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Net-Working
By Todd Larson
Haverford high-techsters consider the Web’s world-wide woes in a roundtable
discussion about the current state of affairs, their secrets
for success on the Net, and what they see as the future of this
ever-changing medium.
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Educating to Lead, Educating to Serve
A collection of photographs from the gala and academic convocation
held to kickoff Haverford’s $200 million capital campaign.
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D E P A R T M E N T S
At Haverford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
The Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Notes from the Association . . . 5
Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Class News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Births . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Jill Sherman: Vice President for
Institutional Advancement
Jennifer Patton: Editorial Assistant
Mikael Haxby ’01, Liz Lowry ’02,
Benjamin Morris ’01, Maya Severns ’04,
Erin Tremblay ’04 : Editorial Assistants
Peter Volz: Designer
© 2001 by HAVERFORD
WINTER 2001 1

A T
H A V E R F O R D
C H A N G I N G F A C E S
Ingrid Arauco,
from Wilmington,
Delaware,
joins the Music
Department as an
associate professor.
Ingrid graduated
with honors
in music (violin
performance)
from Goucher
College. She studied under well-known composer
George Crumb and earned a Ph.D. and
M.A. in music composition at the University of
Pennsylvania. Her previous teaching positions
include honors examiner in music at Swarthmore
College and associate professor and lecturer
at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. She has also received numerous
awards, including winner of the New Music
Delaware Regional Composers Competition
and the Hotkamp/American Guild of Organists
Award for Organ Composition. She has performed
at a wide range of venues, from Santa
Fe and Atlanta to overseas, including the Sala
Cultural in Barcelona, the Oundle School
Chapel in England and the Baptist College in
Hong Kong.
Leanne Cole is
the athletic
department’s new
multicultural
recruiting and
administrative
intern. Cole
works closely with
the admission
office to make
contacts in high
schools with strong minority student representation
in order to identify prospective Haverford
students. She has a bachelor’s degree in
sociology and a master’s degree in history from
Washington College. Her undergraduate thesis
focused on the University of Maryland’s affirmative
action admissions.
Stephen T. Curwood joins Haverford’s Board
of Managers. Curwood is the creator, executive
producer and host of National Public Radio’s
(NPR’s) award-winning weekly environmental
news journal, Living on Earth. He is also host
of National Public Radio’s World of Opera and
a lecturer in environmental science and public
policy at Harvard University. His education
includes an A.B. from Harvard College and a
diploma from Westtown School. In the past he
has worked as a host of NPR’s Weekend All
Things Considered, as a producer for the PBS
series The Advocates and as managing editor of
the Bay State Banner, where he shared a
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He is the
founding president of the World Media Foundation,
Inc. He is also a member of Friends
Monthly Meeting at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and an attendee at Dover Friends
Meeting in Dover, New Hampshire.
Joseph Timothy
“J.T” Duck has
been appointed
Assistant Director
of Admission. A
1999 Haverford
graduate, Duck
recently served as
an Admission
Counselor. During
his Haverford
years, he worked as a group leader for the
Housing Outreach Action Program, in which
he coordinated 12 students’ volunteer effort to
rebuild a Baptist church destroyed by arson.
He also served as President of the Bisexual,
Gay, and Lesbian Alliance.
Amy Ham, a former
student government
advisor
and program
assistant at Sacred
Heart University
in Fairfield, Connecticut,
has been
named the student
activities
coordinator. Ham has a bachelor’s degree in
English from Trinity College and a master’s of
business administration from Sacred Heart. As
student activities coordinator, Ham assists and
advises student groups, acts as a representative
to a student panel that addresses alcohol policies
and procedures and publishes an annual student
activities guide. She helps students with
the logistics of planning events such as scheduling,
fundraising and working with on- and offcampus
resources.
Robert Killion
has been appointed
Associate
Director of
Admission. Killion
is familiar
with the position.
He has worked as
Assistant Dean of
Admission at
Amherst College,
and before that as Assistant Director of Admission
at Colorado College. A graduate of Grinnel
College, Killion first worked as Director of
Administration at the International Center for
Community Journalism in Grinnel, where he
planned and led groups of international students
on study tours in the US. He also
returned to his alma mater at one point and
worked as Coordinator of International Admission.
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault is the new coordinator
of multicultural programs. Laurent-Perrault
will work with
students to support
their efforts
toward diversity
and cultural pluralism
at Haverford.
She will
help to develop
programs and
manage student
activities, including
freshman orientation programs such as the
Tri-Co Summer Institute for Students of Col-
PHOTOS BY RUSTY KENNEDY
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or. After earning an undergraduate degree in
biology from the Universidad Central de
Venezuela, Caracas, Laurent-Perrault worked
for the Latin American and Caribbean Desk of
the American Friends Service Committee in
Philadelphia while taking graduate courses in
visual anthropology at Temple University. She
has also worked with Taller Puertorriqueno,
Inc., a Latino arts and culture organization in
north Philadelphia.
Ying Li comes to
the Haverford
Fine Arts Department
as an assistant
professor.
Ying graduated
from the Anuhi
Teachers University
in China in
1977 and later
finished her
M.F.A. at Parsons School of Design in New
York. She has taught at the International
School of Art in Italy and as an assistant professor
of fine arts at Anuhi Teachers University.
Her large repertoire includes abstract, landscape
and oil painting, as well as calligraphy. For her
work, Li has earned several awards, including a
gold medal at New York’s Emerging Artists
Exhibition and first prize in an Oil Painting
Exhibition at the Museum of Art in China.
Her work was showcased at the Rike Center
Gallery in Dayton, Ohio, from October 3
through November 3 and at the Elsa Mot Ives
Gallery, October 10 through November 11.
Zolani Philemon
Ngwane joins the
Anthropology
Department as an
assistant professor.
With an
M.A. and Ph.D.
in anthropology
from the University
of Chicago
and a master’s of
sacred theology from the Chicago Theological
Seminary, Zolani has worked in a variety of
arenas. Most recently, he taught at the University
of Chicago. He has also worked as
director of the Black Theology Project — an
organization that explores political endeavors
for South African black churches — and
director of the National Youth Leadership
Training Program, connected which the Joint
Education Council of Christian Churches in
South Africa. Further, Zolani has written
extensively about issues ranging from South
African religious history to environmental
concerns in forest preserves. He is fluent in
four South African languages — Xhosa, Zulu,
Sotho and Afrikaans — and reads German
and French.
Hunter R.
Rawlings, III
‘66 joins Haverford’s
Board of
Managers.
Rawlings is President
of Cornell
University. He
is also professor
of classics at
Cornell. Hunter Photo by Dennis McDonald
was previously
President of the University of Iowa from
1988 to 1995, following thirteen years as a
professor and administrator at the University
of Colorado. While at Haverford he majored
in classics and received his B.A. with honors
in 1966. He also played varsity basketball
and baseball. He earned his Ph.D. in Classics
in 1970 from Princeton University. At
Princeton, Hunter was a Woodrow Wilson
Fellow and National Defense Education Act
Fellow. He was elected a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1995. He was a member of the Board of
Directors of the American Council on Education
and currently serves on the Executive
Committee for the Selection of Mellon Fellows
in the Humanities. He chaired the Governor’s
Commission on Foreign Language
Studies and International Education for the
state of Iowa from 1998 to 1991 and was a
member of Iowa’s Economic Development
Board. He also chaired the Council of Ten,
presidents and chancellors of the Big Ten Conference
and was a member of the Presidents’
Commission of the NCAA from 1993 to 1995.
His stepdaughter, Ashley Pierce, is a member of
the Haverford class of ’93, and his nephew, M.
Colston Jones, is a member of the class of ’01.
Rene Rosa, Jr.
has been appointed
Assistant
Director of
Admission. He
has most recently
worked at the
Congreso de Latinos
Unidos in
Philadelphia,
Photo by Dennis McDonald coordinating the
Latino Community
Learning Center’s Adult Education programs,
including recruitment, interviewing and
orientation of potential students. He has also
taught ESL to adults in the Mesa Public
Schools in Arizona, and science, English and
health to high school students at the Kachina
School. In addition, he has participated in the
Head Start Program, which offers learning
experiences for preschool children of the adult
students in the literacy program.
Brian Walter has
been appointed
Assistant Director
of Admission. A
1997 graduate of
Haverford College,
Walter has
worked as Assistant
Director of
Admissions at
Ursinus College
and as a teacher and coach at the Sports Challenge
Leadership Program. While a student at
Haverford, Walter captained the Varsity baseball
team and worked at the Sports Information
Office.
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A T H A V E R F O R D
A C A D E M I C U P D A T E
Jerry Gollub, professor and chair of physics,
is co-chairing a major study for the National
Research Council on Advanced High School
Math and Science. Furthermore, three of his
students, Mark Buckley ’01, Greg Dobler
’01, and Dave Schalk ’01 will present papers
on particles in fluids, transient mixing in thin
liquid layers and flow of granular material,
respectively. Schalk’s paper will be delivered
orally by former post-doc Wolfgang Losert at
a November meeting of the American Physical
Society. Schalk is co-author. Buckley and
Dobler will present their own work. Their
papers are based on research done in the lab
over the summer of 2000.
Also, the National Science Foundation
awarded $117,994 to Haverford for the project,
“RUI: Granular Materials, Fluid Mixing,
and Related Nonlinear Phenomena,” which
will be directed by Gollub. The grant will
continue for three years, contingent on the
progress and funds of the NSF.
Danielle Macbeth, professor and chair of
philosophy, was recently awarded an ACLS
Frederick Burckhardt Residential Fellowship
for the Academic Year 2002-’03. The fellowship
gives her an opportunity to apply information
she gathered about 19th-century
German mathematician Gottlob Frege, to
develop a greater understanding of judgment
in math and natural sciences. In addition to
her fellowship, Macbeth also presented two
papers, “An Antinomy of Judgment: Brandom
and McDowell” (May 2000) and
“When Derivations Explain Logical Generality
and Fruitful Proofs” (July 2000) in Austria
and Hungary.
Phil Meneely, professor of biology, highlighted
the 1.7 million-dollar grant endowed
by the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes.
The grant is aimed at a variety of programs,
including one for faculty development in
bioinformatics (Human Genome Project),
outreach to high schools and medical schools
and students research. It is the largest grant
given to any college by that organization.
The Packard Foundation also awarded one
million dollars to the biology department for
research in nanotechnology.
Judy Owen, professor of biology, directed
a symposium in May, 2000, for the National
AAI Education Committee. The symposium,
“So You Want to Work with Undergraduates,”
provided training and support to
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
interested in doing research and teaching
undergraduates at primarily undergraduate
institutions (PUIs). Also in June, Owen published
a paper, “Disparity in the kinetics of
onset hypermutation immunoglobulin heavy
and light chains” in Immunology and Cell
Biology.
In July, 2000, Bruce Partridge, professor
of physics, gave a lecture on cosmology and
general relativity specialists at a millennial
meeting in Rome. Partridge has also been
re-elected Education Officer of the American
Astronomical Society.
Jennifer Punt, professor of biology, oversaw
a T-lymphocyte study, co-authored by
two of her undergraduate students, Peter
Ebert ’00 and Josh Baker ’01. The study,
entitled “Immature CD4+CD8+ Thymocytes
do not Polarize Lipid Rafts in Response
to TCR-Mediated Signals,” involves the dissimilar
behavior of mature and immature
T-cells in response to T-cell receptor stimulation.
A follow-up to a study of Viola et. al. in
1998, the T-lymphocyte study will be published
in the November 15 issue of the Journal
of Immunology.
Wendy Sternberg, professor of psychology,
has published three pieces with a variety
of colleagues. “Sex-dependent Components
of the Analgesia Produced by Athletic Competition”
(Sternberg, W.F., Bokat, C., Kass,
L., Alboyadjian, A. & Gracely, R.H.), published
in the Journal of Pain, was an extension
of the senior thesis project compiled by
Christina Bokat ’99, Leland Kass ’99, and
Adam Alboyadian, ’99. The paper investigated
the effects of an athletic competition and
two laboratory manipulations on the pain
responses demonstrated by college students of
both sexes. Sternberg conducted another
investigation, entitled “Sex Differences in
Thermal Nociception and Morphine
Antinociception in Rodents Depend on
Genotype,” with colleagues at the University
of Illinois. Published in Neuroscience and
Biobehavioral Reviews, the piece investigated
the differences in pain and pain-reducing
responses to morphine in laboratory animals.
A third study, “Experimental Studies of Sexrelated
Factors Influencing Nociceptive
Responses: Nonhuman Animal Research”
(Sternberg, W.F. & Wachterman, M.), was
published as a chapter in Sex, Gender, and
Pain: From the Benchtop to the Clinic by
IASP Press. Written by Sternberg and recent
graduate Melissa Wachterman (’00) the essay
reviewed writings on sex differences in pain
and stress-induced analgesia.
Steve Wasserbaech, visiting assistant professor
of physics, has recently given a couple
of lectures. He spoke of “Physics Highlights
from LEPs,” a review talk given at the second
annual meeting of the Northwest Section of
the American Physical Society, in May of
2000. In July, he presented “Review of B
Hadron Lifetimes and the Width Difference
of DeltaGamma (Bs),” a review talk given at
the fourth international conference on
Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons in
Spain.
Willie Williams, professor and chair of
fine arts and curator of photography, has several
exhibitions showing currently. The
African American Museum of Art in
Philadelphia is presenting 14 of his photographs
in an exhibition at the end of
September. Williams’ work is also being
showcased in the Smithsonian exhibition,
“Reflections in Black: A History of Black
Photographs 1840 to Present,” at America’s
Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. The
Exhibition will travel for the next four years
to 15 venues around the country including
the Detroit Institute of Arts, Stedman
Gallery-Rutgers University, Studio Museum
Harlem and the Virginia Historical Society.
In March of 2000, the Society of Photographic
Editions selected Williams as treasurer
for 2000-01. Last year, Williams served as
the vice-chair.
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N O T E S F R O M T H E A L U M N I A S S O C I A T I O N
Dear Fellow Alumni,
As I begin my tenure as president
of the Alumni Association, I thought
I’d revive the tradition of writing a
column in the magazine to keep you
up to date on the Association’s governance.
I am happy to report that the
Alumni Associaton Executive Committee
(EC) has recently restructured
itself in order to serve you and the
College better. All members of the EC now have a region of the country
where they will help to coordinate alumni volunteers. We hope this will
insure that those of you who have offerred to help with social events, career
networking, admissions interviews, class newsletters, and annual giving are
able to contribute your time and talents.
If you are interested in getting involved in alumni activities, or if you
have suggestions about how to enhance alumni programming in your area,
please contact me or anyone in the Alumni Office (alumni@haverford.edu
or (610) 896-1004.)
ALUMNI WEEKEND 2001,
JUNE 1-3
Mark your calendars! All alumni are
invited to celebrate Alumni Weekend.
Classes ending in a "1" or a "6" will
hold official reunions. Look for the
Reservation Booklet in April 2001.
ALUMNI WEEKEND 2000,
AWARD WINNERS
The following awards were presented
during Alumni Weekend in May 2000:
Haverford Award for Exemplary
Community Service:
John C. Whitehead ’43,
David Baird Coursin ’40
Alumni Award for Exemplary
Service to Haverford College:
Christopher E. Dunne ’70
Sheppard Award for Exemplary
Service in Alumni Activities:
Rufus C. Rudisill ’50
Perry Award for Exemplary Service
in Fundraising:
Thomas H. Bonnell ’66
MacIntosh Award for Exemplary
Service in Admissions:
Howard B. Prossnitz ’73
Sincerely,
Kaye Award for Exemplary Service
in Career Development:
John S. Kromer ’71
Eva Osterberg Ash '88
President, Alumni Assoc
eva.ash@esc.edu
(631) 754-4625 (h)
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A T H A V E R F O R D
Nominations are now being taken for
the 2001 Awards to be presented during
Alumni Weekend ’01, June 1 – 3. For a
detailed description of the awards,
please see the Alumni Awards section
on the Haverford website, www.haverford.edu.
Submit nominations to the
Alumni Office, 610-896-1002 or alumni@haverford.edu.
LAMBDA LIST SERVER
Lambda, the Alumni Association's network
of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
and other interested alumni has
started an email list server. 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, tposselt@dc.com.
CAMPAIGN KICK OFF
EVENTS
In celebration of the “Educating to
Lead, Educating to Serve” Campaign,
kick-off events are being planned in
cities across the country. Watch for
your invitation to the event in your city.
HAVERFORD ALUMNI TRIP
TO ITALY – SOUTHERN
SPLENDOR
You are invited to join Curt Cacioppo,
Professor of Music and Violet Brown,
Director of External Relations for the
second Haverford alumni trip to Italy,
June 6 to June 19, 2001. Look for your
invitation with complete itinerary and
reserve early.
SCARLET SAGES – CLASSES
WHO HAVE CELEBRATED
THEIR 50TH REUNION AND
BEYOND
Members of the Scarlet Sages are invited
to submit written histories of their
time at Haverford for archival purposes.
If you would like to provide us with an
idea of what Haverford was like when
you were here, please send submissions
to the Alumni Office.
ANNUAL GIVING SECURE
WEBSITE NOW AVAILABLE
Alumni, family and friends may now
make credit card gifts (Visa, Master-
Card and American Express) to the
College via a secured site. From the
Haverford website, www.haverford.edu,
click on the Alumni button to find the
link for Secure Online Giving. For
more information contact Director of
Annual Giving Emily Davis at 610-
896-1129 or edavis@haverford.edu.
EMAIL FORWARDING
The Haverford College email forwarding
service provides a permanent email
address no matter how often you
change email providers. This free service
establishes a link between the College’s
mail server and your local email
provider. Email received at Haverford
is instantly forwarded to you. When
you register for this email forwarding
service you will also be given the opportunity
to have your email address
included on an online directory available
to the Haverford community. For
more
information, visit the College web site
www.haverford.edu and follow the buttons
to the alumni home page and
email forwarding, or contact the
Alumni Office at 610-896-1004.
HAVERFORD GOLD
Haverford is pleased to announce the
formation of an exciting new alumni
organization, Haverford Graduates of
the Last Decade (GOLD). Social
events both on campus and throughout
the country will work to bring this
group, as well as current students
together. Events especially for younger
alumni will become part of Alumni and
Family Weekends...
Possible events include:
1. Softball games with current students
and other sports events.
2. BBQs for young families.
3. Social gatherings.
4. Community Service projects.
GOLD will work to foster, improve,
and maintain the close ties that recent
graduates have with Haverford. GOLD
will present an exciting and relaxing
atmosphere to maintain old friendships,
create new ones, and assist in fostering
well with current students, faculty and
staff.
To make this all work, we need
YOUR help!!! GOLD needs alums like
you to get off to a flying start. Please
contact Haverford with your comments,
suggestions, and ideas today!!! If
you are interested in the planning for
Haverford GOLD, or any other please
contact Sandra Johnson in the Office
of External Relations at
sjohnson@haverford.edu or
610-896-1143.
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In Memoriam
Steve Raible,
the 6’9" rock-climbing, beer-brewing, physics
major, died on July 29, 2000, one semeseter
shy of graduating. All of you who knew Steve
know what an awful, inexplicable trick of fate
this is. Steve was one of those beautiful, gentle
people who few of us are, but most of us
would like to be. That he should be the first
friend of mine from Haverford to die is
incomprehensible to me—cosmic mistaken
identity.
Steve died doing something that he loved:
rock-climbing. He wasn’t a novice by any
means. He was an outdoorsman, hiking and
climbing mountains all over the country.
During our junior year, Steve felt the need to
distance himself from academia, to get his
head clear and focus on what he wanted to
do. While he took a semester off, he hiked
and climbed the Rockies, guiding groups of
kids and teaching them to love one of his
passions. It seems like a cruel joke that this is
how Steve left us, an incongruous mixing of
joy and tragedy. I only hope that up until the
end, Steve was enjoying himself.
I met Steve right at the start of freshman
year, when we were Customsmates. As we
moved our things into Barclay, we exchanged
greetings in a daze, overwhelmed by the occasion.
I heard him coming down the hall and
turned around to greet him. I vividly recall
having to look straight up in order to look
him in the eye as we said hello. He hadn’t
even finished growing then.
Steve and most of the other guys on our
hall got addicted to the computer game Warcraft
that year, and tournaments were legendary.
At four in the morning, I could hear
the players running back and forth, screaming
taunts and insults to each other as they
took turns winning and losing. When the
games ended, half the time they’d just sit up
until dawn hanging out. Steve could never
resist a good conversation. It was comforting
to know that I could wake up bored and
unable to sleep in the middle of the night
and go chat with Steve, even if he was talking
about his Ogre-Mages.
He made great beer, too. He and Matt
Rice brewed up a huge batch of a very primitive
beer that they christened "Black Squirrel
Stout." I think I enjoyed the stuff—and more
of it—than anyone. Years later, Steve was
embarrassed at the mention of the stout, having
since learned how not to make chocolatethick
beer. I don’t know if I ever convinced
him, however passionately I argued, what
good beer it was (although I have to wonder
if they meant for it to taste like burnt chocolate).
Anecdotes aside, my memories of Steve
are of a truly kind person. He was not given,
like most people I know, to sarcastic comments
about others. Sure, he let one go every
now and then, but it wasn’t a habit, and he
looked a little ashamed—for both our
sakes—whenever I got into a rant about people
who’d irritated me somehow. He was the
most easy-going guy on our hall; there was a
serenity about him that I envied. Being
around him made you want to be a better
person. That, I think, was Steve’s most
admirable quality.
Remember Steve’s wonderful character,
and his bright, grinning eyes on either side of
the hawklike nose — I can’t really comprehend
the loss. Steve was too alive, too vital to
just not be here anymore. And although we
all know that life is not the fair deal we expect
it to be sometimes, I can’t help but point out
that of all the people I have known at Haverford,
Steve Raible least deserved to go this
soon. We miss him already.
– Dan Gilman ‘00
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A T H A V E R F O R D
Let me assure you that the Loganian Library is NOT in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
You will find it well cared for in the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731.
Yours,
Eda Nelson Halberstadt,
widow of Robert Halberstadt ’30
Todd Larson’s article “Hollywood Squares” (Spring 2000) contains the following passage:
“There’s a different style of ethics and morals in Hollywood,” says Gary Mezzatesta ’80.
“It’s a smoke-and-mirrors kind of business. It’s hard to trust people, and it leads to a lot of
misunderstanding. Basically, what my clients pay me to do is understand that, to help them
navigate through this world.”
A different style of ethics and morals? Only if the game of seeking to maximize satisfaction
of self-interest under conditions of competition with similarly motivated players can be
considered a moral enterprise. Mezzatesta’s statement is a display of bad faith, as is Larson’s
claim that none of the “Hollywood Squares” he interviewed for his article are “the least bit
slimy.”
Sincerely,
Jennifer Case ’87
I was pleased to see the feature on “Coming Out at Haverford” in the Fall 1999 issue of
the alumni magazine. As I was perusing the Spring 2000 issue, I was happy to see Harvey
Freeman’s thoughtful letter on the piece.
What a rude shock was it then to read a letter from my classmate, Claudio Salvucci,
railing against a “glowing paean to homosexuality.” Of course Mr. Salvucci is entitled to the
expression of his opinion. In fact, I am even glad that the editors published this letter,
because such ugliness needs to be exposed to the light of day so that it may be challenged.
First, the question of whether homosexuality or heterosexuality is innate – a “freely willed
act” – strikes me as entirely irrelevant to a critique of this profile. I do not think any of the
contributors was attempting to justify his or her sexual orientation. Why should they? Second,
I am unclear upon what grounds Mr. Salvucci asserts that “it is impossible to be ‘fulfilled’
in any true sense by acting upon homosexual inclinations.” Assuming that he is not
privy to new psychological studies on this issue which completely reverse the conclusions of
the American Psychological Association, it seems that his claim is based either on his own
superficial observations or the writings of fanatical ideologues. From my own experience, I
can testify that my many gay and lesbian friends seem no less emotionally fulfilled than such
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self-described heterosexuals as Mr. Salvucci. However, many do feel unfulfilled that they
are excluded from such fundamental civil rights as marriage. Given his feelings that the
“sexual faculty is a wonderful and holy gift [which] cannot be realized outside the marital
bond,” I can only hope he is fighting for the right of gays and lesbians (many of whom feel
precisely as he does) to attain legal marriage.
Mr. Salvucci’s letter offers a spurious appeal to morality and religious orthodoxy in
defense of his position. According to my moral convictions, bigotry rather than sexual orientation
is the truly immoral lifestyle, which leads down “a path of emotional turmoil.”
And I know my feelings are shared by (gay and straight) deeply devout Christians, Jews,
Muslims, Buddhists and practitioners of other faiths (as well as many profoundly moral
atheists and agnostics). Mr. Salvucci has a monopoly on neither piety nor morality.
I remain proud to see the Haverford Alumni magazine champion the best values of the
Quaker religious tradition and the American civic tradition by publishing “Coming Out at
Haverford.” And I am reassured in the knowledge that Mr. Salvucci’s letter will rest in the
future alongside those which have appealed to morality and religious devotion to justify such
abominations as the persecution of Jews, the enslavement of Africans and the subjugation of
women.
Elun Gabriel ’93
I have been impressed by Eric Sterling’s work on drug policy issues for a long time and
never had any idea that he was a fellow Haverford alumnus. It is hard to change drug
policies in a more humane direction because it is such an emotional issue, and few people
dare to question the morality and efficacy of a punitive approach to drug control. However,
I think that things will slowly change in a more positive direction, and Eric Sterling’s
critique of current drug policy will become widely accepted.
Sincerely,
Malcolm Litowitz ’86
Northbrook, Illinois
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AH T A V HE AR VF EO R FD O RH DI S T O R Y
What Is a Master’s Degree
Diploma Worth?
Excerpt from Wilbert Braxton’s
This I Remember
My studies during my year at Haverford
centered on mathematical physics,
modern physics, electricity and magnetism,
electrical engineering, and evolutionary
biology. The academic work
was a notch or so above that at Guilford.
Even so, I made A’s and B’s in all
subjects except mathematical physics, in
which I made a C. The requirement for
a master’s degree was all A’s and B’s.
While disappointed that at the end
of the first semester I had not qualified
for a master’s degree, I approached the
second semester without tension and
with determination. My way was paid.
Why not make the most of this opportunity?
I got satisfaction out of doing
library research for a paper of magnetism.
I found particularly pleasant
my thesis work on surface tension, in
which I spent many enjoyable hours of
the second semester measuring the surface
tension of water at various temperatures,
of salt solutions at various concentrations,
and of several liquids. I used
three different methods for measuring
surface tension: first, a ring tensionometer,
which measured the surface tension
directly; second, capillary tubes, which I
made myself; and third, a liquid drop
method, using a special glass tube for
forming the drop. This work was very
satisfying.
