the scholarship’s three that they hadn’t known each other for is designed to minimize student debt,

PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER FRAGAPANE founding donors. very long. It’s cool that there’s a commu- and those with family incomes below

WINTER 2019 49 $60,000 per year do not have loans included in their aid packages. Loan amounts for incomes above that level ABOUT FINANCIAL AID AND ENDOWED are capped at $3,000 each year. SCHOLARSHIPS AT HAVERFORD “Haverford does a good job of mak- ■ Haverford awards need-based financial aid, meeting the full demonstrated ing money less of a consideration,” says need of all admitted students. Frank. “Financial aid is a great equaliz- ■ Half of all students need some form of financial aid to attend Haverford, er on campus, and it gave me access to incredible opportunities. I was able even with 47 percent receiving a College grant. The average grant this year was to study abroad in France because my $50,101 and loans are capped at $3,000 per year. aid package traveled with me.” She will ■ The annual income generated by permanently endowed scholarships helps soon graduate with a comparative litera- support the aid packages of nearly half of all financial aid recipients. Last ture major, French minor, and Africana year, 311 students benefited. studies concentration. ■ Since the Thomas P. Cope Fund was established in 1842, Haverfordians have Now a lawyer who specializes in rep- created nearly 300 scholarship endowments. See the complete list at resenting municipalities and other pub- hav.to/endowedscholarships. lic agencies, Los Angeles Scholarship ■ New scholarship endowments can be established with a minimum cofounder Jenkins was also a financial commitment of $100,000, funded by cash, securities, deferred gifts, and aid recipient. “I worked all four years, bequests. Gifts in any amount can be made to existing endowments like the the last two teaching swimming to fresh- Los Angeles Scholarship Fund. men who came to Haverford never hav- ■ Many scholarships are founded in memory of, or to honor, a loved one. ing learned.” Donors and their families receive regular reports on the stewardship of their Jenkins advises Fords to “give back funds, personal updates from the students who benefit, and invitations to in whatever way you can” and practices annual gatherings of donors and their scholars. what he preaches. He is a youth soc- To learn more about supporting financial aid at Haverford, contact Deb cer referee and serves on the board of Strecker at (610) 896-1129 or [email protected]. directors of the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA, spearheading teen program- ming, including college preparation and sense of community and my core belief like to think that I do and much of that swim lessons in the most economically that we all have an obligation to help attitude was encouraged and expanded challenged community of any Y in the those in need,” says Deutschman. “We during my time at Haverford. We need to Los Angeles metropolitan area. collectively need to do everything we do everything we can to continue that.” “We have a shared passion to give back can to provide opportunities for others. Gavin, the founder of a successful and help kids,” observes Deutschman. Some will succeed and some will fail, video game development company, “Thirty years ago, I helped found the but all deserve the same chance that we agrees that Haverford prepares lifelong Water Buffalo Club, a nonprofit benefit- all want for our own kids.” learners to make their own impact. ing kids in Los Angeles who are in need.” “Especially in these days of narcis- “One of the key things that I took from A self-described “recovering lawyer,” sism and antagonistic public discourse,” my own years at Haverford was some Deutschman migrated to investment Deutschman continues, “I believe it is a understanding that the overall scope of banking in the 1990s. He also “coached moral imperative that we evolve inde- human and scientific knowledge is so everything my kids would let me.” pendent thinking with a focus on our vast that it can only be partially tack- “I have always had a deep allegiance responsibilities to others. When I was led through the lens of a discipline or to Haverford, not only because it provid- growing up, there was a public service point of view. Each area of study—be it ed me with a great formal education, but campaign aimed at addressing urban biology, physics, sociology, history, or also for its tremendous impact on my decay. Its slogan was ‘Give a Damn.’ I’d any other subject—has its own perspec- tive and shorthand, and each is useful and illuminating in search of a greater Haverford does a good job of making understanding.” “money less of a consideration. Financial These are the educational and social ideals that drew Frank to Haverford. “In aid is a great equalizer and it gave me high school, I knew I wanted a liberal access to amazing opportunities. arts college, but it never would have been accessible without Haverford’s SOPHIE FRANK” ’19 financial aid and the donors behind it.”

