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HAVERFORD
Alumni Magazine Fall 2003
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The Classic Scholar-Athlete
If you were pressed to describe a “typical” Haverford graduate—if you had to include
a description for a time capsule, for example—you would do well to start with
Hunter Rawlings.
At Haverford, Rawlings was both serious scholar and serious athlete. And his career
in academia bespeaks an education steeped in academic rigor, values, a lifelong love
for learning, and tools necessary for leadership.
One of the things we try to do when we put this magazine together (when we’re not
fretting about getting it out six weeks late) is a big-picture inventory of how people,
programs, and events have been covered over the years in our own publications. Last
winter, we put together an issue devoted to newspaper journalists because it occurred
to us that Haverford, for its size and for an institution without a journalism major,
seems to have an inordinate number of accomplished newspaper people.
When Hunter Rawlings decided to step down from the Cornell presidency and back
into the classroom, it presented us with an opportunity to do a story. After some preliminary
research, we couldn’t find any stories of note about Hunter and his years at Iowa.
Nothing about his years at Cornell. The Spring 1966 issue of Haverford College Horizons
carried a photograph of senior basketball players Dave Felsen, Dave Kane, Rawlings,
Marsh Robinson, and Walt Whitman, along with a short piece about the team’s success.
It’s time to make amends. On page 16 you’ll find Edgar Allen Beem’s thoughtful profile.
Ed drove from Yarmouth, Maine, to Hunter’s home in Virginia so he could do a proper
initial interview. As befits a man of Hunter’s stature, the piece is illustrated by the crisp
photography of Robert Visser and presented in another elegant layout by John Maki.
After all of these years of missed chances, it’s only proper that we invited Greg
Kannerstein ’63 to write a personal sidebar about his friend Hunter (see page 22).
Greg’s story, I think you’ll agree, is a classic.
Stephen Heacock
Executive Director of Marketing & Communications
Class of ’66 yearbook
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Vice President for
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Editor, Executive Director of
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Production Manager,
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Staff Writer
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Contributing Writers
Edgar Allen Beem
Thomas Deans
Mike Ranen ’00
Maya Severns ’04
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Emily Davis ’99
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The Alumni Magazine of Haverford College Fall 2003
FEATURES
16 Back to the Books
After a two-decade career in higher education
administration, Hunter Rawlings ’66 returns
to the classics—and to the classroom.
by Edgar Allen Beem
25 A New Prescription for Jefferson
Seth Hollander ’96 felt a “sense of disconnect”
when he started medical school at Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia. Now he and
Chris Coletti ’00 are doing something about it.
by Brenna McBride
© 2003 Robert Visser
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28 Coast to Coast in Seven Days
When a friend needed to relocate to
Los Angeles, Mike Ranen ’00 did
the right thing. He drove her there.
by Mike Ranen ’00
DEPARTMENTS
2 The View from Founders
3 Letters to the Editor
4 Main Lines
8 Reviews
9 Notes from the
Alumni Association
11 Ford Games
14 Faculty Profile
33 Class News
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48 Moved to Speak
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The View from Founders
by Tom Tritton, President
On Humor
Acentury ago the four cardinal
“humors”—blood, bile, phlegm, and
melancholy—were thought to determine
a person’s mental and physical constitution.
Yuk…
When I was a kid growing up in the
1950s, “good humor” was an instantly recognizable
reference to a chocolate-covered
ice cream bar. Yum…
Nowadays, “humor” almost always
refers to wit, comedy, and laughter. While
not edible, and having no connotation of
bodily fluids, these traits also may influence
a person’s mental and physical condition,
leading one to wonder if there has
been any evolutionary progress in our
understanding of human nature. Hmm…
The desirability of humor has become
so strong that it is now a required professional
qualification. Job descriptions often
contain long lists of traits such as integrity,
time management, interpersonal skills,
etc., and end emphatically with a sense of
humor. Personally, I think they’ve got it all
wrong: a sense of humor should be first
on the list for almost any job I can imagine.
The value we attach to humor was
emphasized when the College invited Signe
Wilkinson, Quaker editorial cartoonist for
the Philadelphia Daily News, to be the
annual Rufus Jones Visitor to the campus
in the spring of 2003. Prone to tongue-incheek
expression and giving a lecture titled
“George W. Bush: Quakerism’s Most
Valuable Player,” Signe put forth her view
that by holding a moment of silence at
memorial and other important moments
in the nation’s activities, Bush promotes
Quakerism. Of course, this view is based
on the assumption that Quakers have
trademark rights to “moments of silence”
(come to think of it, assertion of Quaker
proprietary rights IS fun to imagine). In
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celebration of this fantasy, Signe drew a
cartoon of President Bush dressed in
Quaker (oats) garb, an original work of art
of which I am now the proud owner. For
more of her special brand of wit and wisdom
visit her website at: http://www.signetoons.com/
In the 1870s, terrible
pillow fights between
the residents of different
dorm floors were causing
much unhappiness on the
Board and in the faculty.
It was decided that direct
supervision was the only
solution to the malady of
continuing pillow fights.
It may be a lesser-known fact—although
of course thoroughly predictable— that
Fords have long displayed a robust sense
of humor through numerous pranks and
high jinks. A couple of examples taken
from A History of Haverford College, 1830-
1890:
In the 1870s, terrible pillow fights
between the residents of different dorm
floors were causing much unhappiness on
the Board and in the faculty. It was decided
that direct supervision was the only
solution to the malady of continuing pillow
fights. Alas, the superintendent was
away that night, and left the discipline to a
gentleman, “long of limb, but somewhat
short of sight.” The legend runs that a special
committee of students followed him
about his dormitory rounds, and blew out
his candle as fast as he could light it.
(Aside: modern students are ever so much
more inventive in their misdeeds)
In the 1880s, the College was in one of
those recurring periods when the faculty
was convinced that the students were not
serious enough about their studies. A wellrecorded
event demonstrated that even
tense subjects can have humorous undersides:
“For the whole of one night the
College was kept in a state of disquiet by
the appearance in Barclay Hall of a goodsized
calf, surreptitiously borrowed from
Robert Love, the farmer. The antics of the
students in this connection were such as
to excite the ire of those in authority, and
one member of the Faculty, whilst endeavoring
to quell the disturbance, narrowly
escaped being fastened into one of the
third-floor rooms, and spending the night
with the cause of the excitement.” Perhaps
this tale is what inspired the now famous
(and apocryphal, according to a recent
issue of the Bi-College News) legend of
Chevy Chase installing a cow on the fourth
floor of Barclay Hall.
In the 20th century we did not lack for
humorous episodes. I have been regaled
with numerous reports from alumni, most
notably the late Steve Cary, of the practice
of making wagers (a scandalous activity
among Quakers) about who would stand
up first to speak during the required Fifth
Day Meeting for Worship. Luckily, no
records exist as to who profited from this
practice, although I am told that some wags
would deliberately speak or not speak solely
to upset the predictions of students who
laid such bets.

Letters to the Editor
Naturally, we also have our share of literary
humor. The History of Haverford
College, in describing The Collegian, a literary
publication from 1849-50, notes that
it published 222 articles (1,158 pages), 37
of which (219 pages) were “humorous”
(the rest were devoted to such categories as
didactic, poetical, editorial, travels, biography,
and miscellaneous). Following
advice for writing a quality literary effort,
one student with the unlikely name of Tyro
Lingo allows that he “strove verbosely to
incomprehensificate an already insignificantly
incommunicative and inconceivably
non-understandable communication.”
The Collegian also featured some miscellaneous
works titled “Jack and Jill
Analyzed, A Dissertation on Shaking
Hands, Phonography and Phonotypy.”
Who could resist?
Turning to the present, you might be
able to lay your hands on a copy of The
Incontinent Donkey, a recent student literary
effort. This sporadic publication had
its share of comic moments, but also
exposed the risks of humor: one of the cartoons
contained a caricature in what many
considered to be a racist stereotype. The
ensuing debates sometimes lost sight of
the power of humor to illuminate difficult
subjects, but also caused us to confront
and discuss deeply held values of respectfulness
and civility.
A sense of humor is central to my way
of thinking about the world. There’s nothing
better for the soul than a good laugh
and almost (!) any situation can be
improved by one. Comedy, irony, satire,
whimsy, wit, absurdity, and pun are just
some of the qualities of speech that can
enrich our existence and make us hoot.
Put them together with the raw material
of life on a college campus and you have a
riotous combination. Just think of it: student
pranks, faculty jests, administrative
bloopers, alumni tomfoolery, Class Night
monkeyshines, and much, much more.
And couple this with a president who loves
to collect jokes and you have a combustible
mixture for raucous good humor.
Along those lines, have you heard the
one about… .
The Chemistry of Art
We enjoyed the most recent issue of the
Haverford Alumni Magazine focusing on
the fine arts at Haverford. Our alumni
should know that this fall the chemistry
department is offering a course for nonscientists
on the Chemistry of Art. Charles
Miller, who has taught a
popular course for nonscientists
on Chemistry
(and Politics) of the
Atmosphere, is on leave
this year. His replacement,
Valerie Walters, is teaching a
course on Chemistry of Art
and Artifacts in its place.
The course covers light and
color, pigments, paintings and
frescos, dyes and tapestries,
and copper, bronze, and marble
sculptures. The students
in the class gave poster presentations
on December 3 and 5 in the
Zubrow Commons.
Terry Newirth
Associate Professor and Chair,
Chemistry Department
During these tumultuous and difficult
years, art was her salvation. “When I was
painting or drawing something I could be
in my own world,” she says, “and forget
what was happening around me.” Even
though she was only permitted to create
propaganda art, such as larger-than-life
portraits of Mao and the Red Army soldiers,
she was thrilled to escape the heavy
labor of her daily life. “I didn’t care what
I was painting, I just liked to play with
paint.”
In 1977, after the fall of the infamous
“Gang of Four,” the tide began to turn in a
positive direction as colleges and universities
across China re-opened after 10 years
Encouragement
for the Arts
Just a note to say how much I enjoyed
the Summer 2003 alumni magazine featuring
the arts at Haverford. I just wish I
had the money and time to visit each of
the artists featured and see
their work up close and personal.
I hope very much
that discussion and eventual
construction of buildings
for the arts continues
and that this issue will
spur further discussion
and donations!
Thank you again for
a terrific issue!
Kate Cornwall P’88
Woodland, Calif.
Thank you for producing such an outstanding
issue on the visual arts. I enjoyed
reading it cover to cover, and I’m not any
kind of artist.
Bill Kirk, Jr. ’45
Winnetka, Ill.
Errata
Due to editing and production errors, several lines of copy were dropped from the faculty
profile of Ying Li (“The Art of Individuality,” Summer 2003 Haverford Alumni Magazine,
p. 13). Haverford Alumni Magazine regrets the error. The paragraphs, in their entirety, should
have read:
of darkness. At this point, Li was back in
the city to receive treatment for a broken
leg that couldn’t be healed in the country.
She was all too excited about the possibility
of attending college; as students were
not allowed to apply anywhere outside
their home provinces, she was fortunate
that the school in her province, Anhui
Teachers University in Hefei, had an art
program. But the shadow of the Revolution
proved a bigger stumbling block than she
had anticipated: People with “bad political
backgrounds”—like Li, whose father
had been arrested—could not even take
the entrance exams.
Haverford Alumni Magazine welcomes letters to the editor. Items for publication should be
addressed to Editor, Haverford Alumni Magazine, 370 Lancaster Avenue., Haverford, PA 19041,
or by e-mail to sheacock@haverford.edu. Letters may be edited for length, clarity, and style.
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New Scholarship Fund Honors Steve Cary ’37
Stephen G. Cary ’37
In October an anonymous Haverford
alumnus donated $500,000 to the College
to endow a new scholarship to honor
the life and service of a person who
embodied the spirit and strengths of
Haverford: Stephen G. Cary ’37. For
more than 68 years, Steve was connected
to the life of the College as a student,
dean, vice president, and acting president.
Beyond those roles, however, Steve perhaps
was remembered best by Haverfordians
as a fervent cheerleader and mentor
of students.
Steve was an extraordinary leader
whose wit, intelligence, grace, and
humanity touched all who interacted
with him. Steve’s love for Haverford and
its generations of students was
immense. To many of his former students
Steve remains an important
inspiring force and a personal role
model. His generous spirit and his ability
to implement his Quaker spirituality
into practice embodied the enduring
values of personal service and social
responsibility. His optimism and faith
in students, as well as his unwavering
belief in the educational mission of
Haverford College, make this new
scholarship a fitting extension of his
life's work. Steve's influence on students—and
on this institution—will
ever be part of the Haverford community,
thanks to the creation of a scholarship
in his name.
Those who would like to learn more
about this endowed scholarship or are
interested in making a donation to help
support the Stephen G. Cary ’37 Memorial
Scholarship are encouraged to contact
William Roth in the Haverford Office of
Institutional Advancement, (610) 896-
4984 or via e-mail at wroth@haverford.edu.
Roth Named Director
Of Major Gifts
Senior Major Gifts Officer William
Roth has been promoted to Director of
Major Gifts.
William has worked to establish and
develop the current National Gifts Program
(prospective donors of $25,000 -
$99,999) and to recruit its volunteer
leaders. He has effectively increased the
number of volunteers while also guiding
the program to reach its current
financial goals. In addition to his work
with National Gifts, he is project manager
for the “Educating to Lead, Educating
to Serve” campaign’s scholarship
initiative as well as the Douglas B. Gardner
’83 Integrated Athletic Center project.
(Groundbreaking for the new Athletic
Center will occur during the April
Board of Managers weekend.) In addition
to working with donors and
prospects, William will provide leadership
for the Major Gifts staff.
William is a 1993 graduate of Swarthmore
College, where he majored in
medieval studies. He holds a master of
arts degree in history from the University
of Virginia (1995). He has taught
history at both UVA and at Tulane University.
First-Year Student Produces NPR Segment
Even before first-year student Allison Jones completed the
fall semester at Haverford, her life’s experiences had been the
subject of a segment on National Public Radio. What’s more, she
produced the story herself.
For six months, beginning last March, Allison was an intern
at New York City’s NPR station, WNYC – FM (93.9). She was
part of the station’s “Radio Rookies” program,
which gives young people from
around the city a chance to produce a story
about an issue that’s important to them personally.
Allison’s story, which aired on “Morning
Edition” through November 1 on
WNYC, is about class division in New
York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, a predominantly
black, impoverished neighborhood
where she grew up. Most of her life, however,
was spent in private, predominantly
white schools. “My tastes, interests, and
life-style were more similar to those of my
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white friends than those of kids in my community,” says Allison.
“At home the other kids often ridiculed, me calling me a
‘white girl’ and saying that I was not ‘black enough.’”
Their comments, says Allison, made her think about her role in
her home and the black community at large. “I felt excluded from
the black community because of the school I attended, yet I felt
pressured to give to my community because
of the shared history and culture,” she says.
Over fall break, Allison attended the
Third Coast International Audio Festival,
a “celebration of the best feature and documentary
work heard worldwide on the
radio and the Internet.” Organized by a
team from Chicago public radio, the festival
included a competition, a nationwide
broadcast, website, and a Chicago-based
listening series.
You can listen to Allison’s story, archived
online at http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/Midwood/Alison.html

Wall Street Journal,
Atlantic Monthly
Rankings
Family & Friends Weekend
Can art help to build an international
bridge in a time of high worldwide tension?
Haverford believes it can. From
October 17 through 26, the College’s
Center for Peace and Global Citizenship
hosted an Indonesian group of artists
who work collaboratively to create public
art projects. While the group has
exhibited throughout Europe, the United
Kingdom, Japan, and Australia, the
artists’ visit to Haverford and the
Philadelphia area was part of their first
to the United States.
Leadership Weekend 2003
On Saturday, Oct. 4, during Leadership
Weekend 2003, the College community
gathered to dedicate the Humanities
Center in memory of John B.
Hurford ’60, who served on Haverford’s
Board of Managers. On hand to unveil
the plaque were his wife, Hildegard Hurford,
and daughter, Jennifer Hurford
’06. Jennifer delivered a heartfelt speech
in honor of her late father at a luncheon
held after the dedication.
The four artists—Sam Indratma, Warsono,
Ari Diyanto, and Arya Pandjalu—
call themselves Apotik Komik, or “Comic
Pharmacy,” because they want to heal
their audiences’ social or cultural illnesses
through comic books. Working outdoors
on the main quad during Family &
Friends Weekend in October, they collaborated
with Haverford students to
design a 20' X 5' mural on the theme of
“art for peace.” The completed mural will
be displayed in the future Center for
Peace and Global Citizenship Café.
On Friday night, noted speaker and
Princeton professor Cornel West delivered
a stirring speech about the challenges
facing higher education today—
and how value systems are formed
during the undergraduate years.
Cornel West
The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic
Monthly both published college rankings
this fall.
In a September 26 Wall Street Journal article,
Elizabeth Bernstein reported on graduate
school admissions, and some of the
undergraduate origins of those students who
started their graduate studies this fall at 15
— five each — of the top business, medical,
and law schools. Besides researching the
background of more than 5,000 students
who enrolled at schools such as Harvard Law
School and Wharton,
the Journal survey “canvassed
grad-school
admissions offices,
spoke to officials at
more than 50 colleges
and in some cases
counted up kids one
by one in student
‘face book’ directories.”
The article also
included examples of what several schools
are doing to help their undergraduates gain
admission to top graduate schools.
The Journal’s ranking of “the top feeder
schools” was based on the number of students
a college sent to one of the 15 top graduate
schools divided by the college’s class size.
Of the top 50 feeder schools, Haverford
was ranked sixth among all colleges and 18th
among all colleges and universities.
(From its survey of the Class of 2002
approximately six months after graduation,
the Career Development Office at Haverford
found that of those who responded, 47% said
they planned to attend some type of graduate
program within five years, the largest percentage
being in the arts and sciences.)
In the November 2003 issue of The
Atlantic Monthly, Haverford was ranked 29th
among the 50 most selective colleges and
universities in the country and 10th among
all of the colleges for the year 2002.
The Atlantic Monthly’s selectivity ranking
was based on 2002 student admission rates,
SAT percentiles, and high school class standing
for the freshman class matriculating in
the fall of 2002. The pool included U.S. doctoral
universities, liberal arts colleges, and
service academies.
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Anita Isaacs Observes Guatemala National Elections
On Nov. 9, Guatemala held national
elections for the second time since the end
of its brutal 36-year-old civil war during
which an estimated 200,000 Guatemalans
were either killed or disappeared.
In the days leading up to and following
the Guatemalan elections, Haverford
College political scientist Anita Isaacs was
part of a team of election observers representing
the Organization of American
States. Since the Guatemalan peace
accords were signed in 1996, Isaacs has
spent considerable time in that country
studying the challenges of peace building
there. The current regime has permitted
the resurgence of some of the most repressive
and corrupt elements from the
authoritarian, wartime era.
“One of the leading contenders for the
presidency is Rios Montt, a former general—now
president of Guatemala’s congress—who
was a dictator during the worst
of the repression,” says Isaacs. “ He and his
party have reversed the initial progress
made toward the end of the 1990s.” She
also notes that there also has been a resurgence
of political violence against those
Guatemalans seeking some kind of reckoning
or accounting for the past.
Montt came in third in an election field
Faculty Notes
Rebecca Compton, assistant professor
of psychology, attended the Psychonomic
Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver,
Nov. 6-9. She presented a poster—coauthored
by Robert Ocampo ’04—called
“The relationship between rumination and
task-switching.” The study demonstrates
that individual differences in a self-reported
tendency to ruminate about problems
are associated with the speed of shifting
from one type of cognitive decision to
another.
Assistant Professor of Biology Robert
Fairman was co-author of the article
“Mechanism of XIAP-mediated inhibition
of caspase-9” for the journal Molecular
Cell, Vol. 11 Issue 2, and “The SNARE
motif contributes to rbet 1 intracellular
targeting and dynamics independently of
SNARE interactions” for the Journal of Biological
Chemistry, Vol. 278 Issue 16.
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of 11 candidates. Oscar Berger, the former
Guatemala City mayor, and Alvara Colom,
a former peace fund administrator were
the top vote getters. Neither man received
half of the vote, however, and a runoff
election was scheduled for Dec. 28.
Following the completion of her last
book project, The Politics of Military Rule
and Transition in Ecuador, Isaacs turned
her attention toward researching the ways
Jerry Gollub, John and Barbara Bush
Professor of Physics, wrote the article “Discrete
and continuum descriptions of matter”
for the journal Physics Today, Vol. 56
Issue 1.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Laurie Kain Hart contributed a chapter
called “How to do things with things:
Architecture and ritual in Northern
Greece” to the book Ritual Poetics in Greek
Culture, published by Harvard University
Press.
Assistant Professor of Religion Naomi
Koltun-Fromm wrote the chapter “Zipporah’s
complaint: Moses is not conscientious
in the deed! Exegetical traditions
of Moses’ celibacy” for the book The Ways
That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in
Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,
published by Mohr Siebeck.
in which the international community can
contribute to the building of democracy.
“Although the international community
was not central to the democratization
that swept through Latin America in
the 1970s and ’80s, it did play a secondary
role, principally because of the Carter
administration’s emphasis on human
rights as a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy,”
explains Isaacs. She points out that
under the Reagan administration, the
emphasis on American foreign policy
shifted away from human rights narrowly
defined toward the notion of exporting
democracy, a theory of which Isaacs
remains skeptical.
“In the case of Guatemala, the international
community did play a role with
regard to that country’s peace accord,” says
Isaacs,” but I believe that in the long run
the success of peace hinges on Guatemala’s
resolve to continue toward peace.”
Isaacs was accompanied by her
research assistant of the past several years,
Virginie Ladisch ’00, who has studied reconciliation
in South Africa and Guatemala.
Isaacs, who holds the Stinnes Professorship
in Global Studies, has focused
much of her research on both Ecuadorian
and Guatemalan politics.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Stephen McGovern’s book Urban Policy
Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems
and Prospects of American Cities, coauthored
with Charles C. Euchner of Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government,
was published by Routledge in July.
McGovern’s article “Ideology, consciousness
and inner-city redevelopment: The
case of Stephen Goldsmith’s Indianapolis”
appeared in Vol. 25, Issue 1 of the Journal
of Urban Affairs.
Charles Miller, assistant professor of
chemistry, was awarded a three-year grant
from NASA for his proposal “Improving
Atmospheric CO 2 Retrievals,” submitted
in response to the NASA Research
Announcement for “Investigations that
Contribute to the NASA Earth Science
Enterprise’s Multidisciplinary Research in
Climate, Chemistry, and Global Model-