It is significant that I did not waste
the second semester. Even so, I was
completely surprised at the telephone
call I got at the graduate house a couple
of days before commencement while
still in bed early one morning. It was
from Dr. Sutton, head of the physics
department. He asked me to come
immediately to his office. I had no idea
why he wanted to see me – at eight a.m.
especially. As I walked into his office he
said, “Wilbert, why have you not paid
your twenty dollars for your diploma?”
Seeing the twinkle in his eyes, I said, “I
believe you know the answer to that question,
since it was in your course that I
made a C, which disqualified me for a
master’s degree. And in the second place,
I don’t have twenty dollars.” These were
still the Depression years. Dr. Sutton
knew my financial condition, as I had
baby-sat for his family.
Dr. Sutton said, “Well, I want to tell
you that at the faculty meeting last night
we considered your academic situation
and agreed that you really have earned a
master’s degree in physics. And furthermore,
ten professors put up two dollars
each to cover the cost of your diploma.
Can you get a cap and gown?” I was surprised
and elated, though I had little
more than the $1.50 needed to rent a cap
and gown.
The first twenty dollars I earned after
graduation went to repay the ten professors
who put up the money for my diploma.
Jobs were scarce in 1933, but I
found work in the pea fields of the Del
Monte cannery near Rockford, Illinois.
My year at Haverford had hardly prepared
me for the heavy physical work
required for forking the crushed green
pea vines away from the shellers after the
peas had been removed from their pods.
But I was a farmer’s son and knew how to
use a pitchfork. Since I was paid twentyfive
cents an hour, it took me eighty
hours of exhausting physical labor to earn
the money to repay those professors who
had advanced me my diploma fee.
The registrar, Pliny Chase, received
the money but was under instructions
not to give me the names of the profes-
Wilbert Braxton ’33
sors. Nine years later, when I asked for a
transcript, Mr. Chase wrote and said that I
was the one graduate of Haverford he’d
hoped would never ask for a transcript
because, when the registrar’s office was
moved, some of my records were lost. He
made a special effort to balance the loss,
again giving favorable attention to me.
Sixty-three years after earning my master’s
degree, I sent a one-thousand-dollar
contribution to Haverford and described
the way in which I earned my degree. As I
look back on it, I am pleased to realize
that the Haverford faculty believed that
rules were set up as guidelines, not as
rigidly enforced requirements. Thus it is
that I have a master’s degree from Haverford
College dated in the year 1933.
Forty-three years later, in 1976, this same
Haverford College awarded me the degree
of doctor of laws honoris causa.
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T H E V I E W F R O M F O U N D E R S
Why?
by Tom Tritton
It’s a simple question that recollects the legendary
story of a philosophy final exam, which in
its entirety comprised the question: Why? Clever
students who expounded at length on the meaning
of life and the deeper mysteries of the universe
were rewarded with good marks on the
exam. However, the professor also gave full credit
to any student who answered simply: (a) why
not? or (b) because. Why did the professor do
that? I suspect she or he trusted that brief but
pointed answers from thoughtful students could
encompass many layers of truth.
Why? is certainly a basic question. I’m in the
habit of asking Why? often and at many levels,
and really seeking to live the answers. They may
be long and complex or just a few words.
A major matter before our community at present
is our decision to embark on the largest capital
campaign in College history. Our goal is
$200 million dollars, over half of which is for
permanent endowment. Student scholarships,
faculty development, and the building of programmatic
elements for integrated learning experiences
are at the heart of the answer to: Why
Haverford? and Why Now?. There is no doubt
that the campaign will enhance the College
immeasurably, and propel us to the next level of
high accomplishment.
So a short answer to the why? of the campaign
is simply: Haverford is seriously undercapitalized.
This is a polite accountant's way of saying
that we're accustomed to doing more with less.
When we compare ourselves to peer institutions,
it is evident to all who know about the College
that we do amazingly well with the resources we
have, and that’s a virtue. But it’s not as effective
as doing more with more.
Yet there’s a more comprehensive way to look
at the capital campaign: to focus beyond the
College's need for resources to the important way
in which our existing assets undergird the intangibles
that make Haverford the special place that
it is. In thinking about this essential Haverford I
find myself returning to the themes of my inaugural
remarks from the fall of 1997, namely that
Haverford College is characterized by these essential
qualities: we are at once, an intellectual community,
an intentional community, and a principled
community.
Those who have experienced Haverford need
no reminding: Haverford is an intellectual community
that has no upper bound. It’s the same
now as it has been throughout the College’s history.
We sport a rich and rigorous curriculum
that matches any in the land. We cultivate an
environment for discovery that allows both students
and faculty to explore the full realm of
human thought and imagination. We encourage
a diversity of thought, ideas, and peoples that
enliven the core intellectual pursuits that are at
the heart of an institution of higher learning. A
passion for scholarship prevails at Haverford just
as it should in any place that lays claim to the
primacy of the life of the mind.
So the first long answer to the Why? of the
campaign is that we want to focus – indeed we
need to focus – on the intellectual life of our
community. The sense of intellectual vitality
and ferment is what alumni remember and students
cherish, and that is the first emphasis of
the campaign. In fact, when we conducted a feasibility
study to assess our readiness for a campaign,
alumni were asked: “In your opinion
what are Haverford’s greatest strengths?” One
hundred percent (a figure never before experienced
by our external consultants) answered:
“outstanding academic programs; academic rigor
and excellence; and the intellectual environment.”
This is the Haverford College we will
sustain by completing the capital campaign.
As an intentional community we reflect
deeply on the questions that don’t have simple
answers. We arrived at the goal of $200 million,
as an intentional community, after a long and
exceedingly thorough process of consultation
during three years of careful deliberation. This
figure is what is needed to accomplish the ambitious
goals we have set for ourselves. We continue
to learn the lessons that our students discover
every semester, when Students’ Council meetings,
Honor Council deliberations and Plenary
end up taking a lot more time than originally
anticipated. Then like today’s students, we are
well satisfied when we know that we have been
both thoughtful and thorough, and that all voices
have been heard during the long process of
coming to clearness. I can assure you that we
do, indeed, have that deep sense of satisfaction
when we look back on our intentional and
inclusive planning process for this campaign.
As a principled community we embrace this
campaign, which will enable us to evolve an
even stronger Haverford in the years ahead, a
Haverford true to its foundational spiritual and
ethical values. We have been inspired and
thrilled by some early special gifts that give evidence
of the great reservoir of confidence members
of this community have in Haverford’s
unique role in higher education. We hear from
our donors both large and small that they are
motivated by a deeply felt sense that one should
support institutions where principled behavior,
ethical intentions, and core community values
are shared and propagated. This strong sense of
a value-centered life is born from our Quaker
heritage and felt by every person who spends
time on this campus.
Quakers have always emphasized the practical
side of life. We are a principled community
that makes a difference in the world, and the
campaign will enable us to make more of a difference
in the fast-changing, increasingly complex
world where today’s students will make
their mark in the years ahead.
As the theme of our campaign announces,
we are “Educating to Lead, Educating to
Serve.” Leadership is a highly valued attribute
but without a commitment to service, leadership
can be constricting and self-centered. Service
to others is obviously desirable—in fact
essential—but without leadership, service may
be scattered and unfocussed. Together, leadership
and service represent the finest qualities
that this college has always stood for. Students
shaped at Haverford become the citizens who
then shape the world and determine humanity’s
collective future. The campaign grows out of
the collective realization that we owe them the
most fulsome educational experience we can
muster.
When you hear somebody asking the Why?
of the capital campaign, you can do as I do –
pause for a moment, and reflect on the various
long and short answers that you could give.
While there are many ways you could respond,
you may end up with a short answer that
speaks volumes: “because I believe in Haverford!”
That’s why.
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RUSTY KENNEDY
A T H A V E R F O R D / F A C U L T Y P R O F I L E
Code Breaker
by Mikael Haxby ’01
Lynne Butler
“What can you tell me about your
work over the summer? Or, at least,
what will the government allow you to
tell me?” Interviewing Haverford mathematics
professor Lynne Butler can, at
times, make a staff writer for a college
magazine feel like the head reporter for
the New York Times, Washington desk.
It turns out, though, that the only classified
work Lynne Butler does is very
complicated cryptanalysis which would
be difficult for many graduate students
in mathematics to understand.
For four years, Lynne has spent her
summers as a consultant at the Center
for Communications Research, a think
tank with branches in Princeton, NJ,
and La Jolla, CA, and just one client:
the National Security Agency. The think
tank employs 300 mathematicians,
experts in number theory, algebra, or
Lynne’s field of combinatorics, who
work collaboratively on whatever problems
the NSA directs their way. As
Lynne explains it, “The work is fun
because the problems are hard. We get
the problems the government’s experts
couldn’t figure out.” These problems
are all related to cryptography, the
study of codes. The Centers also provide
the best electronic support available,
as the mathematicians have two
supercomputers at their disposal, a
Cray C90 and another “massively parallel
machine.” Lynne is not at leave to
divulge the exact number of processors.
The classified work has hardly ever
placed her in an awkward position, as it
is not hard to refrain from counting off
the number of processors in a supercomputer.
Lynne’s one experience with
classified knowledge interfering
occurred when she planned a course
on public-key cryptography. There
are two primary methods of developing
such a system, the RSA and
Diffie-Hellman key exchanges. Both
were developed by the British, but
until recently, very few people in
America were aware of that fact, and
the discovery of these algorithms was
still classified. “I was afraid of inadvertently
giving the information
out,” she says, and she delayed teaching
the course. When Wired magazine
researched the history of the key
exchanges and published their findings
and the British source of the
algorithms, then Lynne decided she
could teach the course.
In general, however, there have
been very few snags in working for
the NSA. She has found the classified
work to be extremely gratifying for
more reasons than just the hardware,
and perhaps for reasons other than
one would expect. Although the
Center is a classified environment,
“You are much more isolated as a
researcher than as a codebreaker.
Most mathematicians publish their
papers alone, but at the Centers a
paper might have 24 authors.” The
work is classified, but everyone has
the same clearance, meaning that
“when you have an idea, you share it
with 30 other researchers ... It’s so
much more exciting that way.” When
Lynne has an inspiration for an academic
paper, there is a “disincentive
to early cooperation” because of the
importance placed on individually
owning all of your work.
So, what does she work on in
Princeton? The specifics are classified
and, perhaps more important than
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that, in their own code of complex
mathematics. Lynne explains that cryptanalysis
is a diverse field, and the problems
come from all over, but the general
field that she finds most exciting is the
public-key cryptography that she is now
at leave to teach. Public-key cryptography
is a hot topic in mathematics and
elsewhere, particularly because of its
importance to e-commerce. When you
buy that charcoal fleece from L.L. Bean,
and you send in your credit card number,
that information is encrypted before
it is sent to the company. Now, this cannot
be done with a “private key,” a key
owned by only the two communicators.
When Churchill sent a message to Roosevelt
during World War II, they had
private keys for only their use. When
there are hundreds of orders coming in
every day, there need to be keys used
generally by the Internet service
providers of both the company and the
consumer, extremely complex number
systems that can be safely shared.
Perhaps more telling as a key to
Lynne Butler, though, is that she calls
public-key, “the only field of cryptography
worth teaching.” And as she
explains the field, she is chalking numbers
and diagrams on the blackboard
that makes up a long wall of her office.
I’m taking notes, working to get my
mind around her examples, as though I
were back in her Statistics 204 class. As
Lynne herself says, “When I was a graduate
student, one of my professors told
all his students only to do it (teach) if
you could conceive of nothing else. It
was unbelievably hard to get a permanent
position in math.” There were 600
other applicants for the open position of
mathematics professor at Haverford
which Lynne received. She smiles
“You are much more isolated
as a researcher than as
a codebreaker. Most mathematicians
publish their
papers alone, but at the
Centers a paper might have
24 authors.” The work is
classified, but everyone
has the same clearance,
meaning that “when you
have an idea, you share it
with 30 other researchers
... It’s so much more
exciting that way.”
modestly but knowingly when I congratulate
her.
She recalls her college and graduate
school experience, at University of
Chicago and MIT, respectively, as being
focused on the sciences: “I did read
Durkheim and Weber, but it was all
math after the first two years in college.”
She has only positive words for her work
in higher-level mathematics—after all,
that is where she worked out the problem
for which she is “internationally
famous,” she says, with a touch of
tossed-off pride. She determined that
the set of subgroups of finite abelian p-
groups, when arranged in sequence by
sizes, forms a unimodal graph. That
means that the graph has one peak,
rather than many, and it makes the
graph much simpler for theoreticians to
use, as the mathematicians now know
what sort of graph they are working
with. In combinatorics, it was a significant
discovery. As before, when the subject
turns to math, Lynne is at her
chalkboard, teaching me enough that I
might, at the least, not misrepresent the
mathematics.
The space of a liberal arts college
proved to be an extremely good fit for
Lynne. “I’m still educating myself in the
liberal arts here,” she says. She has not
slowed her mathematical research, but
she makes certain, each year, to take
advantage of Haverford as a resource.
Further into her career at Haverford,
Lynne took a position on Academic
Council, the committee which evaluates
professors up for tenure. “I really
enjoyed the fantastic math minds, but I
didn’t know how to tell if a humanities
professor was truly fantastic, or just
good.” Lynne was not fully comfortable
evaluating these humanities professors,
and she decided to try her hand at educating
herself in the humanities. She
bought Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and
found herself enjoying it deeply, but it
was still difficult to work through at
times. At her request, English professor
Kim Benston put together a reading list
for Lynne. “When I finished the list,”
she says, “I went back to Beloved and I
finally understood it.”
She succeeded at U. Chicago and
became famous for her work at MIT.
She finds herself, though, jealous of the
opportunities some of her students
receive here. “Students at Haverford
have a much broader and deeper education
than I got.” Although she doesn’t
receive lists from Kim Benston anymore,
“I get reading suggestions from
students now all the time.” Lynne keeps
taking these suggestions, keeps reading
and keeps getting that liberal arts education,
same as the students. She contracts
out to the government for group
research and works on her own papers
as well. She remains, though, in the classic
mode of the liberal arts mind, educating
and furthering her own education
at the same time.
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Betty
A T H A V E R F O R D
Johnson
/ A L U M N I P R O F I L E
by MAYA SEVERNS ’04
Born and raised in Cincinnati,
Ohio, Betty Freyhof Johnson always
had an interest in government,
which led to her service in the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration directly following
World War II. Her father, a man
who was “very interested in the education
of his daughters,” was the first
cardiologist in the University of
Cincinnati medical school. There
was no question that Betty would
receive a quality education, and she
graduated from Wellesley in 1944
with an undergraduate degree in
political science. Unfortunately,
chances of a career in foreign service
were slim at that point in time with
World War II going on and all of
the places she would have studied
under fire. Haverford’s Relief and
Reconstruction program seemed like
the best option, especially after hearing
Douglas Steere, the head of the
R&R program at Haverford and a
philosophy professor there, speak at
Wellesley. Betty was captivated by
his amazing presence from the first
moment she heard this “powerful
leader” speak, and thus came about
her introduction to Quakerism
through Douglas Steere and the
Haverford campus.
Haverford differed from Wellesley
in two very important ways.
The first was that Haverford was an
all male campus. According to Betty,
“Males were very interested in the
Betty Johnson
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females in the R&R program. I
think we really introduced coeducation
to the Haverford campus.” The
second major difference was the
influence of the Society of Friends, a
denomination which Betty had never
before encountered. “It was a
new religious experience for me in
which I delighted. I was quite challenged.”
Douglas Steere became her
mentor, “a person of very deep
religious convictions with a marvelous
sense of humor who was very
inspiring.”
At the mere age of 23, before
writing her master’s thesis on the
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, Betty entered
into the operation as a personnel
officer. She was trained with others
in College Park, and then they were
sent overseas in convoy, landing in
Portsmouth. They stayed outside
London until they were permitted to
travel to Granville, on the coast of
Normandy, in another convoy.
“Meanwhile, Eisenhower had landed
at Normandy and was proceeding
through Germany. We followed
behind him and put the displaced
persons that he uncovered in concentration
camps in camps and garrisons
that had been abandoned by
the defeated Germans.” As the personnel
officer for the Displaced Persons
Camp that was attached to
Central Headquarters, it was Betty’s
job to interview the displaced persons
to see whether they needed
medical or psychological care, how
Betty remembers
Haverford as “a
magnificent experience”
in a “beautiful
place...a whole
new world that we
were exposed to.”
The college created
a fresh perspective,
which she considers
very valuable, for
how to approach
problems in life.
they could be best trained to be usefully
employed and most importantly,
how they could be restored to
their native lands or resettled elsewhere.
Haverford’s R&R program
helped to prepare Betty and others
for what they would face in Europe
at the end of the war. The education
was very detailed, including
courses in relief worker’s vocabulary,
international relief and administration,
philosophy of relief and reconstruction,
French, German, social
work care, nutrition and sanitation.
“Well, you’re never prepared for
what you face,” Betty told me, but
Haverford had given her the
groundwork, and she relied on innovation
for the rest. Sometimes she
would find herself faced with counseling
people in areas in which she
had no prior experience, such as
marriage, but using the skills she had
acquired at Haverford, Betty was
able to work through such an emotional
experience.
After finishing her service in
Europe, Betty returned to Ohio to
complete the credits she needed for
her master’s degree from Haverford
and to write her thesis based on her
experiences overseas in the UNRRA.
At approximately the same time, her
husband, Morse Johnson, came
home from commanding tanks in
Germany. They were married and
settled down to have a family. Elizabeth
was born in 1949, two years
after Betty officially graduated from
Haverford, and Judith followed in
1951. Betty returned to Wellesley
College in 1967 as Chairman of the
Development Fund Committee. In
1971, she became Vice Chairman of
the Board of Trustees, a position she
held until becoming Chairman in
1981.
Betty remembers Haverford as “a
magnificent experience” in a “beautiful
place...a whole new world that
we were exposed to.” The college
created a fresh perspective, which
she considers very valuable, for how
to approach problems in life. As for
what she received from the program
versus her expectations coming to
Haverford, Betty maintains, “The
greatest gain was being employed by
the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration. That was
close to satisfying every ambition
I’ve ever had.”
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B O O K S
Peter Lewis Allen
The Wages of Sin
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
Peter Lewis Allen’s The Wages of
Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present
walks a difficult tightrope. It is
both a well-researched history of the
intersection of morality and disease, and
a contemporary polemic against those
who would blame the sick for their suffering.
Through his first four chapters,
Allen describes how the church and
moral authorities reacted to diseases
which seemed to exist both in the medical
and moral spheres. The tales are fascinating
and, at times, horrifying. He
talks of lepers, the walking dead,
shunned by society and considered sinner
who brought the debilitating disease
upon themselves. He talks of the
pathologization of masturbation in the
17th and 18th centuries, and the
strange, cringe-inducing devices used to
prevent the sin.
The reader may be surprised when
the far-away and bizarre suddenly turns
to the contemporary in The Wages of
Sin’s final chapter, a discussion of
AIDS treatment in the U.S. in the
1980’s. As the death toll rose, likewise
did a virulent reaction, arguing against
the treatment of gays, against compassion
for the sick, and, in much greater
numbers, against sex-positive prevention.
Allen excoriates the movement
against education and the distribution
of condoms, detailing in riveting, emotional
prose the human cost of that supposedly
moral stand.
The balance of these themes, luckily,
is outlined in Allen’s introduction, in
which he explains the genesis of this
project and unique twin drives of the
book. The intensely personal introduction
tells the story of a former lover of
Allen’s who died of AIDS in May, 1993.
Allen was utterly baffled by the rhetoric
of politicians, religious figures and even
physicians who spoke of a “gay plague,”
and he set out to understand how such
a mindset could persist in our society.
This research led Allen to Victorian,
Medieval and even ancient literature
which discussed the treatment of diseases
which carried a heavy moral
weight. The parallels between Medieval
and modern beliefs, between leprosy as
a curse of God and blaming AIDS on
the sexual orientation of its victims
became all too clear. So, as the history
of sex and disease past is told the reader
remains grounded in Allen’s contemporary
purpose. And when Allen presents
his most powerful chapter, simply titled
“AIDS in the USA,” the reader is prepared
with the historical understanding
of moral and religious reactions to epidemics,
and can better grasp sex and
disease, present. The Wages of Sin
teaches compassion and understanding
with a strong but never heavy hand, one
may hope could help us prepare a more
caring, effective reaction for sex and disease,
future.
–– Mikael Haxby ’01
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What happens when a doctor becomes
ill, not with a cold or the flu, but with a
life-threatening or a life-altering condition?
How does he/she trust another doctor
with his/her own medical care? Where
does he/she turn for support? In essence,
what happens when the tables are turned
and the doctor becomes the patient?
Editor and co-author George Nicklin
‘47 facilitates the answering of these questions
and more in the book, Doctors in
Peril—How They Cope. The book contains
thirteen first person essays on topics such
as surviving the Holocaust, living with
Lou Gehrig’s Disease, facing death, life
after hysterectomy, tuberculosis, battling
cancer and Nicklin’s own tale of overcoming
massive injuries sustained during
World War II. Each of the essays included
in Doctors in Peril—How They Cope
astounds the reader as it shows that no one
is immune to the realities of war, disease
and death—not even the doctors who
have the role of care givers during such
trying times.
Edwin H. Church, a psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, recounts living with Lou
Gehrig’s Disease for twelve years after an
initial diagnosis of two to five years of life.
Lou Gehrig’s Disease is the progressive
wasting of skeletal muscles due to the
death of motor nerve cells in the spinal
cord. The cause is unknown and there is
no cure. When the disease was diagnosed
Church was immediately faced with concerns
such as how long he would be able
to work and what the reactions of colleagues
and patients would be. His amazing
story unfolds in a flurry of emotion
that runs the gamut from grief to anger—
yet Church manages to place his family
and patients ahead of himself the entire
time. Although Edwin Church has sadly
passed away, his story is one of hope and
inspiration.
Judita Hruza’s essay has an entirely different
perspective. She is a Jewish
Czechoslovakian who lived under the
most dire conditions during the Holocaust.
Hruza’s experiences included some
of the severest aspects of illness and emotional
and physical trauma—from death
marches to starvation, typhus to lice infestations,
and frostbite to dysentery. No
matter what atrocities were endured,
Hruza watched as “...the doctors, who had
endured the same painful march as we
had, set up makeshift tents with a Red
Cross sign that offered treatment on
demand....Where did they get the extra
energy and motivation to place their
patients’ needs above their own?" It was in
the Gunskirchen Camp that Hruza made
the decision to become a doctor if she survived.
In retelling her story, Hruza invokes
courage and triumph over hardships of all
kinds.
The Church and Hruza excerpts are
only a mere glimpse into the harrowing
and heroic tales contained in this book. In
the book’s preface, author George Nicklin
states, “In sharing all these experiences we
hope to aid others and to provide hope as
you move forward into the future.” This
collection of essays truly achieves this goal.
––– Jennifer Patton
Ben Zion Leuchter ’46. How a
Small-Town Editor Saw the World: The
Story of Max Leuchter and the
Vineland Times Journal. (Treister-
Wilkins Communications, 2000.)
In the spring of 1949 Max
Leuchter and wife Celia were en route
to Princeton University, to visit their
youngest son Joel on Parent’s Day.
The couple stopped to pick up two
sailors hitchhiking along State Highway
206 north of Hammonton, New
Jersey. Author Ben Zion Leuchter suggests
that perhaps it was his father’s
sentiment for his two sons—Ben who
was an ensign in the Naval Supply
Corps Reserve and Joel who was in
Princeton’s NROTC program to prepare
for naval service—that caused
him to stop that day. Sometime thereafter,
Max Leuchter reached to move
his jacket on the seat next to him and
the car veered into a large truck coming
the other direction. Though Max
was crushed by the steering wheel on
impact, he managed to stop the car.
Both Max and Celia were brought to
Burlington County Memorial Hospital
where Max died the following
morning from internal injuries. Celia
eventually recuperated from a broken
leg and a smashed ankle. The two
sailors that the Leuchters had so kindly
picked up that day escaped injury.
Though this story sadly recounts the
death of Max at the young age of 53,
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it serves the purpose of beautifully
illustrating just how caring and selfless
he was.
This biography, lovingly written by
Max’s son Ben Zion Leuchter, is primarily
intended to be a history for the
grandchildren Max never had the
chance to know and any other descendants
of the Leuchter family. However,
there is certainly has a much broader
audience who will enjoy the tale of
Max Leuchter including those interested
in journalism, early twentieth
century history or a simple tale of selfmade
man. The book contains various
stories and anecdotes intertwined with
excerpts from Max’s column written
for his newspaper, The Vineland Times
Journal. It is through these editorials
that the reader has the pleasure of
being invited into the life of Max
Leuchter.
Max Leuchter, the son of Jewish
immigrants, was born on March 28,
1896. His father passed away when
Max was a year old. His mother,
unable to care for her three children
alone, placed Max’s older brother and
sister in homes. Although stricken
with tuberculosis and living at the
Moss Home for the Incurables, Max’s
mother kept him with her until a few
months before her death in early
1902. At the age of five Max Leuchter
was placed in the Jewish Foster Home
and Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia.
He lived there until he was fourteen
years old and left for New York City.
It was there that Max met Celia Bass
whom he courted for ten years before
they were married in 1923. During
this time Max pursued a journalism
career, although he had not been formally
educated beyond the eighth
grade.
A friend from Max’s days at the
Jewish Foster Home named Sylvan
Einstein invited the Leuchters to visit
him and his wife in Vineland, New
Jersey. During their visit Einstein forever
changed Max and Celia’s life by
stating, "What this town needs is
another newspaper." With a meager
budget saved from Celia’s law practice,
the couple went to Vineland,
bought a used press and published
the first issue of the Vineland Times
on October 15, 1925. The paper
quickly evolved from weekly to daily
and circulation steadily crept
upwards. Sixteen years later the
Leuchters were able to buy the other
Vineland newspaper, the Journal.
The first issue of the combined
Vineland Times Journal was printed
in 1942.
Most biographies give a history
of one person’s life—they often do
not go beyond this simple chronological
recount of a lifetime. How a
Small-Town Editor Saw the World
reaches far beyond this by drawing
on excerpts from Max Leuchter’s
"Keeping Up with the Times" column
that he wrote six times a week
for more than 22 years. All subjects
are touched on with Max’s friendly
writing style, from politics and religion
to community and family, and
everything in between. It is here that
the true essence of Max Leuchter—
the humanist, the loving husband
and father and the journalist—pours
from the pages. Max’s respect for
education and love of his community
are obvious, as are his disdain for
pretense and materialism. Leuchter’s
wisdom on these subjects, compiled
by his son Ben Zion Leuchter, are
his gift to family and strangers alike.