50 Haverford Magazine Jenkins believes that “it’s vital that bright young people from economically I have always had a deep allegiance challenged backgrounds have the ben- “ back efit of a superior undergraduate educa- to Haverford, not only for the great tion. The Haverford community benefits formal education it provided, but also for from a more diverse student body. We live in a difficult and depressing time, the tremendous impact on my sense of giving as we witness increasing disparity in community. ROB DEUTSCHMAN ’79 wealth, increasing divisiveness in our ” national culture and politics, and overt hostility to truth and learning and to for anyone who can to help support the Rome, but the gelato was truly unforget- core American values. Institutions like next generation of great minds.” table,” raves Frank. Haverford are a bulwark against this Gavin’s company, Naughty Dog, “I was a little surprised by how inter- reactionary trajectory, just as Haverford Inc., created more than a dozen video ested Andy, Rob, and Mike are in the stood tall in my era against the Vietnam games, including the award-winning regular day-to-day life of students on War and the bombing of Cambodia.” Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter fran- campus,” Frank adds. “They care deeply “We need to do our share now,” chises, selling more than 40 million about Haverford, and I feel fortunate to Jenkins continues, “and a part of that units worldwide. He also founded the benefit from that commitment. Studying effort involves creating opportunities multimedia website Flektor, published at Haverford could not mean more to for young people to realize their true two fantasy novels, and opened a restau- me—it’s allowed me to read books I potential and graduate from Haverford rant. And he is a master gelato maker. never would have heard of, meet people equipped to take on these challeng- “Andy served us homemade gelato— from backgrounds very different from es.” All three alumni are committed to which was truly awesome, although I’m my own, and study in a completely new increasing the visibility of the Los Angeles not sure it was the best thing for me to country. I just want to say thank you to Scholarship and persuading other donors eat for lunch—and we got to share a everyone for thinking of students like to join them. “With the cost of tuition few stories,” says Deutschman. “I really me and making it possible for us to have these days,” adds Gavin, “it’s important enjoyed talking about Italy and Ancient this enormous opportunity.”

An Ethical Challenge

o deepen the ethical leadership programs central to Haverford’s mission and identity, Andy Pleatman T ’66 has established a $1 million challenge to create an endowment for the Initiative on Ethical Engagement and Leadership (IEEL), whose start-up funding expires later this year. Established in 2014, the IEEL has formalized, enhanced, and expanded Haverford’s enduring commitment to a dis- tinctive values-centered liberal arts education. It has brought to campus ethical development workshops, lectures, and other events, and inspired the creation of more than a dozen courses across academic departments. The initiative also has supported internships off campus and augmented the inter- 2018 Ethical Leadership Summer Institute participants visited disciplinary Peace, Justice, and Human Rights concentration North Philly Peace Park, a neighborhood-managed nonprofit with an additional faculty position. championing urban farming and education. In 2016, the IEEL inaugurated the Ethical Leadership Summer Institute. In 2017, the program doubled in size and To help in the effort to secure permanent funding for added a track devoted to global health. In 2018, the Institute  programs that foster students’ ethical development focused on students embarking on summer internships or and prepare them for leadership in their careers and communities, contact Ann West Figueredo ’84 at yearlong social action fellowships in Philadelphia to introduce (610) 896-1001 or [email protected].

PHOTO: JANICE LION (ETHICAL SUMMIT) them to a new side of the city and its nonprofit sector.

WINTER 2019 51 ALUMNI WEEKEND May 31–June 2

Register before April 17 for discounted pricing, guaranteed Saturday dinner seating, priority dorm housing with your classmates, complimentary beer and wine at all meals, and concierge text messaging. See the complete schedule and register at fords.haverford.edu/alumni-weekend.

2019 Alumni Awards Honorees Twelve Haverfordians will be recognized by the Alumni Association for their service to the College, society, and their professions.

he KANNERSTEIN AWARD cofounder of San Diego’s High Tech High, which has grown FOR SUSTAINED SERVICE TO into a network of 14 charter schools focused on equity, inno- T THE COLLEGE will be present- vation, and community, and he founded the nation’s first ed to William H. Harris ’49. One of graduate program situated wholly in a K-12 environment. Haverford’s most active and loyal sup- ■ porters, Harris served on the Board of The DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT Managers from 1989 to 2001. He and AWARD honors two alumni who have his late wife, Nan (BMC ’51), provided made outstanding contributions to leadership support for the Koshland their fields.Edward A. Helme ’69, Integrated Natural Sciences Center, the future Lutnick Library, P’10, is the author of more than 50 Swan Field, and two named professorships. [For more on studies related to climate change and Harris, see p. 30.] founder of the Center for Clean Air ■ Policy, an internationally known think The HAVERFORD AWARD FOR tank. Helme played a major role in SERVICE TO HUMANITY will rec- the passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act ognize Robert C. Riordan ’64. A Amendments and guided a number of UN policy agreements,

lifelong educator, Riordan is the notably on climate finance in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. PHOTOS: BRAD LARRISON (ALUMNI WEEKEND); WEBB CHAPPELL (HARRIS)