Athletic Center Wins
Board Approval
Financing and construction plans for
the Douglas B. Gardner ’83 Integrated
Athletic Center were approved during the
October 3-4 Board of Managers meeting.
The 100,000-square-foot facility will cost
an estimated $28,000,000.
A formal groundbreaking ceremony is
slated for April 23, 2004; construction
will take an estimated 18 months.
The facility is named for Douglas B.
Gardner, who died in the World Trade
Center along with fellow athletic alumni
Tom Glasser ’82 (for whom the Hall of
Achievement in the new building will be
named) and Calvin Gooding ’84 (in
whose memory the basketball performance
court will be named). Lead donor
for the project is Howard Lutnick ’83.
Honored during a Saturday night, Oct.
4, athletic event were two of the most
prominent coaches and administrators in
Haverford athletic history. Thanks to generous
donors, the Gardner Center’s multipurpose
room will be named for longtime
coach and athletic director Dana Swan,
and the wing adjacent to the Gooding
Court will be named for current athletic
director and associate dean (and former
baseball coach) Gregory Kannerstein ’63.
S.I. Newhouse ’03 is Featured in the
Documentary, “Born Rich,” Now Airing on HBO...
S.I. Newhouse ’03 is featured in the
documentary “Born Rich,” currently airing
on HBO. The film, which contains
interviews of several young heirs to large
fortunes, was directed and produced by
a long-time Newhouse friend, Jamie
Johnson, himself an heir to the Johnson
& Johnson pharmaceutical empire. Newhouse
and Johnson grew up together, and
both attended the Pingry School where
they shared an art class. “Jamie came up
with the idea for this film while he was
at N.Y.U., and I was a freshman at Haverford,”
recalls Newhouse. “It was his first
film project, and he asked if I would agree
to be interviewed.” The young director
interviewed S.I. three times, including
once while Newhouse competed with his
Haverford fencing teammates during a
match at Drew University, and again during
his senior year on campus. “I was flattered
that he asked me,” says Newhouse.
As a result of his friend’s project and
the four film courses he took while at
Haverford, S.I. says he would eventually
like to study film theory. For now, he’s
applying his English degree and creative
writing concentration from Haverford to
the world of publishing, specifically
through an executive training program
at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
For a schedule of “Born Rich” air
dates, go to the www.HBO.com and click
on Documentaries.
S.I. Newhouse ’03
ing.” Miller also contributed “The Rotational
Spectroscopy of Iodine Dioxide,
OIO” to the Journal of Chemical Physics,
Vol.118 Issue 14.
Robert Mortimer, professor of political
science, contributed the chapter “The
Return of Bouteflika” for the book Africa
Contemporary Record, published by
Holmes and Meier; and the chapter
“African Union” for the New Book of
Knowledge, published by Grolier Publishing
Company.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Alexander
Norquist co-authored articles published
in the journals Acta Crystallographica E,
Vol. 59 Issues 6 and 7; Chemistry of Materials,
Vol. 15 Issues 7 and 10; Journal of the
Chemical Society (Dalton Transactions),
Issue 6; Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol.
113 Issue 1; and Faraday Discussions of the
Chemical Society, Vol. 122.
Iruka Okeke, assistant professor of
biology, wrote the article “Export of
antimicrobial drugs by West African Travelers”
for the Journal of Travel Medicine,
Vol. 10 Issue 2.
Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge
was co-author of the chapter “The
OTHER Keck Observatories” for the book
The Future of Small Telescopes, published
by Kluwer Academic Publishing Co. He
also co-wrote the article “So What IS the
Astronomy Major?” for the Astronomy
Education Review, Vol. 1 Issue 2.
Jennifer Punt, associate professor or
biology, was co-author of the article “Cutting
Edge: Identification of the Targets of
Clonal Deletion in an Unmanipulated
Thymus” for the Journal of Immunology,
Vol. 170 Issue 1.
Professor of History Paul Jakov Smith
was co-editor of the book Song-Yuan-Ming
Transition in Chinese History, published by
the Harvard University Asia Center. He
also wrote two chapters: “Introduction:
Problematizing the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition”
and “Impressions of the Song-Yuan-
Ming Transition: The Evidence from Biji
Memoirs.”
Associate Professor of Psychology
Wendy Sternberg was co-author of the
article “Effects of gestational stress and
neonatal handling on pain, analgesia, and
stress behavior of adult mice” for the journal
Psychology and Adult Behavior, Vol. 78
Issue 3.
Christina Zwarg, associate professor of
English, attended the English Institute Meeting
Sept. 19-21 at Harvard University.
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Reviews
DJ Eurok ’00
Self Realization
DJ Eurok’s debut album, “Self Realization,” is a pleasing mix of hip-hop and electronica rhythms coupled
with soulful melodies, influenced by world, traditional, and future musics. A hip-hop album with no vocals
may seem out of character for an artist who loves to freestyle during his performances, but the result manages
both to relax and energize the listener. Always seeking an outlet to express his political and personal
feelings, DJ Eurok has written spoken word poetry and hip-hop
rhymes touching on issues such as the corruption of the record
industry, D.C.’s struggle for statehood, the loss of friends and
loved ones, and his journey as an independent artist. This
work led to his opening on the recent Beats for Peace tour,
sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. An
active member of his community, DJ Eurok teaches hip-hop
arts classes, DJs at youth rallies, parties, and other community
events, and is always looking to aid projects that
will “allow the youth to speak for themselves.” He is also an
active member of a movement of D.C. hip-hop artists for
D.C. statehood, democracy, justice, and peace.
The Hemp SeeDee:
A Compilation of Songs and Stories
Celebrating the Many Uses of Hemp
In 1996, Cristina and Robbie Anderman ’70 started The
Cool Hemp Company Inc., a family business which produces
kosher, vegan, all natural and organic, fair trade Canadian
hempseed treats. Cristina began by making hempseed cookies
and then moved on to a more ambitious project, Cool
Hemp frozen dessert, a tasty hemp alternative to ice cream.
These foods are made from what is termed “industrial
hemp,” which is not the same as marijuana. Both hemp
and marijuana are strains of the Cannabis sativa plant, but
the hemp variety contains less than 1 percent THC, as opposed to the 10 to 20 percent THC found in marijuana.
In other words, the hemp used for making rope and cloth will not get you high. However, it is an
excellent source of digestible protein with anti-oxidant properties which provides the body with essential
fatty acids (Omega 3 and 6) in the correct proportion: 1 to 3.
“The Hemp SeeDee” is a compilation of songs and stories about hemp, full of fun facts which serve to
educate the general public about potential uses of this plant. The songs range from blues and rock to Carribean
and folk, so there is something for almost every listener’s taste. Following each song, Garnet Kranz talks
about hemp’s everyday uses in Renfrew County and recounts stories of what happened to people during the
Depression when they were told they could no longer grow hemp. Kranz also brings to light important issues
about hemp, such as its use as a cure for tuberculosis. “The Hemp SeeDee” encourages people to create a
brighter future for our planet, by means of hemp.
—Maya Severns ’04
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Notes from the Alumni Association
Dear Haverfordians and Friends:
When I was an undergraduate, I occasionally
visited Roach and O’Brien, and
distinctly recall going there when alumni
were in town. We would chat with the
older, wiser alums, obtaining hints about
finding jobs or internships, or reminiscing
about what Haverford was like back in the
day. Today, I now find myself one of those
older alums, who is being questioned about
life ‘back’ in the ’80s. At the risk of employing
an overused cliché, my how time flies
when you are having fun.
My tour of duty serving as the president
of the Alumni Association will end in June.
It has been a pleasure and an honor. Two
years in this capacity remind me once again
how proud I am to be have graduated from
Haverford, and more importantly, how
privileged we are to be blessed with close
college friendships and a College committed
to excellence.
I am especially excited about Haverford’s
present and future. Part of this job has
entailed chatting with students – in committee
meetings, between or during meals,
or perhaps while walking from one part of
campus to another. At the risk of embarrassing
certain current students, I will single
out a few anyway. Scott Simpson ’04,
Joe Sacks ’05, Ted Cleary ’04, Jon Debrich
’05, and Lauren Hradecky ’05 are but a few
of the students I am pleased to have
known. Scott’s passion for jazz, Joe’s interest
in party politics, and Ted’s interest in
and knowledge of business are contagious.
They represent our alma mater well. After
meeting each of them, I am left believing
that their charisma and intelligence will
help make the world a better place.
I recently met Jon and Lauren,
Haverford’s current student government
co-presidents, at Leadership Weekend this
past October. Once again, these two students
possess that rare combination of wit,
smarts, and panaché. They listen well. They
recognize their limitations, questioning
authority (the administration) as they
simultaneously determine when to defer
to authority’s expertise. They are bright, as
are their futures beyond Haverford.
Time at Roach’s on the Saturday night of
Leadership Weekend allowed me to converse
with alumni of different vintages. Again, at
the risk of mentioning only two persons, I
will note that conversations with David
Spitulnik ’76 and Tal Alter ’98 served as
poignant reminders that Haverfordians are
both inquisitive and thoughtful. David and
I met years ago when I lived in Chicago; we
found ourselves chatting about politics and
sports at various alumni events. This past fall
we reconnected, and found ourselves once
again speaking candidly about our favorite
(and least favorite) politicians, sports teams,
and professors. Tal and I met by accident at
Roach’s, only to learn that we have mutual
family friends and intellectual interests.
I would be remiss if I did not reveal my
appreciation for members of the Board of
Managers. Their love of Haverford, combined
with their sense of purpose and generosity,
is truly remarkable. Barry Zubrow ’75, Cathy
Koshland ’72, and so many others too numerous
to name have steered, prodded, and guided
Haverford both imaginatively and constructively.
I am grateful for coming to know
them, and hope that more of you get to do
so in forthcoming years.
In each of these encounters, one overarching
theme prevails. Most Haverfordians
are decent, honorable men and women
who appreciate life’s complexities and challenges.
By decent I do not mean ‘tolerable’
or ‘passable’ but rather genuinely and sincerely
kind. These alumni, and so many
others, care about the world in which we
live, think about ways to improve the lives
of others, and then pursue a course of
action, leaving their mark without a trace
of hubris.
To those Haverfordians not yet connecting
or reconnecting to the College, I
ask that you contact me, or perhaps a classmate
or long-lost friend. The future of
Haverford is bright, in large part because
of all of you. Your intellectual and financial
generosity is needed now more than
ever. Haverford College is a beacon of
excellence, and will remain so with the
continued support of its alumni volunteers.
Hope to see you on campus soon.
Respectfully,
Robert M. Eisinger ’87
eisinger@lclark.edu
Alumni Association
Executive Committee
President
Robert M. Eisinger ’87
Vice President
Jonathan LeBreton ’79
Members and Liaison Responsibilities:
Ty Ahmad-Taylor ’90
Melissa M. Allen ’86
Southeast - Alumni Awards
Eva Osterberg Ash ’88
[ex officio]
Sarah G. Ketchum Baker ’91
Maine - Admissions
Paula O. Braithwaite ’94
New England - Multicultural
Michael E. Gluck ’82
Washington, D.C., lambda
Kate Irvine '86
Midwest
Garry W. Jenkins ’92
New York City - Career Development
Christopher J. Lee ’89
Washington, D.C. - Athletics
Anna-Liisa Little ’90
Pacific Northwest
Regional Societies
Bradley J. Mayer ’92
Pacific Northwest - Communications Committee
Christopher B. Mueller ’66
Central U.S. - National Gifts
Ronald Schwarz ’66
Washington, D.C., Metro - Admission
Rufus C. Rudisill, Jr. ’50
E. Pennsylvania - Senior Alumni - Regional Societies
Ryan Traversari ’97
New York City - Career Development
Student Representative:
Chloe Caraballo '06
If you would like to nominate an alumnus/a for the
Alumni Association Executive Committee, please
contact the Alumni Office at (610) 896-1004.
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Notes from the Alumni Association continued from page 9
Haverford on the Web
The Haverford website is a valuable
resource for alumni. View photos of
recent events in the Alumni Photo
Gallery, sign up for e-mail forwarding,
update your address and contact information,
obtain Career Development
information, and see what your classmates
are up to on your class’s own webpage.
Visit: www.haverford.edu and click
on “Alumni.”
Regional Societies
Great things are happening in your area!
“Welcome Freshmen” parties, informal
alumni gatherings, visits from faculty,
staff, and President Tritton, campaign
celebrations, and much more! For
complete information about these or any
upcoming alumni events, visit the online
Regional Events Calendar, accessible
from: www.haverford.edu. Click on
“Alumni,” then “Regional Events.”
This calendar is updated frequently,
so be sure to check back often.
Also, the Haverford Alumni Office
recently has been visiting several key
cities around the country in an ongoing
effort to recruit Regional Leaders to host
future alumni events. Do you have an
idea for a successful regional event? Are
you interested in learning how to
become a Regional Leader? Contact the
Alumni Office at 610-896-1004 for
details.
Regional Volunteers
Needed: Baltimore,
Boston, NYC, and
Beyond
Regional volunteers plan events that
help alumni, parents, and friends keep in
touch with Haverford and become active
members of their local Haverford community.
The alumni office is looking for helpful
regional volunteers, especially in the
Baltimore, Boston, and New York City
metropolitan areas. For more information,
contact the alumni office at (610)
896-1004, or alumni@haverford.edu.
Call for Nominations
Who is the most outstanding alum
you know? The Alumni Office is accepting
nominations year-round for our
annual Alumni Awards. For complete
information about the awards including
their descriptions, who is eligible, and
how to complete a nomination, go to
www.haverford.edu (click on “Alumni”
then “Awards”), or call the Alumni
Office at: 610-896-1002.
LAMBDA List-serve
LAMBDA, the Alumni Association’s
network of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
and interested alumni, has been
maintaining an e-mail list-serve. To subscribe,
send the following message to
listproc@haverford.edu: subscribe lambda-alumni,
your name, and class year.
For more information about this and
other LAMBDA activities, please contact
the Alumni Office or Theo Posselt ’94 at:
tposselt@dc.com.
Alumni Admission
Volunteers Needed
Alumni volunteers are needed in the
following states to assist in interviewing
prospective students and attending college
fairs. Send an e-mail to
alumni@haverford.edu or call
(610) 896-1002.
Additional Volunteers Needed:
California
(Kent, Davis, Oakland, Berkeley)
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
INTERNATIONAL
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Missouri (KC and StL)
New Hampshire
New York
(Rochester, Staten Island, Long
Island, Bronx, Queens,
Queensbury, Pine Bush)
North Carolina (Charlotte)
Ohio
Oregon (Portland)
Pennsylvania
(Mechanicsburg, Doylestown,
Allentown, Royersford, Bensalem)
Rhode Island
Texas
Virginia
Wisconsin
No Current Volunteers:
Mississippi
Montana
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
West Virginia
Wyoming
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Ford Games
by Steve Heacock
Finding
Balance
From his unique position at Duke, Paul Haagen ’72
examines what works—and doesn’t work—in collegiate athletics.
Paul Haagen ’72
When Paul Haagen played
lacrosse at Haverford, weight-training
equipment consisted of a well-worn
Universal machine. Free weights were
pipes with cement-filled cans on either
end.
He wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Like most Haverford student-athletes,
Haagen found something at Haverford so
golden, so special, that a primitive weight
room didn’t really matter. More than 30
years later, as a law professor at Duke, he
has some different thoughts and feelings
about Haverford’s facilities, but more on
that later.
“I’ll say right up front that I was not a
standout athlete at Haverford College,”
Haagen admits, “but my time at Haverford
was an incredibly happy, intellectually
intense opportunity to grow as a person.
Haverford permitted me to do a lot of different
things, to experiment and explore
different aspects of my personality and
skills in a way that didn’t require any posturing.
It was an altogether authentic experience.
I could be who I was without apology.
I switched majors a couple of times, I
chaired the Honor Council—which was
very important to me. I played lacrosse and
I’d never played before. The people I found
on the lacrosse team had intellectual and
personal skills dramatically different from
my own. The captain of the team taught
me how to handle myself in certain situations.
I was the smallest person on the
lacrosse team, and we were given a set of
extremely high expectations. There were
no compromises about anything.”
That no-compromise stance was upheld
in academic life, as well. A religion major,
Haagen recalls being “really pushed” by
the history and religion departments at
Haverford. Haagen knew what life at a liberal
arts college would demand of him. He
was born in Lancaster, Pa., but was raised
in Middletown, Ct.; his father taught at
Wesleyan. After attending Mount Hermon,
“I played lacrosse and I’d
never played before.
The people I found on the
lacrosse team had
intellectual and personal
skills dramatically different
from my own. The captain
of the team taught me
how to handle myself in
certain situations.”
Haagen set his sights on Stanford, Yale, and
Swarthmore. After interviewing at Swat
and hating it (“They told me I’d be happier
working for Cs than I would be working
for As elsewhere . . . and all the tour guide
could talk about were the great parties
where everyone would get wasted.”), he
interviewed at Haverford. A friend of his
father’s was a member of the Haverford faculty.
“The place just resonated with me personally,”
he recalls, “and I applied Early
Decision. I immediately liked the look and
feel of it. At Haverford, everyone talked to
me about the work they were doing, the
projects they were involved with. It was
serious without being pretentious. There
was a terrific variety of experiences open
to me and the ease with which I could
move from world to world within those
experiences was an incredibly important
formative phase for me.”
If Haagen’s academic credentials are any
indication, his desire for learning was
encouraged and nurtured at Haverford.
After graduating magna cum laude, Phi
Beta Kappa, with high honors in religion,
he went on to study as a Rhodes Scholar
in Oxford. He also earned degrees at
Princeton (master’s and Ph.D.) and Yale
(J.D.). He studied history first at Oxford
and then pursued it at Princeton. At Yale,
he was editor of the Yale Law and Policy
Review and an editor of the Yale Journal of
World Public Order. After Yale, he clerked
on the United States Court of Appeals
before doing a two-year stint at Dechert
Price and Rhoads in Philadelphia. He
joined the Duke Law faculty in 1985.
At Duke School of Law he teaches contracts,
American legal history, and a course
called “Sports and the Law.” He continues
to research, publish, and deliver
speeches on debt law, imprisonment for
debt, “contracting around”—the use of
voluntary instruments to contract out of
legal matters. He is involved in Duke’s
international programs in Cambridge,
Mexico City, Brussels, Geneva, and Hong
Kong, among others. And his committee
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work makes a more-than-generous swath
through the roster of university
(Academic Council, University Judicial
Board, Faculty Hearing, Rhodes Scholarship,
Faculty Compensation, for example)
and law school (Clerkship, Curriculum
Review, Financial Aid, and Library,
to name a few) committees. He lives in
Durham with his wife and their two children;
his son, Chris, is a freshman at
Haverford this year.
In light of all of the discussion and
debate (and some would say furor) surrounding
The Game of Life (2000) and
Reclaiming the Game (2003), books by former
Princeton president William G.
Bowen, Haagen is in a good position to
make assessments with an eye trained for
historical perspective. Bowen has examined
athletics and academic performance
at the Ivies and other elite institutions. He
decries the professionalism of sport at the
collegiate level and believes elite institutions
are headed down the wrong path in
actively recruiting athletes to compete
against powerhouse athletic programs
around the country. The increased professionalism
of collegiate sports, he argues,
is not consonant with the intense academic
inquiry—and the resources dedicated
to that inquiry—at the country’s
most selective colleges and universities.
He hammers home bullet points, citing
relaxed admissions standards for athletes
and academic underperformance once
those athletes get in. He argues that elite
institutions can ill afford to set aside “slots”
for specialized athletes who do not have
sufficient academic credentials to be
admitted in the first place—and who often
don’t have the time or academic prowess to
succeed once they’re part of the academic
community.
In a recent article in the Princeton
Alumni Weekly, Bowen said “We find that
[incoming Princeton] students who make
it onto the coaches’ lists are students who
are not only talented athletically, but have
a focus and a commitment that in some
instances borders on single-mindedness,
to the sport, and perhaps to the coach and
to the team. That inevitably affects how
they allocate their time, what they think
about when they wake up in the morning
and are in the shower, what they choose
to do with the extra half hour that somehow
appears in the day.
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“Division III faces two
dramatically different sets
of problems, on one hand,
there is a push for a
different articulation of
athletics—as part of a
balanced, integrated life.
You stress participation,
the fact that athletes can
do other things in their
lives, they can integrate
activities and scholarship.”
“At some of these schools, there are not
just a few people occupying these places,
but lots of people. They’re occupying places
that could have gone, in many instances,
to very well-rounded students, many of
whom want to play sports, but who also
are eager to take full advantage of a very
scarce educational resource. Princeton is
a very privileged place. I would argue that
it has an obligation to want to have its
extraordinary educational resources utilized
to the fullest. I’m not just talking
about grades here. It’s about going to the
odd lecture, participating in some new
extracurricular activity, being part of a liberal-arts
community. It’s just hard for me
to see how you justify assigning so many
places at an educational institution to folks
who seem to have a different agenda.”
Bowen’s critics—and there are many—
believe his stance is elitist and does not
take into account the positive attributes
athletes bring to higher education. Haagen
is one of those critics.
“What Bowen misses,” he says, “is the
fact that at elite institutions, athletes come
with skill sets that are socially prized. They
graduate and function as citizens of the
republic and do positive things. The reach
positions of leadership and foster teamwork
and loyalty. We should take this very
seriously. We need to tell a new story about
who athletes are in the context of higher
education.”
Part of that context, he feels, is informed
by history. As Haagen is quick to point out,
“virtually everything we worry and talk
about today appeared extremely early in
the process. By 1905, people were concerned
about wildly different entrance values,
commercialization, specialized treatment
of players, misallocated funds, and
institutional image. The dynamic of competition
was part of that. Sports were projected
as ‘appropriate.’ These were men of
action, ensuring that athletics were part of
the institution, and Harvard, Yale, and
Princeton were the critical players.”
Stepping back from institutional athletics
to see how society treats athletics is
an important part of understanding current
problems, according to Haagen.
“Commitment to activity is coming much
earlier,” he says. “When football first
became a big part of college life, people
were just learning football. The players
used to be big, strong people, not professional
athletes recruited to be on the team
so they could compete against other professional
athletes.” One of the keys to
understanding the athlete’s place in higher
education, he says, is understanding or
at least recognizing that athletes do learn.
“It’s education as performance,” he says.
“I would not advise you to get into a situation
where you’re pretending that athletics
are extracurricular. You need to have
curricular components, and what are they
going to be?
“What is changing in the current environment
is an increased pressure on institutions
to understand the balance between
a high public interest in certain sports and
things like Title IX. There is inherent risk
in the high levels of money involved. How
do the elite institutions respond to the misallocation
of resources?”
On the Division III level, Haagan
acknowledges, things play out much differently.
“Division III faces two dramatically
different sets of problems,” he says.
“On one hand, there is a push for a different
articulation of athletics—as part of a
balanced, integrated life. You stress participation,
the fact that athletes can do
other things in their lives, they can integrate
activities and scholarship. The other
model is very different: athletics as a way of
doing something that attracts different
people to the institution. There are very
strong feelings around this issue, but people
clearly believe there is a payoff. You
have kids in organized leagues and on traveling
teams at a very early age. People