––– Jennifer Patton
Editor’s note: Ben Zion Leuchter ’46 passed
away on January 14, 2001. He is survived
by his wife, Magda Shenberg Leuchter.
Norris Hansell ’53.
Liberty at the Millenium.
(Los
Angles, CA: The
Philosophical
Research Society.
Using the written
and spoken words
of our forbears,
this work aims to
provide a compact
rendition of the
central ideas in our founding documents.
The words of the founders are eloquent
and presented without comment or explanation.
The book extends beyond the work done
in Independence Hall to employ the words
of some people less known, for example,
Phillis Wheatley, Paul Caffe and Hiawatha,
individuals close to liberty but far from
Philadelphia.
The central idea in the founding of
America was liberty, its indispensability for
the robust life of citizens, its need for protection
by a government of special design.
Looking ahead, the founders anticipated that
Americans ever would need to guard their
liberty because of its long history of fragility
before forces intrinsic to all governments.
Also received:
Lauro Halstead, M.D. ’57, ed.
Managing Post-Polio. (Washington, DC:
NRH Press.
Robert Sataloff ’71, Donald Castell, Philip
Katz, Dahlia Sataloff.
Reflux Laryngitis and Related Disorders. (San
Diego, CA and London, UK: Singular Publishing
Group, Inc.
Please send submissions of books or music for review to:
Haverford College, Publications Office
370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19147
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Responsibility
and Remembrance
By Steve manning ’96
PHOTO BY WALTER CALAHAN
Holly Moore ’85 and
Eric Rosand ’91
On a 1998 trip to Lithuania for the
U.S. State Department, Holly Moore
’85 and then-Under Secretary of State
Stuart Eizenstat stopped at a tiny
Holocaust museum in the Vilnius.
Eizenstat, who has led the United
State’s diplomatic work on Holocaust
issues, went off on a tour of the exhibit
with the museum’s director. While
he was gone, Moore met a Jewish survivor
of the Vilnius ghetto. Using
French to bridge their language gap,
the woman gave Moore a tour of the
museum and an intimate look at her
personal history.
“She told me about working in the
ghetto library, about the celebration
they held when they had lent several
thousands books,” an event that held
great symbolism, Moore recalled. “In
that system of oppression, there was a
continued presence of learning.”
But that elation was short lived. The
woman and her husband were out of
the ghetto when it was liquidated by
Nazi troops. They returned to find that
the rest of their family had been taken
away and killed.
For Moore, the chance meeting with
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“In the end you are really
helping people,” he said.
“It’s rare in any job in the
government or the private
sector that you feel you are
making a difference for a
lot of people.”
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the Vilnius ghetto survivor put a face to
the lengthy diplomatic negotiations on
restitution for Holocaust victims
that had become the focus of her work
for the State Department for the past
several years. This was different from
the meetings with lawyers, government
officials and business leaders. This was
who she was working for.
“It really was one of the most intense
experiences I’ve had,” she said.
As Eizenstat’s personal advisor and a
State Department lawyer, Holly Moore
has been deeply involved in protracted
United States-led negotiations to
establish a fund for survivors and the
relatives of the millions of Jews,
Eastern Europeans and others who were
uprooted from their homes and forced
to work as slave laborers at factories and
camps throughout the Third Reich.
That work has also brought her into
close contact with another Haverford
graduate and State Department attorney.
Eric Rosand ’91 has spent the past
two years shuttling back and forth
between Washington and European
conferences, as part of a team that
negotiated the settlement between
survivors and the German government
and businesses.
The result of their efforts was the
establishment of a $4.4 billion dollar
fund that survivors of Nazi slave and
forced labor camps and their families
could draw on as restitution for the
harsh life and injustice they endured
during World War II. In July 2000 the
United States, Germany and six other
governments along with representatives
of German companies and victims
signed an agreement creating the
“Remembrance, Responsibility and
Future” foundation. Germany and
German companies to split the bill for
the fund. Some of the companies are the
modern forms of industrial firms that
used slave laborers to fuel the Nazi war
machine and profited from their work.
Germany made several large payments
to Jewish organizations in the
years following World War II, but had
done little financially to accept
responsibility for millions of other victims
of Nazism throughout Europe. In
1998, a number of class action lawsuits
were filed against German companies
in the United States on behalf of former
slave laborers and others who
suffered at the hands of German industry.
Fearful of being forced to pay
astronomical sums and the negative
publicity the mere existence of the suits
created, Germany and German businesses
approached the United States in
the fall of 1998 with the hope of setting
up a fund in part to fend off the suits.
The United States agreed, in large
part because U.S. officials thought that
a fund would provide a measure of justice
to survivors and be a resource for
everyone who suffered from the Nazi
labor practices, not just those involved
in the suits. Several legal barriers also
stood in the way of a quick and
lucrative resolution of the suits. Even if
they were successful, only the
companies named in the suits would
have to pay for their actions. Many of
those companies either don’t exist anymore,
or are much different entities
than they were 60 years ago. Finally, the
often glacial process of class action suits
could have meant that rapidly aging survivors
ran the risk of not seeing any settlement
before their deaths.
Over the next two years, officials
from the State, Justice and Treasury
Departments – a team that included
Moore and Rosand – mediated talks
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between Jewish groups, Eastern European
governments, Germany and attorneys
for individual survivors to write the
guidelines of for the fund.
But trying to find common ground
was difficult. The term “survivor”
applied to such a wide and disparate
group. The Nazis enslaved numerous
ethnic and religious groups, different
people who often were looking for different
forms of restitution and justice.
“A lot of traditional, deep-rooted differences
recurred, such as distrust
between Poles and Jews and other splits
between Jewish and non-Jewish victims,”
Rosand said.
One of the greatest successes of the
negotiations, Rosand says, is that
Eizenstat and his team were able to keep
all sides at the negotiating table for 18
months despite many deep-seated differences.
And the foundation includes
an endowed “future fund,” money that
will help pay for Holocaust education
programs, museums and other remembrance
projects for years to come.
“We are going to have Jews working
with Poles, working with Germans forever,
even once the original money is
distributed,” he said of some of the
groups involved.
Geography also played a factor.
Spread all over the world, survivors
often looked upon the sum of money
being offered by the fund according to
their economic position. Those making
claims could expect to receive an average
of $7,000, or about 15,000 Deutsche
Marks.
“For some people, 15,000 Deutsche
Marks for being a slave laborer in Eastern
Europe is a yearís pension. But for
someone in the United States, $7,000 is
not all that significant. Some find it
insulting,” Rosand said.
As a result of an agreement between
Germany and the United States, the
State Department has asked judges to
dismiss the class action suits and direct
survivors to the fund. Payments to survivors
who filed claims with the fund
for damages were expected to begin by
early in 2001.
The past several years of work on
Holocaust issues was not what Moore or
Rosand expected when they signed on
with the State Department. Rosand had
studied international law at Columbia
law school and Cambridge University,
but was working on more mundane
issues when he got the chance to join
the U.S. negotiating team.
“In the end you are really helping
people,” he said. “It’s rare in any job
in the government or the private sector
that you feel you are making a difference
for a lot of people.”
Moore was in Brussels when she
joined Eizenstatís staff. She had studied
international relations at Haverford and
Yale law school, but says it was a ìhappy
accidentî that her career became focused
on such a meaningful issue.
“I would sit at those meetings with
survivors and think that I was going
through personal history lessons,” she
said.
Mirroring the German settlement,
the Austrian government and Austrian
companies agreed in October 2000 to
establish a $380 million reconciliation
fund that will make payments to those
who worked as slave or forced laborers
in Austria during the Nazi era. Once
again, the U.S. government played a
pivotal role in this agreement.
With the German and Austrian settlements
in place, both have shifted
their focus to similar negotiations with
the Austrian government and businesses
on a fund for those who lost property
during the Nazi period.
Both say that money really isn’t the
central issue for many of the groups
that represent victims. By signing the
agreement and contributing to the
massive fund, German companies,
which have been for the most part silent
about their roles in the Nazi regime,
admitted their moral responsibility for
atrocities of the war.
“I think the main part is that they
acknowledged what they did,” Moore
said.
For Rosand, the most moving part of
the process was listening to survivors
speak at some of the plenary sessions for
negotiators.
“They would talk about how they
were the only one of a family of 13 to
survive the Holocaust and they will never
forgive Germany. But this means
something to them, this process of
accepting responsibility.”
Still, the concept of putting a dollar
figure on the horrifying experiences
that many lived through, by paying
them for their suffering, has been a
difficult part of the negotiations,
Rosand said. But ultimately, it is the
best answer to a problem so emotionally
charged that no resolution would be
able to please everyone.
“No amount of money can make up
for what each person suffered,” he said.
“You just have to approach it that you
are trying to do the most good for
the most number of people.”
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NET-WORKING
Haverford High-Techsters discuss the Web’s world-wide woes...
–– By Todd Larson
About a year ago, HAVERFORD began planning a story on its “dot-com” alumni. At the time, the
euphoria surrounding the Internet and the “new economy” was at an all-time high. Wired and Fast
Company delivered monthly tales of Internet start-ups going public and turning their twentysomething
founders into instant millionaires. Talk of IPOs and stock options ousted Monica and
Millionaire as the hot topics around the nation’s watercoolers. In a memorable display of binge
marketing, dot-coms ponied up millions to show off their sock puppets and cat-herders during the
Super Bowl. What part did ’Fords play, we wondered, in this high-tech frenzy?
Of course, by the time we began to answer that question, the climate online changed dramatically.
Venture capital funding for high-tech startups began to dry up. Several high-profile sites
closed their cyber-doors forever, unable to generate the profit necessary to continue operations
(or to at least cut losses to a level that would ensure continued funding). The Nasdaq, bellwether
of the high-tech flock, languished at half its mid-March peak.
Given this rather dramatic correction, we decided to offer a more measured take on the subject.
In lieu of glowing profiles of new-economy largesse, we invited several of our dot-com alums (see
accompanying profiles) to join us in a round-table discussion about the current state of affairs,
their secrets for success on the Net, and what they see as the future of this ever-changing medium.
Conducted electronically during the first couple weeks of December, the discussion is
excerpted in the following pages.
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HAVERFORD: After peaking late last year,
the euphoria surrounding the dot-com
marketplace has waned rather dramatically
in recent months. Some high-profile
e-commerce sites have folded, the Nasdaq
is currently languishing below 3000, and
IPOs for Web-based businesses are being
withdrawn every day due to diminished
expectations for capital funding.
As individuals doing business on the Web,
what is the most important lesson you've
learned in the past six or eight months as
you've witnessed this chain of events?
VARUN: Focus and discipline. In the 'old
days,' the pressure from media and Wall
Street was to get big, and fast. Which meant
spending tens of millions on puppets without
a clear payback. With sanity having
returned (or actually swinging too far the
other way), now it's once again about serving
the customer in the best possible way
and creating true value. It makes life for the
survivors easier in one way: that artificial
pressure is gone. But of course there are a
lot of hard decisions which now must be
made that were deferred in the previous
environment.
TY: The most important lessons that I have
learned: (1) work in an environment that
you like, rather than suffering for some nonexistent
payoff; (2) make sure the company
that you are working for is well financed;
(3) make sure that you believe in the executive
leadership of the company; (4) make
sure that you believe in their vision for what
the company should and could be, and that
that vision is based on sound fundamentals;
(5) if they are selling caramelized pears over
cell phones, you may want to look at other
opportunities.
JENNA: What I have learned is how to
manage my own career. I learned not to
multiply my stock options by 100 and plan
my retirement. I never quite bought into
that fantasy. It's very important to research
the companies you are looking to join. It is
imperative to understand their business
model, the reputation of their founders, the
company's strategy for competing in the
market. At USWeb/CKS I was writing proposals,
and I saw dozens of really inane
business models—this was the peak of the
frenzy, about a year ago—and every business
plan predicted $1 billion in sales in
five years. It seemed ridiculous at the time
and it was. So the downfall of that phenomenon
is not at all surprising to most
people. There are lots of opportunities out
there, but it takes research to understand
them.
BRAD: Get paid in advance! Second, associate
yourself with companies and clients
whose business plans make sense. We're a
Internet ad agency, and during the height of
the Internet frenzy, there were companies
asking us to manage multi-million dollar ad
campaigns, and I had no idea how those
companies could ever make money. Since I
couldn't understand these business models,
I decided to turn most of them down as
clients. Short term, we made a lot less money.
Long term, we had less clients that suddenly
went out of business. This is probably
good advice for job seekers as well as service
firms.
COLIN: There's a wholesale move back to
business fundamentals. For quite a while
the argument was that the Net was going to
re-write all the rules, so companies focused
on eyeballs instead of profits. Now the correction
is punishing companies that burned
through venture capital without focusing on
customers, revenues, and smart expansion.
Unfortunately, I think there are a lot of failures
yet to come.
Varun Bedi is founder and CEO
of Parlo.com, an interactive language
and cultural e-learning
site launched in early 1999. The
50-person firm offers online
instruction in English, Spanish
and French to consumers, corporations,
and institutions worldwide,
and has offices in New
York (where Varun makes his
home) and São Paulo, Brazil.
Before founding Parlo, Varun
worked for McKinsey management
consulting, where he
focused on Interactive Marketing
and Media/Entertainment.
He has also worked for Sony
International Television and JP
Morgan, and founded a small
importer-exporter of ethnic
foods called Inzen. Varun, who
has an MBA from Harvard Business
School, suggests a followup
article detailing how he
“taught Ty to shoot a jump shot
and be humbled by a man 12
inches shorter.”
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Brad Aronson ’93 is president
of i-FRONTIER, a Philadelphiabased
Internet advertising agency
he founded in 1996. The company,
which now boasts 85
employees, including several Bi-
Co alumni, has been named one
of the top 100 Internet ad agencies
in the country by Adweek
and Advertising Age.
An English major at Haverford,
Brad is a sought-after
speaker on the subject of Internet
advertising, and has coauthored
a book on the subject,
Advertising on the Internet,
now in its third edition. Prior to
founding I-FRONTIER, he
worked as a marketing manager
for CTDNews and as resident
associate director at A Better
Chance, a non-profit program
for gifted inner-city students. He
lives in Philadelphia with his
wife, Mia Fromm Aronson ’94.
I also think that e-commerce marketplaces
are realizing that they need to offer
all of the support services found in offline
marketplaces. You can't just set up a storefront,
sell lots of products, and not answer
the phone. Part of the backlash against e-
commerce companies comes from their
shortcomings in transaction support. Now
we're seeing online marketplaces evolve to
the next level, where consumers will be
able to find trusted companies to buy from,
or get redress if any problems arise.
HAVERFORD: Who is doing it well? Tell
me about a company/site or two that is
doing the sort of things you're talking
about: creating actual customer value,
focusing on fundamentals, offering topnotch
customer support, etc. Someone
with a smart business model that might
even make some money and be around a
year from now.
JENNA: Any site that either charges for real
value-added content or makes money from
other people's transactions. Ebay is an obvious
one. Audible.com has great content
that people might actually pay for. People
need to get used to paying for services
offered on the Web, and that might take
some time. Also the "picks and shovels,"
those who make real software that enables
Website development.
VARUN: Netcreations, who essentially
signs up folks for opt-in e-mails with promotions
that target their interests. They generate
around $60 million in revenues per
year, at a great profit margin, and have
grown like gangbusters despite the overall
market slowdown. They were just bought
by Doubleclick, but [they provide] good
evidence of a simple, elegant business
model that's already profitable.
TY: Well, it is clear that the design/consulting
only firms such as Organic, Razorfish,
Scient, Sapient, Viant, MarchFirst, et al, are
not doing it right, in light of their recent layoffs
and floundering appreciation in the
marketplace. One firm that I do admire is
TellMe, which is trying to allow folks to
migrate to the Web using voice recognition
technology. Their market? Everyone who
has a phone. The upshot is that you have
access to the 58% of America that is not on
the Web. The downshot is that my father,
who sits squarely in the target demographic,
would rather have non-anesthetized
dental surgery than root through a phone
mail tree. The tipping point for success for
them will be ease of use for late adopters.
COLIN: It is very hard, even for the people
inside high tech, to see what is going to
work and what isn't. I don't get TellMe, personally,
but then again, I don't get AOL, so
who am I to talk. I think a company that's
doing it right is VeriSign. Trust services are
the way of the future—for e-commerce to
work, you have to have a way to trust the
marketplace and to trust the other side.
Through their acquisitions and partnerships,
VeriSign is positioning themselves as an
essential part of doing business on the Net.
The first thing new e-commerce companies
secure when they want to hang out their
shingle is their VeriSign seal. With that kind
of an online role comes great responsibility,
and I think VeriSign is doing a good job
positioning themselves to handle it.
BRAD: Many of the companies that are
doing it well are traditional companies that
are not trying to create new business models.
Instead they are leveraging a market
that they understand and an infrastructure
(for managing services or selling products)
that is already in place. Regarding Ty’s
comments, the agencies that are having difficulties
aren't struggling because it's a bad
business model. They are struggling
because they took on many dot-com clients
that are not paying their bills and are going
out of business. I would classify that as bad
decisions rather than a bad business model.
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HAVERFORD: As increased scrutiny has
been directed at Web-based businesses, a
couple of supposed truisms have emerged:
first, that business-to-business transactions
are the true future of the Web, as opposed
to business-to-consumer transactions; second,
that the so-called brick-and-mortar
retailers, with their established distribution
networks, will win out over the e-tailers
building this infrastructure from scratch.
Any thoughts?
COLIN: We are at the scratches-on-cavewall
stage of the web right now. In a few
years, people will look back on the 56k
modem stage of the web like we look back
on vinyl and TRS-80s. Once we hit true
broadband, with always-on net appliances
scattered through the house, with your
watch communicating with your toaster
communicating with your pacemaker, all of
this hemming and hawing over b2b2c will
seem completely irrelevant. Getting fast
Internet into your house will be like getting
electrical service—a no-brainer.
There will always be the flavor of the
month—be it B2C or B2B or P2P or wireless
or optical networking or whatever. If
this question is asking what the flavor is
right now, and what's around the corner,
then I plead the 5th—the answer will
undoubtedly change several times by the
press date for this magazine.
BRAD: Business-to-business transactions on
the Net will probably drive more gross sales
than business-to-consumer transactions.
However, I wouldn't call B2B the true
future. There are plenty of opportunities for
business-to-consumer transaction as well. If
any truism has emerged—actually reemerged—it
is that a company must have a
good business plan and be able to execute
on that plan to succeed. This has always
been true but was apparently forgotten during
the height of the market frenzy.
I think the brick and mortar players have
a significant advantage. Most have extensive
experience in their field. They under-
stand their customers, how to service them
and what marketing tactics work. Couple
the above with the fact that they can leverage
an existing infrastructure, and they
clearly have a leg up on Net pure-plays.
VARUN: Actually, optical transactions are
the future of the Web. No wait, make that
fixed wireless transactions. Sure, B2B transactions
will be greater than B2C, but that
doesn't mean there will not be significant
profitable businesses built on the Web that
address both markets, despite the A2B2C2D
du jour. Volume of transactions means nothing
unless those transactions are profitable
high margin transactions, and you can find
examples of both in B2C and B2B.
On the second point, I would disagree.
Those who will win out are the ones who
focus on a multi-channel strategy where the
customer requires it. If you're a retailer, use
catalogs, telemarketing, and in-store kiosks
in addition to free-standing retail locations. If
you're an e-learning company, use whatever
media you user wants to learn from,
whether it be online, e-mail, print, video, or
any combination thereof. Whoever executes
this well will win, and though "bricks-andmortars"
have some of these assets, very few
know how to know their customer across
channels. That is something pure-play Web
players can build from the ground up,
though it's clearly an uphill battle.
JENNA: The first statement is sort of true but
incomplete. The true future is to Web
enable entire value chains, which would be
something like B2B2B2B2B2B2C. Industries
will need to form coalitions to create and
enforce development of technical standards,
such as XML schemas, in order to be
part of an efficient value chain. As for the
second question, I think Varun summed it
up quite well. Multiple channels are the
key. Brand will become increasingly important,
especially in terms of customer service
across multiple channels.
Jenna Nober ’93 is a member of
the Professional Services team
at Bowstreet.com, the Massachusetts-based
company
recently named one of the ”15
Stars of e-commerce” by eCom
magazine. Before joining Bowstreet
earlier this year, the
Haverford history major worked
for Utopia (later purchased by
USWeb/CKS), first as a project
manager and then as manager
of the Northeast Region
“response team” responsible for
marketing, proposal writing and
business development.
Jenna also has a master's
degree in Interactive Marketing
from Boston University’s College
of Communications. She
began her online career at AOL,
where she worked as a manager,
content producer, editor,
and journalist covering the 1996
elections for the Boston Politics
area. After graduating from
Haverford, she worked for the
Senate Judiciary Committee on
the Violence Against Women
Act, part of the 1994 Crime Bill.
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Ty Ahmad-Taylor ’90 began his
his career with The New York
Times, where he spent six years
as a journalist and graphics editor
covering events like the Oklahoma
City bombing, the siege in
Waco, and the L.A. riots. During
his tenure at the Times, Ty
received a master’s degree in
Journalism from
Columbia and,
during his final
two years, covered
old and
new media for
the Monday Information Industries
section of the paper.
In 1996, Ty joined the @Home
Network (now Excite@Home), a
broadband Internet provider
located in San Francisco. As creative
director, he headed the
team working to define “what
next-generation Web content
will look like and how it will function
in a dynamic HTML environment.”
He now lives in New York
and is the Chief Design Architect
for an interactive television company
in San Francisco.
HAVERFORD: Colin’s answer hinted at the
much-hyped notion of "convergence,"
wherein our separate computers, televisions,
phones, etc., will eventually merge
into some kind of single, centralized information
and communication tool? Is your
Dad ready for this, Ty?
TY: My father is, in fact, not ready for this. I
think that most people are technologically
worn out because it has turned into "your
computer (or fill-in-the-blank) is not the latest,
fastest thing." I refuse to own a palm
pilot for that reason. And people certainly
don't want another box in the house, which
is why TiVo and Replay are having problems
with traction. I have seven remotes in
my house and I am single man. It is enough
to make one crazy. I think that a combined
box is not necessarily greater than the sum
of its parts either, because you make cost
compromises when you collapse categories
and you end up with crap product.
COLIN: It's safe to say that things are going
to get smaller. Unfortunately, I think the
notion of a single, centralized tool is unlikely.
I think Handsprings are neat, because
they have the accessory slot on the back
where you can plug in a variety of tools.
But then you end up dragging around all
the tools you need to insert.
It's more likely that each tool will start to
get functions from other tools. For example,
your TV will start to offer access to
web/text-based content, and be interactive.
Or, as a silly example, your fridge will
allowyou to surf the web. They have watches
with digital cameras and cell phones
with mp3 players. Functionalities will continue
to expand. Cell phones are a good
example of this. But no one company will
come out with a tool that does everything. It
would give them too much control. A common
communications standard may
emerge, however, after many years of battling...
maybe bluetooth, maybe something
else. But all of this stuff will stay expensive.
We'll be paying the same amount for
phones, watches, PIMs, etc. in 3 years,
they'll just be more powerful.
JENNA: Why do I have a palm pilot, a cell
phone, a digital voice recorder and, soon,
an MP3 player in my purse? Some of those
things have now converged, but not fast or
well enough, as Ty points out. Plus I already
bought the stuff I have. I want one device!
HAVERFORD: A more personal question:
why have each of you chosen to work in
this arena? Are there particular pleasures
that you've discovered working in the
online world? Any second thoughts?
BRAD: I fell into it. I was working in direct
response marketing, when I was introduced
to the Web. At the time (around the end of
1995), there was not a significant amount of
Web activity, but it was clear that there
were tremendous opportunities. I left my
job to pursue some of those opportunities
full time.
TY: I chose to work in this arena because I
was covering it as a journalist, and the more
I learned, the more I began to question why
I was writing about rather than doing, especially
when several of the initial business
plans, circa 1995, were so transparently
and fundamentally absurd. That was before
the money, however, as no one knew that
this area was going to acquire and lose so
much money from the capital markets in so
short a time. I really, really enjoy developing
new industries and discovering/defining
opportunities and structures for IP channel
delivery that did not exist before, as well as
refining the time-tested models. I also really
enjoy working with amazingly smart people
who are motivated to succeed.
This environment, of course, has its
downside: nasty, venal individuals can pop
up, for whom winning is the key goal, no
matter whom they trample internally or
externally. That is accentuated in the Internet
industries, because the nasty individuals
tend to be blessed with smarts as well,
which is Ty's recipe for the coworker from
hell.
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VARUN: It's all very Haverfordian in the
end: make an impact and change the world
for the better, however you choose to
define that goal. Many of our fellow alums
chose to pursue medicine or education out
of college, which have a very clear social
benefit, but I always believed that business
was a fantastic way to achieve that impact
on a macro level. The nice thing about
entrepreneurship, and particularly in the
Internet-related arena, is that the ability to
make change happen has been substantially
accelerated. Whereas I could have stayed
at McKinsey or JP Morgan, and certainly
done good while doing well, I likely would
have had to put in a few more years before
being able to contribute as much as at a
smaller company. On the other hand, in a
risky new arena like the Wild-Wild-Web,
that impact can be more quickly attained.
Teaching languages to the world through
technology and being one of the main
drivers behind Parlo makes me want to get
up and get to work more than I ever did.
JENNA: No second thoughts. I love this
industry—the cutting edge nature of it, the
“start-Up” atmosphere of places I’ve
worked, the ability for an individual to make
a huge impact, the “wow-factor” of technology,
the smart, motivated people who are
excited about coming to work and fun to
work with every day...Of course these factors
exist in other industries, but this is the
one I’m most familiar with right now.
Things I don’t like...I’m not sure how I
could have this job and be a mom—too
many hours…and I don’t like the “get rich
quick” attitude I see at times—I try and stay
away from people like that.
HAVERFORD: How has your Haverford
experience impacted what the rest of you
are doing now?
COLIN: I first got involved with dispute resolution
(DR) back at Haverford, in Communication
Outreach, the campus mediation
program. I took a lot of DR classes and
wrote my thesis on Collegiate Conflict Management
Systems, which led to a job at the
National Institute for Dispute Resolution.
DR is a great fit with Haverford, with
Haverford's intentional community and the
focus on respectful communication. Many
of the leaders in the DR field have been
Quakers. I wouldn't have gotten involved in
DR if not for my exposure to it at Haverford.
My company, Online Resolution, is a direct
outgrowth of my experience in the DR field.
I never thought I'd go into the business
world. But the Internet of today is dominated
by the dot-coms. The dot-org and dotgov
parts of the web are still in development,
but the dot-com portion is in full
swing. I think that will change over time.
You're starting to see more non-profits using
the web effectively, or governments using
the web to reach out to citizens. For now,
though, if you want to be playing a role in
shaping the new society in cyberspace, you
need to play the start-up game.