52 Rick DeJesus-Rueff ’75 worked ■ at Philadelphia University, Oberlin The CHARLES PERRY AWARD is given College, and Haverford before begin- for exemplary service to the College back ning a 21-year career at St. John Fisher in the area of fundraising. As a cur- College in Rochester, N.Y. There he rent member of the Young Alumni facilitated “Sustained Dialogue,” Advisory Group, Adam J. Care ’09 which allowed students in margin- has worked to engage alumni in the giving alized groups to engage together in 10 youngest classes. His diligent sup- respectful ways to discuss challenging port and virtual engagement helped issues. achieve fundraising goals. ■ ■ The YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD FOR The WILLIAM E. SHEPPARD AWARD ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN LEADERSHIP will honor Frank T. Lyman Jr. ’59, will recognize two notable alumni. who has been described as a unifying Adem T. Bunkeddeko ’09 began his presence in his class for more than 60 political career as a grassroots orga- years. His passion for and dedication to nizer in Central Brooklyn and was the Haverford are reflected in his unyield- associate director of business initiatives ing efforts to recognize, celebrate, and at Brooklyn Community Services. He befriend Haverfordians at every stage of recently ran in the Democratic primary their alumni journey. to represent New York’s Ninth Congres- ■ sional District. Jacob Weisenthal ’13 J. Pat Welch 3rd ’74 will receive the is the cofounder and senior operations ARCHIBALD MACINTOSH AWARD director for Semilla Nueva, a social for exemplary service as an admis- enterprise working to reduce chronic sion volunteer. Since 2005, he has malnutrition in Guatemala. Semilla promoted Haverford at high-school Nueva produces and sells seed that college fairs in his home region near costs less than other commercial corn Long Beach, Calif. In addition, Welch and has double the amount of zinc and conducts Skype interviews for appli- protein—two of the principal deficits in cants from China. He is also a reunion the Guatemalan diet. volunteer. ■ ■ Tal Alter ’98 will be recognized with Sandra M. Johnson will be recog- the LAWRENCE FORMAN AWARD. nized with the FRIEND AWARD for Alter heads the Washington Nationals exemplary and sustained service. Dream Foundation, which works to Johnson retired as associate direc- mobilize baseball fans, enhance player tor of Alumni and Parent Relations philanthropy, and build partnerships in 2018 after a 23-year career. She in the community. He previously assisted in every aspect of alumni rela- worked at PeacePlayers International, tions and volunteerism, from Alumni a nonprofit that uses basketball to edu- Association Executive Committee cate and inspire young people living in meetings to regional event and communities in conflict. Reunion planning. ■ The WILLIAM KAYE AWARD for exemplary service in career develop- JOIN US IN CELEBRATING these ment will be presented to Rashidah  N. Andrews ’02. She is a founding outstanding Fords during Alumni Weekend on member and former co-chair of the Saturday, June 1, at 10:00 a.m. in Stokes Auditorium. Multicultural Alumni Action Group, To learn more about the awards, see complete a guest lecturer in Haverford’s Ethical biographies of the honorees, and nominate deserving Leadership Summer Institute, and a Center for Career and Professional Fords, visit fords.haverford.edu/awards. Advising extern sponsor.

WINTER 2019 53 Five Lame Reasons Not to Attend Your Reunion back By Bill O’Sullivan ’83