elieve in the benefits of early physical
activity, the work ethic, the teamwork, the
development of leadership skills, all the
good things. In higher education, you just
have to make it have intellectual, academic
sense within the institution and the
things you’re trying to do.
“What research was starting to show
that the big athletic programs were starting
to lose balance. A high percentage of
athletes were starting to perform poorly in
the classroom. There was anecdotal evidence
that athletes were part of a negative
experience on campus—they were going
through as a group with little positive interaction
with other students and faculty.
That’s not an issue at Haverford, but it’s an
illustration of what was going on at the
some of the big programs.”
Outside of his work at Duke, Haagen
does some international sports consulting.
He has become an expert on blood-doping
investigation and international competition,
working with U.S.A. Track &
Field to guide athletes through the procedural
protections in this arena. Because of
its well-established procedural protections
for athletes, Haagen says, the United States
has become somewhat demonized by other
groups who insinuate that the U.S. protections
are a coverup.
Haagen also works with Arn Tellem ’76
to counsel student-athletes at Duke. As
chair of Duke’s Student-Athlete Counseling
Committee, he has worked with the likes
of Grant Hill, Cherokee Parks, and Shane
Battier as these student-athletes made the
transition from student-athlete to professional
athlete. Duke’s counseling effort is
one of the most expansive programs in the
country; it’s relatively rare that a university
will seek collaboration with professionals
outside its own athletic department. It’s
rarer still to find a program involving outside
professionals in a substantive way to
improve the counseling and agent-selection
process. Family, friends, and coaches
are part of that process, too, and Duke’s
committee is progressive enough to include
them. It’s up to the student-athlete to decide
how much support, how much advice is
supplied. “We’re preparing these studentathletes
for life,” Haagen says, “and the
challenges and opposition that await them.
They’re about to deal with the big business
of professional sports, contracts, endorsements,
and professional sports agents. A
number of schools have professional sports
counseling committees, but these committees
are ‘procedural’ rather than ‘substantive.’
My understanding of the distinction
is that most committees merely attempt
to get agents to meet certain minimal registration
requirements, but do not attempt
any serious counseling of athletes.”
In early October, Haagen was at
Haverford to discuss his work at Duke in
presentations for classes, and for Haverford
athletic and other staff. He also met with
“At elite institutions,
athletes come with skill
sets that are socially
prized. They graduate and
function as citizens of the
republic and do positive
things. The reach positions
of leadership and foster
teamwork and loyalty.
We should take this very
seriously. We need to tell
a new story about who
athletes are in the context
of higher education.”
pre-law students and Rhodes candidates.
Associate athletic director and sports information
director John Douglas was
impressed by Haagen’s ability to weave
themes together, from international competition
to Division III.
“Paul is uniquely qualified,” Douglas
says, “as someone who was a Haverford
athlete now in a lion’s den of big-time athletics.
He’s seen it all, thought about it all,
and at the deepest levels. He has studied
collegiate athletics since the Civil War and
understands how we got here. The big
schools have demonstrated their bigness
by competing at that level. The small
schools want success without the ‘sins’ of
our larger peers. Paul has thought about
‘pure athletics’ and we believe at Haverford
we’re closer to that ideal than some of the
big state universities. There are varying
degrees to the exceptions institutions
make in order to be successful. Some definition
of purity would be based on a program
that makes the fewest exceptions.
“At Haverford, Paul Haagen saw an allmale
school, saw football winding down,
and was part of the lacrosse program as it
was starting. He saw some of the ebb and
flow that we’ve come to associate with athletics
at Haverford over the years. As close
as he is to Duke, Paul seems to have no
illusions that there are lots of commonalities
with places like Haverford. We’re all
under the NCAA umbrella but he lives and
sees the differences between Division I and
Division III. It’s the contrast of athletes with
professional ambitions who are providing
entertainment against Haverford’s notion
of competition and participation as part of
a student’s educational experience. It’s very
integrated here and so separate and defined
there. Paul perceives and articulates those
differences as well as anyone.”
Haverford moves into a new athletic era
with the groundbreaking for the new
Douglas B. Gardner Athletic Center this
spring. The Center is Phase I of the
College’s planned two-phase athletic facilities
project. How does the promise of a
new facility translate to someone who graduated
more than 30 years ago, a lacrosse
player who used blocks of cement and a
pipe for free weights?
“It’s actually very difficult to know how
this facility will affect things,” Haagen says.
“On one level, it certainly will bring
Haverford up to the level of its peers. That’s
important for athletes, for coaches, and for
recruiting athletes. But it will also provide
facilities for non-athletes. That’s an important
connection. You’re involving the community.
When you move forward and tear
down the Field House—where we used to
choke on the dust—that’s another positive
move. It’s a terrible building.
“On another level, you can talk about
this and the profile of athletics changing
around the world. At Haverford, the track
and field program has been and continues
to be a big deal. Greg Kannerstein is one
of the most thoughtful people in this arena.
In trying to understand sports as performance,
how does it have experiential
social values we associate with participation
and integration without becoming
taskmaster stuff that drives everything else
out? A new facility, a better facility, will
provide a more attractive atmosphere in
which that can happen.”
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Faculty Profile
by Brenna McBride
Music Man
Through teaching and technology, Richard Freedman
encourages “musical thinkers” among his students.
Professor of Music Richard Freedman
learned to read musical notation before he
could read words. “As a little kid, I could
decode notes in terms of pitch and
rhythm,” he says.
Growing up in Bucks County, Pa., he
began to play the piano at age six and went
on to play the violin in his elementary
school’s orchestra. He was fortunate to
attend a high school with a thriving music
community, where he played piano in the
jazz band and accompanied the choirs, in
addition to studying solo repertoire for the
piano. Freedman studied composition and
piano performance at the Pennsylvania
Governor’s School for the Arts, a summer
program for high school students active in
the arts.
Despite his passion for music, Freedman
also had strong interests in math and
physics, for a time considering a career in
acoustics. For this reason he didn’t want
to attend college at a traditional conservatory
but instead preferred a larger university
with a strong music program,
where he would be exposed to different
types of students and courses. While performing
a college search with a librarian
friend, he came across the University of
Western Ontario, which seemed to meet
his requirements. “I wrote to them on a
lark,” he says, “and received a personal
note from the director of music school
admissions.” He traveled to Canada for an
intensive interview that involved an audition,
an essay, musical analysis, and a listening
exam.
When he first started college, Freedman
thought he might become a composer, but
eventually found a special affinity with
members of the music history faculty. He’s
still grateful to his mentors for steering
him toward his ultimate academic path. “I
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tell all my students that they must connect
with a mentor,” he says. “The character of
your education is of course partly due to
the subject matter, but the person from
whom you learn is in some ways no less
important.”
Musicology appeals to him on many
levels. On one hand, the process of historical
inquiry into the original contexts
of musical works makes them come alive.
But at the same time the rigors of musical
analysis appeal to the math-loving part of
his brain. “There’s an affinity between
mathematicians and musicians,” he says.
“I tell all my students that
they must connect with a
mentor. The character of
your education is of course
partly due to the subject
matter, but the person
from whom you learn is
in some ways no less
important.”
Richard Freedman
“Both fields involve abstraction and
abstract thought.”
Freedman received his bachelor’s degree
in music, with honors in music history,
from Western Ontario in 1979. He went
on to the University of Pennsylvania to
earn his master’s in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1987
in the history and theory of music. At
Penn, he once again forged a relationship
with a mentor, who influenced his abiding
academic interest in music of
Renaissance France. For nearly 20 years,
Freedman has studied the mutual connections
between musical expression and
its social, spiritual, and intellectual contexts.
Internationally published on these
subjects, he has presented his work at academic
conferences in England (at King’s
College Cambridge), France (at the
Chateau de Chambord), and Germany (at
the University of Freiburg in Breisgau).
More recently he was a visiting scholar at
the Folger Shakespeare Library in
Washington, D.C. (one of the world’s premier
libraries of Renaissance materials),
and also participated in a seminar on the
history of the book at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Freedman’s publications explore, among
other themes, the place of music in the
lives of French Protestants, the relationship
between musical styles and literary
movements, and the role of the printing
press in the transformation of musical
tastes. The advent of music printing in the
early 16th century profoundly changed the
relationship among composers, performers,
and audiences. Printed texts were more
accurate than those produced under the
scriptorium system, and were available
across musical Europe in ways that manuscript
copies were not. The advent of
book fairs, for instance, also introduced
French poetry and music to other
European countries. “It made cultural dialogue
possible,” says Freedman. “These
cross-cultural contacts were unprecedented.”
His book, The Chansons of Orlando di
Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music,
Piety, and Print in 16th Century France
(Rochester University Press, 2001), further
explores these and other themes.

“Orlando di Lasso was a giant in his day,
the Mozart of the 16th century,” says
Freedman. “He composed in every genre
of the language.” But he was also very
interested in the new medium of music
printing, personally supervising the publication
of his works. Thanks to the influence
of the French King, Charles IX, he
became the first composer ever to secure
an intellectual property right over his
music. “He was unique among his musical
contemporaries in having the right to
make sure his music wouldn’t be distributed
or reprinted erroneously,” says
Freedman. And yet some French
Protestants could not resist the impulse to
appropriate Lasso’s French songs for their
own devotional purposes, supplying them
with new, spiritual texts in place of the
bawdy ones chosen by Lasso. Freedman’s
book explores the relationship between the
authorized and pirated versions of these
chansons in an effort to discover something
about how Renaissance musicians
heard and read Lasso’s works.
At Haverford, where he has worked
since 1986, the core of Freedman’s teaching
involves courses in the history of
European art music, from medieval to
modern. He also has broadened his musical
horizons to include a diverse repertory
of styles and genres. One class discusses
jazz and its social meaning in
America; Freedman juxtaposes recorded
performances with primary sources like
memoirs, eyewitness accounts and criticism.
Students explore music and musical
lives in an effort to understand how jazz
came to be, and its significance in
American culture. Freedman also teaches
a class on South, Central, and East
Asian music, and has helped bring Asian
artists to campus through the Kessinger
Family Fund for the Asian Performing
Arts, established by former Haverford
president Tom Kessinger ’63 and his wife
Varyam. Past Kessinger Fund performers
include the ensemble Music From China,
a group of Jewish musicians from Central
Asia, and the Indian vocalist Lakshmi
Shankar. “Students love being immersed
in different musical cultures,” says
Freedman. “Exploring these traditions
requires us to admit our musical biases
and assumptions about other places and
times.”
With the assistance of a multimedia
development grant from Haverford,
Freedman uses computer technology to
help students listen in new ways. “I wanted
the class to compare and contrast
moments from the same piece, or different
recorded performances of the same
work.” For one of his “virtual symposia”
on Chopin, Freedman burned a CD containing
audio files and wrote a computer
program that would play a few seconds of
a CD track, then play the same few seconds
of a corresponding track with the
same performance. Students could work
with a score and a chart on the computer
to click and play any second of the piece.
They listened to small moments from different
performances of Chopin’s pieces by
legendary pianists in an effort to hear interpretive
nuances, such as tempo, articulation,
or dynamics. “This helps them to
become acute listeners, and better performers
in their own right,” says
Freedman.
Freedman encourages the development
of “acute listeners” not only among
Haverford students but also among the
audiences of the Philadelphia Orchestra
and the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society. Recommended by Christopher
Gibbs ’80, a musicology professor at Bard
College, Freedman delivers pre-concert
lectures for both organizations, providing
information about the composers,
explaining the music audiences are about
to hear, and playing samples to demonstrate
how they can best experience the
works. “Concert-goers are often uncertain
about what to listen for,” he says,
“and they’re hungry for ideas about how
to hear the structure of a composition, or
what makes a particular interpretation of
it matter.”
Freedman’s goal, for both classical music
audiences and Haverford students, is to
cultivate “musical thinkers” and “thinking
musicians,” giving them the tools they
need in order to discover new things about
the music they hear and play. For him,
Haverford is a place where students across
disciplines share a common passion for
making and hearing fine music. “My goal
is to join the conservatory’s standard of
precision with the liberal arts tradition of
thought and intellectual inquiry,” he says.
“Here, you can take your musical devotion
to the highest level and still find intellectual
rigors.”
Richard Freedman’s
Spring 2004 Courses
Introduction to Western Music
A survey of the European musical
tradition from the middle ages to modern
times. Students will hear music by
Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,
Wagner, Stravinsky, Glass, among
many others, developing both listening
skills and an awareness of how
music relates to the culture that fosters
it. In addition to listening and reading,
students will attend concerts and prepare
written assignments.
Writing About Beethoven
An exploration of Beethoven’s life
and works, considered in the context
of changing aesthetic and cultural values
of the last two centuries. Students
will listen to Beethoven’s music, study
some of his letters and conversation
books, and read some of the many
responses his art has engendered. In
their written responses to all of this
material, students will think
Beethoven’s music, his artistic personality,
about the ideas and assumptions
that have guided the critical reception
of art and life. They will learn to cultivate
their skills as readers and listeners
while improving their craft as writers.
Classical Music
The music of Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, and Schubert (among
many others). Classroom assignments
will lead students to explore the origins
and development of vocal and
instrumental music of the years
around 1800, and to consider the ways
in which musicologists have
approached the study of this repertory.
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16 Haverford Magazine
Hunter Rawlings ’66 at Montpelier,
where he serves on the board.

ALL PHOTOS © 2003 ROBERT VISSER
Three weeks after stepping
down as president of Cornell
University, Hunter R. Rawlings
’66 is to be found in the
rolling hills of the Virginia
Piedmont where he is holed
up in an old whitewashed
brick cottage reading the oratory
of Demosthenes and
Isocrates in the original Greek. After two decades of higher
education administration at the University of Colorado,
University of Iowa, and Cornell, Rawlings is hitting the
books in preparation for a return to the classroom and a
scholarly pursuit of the classics first undertaken at Haverford
40 years ago.
“It’s hard,” says Rawlings of his studies, “but I love that
it’s hard.”
Tall (6’ 7”), slender and fit at 58, Hunter Rawlings is casually
dressed for July in Virginia in shorts, short-sleeved sports
shirt, and sandals as he shows a visitor around the leafy
grounds of Signal Hill. Towering tulip poplars shade the cottage.
A few huge white blossoms still cling to the magnificent
magnolia trees and chestnuts drop onto the driveway
from on high. A swimming pool shimmers cool and blue at
the bottom of the lawn.
The interior of the cottage is musty and cool with the air
of a summer house that has not seen much use until recently.
Author of The Structure of Thucydides’ History (Princeton
University Press, 1981), Hunter Rawlings is known in the
classical world as a Thucydides scholar, yet the antique-furnished
rooms of Signal Hill might suggest that he is an
American historian, containing as they do numerous images
Hunter Rawlings ’66
steps down from the presidency of
Cornell and back into the classroom.
BACK
TO THE
BOOKS
by Edgar Allen Beem Photography by Robert Visser
of Rawlings’ other inspiration,
James Madison. The Father of
the Constitution and fourth
President of the United States
lived just four miles from
Signal Hill at Montpelier and
Rawlings serves on the
Montpelier board.
On April 28, when Cornell
held Hats Off to Hunter Day to honor the retiring president,
the administration gave him a first edition of The Papers of
James Madison and a 19th century edition of Thucydides’
History of the Peloponnesian War. What these men have in
common is that they were both thinkers and doers, intellectuals
and men of action—a path Rawlings himself has followed.
“Hunter remains a great enthusiast for liberal learning,”
says Jack Rakove ’68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Stanford
historian who delivered a Madison lecture in his old friend’s
honor on Hats Off to Hunter Day. “Usually, when an academic
puts the classroom behind him and goes into administration,
it’s a turning point in the road, taking one direction
and neglecting the other. I don’t think there’s any question
of that in Hunter’s case. Hunter’s enthusiasm for Madison is
a demonstration that his intellectual interests have evolved
and endured. It was clear to everyone at Cornell that he was
anxious to come back into the classroom.”
Folding his long frame into a comfortable chair in the airy
sunroom of his summer home, Hunter Rawlings takes a sip
of cold water and begins a casual review of his distinguished
academic career. The passing of the hours is marked by
recorded birdcalls issuing from a clock in the corner.
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From Norfolk to Haverford
Born Hunter Ripley Rawlings, III, in
Norfolk, Virginia, on December 14, 1944,
Rawlings grew up with a love of baseball,
basketball, and books. He got his love of
sports, he says, from his father and his love
of reading from his mother. Rawlings pere
was a pretty fair country ballplayer and
played catcher at Virginia Military Institute
until the Depression forced him to return
home and go to work. He worked all his
life at Watters & Martin wholesale hardware
in Norfolk.
“He always felt a real respect for college
education,” says Rawlings of his father.
“That made a big difference to him and it
made a big difference to me. He was very
loyal to VMI.”
Rawlings’ mother, Tucker Trapnell
Rawlings, was the daughter of an Episcopal
minister and a graduate of Randolph-
Macon Women’s College. She instilled in
Hunter and his two sisters a lifelong love of
books.
“All three of us were motivated to study
and read.”
When Hunter was about to enter the
seventh grade, Norfolk schools were closed
in defiance of integration orders, so his
parents enrolled him at private Norfolk
Academy. When a freshman growth spurt
shot him up to a gangly 6’ 6”, two tall
teachers took young Rawlings under their
wings and taught him the hook shot that
would become his stock in trade on the
basketball court.
Rawlings’ first athletic love, however,
was baseball. A hard-throwing right-handed
pitcher, Rawlings was intimidating on
the mound, but his father— and first catcher—made
an annual ritual of catching
Hunter’s fastball barehanded—just once,
but once was enough to re-establish the
family pecking order. Rawlings’ height,
long arms, and large hands gave him a natural
sinkerball good enough to earn him
a tryout with the Baltimore Orioles, but
after graduating from Norfolk Academy in
1962, he turned down the offer of a minor
league contract in order to go to college.
In the fall of 1962, having primed himself
for college by reading Edward Gibbon’s
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
over the summer, Rawlings headed off to
Haverford, then an all-male school with
fewer than 500 students. Why Haverford?
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“History spoke to me
dramatically, Greek history
had extraordinary people
in it, people of intellect
and public action.”
“That was my mother’s influence,”
Rawlings says. “She was from Wilmington,
Delaware, and she had a very high regard
for the Quakers. She got me interested in
Quaker liberal arts education.”
Athletics, adds Rawlings, had little or
nothing to do with his decision to attend
Haverford.
“Haverford did no recruiting for athletics.
Zero. The College was almost antiathletics.”
Still, Haverford Athletic Director Greg
Kannerstein ’63, remembers how the towering
freshman led Haverford to a Division
III Middle Atlantic Conference basketball
tournament appearance and pitched the
Fords to a rare winning season.
“I played first base,” says Kannerstein,
“but when Hunter pitched the coach
Rawlings on the grounds of Montpelier,
James Madison’s home in Virginia.
moved me to left field. Hunter threw so
hard that no right-handed batter could hit
the ball to left field. In today’s world, he
probably wouldn’t have become president
of Cornell; he would have played professional
baseball.”
David Felsen ’66, now headmaster of
Friends Central School, played point guard
to Rawlings’ center and third base when
Rawlings pitched. A fellow classics major,
Felsen remembers his old friend Hunter
as the consummate “scholar-athlete.”
“He loved getting things done and doing
them well,” says Felsen. “He had tremendous
self-discipline and high standards.
Hunter had high expectations of himself
and everyone around him. He was not the
kind of guy you wanted to make an error
behind. He’d come to your room and say,