BRAD: Volunteering with Eighth Dimension
taught me how to work with different types
of people and my first management experience
was running the campus Big Brother/
Big Sister Program. Working well with a
variety of people has been critical to success.
You cannot succeed in business if you
can't work with a team or if you surround
yourself with other people who are like
yourself. Also, Eighth Dimension and other
volunteer activities have allowed me to
keep work in perspective. Running a business
is very stressful, but I know there is a
lot in the world that is much more important
than i-FRONTIER.
TY: Haverford fostered my ability to think
creatively in a cross-disciplinary fashion,
and that is really critical in this space. Additionally,
the ethical backbone that supports
the school is a solid foundation for working
under sometimes dodgy circumstances,
because a lot of these firms are slightly better
than Ponzi scams or Amway, in my
opinion.
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Colin Rule ’93 is CEO of Online
Resolution, a Cambridge, MA,
company that resolves disputes
(e-commerce, insurance claims,
workplace disputes, etc.) over
the Web. The company is a spinoff
of mediate.com, a virtual
community for the dispute resolution
field, where Colin worked
as the general manager
after receiving his
degree in dispute
resolution
and technology
policy from the
Kennedy School
of Government. Bill
Toll '93 (“a fellow Humtone,”
notes Colin) is the COO
for Online Resolution.
Colin has also worked with
the National Institute for Dispute
Resolution in Washington and
the Consensus Building Institute
in Cambridge, and spent two
years with the Peace Corps in
Eritrea with his wife, Cheryl
Sternman Rule '92.
JENNA: I’ve noticed that Internet companies
are full of people from small liberal arts
colleges like Haverford. I think it’s because
of the multi-discplinary nature of the Internet—the
Web is about tecnhology, business
concerns and imagery/design in fairly equal
parts and that tends to draw people with a
wide variety of interests—or, put another
way, people who were not motivated to a
particular pre-professional education. Small
liberal arts colleges are full of people who
are not particularly driven to one profession
until after they graduate.
HAVERFORD: What do you think will be
the most important trend/development in
the Internet arena over the next couple of
years? How about in the next ten?
JENNA: Predicting what will happen in 10
years requires prophetic abilities. However,
there are some clear trends for the near
term. Everything will be smaller, faster and
connected by satellites. I think digital ink
will have significant impact, as will the ability
to merge GPS [global positioning] technologies
with Internet and wireless services
in all types of electronic goods.
VARUN: Technology transfer to help heal
the global digital divide. That to me is the
potential power of technology, to help
developed and developing countries to
retool themselves in a way they never
expected, in some cases to even skip the
industrial/manufacturing revolution and go
straight from an agrarian to a hybrid knowledge
economy. With the mobile [phone]
penetration in such countries so much higher
than it is here, you've all heard of the
possibility of a "tech leapfrog" where these
folks skip annoying wireline narrowband
Web access and go straight to a broadband
wireless experience. Why not? It's a heck of
a lot cheaper to build a bunch of towers
than it is to lay the millions of miles of cable
and phone wire in remote towns.
COLIN: I have to agree with part of Varun's
point about the digital divide, but disagree
with another part. It is true that information
is power, to a large degree. CNN proclaims
"you are what you know," which has some
truth in it. In Eritrea, my students were reading
beat up college chemistry textbooks
from the 1950s, passing them from person
to person, trying to guess the content on the
pages that had been ripped out. If we do get
Internet penetration into the developing
world it could go a long way toward
addressing those needs—at Online Resolution
we're working with an e-learning company
that offers self-paced math courses,
simple addition through calculus, for free
online. If developed and supported, the
Internet could be a huge asset in providing
access to information and education. Seems
like Parlo fits right into this niche.
However, I have serious skepticism
about the "tech leapfrog" effect. Cell phone
towers in rural areas may make more sense
than laying cable, but you still have to pay
for the cell phone towers. There's no way
the developing world is ever going to catch
up to the developed world in the technology
race. Many areas around the world are
still worrying about clean water and food
sustainability; rolling out DSL is a little further
down the line in terms of priorities.
You can't download a loaf of bread, no
matter how tech savvy you are.
VARUN: I don't question that food and
bread are the first priorities for nations like
India, despite Bill Gates' opinions to the
contrary. I'm simply pointing out that India
will not have to invest in quickly obsolete
technology, one positive side effect of the
generally negative lack of technological
infrastructure to date. Will developing
nations catch up? I don't think so given the
current state of affairs. Will they skip a cycle
and perhaps narrow the gap? More likely.
And will certain nations use the web to further
train and export highly-skilled labor?
India is doing it, providing customer service
and web development services to the developed
nations, and expanding its middle
class in the process: exporting knowledge
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instead of rapidly depleting natural
resources, I HOPE that's a trend.
HAVERFORD: You're all relatively young.
How has your age
helped/hindered/impacted your "online"
career, if at all?
COLIN: I've had comments from VCs about
my age. One angel asked me whether we
had "adult supervision" in our company. My
two co-founders are both older than 50, but
as I'm the point-person the assumption is
that we're just a bunch of kids trying to put
on a show. Funders routinely check our
team list for "greybeards." It's been an interesting
managerial challenge, too. I hired
one of the biggest names in the Alternative
Dispute Resolution (ADR) field to direct our
training wing, in his early 60s, and it's taken
time to establish my CEO credibility with
him. At one point he strongly disagreed
with some of the decisions I had made as to
the importance of training in our institutional
priorities, and we had a bit of a confrontation,
during which he said, "Colin, I
have shoes older than you." Said with a
chuckle, but the feelings behind it were laid
bare nonetheless.
BRAD: When I first started i-FRONTIER, my
age helped win business. In 1996 and
1997, potential clients thought that only the
younger generation could understand the
Internet. However, I did have trouble
recruiting experienced employees, who
were much older than I. They seemed
uncomfortable working for a 25-year-old,
and in his home.
Now, age is not a barrier in hiring or
managing. We have more experienced job
applicants than we have jobs, and my age
has never posed a problem to our management
team, which has significantly more
life and work experience than I. However,
in pitching new business, potential clients
now want to see someone with whom they
can relate—and not because that person
reminds them of their kids. So, I have found
it helpful to bring older staff members to
client pitches.
JENNA: I've noticed that people raised on
the Internet tend to "get it." I visited the
Czech Republic after my first year at Haverford.
They didn't "get" capitalism there.
Meals were incredibly cheap (from a Westerner's
perspective), but they charged you
for napkins, salt, ketchup, a table charge. It
was not a capitalist or service-centered type
of attitude. In the years following it was
much easier for young Czechs to change
from a communist lifestyle to a capitalist
one than it was for the older generation. I
know the situation there is far more complex,
but there is some element of a generational
divide, and the same is true of the
Internet. Any major paradigm shift is easier
for the young. Today's youth "get it" far
more than we aging Gen Xers probably
ever will.
VARUN: Being free of some responsibilities,
such as children, allows you to take
risks you might otherwise defer. You can
have your life more out of balance than you
might at a later age, and leaving the confines
of a cushy job is not as hard. I can
imagine if you've had a corner office for
years and a large administrative infrastructure,
it's hard to work at a desk that's a door
on two file cabinets. On the other hand,
taking the plunge a bit later, you have more
experience about what works and doesn't
work, from management to business models,
and you can more easily finance your
dream company, as Colin mentions.
TY: I think performance in the job is much
more important than age, but Colin's points
are really germane as well, when it comes
to the face that a company has for outsiders.
The biggest problem in the age category are
young folks who have only worked at a dotcom.
They tend to be exceptionally bright,
but tend to also do everything in the fastest
manner possible, which may not be the
best manner possible. As in all things in life:
well-rounded people make better co-workers,
regardless of age.
HAVERFORD: What development of the
online/dot-com world really excites you,
or is something that readers (your fellow
alums) should care about or watch out for?
Any other final thoughts that I haven't provided
an opportunity to share?
JENNA: I've talked about the multidisciplinary
nature of the Web already. That part
keeps me excited. At the end of the day you
have to like the people you work with, in
any job, and I find the people in this industry
tend to come from a variety of backgrounds
and bring a lot of diverse ideas to
the table.
COLIN: Ty was absolutely right about the
"nasty, venal individuals" out there... in the
non-profit world you don't have to worry
about competitors stealing your ideas or
bad mouthing you in public. But there is
something fundamentally satisfying about
taking a big risk to build something you
believe in from scratch, and working as
hard as you possibly can to make it go.
When it's something you really believe in,
like helping people resolve their disputes
peacefully, it's wonderful to have this kind
of opportunity.
TY: I think that, despite the recent downturn,
that we are solidly in an era where it
will become more important to be smart
than to be strong. These companies did not
exist ten years ago. What that means is that
they are chronically understaffed, despite
the recent layoffs. And what that means,
from a social justice standpoint, is that
those who have been underserved by the
American status quo in the workplace
(women, or, choose your glass-ceiling
group here) have a grand opportunity. Critical
quantitative and qualitative thinking are
important skill sets in this space. And the
space is as close to a pure meritocracy as
you will find in the States. This doesn't rectify
chronic mismatches in educational
funding, but it is a rare opportunity for anyone
who wants to work hard. And that, to
me, is most heartening.
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Celebrating Leadership
On December 1 over 300 members of the Haverford College
community celebrated the start of the most ambitious
fund raising campaign in the College’s 167-year history. During
the elegant reception and black-tie dinner in Center City
Philadelphia, Haverford President Tom Tritton and board
chair and vice chair, Barry Zubrow ’75 and Catherine
Koshland ’72, respectively, announced the College’s goal to
raise $200 million by 2004.
Zubrow also recognized two of his predecessors, John
Whitehead and Gerald Levin, who had agreed to serve as
co-chairs of the new campaign, “Educating to Lead, Educating
to Serve.”
The gala also was an opportunity to honor several individuals
and families whose gifts of $5 million or more represented
close to one-half of the amount raised thus far. Those
leadership donors included the Koshland family represented
by Catherine and James Koshland ’73, Howard Lutnick ’83,
Barry Zubrow ’75 and in memorium, former board chair,
John Hurford ’60.
For more details about this event and other campaignrelated
activities, click on the College’s campaign web site
at www.haverford.edu.
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Celebrating Service
During convocation ceremonies
at Haverford on December
2, eight distinguished individuals
from the fields of business,
community service,
medicine and higher education
received honorary degrees
from the College in recognition
of their accomplishments and
service to their communities.
The honorees included several
alumni, an administrator and
a member of the faculty whose
achievements are a measure not
only of their contributions to
their professions, but to society
as a whole.
For more details about this
event and other campaign-related
activities, click on the College’s
campaign web site at
www.haverford.edu.
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C L A S S N E W S
Send your class news by e-mail to
classnews@haverford.edu
12 Stacey K. Beebe’s daughter writes,
“My mother, Mrs. Stacey K. Beebe, had
her 100th birthday in July, 1999. Her and
my father’s only surviving daughter, yours
truly, her younger sister (94), four grandchildren,
five of her and my father’s eight
great-grandchildren and several great-nieces
and nephews attended her birthday celebration
in Winter Park, FL.”
For news of a new scholarship fund
established in the name of Robert Miller,
see note on Daniel Miller ’44.
22 Henry Fraser, a retired lawyer, celebrated
his 100th birthday on July 11, 2000.
His career decision came from the urgings
of his mother.
Soon after graduating from Cornell’s law
school, Fraser accepted his first case.
Although retained by a client in Syracuse,
he had to travel by steamship to Yugoslavia,
where he worked to free 150 members of
the Apostolic Christian Church, who were
jailed for objecting to mandatory military
service. By the end of his trip, King Alexander
of Yugoslavia had pardoned all 150
prisoners. Fraser served many roles
throughout his career , including the first
editor of the Lawyer Service Letter of the
New York State Bar Association, chief
counsel to the US Senate Special Committee
Investigating Petroleum Resources and
editor of a civilian defense manual used
during World War II. In the 1950s, his
belief that the unemployment insurance law
was unconstitutional led him to the US
Supreme Court. Although unsuccessful in
his challenge, Fraser stood firm in his belief
that the law just wasn’t right. So strong was
his conviction that he did not allow his own
daughter to collect unemployment when
she lost her job once. Throughout his busy
career, family remained important to Fraser.
He met his wife Myrtle in 1937 at Lake
Mohawk in the Catskills. When it was time
to get married, they slipped away to the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New
York City. They had planned a small private
wedding with just their witnesses in
attendance, but when the ceremony was
over the couple was surprised with applause
from 300 tourists at the cathedral who had
watched the ceremony. The couple had
three children, Bruce and Roger Fraser and
Rosene Cunnan. Myrtle Fraser died in
1968. Reflecting back on the 1900s, Fraser
said it was the worst century in history with
too many wars and too many Roosevelts in
the White House, but in spite of all that he
said, “I feel like I’ve had a very wonderful
life — so far.”
25 William Hinrichs was recently featured
in a Meriden, CT, newspaper article.
The ninety-six-year-old will be participating
in this year’s Connecticut Senior Games
10K Classic Road Race and Racewalk. This
Meriden resident and former professor of
psychology at the University of Georgia
attributes much of his longevity to staying
active and in particular, to walking briskly.
Mr. Hinrichs explains that he enjoys “both
the walk and the camaraderie of everyone
involved.”
29 For news of J. Clifford Scott, see
note on William Prindle ’38.
31 M. Jastrow Levin writes, “I now
have three great-grandchildren. The
youngest just celebrated his third birthday.
My seventeen-year-old granddaughter,
Kendra Levin, has won several prizes for her
writing. This year she was one of only five
high school senior short story writers selected
for the Arts Recognition and Talent
Search (ARTS) Awards.”
Arthur Mekeel writes, “I feel very lucky
to be living at the Foxdale Retirement Village
at State College. There are several
Haverfordians here, as well as several Bryn
Mawrters, of which my wife is one. This is a
very beautiful part of Pennsylvania with
unpolluted, clean air which enhances the
beauty. Pennsylvania State University is
near by, and we benefit by the cultural
opportunities available, especially from the
excellent music school. Quite a few PSU
faculty members have retired to Foxdale
Village. If anyone is looking for an interesting
place to which to retire, here it is!
I am looking forward to the next issue
of Haverford, and in the meantime, best
wishes to all.”
Nathaniel Weyl writes, “I have little to
report for the year except that I wrote and
published a small volume of poems and am
in Who’s Who in America (2000 edition)
for the first time. Marcelle and I enjoy fairly
good health and feel blessed.”
32 William M. Lee ’46 writes to
inform us that Walter Dothard “was playing
in a golf tournament at the Harbor
Ridge Golf Club this winter. On his first
swing on the first hole, he had a hole-inone.
Rather extraordinary, wouldn’t you
say!”
Dana Morris Street writes, “I’m still
‘alive and kicking.’ If you don’t kick you
don’t do good karate. (Ha!)”
Rudolf Wertime and his wife Phyllis
Jane renewed their marriage vows in a ceremony
on December 28, 1999, the 50th
anniversary of their wedding.
35 For news of Sidney Hollander, Jr.,
see note on Bernard Hollander ’37.
36 Ben Cowles writes, “In the fall of
1998, I was appointed by the Presbyterian
General Assembly Peace-Making Committee
to participate in a three-week long study
of six South African cities (Johannesburg,
Pretoria, Durban, Umtata, New London
and Cape Town). In February, 1999, my
second book Through the Dragon’s
Mouth was published by Fithian Press of
Santa Barbara, CA. It is the story of my
adventures traveling after World War II
through the famed Three Gorges (of China’s
Yangzi River) aboard an old-style junk
pulled upstream by harnessed trackers
straining along narrow riverside paths.
Reviews in national journals are positive
and strong. The February issue of Library
Journal claims, ‘far more than a narrative,
this is a major book on an important
topic.’”
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37 Sidney Hollander, Jr. ’35 writes to
inform us that his cousin Bernard Hollander
was recently honored by the United
States Justice Department for 50 years of
service to his country as an attorney in the
Antitrust Division. Bernard received a personal
commendation from Attorney General
Janet Reno, recognizing him as the
longest-serving attorney in the history of the
Antitrust Division.
38 Valery de Beausset writes, “The first
inter-student marriage of Haverford students
is holding up well after 54 years. We
just returned to Michigan from our home
on a small key in the islands in the
Caribbean off Honduras, warm clear water
for diving on the best reef of the Eastern
Atlantic. Classmates are invited when I’m
there.”
C. Raymond Haig is running for a
position on the School Committee in his
home town of Newport, R.I.
William Prindle writes, “My news is
not that exciting, but it might fill the void
in the most recent alumni magazine. Fran
and I are moving to a condo after 24 years
in this house. It is getting too much for us
to handle. We will be only 4 miles away
and still in Essex, CT, and we are hoping to
get help with the move from our eight children,
thirteen grandchildren, and perhaps
some cheering from our three great-grandkids.
I am happy to see that J. Clifford
Scott ’29 is still going strong. I have fond
memories of his visit on our boat in Maine
on his 80th birthday. He looked more like
sixty on that day.”
39 For news of a new scholarship fund
established in the name of Charles Miller,
II, see note on Daniel Miller ’44.
40 Allen Lewis has written his fifth
book, entitled No-Hitters: The 225
Games, 1893-1999, with Rich Westcott.
This book discusses each of modern baseball’s
225 no-hitters, recapping the games
and including details on how a batter
reached base against the no-hit pitcher and
what happened to each batter. Lewis was a
sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer
for over 30 years and a sports correspondent
for The Sporting News for 15 years. He
was inducted into the writers’ wing of the
Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,
NY, in 1982 as a winner of the J.G. Taylor
Spink award. He has been a member of the
Hall of Fame Veterans Committee since
1979, an official scorer for the American
League at the Tampa Bay Devil Ray games
since 1998 and will be going on his eighth
boat cruise since 1995 at the end of
September.
41 Robert Folwell writes, “I was one of
three Friends who raised $450,000 to build
a modern annex to Radnor Friends’ 1718
Meeting House in Radnor, PA.”
For news of a new scholarship fund
established in the name of William Miller,
see note on Daniel Miller ’44.
42 Robert Miller, Jr. writes, “I enjoyed
a visit with Tom Tritton and Jill Sherman
last month.” For news of a new scholarship
fund established in Robert’s name see note
on Daniel Miller ’44.
43 H. Mather Lippincott, Jr., writes,
“The class of ’43 had a great 57th minireunion.
Peg (Swarthmore ‘45) and I are
moving to the Quadrangle in September.”
44 Daniel Miller established the Robert
E. Miller and Sons American History
Scholarship Fund to honor the lives of
Haverfordians Robert Miller ’12 and his
five sons, Charles Miller, II ’39, William
Miller ’41, Robert Miller, Jr. ’42, Daniel
Miller and David Miller (attended 1950)
and to honor their service to the United
States of America in the 20th century. It is
intended to provide financial aid to Haverford
students who plan to major or minor
in history at Haverford, with a preference
for students who display a strong interest in
American history.
45 Robert Pontius writes, “We’ve fallen
in with those of our Pontius clan who
frequently pack a bus to tour Europe hunting
for the origins of our ancestors who
came to Penn’s Colony. When I was in
school, pre-med students needed to learn
German, but their cardiac surgeons now
publish in English and our maternal cousins
read James Michener (Swarthmore ’29) in
German.”
46 For news of William M. Lee, see
note on Walter Dothard ’32.
Sally Wriggins, world traveler and public
lecturer, gave a talk at Port in a Storm
bookstore in Somesville, ME, on September
7 based on her book, Xuanzang: A
Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. She
was able to retrace Xuanzang’s steps along
the Silk Road when her husband became
ambassador to Sri Lanka. Wriggins has lectured
at the Smithsonian Institute, the
Explorers Club, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the International House of
Tokyo. She has also served as a consultant
to television programs about Xuanzang and
the Far East.
47 Dr. William Annesley, Jr., Attending
Surgeon on the Wills Retina Service,
was recognized for his work and expertise in
macular degeneration on the final day of
the 52nd Annual Wills Conference, March
11th, 2000. Dr. Annesley is known internationally
for his work in macular photocoagulation,
a method of stabilizing dry macular
degeneration, and in retinal detachment
surgery. He was a pioneer in the treatment
of macular degeneration and was instrumental
in introducing flourescein angiography
(a way of studying circulation in the
retina) to Wills when the process was first
being perfected. He is a co-founder of the
Wills Retina Service, was Service Director
from 1971 to 1991 and has been Professor
of Ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical
College of Thomas Jefferson University.
48 Hans Janitschek ’54 writes to
inform us that George Nicklin has recently
published a new book. It is titled Doctors
in Peril, and it documents the stories of
physicians who overcame or succumbed to
severe illness. Classmates of George can
obtain copies at a 40 percent discount
($12.50) from Swan Books, Box 760, Pine
Plains, NY 12567.
49 James C. Buckley, while traveling in
Costa Rica with his wife Doris, met with
Luis Brenes, a classmate whom he had not
seen in the 50 years since graduation. He
writes, “Luis is a doctor and still practicing.
He serves as chairman of the department of
medicine at the Hospital San Juan de Dios
in San Jose, the largest hospital in Costa
Rica.”
Check out the alumni magazine online
at http://www.haverford.edu
Click on the “News and Events” link
and then on “Alumni Magazine.”
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John Henkels writes,“My travel article
on Iran was published by the Salt Lake
Tribune, our Sunday morning newspaper.”
50 Diehl Mateer, Jr. was among the
inaugural inductees into the United States
Squash Hall of Fame to be located in
Philadelphia. Diehl was honored for his
astounding success, as he won eleven doubles
championships with five different partners
and three national singles titles. At
Haverford, he twice won the intercollegiate
singles title.
Roger Morrell writes, “I practice neurology
in Southfield, MI. Our daughter
Molly is a dean’s list senior at the University
of Michigan.”
51 Robert Edmiston married Jane M.
Petrie on December 26, 1999, in State
College, PA. A wedding trip to Bermuda is
planned.
Bob Tucker writes, “Having reached
the mandatory retirement age of 70, I have
stepped down as chairman of Bermuda
Electric Light Co. and chairman of First
Banana Securities. I have plenty of time
now for tennis (fair) and golf (lousy).”
52 Richard Barnes writes, “I enjoyed a
week of foliage last fall in Stowe, VT, with
Barbara and Dick Eller. I plan to do the
same this fall in Sedona, AZ, with Heather
and Paul Sterner. Anyone interested in a
more personal gathering for a few days
before or after our 50th in ’02, perhaps
in the Poconos? My e-mail is
richardkbarnes@hotmail.com.”
53 Dr. George Fuller, the director of
development of Alpha Pregnancy Services
in Philadelphia and a recently retired pastor
of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Cherry
Hill, was the guest speaker at Ocean City
Union Chapel in Ocean City, NJ on
August 13, 2000. Fuller received a master’s
degree from Princeton Theological Seminary,
an M.B.A. from Babson College and
a Th.M. and Th.D. from Westminster
Theological Seminary, where he also served
as president from 1982-1991. Play It My
Way has been one of his publications plus
articles which appeared in the Westminster
Theological Journal along with other
periodicals and books. He has always been
active on various committees for the
Philadelphia and New Jersey Presbyteries
and was the director for the National
Presbyterian and Reformed Fellowship for
four years.
54 For news of Hans Janitschek, see
note on George Nicklin ’48.
55 Roswell Eldridge writes, “Juanita
and I divide our time between Charleston,
SC, where she continues in molecular
genetic research, and Rensellaerville, NC,
where I have a part-time medical interest as
well as a fledgling garlic operation. I also
post weekly on the Internet as “lildoc,” the
prudent fuel cell investor. I am the proud
father of four and 8 /9ths.”
56 For news of Harold Friedman, see
note on Beth Friedman Leblanc ’88.
Arthur McLean writes, “I’ve been working
temporarily for Census 2000 in Manhattan
full-time since March 6, 2000.”
Ted Regan writes, “Wonder how many
Haverfordians attended this year’s Kentucky
Derby? I did, with my wife Mary
Anne, daughter Alison and friend for my
69th birthday. What a hoot!”
57 Henry Hoover writes, “I’ve retired
from federal service and am enjoying retired
life very much. We’re traveling to Sweden,
the Low Countries and Germany this summer
for a Swiss relative’s wedding. After living
and working in Washington, DC, for
over 30 years, I’m moving this spring to
Lincoln, MA, near Boston, where I was
born and raised. So it is nice to be going full
circle.”
Louis Matlack, Moorestown’s top planner
for two decades, was the toast of a
reunion with town officials and Planning
Board members, past and present, in
Moorestown’s Town Hall in November
1999. Widowed in 1996, Matlack resigned
in May of 1999 and moved to Somerset
County to a second marriage. During his
tenure, the Planning Board formulated
Moorestown’s Master Plan, steered the
transformation of the East End from farmland
to residential suburb and regulated the
development of the East Gate shopping
center. The Matlack board was also a major
force in shaping Moorestown’s affordablehousing
compliance plans.
Lorenzo Milam was interviewed about
his life and his theories on coping with age
and disability in the September 2000 issue
of New Mobility. Milam was crippled by
polio at the age of 19 and has been dealing
with the effects of this disease on his body
ever since. One of the keys to surviving age
and disability, according to Milam, is keeping
the mind active. To do this, he has
taught himself HTML, started RALPH
(Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and
the Humanities), an online book review
magazine (ralphmag.org), and learned
another language, Spanish. In addition, he
has written books, poetry and stories. Published
works are Cripzen: A Manual for
Survival (1993), Gringolandia: A
Guide for Puzzled Mexicans (written
with Jon Gallant, 1997), A Cricket in the
Telephone (At Sunset) (poetry, edited by
Lolita Lark, 1999), The Cripple Liberation
Front Marching Band Blues (1986,
out of print), The Blob that Ate Oaxaca
(1986, out of print).
For news of Robert Noyes, see note on
Alison Noyes Buchanan ’84.
58 Michael Roloff writes to inform us
of two forthcoming pieces from his book
Peter Handke, the Master of Syntax.
One is a piece on Handke’s My Year in
the No-Man’s Bay for Modern Fiction
Studies; the other, a piece on Handke's
dramaturgy since 1980 for The Drama
Review.
59 Bruce Campbell writes, “The late
Stephen Lorant, the father of modern photojournalism,
left me the copyright for his
definitive history Pittsburgh: The Story of
an American City.” With my help, my
wife completed the fifth edition which was
published by our company Esselmont
Books LLC on October 12, 1999. The first
four editions of 150,000 total all sold out.”
Timothy Sheldon writes, “I am expanding
my work as a poet, recording artist and
photographer, and I hope to share some
with Haverfordians sometime. Also, I am
preparing to start a graphic business: portraits,
post cards, stationery; and I am
expanding my benevolent landlord business
in Pittsfield, MA. I don’t want to forget my
business partner, ‘Sweetie-Pie,’ a goldyorange
alley-cat I adopted.”