he first Haverford reunion I in the early ’80s. His comments didn’t ever went to was my 15th, change my feelings about the place but giving in 1998. I’m not sure why I’d did make me realize that even mixed never been tempted before— experiences can have value—in my case, Tthe introvert’s hesitance, I guess—or a reminder that being openly gay in col- why I couldn’t get it off my mind that lege 35 years ago might not have been as time. I checked in with my closest great as I previously assumed. friends, and none could make it, yet In his case? Well, he did come to the something was compelling me. I didn’t reunion, and has been to every one since decide for sure till the Friday of Alumni to see friends—which makes perfect Weekend, and I had no car at the time, sense to me. After all, you’re revisiting so I rented one that night and decided the full experience, which had a hand to go up and back on Saturday. If there in making you who you are. was no one to talk to, I’d just wander around campus revisiting the guy I was 2. I have fond college memories, 4. The activities don’t particularly back then. There are worse ways to but they’re in the past. interest me. spend a day. Sharing memories is restorative and The lectures, panels, and tours are for It turned out I had a great time—and affirms formative experiences. But here’s the people they do interest. If that’s I’ve returned every five years since, most the surprise—I’ve found that relatively not you, there are still the meals, the recently in 2018 for my 35th. I now tell little reminiscing occurs. Most conversa- impromptu chances to catch up, the myself my reason for going will reveal tion is about what we’ve been up to since beautiful campus to wander around, the itself once I’m there, and it always does. Haverford, the people we’ve become, the ritual walk (especially for my generation So for anyone who’s never been to families we’ve formed, the jobs we’ve and before) between Haverford and that Alumni Weekend, or has but is on the held, the chapters of our lives written other beautiful campus, Bryn Mawr. fence about going again, I hereby offer and revised. This is an interaction you At my most recent reunion, I hadn’t five lame reasons not to attend your can easily have with someone you didn’t planned to attend two back-to-back Reunion . know that well 20 or 30 years ago, but panels, but after lunch I found myself who’s your same age and walked the filing into the auditorium with the rest 1. No one I know will be there. same campus paths for four years. Even of my cohort. As we watched a film The first reunion I went to, I’d proba- more restorative: An exchange like this about a classmate’s medical clinic for bly been on campus 10 minutes when I can remind you that where you are in undocumented immigrants, then later ran into a classmate and her young son. your life now makes sense. listened to a discussion about several She’d been more a friend of friends, and people from my year who’d melded their we’d had no contact since graduation, 3. I didn’t have a great college expe - professions with advocacy, I felt proud but she’d always been a lovely person rience and don’t need to revisit it. to be part of this community. and we’d shared enough meals in the I admit that I have mostly positive Dining Center that my pleasure at seeing college memories. (One of my most 5. I’m just not a reunion person. her was more than just low-grade relief pleasant recurring dreams to this day Actually, maybe the world isn’t made up at simply seeing anyone familiar. involves walking to the Dining Center of reunion and non-reunion people. The There will be people you didn’t nec- to check my mailbox—the kind with way I look at it is that when you have essarily know well but who will remem- a key.) Though I was gay and not out the chance to reconnect with those who ber you, and there’s nothing like hearing of the closet—even to myself—during shared some of your most seminal years, your name spoken by someone who college, at the first reunion I attended I you should take it. I’ve always been glad wasn’t a close friend but remembers ended up having a long and meaningful I did. you anyway: You made an impression. conversation with someone who was Bill O’Sullivan is senior managing editor of Over the course of your visit, you’ll out at Haverford but wasn’t so happy at Washingtonian magazine. His personal essays likely return the favor to someone else the time. He gave me perspective on the have been cited three times among the notable who’ll be just as happy to be remem- ways in which the community wasn’t essays of the year in The Best American Essays. bered by you. always very welcoming to gay people He teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda.

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WINTER 2019 55 Due to privacy concerns, the Class News section is not included in the digital edition of Haverford Magazine. To get updates on your classmates and other Haverford grads, sign in to the alumni community, fords.haverford.edu.

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Roads Taken and Not Taken continued from page 48 New York City, writing new signposts, and I’m writing these write a paragraph or two, tuck it away. These Sometime in the Year 2850 sentences, here, just for you. are the days when I am tethered to my little This is the year when I think I will finally sell my Hilary Leichter’s writing has appeared in The paragraphs, but the paragraphs amount to first book, posthumously. There are flying cars New Yorker, American Short Fiction, New nothing. I amass them into a small mountain (naturally) and flying street-meat stands (why York Magazine’s “The Cut,” The Rumpus, of paragraphs. In four years, I will return to not?) and flying writers. Skywriting is a thing Bookforum, and elsewhere. At Haverford, the mountain and start restacking the para- used for something other than advertisements she sang in an a cappella group and also graphs into the shape of a novel. and “Marry Me’s.” Can you imagine writing a in the shower. She has taught at Columbia novel out of thin air, literally? University and received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York City, Brooklyn, 2013 New York City, Brooklyn, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library. Her debut novel, I’m getting married today, October 12th. I’m Temporary (the story of a temporary worker I am typing furiously in bed, pillow-propped writing my vows. These are different kinds of with fantastical and improbable jobs), will be sentences, but they’re sentences all the same. and laptop-saddled. I’m writing my next published in March 2020 by Coffee House Press/ Words are important, the order in which the book. I’m writing emails. I’m writing notes Emily Books. She lives with her husband and words arrive are important. One of my best in the margins of that new novel everyone several thousand hardcover books in Brooklyn, friends has slept over at our apartment, and loves. I’m still on the road, but just when I N.Y. You can find more of her writing here: I’m typing in the early hours of the morn- think I’ve arrived, the signposts change. I’m hilaryleichter.com. ing, trying not to wake her. I remember my clunky desktop, the screen lighting up my CARE TO SHARE YOUR STORY of roads taken (or not taken) since college roommate’s face while she snoozed. graduation? Drop us a line: [email protected] It’s the same light, it’s a different light.