‘Don’t you guys think you need some more
groundballs?’ He was always a leader.”
At Haverford, Rawlings distinguished
himself on the mound with a sub-2.00
earned run average, as center on the hardwood
by earning Most Valuable Player in
the Middle Atlantic Conference, and in the
classroom as a classics major. He had fallen
in love with Greek history and literature
at the tender age of 10, when his
mother gave him a copy of The Iliad, but
it was a course in Greek with Professor
George Kennedy that solidified his classical
bent.
“History spoke to me dramatically,”
Rawlings says. “Greek history had extraordinary
people in it, people of intellect and
public action.”
It was Professor Wallace McCaffrey,
however, who made the biggest impression
on Rawlings at Haverford. Rawlings
calls McCaffrey, a distinguished scholar of
Elizabethan England, first at Haverford and
later at Harvard, “the finest teacher I ever
had in any subject.”
“I’m a huge believer in the value of a
liberal arts education at the undergraduate
level,” he says. “That’s largely why I
want to go back to teaching. Wallace
McCaffrey was a real model for me.”
At Haverford, Rawlings recalls, his study
of the classics seemed totally divorced both
from his athletic life and from what was
going on in the larger world, namely the
war in Vietnam and the mounting
American opposition to it. When campus
activists asked students to write
protest letters to their hometown
newspapers, however, “I did it—
much to the embarrassment of my
father.”
In 1966, after discovering much to his
surprise that he was considered too tall for
the draft, Rawlings headed off to Princeton
on an NCAA scholarship to pursue a Ph.D.
in classics.
From Princeton to Colorado
“In my third year at Princeton, I had a
course in Thucydides with Bob Connor,”
Rawlings says. “That course really brought
things together. Thucydides wrote the history
of the Peloponnesian War, which, in
length and intensity, made Vietnam seem
small-time. For 27 years in Athens there
was tremendous bloodshed and suffering,
but Thucydides treats it as a conflict with
deeply moral issues. He was interested in
what went wrong with people under the
pressure of war.”
In 1970, having completed his Ph.D.,
Rawlings moved to Boulder, Colorado,
where he assumed his first teaching position
as an assistant professor of classics at
the University of Colorado. In 1975, he
took a sabbatical in order to complete his
“I just got familiar with a
broader segment of the
university – chemistry,
biology, political science,
history. The more familiar
I got, the more interested
I got. Then I was asked to
put my name in for the
position of part-time
assistant vice chancellor
for instruction.”
book on Thucydides and spent
the academic year at the Center for
Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.,
where center director Bernard Knox, a
Sophocles scholar, became another major
influence.
“I spent the morning and afternoon
with the books,” Rawlings recalls, “and
lunch listening to Bernard’s war stories. He
was a classicist and also a man of action in
two wars.”
And there’s that conjunction of scholarship
and service again.
“It was a combination I was drawn to,”
Rawlings admits, “serious scholarship and
a life of public service. But I had no idea I
would go into administration. I was so
happy teaching and doing scholarship I
couldn’t see straight. ”
Rawlings’ slow drift into university
administration began in 1978-79 with service
on a faculty committee.
“I just got familiar with a broader segment
of the university— chemistry, biology,
political science, history,” he explains.
“The more familiar I got, the more interested
I got. Then I was asked to put my
name in for the position of part-time assistant
vice chancellor for instruction.”
Rawlings served in that capacity on the
Boulder campus from 1980 until 1984
when the position of vice president for academic
affairs came open. Rawlings says he
took the job primarily because he was so
impressed with the new University of
Colorado president Arnold Weber.
“He was a smart, tough, enormously
witty man,” says Rawlings. “He was someone
I could admire and respect. I was
drawn to work with a guy like that. I loved
working for Arnold Weber, because he was
able to raise the aspirations of the university
by his will.”
Rawlings had already
moved into administration
when his old Princeton
mentor W. Robert Connor
came to Colorado for a year
to teach. Connor, now head
of the Teagle Foundation in
New York, recognized immediately
that “Hunter has the
ability to combine a very serious
interest in teaching and
scholarship with a very gracious
touch as an administrator.”
By now a rising star in higher
education administration,
Rawlings began to get overtures from universities
seeking potential presidents. One
serious overture came in 1988 from the
University of Iowa. Rawlings, who had
recently re-married, was reluctant to ask
his new bride to move to Iowa City. But
Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, a fellow
Virginian, Rawlings’ second cousin and a
translator of French texts, was thrilled at
the idea.
“I’ve wanted to live in a small town in
Iowa all my life,” she told him.
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Iowa
Successful careers often have an air of
intentional inevitability about them when
seen in retrospect, but Hunter Rawlings
insists, “I had no plan, no desire, no administrative
ambition. I never saw myself as a
college president, but administrative work
did not turn me off and I found I was reasonably
good at it.”
When he took over at the University of
Iowa in 1988, Rawlings says he spent much
of the first year touring the state and getting
to know the people, in the process discovering
that Iowa “is like one large community.”
And along with farming, one of
the shared experiences that knits the state
together is Hawkeye football. So perhaps
Rawlings should not have been surprised
when his proposal to ban freshman from
varsity teams ignited a firestorm of controversy
in Iowa.
Rawlings had only been in Iowa City a
few months when two former Hawkeye
football players testified at the federal trial
of two sports agents that Iowa had scheduled
them fluff courses such as watercolor
painting, billiards, and bowling in order
to keep them eligible.
“I was furious,” says Rawlings, noting
that his anger was not just at cheating football
players of a real education but also that
“there was no reaction to the scandal.”
Rawlings insisted that academics, not
athletics, must come first at the university.
In an April 1989, newspaper interview,
therefore, Rawlings stated that freshmen
should not be eligible to play sports at the
Division I level and, furthermore, that if
the Big Ten or NCAA didn’t act within the
next three years, he would impose such a
prohibition unilaterally at Iowa. The reaction
from the governor on down to the
football coach and the fans was swift and
negative.
“The University of Iowa is the franchise
in Iowa and I was messing with the state’s
team,” Rawlings recalls. “I was persona
non grata in a hurry. But I never did retract
my comment. I’m sure some Iowans never
forgave me.”
“That episode,” Rawlings continues,
“led me to get involved with the NCAA’s
presidents commission. I was one of the
people who worked to reform the NCAA to
put the presidents of universities in charge.
Now the board of directors is all presidents.
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“Cornell is an Ivy League
school that looks westward.
It’s the land grant
university of New York. It
has a big agriculture school
and a big veterinary school,
so it looks to Michigan and
Wisconsin as colleagues.”
It used to be athletic directors and coaches.”
Rawlings says his own experience as a
scholar-athlete at Haverford continues to
inform his views on the proper relationship
between studies and sports.
“I continue to see Division One athletics
as deeply problematic,” he says. “It’s
such a compromise to run a major collegiate
athletic program at a university when
your first interest should always be academic
standards and scholarship. I had
played sports all four years at Haverford
really seriously and that convinced me that
the balance between a strong academic life
and athletics is achievable.”
Frank Conroy ’58, author of the hugely
influential memoir Stop-Time, had taken
over as director of the University of Iowa’s
prestigious Writers’ Workshop the year
before his fellow Haverford alum arrived
on campus. He says that most people at
the university believed in Rawlings and
knew that “he was there to help.” The
problem was that, according to one newspaper
poll, only 13 percent of Iowa
Hawkeye fans had ever actually attended
the university.
“Sports is always a tough call for an
intelligent president, but Hunter was very
popular,” says Conroy. “Everyone remembers
him very fondly. Maybe the ex-football
coach didn’t, but everyone else did.”
Conroy says that because of their common
link to Haverford, he and Rawlings
became friends at Iowa, but for that very
reason he never felt he could ask the president
for anything. But when, in 1994, he
learned that Rawlings was leaving for
Cornell, he worked up the temerity to ask
Rawlings to find a new home for the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop. Rawlings came
through with the 1857 Dey House mansion
that now houses the workshop.
Conroy credits Rawlings with a strong
focus on undergraduate education, in particular
with working to increase faculty to
keep pace with enrollment so that underclassmen
could get the courses they needed
to graduate, a problem he says has
grown worse since Rawlings left.
Asked whether he thinks Rawlings’ commitment
to undergraduate education reflects
his Haverford experience, Conroy says
unequivocally, “The first couple of years at
Haverford were the foundation for a lot of
what happened to both of us later on.”
Cornell
When Hunter Rawlings arrived in
Ithaca, New York, in 1995 to become the
10th president of Cornell University, he
was not the first Big Red president to make
the move from the Big Ten to the Ivy
League.
“Cornell has hired many of its presidents
from the Big Ten, mostly from the
University of Michigan,” says Rawlings,
noting that his successor, Jeffrey S.
Lehman, had been dean of the University
of Michigan Law School. “Cornell is an Ivy
League school that looks westward. It’s the
land grant university of New York. It has
a big agriculture school and a big veterinary
school, so it looks to Michigan and
Wisconsin as colleagues.”
In his Oct. 12, 1995, inaugural address,
Rawlings described Cornell as “the only
university in the country to unite the mission
of a highly selective, privately endowed
institution with that of a state-assisted landgrant
university serving all citizens.”
Rawlings’ inaugural address was titled
“To Compose Cornell: Cultivating the
Mind,” and in it he signaled his intention
to unite and coordinate the disparate elements
of the university in order to maximize
its potentials. In keeping with his
established academic priorities, one of
Rawlings’ first initiatives addressed undergraduate
life at Cornell.
“As we compose the Cornell of the
future,” he said, “one of the great unresolved
questions before us concerns the
degree to which our undergraduates share
in the intellectual life of the university.”
His major concern was that the geographic
isolation created by a campus built
on hills and gorges had defined a segregated
social system.

“Cornell was literally divided into three
campuses—West, North, and Central,”
Rawlings explains. “Students were living
in different parts of the campus. When I
arrived at Cornell, everyone knew that
minority students were on the North
Campus and fraternities and preppies were
on the West Campus. There were program
houses where Latino, African-American,
and Native American students were selfsegregated.
It was an Ivy League school in
1995 that was dividing itself racially into
physical parts of the campus. There had
been 23 different housing studies
in the previous 25 years, but
nothing had ever changed.”
The new president decided
it was time for action. What
Rawlings proposed, echoing the
bomb he dropped at Iowa, was
that “We’re not going to have
freshmen live in program houses
any longer. My desire was
that all first-year students ought
to be together.”
The proposal drew an immediate
outcry from minority students
and even brought the Rev.
Al Sharpton up from New York
City to lead a protest. Convinced
that self-segregation was creating
hard feelings on campus,
Rawlings proposed a compromise
that seemed to disarm the
opposition.
“I announced a new policy,”
he says. “All freshmen at
Cornell from now on would
live on the North Campus. We would build
additional residence halls on the North
Campus so we could house all freshmen
there.”
Program houses would simply have be
located on North Campus if they wanted to
house freshmen. The North Campus plan
was implemented and its success prompted
Rawlings to initiate an even bolder
housing plan— creating a system of residential
colleges for sophomores and juniors
on the West Campus.
Steve Blake, a government major in
Cornell’s Class of 2005, was president of
the first freshman class to be housed entirely
on North Campus.
“Living and learning together with my
entire class has allowed us to develop more
class spirit than I’ve felt in the classes
before,” says Blake. “In a university traditionally
separated by schools, the North
Campus initiative has added a new element
to the Cornell experience, reaching
across schools to unify each class with a
common experience.”
“Haverford had a fair amount to do with
my thinking on the close interaction
between undergraduates and faculty,”
Rawlings says. “There will not only be residence
halls but also dining and seminar
rooms, and faculty mentors living in the
residential colleges. It’s all designed to create
an intellectual community with faculty
leadership.”
Isaac Kramnick, Richard J. Schwartz
Professor of Government and Vice Provost
for Undergraduate Education at Cornell,
praises Rawlings for being “a professors’ president,”
and willingly foregoing potentially
lucrative naming opportunities in order that
the five new upperclass residence halls
planned for West Campus be named for distinguished
Cornell professors of the past.
“Hunter engaged himself in the academic
life of the campus in a way that
made it quite clear he was interested in
intellectual activity,” says Kramnick, pointing
out that Rawlings taught three classics
course himself, regularly attended lectures
he would not have been expected to attend
as president, and raised faculty salaries at
the university.
Kramnick reports that he and a colleague
were amazed when President
Rawlings invited them to lunch in his
office to discuss a book they had published
titled The Godless Constitution
(W.W. Norton & Company, 1997). It
turned out that Rawlings felt the professors
had given Thomas Jefferson too
much credit and wanted to lobby them
on behalf of James Madison as the most
important proponent of freedom of conscience
in American history.
Rawlings’ ambitious housing
initiatives did not come cheap.
The North Campus facilities
cost $65 million and the price
tag for the West Campus project
is $200 million, $116 million
of which has been raised to
date.
“Cornell’s fundraising ability
is phenomenal and I don’t
claim responsibility for that,”
Rawlings says. But Rawlings
may be underselling himself as
a fundraiser.
Rawlings arrived on campus
at the tail end of a $1.5-billion
capital campaign, but in the
eight years of his presidency
Cornell raised an additional
$2.3 billion, in the process
increasing its endowment from
$1.424 billion to $2.894 billion.
“Cornell does not have an
endowment equal to its Ivy
League peers,” Rawlings points
out, “but Cornell gets state funding to help
with the contract colleges. At Cornell, you
have to hustle a little more than at the
other Ivy League schools.”
In recent years, Cornell has raised close
to $400 million a year, or, as Rawlings
puts it, “You’re raising a million dollars a
day year in and year out. Of course that’s
not just the president; it’s the deans, the
large development staff, the provost, and
the board itself is raising and giving
money.”
Fundraising has become one of the
chief responsibilities of university presidents
and Rawlings estimates he spent 25
percent of his time in private fundraising
efforts, 30 percent if you figure in lobbying
Albany for state funding. Add to that
external commitments such as chairing
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both the Ivy League Council of Presidents
and the Association of American
Universities and speechmaking both here
and abroad, and Rawlings calculates he has
spent half his time at Cornell off-campus.
“I was a president who divided his time
between external activity and campus activity,”
he says. “Some presidents give the
provost 100-percent responsibility for academics.
You can do that, but I enjoyed the
business of the campus. I didn’t want to be
an absentee president who was just a
fundraiser.”
Fundraising is crucial to higher education,
Rawlings notes, not only for major
capital improvements but also in order to
provide financial aid, the mechanism by
which colleges and universities ensure that
they can admit students regardless of financial
need. A few years ago, in fact, when
some elite colleges broke rank with tradition
and began offering free rides to the
most desirable students regardless of financial
need, Rawlings was one of the prime
movers behind the so-called 568 Group, a
consortium of some 30 colleges and universities—
including both Cornell and
Haverford—that rededicated themselves to
need-blind admissions and need-based
financial aid.
“568 is a clause in the Higher Education
Act that enables colleges and universities to
compare the way they calculate family need
for college,” says Rawlings. “The 30 colleges
in the 568 Group developed a common
method for determining how much
need a student had. We’re committed to
need-based aid, to committing our financial
aid money to those who really need it. Tom
Tritton added Haverford’s name to the list
and he has been a strong spokesman for
the group.”
Recognizing the value of athletics,
Rawlings also helped raise a $100-million
sports endowment at Cornell. One of
Rawlings’ on-campus passions has been
attending Big Red wrestling matches.
Cornell now has what Rawlings believes
is the only collegiate building devoted solely
to wrestling.
“I developed at Iowa an almost obsessive
interest in college wrestling,” says
Rawlings. “That has carried over to
Cornell.”
Another Rawlings priority that carried
over from Iowa to Cornell was a strong
medical school, but when he arrived in
Ithaca, Cornell’s medical school was
embroiled in a legal battle with the New
York City hospital that housed it.
“When I came to Cornell, several
trustees told me privately to get rid of the
medical school,” says Rawlings. “They said
it’s nothing but trouble; it’s 230 miles from
Ithaca; it’s just a headache. But my experience
at Iowa was very positive with the
medical school. I knew the medical school
at Cornell could be a great part of a
research institution.”
So Rawlings spent a good part of his
years in office brokering a tri-institutional
collaboration among Cornell, Rockefeller
University, and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Institute to re-position Cornell’s medical
school for the future. He also helped raise
How the Class
of ’63 Got
(and Received)
the Best of
Hunter Rawlings
Eye on the ball: Rawlings (center)
was a force inside for the Fords.
22 Haverford Magazine
It wasn’t easy to ignore a guy who’s 6' 8",
spoke with a strange drawl, and did most
things better than the rest of us. But we
tried. How we tried in 1962-63.
The senior-dominated basketball team
didn’t need help from rhinie Hunt Rawlings.
We knew we would have a great season.
Unfortunately, our scrimmage opponents
and our coach, Ernie Prudente, disagreed.
The perceptive Prudente gave us enough
time to figure it out ourselves and then put
Rawlings in the lineup in the second half of
the last scrimmage.
The offense instantly acquired its missing
zing. Rawlings and 6’9” Pete Dorwart
became the premier rebounding duo in the
NCAA College Division, and the rest, a 12-
3 record and a berth in the Middle Atlantic
Conference playoffs (along with colleges
now in NCAA Division I), is history.
Then there was Philosophy 101. We
were amused to see the aspiring classics
scholar in the course. Didn’t Hunter know
the rest of us were there to ease our way
to a credit without too much work while
we focused on our majors and prepared
for dreaded “Comps”? Didn’t a frosh have
better things to do?
A few days before the first-semester
final, the seniors formed a study group to
insure we understood the major principles
of the course so we could use our expository
talents to get decent grades. The only
problem, as became apparent in five minutes
of the study session, was that none of
us knew what ANY of the major principles
of the course were.
“Hunt, if you need some help in preparing
for Phil 101, a bunch of us are getting
together tonight.” Rawlings was duly grateful,
and remained so (whether in reality or
just through proper respect for his elders
we never learned) as we picked his brain
unmercifully in the guise of helping him.
Let’s just hope his grade was more representative
of his knowledge of the subject
than ours were. We cheerfully accepted his
thanks for allowing him to sit in on our
elevated intellectual discourse.
By spring, the situation was intolerable.
We were happy to have Hunter around,
helping us win on the court and throwing
seeds from the mound. He was fun to be
with, and we could find no signs of arrogance
or “attitude,” as they say today. And
he was SO damned modest. He and some
of his rhinie pals from third-floor Barclay,
including three-sport star Dave Felsen ’66