Stuart Tubis writes, “I continue as
chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry
of the California Medical Facility, a
major medical center in the California
Department of Health. My son Brian and I
went on a humanitarian medical mission
among the Maasai tribesmen in Kenya.
After this he decided to go to law school
(instead of medical school). On a less gory
but more glory note, I helped coach his
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high school tennis team to a record 79 consecutive
team wins and eight consecutive
league championships, but it’s how you
play the game that counts! Right?”
60 Truman Bullard, having retired
from the music faculty at Dickinson College,
has moved on to a career as a freelance
performer playing piano and bassoon. Truman
recently was honored for his years in
the Harrisburg music scene with a weekend
of performances at the Market Square
Concert series he helped promote.
Samuel Tatnall writes, “I’ve been a software
developer at Mobius Management
Systems, Inc. in Rye, NY, for the last three
years.”
Norman Woldorf and his wife Rose
Ann have set up a fund in honor of his late
son Robert that will bring entertainers and
lecturers of various backgrounds to speak to
students at the Harrisburg Academy. Norman
says the idea came from a similar fund
he remembered that brought speakers to
Haverford.
61 Cristoph M. Kimmich was
appointed as the eighth president of Brooklyn
College. He was previously the interim
chancellor at the City University of New
York from 1997 to 1999.
Jeffry Larson has been named the 2000
recipient of the Martinus Nijhoff Western
European Specialists Grant. Jeffry plans to
use the grant of 10,000 Dutch guilders for
travel to Rome and Paris to gather research
for his study, “Documenting the Dissemination
of the Gregorian Calendar Reform
in France During the Wars of Religion.”
Jeffry is currently librarian for Western
European romance languages, literatures,
linguistics and classics at the Yale University
Library.
62 John Bertolet is running unopposed
for School Committee in his home town of
Boothbay Harbor, ME.
Bob Lynn writes, “In a wave of enthusiasm
for the arrival of grandparenthood, my
wife Siew Jyu and I quit our jobs in Baltimore
and moved in fall 2000 to Pasadena.
Here, with any luck, we’ll work part-time in
the evenings and spend our daytimes taking
care of the twins that our daughter and her
husband have just produced. This should
be a two-year gig, after which the parents go
off for post-docs somewhere and the grandparents
try to re-enter the full-time economy
— or then again maybe we’ll just fade
away. Anyone spry (we all deserve that word
now, right?) enough for a thin futon is
extremely welcome to visit.”
James Meyer and his son Caleb ’89
were featured in an article in the Mount
Airy, PA, Times Express about the exhibit
of their finely crafted jewelry at the Germantown
Friends School Juried Craft
Show.
63 Charles Conn writes, “After what
Bill Kelley called a ‘marital readjustment,’
I’m pleased to say that I’ve been reunited
with my first wife, Carole. We’re currently
living in Stamford, CT, but spending most
weekends in Morris, CT (near Litchfield),
where we’ve recently opened a stable and
equestrian center. Classmates and friends
are welcome to visit us at either location.”
William Dorwart, Jr. was featured in
an article in the Lancaster, PA, Sunday
News documenting his new occupation as
a music engraver. By the use of a specialized
computer program, William can take old
paper copies of sheet music, which are often
incomplete and partially incorrect and build
from them the correct and complete score.
William never imagined that his talent for
meticulous detail, research and study
learned as a biology major would serve the
world of music as well as science.
For news of George Houston, see note
on Adam Blistein ’71.
William Phillips writes, “Finally! I’m a
grandfather – what a joy! My granddaughter,
Samantha, lives in Nantucket!”
Richard Unger writes, “During the
1999-2000 academic year there were three
Haverford alumni in the history department
at the University of British Columbia.
First there was Erik Tagliacozzo ’89, a Killam
Post-Doctoral Fellow, who has left to
take up a position as an assistant professor
in the history department at Cornell University,
working for Hunter Rawlings ’66,
president of Cornell. Second there was Paul
Krause ’72, an associate professor who has
been a member of the department since
1988 and who teaches American history.
The third was Richard Unger who joined
UBC in 1969, is a professor and is the
medieval historian.”
64 Robert Bates received the first
William H. Riker Prize for his research on
the political economy of developing nations
in Africa. Robert is the Eaton Professor of
the Science of Government at Harvard
University.
Daniel DeWilde writes, “Over 35 years
since graduation! I still feel in many ways
mentally stuck at 34, which always seemed
to me to be the perfect age. Settled reluctantly
in Fort Worth, TX, since 1988. My
wife’s tenured academic position at TCU
keeps us here. I have evolved from an independent
video writer/producer into a manager
of an eMedia group (Internet, intranet,
etc.) for a large national engineering consulting
firm based in Fort Worth. When I
can find the time, what I really like to do is
program. I am moderately proficient in
ASP, Javascript and Lingo, a multimedia
authoring language. It really tickles me
when I can make a computer do tricks. My
daughter Katie (8) is doing great. Lance (2),
a yellow lab, is her bad little brother. Life
here, if not east-coast sophisticated or westcoast
cutting-edge, is convenient and less
expensive.”
Donald Ratajczak retired in May from
the directorship of the Georgia State University
Economic Forecasting Center,
which he founded. He plans to continue to
write, research and consult. Donald will also
enter the entrepreneurial world with an
Internet start-up, Pentem.com, which is
designed to help businesses administer their
employees’ 401(k) retirement plans.
William Shafer has returned from the
academic world of the Lutheran Seminary
to become pastor at the Messiah Lutheran
Church in Newtown Square, PA. An article
in the local Springfield Sun lauds his
humor, affability and ability.
Ron Shapiro recently delivered a baccalaureate
address at the Gilman School in
Baltimore entitled “That Most Important
of All Human Traits - Character.” Shapiro
is chairman of the Shapiro Negotiations
Institute, as well as the principal in a major
sports agency.
Robert Simmons, a five-term state representative
in Connecticut, announced his
candidacy for the 2nd Congressional District
seat currently held by Democratic US
Representative Sam Gejdenson.
Richard Wertime has recently completed
a new book, Citadel on the Mountain,
to be published in September by Farrar,
Straus and Giroux. Richard is currently a
professor of English at Beaver College.
65 For news of David Brookes, see
note on Amy Bohman ’88.
James House writes, “I continue as professor
of sociology and director of the Survey
Research Center in the Institute for
Social Research at the University of Michigan,
and I was recently elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and to
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the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences.”
For news of Tom Inui, see note on
David Stowe ’83.
For news of David Kies, see note on
Adam Kies ’91.
Eugene Sarver writes, “In January,
1999, I was appointed contributing editor
of the World Trade magazine, with responsibility
for foreign exchange analysis and
forecasts. I continue to do financial training
programs for the U.S. Department of State
in locations such as Tbilisi, Georgia and
Cairo, Egypt.”
66 Paul Becker writes, “Finally. I
received my Sc.D. at UMass-Lowell in
work environment, industrial hygiene (eight
years in the works!). My dissertation topic
was, “Modeling Construction Worker
Chemical Exposures for Compliance with
OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits; An
Investigation of Lead Exposures to Highway
Bridge Maintenance Workers.”
Stephen Curley was elected to serve as a
presiding partner of the Torys’ law firm.
The firm was created by a merger last year
of Tory Deslauries and Binnington with
Haythe & Curley, of which Stephen was a
founding partner.
For news of Robert Eisenberg, see note
on Brooke Wollenburg ’95.
Roy Gutman writes, “Crimes of War,
a new book I co-edited, received exceptional
reviews in the United States, United Kingdom
and France. An Italian edition has
been published and a German edition will
be shortly. The book has been spotted on
President Clinton’s and Secretary of State
Albright’s desks.” For more news of Roy,
see note on John Carroll ’63.
Munson Hicks recently appeared in a
production of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs.
Warren’s Profession as Reverend Samuel
Gardner. The play was part of Munson’s
continued work with the Huntington Theatre
Company at Boston University.
Robert Hillman writes, “I am developing
a feature-length dramatic movie based
on the life of Julia Butterfly Hill, the charismatic
and articulate young woman who
captivated people around the world during
her two year tree-sit, eighteen stories up
atop an ancient Redwood.”
For news of Hunter Rawlings, see note
on Richard Unger ’63.
Clark de Schweinitz writes, “I married
Johnnie M. de Schweinitz on July 10,
1999. Johnnie is originally from Baltimore
and is someone I have known for almost 30
years, from when I was a VISTA volunteer
in Baltimore in 1969-70. I now spend my
extra time in the summer driving her
twelve-year-old son to camps, when he
visits.”
67 William Hoffman writes, “I
returned in April from three months of
work in Africa, Tanzania and Swaziland,
where my wife and I worked as medical
missionaries. Our hospital had electricity on
Tuesday and Thursday for the operating
room only and no running water. While
malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid
fever and leprosy are all common, it is
AIDS that is killing the continent, and governmental
leaders have yet to face up to the
problem. It was a truly eye-opening experience.”
David M. Lowry was appointed as the
new head of the Elisabeth Morrow School
in Englewood, NJ. This is not the first
headmaster position he has undertaken, as
he previously held the post at St. Edmund’s
Academy in Pittsburgh, PA, the Lexington
School in Lexington, KY, and at the Brookside
School in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
David Stephenson was recently hired
by Red Sky, a Boston-based Internet professional
services company, as a senior strategist.
David previously worked as director of
strategy for a similarly digital company,
iXL.
Duncan Thomas, USC genetic epidemiologist,
will be the first holder of the
Verna Richter chair in cancer research. “I
am deeply grateful to the Richters for this
award,” said Thomas, a professor of preventive
medicine and director of the biostatistics
division in the Keck School of
Medicine. “It will make it possible for me
to focus my attention on problems in the
genetic epidemiology of cancer and the
gene-environment interactions that may be
involved. I sincerely hope I will be able to
live up to the challenge.” A member of the
American College of Epidemiology and
current president of the International
Genetic Epidemiological Society, Thomas
has extensively investigated genetic risk factors
for breast, ovarian, prostate and other
cancers in family studies. He has also carried
out similar statistical studies of other
diseases, including insulin-dependent diabetes.
Thomas is also a preeminent expert
on the carcinogenic effects of radiation,
having studied such populations as Japanese
atomic bomb survivors, uranium miners
and Utah residents living downwind of the
Nevada test site during the period before
underground testing of nuclear weapons
became the norm. He was the radiation epidemiology
expert on President Clinton’s
14-member advisory committee on human
radiation experiments, which in 1994-95
investigated case studies of experiments,
including plutonium injections in the late
1940s and intentional radiation releases in
the 50s. He also served as part of the
National Academy of Sciences committee
on the biological effects of ionizing radiation,
as well as serving on radiation advisory
committees for other government agencies.
Thomas has worked on evaluating other
suspected environmental health risks,
including those due to exposures to electromagnetic
fields, asbestos, malathion and air
pollution. He is the co-director of the
Southern California Center for Environmental
Health and chairs organizing committees
for the Genetic Analysis Workshop
and the Informatics Consortium for the
NCI Cooperative Family Registries for
Breast and Colorectal Cancer.
68 Michael Aucott writes, “I got a
Ph.D. in environmental science in May,
1997, from Rutgers University. My dissertation
described a mathematical model I
developed to infer the tropospheric concentration
of chlorine atoms and discussed the
global cycling of chlorinated compounds.
The project included a serendipitous association
with a research team that sent me to
Europe twice and made some headway in
refining the inventory of reactive chlorine
compounds in the global atmosphere. I am
still a research scientist with the NJ Department
of Environmental Protection and
recently took on a new role with its Division
of Science, Research & Technology as
the state environmental indicators scientist.
My job is to help develop better measures of
environmental quality and better ways to
measure progress (or the lack of it) in environmental
protection. Recently, I enjoyed
working with the Center for Clean Air Policy
of Washington, DC, headed up by Ned
Helme ’69, on a joint project to design a
registry of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
A little over a year ago, I became
chairman of the Hopewell Township Planning
Board. I’m now in the middle of the
effort to manage growth and stem sprawl in
our part of central New Jersey, which faces
tremendous development pressure. This job
is stressful and time-consuming, but I think
there’s something of a sea change going on
in attitudes; more and more people are realizing
the importance of preserving open
space and changing our pattern of land
use.”
Peter Bass was named public health
advisor in the Washington office of the
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Atlanta-based Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry. After a decade of
work in the public sector, in his new position,
Peter performs “basic executive branch
congressional “the public health consequences
of hazardous substances.” Peter
was featured in National Journal, a weekly
magazine on public policy and governmental
affairs.
Robert Beale writes, “I left Pennsylvania
Hospital in June, 1998, after 20 years. The
last four years I was executive director of the
hospital’s Hall-Mercer Community Mental
Health/Mental Retardation Center. Since
early 1999 I have been a consultant to the
Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
My wife Caroline Tropp Beale (BMC ’70)
recently celebrated her tenth anniversary as
head of her own market research company.
Our son Kevin graduated in May, 1999,
from Randolph-Macon College and is
working for the Philadelphia Phillies. Our
son Brian has one more semester at Bates
College and is looking at graduate school
possibilities in landscape architecture. We
recently bought a second home in New
Hampshire, not far from Dartmouth, and
we are looking forward to ever-more-frequent
getaways. My best to all!”
For news of Ethan Feinsod, see
BIRTHS.
For news of Chris Kopff, see note on
Adam Blistein ’71.
Eugene Ludwig addressed the York
Rotary Club in July, 2000, regarding financial
modernization. He is the managing
general partner of Promontory Financial
Group, LLC, in Washington, DC and the
former comptroller of the currency under
the Clinton administration.
69 Robert Fried writes, “Terrific 30th
reunion. It was a real pleasure seeing everyone.
Thanks so much to Dave Barry and to
the Shameless Impersonators."
For news of Ned Helme, see note on
Michael Aucott ’68.
Gregg Jackson writes, “In addition to
playing with the Shameless Impersonators, I
have been playing sax at local jam sessions
in San Jose, CA, and am now forming a
duo with a local jazz guitarist. I have also
been pulling Chris Edgar ’98 out of his law
school classes to play drums at the same
sessions. I hope in this way to prevent Chris
from surpassing his father Ken Edgar’s law
school GPA by too great a margin.”
Richard Olver writes, “On February 22,
I married Karen Jardim, whom I met when
she interned as a gender adviser in the
UNDP office here in Guyana. My work for
the United Nations takes me all around the
Caribbean basin. I’ve just returned from
Havana, where I helped launch an initiative
on disaster and environmental risk.”
Roger Williams is now working at
Fannie Mae where he is vice president for
Community Based Lending.
70 Bruce Lincoln published a new
book, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology,
and Scholarship. Bruce is currently
professor of history of religion at the
University of Chicago.
Alan Morgan writes, “I started a list of
things to put in a report and realized that if
I sent them out as ‘headlines’ that I can stall
the actual report for a while. Much of this
will make no sense to those of you who
have not been subjected to previous reports
about my Cambodia activities. In no particular
order: Ron Korb recorded about 60
songs direct to DAT (digital audio tape),
using a rented tape deck and microphones
we carried from the US. Ron is a Canadian
musician and CD producer who will now
create a demo disk and approach Peter
Gabriel’s world-music company “Real
World” (in England) about the project ...
The old, deaf flute player Yim Saing and his
family made 60 flutes for us. Last trip we
discovered that he hadn't made a flute in
years because no one wanted them anymore,
so we offered to pay ten dollars
each for as many as he could make in six
months .... The teaching is going well, better
in the countryside where they teach
longer hours .... After missing him in
November, we finally met (struck gold
with?) the abbot of Wat Bo in Siem Reap.
We had correctly been told that he is a very
knowledgeable patron of the arts in an
artists’ community. He will glady arrange
anything we can afford, such as teachers,
students, teaching space and made-to-order
instruments. A clear fundraising opportunity.
The masters outside Phnom Penh are
looking like a better resource than those in
the city.... Visited the princess in her home
for an hour. She is an “old master” dancer
herself, as well as Minister of Culture and
Fine Arts. One of her seven matching
Pekinese bit Ron. No blood. She carried
the dog out personally.... Our Coordinator,
Arun, is ready to start the third strategic
activity of our Mission Statement, the Performance
Project. He will put flyers offering
recitals by our student group into 1500
mailboxes at the central NGO clearinghouse.
Later: embassies, ministries, and
hotels.... Saw our dear friend Vah, his wife
Chanthy and baby Chirnit at home. Arn
got to know them well for the first time and
the baby peed on him ....Met Daravuth, a
charming young Cambodian-Californian
who teaches English at Jon & Mieko’s Children’s
Hospital and loves to take visitors to
Angkor so he can talk about history and
archeology .... Drove down to the beach for
a night. Arn insisted on beach time if he
was going to use up his whole year's vacation
on this work trip. For days afterward,
he wore the beach shirt from Peggy and
Scott that I carried over as a surprise .... Saw
a shadow puppet show on a screen lit by a
bonfire. It was active enough and short
enough that I didn’t fall asleep in the front
row .... Twice ran into Michael Hayes, publisher
of the Phnom Penh Post, in restaurants
in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. It’s a
small country. I took a Sunday Boston
Globe over for him .... Attended an exhibit
and presentation at the Foreign Correspondents
Club by the (crazed) photographer
that John Malkovitch played in The
Killing Fields .... Took a UNESCO official
out to a Karoke bar (by accident) where I
considered buying 45 minutes of silence ....
Inventoried CVCD’s computer equipment
for our website curriculum and translation
projects. That didn’t take long. Talked to
Arun about web curriculum and computer
network at CVCD. He got excited and had
me meet with the key teachers and administration
people. They got excited .... Twice
took cyclo (three-wheeled bicycle taxi) rides
home from the Foreign Correspondents....
Club through crowds of New Year revelers
Mieko showed us some good new places to
eat in Siem Reap, like Kampuccino and the
Grand Hotel’s Elephant Bar ... Visited the
separate and distant monument Banteay
Srei, 45 minutes from Angkor, famous for
its detailed carvings. Worth the trip. ... I
was able to receive my normal e-mail
(amorgan instead of penhpal) this trip for
the first time. But all of my attempts to
send through that account failed without
my knowledge. I will solve this mystery
next time .... And more.”
71 Adam Blistein writes, “I have finally
fulfilled an ambition I’ve harbored since
freshman year at Haverford: I’ve succeeded
to a position once held by Howard Comfort.
No, I haven’t been appointed professor
of classics at the College, and I certainly
haven’t become the cricket coach. In July,
1999, however, I became executive director
of the American Philological Association
Send your class news by e-mail to
classnews@haverford.edu
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(APA), the principal learned society for classicists,
ancient historians, etc. in North
America. The APA has been around since
1869, and for the first 128 years of its existence,
it was managed by a member secretary-treasurer
in his (it always was a he)
‘spare time.’ Howard was secretary-treasurer
from 1946-1949, and his long-time colleague
at Haverford, L.A. Post, held the
same position from 1936-1939. (Howard
was also president of the APA in 1963.) Up
until now, my ‘career path,’ if you could
call it that, appeared to be random: Ph.D.
in classics at Yale (with a couple of years off
to be the token male faculty secretary at the
Harvard Business School); couple of years
as a bookkeeper and grant manager/writer
in a small social sciences research institute;
and, for 16 years, a variety of responsibilities
at the American Association for Cancer
Research (AACR), the leading professional
society of cancer researchers in the world
(where I got to know, among others, a fellow
named Tritton who is active in the
society). About ten years ago, after I’d been
at the AACR for a while, I realized that I
had a career after all: I was an association
executive, and I could transfer my experience
to almost any other membership organization.
That made me wonder whether
the only association I’d ever belong to (the
APA, which I joined as a graduate student
and never managed to leave) would ever
need someone to be a full time administrator.
At the time, I figured not, but fortunately
I was wrong. Current members of
the Haverford/Bryn Mawr community
helped me both to obtain the appointment
and set up a new office. At Haverford, Dan
Gillis somehow, after nearly 30 years, had
enough good things to say about me to the
Search Committee that they were willing to
offer me the job, and Deborah Roberts,
who was my colleague in grad school, put
me in touch with people in the classics
department at the University of Pennsylvania
who were actually willing to give up
office space for the association. At Bryn
Mawr, Julia Haig Gaisser served on the
Search Committee and is now president of
the Association. Of course, I have to stay in
close touch with the association president
wherever s/he is, but as I try to reacquaint
myself with the world of Classics that I left
20 years ago, it’s very helpful for me to have
a president so close that she’ll stop in for
lunch after visiting the Penn Library. My
office isn’t very big (staff, including me,
amounts to three), but we’re a model of bicollege
cooperation. One of the two people
I hired, Minna Canton Duchovnay, gave
up a high powered career in industry to get
Merion High School’s championship
lacrosse team, and I sold my business after
25 years with it. Currently, I’m teaching in
the Lower Merion School District and
refereeing college soccer.”
Don Will writes, “I continue to teach
political science and peace studies at Chapman
University in Orange, CA. I also direct
the Freshman Seminar program through
which all 550 freshmen take a course entitled
‘The Global Citizen.’”
72 Paul Haagen published a new book,
Arbitration Now, a collection of essays
that take different approaches to developments
in arbitration.
For news of Paul Krause, see note on
Richard Unger ’63.
Kenneth Ludwig writes, “All of the
Ludwigs are well and happy. Our daughter
Olivia is almost eight, and our son Jack is
almost four. My wife Adrienne George
(BMC ’72) and I enjoy every second of
them. I have a new show opening on
Broadway next season, a musical based on
Tom Sawyer. The out-of-town tryout will
be at the Kennedy Center. Also, a new play
opening in London on the West End.”
Ken was recently profiled in The Mount
Vernon Gazette.
Peter Olson writes, “I became deputy
general counsel at the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency shortly before
ACDA’s integration with the State Department.
I’m now assistant legal advisor for
arms control and non-proliferation. Despite
my fears that two detours into Africa with
USAID would blight my career, I now have
the best legal job at State and am having
a wonderful time, despite the at times
disheartening developments in the arms
control field.”
Jonathan Ralph writes, “I’m enjoying
coaching soccer/basketball/softball/tennis
for Marilyn (12) and Stephen (8). I’m still
delivering babies and removing uteri on the
side. What I miss most about Haverford:
eating cheesesteaks at Moma’s.”
William Wagner writes, “For my sins, I
was appointed chair of the history department
at Williams College.”
73 For news of Paul Hofstein, see note
on Thomas Sutton ’78.
Terry Irving writes, “I changed jobs
after three and a half years with Don Imus.
I am now vice president of
Tvontheweb.com, an Internet video store in
Reston, VA. Let’s pray for those stock
options! My wife Ellen is enjoying a wonher
B.A. and M.A. in Latin from Bryn
Mawr just last year. And I’m not the only
Haverford alumnus involved with the APA.
I had been on the job for less than a month
when I exchanged e-mails with Chris
Kopff ’68, and I work closely with George
Houston ’63, chairman of the classics
department of the University of North Carolina,
on a number of the projects. I’ve
never actually met Eleanor Race ’99, but I
feel as though I have because of her father,
also at UNC, is head of our annual meeting
Program Committee. People ask me if I’m
enjoying my job, and I say not yet. Even
though I remained a member of APA all
these years and paid some attention to what
was going on, and even though the cancer
researchers gave me a lot of valuable experience,
there’s no experience quite like actually
having to make the decisions and worry
about the details. However, I’m certainly
happy I managed to get back to the classics,
if only in an administrative role, and I hope
I can live up to the administrative standards
Howard set over 50 years ago.”
Roger Director recently published an
article in the New York Times Sunday
Magazine reflecting on the convergence of
St. Augustine and road rage while fighting
traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway.
Chuck Durante writes, “Another from
’71. Didn’t mean to bore you, but this confirmed
something that I’d long wondered.
Al Gore’s advisor, Elaine Kamarck, is
indeed the spouse of Tino Kamarck. She’s
also a BMC graduate ’72."
Thomas L. Gowen, Jr. was elected to
the board of governors of the Pennsylvania
Trial Lawyers Association. Thomas is currently
a partner in the Norristown, PA, law
firm of Murphy Oliver Caiola & Gowen.
John Kromer recently published his
first book, Neighborhood Recovery:
Reinvestment Strategies for the New
Hometown. The ideas therein emerged
from his years of service as director of the
Office of Housing and Community Development
for the city of Philadelphia.
Fred Patton writes, “I am alive and
almost well in Marietta, GA. I live with my
wife Jane of fifteen years and my five-yearold
daughter Lucy. I recently accepted a
position as senior consultant with Pricewaterhouse
Coopers in their Atlanta office. I
work in Organizational Effectiveness &
Development in PWC’s Global Human
Resources Solutions Group. I published
two journal articles in 1999 and have started
writing my first (and maybe only) book.
Don’t hold your breath.”
Christopher Scott writes, “1999 was a
good year. My son Ben played on Lower
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derful career at the Heights School, my
daughter Megan is a sophomore at Georgetown
Visitation and my daughter Peggy is
due to make us grandparents in August.
George Shotzbarger writes, “Here are
the four most telling entries in my Haverford
diary. (1) Graduation 2000 at the college,
on the mother of all Mother’s Days,
was really splendid. We were blessed with
the prettiest weather: cool and crisp, nary a
cloud in the sky. The campus was a hyperbolic
riot of buds, blooms and birds. We
hearkened to and became inspired by the
tightest commencement speeches ever proclaimed,
so kudos must go to Tom Tritton
for establishing and enforcing time constraints
on each of the honorees. We proudly
watched as niece Katie (Shotzbarger ‘00)
strode up to the dais for that scarletencased,
Quaker-embossed sheepskin.
Afterward, the Shotzbarger Boys, yours truly,
Tom (Shotzbarger ’77) and Jerry
(Shotzbarger ’78) posed for pictures with
our hero, research professor Roger Lane, as
well as Joe Quinlan ’75, Paul Van Thuyne
’76 and the beaming new fine arts graduate,
her own self. (2) Rumors of my leaving the
district attorney’s office have been greatly
exaggerated, but I do hold a new job in a
vastly different forum. After two decades
before the inconsistent if not iconoclastic
Philly courts, Lynne Abraham has designated
me into the federal government, (ok,
start calling me ‘G-Man’), as a special assistant
U.S. Attorney for Operation Cease
Fire. In a not so simple twist of fate, I
presently occupy the same desk once used
by my colleague Louisa Ashmead Robinson
’79, sister of classmate Graham Ashmead,
who himself presided over the birth
of my older daughter Carol (prospectively
’08). And John Ashmead, their father, was
my major advisor. Operation Cease Fire
targets convicted felons carrying handguns
for vertical investigation and prosecution.
Sentences range from five years federal time
with no parole all the way up to life in
prison for any pistol-packer qualifying as an
‘armed career criminal.’ If Cease Fire
achieves its primary objective, that of separating
the most egregious gunsels from the
law-respecting rest of us folks, then we
might convince a certain history savant to
abandon his murder gig of considerable
duration and develop some alternative topic
for study within our human vale of tears.