WINTER 2019 77 alumni obituaries

Thomas Elkinton died Douglas, Margaret, and Helen; his synagogue, Temple Isaiah. Owners Association. An avid 44 Sept. 24 in Wolfeboro, and eight grandchildren. Dvorken is survived by his wife athlete, he was a one-time N.H. He was a lifelong mem- Arthur G. Segal died Oct. of 61 years, Doris; children Central Jersey Squash Cham- ber of the Religious Society of 23 in Naples, Fla. He was 92. Gregory and Rachel; and pion and played in the Lapin Friends. After a tour of duty in He served in the U.S. Army in four grandchildren. International Cup representing the Navy during World War southern Italy during World the U.S. in Canada. He was II, he settled with his wife, War II before founding three re- Alexander C. Allen of also a tennis enthusiast who Helen, in Haddonfield, N.J., al-estate companies in suburban 55 Halifax, Nova Scotia, later in life traded his racket for and worked for the Philadel- Philadelphia: Segal Real Estate, died Oct. 25. a paint brush and easel, much phia Quartz Company, a family York Realty, and Research to his own surprise. He was business, for 25 years. In 1974, Appraisals. He enjoyed fishing John F. Marquardt predeceased by an infant son, he moved with his family to in his boat, Placebo, flying his 56 died Oct. 18 at age 84. Michael, and is survived by his New Hampshire for a new single-engine Cessna, and pho- He served as a Captain in the wife, Patricia; children Juliet business venture, opening a tographing his travels. In 1988, United States Air Force before Heeg ’83, Patrick, Michael, chain of clothing shops, before Segal and his wife, Jill, retired practicing internal medicine and Maryallys; and four retiring in 1986. Helen died to Marco Island, Fla., where at Northwestern Memorial grandchildren. in 1991 and Elkinton married he volunteered with the Marco Hospital for 33 years. He was Barbara Mills in 1997. She died Island Civil Air Patrol and the medical director of People’s Alfred Acton II, 84, of in 2012 and Elkinton joined Marco Island Civic Association, Gas, the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Com- 58 Pineville, S.C., died Oct. a retirement community. He participated enthusiastically in pany, and the Chicago Tribune 24. He was a retired minister is survived by his children, many clubs, and served on vari- company, and was the team with The New Church. After Elizabeth Roark, Thomas, and ous non-profit boards. In 2004, physician for the Chicago Cubs. theological school, he served as Richard, six grandchildren, in front of his beaming family, He was chief of staff at North- pastor of a congregation in Chi- 10 great-grandchildren, and Segal was awarded the Civic western Memorial Hospital cago and then Glenview, Ill. He one great-great-grandchild. Association’s Humanitarian of from 1992–1994 prior to his re- served as the president of Bryn the Year award in recognition of tirement in 2000. Medicine was Athyn College and eventually Allan R. Brick died his work and commitment to his life’s passion. Marquardt became an assistant to the Bish- 50 Aug. 24. others. He was predeceased by was an avid sailor and boater, op and in that capacity traveled Paul B. Cates died Oct. 21. his wife of 63 years, Jill, and is a die-hard Chicago sports fan, worldwide. During his minis- in Vassalboro, Maine. He was a survived by his daughters, Tina and a devoted husband, father, try, he taught every grade from Quaker conscientious objec- Haut and Jennifer Scott, and and grandfather. He was loved kindergarten through theologi- tor to the post-World-War-II four grandchildren. by his patients and his extended cal school. He was a member of peacetime draft and spent 15 family alike. He is survived by the American Legion, Sons of years doing relief work and Leo Dvorken died July his wife, Judith; their children the Academy, Sigma Delta Pi, smuggling medication and doc- 53 21 at the age of 86. He Wendy Olson, John, and James; the Berkeley Museum, and the uments across the Berlin Wall. was the founder of what is now and seven grandchildren. Berkeley County Soil Conserva- In Germany, he met his wife, known as Kids Care Pediatric tion. He enjoyed watching the Elisabeth, before returning to Medicine P.C. in Selden, N.Y. Michael Morris Heeg, Philadelphia Eagles and Phil- work for the Quarterly Meeting He studied chemistry at NYU 57 83, died Dec. 2 in Sea lies, playing solitaire and bridge, of Friends in Maine as a travel- before attending medical school Island, Ga. Heeg, a native New reading, and bird watching. He ing pastor. Over the following in Geneva, Switzerland, serving Yorker, served in the Air Force is survived by his wife, Henriet- years, he worked as a supplier his residency in Brooklyn, and before becoming a urologist ta, and son, Kesniel. to florists (he was known as the moving to Setauket, N.Y., to in private practice at hospitals Eric Koskoff died Aug. 13. “Glad Man” for his gladiolus open his pediatric group. He in Princeton, Trenton, North bulbs) and as a teacher of was committed to keeping the Caldwell, and Mercer County, Allen C. Fischer died on languages. He was a playwright, practice accessible, regardless of N.J., and serving as president 59 Oct. 20 from post-op- farmer, politician, and lifelong patients’ ability to pay. Dvorken of The Mercer County Medical erative pneumonia following pacifist. Cates was predeceased loved music, tennis, and Society. In recent years, Heeg a successful triple bypass. by a son, Martin. He is survived fishing, and was always happy served on the Board of Hospice Fischer was a past member of by his wife; his children, Chris- to chat about all three. He was of The Golden Isles and the the Corporation of Haverford topher, Dorothee, Winfried, committed to Judaism and to Board of Sea Island Property College, and former admissions

