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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
Jill Sherman
Vice President for
Institutional Advancement
Stephen Heacock
Editor, Executive Director of
Marketing & Communications
Tom Ferguson
Production Manager,
Class News Editor
Brenna McBride
Staff Writer
Hilary Bajus
Office Manager
Acquire, LLC
Graphic Designer
Contributing Writers
Edgar Allen Beem
Thomas Deans
Mike Ranen ’00
Maya Severns ’04
Virtual Communications
Committee
Norman Pearlstine ’64, Chairman
Editorial Advisory
Committee
Violet Brown
Emily Davis ’99
J. David Dawson
Delsie Phillips
Jennifer Punt
Willie Williams
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