$650 million to improve the Weill Cornell
Medical College.
“I wanted to draw Cornell-Ithaca down
to New York City and get it hooked into the
great biomedical community in New York,”
says Rawlings of the effort he expended on
behalf of the troubled medical school.
Cornell trustee Jan Rock Zubrow calls
connecting the medical college in New
York to the life sciences in Ithaca “Hunter’s
unfinished business,” but she is still a big
Hunter Rawlings fan.
“Hunter’s vision,” says Zubrow, “was
considering the colleges together so
Cornell was greater than the sum of its
parts, creating interdepartmental programs
to capture the excellence. It did transform
the university, particularly in key scientific
areas—the life sciences, genomics, and
nanotechnology.”
Indeed, in his 1995 inaugural address,
Rawlings had announced his “composing
Cornell” agenda by warning against isolated
academic divisions and curricular
redundancy.
“Those universities that can think their
way into greater curricular coherence and
more collaborative research across departmental
and college barriers,” Rawlings said,
“will be best prepared for the 21st century.”
Trying to achieve coherence and collaboration
at a university like Cornell with
schools as disparate and seemingly unrelated
as hotel administration, engineering,
agriculture, and industrial and labor relations
might seem like a compositional exercise
in dissonance, but Rawlings found that
the College of Arts & Science provided the
tonic chord.
“These other schools and colleges at
Cornell depend very heavily on the College
of Arts & Sciences,” he says. “If you’re in
hotel administration, engineering, agriculture,
or human ecology, you spend a
good part of your first two years in the arts
college, so it was not as though you had
to convince the hotel school to come into
the composition. There was not a lot of
changing curriculums in the individual
colleges.”
While his greatest successes in achieving
coherence and collaboration were in
the sciences, Rawlings shook up the
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
in 2002 by proposing to dissolve it on the
grounds that the three departments did not
collaborate well enough. The hue and cry
from alumni may have saved the college
from being dissolved and re-distributed,
but there are now two committees studying
ways to achieve greater curricular
coherence.
“I think it got their attention,” says
Rawlings of the proposal to break up
Cornell’s smallest college.
One aspect of Haverford heritage that
Hunter Rawlings has apparently not
embraced is the Quaker consensus model
of decision-making. The Cornell Alumni
Magazine, in appraising the Rawlings Years
in a May/June 2003 article titled “Standing
Tall,” referred to “what some have
described as an autocratic administrative
style.” Assistant provost Isaac Kramnick,
however, insists Rawlings was simply
and a humorous preppie called, incredibly,
Chevy Chase, were getting far too
much attention. Something had to be done.
This was an era of pranks and practical
jokes. The secrets of successful pranks are
timing and knowing your victim. Hunt’s
smooth surface gave us little room to
exploit possible weaknesses. But one night
at dinner, he interrupted our boasting of
all the brilliant pranks we’d pulled lately
to declare that we’d NEVER be able to fool
him. Eyebrows lifted and gazes met. A
cabal was soon formed.
We still needed a lever to pull.
Miraculously, it appeared in a day or so.
Hunt mowed down one of the rival baseball
teams, and accepted our congratulations
with customary humility. However,
an intelligence source under deep cover
revealed that in a phone call home Hunter
had boasted of his pitching prowess that
day.
The plotters swung into action. Student
reporter on the campus paper met with the
printers. Perhaps a few dollars changed
hands. The details don’t matter any more;
suffice it to say that a letter of interest on
the authentic stationery of the New York
Mets plus an information form to return
to the Mets’ regional office soon landed in
Hunter’s mailbox.
With great tact, we pried this secret out
from the reluctant Rawlings. “It’s only the
Mets (then an expansion laughingstock),”
Hunter said diffidently. “After all, I had a
tryout with the Orioles in high school.”
Not very satisfactory, but then our mole
reported that he was singing a different
tune in phone calls to family and perhaps
even to feminine admirers. He was pretty
pleased with himself after all.
The coup de grace was applied when
we retrieved the information form (the
“Mets’ regional office” coincidentally had
the same address as one of the plotters’
nearby relatives). While most of Hunter’s
responses harmonized with the “facts,” as
we understood them, there were a few
exaggerations. He didn’t really have “betterthan-average”
speed on the basepaths, for
example. And it WAS interesting to learn
that despite his public protestations to the
contrary, Hunter would think seriously of
abandoning his superior liberal arts education
if the bonus money was good
enough. A few deeply personal revelations
admirably rounded out the picture.
We weren’t disappointed in Hunt’s reactions
when confronted with the evidence
that he, too, could be fooled, even if only
by such subtle and ingenious minds as
were possessed by a certain coterie of
Haverford seniors. He was clearly shocked
and surprised and even—did it ever happen
before or since?—embarrassed. Yet as
we refreshed ourselves at a local hangout
and smiled benevolently up at the talented
young man who yet had not quite acquired
the savoir-faire that some elders, us for
example, possessed, did a stray thought
that just maybe he knew it all the time but
didn’t want to disappoint us nag at our consciousness?
No, couldn’t be, let’s have
another…
The Haverford seniors of 1963 graduated
in full awareness of how we had educated
the raw frosh from Virginia about the
ways of the world. Probably he never
would have gotten the NCAA Scholarship,
made MVP of the conference, caused the
Princeton faculty to gasp in admiration of
his Ph.D. thesis, or ascended to the presidencies
of Iowa and Cornell and national
leadership in higher education without us.
Well done, Hunter. You’ve made us proud!
—Greg Kannerstein ’63
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“decisive,” willing to listen to all points of
view, but also willing to make hard decisions
rather than study issues to death.
“I do freely admit I get impatient with
the academic process some of the time,”
says Rawlings on his own behalf. “Faculty
members are good critics. They can find
many things wrong with any idea, but it’s
difficult in that event to do anything new
—or even old and badly needed.”
“Hunter Rawlings is an extraordinary
man,” says Cornell trustee Jan Zubrow.
“He is highly regarded by the alumni, the
trustees, the faculty and the students. One
of his key strengths is that he resonated
with all the different constituencies at
Cornell. He took bold steps that transformed
the university. Cornell is a much
better institution as a result of his leadership.”
In fact, jokes Zubrow, “The only person
not saddened by his leaving is my husband,
because now Hunter will have more
time for Haverford.”
Jan Rock Zubrow’s husband, Barry
Zubrow ’75, chairs the Haverford Board of
Managers.
Back to Class
Haverford President Tom Tritton recalls
that the first time he met Rawlings the two
men had a long discussion about the future
of scholarship and the humanities. Tritton
came away from that first meeting eager
to have Rawlings join the Haverford Board
of Managers but convinced that, as a sitting
university president, he would be
much too busy. To Tritton’s surprise,
Rawlings was eager to join the board of his
alma mater.
“Hunter understands Haverford because
he went here,” says Tritton. “He knows the
place it was and the place it is. More importantly,
he understands higher education as
a whole. For me, as President, it’s enormously
comforting to have someone on
the board who knows what it’s like to sit
in my chair.”
One of the clearest demonstrations of
the high value that Rawlings places on liberal
arts education is the fact that he sent
both of his own children—daughter Liz
and son Rip—to Hobart and William
Smith. Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings’ son
Hill Pierce graduated from the University
of Colorado and her daughter Ashley
Pierce Slade is a 1993 alum of Haverford.
24 Haverford Magazine
“In the final analysis,
the development of moral
knowledge demands
that each of us answer
the ultimate Socratic
question: ‘Who am I,
and what should I do
with my life?’”
“You can take any major and have a
career, but to pursue a serious life, you really
do need to be well-read and thoughtful,”
says Rawlings of the value of a liberal
arts education. “You have to be able to
apply some kind of ethical standard to each
issue. That’s where Haverford’s motto—
Non doctior, sed meliore doctrina imbutus—
comes in. We’re not turning out students
who are necessarily more learned; we are
interested in turning out students imbued
with ethical learning. Haverford has always
cared about the ethical dimension of education.
It’s part of its Quaker heritage. A
Haverfordian will always ask, ‘What’s the
ethical thing to do?’”
In a key 1999 address at Cornell titled
“The Role of the Humanities in a Research
University,” Rawlings argued persuasively
for the importance of “moral knowledge,”
quoting his Princeton mentor Bob Connor,
then director of the National Humanities
Center, who defined moral knowledge “as
a way of finding out, rather than a content
or a set of rigid moral laws.”
“In the final analysis,” said Rawlings,
“the development of moral knowledge
demands that each of us answer the ultimate
Socratic question: ‘Who am I, and
what should I do with my life?’ In universities,
we must remember, a major part of
our obligation is to help 18-year-olds
answer that question.”
Though at home and at ease in the
rolling hills of Virginia, Rawlings jokes
that his decision to step down from the
presidency of Cornell and back into the
classroom was prompted by jealously
watching his wife use his library while
translating French books on Greek culture
(“I’m running around raising money
and she’s in my library!”), the real reason
clearly has more to do with how Hunter
R. Rawlings, III, answers that ultimate
Socratic question.
“For me personally,” Rawlings concludes,
“I began to feel that if I didn’t soon
go back to full-time faculty life I never
would. I like intellectual life best of all and
being a university president is not really
intellectual life. I didn’t want to forget why
I was drawn to intellectual life in the first
place—and that was because of the example
of Wallace McCaffrey at Haverford. I
wanted to get back to the books.”
And so Hunter Rawlings prepares to
return to the classroom. After taking the fall
semester off in order to travel to France and
Greece (and to allow his successor to get
his feet under him without tripping over
the ex-president), he plans to teach a spring
semester course in Advanced Greek Oratory,
and one on Periclean Athens. Some of his
new colleagues in the Cornell classic department,
he admits, question whether he will
actually do it—drop the reigns of power in
order to teach undergrads —but Rawlings
insists he is perfectly serious.
“When I talked to him about it,” attests
Tritton, “he sounded like a kid, he was so
eager to get back to what he started out to
do. It’s a big loss to higher education
administration, but it’s a big gain for students
at Cornell and for the humanities in
general.”
Cornell junior Steve Blake testifies from
experience that Hunter Rawlings is “a
dynamic and passionate teacher” and offers
a possible glimpse of the Professor Hunter
Rawlings to come.
“I was fortunate to take Periclean
Athens, Classics 258, from the President
this past spring,” says Blake. “His enthusiasm
for teaching the classics was clearly
evident, and I never left a lecture unimpressed.
He has a fabulous way of bringing
past events to life in a lecture. His commanding
presence on campus translated
easily to the classroom; how can you not
pay attention with the President’s long arms
gesticulating enthusiastically?”
Edgar Allen Beem is a freelance writer and
art critic in Yarmouth, Maine. He is author
of Maine Art Now and a contributor to
Photo District News, ARTnews, Boston
Globe Magazine, Down East, and Yankee.

A New Prescription
for Jefferson
The spirit of the Honor Code flourishes
at a Philadelphia medical school, thanks
to two Haverford alumni.
Seeking a community based on honor, integrity, and
awareness of others. Embracing academic and social
integrity. Fostering an environment of trust and cooperation.
Treating everyone equally regardless of race,
culture, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Taking
responsibility for your actions and addressing unacceptable
situations or behavior.
These are some of the tenets of the new Honor Code
at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. And if any
of them sound familiar, it’s because two of the medical
students involved in its creation are also Haverford alumni—Seth
Hollander ’96 and Chris Coletti ’00, both working
to reaffirm Jefferson’s commitment to these values
and hoping to recreate the atmosphere of mutual trust
and respect that had been integral to their undergraduate
days.
Blue
by Brenna McBride
Fall 2003 25

A New Prescription for Jefferson
26 Haverford Magazine
Seth Hollander came from a large urban
public high school in Miami Beach, Fla.,
marred by violence and racial tension.
Weapons, fights, and guard dogs roaming
the halls were part of the daily routine. “It
was a hard place to be an adolescent,” he
says. “Academically and socially, Haverford
was a sanctuary.”
Now a fourth-year medical student at
Jefferson, Hollander says the Honor Code
was a significant part of what attracted him
to Haverford. During a campus tour, he
heard a speech about the Code in Marshall
Auditorium and liked the concept of a
trusting community and an open academic
environment. “You knew you would be
supported and treated fairly, and your work
would have value,” he says. When he was
a student, the Honor Code was a casually
essential part of his everyday life and the
lives of his friends. “It changed the way
people interacted with each other. My current
roommate is a Haverford grad (Brian
Girard ’96) and uses Honor Code principles
when he talks about a schedule for
cleaning the kitchen.”
Unlike Hollander, Chris Coletti attended
a private high school in northern New
Jersey, a school with its own set of difficulties.
Coletti was dismayed that many of
his fellow students were not held accountable
for their actions, especially by their
parents. When he was a senior and president
of student council, he and other
members—including his brother Ryan ’03,
the secretary—wanted to develop a kind
of statement that students would sign to
acknowledge that they understood the
rules of the school and intended to follow
them. This became the school’s Honor
Code, which focused on issues of cheating,
and students who signed it pledged
not to give or receive any unauthorized
help or information on tests and assignments.
“It was indicative of a high school
honor code,” says Coletti. “The maturity
level is not as high as college.”
At Haverford, he became aware of
the Code’s affect on academic matters
during Customs Week, when firstyear
students took the tests to determine
their class placements. “The professors
left the room,” he says. “They
let us know right away that they expected
us not to cheat.”
Coletti, now a third-year medical student,
felt the loss of the Honor Code keenly
at Jefferson, particularly when he tried
describing it to some of his classmates.
They were skeptical of the unproctored
exams. “People would say things like, ‘You
cheated anyway, right?’ and ‘I couldn’t have
done that.’ They didn’t understand that not
“It changed the way people
interacted with each other.
My current roommate is a
Haverford grad (Brian
Girard ’96) and uses Honor
Code principles when he
talks about a schedule for
cleaning the kitchen.”
cheating was part of Haverford’s social culture.
They either didn’t believe me, or they
thought I was naïve and everyone else was
cheating.”
When Seth Hollander started at
Jefferson, he felt a sense of disconnect
among students and faculty, especially in
the classroom, where he witnessed several
examples of mutual disrespect. In his
eyes the campus was not united as a community
with a common goal: “There was
Jefferson medical students Chris Coletti ’00
(left) and Seth Hollander ’96 (right)
prescribe a healthy dose of Honor Code
for their school.
no feeling that we were all on the same
side.” Although Jefferson does have a core
of faculty and students loyal to the institution,
the school’s general mood was, for
Hollander, a sea change from the open intimacy
of Haverford.
One evening a little over a year ago,
Hollander took one of his Jefferson friends,
Harper Price, a member of the Jefferson
Medical College Curriculum Committee,
to visit his alma mater. “Sometimes, people
don’t believe what you tell them about
Haverford’s Honor Code until they see it for
themselves,” he says. Price saw for herself
the Comment Board in the Campus Center,
the unattended backpacks in the Dining
Center, the notes announcing found jewelry
and belongings. She read abstracts from
recent Honor Council trials, and noticed
the litter-free beauty of the campus.
“She was awestruck, really moved,” says
Hollander. “She was regretful that she hadn’t
had this experience at her high school
or college.”
Back at Jefferson, Price described
Haverford’s Honor Code to the Curriculum

Committee; Associate Dean of Academic
Affairs Karen Glaser was a guest at that
meeting. “We thought it sounded like the
ideal educational environment,” says
Glaser, “but some wondered how it could
be transplanted from a small Quaker
college to an urban academic health center.”
Harper approached Curriculum
Committee Chairman Philip Wolfson,
M.D., who enthusiastically invited Seth
Hollander to speak before the committee
about his personal dealings with the Code.
Jefferson already had a Shared Code of
Professional Values, which affirmed for
the future doctors the commitment to treat
all patients compassionately and respect
their privacy and dignity, advocate outstanding
patient care, and always work to
improve their knowledge and skills. The
school also had a student honor code of
conduct focused on cheating and test taking.
Glaser appreciated the fact that
Haverford’s Honor Code was student-generated.
“That’s something we’d been talking
about at Jefferson.”
“We wanted a positive
document, and to make
sure that the words
conveyed what we
wanted them to convey.”
In June of 2002, at the request of Dr.
Wolfson and Dr. Susan Rattner, Senior
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
Jefferson initiated a task force to explore
the possibility of a student Honor Code.
The task force, co-chaired by Hollander
and Glaser, was comprised of students and
faculty members and involved many university-wide
offices—such as admissions,
orientation, facilities, and multicultural
affairs—in drafting a proposal of changes
to submit to the curriculum committee.
Chris Coletti was tapped to write the Code
itself, along with classmate Rob Gillespie,
whose alma mater, Middlebury College,
had its own Honor Code. They researched
Honor Codes at medical schools like the
University of West Virginia, the University
of Colorado, and Olin College, and took
suggestions from all areas of campus.
“We wanted a positive document,” says
Coletti, “and to make sure that the words
conveyed what we wanted them to convey.”
Coletti and Gillespie began writing
the Code in September of 2002 and presented
a completed version the following
May. The document went through
seven rounds of revisions before
everyone could agree on the
language. “It was a learning
process for us to stand
our ground and say
things like, ‘We respect
your opinion, but this
is what we think it
should say,’” says
Coletti. “Everyone
had their own perceptions
of what they
wanted the Code to
be.” The final version
was approved by over
three-quarters of the student
body.
Even though it’s only the
first year of the Honor Code’s
existence at Jefferson, its presence
is already evident in many areas of
campus. It’s featured on the first page of
the student catalog. First-year orientation
now includes one Honor Code-related
activity per day, such as a small group discussion
or a film on patient sensitivity. The
“Big Sibling” program has been enhanced
to resemble Haverford’s Honor Code
Orienteers program; now, Jefferson sophomores
not only mentor freshmen but also
train them in conflict mediation and communication
skills. Admissions interviewers
ask applicants questions about the
Code, seeking to understand how they
would handle certain situations under the
Code’s guidelines. The Professional
Conduct Committee has reorganized itself
into less of a disciplinary body and more
one of mediation, and has begun publishing
abstracts of its proceedings. As an
experiment, freshman anatomy quizzes are
now taken online and unproctored.
Hollander sees that students are pleased
with the Code thus far, chiefly the unproctored
tests. “They have a better sense of
governing themselves, and trusting themselves
to curtail academic dishonesty.”
“The faculty is very energized by this,”
says Glaser, “and are willing to take risks
with online exams. Students are learning
about the challenges involved in confronting
peers when they feel something
isn’t right.”
“We know it will take a while for everyone
to buy into it,” says Coletti. “It won’t be
an overnight process.”
Coletti has taken over for Hollander as
co-chair of the Honor Code task force, and
doesn’t want the Code to lose any of the
momentum it gained last year. “Our first
goal is to make sure we’re continuing on
the same path, that the Code doesn’t
become something people once thought
was nice and then gets swept under the
rug.” He points to Haverford, where students
were consistently reintroduced to
the spirit of the Honor Code through
abstracts and plenaries and class discussions.
“We want to do the same thing at
Jefferson,” he says, “so everyone will
remember the Code’s purpose when they
sign it.”
Fall 2003 27