78 Haverford Magazine IN MEMORIAM

SAMUEL MOON SNIPES ’41 aration of church and state (he prevailed) in a Samuel Moon Snipes ’41, a prominent law- case against Pennsylvania’s Centennial School yer and peace activist, lifelong Quaker, and District, which had sought to supply students member of the Corporation of Haverford with Bibles. In the 1970s and 80s, Snipes trav- College, died Dec. 31. He was 99. In the eled to South Africa, Russia, and Japan to meet words of Frank Lyman ’59, “If there ever was a with peace-seeking leaders there. Haverfordian, Sam was it.” The Bucks Local News described Snipes An attorney by trade—he graduated from as a passionate historian of Falls Township, Temple Law School in 1953 and practiced where he was a ninth-generation co-owner of estate planning and civil law in Yardley, Pa., Snipes Farm. He attended Fallsington Friends for 60 years—Snipes devoted his life to ser- Meeting and lent time and wisdom to Historic vice. A conscientious objector during World Fallsington, Inc. He was also a supporter of the War II, he worked with the United Nations in Peace Center in Langhorne and served on a Germany to guide those displaced by the war long list of nonprofit and community boards. to safety, and later lobbied for immigration He could often be seen out and about in his reform to help them find new homes in North carriage pulled by his horses, Persimmon and America. An obituary in the Washington Post Willow. In a social media post sharing the news described how, in 1957, Snipes helped the of his death, his wife, Marion, wrote, “For those In a photo taken for a 2011 Haverford Myers family, the first black family to move magazine article about Snipes Farm, of you who knew him personally, you will not to Levittown, Pa., to buy their home and live Snipes wore a Haverford sweater his be surprised that he died the same way that he safely in the community. Snipes worked with mother knitted for him in 1939. lived: with a quiet strength and a generosity of police to enforce the Myers’ civil rights and spirit.” In addition to Marion, Snipes is survived once personally confronted a mob in front of their house, keeping by his children, Jonathan Snipes ’82, Deborah, Sally, Susan, and protesters at bay until police arrived. In the 60s, he helped prevent Samuel Jr.; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. a nuclear power plant’s construction on an island in the Delaware He was preceded in death by his first wife of 52 years, Barbara, in River facing William Penn’s summer home, and fought for the sep- 2001, and his son, Howard Snipes ’85 in 1989.