(3) I offer plaudits and gratitude aplenty to
Chuck Durante and Chas O’Donnell for
keeping us ’73ers so extremely wellinformed.
(4) Down by the duck pond, the
Brian Stonehill memorial sapling has
grown quite vigorous. If and when you
return to the ’Ford, sit on the bench
opposite, listen to the rivulet’s gurgles and
the hopefully more distant honking of
the geese.”
Eric Sterling was interviewed by Robert
Siegel on NPR’s All Things Considered as
an expert on US drug policy. The interview
aired June 22, 2000 in a piece on the recent
increase in anti-drug aid to Columbia.
74 Alan B. Colsey writes that he was
inducted into Delta Mu Delta National
Honor Society in Business Administration,
Epsilon Alpha Chapter in April 2000. He is
also an M.B.A. candidate at St. Thomas
Aquinas College.
Paul Denig writes, “With the integration
of the US Information Agency into the
Department of State in the Fall of 1999, I
became the policy officer for public diplomacy
in the European bureau. My wife
Lynne has a full studio at home, where she
teaches violin and viola. Our daughter
Eleonore is now thirteen and is also becoming
quite accomplished on the violin. We
enjoyed seeing many old friends at the May,
1999, 25th reunion of our class.”
Stephen Emerson received the NCAA
Rolex Career Achievement Award recognizing
him for his success as a lacrosse player at
Haverford and now as an expert on hematology,
the treatment of blood diseases.
Randall K. Filer writes, “I have been
elected president of the CEAGE-EI Foundation.
The Foundation supports economic
education and research in the post-communist
world. I am also the Eastern European
coordinator for the World Bank Global
Development Network.”
Bruce Fleming married Margaret Murray
on May 21, 2000, in Princeton, NJ.
Bruce is currently a professor of English at
the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.
David Keller writes, “After a ministry in
Indiana which was cut short due to conflict,
my family and I are moving to Concord,
NH, where I will be the pastor of the First
Congregational Church. While in Indiana,
my two teenage sons and I took up carving
as a hobby.”
Roberto Rivera-Soto has been named a
partner in the law firm Fox Rothschild
O’Brien & Frankel. Roberto concentrates
his practice in commercial matters, with an
emphasis on litigation, corporate criminal
defense and the resolution of business
disputes.
Richard Steele writes, “I teach at Seattle
Pacific University and won the academic
trifecta this year, having been granted
tenure, promoted to full professor of moral
Roberto Rivera-Soto ’74.
and historical theology and awarded my
first sabbatical. I’m currently editing a book
of essays on differing understanding and
expressions of religious emotion in the Wesleyan
tradition, and I’m co-authoring
another on the systematic theology of James
William McClendon, Jr, a contemporary
Anabaptist theologian. Frustrated jock that
I am and always have been, I spend my
summers as a Little League umpire.”
75 Thomas Barlow married Vickie
Tully of Dover, DE in July, 2000. Thomas
currently works as director of quality management
for Chimes, Inc. in Newark, DE.
Michael Blum was featured in an article
in the Bel Air, MD, Aegis that focused on
the public relations firm he founded in
1987, Michael Blum and Associates. The
article discussed his unique journey from
opera singer and producer to public
relations executive.
Lawrence Grobman writes, “One year
ago I happily remarried. My wife Gale and I
live on Miami Beach. I recently began a
new clinical research center, the Miami
Children’s Hospital Center for Hearing and
Genetics. I am collaborating as an associate
investigator with the National Institute of
Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
to identify and classify the genetic origin
of deafness in our patients.”
Anthony Krol recently joined Philadelphia’s
White and Williams LLP firm as a
partner. Mr. Krol received his law degree
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1979.
For news of Joe Quinlan, see note on
George Shotzbarger ’73.
Scott Sherk was promoted to full professor
of art at Muhlenberg College. He
exhibited with his wife, painter Pat Badt, at
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Marshall Arts in Memphis, TN, in September,
2000, and will have a solo show at Kim
Foster Gallery in New York City in April,
2001.
John Sussman writes, “My son Joe and
I enjoyed a nice visit and a Cubs game in
Chicago with Skip Herman and his family
in September while we were there for a family
wedding. Our daughter Erin is a junior
at Middlebury College, and Joe is a sophomore
at Exeter.”
76 Ron Jenkins writes, “I’m writing a
book on Dario Fo with the support of a
Guggenheim fellowship. I just completed
my first semester as chair of the theater
department at Wesleyan University and
directed the Commedio Dell’arte clown
sequences for the Christmas review.”
Christopher Jones writes, “My wife
Amy and I live in Tulsa, OK, where I am
director of materials for Hilti North America.
We have three children: Adam (16),
Ashley (6) and Caroline (4).”
John Keller writes, “I have finally completed
my D.Min. from Fuller Theological
Seminary. I also completed the Twin Cities
Marathon in October and am training for
Grandma’s Marathon along the shores of
Lake Superior in June. I continue to work
as Membership Care Pastor at St. Andrew’s
Lutheran Church, which now has over
8,000 members.”
Marcus Levitt writes, “I spent the summer
leading a joint Russian-Expedition to
Zabaikal’e (Siberia), collecting folk songs
and other material from the Semeiskie (a
group of Russian Old Believers). Several
undergraduates from USC (where I teach)
went along, as well as my son Jesse (14 years
old). As my colleagues here joke, our greatest
achievement was getting back alive.
Actually, apart from difficult conditions
(dirt roads, lack of electricity and phones,
sleeping on floors, the need to use massive
quantities of insect repellent), we had a
wonderful experience. At the same time, we
were shocked by the poverty and general
sense of malaise. (People yearn for the good
old days when the collective and state farms,
subsidized by the government, were functioning
and paid for salaries and basic services.)
What we pay for a single meal is
more than many make as monthly salary....
On the home front, I have become chair of
the Department of Slavic Languages and
am marketing a book I co-edited, recently
published in Moscow, entitled Eros and
Pornography in Russian Culture. (It has
an interesting text but also great illustrations!)
E-mail me if you want a copy!
. The rest of the family?
My wife, Alice Taylor (BMC ’76) has
become chair of the humanities department
at West L.A. College, and Betsy has moved
on to the fourth grade.”
Keith Neuman writes, “After ten great
years on the east coast, my family and I
have moved to Ottawa (Canada’s capital),
where I have taken a new position as vice
president with In-Touch Survey Systems, a
firm specializing in customer satisfaction
and employee opinion research using innovative
electronic technology.”
Jeffrey Pine writes, “I am managing
partner in the law firm of Pine & Cantor in
Providence, RI, following six years as attorney
general. Our film focuses on civil and
criminal trial practice, with an emphasis on
wrongful death, product liability, toxic torts
and white collar crime cases. We also have a
government relations practice in Rhode
Island and Massachusetts.”
For news of Paul Van Thuyne, see note
on George Shotzbarger ’73.
Iqbal Zaidi writes, “I am presently
working as the resident representative of the
International Monetary Fund in Kyrgyzstan,
following a two-year assignment as
advisor to the governor of the Central Bank
of Pakistan. Naheed and I have two boys,
Jaffer (14) and Kazim (12).”
77 Eric Cantor was recently named
president of Kaplan Professional, a company
which provides workplace training and
education in numerous and varied fields.
Eric was formerly senior vice president and
general manager of the F.W. Dodge Division
at McGraw-Hill Companies.
For news of Steve Janove, see note on
Carl Shuman ’78.
James McMillan writes, “After graduating
from the University of Pennsylvania
Law School in May, 2000, I sat for the
Delaware bar exam and am now an associate
at the firm of Morris Nichols Arsht &
Tunnel in Wilmington, DE. Ken Nachbar
’78 is a partner in the firm.”
Douglas Shemin writes, “I am a
nephrologist and director of the dialysis
program at Rhode Island Hospital, in Providence.
I’m married to Kathleen Henderson,
who is an internist, and we have two
beautiful brilliant little girls, Juliana (age 7)
and Grace (age 3).”
For news of Tom Shotzbarger, see note
on George Shotzbarger ’73.
78 Peter Allen writes, “I’m now Peter
Allen, M.B.A, thank you very much. To
recover from the Wharton ordeal, I’m taking
the summer off – I’ll be in New York,
mostly – before starting my job at McKinsey
& Co. at the end of September. Exciting
stuff. I’m delighted to announce that
The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease,
Past and Present has just been published
by the University of Chicago Press. You can
order copies online at either
www.amazon.com or www.bn.com, and
both have thoughtfully discounted the book
to a mere $17.50. Impress your relatives,
astound your friends! And if you like the
book, write an online review, whydoncha?”
For news of Milo Cividanes, see
BIRTHS.
Michael Ford writes, “I’m off on a new
venture. After fifteen years in human
resources in the financial resources industry,
I joined a new company which provides
wireless applications to businesses –
W-Trade Technologies in New York City.
Home life is great. Diane and I have been
in Plainsboro (near Princeton) for five years
now. Chris (15), Andrew (11), Melissa
(8 1 /2) and Emily (2 1 /2) keep us busy.”
Mark Hogan writes, “We have moved
to Long Island, NY, where I am now an
assistant professor of physics at the United
States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings
Point, NY.”
Mark Koltko-Rivera married Kathleen
Schmid on February 18, 2000 in New
York, NY.
For news of Dave Kraft, see note on
Carl Shuman in BIRTHS.
For news of Dan O’Neill, see note on
Carl Shuman in BIRTHS.
Jonathan Price writes, “I’m doing fine
in Jerusalem with my wife Naomi and our
four kids. We would welcome any and all
’Fords who find their way to Israel.”
For news of Jerry Shotzbarger, see note
on George Shotzbarger ’73.
Carl Shuman writes, “I read yesterday
that Rabbi Sam Lechs, a Judiac Studies professor
at Bryn Mawr, passed away on
September 17, 2000. I was deeply saddened
by the news. He was a great and learned
teacher and had a profound influence on
me. He was also gracious enough to officiate
our wedding in 1984. He will be missed
dearly by this Haverfordian.Beth and I had
dinner with Dan O’Neill and his wife Sally,
in August; it was one of the highlights of
our summer. I also keep in touch with
Dave Craft and Steve Janove ’77 and his
wife, Ilyse, although not as frequently as I
should or as I would like.” For more news
of Carl Shuman, see BIRTHS.
Robert Strauss and his wife Nina write,
“We have been asked by San Franscisco
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Robert Strauss ’78 and his wife Nina. Foreground:
a beautiful new Mercedes E-Class they
get to drive for a weekend in order to write their
column, “He Drives, She Drives.”
Baltimore Area Annual Crabfest, July 2000, Jonathan LeBreton ’79, event coordinator, Haverford
and Bryn Mawr.
Magazine to be the hosts of a new,
bimonthly section called ‘He Drives, She
Drives.’ Every other month we set off in a
luxury car on a getaway weekend and then
write about our experiences. Destinations so
far include Monterey, Palm Beach,
Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Napa and Sonoma.
In ‘He Drives, She Drives,’ we have been
behind the wheels of brand new Mercedes,
Volvos and Lincolns. (Robert confesses that
most of the time we’re actually behind the
wheel of our own seven-year-old Mazda.)
Alums in the Bay Area can enter to win the
same trip by visiting sponsoring auto
dealers.”
Calvin Sun writes, “I was pleased to
have been featured in a recent issue of the
Philadelphia Business Journal, about a
training program I developed which teaches
customer service skills to information
technology professionals.”
Thomas Sutton writes, “Pierce
Homer’s October, 1999, wedding in Virginia
was turned into a mini-reunion of
sorts for some of the class of ’78, including
Keith Schneider, Jim Walker, David Leveille,
Todd Essig, John Cascino and Steve
Sawyer. My family and I also enjoyed a
completely unexpected visit with Ken
Nachbar, Kathy Struble Nachbar (BMC
’79) and their boys while on vacation at
Bryce Canyon National Park in August. I
continue to sing with the 125-year-old
Mendellsohn club of Philadelphia, which
performs regularly with the Philadelphia
Orchestra. My kids’ elementary school
includes several Haverford parents, Ben
Eisner ’82, Paul Hofstein ’73 and Jeff
Dunoff ’82."
James Yannopoulos writes, “I joined
Development Dimensions International (a
human resources firm) in 1998 to become
general manager on the Washington DC
office, but I have decided to keep living in
Rosemont, one and a half miles from
Haverford. My wife Amy and my kids Alex
(7 1 /2) and Tim (4) are all doing great!”
Matthew Zipin was welcomed to the
Germantown Friends School last fall as a
new teacher in mathematics and computing.
79 For news of Eddie Andujar, see note
on Milo Cividanes ’78 in BIRTHS.
Allen Dodson has been appointed as the
Juliana Wilson Thompson visiting assistant
professor of geology for the 2000-01
academic year at the College of Wooster
in Ohio.
Michael Rankin writes, “I’m still practicing
pediatrics and infectious diseases in a
large group practice in Santa Cruz, CA.
Sorry to say, I haven’t been back to Haverford
in twenty years.”
For news of Louisa Ashmead Robinson,
see note on George Shotzbarger ’73.
James Ure was recently promoted by
Newark Electronics to chief technology
officer on e-commerce. In this new position,
James will be responsible for technical
architecture, development and operations of
all Newark Electronics e-commerce systems.
James previously worked for Newark
Electronics as director of e-commerce
systems development.
80 Reid Blackwelder was recently honored
by the Healthcare Foundation of New
Jersey with the Humanism in Medicine
Award. The award is given to those doctors
who promote the integration of humanism
in the delivery of care to patients and their
families. Reid is currently Residency Program
Director at the James H. Quillen
College of Medicine at East Tennessee
State University.
Elliot Diringer was recently appointed
While House Deputy Press Secretary by
President Clinton.
William Davis Morris III has been
named corporate attorney for Investment
Property Exchange Services, Inc.
For news of Tim O’Neill, see note on
Lynette and Manuel Mattke ’91 in
BIRTHS.
Spencer Pearson is engaged to Jennifer
Kramer of Langhorne, PA. Spencer currently
teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
A June, 2001 wedding is planned.
Gary Schechter was recently elected a
Litchfield County Medical Association
delegate to the Connecticut State Medical
Society.
Bruce Schumm writes, “I finally hit the
gold mine: tenure at UC Santa Cruz. A
Haverford education was the perfect prop
for a faculty job at Santa Cruz. My daughters
Lauren and Gretchen are now five and
three, respectively. My perspective on having
turned 40 a year or so ago: I’ll never do
that again. Boy, oh boy.”
David Thornburgh was a guest on the
special daily New Media Hour show from
the Republican National Convention.
Jonathan Wagner is a partner at the
New York law firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis
& Frankel LLP. His successful representation
of AstraZeneca in a major Lanham
Act suit against Eli Lilly & Co. was
highlighted in the September, 1999, issue
of the American Lawyer.
Thomas Williams was featured in an
article in the Philadelphia Inquirer which
lauded his work as chief operating officer
and president of the Octavia Hill Association.
Octavia Hill, with its unique philosophy
of philanthropy at a profit, owns apartments
which serve the low-income housing
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arena. Thomas, a Quaker like the association’s
founding members, was named chief
operating officer in 1995 and president
in 1997.
81 Brian Cohen displayed his recent
artwork at a show in Randolph, VT. Brian
primarily works in etchings, and this time
he created a series of etchings of ships and
zeppelins.
Todd Garth writes, “Life just gets less
and less predictable. In August, I’ll start a
new job as assistant professor of Spanish at
the U.S. Naval Academy.”
Daniel Goldstein writes, “My wife
Diane and I are enjoying life in the Colorado
foothills with our three children Sara
(10), Ben (8) and Laura Mae (5). We
would welcome visits from our Haverford
friends who want to relax in sunny
Colorado.”
James Seale-Collazo writes, “I just started
the Ed.D. program at Harvard Graduate
School in education in September, 1999,
and I plan to be here three years, then go
back to Puerto Rico to do field work.”
For news of Matthew Sekelick, see
BIRTHS.
Randy Weiner writes, “Our two little
boys, Aaron and Sage, were born on July 3,
1999. They arrived within a week of the
settlement of my first class action lawsuit
was settled, compelling a mining concern to
clean up 300 Denver residential properties
contaminated with arsenic and pay damages
to the residents.” For more news of Randy,
see BIRTHS.
82 For news of Sam Angell, see note on
Alison Noyes Buchanan ’84.
For news of Bryan Camp, see note on
Alison Noyes Buchanan ’84.
Eileen Crist has been appointed assistant
professor of sociology at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA. She received
her Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University
in 1994 and has been an assistant
professor at Virginia Tech.
For news of Jeff Dunoff, see note on
Thomas Sutton ’78.
For news of Ben Eisner, see note on
Thomas Sutton ’78.
Jonathan Snipes writes, “I have a number
of big projects planned for 2000. I am
restoring an 1800 stone farmhouse, working
with our local open space planning
commission and continuing to volunteer on
Haverford committees. I just ran into Chip
Pennington and his wife Mary. They say
Kevin Gaffney and his wife Masami are
expecting their second child in Japan.”
For news of Daniel Stern, see BIRTHS.
For news of Charles Sturrock, see
BIRTHS.
83 For news of Matt Bernstein, see
note on Alison Noyes Buchanan ’84.
Andrew Horwitz has been appointed
associate professor with tenure at Roger
Williams University School of Law. His
areas of expertise are criminal law and procedure
and trial advocacy. Horwitz is also
the director of clinical programs, and he
runs the Criminal Defense Clinic and the
Roger Williams University Feinstein Legal
Clinic in Providence.
James Knierim writes, “I was married to
Ms. Geeta Rao in October, 1999, in Golden,
CO. Attending the wedding were Chris
Shera, his wife Mordena Babich (Swarthmore
’82) and their baby Sarita. Since 1998
I have been living in Houston, keeping busy
as an assistant professor in the Department
of Neurobiology & Anatomy at the University
of Texas-Houston Medical School,
doing teaching and research into the neural
bases of learning and memory."
David Kreibel presented a lecture on
powwowing September 10, 2000, at the
Landis Valley Museum. He is a Ph.D. candidate
in anthropology at the University of
Pennsylvania and an analyst for the federal
government. Kreibel teaches at Villla Julie
College and Catonsville Community College.
He is also a member of the Baltimore
Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and
Culture and an editor and publisher of a literary
newspaper in Baltimore.
Michael Larkin writes, “August 10,
2000, was my last day at Saint Peter’s
College. Saint Peter’s has been my third
Jesuit institution, each one unique in its
own way. Until the Foundation of the
University of Medicine and Dentistry in
New Jersey completes its move in early
September, I’ll be a bit of a gypsy, without
a permanent address. Continued success,
happiness and best wishes.”
For news of Juan Luis Riestra, see note
on Diana Montes Infante ’84.
Leslie Saunders recently traveled to
Africa to collect samples of African music,
which he has scored for the piano. A CD of
these compositions is in the works.
Mark Spencer writes, “I have finally
found a soul willing to put up with me and
will be tying the knot on July 9, 2000. I
continue to work in ‘dot.com’ land in San
Francisco but have recently moved to parttime
in order to spend more time with my
lovely bride-to-be Renee and to pursue my
growing interest in digital filmmaking.”
David Stowe writes, “After three years
in Kyoto, we returned to East Lansing, MI,
where I was promoted to Associate Professor
at Michigan State. Meanwhile my
brother-in-law Tom Inui ’65 did the real
Haverford thing and left an endowed chair
and deanship at Harvard Medical School to
become president of the Fetzer Institute, a
foundation focusing on spiritual aspects of
health and healing.”
84 John Bracker recently accepted a
new position as associate headmaster at
Watkinson, a small private school in
Hartford, CT. John previously worked as
director of admissions at another prestigious
private school, Concord Academy in
Massachusetts.
Alison Noyes Buchanan writes, “I married
Mike Buchanan on April 22, 2000, at
the Friends meeting in Cambridge, MA
and expect to celebrate with Haverford
friends Rachel Carnell, Bryan Camp ’82,
Sam Angell ’82, Martha Olson Kershaw,
Jenny Wentz Lingelbach ’85, Dave Schuman,
Traci Hjelt Sullivan ’85 and Matt
Bernstein ’83, as well as my mom and dad,
Robert Noyes ’57.”
For news of Christopher and Jessica
Coss ’86, see BIRTHS.
Joshua Duhl is engaged to LeeAnn
Couture of Winchester, MA. Joshua
currently works as an analyst associated
with International Data Corporation of
Framingham (MA). An October, 2001
wedding is planned.
Diane Montes Infante writes, “Juan
Luis Riestra ’83 and I have two beautiful
babies, Juan Miguel and Diana Beatriz, five
months old. Guillermo Miguel is nine years
old. Juan Luis works at Mountainside Hospital
in Montclair, NJ. He is the director of
the partial hospitalization program. I am a
municipal court judge in Newark, NJ.”
For news of William Hunter Knowles-
Kellett, see BIRTHS.
Aaron Levy writes, “Lots of news! On
May 23, 1999, Susan L. Ehrlich and I were
married in Aptos, CA. In the past few
months we have moved into a new home,
and I’ve become a partner in the Permanente
Medical Group of Northern California.”
For more news of Aaron, see
BIRTHS.
Nancy Kase O’Brasky writes, “I am
currently a law clerk for the Connecticut
Supreme Court. In September, 2000, I plan
to return to the firm of Day, Berry and
Howard, where I was an associate in the
commercial litigation department prior to
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clerking at the court. My sons Max (9) and
Jackson (7) are loving school and their zoo:
Maggie the dog, Fred the cat, Killer the
lizard, Frank the gerbil and the various fish
that are in and out of the house.”
For news of Duff Pickering, see
BIRTHS.
Jennifer Schecter writes, “On November
7, 1998, I married Joseph Goldberg
(another attorney)! In attendance were
Nancy Lewin, Nancie Ellis and Roxane
Jarema (BMC ’84)." For more news of
Jennifer, see BIRTHS.
John Swomley filed a suit in early
September with the Massachusetts Commission
Against Discrimination for Paul
O’Neill, a court officer who has been
refused a position closer to his home, preventing
him from being able to take his
insulin shots twice a day.
Marcus Wilkinson was named a
partner at the law firm Sherman &
Goodwin LLP.
85 James Baldwin writes, “Katheryn
and I and our two-year-old son Jake are loving
the Bay Area, and our location scouting
business was given California’s highest
award in 1999.”
For news of Traci Hjelt Sullivan, see
note on Allison Noyes Buchanan ’84.
Michael Kim writes, “I joined the Carlyle
Group, a buy-out firm, as managing
director and head of their Seoul, Korea,
office. I’m living happily in Korea with my
wife Kyung-Ah and our six-year-old son
Jae Joon.
For news of Bob Levy, see note on John
McDonald ’86.
For news of Jenny Wentz Lingelbach,
see note on Alison Noyes Buchanan ’84.
Alan Meltzer writes, “I am currently
posted to the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo,
Uruguay. I would welcome the visit of any
’Fords passing through Montevideo.”
Laura Phillips writes, “Having lived for
fifteen years in the same city with the same
friends, same dating scene and approximately
the same jobs, I am now engaged
and have switched gears entirely. In August
I will move to Boston, start a new career in
healthcare information technologies and
start a life with a wonderful man from
Germany (a fellow Kellogg grad). We
intend to get married in May, 2000, in
both countries.”
David Rider was named president of
the Lycoming Housing Finance Corp.
Shelter and housing appear to be David’s
calling, as he is also vice president of the
Williamsport-Lycoming (PA) affiliate of
Habitat for Humanity.
Barton Rubenstein was profiled in the
Montgomery (MD) Gazette detailing his
unique path from physics major and neurobiology
doctorate to the world of water and
kinetic sculpture.
For news of Anne-Marie Schaaf, see
BIRTHS.
For news of Craig Schwartz, see note
on John McDonald ’86.
For news of Pnina Berkowitz Siegler,
see BIRTHS.
Amy Trubek is the author of “Haute
Cuisine: How the French Invented the
Culinary Profession.” The book begins
with the origins of French cooking and
examines it through the appearance of
restaurants and the training of chefs, then
and now. “Haute Cuisine” was the subject
of Trubek’s doctoral dissertation in anthropology.
“The role of the worker cannot be
underestimated,” Trubek writes. “Beginning
in the mid-nineteenth century, chefs
made French haute cuisine more than a
convenient sign of social status for European
elites. Adopting the cuisine for their
own social purposes, chefs made it a marker
of their own status as culinary professionals.”
Trubek is currently a teacher at the
New England Culinary Institute in
Montepelier, VT.
W. Graham White has become board
certified in Wills Trusts & Estates by the
Florida Bar. He practices with the firm of
Winderweedle Haines Ward & Woodman
in Winter Park, FL.
86 For news of Christopher and Jessica
Coss ’86, see BIRTHS.
For news of Hank Donnelly, see note
on Rich Engler ’87.
For news of Elizabeth Durso, see note
on Anthony Durso ’89.
For news of Kristen (Rothermal)
Edwards, see note on Rebecca Hyde ’87.
For news of Ross FitzGerald, see note
on Rich Engler ’87.
For news of Dave Greenberg, see note
on Rich Engler ’87.
For news of Lisa Halperin, see
BIRTHS.
For news of Ben Josup, see note on
Rich Engler ’87.
Jim Kuo writes, “Luke Voellmy ’96 has
just been appointed Manager of Intellectual
Property at Genset SA in Paris. His mission
(when he is not surfing in La Jolla) is
to coordinate the activities of the Intellectual
Property Department in France. I also
work for Genset Corp as Vice President of
Worldwide Business Development.
Recently, we had lunch outside in a quaint
little restaurant in La Jolla.” For more news
of Jim, see note on Christina Gutierrez
’96.
John McDonald writes, “Bob Levey
’85, Craig Schwartz ’85, Dave Begleiter ,
Chuck Sabino and Larry Blitz participated
in my annual basketball tournament on
August 5, 2000. This year’s basketball
tournament raised money for the Susan
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in honor
of my mother.” For more news of John
McDonald, see BIRTHS.
For news of Patricia McMillan, see
BIRTHS.
Craig Mende writes, “I have become a
partner at the New York trademark and
copyright law firm Fross Zelnick Lehrman
& Zissu.”
For news of Brooke Norris Murray, see
BIRTHS.
For news of Dawn Potter, see note on
Heather Potter ’88.
Edward Shanken writes, “My wife Kristine
Stiles and I spent a glorious semester in
Venice, Italy, where we taught art history to
a group of international students.”
For news of Kent Wertime, see note on
Stephen O’Shea ’87.
For news of Matty Woodruff, see note
on Anne Chosak ’88.
For news of Chris Yung, see note on
Rich Engler ’87.
87 For news of William Agranoff, see
BIRTHS.