When a friend needs to move to Los Angeles,
Coast to
It was early last June when I
received a phone call from my friend
Jennie. She was just offered a job working
on a new TV show out in LA. She’d have to
move there for a three-month gig. Initially I was
quite sad that she’d be moving so far away but I
immediately perked up when she said those two
words we’re all dying to hear: Road Trip! She was
going to stop working a week before she is due in
LA and we’d drive across the country. I was incredibly
excited by this news. I grew up outside Boston,
spent my time at Haverford, ventured a whole mile
down the street after college to teach at the Baldwin
School, and am now back in Boston working on
my Ph.D. The furthest west I’d traveled was
Chicago. This was all to change. I was going to be
entering the world of Jack Kerouac and all of the
other road-trip pioneers. With my Mapquest directions
and some helpful hints from fellow
alums who have partaken the roads, I was ready.
Everyone laments how he or she has always wanted
to drive cross-country but never have the time or
the right reason for it. I was going to be one of the
few, the proud, the brave, the adventurers!
I flew down to Philadelphia to meet Jennie and
some of her friends (Quick Bi-Co connection:
Jennie’s mom is a professor at Bryn Mawr College
and Jennie spent part of her youth attending summer
camp at Haverford). Eric Jacobstein ’02 happened
to be in Philadelphia that night and he
attended the sendoff dinner. The night ended early.
There was lots of sleep to be had and even more
driving the next day. We woke up bright and early,
packed up the car and headed off for LA!
The route we took was chosen very carefully.
We had to hit Graceland, the Grand Canyon, and
Vegas. We left on a
Saturday morning
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it’s time for a road trip.
by Mike Ranen ’00
Coast
in Seven Days
and were due in Los Angeles the next Saturday
night. Everything else was up in the air. We decided
that the longest day of driving should be the
first. My aunt made me swear that I would at least
drive through Shenandoah National Park in
Virginia. Thank god I did. The overpass allowed us
to see for what seemed like hundreds of miles of
rolling hills. The local insects, on the other hand,
did not want to let us eat our picnic lunch. As we
have both seen most of Virginia and the day was
long, we just kept on driving. Our one savior was
Cracker Barrel. It’s hard to believe just how many
Cracker Barrels there are in the South and they all
look exactly the same. At least with McDonald’s
each restaurant has a touch of originality, maybe
an extra-large play area, or as we later saw in eastern
California, an old railroad car as the seating
area. But each and every Cracker Barrel was exactly
the same (we stopped at so many for the ultraclean
bathrooms and the books on tape that you
can return at the next convenient Cracker Barrel
store). Night fell and we finally found a Comfort
Inn that wasn’t filled around 10:30 p.m. Not
too bad for our first day.
We rolled into Memphis just in time for
dinner the next night. I loved Memphis.
What a great city. It was a Sunday night but
Beale Street was alive and kicking
more than Puritan Boston ever
could (unless the Red Sox finally win
the World Series). Jennie and I just strolled
down the street, beers in hand courtesy of the
outdoor bars, listening to the great blues and jazz.
Everyone seemed so friendly and without a care
in the world. Especially the llama and sheep just
hanging out in a yard attached to a bar.
Graceland was the ultimate holy land for us
lovers of pop culture. These people were mad
for Elvis. We (luckily) got a room at a nearby
hotel where the pool was shaped like a guitar
and Elvis movies played 24 hours a day. At
Graceland we met someone who was there
on his 103rd trip. He tried to convince us
that Elvis was once a spy for the CIA. I
was waiting for him to share his other conspiracy
theories but we got too caught up in checking
out Elvis’s private jet. I didn’t want to leave but
we had 500 miles to drive that day. By the third day
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we knew to call up hotels an hour before
we were going to arrive to make sure we
had rooms for the night. It’s surprising
how hotels in the middle of nowhere fill
up so fast
I was dreading having to drive so
much during a day. My frequent trips
from Boston to Philly are only 350 miles
but they seem like the longest six hours
of my life. Jennie and I were both shocked by how
easy it was to amuse ourselves in the car. She had
just gotten a CD changer so it wasn’t necessary to
dig through the CD collection every hour. Music
selection did provide a small bit of controversy. The
only music we really seemed to both like was
Britney Spears or Styx. But there’s only so much
“Oops!…I Did It Again” and “Come Sail Away” one
can take. So we turned to books on tape. These
made the driving completely effortless.
The most interesting town in America has to be
in Amarillo, Texas. About 400 miles away we started
seeing signs for Big Texans Steak Ranch, home of
the free 72-ounce steak. Luckily we rolled into town
just in time for a late lunch. For you “Simpsons”
fans out there, Big Texans is the inspiration for the
great trucker episode. Everything was huge: the
tables, the stuffed deer hanging up on the wall, the
menus, the beer, and the food. If you’re up to the
challenge you get to sit on a small stage and attempt
to devour the biggest steak imaginable along with
all the side dishes and a nice little salad just for
kicks. Your prize if you conquer the beast: a free
meal. The rest of the poor folk who can’t
handle the meal win the prize
of paying $55 just for the experience.
Sadly, no one was trying
to eat the steak when we were
there but the friendly waitress told
us the night before a 16-year-old
was able to perform the
As we dined, Jennie excitedly wrote me a
note on her napkin. Sitting next to us was
none other than Michael Gross, the dad from
“Family Ties.” We weren’t even in LA yet and
we had our first celebrity sighting. I called
almost everyone I knew with this news.
feat in 54 minutes. Also in Amarillo was a water
tower slanted just like the famous tower in Pisa and
Cadillac Ranch, a modern-art display comprising
a row of old Cadillacs buried hood-first into the
ground. Only in Texas.
As we continued throughout the Southwest the
landscape changed dramatically. I was accustomed
to the hills and trees of the Northeast; Oklahoma
and New Mexico were completely different. The
desert was beautiful and seemed to expand forever.
We finally made it to Santa Fe ahead of schedule
because of the time changes. Santa Fe was the most
beautiful city I’ve been to in America. The adobe
architecture blended into the land so well. Even
though the mercury creeped into the high 90s, the
complete lack of humidity made the weather so
peaceful. We found a great authentic restaurant in
the middle of the Plaza, Santa Fe’s historical district.
As we dined, Jennie excitedly wrote me a note
on her napkin. Sitting next to us was none other
than Michael Gross, the dad from “Family Ties.”
We weren’t even in LA yet and we had our first
celebrity sighting. I called almost everyone I knew
with this news.
We reached the Grand Canyon two days after
leaving Santa Fe with a nice stop in Flagstaff. The
heat during the day made
hiking almost unbearable
but we managed to trek
about a mile and a half
into the canyon. I woke
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up at four the next morning to catch the
sunrise as Jennie slept, obviously worn out
and nervous about her new job. The sunrise
tour guide was a very friendly man
from Louisiana who took us to the best
outlook sight to see the sun creep above
the canyon rim, lighting up the sky with
the most gorgeous colors. He warned us
not to go too close and shared a few gory
stories about recent deaths at the canyon.
Not what I wanted to hear, but it did make
me feel a bit more adventurous.
Jennie and I came too close to running
out of gas on the drive to Vegas. We
stopped in a tiny town about 10 miles from
the highway near the Nevada border.
Finally, we found the only gas pump in a
50-mile radius. The man hanging out at
the station, while friendly, also intimidated
us a bit with his two guns securely
buckled to his pants. I don’t think he was
used to seeing too many East Coasters and
I have never felt more out of place. We
filled the tank and headed to Vegas, the
one city we splurged in. The Paris Hotel
had a beautiful rooftop pool that just
screamed paradise. I hung out at the slots
for a bit, enjoying the complimentary
drinks while Jennie checked out the shopping.
We dined at a Wolfgang Puck Asian
Fusion restaurant. The nightlife in Vegas
put Memphis to shame. Everyone was
there for one reason: complete debauchery.
I would be a lost soul if I stayed there
for more than one night.
Jennie and I stayed in our fair share of
cheap motels along the way. No matter
what chain it was, they all served the same
two cereals as part of their continental
breakfast: Raisin Bran and Fruit Loops.
After a week of this I was thrilled to be able
to totally stuff myself at Bally’s all-American
breakfast buffet in Las Vegas. Cheese
blintzes, biscuits and gravy, grits, and
smoked salmon never tasted better. There
was definitely no need to stop for lunch
that day.
About four-and-a-half hours from Las
Vegas, I saw the ocean. We did it! Seven
days and almost 3,000 miles after we’d started,
we were in sunny Los Angeles, Jennie’s
new home for the next three months. I was
so excited for her, though I secretly hoped
she would hate it and fly back to the East
Coast with me that night. Jennie was going
to stay with a friend from high school in
West Hollywood, who had us over for a
small dinner party that night. I knew that I
did not belong in LA. Out of the seven dinner
guests, I was the only one who didn’t
work in the entertainment industry. There
were two producers, one actress, two entertainment
lawyers, a writer, and myself, a
geologist. Dinner conversation was about
the parties and nightlife of LA.
Hmm…maybe I could get used to all the
celebrities and fun of Los Angeles. Sadly, I
had to fly back that night but I’m sure I’ll
spend some more time there.
Driving cross-country was one of those
life-altering experiences everyone should
try once in his or her lifetime. I had a real
reason to go, but anyone could take a week
or two off and try it. And, surprisingly, it
was not too expensive. Even with the
splurge in Vegas I spent less than $700.
The only chain restaurant we ate in was
Cracker Barrel, but that was an experience
in itself. We found small restaurants in the
cities and towns we passed through. What
I treasured most was getting off the highway
and into all the small towns, especially
those lining Route 66. The Americans in
the South and West are much friendlier,
much more peaceful than those I
encounter in the busy Northeast. The
regional food, the amazing museums, the
fact that you could see stars at night, all of
it was awe-inspiring. Maybe when Jennie
leaves LA we’ll have to take the northern
route home. I’m sure Michael Gross vacations
in Montana.
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The Treasures of Tuscany
Join us for Haverford College’s third in a
series of alumni and friends trips to Italy:
June 3-16, 2004
This year, the group will depart
on June 3, 2004, to discover the
beauties of Tuscany, visiting the
ancient cities of Florence, San
Gimignano, Siena, Perugia,
Pienza, Pisa, Cortona, Arezzo,
Fiesole, and Prato. While abroad,
travelers will be accommodated in
three beautiful hotels, and will be
led by an English-speaking escort
tour guide in addition to step-on
expert guides at each location. In
addition to the regular itinerary,
there will be four private musical
presentations for the group by
Curt Cacioppo, Ruth Marshall
Magill Professor of Music. His
works were inspired by his
experiences in Tuscany as well
as compositions inspired by
other Italian travels.
For more information about this
incredible travel opportunity, contact
Violet Brown, Director of External
Relations, at (610) 896-1130 or
vbrown@haverford.edu.
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42 For news of Anson Haughton, see
note on John Rettew ’54.
44 For news of Pat Robinson, see note
on Chuck Boteler ’45.
45 Chuck Boteler writes, “It is not
often that six college graduates from various
classes in the 1940s (the youngest of
which is this writer who will be 80 years
old next month) are able to get together
without the aid of wheelchairs and have a
really good time. This is what happened a
few weeks ago when Art Jones hosted a
get-together at his summer home in Kennebunkport,
Maine, that included Chick
Shields, myself, Warren Baldwin, Pat
Robinson ’44, and Roland Neuhaus ’49.
Unfortunately, I was not able to get a picture
of the entire group, and the attached
picture of Shields, Jones, and myself will
attest to the fact that at least three of us are
still standing. No plans were made for
another reunion next year.”
49 For news of Roland Neuhaus, see
note on Chuck Boteler ’45.
51 Brooke Gardiner, professional
glassblower, was featured in the Westfield
Leader on July 24, 2003, for his glass and
stone sculptures. Gardiner graduated from
Haverford with a degree in chemistry and
from UNC Chapel Hill with a doctorate in
organic chemistry. For 35 years, he used
his glassblowing skills for the Advanced
Research Projects Agency at Exxon. Not
until 1982 when he encouraged his son to
take up glassblowing as a hobby did Gardiner
consider the artistic side of glassblowing.
He and his son registered their
glassmaking business in Union County
and Trenton, and the younger Gardiner
trademarked his small glass vases, which
were taken to Denmark by a family friend.
54 John Rettew writes, “After hip
replacement surgery this summer, I spent
about a week in the Bryn Mawr Rehab
Center. A gentleman moved into the next
bed. We struck up a conversation and
found a number of coincidences of which
one was that we were both Haverford College
graduates. Anson Haughton was in
the class of 1942 and graduated in 1946
(due to military service). We shared a week
together of olden days at HC, etc. We identified
our time as a ‘mini reunion.’ It was
an enjoyable time with shared memories
and kept each of us in good spirits.”
Chick Shields ’45, Art Jones ’45, and Chuck Boteler ’45 in Kennebunkport, Maine.
John Rettew ’54 and Anson Haughton ’42
at the Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Center.
58 For news of Peter Rockwell, see
note on Kate Smolenski ’98.
61 For news of Robert Martin, see
note on Chris Gibbs ’80.
63 For news of Lindsley Williams,
see note on Morey Epstein ’80.
64 Murray S. Levin, a partner with
Pepper Hamilton LLP, was a featured main
theme speaker at the recently concluded
47th Congress of the Union Internationale
des Avocats (UIA) in Lisbon, Portugal.
Under the main theme of corporate governance
and legal practice, Mr. Levin spoke
on “Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States:
Recent Developments in Directors’ and
Lawyers’ Responsibilities and Liabilities
Under American Corporate and Securities
Law.” The UIA, based in Paris, is the
world’s oldest international lawyers association.
Mr. Levin was president of its
American chapter in 1995-96, and he is
the newly elected president of the UIA’s
International Tort Commission.
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Class News
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65 Dick Morris writes, “I have worked
for the National Association of Home
Builders in Washington, D.C., for 19 years,
first doing housing research and for the
past 15 years as an advocate for cost-effective
and affordable housing. In early 1984
I initiated U.S. research in frost-protected
shallow foundations (FPSF), which will
eventually reduce construction costs in
cold climates by a billion dollars a year.
Last year I was able to convince officials
of the International Code Council, the predominant
code-writing organization in the
U.S., to approve use of the technology for
all commercial and residential buildings.
I give seminars on the technology from
time to time and manage NAHB’s website
on the topic (see www.nahb.org and search
on FPSF). In other work I try to make sure
that residential energy and indoor air quality
standards are cost-effective and affordable.
At home, I live in Bowie, Md., with
Barbara, my wife of 35 years. Our three
children are grown and live nearby. We
have one grandson. A year ago I retired as
choir director of the Bowie Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship after 12 years. I have
recently done websites for two artist
friends, Sy Mohr (www.symohrgallery.com)
and William C. Byers (www.byersgallery.com).
Sy has had three paintings
selected for display at U.S. embassies. Bill’s
site contains paintings of civil rights heroes
he painted in the ’60s plus paintings of jazz
musicians. I have also taken an interest in
local history and am trying to save the
1911 home of African American architect
Isaiah Hatton from demolition in Lincoln
(Lanham), Md.”
Frank J. Popper writes, “In August 2003
I and my wife Deborah Popper (BMC ’69)
celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary.
This fall we will again be visiting professors
in the civil and environmental engineering
department at Princeton. At the
same time I will retain my position at Rutgers,
and Deborah will retain hers at the
College of Staten Island/City University of
New York.”
67 In the past year, Geoffrey Kabat
has had a number of major epidemiologic
research articles appear in journals
including the British Medical Journal, the
American Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology,
and Inhalation Toxicology. The
paper in the BMJ has sparked a heated controversy
about the effect of exposure to
passive smoking on mortality. Three articles
on the association of exposure to electromagnetic
fields with breast cancer came
out this summer, as well as a critical review
titled “Fifty years’ experience of reduced
tar cigarettes: What do we know about
their health effects?”
For news of David L. Wilson, Jr., see
BIRTHS.
68 Peter S. Fisher writes, “I’m still
teaching in the urban planning program
at the University of Iowa, but now I have a
second job: research director of the Iowa
Policy Project, a non-profit organization I
helped found to provide progressive analyses
of public policy issues.”
Ford Highlight
When longtime sailor George Todd ’54
designed and built his vessel Schooner Mallory
Todd 22 years ago, he intended to retire
on it. But that was before he offered his
services to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center in Seattle.
“Haverford helped me to believe that
a man’s life is measured by his service to
the community,” he says.
With a volunteer crew comprised largely
of cancer survivors, Todd takes groups of
the Hutchinson Center’s young patients
and their families on no-cost cruises of
Seattle’s Lakes aboard the Mallory Todd.
The cancer survivor crews contribute greatly
to the therapeutic value of the cruises
for both patient and volunteer alike.
In the nine years since Todd began the
Hutchinson Center cruises, the trips that
were once heartbreaking have become journeys
of hope. “The first couple of months,
you just wanted to cry all the time,” he says.
“But in the past decade doctors have done
wonders with cancer treatments. Now, former
patients are having five-year survivor
reunions aboard the boat. Many patients
have now become his friends and return to
the boat year after year
Todd has reached out to other Seattlearea
nonprofits and community service
organizations, hosting cruises for children
from the Starlight Children’s Foundation
and for abused women and children from
local shelters. This year, Todd hopes to see
the operation expand from one boat to
multiple vessels and crews throughout
Seattle and nearby cities. “We want this
idea to grow,” he says, “and eventually
spread to cities throughout the country.”
For further information see www.sailingheritage.org
—B.M.
George Todd '54 with a future sailor.
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73 R. Leslie Deak, president and chief
executive officer of Bittachon Holdings
Inc., managing director and owner of
Carousel Concepts L.L.C. and National
Loan Recoveries L.L.C., and chairman,
CEO, and owner of Marah Wood Holdings
L.L.C., was elected to the board of directors
of Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan,
Conn., a not-for-profit behavioral health
and substance abuse treatment center.
74 Norman Heller writes, “I haven’t
written in a long time. So here goes. We
still live in Greenwich, Conn., and I am
practicing matrimonial law in New York
and Connecticut. My New York City firm
merged with a large Philadelphia firm (now
known as Blank Rome LLP) so after all
these years I suppose I’m a Philadelphia
lawyer. Donna (BMC ’76) is a litigation
partner in a mid-size law firm in Stamford
practicing commercial litigation and
employment law. My oldest son, Jake, is a
senior at Middlebury College and hopes
to go into sports broadcasting as an on-air
reporter. This summer he was interviewing
Yankees and Mets players in the locker
rooms and watching games from the
press box as a reporter for NY1 News, a
cable news station in the city. Beats practicing
law, I assure you. My youngest,
Shane, is a plebe at the U.S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis. He is enjoying this experience,
if that’s the right word. He plays on
their Club A hockey team and is busy every
minute of the day. He hopes to be a naval
aviator. That also beats practicing law. Now
that we are empty nesters, my plan is to
phase in more golf and fishing. We saw
John Harer and his family when we took
Shane to visit the Duke campus. It took
me some time to recognize him, if only
because his hair was a little different, and
I think he thought likewise when he saw
me.”
Robin Winter writes, “This year I am president
of the Association of Family Practice
Residency Directors. We represent the
directors of the 460 family practice residencies
in the country.”
75 For news of David Hansell, see
note on David Wertheimer ’77.
76 For news of David Pyke, see note
on Chunbai Zhang ’98.
77 David Wertheimer writes, “To celebrate
the 10th anniversary of our original
commitment ceremony, Paul Beaudet
and I were united in marriage in Sooke,
British Columbia. The marriage is now
legal in Canada; time will tell if the United
States reciprocates recognition. David
Hansell ’75, who was my Best Man at the
original commitment ceremony in 1993,
attended the wedding and served as a witness.
I divide my time between Seattle and
Guemes Island (a small island north of
Seattle with 550 residents), and have for
the past three years been operating Kelly
Point Partners, a consulting firm specializing
in system-level strategic planning and
program development for persons with
multiple disabilities being served by public
sector human service systems. Paul
Beaudet is associate director of the Wilburforce
Foundation, which focuses grantmaking
on preservation of wilderness areas
in the North American West.”
78 William Gleason writes, “I have
been singing opera in Germany professionally
now for the last 10 years. I started
in small houses in former East Germany.
I am now living in Düsseldorf. The
highlight so far has been singing the solo
bass part in Verdi’s Requiem in the Berlin
Philharmonic Hall in 1998. Last November
I sang the bass solo in Mahler’s 8th
Symphony in Carnegie Hall. In April I
sang the Verdi Requiem in Fairbanks, Alaska,
and experienced an earthquake (5.5
on the Richter scale) during one of the
rehearsals. In June I sang the Mozart
Requiem in Carnegie Hall as well. I have
fond memories of playing clarinet in a
wind quintet with Lynn Binstock, Jim Firman,
the late and illustrious Andy Silk,
and John Blumenfeld (now in the
Philadelphia Orchestra).”
At the marriage of David Wertheimer ’77
(on right) and Paul Beaudet, with Kerry
Fedosenko, the Sooke, British Columbia,
Marriage Commissioner (front), who
presided at the wedding.
For news of Jonah Salz, see note on Kate
Howe ’98.
80 Peter Carman writes, “2003 has
been a good year, albeit challenging. In the
early part of the year I was very active with
antiwar protests including a civil disobedience
action in March at our local federal
building. After a raucous trial, I was convicted
of trespass! My mother, Ineke
Carman, died in June, after a life-long
struggle with diabetes. As we begin the fall,
Lynn and I watch with amazement as both
sons, Luke and Ben, go to high school here
in the city of Rochester. Luke, the older, is
a junior and starting to think about college.
Ben starts his freshman year with a
trombone/music focus at an arts magnet
school.”
Gerassimos Contomichalos writes, “I
recently talked to Mark Engel who with
his two children lives in Princeton. He continues
as chief of pediatric ophthalmology
at Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School, in addition to maintaining his
group practice. He most enjoys international
volunteer medical trips that he takes
with his wife (Isabel BMC ’82) to perform
eye surgeries in Central and South America.
I am still in New York City where I live
with my wife and three children and work
in the public sector as a banking regulator.”
For news of Davis Dure, see BIRTHS.
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Morey Epstein writes, “Wendy (my wife)
and I have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Erzsebet
(Bess) Jane Epstein, born Jan. 18, 2001,
and are now living in up-and-coming Silver
Spring, Md. I was recently given the excessively
long title of executive director of institutional
development at The Studio Theatre
in Washington, D.C. (where I have been
since 1988). Lindsley Williams ’63 has been
a great help guiding the Studio through
Washington’s zoning and historic processes
as we planned our $12 million initiative to
purchase and renovate the two historic buildings
next door to our current home.”
Chris Gibbs writes, “After nine years
teaching at the University at Buffalo
(SUNY), I moved last year to Bard College,
where I am James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor
of Music. I am also co-artistic director,
together with Bard’s president Leon Botstein
and vice-president Robert Martin ’61,
of the Bard Music Festival. The college just
opened an amazing new performing arts
center designed by Frank Gehry, so this
has been a particularly interesting time to
join the community. I also write the program
notes for the Philadelphia Orchestra,
which gets me back to the area and allows
me to visit Haverford fairly often.”
Vince Gonzales writes, “I am in-house
counsel for Sempra Energy, specializing in
environmental law. I have offices in Los
Angeles and San Diego, and I live in
Orange County, which is between the two
cities. I am married (Libby Frolichman,
UC Berkeley ’85) and have two kids: Seth
(6 1/2) who is in first grade, and Remi (2)
who is in pre-school. I recently published
an article in the July/August 2003 issue of
the American Corporate Counsel Association’s
ACCA Docket magazine. I am also
scheduled to speak at two panels at the
Annual American Corporate Counsel Association
Meeting in San Francisco in October
2003. I am a vice president of the
Southern California Chapter of ACCA, and
I am also the treasurer of the Asian Pacific
American Legal Center of Southern California.
I am working on my golf game as
well as my skiing, to the extent I have time
to play golf or go skiing. This past August,
Barbara Bennett (BMC ’83) was in Southern
California with her husband and two
kids. Together with both our families, we
visited Disneyland, Sea World, and Disney’s
California Adventure, while reminiscing
about our old college days.”
Daniel Kessler writes, “Living in New York
City for past 18 years, practicing corporate
and commercial law with a large pharmaceutical
company. My wife, Yael, and I have
two small girls, Naomi (3 1/2) and Talia
(almost 2). My twin sister, Anne (BMC
’80), lives in Zuni, N.M., and is a pediatrician
with the Indian Health Service in
Gallup, N.M. My brother, David (also ’80)
lives down the road from her in Ramah,
N.M., and is clinical director and pediatrician
for the Indian Health Service Hospital
in Zuni.”
Steve Mindlin writes, “I am living in Tallahassee
with my wife, Valerie, and daughters
Lindsay (10) and Shannon (7). Still
enjoying parenting and many other activities.
Looking forward to singing at
Carnegie Hall with the Tallahassee Community
Chorus in late March 2004.
Regards to all!”
Ford Highlight
When Brian Koukoutchos ’80 was a
student at Haverford and involved with the
College’s Gay People’s Alliance, he never
imagined he would someday play a role in
a landmark victory for gay rights.
In the 1980s, Koukoutchos teamed up
with his Harvard Law mentor Larry Tribe
and colleague and friend Kathleen Sullivan
(now dean of Stanford Law) to argue more
gay rights cases than any other lawyers
before the Supreme Court. One of these
cases was Bowers vs. Hardwick in 1986,
where Koukoutchos and his colleagues
defended a man arrested for having sex with
his partner in the privacy of his own home.
The Supreme Court ruled against them, but
the battle was far from over.
In 2003, Koukoutchos assisted Larry
Tribe in writing a brief for Lawrence vs.
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Texas,a case similar to Bowers. They stated
that Texas’ anti-sodomy laws, which
specifically targeted homosexuals, violated
an individual’s right to privacy and
denied gays equal protection under the law.
What Koukoutchos, Tribe and many other
lawyers wanted was for the Court to overturn
its earlier decision in Bowers vs. Hardwick.
They got their wish.
“The Supreme Court dismissed its prior
decision, and belittled its reasoning 17 years
ago,” says Koukoutchos. “We had complete
vindication.” Koukoutchos’ sense of triumph
also stems from the fact that Justice
Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the historic
Lawrence vs. Texas decision, sits on the
Supreme Court because of Koukoutchos’
and others’ successful efforts to defeat the
nomination of Robert Bork in the ’80s.
Brian Koukoutchos ’80
Because of this decision, Koukoutchos
(now a resident of Louisiana) has had to
rewrite a significant part of his constitutional
law course at Haverford, which he
teaches every Tuesday evening this semester.
The class, which used to end with the
Bowers vs. Hardwick loss, now reflects the
right-to-privacy victory of Lawrence vs.
Texas. “I’ve never enjoyed rewriting a
course quite so much,” he says.
—B.M