representative, class chair, and honor. In addition to Renate, Elizabeth Rogers ’90 and M. lived in Sri Lanka from 1988 to deferred giving class represen- Allen is survived by a brother Katherine; and two grandsons. 1993, where he led a team that tative. He cherished longtime and many friends. helped local officials establish friendships with classmates and Malcolm F. Baldwin, 78, national environmental laws, others, and reveled in becoming Joseph E. Rogers 62 died Nov. 12 in Lovetts- policies and procedures that better acquainted with Fords of 60 Jr., 80, died Jan. 11 ville, Va., after a decade-long remain in force today. Upon re- all decades. After Haverford, he in Parkville, Md., from com- battle with prostate cancer. He tirement in 2002, Baldwin ded- studied at the Johns Hopkins plications of prostate cancer. was a graduate of the University icated his energy to growing School of Advanced Interna- Rogers held a Ph.D. in chem- of Chicago Law School, choos- wine grapes and raising sheep tional Studies and served in istry from Cornell University. ing afterwards to apply his legal at WeatherLea Farm, and to the U.S. Army. Fischer was the He served with many Quaker knowledge to the then-nascent preserving rural land and busi- former director of marketing organizations over the years, field of environmental law and nesses in Loudoun County. He for the Maritz Travel Co. in particularly on the boards of policy. Baldwin wrote many is survived by his wife, Pamela; New York. In retirement, he Pendle Hill, FCNL, and Friends books and articles that helped children Peter, Rebecca Fuller, pursued his true calling: poetry. House. He taught chemistry at guide and launch the field. and Alice O’Keefe; and four His poems appeared in many Carleton College and Earlham He served as senior environ- grandchildren. journals, among them Atlanta College before moving into mental law and policy specialist Review, Indiana Review, Prairie administration. He worked as a at the White House Council on Thomas W. Richardson Schooner, and Poetry. In recent research grant administrator at Environmental Quality (CEQ) 63 died Sept. 26 the age years Fischer and his wife, the American Chemical Society during the Carter Administra- of 78. After time in the Army Renate, divided their time be- for more than 20 years. Rogers tion, and as acting chair of CEQ Reserves, Richardson became tween homes in Saugerties and enjoyed birding, tennis, and a in the opening months of the an entrepreneur and worked for New Paltz, N.Y., where Fischer good fire in his fireplace. He is Reagan Administration. He also the Richardson Scale Company conducted a weekly poetry survived by Gertrude (Brown), chaired the board of Defenders in Clifton, N.J., Bartley Foundry

PHOTO: DAN Z. JOHNSON reading that will continue in his his wife of 54 years; daughters of Wildlife in the 1980s. He in Bartley, N.J., and Noise Un-