Cristobal Alvarado married Genvieve
Edmund on October 23, 1999, in New
York, NY.
For news of Tom Birwhistle, see note
on Heather Potter ’88.
Jude Clancy recently married Stefani
Blais in Danvers, MA.
Richard Dixon, Jr. is engaged to Kathleen
Fitzgerald of Worcester, MA. An
August 2000 wedding is planned.
Rich Engler writes, “Moving to Washington,
DC, will rank as one of the best
decisions I’ve made yet. The job (at the
Environmental Protection Agency) is going
great. Being east means I get to see many
alumni, especially Ben Jesup ’86, Pam
Koger-Jesup (BMC ’85) and their daughter
Sarah, who lives only a few minutes away.
Our summer get-together with the Don-
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Jessica Barest ’88 and Richard Lippin were married in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 28, 1999.
Pictured are (l. to r.) graduates Gina Mastrosimone-Hunt, Jessica Barest, Natasha Kelly and Kara
Segreto.
nellys: Hank ’86, Julie and Mae; the
FitzGeralds: Ross ’86, Mary and Aiden;
and the Greenbergs: Dave ’86, Barb, Melissa
and Allison were quite different from the
“old days” now that there are so many children
running around. Chris Yung ’86 and
his family were sorely missed. The best
news, however, is that I just got married.
Darcie and I were introduced by a classmate
of hers who worked with me while I was
teaching at UCSD. We were married at
Alexandria Friends Meeting on February
20, 2000. Darcie is an RPI graduate who
quit an engineering job with NASA to go to
medical school. She’s finishing up her
fourth year at Georgetown in May. She’ll
be doing her residency in emergency
medicine at Johns Hopkins. We’ll move up
near Baltimore and I’ll commute down to
DC. Kudos to Rich Espey, who ran the
Marine Corps Marathon last October! I ran
into him in Arlington the day before the
race when he was in town to register but
didn’t see him among the 14,000 runners.”
For news of Rich Espey, see note on
Jenny Sorel ’88.
Bruce Fenton was elected to partnership
at his firm, Pepper Hamilton LLP. Bruce
concentrates on mergers and acquisitions,
joint ventures and partnerships and securities
and real estate matters.
Linda Gaus and Michael Gross write,
“We’re still happily ensconced here in
South Jersey with Isabel, 5, and Daniel, 2.
Michael is still with CooperPershie in
Atlantic City, splitting his time between an
appeals and motions practice and the burgeoning
area of casino law. Linda has
founded her own business, MadDocs,
which provides technical writing, editing
and German-English-German translation
services... so think of MadDocs if you ever
need any of the above! Greetings to all!”
Pamela Gottfried has taken a new position
as assistant rabbi specializing in education
and programming at Ahavath Achim
Synagogue in Atlanta. She is one of a small
but growing group of conservative female
rabbis, as the Conservative movement only
began ordaining women in 1985. Pamela
says that as she was majoring in religion, a
professor suggested the option of rabbinical
school. “That was the epiphany,” she says.
Rebecca Hyde writes, “The last three
years since the ’97 reunion have been quite
eventful for me. In 1998, I bought my first
house and adopted a wonderful dog. That
fall I met up with Marisa Nucci and Kristen
(Rothermal) Edwards ’86 at Kristin’s
farm outside Wilkes Barre, PA. Marisa is
professor of pathology at the Brigham and
Women’s Hospital in Boston. Kristin is a
veterinarian specializing in equine acupuncture.
She and her husband have a menagerie
of critters, and they compete in dressage.
On July 22, 2000, I married Craig Shane
under the care of the Salt Lake Monthly
Meeting. Craig is an emergency physician
at the other trauma center in town. Fourtunately,
we managed to have our wedding in
a canyon that was not on fire this summer.
Marisa was one of my attendants. I’m still
working in quality management at the University
of Utah Hospital, where I bumped
into Dave Gontrum after he had been up
all night delivering babies. Craig and I plan
on staying here for a while – we already
have a wonderful houseful for the Winter
Olympics.”
For news of Peter Kaplan, see BIRTHS.
Emily Lawrence writes, “In February
2000, I was elected board chair of the Elizabeth
Blackwell Health Center for Women,
a pro-choice women’s health center in
Philadelphia, devoted to empowering women
in their own health care and to reaching
underserved populations. I had volunteered
at Blackwell through Eighth Dimension
while at Haverford, so it’s especially nice to
be back as board chair.”
For news of Mark Longstreth, see note
on Anthony Durso ’89.
Kenneth More recently reported for
duty at the Jacksonville, FL, Naval Hospital.
Kenneth joined the Navy in 1994.
For news of Kristen Olofsson’86, see
note on John McDonald in BIRTHS.
Stephen O’Shea writes, “After working
in finance for thirteen years on three continents
and four countries, I decided in
February it was time for a change. I quit my
job, took my fiancee Kie Saigusa over a
6,000 meter pass in Nepal, learned to scuba
dive in Thailand and as she was still talking
to me, despite a bout of altitude sickness,
got married in Tokyo on May 27, 2000.
Kent Werthime ’86 came up from
Bangkok for the event. We are currently
traveling through the U.S. for the next
twelve months.”
Kevin Righter writes, “I rang in Y2K in
Antarctica, just 200 miles from the South
Pole in the Transantarctic Mountains, looking
for meteorites in the ice sheets. We
found close to 1000 meteorites after 35
days in a remote camp. Returning to sunny
Tuscon was most welcome! I had a chance
to visit and catch up with Robert Eisinger
in Portland in February."
Avery Schmeisser was named marketing
director for Sauza Tequila last fall with
Allied Domecq Spirits USA in Westport,
CT. Avery earlier worked for Nestle USA as
assistant brand manager for Nestle’s
Crunch candy.
Richard Thau married Nicole Tell on
June 4, 2000 in Sayville, NY. Richard currently
works as the president of Third Millennium,
a nonprofit organization he cofounded
which specializes in public policy
issues for those born in the 1960’s and 70’s.
For news of Ray Wierciszewski, see
note on Anthony Durso ’89.
For news of Michelle Mueller Wilkins,
see BIRTHS.
88 Jessica Barest writes, “Richard Lippin
and I were married in Lenox, MA, on
August 28, 1999. ’Fords in attendance were
Gina Mastrosimone Hunt, Kara Segreto
and Natasha Kelly. This year Richard and
I have done a lot of traveling. We spent
three weeks in Israel for our honeymoon
and recently traveled to Ireland where we
visited Gina and her husband Paddy
Hunt.”
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An incoming first-year student and his family speak with alumni at a “Welcoming the Frosh” party
held by Eva Osterberg Ash ’88.
Elliot Bennett-Guerrero married Karin
Bagan on February 13, 2000, in Brooklyn,
NY.
Amy Bohman writes, “Harry Chomsky
and I were married on March 25, 2000.
Highlights of our wedding included an
interpretive dance about our relationship (a
sign that we have been living in California
for a long time!), a reading of The Owl
and the Pussycat and the playing of the
two string quartets we played the day we
met. Among our family and friends was
David Brookes ’65, whom I met at a
chamber music workshop several years ago.”
Anne Chosak writes, “I completed my
Ph.D. in clinical psychology in May, 2000.
I am currently working as an editor at a
dot.com start-up in Cambridge, MA, and
very much looking forward to the wedding
of Matty Woodruff ’86 July, 2000, at
Haverford.”
Deirdre Cryor writes, “On July 1,
2000, I will become head of the upper
school at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred
Heart in Bethesda, MD.”
For news of Tina Deuber, see BIRTHS.
For news of Binem Dizenhus, see
BIRTHS.
Stephane Gerson writes, “After fulfilling
my military obligations in Belgium and
working in publishing in New York, I
obtained a Ph. D. in modern European history
at the University of Chicago. I then
taught shortly in Tours, France, and
Auburn, AL – two very different cultural
experiences! This fall, I return to New York
to take up a tenure-track position in French
and French studies at New York University.
My wife Alison and I have been married for
seven years and have two sons, Julian, 4,
and Owen, 1.”
For news of Madeleine Gutow, see
BIRTHS.
Beth Friedman Leblanc writes,
“Thought I’d send an update since I’ve
actually settled into a life less transient.
After medical school (what happened to
that English major?) and residency, I’ve just
started an immunology fellowship at Washington
University in St. Louis. Along the
way I married a nice French-Canadian and
had a kid named Sam who is 20 months
old. We’re raising him bi-lingually, but
right now the only word he reliably says in
French is ‘ca-ca.’ I think that’s pretty universal
though. Stop by and ‘meet me in St.
Louis!’ In other alumni news, Harold
Friedman ’56 (aka: Dad) is pleasantly sailing
toward retirement and bought a boat.
Actually it’s a row boat.”
Max McClellan married Atlantic Page
in San Franscisco on November, 6, 1999.
Lana McClung writes, “I still teach
Spanish at a junior high in Fort Collins,
CO. My boyfriend Bryan Fain, also a Spanish
teacher, and I are traveling to Cartagena,
Colombia, next week for my brother’s wedding.
From there we will head by boat to
Panama and northwest through Central
America. We will return from Mexico City
after more than a month of adventures.
This is our dream trip!”
Jonathan Moore writes, “I am competing
in jujitsu tournaments throughout the
Northeast.”
Annelise Cooney Mora writes, “My
husband Jeff and I were married last year in
a small ceremony in Italy.” For more news
of Annelise, see BIRTHS.
For news of Tamin Nordling, see
BIRTHS.
Heather Potter writes, “1999 was a big
year – for starters, I got married! I was married
to Kurt Suchomel on August 14. Kurt,
of course, is the best guy in the world! My
sister Dawn Potter ’86 was the maid of
honor and her husband Tom Birtwistle’87
was also in attendance. Other ’Fords who
joined the fun Rhode Island wedding
included Pat Hametz, Chris Berner, Jenny
Sorel, Jenny Hamilton, Jim Coffman
and Dottie Rosenbaum. Kurt and I have
both changed jobs, and I will be moving for
the second time in a year, still in the Chicago
area. Kurt is a software developer for Jellyvision,
a videogame company, and I am
now director of The Nature Conservancy’s
Great Lakes Program. How did we meet?
Volleyball!”
Tom Robertson writes, “I’m still working
as a district attorney but mostly
involved in a solo law practice. If you want
to purchase my CD, Whiskey Hero on
TV, you can get it at retail in Austin, TX, or
e-mail me at tomwr@flash.net. Olaf
Reistrup and I are almost halfway through a
collaborative album. The band is Flavormaus.”
For more news of Tom, see
BIRTHS.
Margaret Russell writes, “I’m excited to
pack up my sixteen-month-old twins and
hubby Thad – we’re moving to the Washington,
DC area in July, 2000. Hope to see
more of you now that we’re forsaking a
relaxed midwestern lifestyle to be back on
the East Coast! Look us up if you find your
way to DC.”
Anne Sherman married Russell Langsom
in North Salem, NY, on September 5,
1999.
Michael Sisk writes, “I am now working
the investment beat for Red Herring Magazine.
My wife Erika is expecting our second
child.”
Jenny Sorel writes, “I am still living in
Baltimore and teaching at the Bryn Mawr
School with fellow ’Fords Rich Espey ’87
and Brandon Block ’89. I had the pleasure
of dining in DC this spring with Dottie
Rosenbaum and Madeline Henley. I am
heading off to France in June with a group
of students to spend two-and-a-half weeks
in Lyon and a couple of days in Paris. I am
looking forward to seeing Pat Hametz and
Chris Berner upon my return.”
Joseph Zobian recently received diplomate
status from the American Board of
Ophthalmology after he placed in the top
five percent of candidates taking board
exams for certification. Joseph currently
works for Daytona Ophthalmic Services in
Daytona Beach, FL.
89 Esther Malave Benson joined the
practice of the Bordentown Family Medical
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Center in Bordentown, NJ.
For news of Brandon Block, see note
on Jenny Sorel ’88.
For news of Ben Braslow, see note on
Jonathan Morgan ’90.
Julie Baier Dahlstrom writes, “I am
training to be a minister for the Church of
Scientology at its religious retreat in Clearwater,
FL. Scientology is the science of
knowing how to know, and what it does is
make the able more able. My life has been
more exciting, rewarding and challenging
than I could have ever dreamed possible. I
am now helping others restore themselves
on a daily basis, and I am very happy. It’s
not related to my art history major, but it is
certainly contributing to making this a
more livable planet for all.”
For news of Mark Deuber, see note on
Tina Dueber ’88 in BIRTHS.
Anthony Durso writes, “Maria Culmore
and I were married on August 8,
1998. There were a few ’Fords in attendance,
including Elizabeth Durso ’86, Ray
Wierciszewski ’87 and Mark Longstreth
’87. Maria and I are expecting our first
child in May, a boy. On the occupational
front, I have decided, after ten years, to take
a break from teaching. I am currently working
as what might be described as a property
manager for a cattle ranch here on Maui.
Yes, a cattle ranch on Maui – strange but
true.”
Kimberly Hoover writes, “I’m working
hard as a PA in rural Georgia, an hour
north of Macon. Two-and-a-half year old
Miguel, the light of my life, keeps me and
his dad busy and happy.”
Seth Linker joined the staff at Tyler
Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock, PA,
as an ear, nose and throat specialist. Seth
has been active in numerous research projects
in his field and has been published in
the journal Laryngoscope. He recently
attained diplomate status, or board
certification.
For news of Caleb Meyer, see note on
James Meyer ’62.
For news of Jacob Ossar, see note on
Elizabeth Gould Neustaedter ’90.
Lisa Leone Pak writes, “The Pak family
is now living in Maryland where Ho is
working on a surgical oncology fellowship
at NIH, and I have a private OB/GYN
practice.” For more news of Lisa and Ho,
see BIRTHS.
Alison Bixby Shanefield writes, “I’m
enjoying my job as photo editor at Encyclopedia
Britannica in Chicago. In my spare
time I’m working as a freelance photographer
for CITY 2000, a project to document
Chicago in the year 2000.”
Gathered as Erik ended his year in Vancouver are (l. to r.) Richard Unger ’63, Erik Tagliacozzo ’89,
and Paul Krause ’72
Manuel Suro was featured in an article
in the April 20, 2000, issue of Caribbean
Business which highlighted his work as a
Puerto Rican executive working abroad as
the head of Procter & Gamble’s sales division
in Chile.
For news of Erik Tagliacozzo, see note
on Richard Unger ’63.
Simone Topal writes, “I’ve been having
a great time doing an outcomes research
fellowship this year as part of my plastic
and reconstructive surgery residency at
Dartmouth.”
For news of Glen Valentine, see note on
Teri Williams Valentine ’90.
90 Timothy Abbott writes, “I am thriving
with The Nature Conservancy, where I
now serve as associate director for conservation
on a ground-breaking three state collaboration
to conserve the Southern Taconic
landscape that includes portions of Massachusetts,
Connecticut and New York. Viv
and I love our apartment in Great Barrington
but are thinking seriously of buying
land and our first home. Marc Spiegler
looks us up when he is visiting his hometown
of Philmont, NY, from Switzerland.
Wedding plans are in the cards for next
year. All other ’Fords and Mawrtyrs are welcome
to drop in when passing through the
Berkshires.”
For news of Martin Anderson, see note
on Rachel Pearce Anderson ’92 and
BIRTHS.
Charles Atkins was featured in an article
in the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 19,
2000, profiling his unique musical
approach to the ministry. A 2000 graduate
of Princeton Theological Seminary, Charles
has taken a position as worship leader at a
Camden, NJ, Presbyterian church, where
he will weave hip-hop and rap into his sermons.
In seminary, Charles released two
CDs of Christian hip-hop: Christ Works
and Love One World.
Alleen Barber writes, “I’m now managing
editor at United Media, editing ‘Miss
Manners’ and other syndicated newspaper
columns and evaluating and developing
new column and editorial cartoon ideas.
I’ve also become an American correspondent
for Radio New Zealand, giving New
Zealanders a weekly report on what’s going
on in the US.”
For news of Kurt Calia, see note on
Susan Alderfer Salsbury ’91.
Anna Engle writes, “In August I’m
graduating with a Ph.D. in English from
Emory University in Atlanta, and next year
I’m teaching at Emory as a visiting assistant
professor.”
Joseph Falcone married Kelly Lincoln
on March 18, 2000, in North Caldwell,
NJ.
Edmund Freeman writes, “I’ve been
working as a journalist and professional
modern dancer in Washington, DC, for the
last five years. I’m headed to a doctoral program
in psychology this fall at Rutgers
University.”
Erin Casey Green and Peter Green
write, “We’re living in Denver and enjoying
the emerging words of our daughter
Samantha who will be 2 years old in June.
Peter is happy with his job at Netlibrary in
Boulder as a director of marketing, and I’m
taking a break from clinical social work to
stay at home with Samantha. And just to
keep things interesting, we’re expecting our
second baby in late August, 2000! We’re
going to have one busy house this fall.”
For news of Jon Griffith, see note on
Susan Alderfer Salsbury ’91.
Ashley Hill writes, “I attended the
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idge, MA, in December 1999.”
Carmen Perez writes, “It was nice to see
some old friends at Mary Landrigan’s wedding.
I recently finished my fellowship in
rheumatology at Mt. Sinai in NYC and
moved to Houston, TX, where I’m establishing
a private practice and joining the
Baylor voluntary faculty.” For more news
of Carmen Perez, see BIRTHS.
Matthew Polesetsky writes, “After close
to a year representing the government of
the Republic of Indonesia in its financial
sector restructuring efforts, I have recently
accepted an invitation from the Singapore
office of my law firm to join our Asianbased
practice on a more permanent basis.
From my new post in Singapore, I will
work in the fields of bank restructuring,
commercial lending and structured finance.
I can still be reached via e-mail at mpolesetsky@orrick.com
and welcome any and all
’Fords passing through the orderly Oz of
Singapore.”
Alan Rose writes, “I’ve moved home
after two years directing Cornell University’s
Just About Music Program House. I am
now back on the more familiar small liberal
arts campus of Hamilton College as assistant
director of student activities. Primarily,
this means I work with the students who
bring all the entertainers to campus. This is
reawakening my musical urgings in a major
way. Still, as this position eats my life nearly
as much as the prior one, and the steps
directly up the ladder seem little better, I
have begun to reassess my direction yet
again. Feel free to pass on any ideas.”
For news of Heike Schuessler, see
BIRTHS.
Marilu Seijo writes, “After four crazy
years teaching high school boys, I decided
my sanity was on the line. I am now teaching
French to elementary school students as
a private tutor. Their homes are my classrooms,
and I’m enjoying it. My writing is
finally seeing the light of day, as well. I’ve
been presenting some of my stories and
poems. One of the short stories recently
won an award and now a local tv/movie
producer wants to turn it into a film. So
now I’m also working on a movie script. If
anyone drops by San Juan, feel free to contact
me - mariadelourdes@hotmail.com.”
Alexander Solky married Valerie Lang
on October 3, 1999, in Geneva, NY.
Teri Williams Valentine writes, “My
husband Glen (’89) and I were disappointed
to miss my 10th year reunion in May,
but we had our hands full with our son
William. Will joined us a few weeks early,
on March 31, 2000. He fully intended to
come into this world backside first—I won-
September 1999 wedding of Thomas
Hastings ’91 and Justina Henok (University
of the Western Cape, South Africa ’96)
in Oshigambo, Namibia. Other ’Fords in
attendance were Molly Conant ’91, Rick
Kahn ’91, Jessica Lewis ’92 and Laurie
Pounder ’95. Molly is living in Seattle and
writing for an adventure travel company,
Rick is a lawyer (I forget where), Tom is in
Foreign Service training and will soon be
heading off to Côte D’Ivoire for his first
assignment, Jessica is living in DC, Laurie is
finishing up at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson
School for Public Policy and I’m in a
Ph.D. program in epidemiology at
UC-Davis.”
Jean-Luc Jannink writes, “I finally got
the Ph.D. I’m now in the middle of a oneyear
post-doc in the Netherlands, and I
plan to take on a job as an oat breeder at
Penn State University, which is, believe it or
not, a dream job.
Anna-Liisa Little writes, “Brett and I
decided we didn’t have enough stress in our
lives planning a wedding, so we decided to
buy a house and move. We found a sweet
little place in Ballard, the old Norwegian
area of Seattle and home to the fish ladder
and locks. You can see the photos our realtor
took at www.kirksellsballard.com/ba.”
For more news of Anna-Liisa, see note on
Jamil Rich ’95.
For news of Breno Lorch, see BIRTHS.
For news of Sherri Thomson Mara, see
BIRTHS.
Jonathan Morgan writes, “In the past
year, I attended two weddings of members
of the class of ’90. Jeff Kalil married Jan
Brabham in a town just outside Charlotte,
NC, this summer. Blair Gray was there
with his wife Kristin and son Caleb. They
have been living and working in Dakar,
Senegal, but they’re due back in the states
sometime soon. This past fall I attended the
wedding of Alex Solky to Valerie Lang in
Geneva, NY. Fellow ’Fords Sue Robinson
and Lorin Fearn ’91 were there. I’m still
in residency at Jefferson University Hospital
in Philadelphia, where I frequently see
Ben Braslow ’89 who is in his surgery
residency."
Elizabeth Gould Neustaedter writes,
“1999 was an exciting year. I married David
Neustaedter in early June. I highly recommend
the married state. In attendance were
Mary Landrigan, Jacob Ossar ’89, Rob
Flynn, Kristen Thomas Clarke, Andrew
Clarke ’91, Carmen Perez-Masuelli, Betsy
Levensohn (BMC ’90) and of course, my
brother, Will Gould ’91. After four and a
half years with one consulting firm, I
moved to another, Abt. Associates in Camder
what kind of reflection that is on us?
Glen and I are exhausted but are really
enjoying each day’s new adventure with
Will as he discovers his hands and feet,
leaves, people on the bus and the world
around him. Glen is entering his sixth year
as a landscape architect with a growing firm
in Cambridge, MA, working on large scale
public and private projects. He’ll soon be
able to take Will to a garden he’s designing
for the Arnold Arboretum. I am working as
an assistant attorney general in Boston.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Will is going
to want to come with me on Take-Your-
Child-To-Work Day.
James Weinrod recently married Alison
Fisk (BMC ’92) in Algodones, NM. James
currently works as a self-employed artist in
Placitas, NM.
91 For news of Ben Barton, see note on
Jill Chelimer ’93.
Owen Belman was married to Andrea
St. Martin (BMC) on July 22, 2000. Owen
is a consultant and manager in the London
office of Marakon Associates, a management
consulting firm.
Ellen Braithwhaite writes, “Now that I
have e-mail, I thought I would chime in
with what I have done the past few years.
After working in DC until 1996, I finally
got back to Texas. I am living in Houston
and have my dream job. I am a special
agent for the FBI. It is a great job, and I
love living in Texas near my family. If anyone
is in Houston and would like to contact
me, please feel free! My e-mail is
ebwaite@hotmail.com. I enjoy reading the
class news to see what everyone has been up
to. I still play soccer and welcome calls from
anyone.”
Dan Buehler writes, “Sara
(Greendlinger Buehler) and I have moved
back to California from Hawaii, and I have
joined a general pediatric practice in Napa.
We also just bought a house. We would
welcome any and all Haverford visitors.”
For more news of Dan and Sara, see
BIRTHS.
For news of Andrew Clarke, see note on
Elizabeth Gould Neustaedter ’90.
For news of Molly Conant, see note on
Ashley Hill ’90.
Elizabeth Ezell writes, “I am winding
down my graduate studies in Houston and
will be heading to Duke in the summer of
Send your class news by e-mail to
classnews@haverford.edu
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2000 for a year-long internship in clinical
psychology. That is, after I trek to Boston
to see Steph Dimond’s new baby girl and
Yngvild Olsen’s new baby boy!”
For news of Lorin Fearn, see note on
Jonathan Morgan ’90.
Matthew Gerber writes, “As of July 1, I
have just finished working as a psychiatric
social worker with adolescents with serious
emotional difficulties. Great, rewarding,
challenging, and exhausting work! I plan to
take some time before embarking on my
next step. Still living in NYC and glad to
have Craig McGriffin back in town."
For news of Will Gould, see note on
Elizabeth Gould Neustaedter ’90.
For news of Thomas Hastings, see note
on Ashley Hill ’90.
Hank Israel writes, “I have to admit,
this is rather intimidating...my greatest
accomplishments since leaving Haverford
have nothing to do with the law, medicine,
public service, Fulbright Scholarships,
building businesses, or saving whales, walruses,
or even baby seals; but rather, starting
a family. In 1995 I married Lisa Graves. A
whole host of Haverford alumni were in
attendance (I’d have to change their names
to protect the innocent, so I’ll leave it at
that). In November of 1997, our family
grew with the birth of Abigail Ashleigh—
she is the greatest daughter a father could
have (remind me that in 10 years, when she
becomes a teenager). Abby’s wish for a
younger sister came true this May when
Rebecca Rose joined us. The woman and
two girls in my life take pleasure in the fact
that they have each wrapped me around
their fingers...what I wouldn’t do for a
smile, hug, giggle, or kiss. As far as professionally,
I have not really found out what I
want to do when I grow up. I’ve been a
banker, a technologist, a salesman, a consultant,
a product developer, a manager
(although I hear it’s in vogue to say leader
now), perhaps next I will be a...hmmm
pilot, producer, product manager...ahhh,
public service announcer for the dangers of
web recruiters like monster.com. If you are
in Atlanta, our home is always awake (the
virtues of young children). We’re in the
book.”
Sara Johnson writes “I am now on my
third career, working as a software lab technician
at a high-tech company. And loving
it! I really enjoyed catching up with folks at
the 10 year reunion. If you find yourself in
the Bay Area, send me some mail;
sara@cacheflow.com.”
For news of Rick Kahn, see note on
Ashley Hill ’90.
Sarah Ketchum writes, “I feel like I'm
92 Rachel Pearce Anderson sends news
of herself and her husband, Martin Anderson
’90. She writes, “Martin has accepted a
tenure-track position as an assistant profesfinally
graduating! After 8 years working for
the Office of Admission at Haverford, I am
leaving my ’Fordly perch for a job as director
of admission at College of the Atlantic
in Bar Harbor, Maine. My boyfriend David
will make the move with me; he’s in heaven
because he’s a landscape painter. We will
also bring our chocolate lab, thereby significantly
increasing the winter population of
the island. Perhaps it is a cliché to offer invitations
to people in these class notes, but we
have two guest rooms and promise to learn
to cook lobsters perfectly, so if you feel like
hiking, cross-country skiing, sea kayaking,
or just sitting on the porch eating lobster,
come a-callin'! I will miss Haverford and
am lucky to have gotten to know so many
generations of ’Fords, from my own classmates
to the alumni admission volunteers to
the students I’ve interviewed this past year
for the class of 2003; Haverford, as an institution
and as a collection of people, possesses
a great deal of kindness, and I appreciate
the chance to have lingered in this world a
bit longer than most.”