Tom Munk writes, “After nearly 20 years
working in education, I am back in the
classroom as a student working on my doctorate
in education at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am active
with the Chapel Hill Friends’ Meeting,
working right now on outreach to the University
and starting a Quaker Student Organization.
My wife, Jennifer Leeman (BMC
’82) and our children, Sam (14) and Rachel
(13) are doing very well. We continue to
work for a vision of world peace and cooperation,
a view very different to our current
administration’s view of world dominance.”
Paul Noble writes, “I was promoted to professor
of medicine at Yale University School
of Medicine in the pulmonary and critical
care section. I combine a clinical practice
and research program funded by the NIH
to try and understand and cure a lung disease
called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.”
Bruce Schumm writes, “In addition to taking
advantage of many of the wonderful
opportunities and offers presented by e-
mail SPAM, I’m still happily employed as a
professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz. I’m
publishing a book with the Johns Hopkins
University Press on particle physics, at a
level that (with some effort) a person with
a deep interest but no background should
be able to follow. No firm title as of yet,
but it should be on the shelves next year.
Married with two children: Laurel (9) and
Gretchen (6). Also deeply involved with
the Charter School movement here in California
(founding vice-president of Tierra
Pacifica, a K-8 school in Santa Cruz).”
Eric W. Sedlak spoke on “FDI (foreign
direct investment): a Lawyer’s Perspective”
to an audience of Japanese prefectural government
officials in Tokyo in September.
Eric serves as a member of the FDI Task
Force of the American Chamber of Commerce
in Japan. The video works of his
wife, Junko Hoshizawa, have recently been
selected for exhibitions at the Siggraph
(computer graphics) Convention in San
Diego, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the
Tokyo Museum of Photography. Eric continues
as a partner at Squire Sanders &
Dempsey in Tokyo, recently celebrating 15
years in Asia.
Nancy R. Lewin ’84.
Jonathan Wagner writes, “I am a litigation
partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
LLP, specializing in trademark and unfair
competition matters. My wife and I live on
the Upper East Side of Manhattan, with
our three daughters, ages 17, 14, and 10.
My oldest is a senior, applying to colleges
now. Scary!”
Tom Williams writes, “I continue to serve
as president of Octavia Hill, a company
that develops and manages rental housing
in Philadelphia. We now have 500 units
that we own or manage, and continue to
grow. Our son Andrew (16) is spending
his junior year of high school this year in
Rennes, France, in the School Year Abroad
program. Our other two kids, Eliza and
Anna, are students at Friends Select. Both
are avid athletes who look forward to beating
Penn Charter in something other than
basketball. I see David Barclay and Anjan
Chatterjee (both M.D.s in Philly) with
some frequency.”
82 For news of Geoffrey Rockwell,
see note on Kate Smolenski ’98.
84 Bettina Garbaty-Zolotariov writes,
“It’s been a while...the latest is that Naomi
was born on July 10, 2003, to join her
brother Ori (20 mo.) and sister Lital (7).
My husband Zviki and I are google-eyed
when we see all three kids in our full
house. Moved to Tel Aviv in ’91 after finishing
master’s in French at NYU and
working for the JDC (non-governmental
organization) for 10 years. Was able to
work and travel out of New York and
Jerusalem office to projects in Latin America,
North Africa, and the former Soviet
Union (picked up a few more languages
on the way). Decided to settle down
(somehow) and made career change to
clinical social work. I’ve become a Hebrewspeaking
therapist of all things and will
probably work with post-trauma victims
once I start my work life again. Living in
Israel is certainly an adventure. The contrasts
are blinding — the beauty and the
cruelty, side by side every moment. But I’ve
found and built a peaceful corner here in
Tel Aviv near the sea. Lital and Ori walk to
their school and day care, respectively. I
ride my bike to the sea and swim every day
at the Tel Aviv University pool. Unbelievably,
our neighborhood here in Israel
reminds me of Haverford (quite a bit of
green here) and Switzerland combined
(two of my former homes). There is also
an abundance of sushi in downtown Tel
Aviv (just like New York). Hope to make
it to the 20-year reunion at Haverford. Very
much miss hearing from people from the
past. Please drop by if you’re in the Middle
East (we have a lovely house with a lot
of space for sleepovers) or ‘more safely,’
send me a line at bettinaz1@yahoo.com.
Bye, bye Haverford.”
Nancy R. Lewin, Executive Director of the
Corporate Equity Nursing Campaign and
New Ventures for Johnson & Johnson
Worldwide Advertising Group in New
Brunswick, N.J., was honored at the Young
Women’s Christian Association’s 24th
annual Tribute to Women and Industry
Awards Dinner on May 15, 2003. Lewin
runs the Johnson & Johnson “Campaign
for Nursing’s Future,” a multiyear effort to
increase nurse recruitment and retention
amidst a major nursing shortage.
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John Kim ’85 and Leigh James ’03 at
Alumni Weekend 2003.
85 Justin Barry and Seth Phillips
walked in the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation’s annual 5K “Walk for the
Cure.” They were part of “Team Sophia”
in honor of Justin’s eight-year old daughter.
The team raised $11,000, leading the Mid-
Jersey chapter for non-corporate teams,
thanks in large part to tremendous support
from fellow Fords.
John Kim writes, “I first met Leigh James
’03 when I was a kindergarten teacher at
Westtown School. This was in the fall of
1985. Leigh was one of my kindergarten
students. This was my first full time teaching
job. I truly enjoyed all of the students
but Leigh was definitely one of my favorite
students. She was younger and thus a little
smaller than most of the class, but she was
determined and energetic. I loved her smile
and upbeat attitude. Nothing deterred her.
After my year of teaching, I returned to
Eugene, Ore., to begin attending law
school. I returned to Westtown a couple
of years later to say hello to friends and
briefly ran into Leigh (she may not remember
this. I think she was in second or third
grade by that time). I did not see Leigh
again until June of 2003 during Alumni
Weekend. I was at the Ford to receive the
MacIntosh Award for my work as an
Admission volunteer. After the awards ceremony,
I was having lunch on Founders
Green when a student came up to me and
asked me if I was John Kim. I saw her
nametag and realized this was Leigh from
Westtown School days. I could not believe
it. I think we were both surprised, to put it
mildly. We talked for a bit and she told me
I was one of her favorite teachers. I told
her how I always tried to look after her in
the classroom, making sure the boys
weren’t giving her a hard time. We
exchanged addresses and have kept in
touch via e-mail. She recently wrote that
her parents and even her older sister
remembered me from Westtown. I was
truly honored to receive the MacIntosh
Award but reconnecting with Leigh was
truly the highlight of that weekend. Leigh
is currently in Cyprus for the year teaching
at an American International school. I
am very proud of her and her accomplishments.”
John Kim ’85 and Leigh James ’03 (front row, far left) at the Westtown School in 1986.
86 For news of Sarah Wright, see
BIRTHS.
87 Rich Espey’s play, “Fifty-Fifty,” was
recently named Best Play and Best Production
at the 2003 Baltimore Playwright’s
Festival. “Fifty-Fifty” played to sold-out
audiences at the Audrey Herman Spotlighter’s
Theatre in downtown Baltimore.
For news of Sarah Allen McQuaid, see
BIRTHS.
88 For news of Jessica Barest, see
BIRTHS.
89 For news of Robyn Gilman Gill,
see BIRTHS.
90 Timothy Abbott writes, “I continue
to direct The Nature Conservancy’s
Berkshire Taconic Landscape Program,
where there is always a new challenge and
the work is meaningful. In true, tri-state
fashion I was raised in the New York part
of the Program area, have an office in Massachusetts,
and a home in Connecticut (that
five-mile, rural commute across the state
line is a sacrifice, let me tell ya). I stay connected
to Pennsylvania as a volunteer campaign
advisor to Charlie Crystle, a longtime
friend who is challenging Arlen
Specter for his Senate seat in 2004. In the
last few months I had the pleasure of
reconnecting with classmates Janet Finegar
at her annual Northern Liberties solstice
party, and Liz Gould Neustaedter, who
works for the executive search firm Issacson,
Miller in Boston. I understand from
Alan Rose that he is now a homeowner,
putting down roots in Ithaca, N.Y.” For
further news of Timothy Abbott, see
BIRTHS.
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Tom Harding writes, “In January, my wife
Dorothy and I started a non-profit organization,
ART AIDS ART, to promote education
and economic development through
collaborative art programs. Most of our
work is based in Cape Town, South Africa,
where we are opening a bed-and-breakfast
in 2004 to host folks interested in service
projects. Our latest effort is collecting multicultural
children’s books and black dolls
to stock a Mobile Literacy and Performing
Arts Van that will tour the area. Fords are
invited to come check out one of the
world’s most spectacular coastlines. Visit
www.artaidsart.org or www.blueonbluesa.com
for more information.”
91 For news of Ben Barton, see
BIRTHS.
92 For news of Tom Smolenski, see
note on Kate Smolenski ’98.
93 For news of Indya Kincannon, see
BIRTHS.
Ellen Babil Levi writes, “We’re back in Baltimore,
and I’m working part-time for The
Associated, matching individuals and
groups with volunteer opportunities in the
community.” For further news, see
BIRTHS.
For news of Carl Tishler, see BIRTHS.
94 For news of Anita (Valdez) Hohenstein,
see BIRTHS.
For news of Steve Whitton, see BIRTHS.
95 Shelby Ottensmeyer Mitchell
writes, “Brian Mitchell and I were married
May 17, 2003, in Ann Arbor, Mich. At the
celebration, we enjoyed a mini-reunion
with several Fords – including half of
Hiram ’94!”
Members of the Class of ’85 turn 40 and celebrate in Albuquerque. Top row: Brad Koehler
(married to Amy Trubek ’85), Ted Rybeck ’85, Justin (Bing) Broderick ’85, Jay Jurina (married
to Karen Floreen ’85), Ella-Kari Loftfield ’85. Sitting: Amy Trubek ’85 with Katherine
Trubek Koehler on lap, Ellen Brodsky ’85 with Emma Brodsky Rybeck on lap, Mia Brodsky
Rybeck, Karen Floreen Jurina ’85 with Lucy Jurina on lap, and Kaya the dog. Everyone is
wearing a t-shirt with their freshman year pig-book photo on it.
Justin Barry ’85 and Seth Phillips ’85 at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s annual
5K “Walk for the Cure.”
At the wedding of Shelby Ottensmeyer Mitchell ’95 and Brian Mitchell. Back row: Greg
Pare ’96, Joti Rockwell ’97, and James Taft ’94. Middle Row: Jessica Turnoff ’95 and Laura
Driscoll Taft ’95. Front: Shelby Ottensmeyer Mitchell ’95 and Brian Mitchell. Not pictured,
but in attendance: Mark Byers ’95.
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At the wedding of Sarah Byrne Francis ’99
on Nov. 3, 2002, in Boston. From left to
right: David Byrne ’03, Beth Hoel ’99,
Sarah Byrne Francis ’99, Philip Francis,
and Emily Tuckman ’99.
96 Ryan G. Fields writes, “Ryan has finished
his year as chief intern at Mercy
Fitzgerald Hospital and will be spending the
next three years as an anesthesia resident at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Michele ’97 will be finishing her thesis
in immunology at UPenn soon. We had a
great time in Kentucky recently; we went
down for Alyssa Adams McAlpine’s ’97
wedding, and we also met up with Brad
Dickey while we were there.” For further
news of Ryan and Michele, see BIRTHS.
Libby (Elisabeth) Larson writes, “I’ve just
started a Ph.D. program in life sciences at
Arizona State University. I will be studying
urban stream ecology and biogeochemistry.”
97 For news of Alyssa Adams
McAlpine, see note on Ryan G. Fields ’96.
Andrew Ewald writes, “It has been a busy
year. I got engaged to Shannon Marshall in
November 2002, defended my Ph.D. thesis
at Caltech in March 2003, Shannon and
I were married in Pennsylvania on May 31,
2003 and then we moved from Pasadena
to San Francisco in August. Phil Perilstein
came out for my bachelor party in Philly.
Shannon and I are just getting settled into
our new apartment in the Inner Sunset district
of San Francisco, and I have just started
a new research job at UCSF. If anyone
comes out to San Francisco, look us up.”
For news of Michele Lutz Fields, see note
on Ryan G. Fields ’96.
At the wedding of Erin Herward Thurston ’98 and Adam Thurston ’98. Back row: Christina
West ’98, Amy Ayres ’98, Jonathan Lewis ’98, Andy Clinton ’98, Shira Ovide ’98, and
Evanthe Sophocleus ’98. Front row: Dara Bongarten ’98, Erin Heward Thurston ’98, Adam
Thurston ’98, and Joyce Kelley Clinton ’98.
Dr. Jonah Salz ’78 and Kate Howe ’98
in Kyoto.
98 Kate Howe writes, “Dr. Jonah Salz
’78 and I met in Kyoto where I was working
for a traditional Japanese gardening
company and Jonah is a professor of comparative
theatre at Ryukoku University. Currently,
I am attending a program at the University
of Washington, Seattle, for a master’s
in urban planning. Jonah is on sabbatical
this year at Wesleyan University.”
Geoffrey Seiler writes, “I am currently
working as a financial writer at Bloomberg
L.P., where I met my fiancée Colleen Cody
(Rider University). We are getting married
mid-November 2003 and are currently having
a new home built in central New Jersey
due to be finished shortly thereafter. We
will be honeymooning in Brazil, splitting
the time between Rio de Janerio and the
Amazon.”
Kate Smolenski writes, “Ciao from Rome
where I have been living since October
2002, after four years of working at Sotheby’s
in New York. Along with studying Italian,
eating gelato daily, and visiting my
brother Tom ’92, who lives in Frankfurt,
Germany, the highlight of this exciting year
has been working with Peter Rockwell ’58.
I recently had the pleasure of spending
time with Peter, his wife Cynthia, their son
Geoffrey ’82, and his family, at the Rockwell’s
home in Tuscany. Hope you all are
well!”
40 Haverford Magazine

Chunbai Zhang writes, “I’m doing well.
Paul Hyman and Matt Schneiderman came
to visit this past August, and we hiked the
Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains
in New Hampshire. Paul has started his
third year of medical school at Harvard,
and Matt has been promoted to editor of
his magazine in NYC. Met up with Dan
Bernard at Dartmouth last month, where
he has started at the Tuck School of Business.
Being a Haverford alum-buff, I
informed him that the current associate
dean of Tuck is David Pyke ’76. I am currently
in post-war Kosovo (or Kosovar in
Albanian) through an established link
between University of Pristina and Dartmouth
Medical School. In the past week, I
have met with various NGOs, visited local
schools, TB clinics, Gypsy camps, and Serbian
enclaves. While the country is moving
in the right direction, much more coordinated
effort by the international
community is needed, especially in education.
On the way back to the United States,
I will visit Pembroke College, Oxford,
where I had spent a year under the mastership
of Robert Stevens (former President
of HC). While in England, I also plan to
meet with Kyle Fisher ’01, my long-term
chess-mate and now an international Rotary
scholar at University of Exeter.”
At the wedding of Michelle Shanahan ’99 and Alan Seideman ’99.
At the wedding of Tracy Nguyen ’00 and
Inkil Hwangpo.
99 For news of Benjamin Kennedy,
see note on Erin Armstrong Kennedy ’01.
Cameron Mackey and Eleanor Race are
recently engaged, with the wedding scheduled
for early January 2005 in Miami.
Eleanor is currently pursuing her doctorate
in pediatric clinical psychology at the
University of Miami, focusing her research
on adolescent peer relationships and eating
disorders. Cameron is the chief marketing
officer at the Manufacturer’s
Alliance/MAPI in Washington, D.C., where
he currently manages sales operations for
the executive education and research firm.
At the wedding of Julia Bordeaux Webster
’01 and Chris Webster.
On Aug. 3, 2003, Michelle Shanahan and
Alan Seideman were married at the top of
Winter Park Mountain in Winter Park,
Colo. Fords who attended the event were:
Rachel Jaffe, Leland Kass, Christina
Bokat, Amy Clark, Shalabh Rustogi,
Hilary Cohen, Jesse Stollak ’00, Josh
Berengarten, Dan Constantinescu, Trip
Black, and Nicole Stevenson (BMC ’00).
Michelle and Alan are living in Denver,
where Michelle is getting her Ph.D. in clinical
neuropsychology and Alan is getting
his International MBA.
Rich Zito writes, “Just a quick note to let
old classmates and friends know that I have
moved to beautiful Ann Arbor, Mich., in
pursuit of a law degree from the University
of Michigan.”
00 For news of Jesse Ehrenfeld, see
note on nate zuckerman ’02.
Tracy Nguyen writes, “I am happy to
announce my marriage to Inkil Hwangpo.
We got married this past May, and we are
starting our life together in New York City.
Several alumni attended the celebration.”
For news of Jesse Stollak ’00, see note on
Michelle Shanahan ’99.
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Send your class news by e-mail to: classnews@haverford.edu
Melissa Wachterman writes, “This summer
on June 22nd I got married to Ben
Sommers, after seven years together. Ben
and I survived four years riding SEPTA
back and forth to visit, as he was at Princeton
and I was in Haverford, before moving
to Boston together in 2000. We had a
wonderful ceremony and reception in our
hometown of Cincinnati. I’m currently in
my third year at Tufts Medical School,
doing my rotation in surgery. It’s hectic,
but rewarding. Ben and I are looking forward
to our honeymoon in Hawaii in
December.”
01 For news of Dave Benner, see note
on nate zuckerman ’02.
For news of Kyle Fisher, see note on
Chunbai Zhang ’98.
Erin Armstrong Kennedy writes, “Benjamin
Kennedy ’99 and I were married on
June 21, 2003, in Conshohocken. The
reception was held at Founders Hall, which
meant a lot to both of us. Haverford was
where we met, and it was a big part of our
relationship. It was great to have the reception
there – we had a lot of fun!”
Julia Bordeaux Webster writes, “On Sept.
20th, I married Chris Webster in Hot
Springs, N.C. Two of the bridesmaids were
Haverford friends Keely Grumbach Felton
and Rebecca Kanthor. The wedding
took place under a giant black walnut tree
and the sun was shining.”
At the wedding of Erin Armstrong Kennedy ’01 and Benjamin Kennedy ’99. Top row: David
Chipkin ’99, Michael Lyons ’00, Erin Schwamb Voss (BMC ’02), Matthew Voss ’01, Betsy
Renner ’00, Sarah Edwards ’02, and David Schwarz ’99. Bottom Row: Rich Russo ’99,
Rachael Bandell Chipkin (BMC ’01), Sasha Rieders ’00, Erin Armstrong Kennedy ’01,
Benjamin Kennedy ’99, and Kate Sedgwick ’99.
At the wedding of Melissa Wachterman ’00 to Ben Sommers: Here is a picture of the
Haverford gang at the wedding —(front row, from left): Tam Houetin-Henon ’00, Ellie
Brown ’00, bride, Jen Doubilet ’00; (back row, from left): Virginie Ladisch ’00, Patricia
Kinser ’01, and Ben and Joanna Frang ’01. Not pictured, but in attendance: Jessica Shapiro
’99, and Pete Ebert ’00.
02 Gavin H. Imperato began his medical
studies at the State University of New
York Downstate College of Medicine in
August. In 2001, the Arronson Foundation
awarded him a summer fellowship at
the New York AIDS Institute under the
guidance of its medical director, Dr. Bruce
D. Agins. Imperato returned to the AIDS
Institute after graduation and has worked
there for the past year.
In early October, nate zuckerman found
himself in the midst of a bizarre, ad-hoc
mini-reunion with fellow Fords and current
University of Chicago graduate students
Dave Benner ’01, Jesse Ehrenfeld
’00, Tim Haupt, and Meredith Shuford
’03. nate is enjoying his first year of graduate
studies in philosophy, and has been
working extra hard to pave the way for a
firm future of solitude, abstrusity, and the
profound adventures of unemployment.
03 For news of Leigh James, see note
on John Kim ’85.
For news of Meredith Shuford, see note
on nate zuckerman ’02.
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Births
67 David L. Wilson, Jr. writes, “My
wife, Elizabeth Lexa, and I adopted our
daughter, Frances Elizabeth Wilson, on July
14, 2003, in Nanning, Guangxi Province,
Peoples Republic of China. She was born
on Aug. 6, 2002, in Bei Hai, Guangxi, PRC.”
80 Davis Dure writes, “Lucy Ann and
I have an adorable (no kidding!) baby girl,
Eliza (Elizabeth Mary), born June 17. Her
African American birthmother from Pennsylvania
chose us to be her parents through
a domestic adoption agency.”
86 Sarah Wright writes, “George
French and I welcomed Hugh Emlen
French on July 19, 2003. Big brother Johnston
has been very enthusiastic about offering
advice.”
87 Sarah Allen McQuaid writes, “Just
a note about the arrival of Eli James Shiels,
born July 8, 2003, 7 lbs., 9 oz., snub nose,
red-gold hair, big blue-grey eyes, beautiful
in every way and thriving well. At five
weeks and three days he’s already up to 11
lbs., 3 oz.! Feargal and I are planning a
combination wedding and christening for
Oct. 10, to take place in Glenart Castle,
just up the road from where we’re living
now in County Wexford.”
88 Jessica Barest writes, “My husband
Richard Lippin and I are delighted to
announce the birth of our baby girl, Valerie
Rose Lippin, born on June 9, 2003.”
Valerie Rose Lippin, age six weeks, daughter
of Jessica Barest ’88 and Richard Lippin.
Madeline Sophia Fields, daughter of Ryan
G. Fields ’96 and Michele Lutz Fields ’97.
89 Robyn Gilman Gill writes, “My
husband, Gary, and I are proud to
announce the birth of our daughter, Lauren
Elizabeth Gill. Lauren was born on April
3, 2003. She is a source of great amusement
to her older brothers, Garrett (5 1/2)
and Wyatt (3).”
90 Timothy Abbott writes, “Our son,
Elias Taylor Abbott, was born Aug. 4, 2003.
His three year-old sister Emily approves,
much to the relief of her sleep-deprived
parents!”
93 Indya Kincannon and Ben Barton
’91 proudly announce the birth of Georgia
Poe Kincannon Barton. She was born
(underwater!) at a birth center in
Knoxville, Tenn., June 16, 2003, and
weighed 8 lbs., 1 oz. Big sister Dahlia loves
to help with the new baby and is adjusting
well. Indya and Ben are busily and happily
adjusting to life with two kids.
Ellen Babil Levi writes, “Our second child,
Yehuda, was born Dec. 9, 2002. Our
daughter, Meira, loves being a big sister.”
Carl Tishler writes, “Our second child, and
first son, Sam, was born in London in mid-
October. Thank God everyone is healthy and
happy. His older sister remains ‘cautiously
optimistic’ about the news but is selectively
repossessing baby things nonetheless.”
Timothy Abbott ’90 with son, Elias Taylor
Abbott.
94 Anita (Valdez) Hohenstein writes,
“Bill and I are now proud parents of a new
son, Liam Thomas Hohenstein. He was
born Sept. 5, 2003, and weighed in at 8
lbs., 11 oz. The whole family is doing well.”
Max Murdock Whitton was born Aug. 20,
2003, weighing in at 9 lbs, 6 oz. Parents
are Steve Whitton and Lisa Murdock. Steve
and Lisa are living in Chicago.
96 Ryan G. Fields writes, “My wife
Michele Lutz Fields ’97 and I are delighted
to announce the birth of our first child,
Madeline Sophia Fields, on Feb. 27, 2003.
She’s a wonderful baby!”
Max Murdock Whitton, son of Steve
Whitton ’94 and Lisa Murdock.
Fall 2003 43