WINTER 2019 79 limited in Somerville, N.J. He tem” (2001). He is survived where his parents had such an years, after originally working enjoyed his business ventures by his wife, Vivian; their chil- impact that a park is named for at the University of Colorado and later retired to Lighthouse dren Sarah and Alexander; and them. In recent years, Hagen Health Sciences Center in Point, Fla., where he pursued four grandchildren. moved to Tacoma, Wash., Denver. Mackin attended NYU his passion for finance and where he is survived by his law school for a year before investing. He joined the local S. Sturgis Poorman, Jr., wife, Brenda Cummings, and deciding medicine was his true obituaries Coast Guard and invested his 67 73, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., their 15-year-old daughter, calling. He graduated from time and expertise in his small died Sept. 24. After Haverford, Jeanne. He was active in com- Jefferson Medical College in residential community to guar- he earned his master’s degree in munity affairs and engaged in 1983, was certified in internal antee its success. Richardson divinity at Princeton Theolog- politics, but above all enjoyed medicine, and went on to com- is survived by his daughters, ical Seminary and started his every minute of his late-bloom- plete a residency in neurology, alumni Elizabeth Grozis and Amanda, career as a Presbyterian pastor ing fatherhood. Classmate followed by fellowships in neu- and by three grandchildren. in upstate New York. He served Chas O’Donnell put it well: romuscular diseases. He served at four different churches over “He was clearly able to arrange for many years as an officer of Don Reinfeld died 30 years, in New York, Penn- his life so that he could do the American Academy of Neu- 64 March 18 after a battle sylvania, and Zimbabwe. In what he really wanted to do. rology. He founded the ALS with leukemia. He was a 1999, after retiring as a pastor, Not all of us are so lucky.” clinic at Lehigh Valley Health passionate cellist, both as a Poorman founded Welcoming V. Gene Hodges, an IT secu- Network 15 years ago, and was soloist and a member of the the Stranger, a nonprofit in rity expert and CEO at several recently recognized by the ALS Buffalo and Rochester Phil- Bucks County, Pa., dedicated to leading computer companies, Association’s Greater Philadel- harmonic Orchestras, and an serving the educational needs died of an embolism on Dec. phia Chapter for his achieve- accomplished bowmaker. He of immigrants and refugees 23. His programming skills ments. Mackin’s interests in was also a classical schol- which he led for 17 years before earned him a job at Princeton history and politics continued ar, bread maker, painter, retiring at the age of 70. He Plasma Labs while he was throughout his life. He enjoyed avid reader, and technology continued to volunteer his time still an astronomy major and gardening, keeping the back- maven. Reinfeld’s passion for and helped start a small minis- president of Students’ Council. yard birds well fed, traveling both learning and teaching was try mobilizing local churches to After graduation, he joined extensively with his family, and exceptional. He is survived help refugees and asylum-seek- Digital Equipment Corporation, summer vacations in Barnegat by his wife of 38 years, Linda; ers find temporary housing and where he developed patents in Light, N.J. He survived by his step-daughters Elizabeth Law- to connect them with other the emerging field of network wife of 24 years, Lynn, and ley and Jennifer Goldenberg; vital services upon arrival in the software. He then worked daughters Sarah and Emily. and two grandsons. United States. Poorman never for a small company that was tired of competing athletical- acquired by McAfee, where he Paul Gregory died Peter H. Barnett died ly, playing basketball twice a became president. In 2006, he 81 Jan. 6. After college, 66 Sept. 3. He received week and pitching in a church became CEO of cybersecurity he started his career in the his Ph.D. in philosophy from softball league into his 70s. firm Websense, retiring in 2013. Philadelphia area working for Columbia University and his More than anything else, he Joshua Kadish died of cancer NewsNet, where he met Lisa, M.A. in computer science from loved the company of friends on Oct. 7. A founding member who would become his wife. Brooklyn College. He taught and family, and had hundreds of the Portland, Ore., law firm They moved to California, then philosophy at John Jay College, scattered throughout the world. that became known as Wyse went on to settle in Plano, Tex- worked as a computer profes- He is survived by his wife of Kadish, he practiced family, as. The pair loved great food, sional for IBM and other firms, 51 years, Joanne; children Keli estate, and business law. He wine, and seeing the world and since his retirement was Dzordzorme, Aaron, and Garth; was a professional leader in together. When they became adjunct professor of computer and four grandchildren. mediation, which he taught parents to Bradley and Aman- science at the Grove School of for 25 years at Lewis and da, they continued to travel as Engineering at The City College Sivert Hagen died Oct. Clark Law School, and headed a family whenever they could. of New York. In addition to 73 3 of complications from several organizations devoted to Gregory was always with his numerous professional pub- cardiac arrest. Passionate about alternative dispute resolution. children for their activities, lications, Barnett created ten visual art, Hagen remained Chairman of the Honor Coun- such as volleyball, soccer, choir philosophic artists’ books. At creative throughout his life. His cil and an oboist as an under- and band concerts, and martial the time of his death, he was sculpture was shown widely, graduate, he sang and played arts. He became a very patient completing the manuscript including in exhibitions with guitar throughout his life. and dedicated Tae Kwon Do for “Creative Simultaneity,” a his classmate Wayne Marge, instructor, and achieved a continuation of his research and in a solo display that was Glenn A. Mackin, 64, 5th degree Black Belt. He is published in “Artificial Time: part of his Class’s 25th reunion. 76 died Dec. 25. He was survived by his wife, Lisa, and Emergent Interdependence in For many years, he lived in a neurologist at Lehigh Valley their children, Bradley Grego- a Distributing Computing Sys- his hometown of Closter, N.J., Health Network for the past 20 ry ’18 and Amanda.

80 Haverford Magazine THEN: The circa-1925 machine shop in long-gone Whitall Hall was a prime teaching tool for the engineering program of the time. According to the 1925 course catalog, there were woodworking and metalworking shops, a drafting room, and a materials laboratory for the testing of boilers, engines, air compressors, and the like. Getting up-close with machinery was key to the study of engineering noted the catalog: “Exceptional facilities for observing the practical side of the work are offered by the many manufacturing companies in and near Philadelphia, and frequent inspection trips are made.”

AND NOW: The Maker Arts Space in VCAM is the modern-day variant on a machine shop, housing an array of high-tech devices such as a 3D printer, a laser cutter, and a 3D scanner, as well as lots of design software. Pictured is Maker Arts Space Technician Kent Watson giving a tutorial on the massive CNC Router. (The CNC stands for “computer numerical control”—which moves the machine to coordinates specified by a computer.) “Our CNC machine has a spindle that rotates router bits,” says Watson. “With that, we can cut large, complex shapes out of a variety of materials including wood, foam, and plastics.” PHOTO: ASHLEY SISTO '20 (NOW) HAVERFORD COLLEGE NON-PROFIT ORG 370 Lancaster Avenue US POSTAGE Haverford, PA 19041 PAID BURLINGTON VT 05401 MOVING? PERMIT #286 Help us keep your magazine coming by emailing your new address to [email protected]. Or, fill in the address change form below and send it to us before you move. Change Service Requested

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