Obituaries
30 A. David Milliken died June 13,
2003 in Phoenix.
38 Robert P. Gilbert, 86, of Broomall, a
physician and teacher at Thomas Jefferson
University for 30 years who took up running
at age 57, died of complications from Parkinson’s
disease Sept. 30, 2003, at the University’s
hospital. A native of Chicago, he earned
a medical degree from Northwestern University.
During World War II, he served as a
medical officer in the Navy. After completing
his residency in internal medicine at Stanford
University, he practiced with his physician
father in Chicago before pursuing a
career in research. For seven years, he worked
at the University of Minnesota, where he did
groundbreaking research on endotoxin, a
poison produced by bacteria. He then became
head of the department of research and education
at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill.
Dr. Gilbert joined Thomas Jefferson University
Medical School in 1966. He retired in
1990 as a clinical professor of medicine and
director of student and employee health at
Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital. He was an intellectual
who read the classics to his children
and was fluent in French and German. He
enjoyed sailing, which he had done since
childhood, and running, which he took up
when he was 57 after he stopped smoking.
While participating in an organized race
when he was 68, he told an interviewer, “You
always hear about the thrill of victory. Well,
there’s a lot to be said for the thrill of finishing,
of going the route.” He was predeceased
by his wife of more than 20 years, Anne
Heneage Gilbert. He is survived by his second
wife Brenda Drake, two sons, and four
daughters.
42 Clyde Kingsley Nichols, 84, died
Jan. 19, 2003, in his home in Champtoce
sur Loire, France. Nichols was a member of
the search committee that selected the first
location for the United Nations, served on
the U.N. Secretariat, and worked in narcotics
control at the United Nations headquarters
in Geneva, Switzerland, for 30 years. He
leaves his wife Elise, his daughter Dr. Elise
Thomas Holt ’80, a brother, and two sisters.
44 Haverford Magazine
45 Henry Fetterman died in May
2003. He was a well-respected ob/gyn
physician in Allentown, Pa. He served as
the class representative for a number of
years, keeping a war-scattered group
informed about classmates and changes
on campus, while gently urging the financial
support of the College. His widerthan-life
smile and warm greetings were
always a delight and will be sorely missed.
One of his patients, Mary Ellen Lehman,
wrote the following tribute describing her
experiences and feeling for Henry: “The
obtrusive ring of the phone interrupted
my sleep. I got the heart-breaking news
that a trusted friend had died. I read the
obituary that morning but then felt those
printed words did not paint the complete
portrait of the wonderful human being
that I had the privilege to know for more
than 30 years. Though Henry Fetterman
is no longer with us, he leaves behind a
legacy of love, shared with thousands of
his patients. The trusting relationships he
took the time and energy to build over
the many years in practice are paralleled
by few. When you called his office, his
staff would always transfer your call to
his private line so he could personally
address your concerns. He not only knew
his medicine, he had an amazing way of
really knowing patients, their spouses and
children. You were never rushed and
every office visit would end with requested
updates on family members. He would
then walk you to the front desk, usually
sharing one of his silly jokes or comments
along the way. I will miss his wonderful
smile and keen sense of humor. It has
been said by many that I would not have
been able to get through my two pregnancies
without his caring support. He
invested the time to get to know and
understand me, and addressed my fears
and concerns. He helped give my husband
and me our most valued creations,
our son and daughter. I trusted him as my
physician, my confidante, and my friend.
He will certainly be missed by many, but
never forgotten.”
52 Eli B. Halpern, 73, a retired physician
and Haverford track star in one of
A.W. (Pop) Haddleton’s greatest eras, died
on Sept. 28, 2003, in Philadelphia after a
long illness. He was surely one of Haverford’s
“Renaissance graduates,” adding
interests in Hebrew literature and Dixieland
jazz to his college athletic and academic
accomplishments. While studying
chemistry and English as an undergrad
(a commuter to campus from Philadelphia
at that!), he played saxophone and
clarinet in a band. As the Philadelphia
Inquirer commented in its Oct. 2 obituary,
“After treating patients and supervising
hospital staffs during stressful days as
a physician, he dashed over to Gratz College
in Melrose Park to study Hebrew literature.”
He also studied Arabic. Eli
Halpern burst on the Haverford track
scene in 1949 just as the Haddletonians
were adding some depth and talent to a
fine squad already in place, led by HC
running immortal Jim Grosholz ’49. He
set the College record of 9.9 seconds in
the 100-yard dash that year and frequently
won the 100, 200 dash, and 220 low hurdles
in the same dual meets, including his
first college competition vs. St. Joseph’s.
The Fords lost that one by five points, but
then embarked on a long dual-meet winning
streak throughout the rest of
Halpern’s college career. In 1951, as a junior,
Halpern teamed with Burt Saidel ’53
to make the Fords almost unbeatable in
the 100 and continued to win the 220
hurdles on most occasions. That track
team helped put Haverford over the top
for the first time ever in the Hood Trophy
standings. (Swarthmore had won five
times with one tie and three years’ competition
cancelled due to World War II
up to then). Dr. Halpern attended Hahnemann
Medical College and practiced
his ear, nose, and throat specialty in Cinnaminson,
N.J., and Northeast Philadelphia,
as well as heading several hospital
ENT departments. He leaves his wife of
50 years, Charlotte Bushman Halpern,
and two daughters.

54 Earl G. Harrison Jr., 71, headmaster
of Sidwell Friends School for two decades,
died Nov. 10, 2003 at his home in Washington,
D.C. Mr. Harrison, who retired in
1998 after a lifetime of teaching, was credited
with guiding the nation's largest Quaker
day school through the creation of a
diversity program and a Chinese studies
program; improving the financial aid available
to students; increasing the endowment
from $300,000 to $12.2 million; expanding
the lower school building; and renovating
the upper school building, which was
named in his honor. Colleagues and family
members say that even more than his
accomplishments, Mr. Harrison showed
them a reverence for silence, the hallmark of
Quaker life, which allowed him to exercise
his thoughtful, compassionate nature. “Even
in tennis, he was very gentle,” said Rich
Lodish, principal of Sidwell’s lower school,
who often played Mr. Harrison. “When I
would miss a shot, which was quite often,
he would come over and was kind and gentle
in talking about what I could do better
the next time. That's the way he lived life.
He would kindly and gently push and prod
people to do better and to be better.” Students
found him approachable as well,
whether on the fields, where he enthusiastically
cheered for school athletes, or at graduation,
where the school tradition was to
have some fun at the expense of the headmaster.
One year, the graduates put bells in
his pockets. Another year, they dropped
pennies in a bucket for his “retirement
fund.” During his tenure, a White House
resident, Chelsea Clinton, attended the
school, as did many other children of highpowered
individuals. But those from families
that were neither rich nor famous were
also students. “He embodied the Quaker
ideal of simplicity, and his own groundedness
and centeredness kept everyone on an
even keel,” said Susan Sachs Goldman, former
chairwoman of the school board. “He
talked to groundskeepers, he talked to the
president of the United States . . . He was
unfailingly, equally open-hearted to them
all.” Mr. Harrison was born in Philadelphia
and attended Westtown School, where he
would later be headmaster. He won a gold
medal in the School Boy Mile Relay at the
1950 Penn Relays. Mr. Harrison earned a
divinity degree from Yale University and a
master's degree in education from Columbia
University Teachers College. He participated
in overseas work camps in Kenya, El Salvador,
Germany and Holland. In Holland,
he helped rebuild dikes destroyed in World
War II. He was an instructor at Antioch College
from 1956 until 1958 and then director
of the Council for Religion in Independent
Schools. After teaching at Brooklyn Friends
School in New York and the William Penn
Charter School in Philadelphia, he became
headmaster of Westtown School in 1968 at
the age of 35. His job was to bring the traditional
Quaker boarding school, founded in
1799, into better harmony with the times.
Mr. Harrison soon broke his leg while playing
soccer, and the sight of the headmaster
hobbling about campus on crutches seemed
to help his relationship with the rebellious
students of the era, one of his sons said.
Both sons attended Westtown while their
father was headmaster. Mr. Harrison also
served on the board of trustees of the Good
Hope School in St. Croix for a dozen years
and on the board of managers of Haverford
College for another dozen years. He was
awarded honorary degrees from Haverford
and Yale Divinity School. He is survived by
his wife of 46 years, Jean Harrison of Washington
and two sons, Colin ’82 and
Dana ’85.
70 Arun Das was equally at home
arguing a fine point of law in a courtroom,
cycling through Denver or working in his
award-winning garden. While playing for
the Black and Blues adult soccer team at
Bear Creek Park on Sept. 13, 2003, he collapsed
and died of cardiac arrest. He was
54. His garden was a treasure in the Washington
Park neighborhood. Featured frequently
in newspapers and magazines, it
was selected as the grand prizewinner in
the 1999 Beautiful Xeriscape contest sponsored
by the Denver Water Board and the
Rocky Mountain News. “People would stop
all the time and he’d talk to them about
the garden. The day he died, two ladies
came by and asked him about his garden,
and he spent half an hour with them,” said
his wife, Richela Das. The Das house was
a regular attraction for the Water Board’s
annual xeriscape tour. “Doing the work
yourself — it certainly makes it your own.
You’re in touch with your garden,” Arun
told the News in a story published last
June. Aruneshwar Das was a skier, hiker,
and swimmer who bicycled nearly every
day to the law firm of Gorsuch Kirgis,
where he was a partner. “If he didn't bike
because of the weather, he’d take his car
to the light rail. He was that environmentally
conscious,” said Richela Das, who was
married to Das for nearly 18 years. They
have a teenage son, Alex. “When he came
home, he’d come out of the garage into the
garden, pull a couple of weeds and say
hello to his ‘little children’ before coming
into the house and giving me a kiss. He
was a great family man. I always felt he was
saying ‘I love you.’” Das grew up playing
soccer and tennis in Long Island, where
his father, who was born in India, was a
human rights lawyer for the United
Nations. He was a conscientious objector
during the Vietnam War who served as a
counselor and a first-grade teacher. “He
was not a confirmed Quaker, but his whole
philosophy was Quaker. He firmly believed
in nonviolence,” Richela Das said. After
earning a law degree from Boston University,
he moved to Denver and clerked for
U.S. District Judge Zita Weinshienk before
joining Gorsuch Kirgis in 1982. “He was
a great lawyer,” said Peter Nadel, who
joined Gorsuch Kirgis the same year as Mr.
Das. “His specialty was employment law.
He was a very good litigator and a formidable
adversary in the courtroom, but his
real talent was counseling employers on
the full range of employment laws to keep
them in compliance with the law.” Das
served as chairman of the Colorado Bar
Association’s Employment Law section,
chairman of his firm’s recruitment committee
and was Gorsuch Kirgis’ representative
to a group of large law firms who
pledged to hire and support minority law
students. “Upon his death we decided to
create a memorial scholarship in his name
for minority law students,” said Nadel, who
delivered a eulogy at Das’ memorial. “It
will be a standing tribute to something he
was professionally dedicated to.” In addition
to his wife and son, Mr. Das is survived
by his mother, a sister, and two
brothers.
Fall 2003 45

Obituaries
01 Selena Mellon died early September
in Knoxville, Tenn., where she grew
up and returned after college. She was
buried at a Knoxville cemetery on a hill
with a view of the Smoky Mountains,
which she loved. A Quaker memorial service
was held for her and was attended by
family, co-workers, and friends. She was
remembered by all as a strong, compassionate,
and very loving friend. Those who
were moved to speak talked of how she
had inspired them and how impressed they
were with all she achieved in her short life.
Valedictorian of her high school class, Selena
was an extremely capable woman. During
high school, she began working at
Oakridge National Lab and continued
working there off and on during her summers
home from college and after she graduated.
Even though her family could not
support her at all financially, she was determined
to attend Haverford, attracted by its
Quaker philosophy, which had a big influence
on her. Selena worked to secure scholarships
for herself from Wal-Mart, the
Knoxville Rotary Club, and WBIR, a local
TV news channel. At Haverford, she
worked at the Career Development Office
while balancing her Biology major workload
with various off-campus jobs and
tutoring an elderly woman in Bryn Mawr
and a Philadelphia high school student.
Her identical twin sister Tina writes, “I will
always be so proud of her…she defied the
odds piled against her. She was an inspiration
to other people who face her same
financial situation, but are striving to have
something better through hard work and
the determination to make a difference.
She was dedicated with all her heart.” Selena
was extremely devoted to her family,
and continued to support them financially
while at Haverford. She thought nothing
of jumping into her Toyota Tercel and
driving the 12 hours down to Knoxville to
visit her twin for the weekend. During her
junior year, she spent a semester studying
at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
before studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia.
After graduation she took a job in
California, but missed Tennessee and so
returned there. At the memorial service,
her college roommate Keely Felton (formerly
Grumbach) sang a song she had
written senior year that Selena especially
Selena Mellon ’01.
loved. Together with Keely, Selena’s close
friends since freshman year Julia Bordeaux
Webster and Rebecca Kanthor spoke of
their memories of Selena. They included
details such as how she was unafraid of
mistakes when cutting her own hair, how
she called herself a romantic scientist, her
interest in butterflies, her beautiful writing
style, her deep capacity to love and care
for others, her sweet and strong voice as
they walked through campus singing, her
love for Tennessee and how she taught
them to appreciate its beauty, her talent for
tutoring, her excellent driving skills, and
unselfish backrubs. Her friends remember
that one song she particularly loved to sing
was “The Magic Penny Song”— the refrain
goes, “Love is something that if you give
it away, you end up getting more.” Her
twin writes, “To know her was to love her,
but most importantly in her eyes, to be
known by her was to be loved by her.” She
is greatly missed.
— Rebecca Kanthor ’01
46 Haverford Magazine

Friends
William G. Kaye ’54 reports that his wife of
nearly 43 years, Cynthia, passed away
peacefully on May 26, 2003, in Naples, Fla.,
after a long battle with diabetes and its side
effects. Cindy, as she was known to her
many friends in the Haverford community,
received her bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from Boston University, and she
spent her professional career working with
the physically and mentally handicapped
in the Boston and Washington, D.C., areas.
Blessed with an outgoing personality, a positive
outlook on life, and a delightful sense
of humor, Cindy adopted Haverford as her
own. She hosted numerous Haverford
events in her home, encouraged Bill’s extensive
involvement in the College’s alumni
activities, regularly attended Haverford
functions, recruited would-be Haverford
parents and their sons and daughters,
befriended (and occasionally hassled)
Haverford presidents and administrators
[To President Robert Stevens, at a wet and
soggy graduation day luncheon, May 1983:
“Robert, please, no more paper table cloths
at Haverford functions!”], and in many,
many ways, made her loving and caring
presence felt on and off campus. In addition
to her husband Bill, now retired, she
leaves a son Larry ’83, an employment
lawyer and theatre buff in Rockville, Md.,
and a daughter Suzanne, a certified mental
health counselor in Naples, Fla. The
Kayes and their son Larry annually give the
Kaye Prizes in Theatre Arts at the College to
students from Haverford and/or Bryn Mawr
who do the most to make theater an important
part of the bi-college community.
Cynthia R. Kaye, wife of
William G. Kaye ’54.
Edward W. Said, a Haverford College honorary
degree recipient, died Sept. 24, 2003.
He was a Columbia University professor
and leading spokesman in the United States
for the Palestinian cause. Born in 1935 in
Jerusalem, then part of British-ruled Palestine,
but he spent most of his adult life in
the United States. He wrote passionately
about the Palestinian cause but also on a
variety of other subjects, from English literature,
his academic specialty, to music
and culture. When it came to the Arab-
Israeli conflict, Said was consistently critical
of Israel for what he regarded as mistreatment
of the Palestinians. He wrote two
years ago after visits to Jerusalem and the
West Bank that Israel’s “efforts toward
exclusivity and xenophobia toward the
Arabs” had actually strengthened Palestinian
determination. “Palestine and Palestinians
remain, despite Israel’s concerted
efforts from the beginning either to get rid
of them or to circumscribe them so much
as to make them ineffective,” Said wrote
in the English-language Al-Ahram Weekly,
published in Cairo. In 2000, he prompted
a controversy when he threw a rock toward
an Israeli guardhouse on the Lebanese border.
Columbia University did not censure
him, saying that the stone was directed at
no one, no law was broken and that his
actions were protected by principles of academic
freedom. Said moved to the United
States as a student. He received a bachelor’s
degree from Princeton in 1957 and a
master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960
and 1964, respectively. Most of his academic
career was spent as a professor at
Columbia University in New York, but he
also was a visiting professor at such leading
institutions as Yale, Harvard, and Johns
Hopkins. His books include The Question of
Palestine (Random House Trade, 1980) and
After the Last Sky (Random House Trade
Paperbacks, 1986.) Said received an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters from
Haverford in May 2000.
Fall 2003 47

Moved to Speak
by Thomas Deans
The Honor Code:
A Faculty Perspective
“This is unfair,” complained the
parent of one of my wife’s college students.
“With so many students doing it, why single
out my son for punishment?”
Hearing this, my wife was dumbfounded.
The student in question was no
naive freshman who had overlooked a footnote.
He was a senior, freshly accepted to
medical school, who had stitched together
three Internet sources and claimed the
work as his own. When a quick Web
search exposed the deception, my wife
expected the student to accept the consequences
gracefully. Instead, his family
moved into damage-control mode.
At the time, my wife and I were both
teaching at a large Midwestern university
that had a system to handle academic dishonesty,
and it lurched into motion. The
facts were clear; the administrators of the
system were fair and efficient. Everything
pointed to a speedy resolution: an “F” on
the student’s transcript paired with a special
notation signaling academic dishonesty,
plus the mandate to attend a special
course dealing with ethics.
Yet the student dodged and weaved, and
in the process revealed the university’s system
as ultimately rooted in the protocols
of a judicial process rather in a code of
honor. The student couldn’t avoid the “F,”
but by filing an appeal he could delay the
academic dishonesty designation.
The end of the spring semester was days
away, and appeals couldn’t be heard until
the following fall when students returned -
time enough to keep a transcript from
alarming medical-school officials. The student
probably thought that he could explain
away an “F” in an English course and then
take a summer course to graduate.
My wife and I moved a few weeks later.
While we don’t know how the story played
out, we fear that the student is currently
in medical school.
Since then, I’ve been teaching at
Haverford College, where an honor code
48 Haverford Magazine
is part of the institution’s core identity. The
code is both old—embedded in the college’s
Quaker roots—and new—refashioned
and ratified each year by the students.
Yet Haverford is not immune from academic
dishonesty, as I learned a few weeks
into my first semester when I found in my
faculty mailbox an Honor Council abstract
on a case of serious plagiarism. For every
honor code violation, the student-run
Honor Council writes an abstract, distributed
to every mailbox on campus, that
recounts the testimony presented, the
council’s deliberations and the final resolutions.
Each abstract ends with a series of
questions intended to spark wider reflection
and dialogue.
When I read that first abstract, I recall
being impressed by the care that the students
devoted to seeking the truth as well
as the hard-nosed penalty for wrongdoing
(“separated from the college for two semesters”
leaped off the page). I also felt
voyeuristic. Broadcasting violations, even
with all the names changed, seemed a bit
puritanical, like putting offenders in the
stocks for display in the public square.
Yet I’ve come to appreciate that dealing
with misconduct in a discrete judicial system
or behind closed doors in the Dean’s
Office is far more precarious because in a
community built on mutual trust, there is
no such thing as an isolated violation.
Every breach of integrity reverberates in
the delicate ecology of reciprocity on which
community living and the cooperative pursuit
of knowledge depend. Personal ethics
aren’t just personal. They’re the community’s
business.
And this too was evident in the Honor
Council abstract. Only two of the council’s
seven final resolutions were punitive; the
rest were restorative. The student was
required to engage in a mediated dialogue
with the professor, to write an essay as part
of repairing that relationship, to write a
letter to the community, and, upon return
to Haverford, to re-sign the honor pledge
and meet regularly with a dean.
That abstract confirmed for me what I
had been gradually learning as a new professor
at Haverford: that the honor code is
less about scrutinizing individual behavior
than it is about shaping a culture. It is
less about discipline as we popularly define
the word and more about disciplina, its
Latin root, which means teaching.
By asserting a culture of such deliberate
honesty, responsibility and understanding,
Haverford is in many ways swimming
against the tide. In the latest National
Survey of Student Engagement, for example,
87 percent of college students reported
that their peers had copied and pasted
material from the Internet into their academic
papers without proper attribution. I
suspect such a troubling statistic has less
to do with premeditated deceit or technological
ease than with the state of student
culture. When—out of laziness or confusion
or desperation—students find themselves
sitting in front of a glowing screen
at 2 a.m., tempted to cut and paste text
from a Web site, what is to stop them?
Personal integrity, certainly. But just as
important is a sense that one is a vital part
of a dense network of people and principles,
relationships and rituals, all keyed to
a culture of reciprocal trust.
At Haverford, the honor code is not an
administrative overlay that occasionally
kicks into action. It is part of our blood
and bone.
Thomas Deans is assistant professor of rhetoric
and composition and director of the
College’s writing program.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Community Voices, November 30, 2003
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“Hunter Rawlings remains a great enthusiast for liberal learning.
Usually, when an academic puts the classroom behind him and goes
into administration, it’s a turning point in the road, taking one direction
and neglecting the other. I don’t think there’s any question of that in
Hunter’s case. Hunter’s enthusiasm for Madison is a demonstration that
his intellectual interests have evolved and endured. It was clear to everyone
at Cornell that he was anxious to come back into the classroom.”
– Jack Rackove ’68
Pulitzer Prize-winning Stanford historian

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