Adam Kies writes, “I recently got married
and changed jobs. After working at
Morgan Stanley in the equity research
department throughway 26, I got married
on May 28, went on my honeymoon to
Bora Bora in the South Pacific, and then
started a new job on June 12. I am now an
assistant vice president at CapitalThinking,
an Internet-based commercial mortgage
marketplace. The company was founded in
the summer of 1999 and now has about 45
employees based out of midtown Manhattan.
I am excited to be able to apply my
experience in real estate and finance to an
Internet/technology company, and the
entrepreneurial environment is a nice
change from the large investment bank I
just left. I had a small wedding for under 60
people at a restaurant in SoHo in Manhattan
on a Sunday afternoon. Dave Burns
attended the wedding following his graduation
from medical school the week before.
Also in attendance were my father David
Kies ’65, my mother Emily Bardack Folpe
(BMC ’65), my step brother and his wife
Andrew Folpe and Anastasia Hopkins Folpe
(BMC ’91) and my aunt, Judith Frankel
Bardack (BMC ’63). My wife’s name is
Julie. She was a corporate lawyer in New
York for over four years before joining her
family’s real estate investment company
based in central New Jersey this past fall.”
Kenneth Larson writes, “I’ve moved to
Chapel Hill, NC, where I’ve started a software
development consulting company
with my brother.”
Andrew Levi married Angelique Wolf
on October 10, 1999, in Beacon, NY.
Andrew is currently a reproductive
endocrinology and infertility fellow at the
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,
MD.
For news of Breno Lorch, see BIRTHS.
Lynette Mattke writes, “We’ve moved
again, but just to another house in the
neighborhood. Manuel’s software development
company is growing rapidly, expanding
into the biotech information systems.
Over the summer Frank Rosch ’00 joined
the company, and Rohit Apte ’01 worked
with them.” For more news of Lynette and
Manuel, see BIRTHS.
Jacqueline Miller married Nicholas
Tsocanos on October 16, 1999, in New
York, NY. Jacqueline is working as a literary
scout for the Sanford J. Greenberger &
Associates Agency.
Thomas Rodes writes, “I’m still living
in Japan and still having fun.”
Susan Alderfer Salsbury writes, “I
received my master of architecture degree
from the University of Maryland in 1997,
and I’m now practicing in New York City.
In April 1999, I was married to Michael
Salsbury (VA Tech ’86). I was happy to
have Liz McGovern, Adinah Miller and
Nicole Faries in the wedding party, and
Chris Landrigan, Mark Faries, Kurt
Calia ’90, Jon Griffith and Kate Stewart
’92 were also in attendance.”
Jeffrey Symonds has recently been married
to Kiley Walsh, a graduate of Middlebury
College with a master of arts degree
from the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University. Symonds received a
master of arts degree from the Breadloaf
School of English at Middlebury. He is an
English teacher and senior dean at the
Branson School.
Craig Tower married Nicole Warren on
August 13, 1999, in New York City. The
couple took their wedding trip to Mali,
Africa and make their home in Chicago.
Craig is currently pursuing a doctorate in
anthropology at Northwestern University.
Mo Turner writes, “I recently got
engaged to Sean Glennon. Sean is the publicist
for the Iron Horse Entertainment
Group in Northampton, MA. I’m still
working as a political reporter for the Valley
Advocate.”
For news of Ala Warren, see note on
David Felsen ’92.
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sor at the University of Rochester, effective
June 1, 2000. This comes after completing
his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at
Duke University in October, 1997, and
continuing his research in ultrasound as an
assistant research professor at Duke for the
past 2.5 years. I have been self- employed
since January, 1998, when the publishing
company I was working for was bought by
a conglomerate and merged out of existence.
In retrospect it was the best thing
that could have happened to me. I work as
a freelance editor out of my home office
with clients based around the country, so
moving to NY won’t affect my business at
all. We will be moving to Rochester at the
end of May, depending on when exactly the
baby decides to join us. We hope that any
’Fords passing through the snowy north will
stop by and visit!” For more news of Rachel,
see note on Martin Anderson in BIRTHS.
Stephanie Bartolomeo writes, “After
three years at the William Morris Talent
Agency, I am now working at AOL. I’ve
been living in New York since graduation.”
Andrew Bickford has been awarded a
Fulbright grant to study philosophy at the
University of Frankfurt in Germany. He is
currently working on his doctoral dissertation
from Boston College and studying in
Frankfurt.
Beth Stockmeyer Cohen writes, “I left
my job at the Media Public Library in
December and spent the first three months
of 2000 student teaching. I will graduate
from Drexel University with an M.S. in
library and information science, and I eventually
hope to find work as an elementary
school librarian. Mo starts kindergarten in
the fall, which makes me feel old!”
For news of Anita Crofts, see note on
Jamil Rich ’95.
Mary-Beth Cunnane married Matthew
Gardiner September 18, 1999, at the
Haverford College Friends Meeting House.
They are both resident doctors at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania,
Mary-Beth in radiology and Matthew in
opthalmology.
Heather Denkhaus has been named to
the lead physician’s role with the Roosevelt
Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation’s
Brain Injury Program. She has spent the
last four years working in Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation in the University of
Virginia Health System, and is a member
of the American Academy of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Physiatric
Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational
Rehabilitation and the American
College of Sports and Medicine. One of her
ongoing research projects is “Shoulder Pain
in the Spinal Cord Injured Athlete.” Her
“Brain Injury in Skiing Accidents” has
already been accepted for publication.
Denkhaus’ experience includes medical
coverage for local high schools and community
sporting events, pre-participation
physical exams for varsity sports and liaison
work for sports coverage.
David Felsen writes, “I’m producing
segments for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
I recently chilled with Howie
Fendrich, who was all dudded out in Italian
finery. He’s rockin’ at the AP in New
York City. Ala Warren ’91 kicks my ass in
running, but I’m going to try the New York
Marathon with her this fall. Peace.”
Rachel Gold writes, “I’m still at University
of Washington working on an endless
Ph.D. in epidemiology, and also playing in
a couple of local bluegrass bands.”
For news of Ashby Jones, see note on
Jill Chelimer ’93.
Daniel Karpf writes, “I’ve been teaching
fourth grade this year at Frankfurt International
School in Germany with my partner,
Lisa Jacobson, an artist and art teacher. We
are moving to Milan, Italy, next year to
teach at The American School of Milan. I’ll
be teaching sixth grade math and science;
Lisa, middle and high school art. We welcome
visitors to Milan! (E-mail us at dannykarpf@hotmail.com).”
For news of Jessica Lewis, see note on
Ashley Hill ’90.
Phuong Ngo writes, “I’m currently
attending the Fuqua School of Business at
Duke University, studying for my M.B.A.”
Stephen Persell married Heather
Heiman, a Duke University graduate, on
September 3, 2000. Both Stephen and
Heather are residents in internal medicine
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston.
For news of Elizabeth Schainker, see
note on Alison Volpe ’93.
For news of Kate Stewart, see note on
Susan Alderfer Salsbury ’91.
Wendy Rumble VonBronkhorst
writes, “I graduated from University of
Rochester Medical School in May 1999.
We just moved to Virginia, where I will be
doing a residency in pediatrics at Fairfax
Hospital.” For more news of Wendy, see
BIRTHS.
Ahmer Younas writes, “Greetings
everyone! I got married last January to
Huma Quraishi. Our wedding was a very
elaborate traditional Pakistani wedding in
Louisville. Afterwards, we went to Hawaii
for our honeymoon. We are moving to
upstate New York this summer, where I am
starting my internal medicine residency at
Albany Medical Center.”
93 Daniel Braz married Willa Bernstein
on February 12, 2000, in Cold
Springs, NY. In an elaborate announcement,
the New York Times reports that it
was Daniel’s “adept merengue” which
snared Willa.
Rabbi Amy Ruth (Harper) Bolton
writes, “I was ordained as a rabbi in May,
2000, from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic
Studies at the University of Judiasm in Los
Angeles, as was my husband, Scott Bolton.
We moved to the Detroit area in July,
2000, with our eight-month old daughter,
Shulamit Davida, who was born in Los
Angeles in January, 2000, and went
through the last semester of rabbinical
school with us! I am enjoying spending
most of my time with my daughter. I am
also working as a chaplain with mentally
challenged adults and hospice patients and
teaching a few classes in the community. I
am regularly in touch with Arati Vasan
(BMC ’93), who recently started law school
at the University of Minnesota. This past
April, I spent time with Mindy Shapiro,
former HC/BMC Hillel Director, who is
pursuing her art in Philadelphia. I also got
to visit Reena Freedman (BMC ’93) in
Boston, who is teaching math at the New
Jewish School. I heard from Jon Lawrence
as well, who is studying in Israel right now.”
Jill Chelimer married Dan Johnson in
Seattle, WA, on September 3, 1999.
Included in the wedding party were Judy
Schoenberg, Indya Kincannon and Katya
Salkever. Also in attendance were Ben
Barton ’91, Jenna Nober, Mike Ginsburg
and Ashby Jones ’92.
Daniel Clare writes, “I’m happy to
report that I married Natalie Fiebrich on
May 13, 2000, in Boston. We met as consultants
at Bain & Company. On the professional
front, I received my M.B.A. from
Harvard and am now working for a private
equity fund in New York. Recently ran into
fellow ’93ers Fawad Zakariya, John
Devlin and Eric Pelofsky.
Larry David writes, “Just had a productive
summer after a great third year of
teaching. I received professional status at
Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts.
I also just finished helping run a
statewide conference for new teachers under
the auspices of the Massachusetts Teachers
Association. I just finished taping a PBS
series that will tentatively be ready in
March. Finally, I was able to travel to
Egypt, Israel and Mexico in the little free
time I had. Hope everyone is doing well.”
Jennifer Haytock writes, “I have fin-
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Pictured is Marcia Leonard ’93, named Educator
of the Year, with Howard County Superintendent
Dr. Michael Hickery.
ished my Ph.D. in English at UNC-Chapel
Hill and will be teaching at John Carroll
University in the fall.”
Kristen Holmes has been named the
new executive officer of the Cullman County
Home Builders Association. Kristen also
teaches part-time at Wallace Community
College in Dothan, AL.
Sally Kim will soon be studying neuroscience
in Germany, thanks to a scholarship
from the prestigious Fulbright Commission.
Sally will spend six months at the Max
Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany
working on her dissertation, which involves
the study of calmodulin, a protein that
binds calcium to cells. Using a special imaging
technique, she observes the diffusion of
calmodulin in neurons, a process that may
hold the key to how the brain learns and
retains memories.
For news of Mika Kishimoto, see note
on Carolyn Hamm ’94.
Eric Kuhn was profiled in an article in
the June 30, 2000, issue Washington
Business Journal for his work as the
CEO of the Varsity Group. Begun as VarsityBooks,
a company which sold textbooks
to college students at reduced rates, Kuhn
has expanded the company to the Varsity
Group and, in the process, increased revenue
nearly 8,000 percent to over $10
million.
Marcia Leonard, as her father writes to
inform us, was recently honored by
Howard County, MD as “Educator of the
Year.” The award, which she shared with an
assistant principal at an elementary school,
was based on lengthy evaluations involving
peers, PTAs and past and present students.
Marcia is heavily involved in her school as
head of the Social Studies department,
student government advisor, coach of the
women’s soccer team, a member of the
curriculum writing staff for the Howard
County schools and current treasurer and
former director of the Maryland Leadership
Workshops, a non-profit group providing
leadership training for students throughout
Maryland. Marcia eventually plans to enter
the field of public school administration,
but for now she continues to concentrate
on teaching and her numerous other commitments.
An article regarding Marcia’s
award appeared in The Washington Post
on May 11, 2000.
Brian Peabody won the Woodlynde
(PA) 5K on June 3, his third consecutive
overall title in that race.
Richard Piccirillo writes, “I recently
moved to the Philly suburbs and am now
working for Citibank in Manhattan.” For
more news of Richard, see BIRTHS.
Ashley Pierce writes, “I bought a house
in DC, an old townhouse built in 1899!
I’m still working toward my degree in midwifery,
and will graduate in December,
2000.”
Rebecca Shuman is engaged to Paul
O’Brien of Somerville, MA, where the couple
have made their home. Rebecca currently
works as a technical recruiter for
High Tech Ventures in Boston, an “incubator”
for technology start-ups. The two were
married in June, 2000.
Adam Sims writes, “I have spent the last
two years stationed in Germany as the battalion
flight surgeon for the Army’s 5-158th
Aviation Regiment. We served in Albania,
Macedonia and Kosovo during the conflict
with Serbia. In 2001, I will return to the
US to finish my emergency medicine residency
in NYC.”
Jennifer Spieler is engaged to Michael
Weil. The two were married on July 3,
2000 in Washington, DC.
For news of Alison Stahl, see BIRTHS.
Erin Stephan writes, “After a long but
rewarding year in Kentucky, John has finished
his clerkship on the 6th federal circuit
and will return to Boston to work for Mintz
Levin in the litigation department. I’m just
about done my residency at Beth Israel in
internal medicine and have accepted the
position of chief resident for the following
year. We speak with Marcy Leonard often
and wanted to congratulate her once again
on receiving the Howard County Educator
of the Year Award (Yeah, Marcy!)”
Nathaniel Sterrett and Colleen
Madden ’96 were united in marriage April
22, 2000 at Westtown Meeting House.
Sterret is a computer programmer, and
Madden is an elementary school teacher at
Wilmington Montessori School.
For news of Waimar Tun, see note on
Carolyn Hamm ’94.
Alison Volpe writes, “I am finishing up
my last year of medical school at Stanford
University and will know in six short weeks
where I will be doing my pediatrics residency.
The interview circuit brought me into
contact with lots of ’Fords: Kathie Jordan
’94 in Seattle, Heidi Benedict Fezatte and
Tim O’Brien in Chicago, and Adi Cohen
and Dora Carson ’94 in New York. Ran
into Elizabeth Schainker ’92 while I did a
rotation at Children’s Hospital in Boston –
she’s an intern there.”
94 Duffy Ballard and Angela Walker
’95 have embarked on a cross-country hike,
from the Mexican border in California all
the way up to Canada. The trek is planned
as a fundraiser for the March of Dimes,
with a $26,000 goal for sponsorship.
For news of Dora Carson, see note on
Alison Volpe ’93.
Jordon Chodorow writes, “This July,
with wins at regional and sectional tournaments,
I became a Life Master in the American
Contract Bridge League.”
Andrew Federici writes, “I just finished
assistant producing a Miramax film entitled
Bounce, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben
Affleck. I hope it’s a hit. Please go see it. My
wife Joanna Gerwel (BMC ’94) and I are
moving from sunny Santa Monica to
Wellesley, MA. I will be attending the F.W.
Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson
College for enterpreneurship studies.
Joanna just finished a master’s in international
relations at USC and plans to attend
law school when I graduate Babson. It’s a
long road ahead, but when we finish school,
we will take the QE2 to France!”
Alexander Kleinman writes, “I finished
my first year at the Wharton School M.B.A.
program. I’m currently doing a summer
internship at America Online in Washington,
DC.”
Carolyn Hamm writes, “Having finished
law school this past June, I left the
Windy City for the Big Apple. I’m gradually
adjusting to the frenetic pace of Manhattan.
Fellow ’Fords remain my closest
friends, Waimar Tun ‘93, who is pursuing
a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins
and Mika Kishimoto ’93, who is getting
her M.B.A. at Thunderbird Business
School. A few weeks before my move to
New York, I returned to Haverford, where I
had the pleasure of catching up with Diane
Wilder and John Francone. The campus
remains as beautifully maintained and the
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community as warm as I remember from
my college days.”
Catherine Mazur Jefferies writes, “I
married Tom Jefferies on August 29, 1999,
at my parents’ home in Vermont. We’ve
been teaching in Portugal for the past year
and are now headed to Boston for the fall
where I’ll be receiving a master’s in teaching
English as a second language from Simmons
College.”
For news of Kathie Jordon, see note on
Alison Volpe ’93.
Renanit Levy writes, “I am living in
Brooklyn, NY. I recently spent two-and-ahalf
weeks in Israel visiting my husband,
Steve Masie, who is spending three months
in Jerusalem doing Ph.D. dissertation
research. I recently became the senior program
coordinator of the government relations
department at United Jewish Appeal -
Federation of New York.”
Janna Satz Nugent writes, “My husband
Steve and I are starting school at Florida
State University. Steve is getting his master’s
in sports administration while working
as an assistant coach for FSU’s Womens’
Soccer Team. After six years of teaching, I
have decided that I prefer being a student;
so law school it is!”
Eve Pozzi writes, “I’m finishing up my
master’s in art education at Techers College.
This spring, I’ll be doing student
teaching at Bayside High School in Queens,
NY.”
For news of Matt Rendel, see note on
Jason Brennan ’95.
Megan Schwarzman writes, “I wish I
could report more colorful news, but after
taking an extra year of med school so I
could travel and get credit for it, I’m realizing
I do finally have to graduate and am
moving west to start a family practice residency
at University of California, San
Francisco.”
Matthew Snyder announced his
engagement to Andrea Hixon. A June 23,
2001 wedding is planned. Snyder is a corporate
accounts manager at Groz-Beckert
USA, Charlotte.
Mara Trager married Isaac Koyfman on
October 10, 1999, in Brooklyn, NY. Mara
is an associate in the Manhattan office of
the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
Feld.
For news of Jeanne Velonis, see
BIRTHS.
95 Jeb Armstrong writes, “My life as an
M.B.A. student has begun. I have quit my
job and am now a proud member of the
class of 2002 at NYU-Stern. At the same
ward to vacationing with Ilana Krakauer
and Mariya Strauss in Maine and Boston
in June, 2000.”
Melanie Ellsworth writes, “For the
moment I’m working as a technical support
manager with Prentice Hall Higher Education
in Boston. Before this, I spent a year
traveling and doing community service in
Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East
with a group called Youth International. It
was a wonderful experience!”
Eleanor Gamble writes, “I am going to
receive my master’s in social work this
spring from the University of Texas. I’m
currently working with female adolescent
offenders at a residential treatment facility.”
For news of Zachary Gemignani, see
note on Anthony Gemignani ’98.
Jonathan Glass is engaged to Sarah
Talley (BMC ’94). A December, 2000,
wedding is planned.
Jonathan Hallam is now online
marketing manager at Petstore.com in San
Francisco.
Anastasia Hicks married Benjamin
Tucker of Washington, DC, on July 2,
2000. Anastasia is employed in child advocacy
at the Children’s Defense Fund, also in
Washington, DC.
Abby Irwin has received her medical
degree from the Temple University School
of Medicine. She is serving her residency at
the University of Pennsylvania’s Presbyterian
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Holly Kaufman writes, “I graduated on
May 12, 2000, from the University of New
Mexico School of Medicine and will be
moving to San Antonio, TX, for residency
in family practice at the University of Texas
Health Sciences Center. Anthony Arcone
’96 will be tearing himself away from work
to attend!”
Wendy Leferson has been named an
associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society
(CAS) after successfully completing seven
examinations administered by the society.
Ray Lei-He writes, “I graduated this
summer from Kellogg Graduate School of
Management. I moved to San Francisco in
August, 2000.”
For news of Steve Leonard, see note on
Christina Gutierrez ’96.
Shoshana Litt is currently working at
Yale University and will be going back to
law school this fall.
Michael Metz writes, “This year I’ve
been made director of educational resources
at the grammar school where I’ve taught the
past four years. The job has entailed making
a storeroom into a library, creating a 5-year
technology plan for state approval, writing
grants to help keep the school open, revistime
I’ve been able to hold on to my apartment
in Greenwich Village, so I am very
excited. Let’s go Black Squirrels!”
Eric Barnhill writes, “I graduated from
Juilliard in 1998 and have been continuing
my studies since then. Next year I’ll make
the run of some big international competitions.”
Candice Benjes writes, “I became
engaged to Jim Small on January 31, 1999.
We will be married in Pasadena, CA, on
March 3, 2001.”
Jason Brennan writes, “I was recently
promoted to operating systems analyst at
the Goizueta Business School. I missed the
’95 reunion as I was on vacation in Germany
and Denmark at the time. I am
currently studying for the GMAT and plan
to enter the evening M.B.A. program here
at Goizueta next spring, where I will focus
on consulting and E-Business. Matt
Rendel ’94 is in the full time program currently.
I speak often with Andy Goldsmith
in New York. He is working for Bear
Sterns. I also speak to Curtis Ward ’96
who also lives in New York and is working
for Deutsche Bank. I see Alex Walker
often. He is a producer for CNN Newsstand.
My friend David Jellinek ’96 and
his wife Sara Fox (BMC ’96) just moved to
Phoenix, where David took a position with
the State Court of Appeals. He is currently
studying for the bar exam, having just graduated
from Boston University Law School.”
Jennifer Burch writes,“Kenny and I are
in Oregon for a year doing field work at
Camp Latgawa – my dream job! After that,
only one year until I graduate with my
master’s of divinity degree.”
David Canes has recently published his
first book, North of the Border. The book
covers the history of Protestant and
Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland.
David’s inspiration grew out of a summer
trip he took in 1993 to Northern Ireland
on a grant from the tri-colleges, during
which he spoke and lived with Protestant
and Catholic families. David is now considering
future writing projects, possibly a
novel.
Allan Clifton married Elizabeth
Leonard on July 22, 2000. Clifton holds a
master’s degree from the University of
Virginia, where he is currently pursuing a
doctorate in psychology. Leonard plans
to pursue a master’s degree in social work
from Virginia Commonwealth University
this fall.
Sarah Crofts writes, “I’m working
toward a certification in teaching K-8th
grade and a master’s of education at Antioch
University in Seattle. I’m looking for-
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Pictured at the wedding of Gregory Jacobs ’95 and Shari Linden (SC) are (l. to r.) John Robblee ’95,
Shari Linden (SC), Gregory Charles Jacobs ’95, Daihung Jay Duong ’96 (best man), and Rebecca
Jacobs (groomsmaid).
ing curriculum and aiding in teacher professional
development. All this while still
teaching Spanish to 237 students and science
to a particularly active group of eighth
graders. Not to mention coaching and mentoring
two first-year teachers. I’m having a
blast but looking forward to June.”
Amaira-ni Moros writes, “On December
26, 1999, I got married, and, in January,
I started a master’s program in industrial/organizational
psychology at Middle
Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro,
TN.”
Kristen Nesbitt writes, “I am still working
as an exhibit developer at the Shedd
Aquarium in Chicago. Our project ‘Amazon
Rising,’ a major new permanent exhibit,
opens in June, 2000. I’ve also written a
children’s book for the Shedd. It’s called
My Amazon River Day and tells the story
of a family living along the banks of the
Amazon River.”
Jody Burrus Newman writes, “It’s been
a busy year. On August 7, 1999, I married
my high school sweetheart, Bruce Newman.
We spent our honeymoon island-hopping
in Greece – it was perfect. After that, we
packed up our Philadelphia apartment and
moved to Seattle. I’m now studying education
psychology at the University of
Washington, and I’m the happiest I’ve
ever been!”
Elisa Maria Pansini writes, “I am married
to Michael O. Pansini, a prominent
attorney in center city Philadelphia. We
have two daughters, Brigida Gabriella
(3 1 /2) and Laura Sophia (22 months). We
are expecting our third child in May, 2000.
I am a ‘professional mother’ who is very
involved with the education of my girls.”
For news of Laurie Pounder, see note
on Ashley Hill ’90.
Jamil Rich writes, “I will be starting the
University of Washington MBA program in
fall of 2000, at about the same time that my
younger brother, Collin, will be beginning
his freshman year at Haverford. Rebecca
Mason has been working in Seattle as an
event planner. Her latest project is the
Women’s Funding Alliance ‘Art of Dining’
dinner/auction fundraiser. Rebecca and I
enjoy spending time with Sarah Crofts,
Anita Crofts ’92, and Anna Little ’90 in
the Emerald City.”
Daniel Smith writes, “I recently
returned from an incredible semester in
Rome. Back to a sobering two more
semesters of architecture school at Parsons
School of Design. Actually, I almost missed
the Big Apple when I was away... almost.”
Erica Spackman writes, “I’m currently a
Ph.D. candidate in avian virology at the
University of Delaware. I hope to be finished
next year.”
John Swigart married Dalia Park on
May 30, 1999, in San Franscisco.
Mo Tantawi writes, “I recently graduated
from medical school and have now
moved into Manhattan’s Upper East Side
to start my residency in pediatrics at Cornell:
The New York Presbyterian Hospital.
I continue to keep in touch with Erika
Wilde, Brendan January, Allan Clifton,
Mark Weinsier ’98, Tiffany Layne and
Scott Schimpff, whose wedding to Gina
Valera, his girlfriend for thirteen years,
Tiffany and I recently attended.”
Elisa Tractman writes, “I switched firms
back in February and am now working at
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP in
Philadelphia, concentrating my practice in
Mergers & Acquisitions and financing
work.”
For news of Angela Walker, see note on
Duffy Ballard ’94.
Samuel Weissman writes, “After three
years in the Bay Area, I’ve finally gotten
sucked into the computer industry. Lots of
’Fords are around. I regularly see Will
Kuehn, Amanda Rieder ’97, Julie Harris
’96, Jon Mills ’96 and Mike Mueller ’97.
And my son, Jacob Weissman-Shaver, is
now six and is enjoying kindergarten very
much. Donations of spare Pokemon cards
are now being accepted.”
Brooke Wollenburg writes, “Things are
going well here in Drexel Hill, PA. I recently
was promoted to clinical division administrator
of the rheumatology practice at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
In this new role, I work closely with the
chief of the division, Robert Eisenberg ’66.
I expect to complete my M.B.A. in health
systems administration in December, 2001.
During my spring break this year, I saw
Jodi Burrus Newman out in Seattle. She
and Bruce are loving it out there and have
almost convinced me to move!”
96 John Agnew will be married to
Rebecca Levene in September, 2000.
Agnew is a graduate student in neuroscience
at Georgetown University, and Levene is a
medical student at Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
Garrett Allen and Jacqueline Socastro
’97 were married on October 8, 1999.
Anthony Arcone writes, “I continue to
make a successful living trading emission
credits under the EPA’s Acid Rain Program
for PG&E Energy Trading in Bethesda,
MD. I’m in regular contact with Karen
Kingsbury, my Bloomberg representative,
and the two of us even managed to squeeze
in a little fun after a conference in New
Orleans this Spring. I hope to get reacquainted
with many of you at our fifth year
reunion.” For more news of Anthony, see
note on Holly Kaufman ’95.
Katherine Danek writes, “There were a
lot of Haverfordians at my Purple Hat
Party. In addition to Jacob Yohay, Anne
Santoro ’97, Ellen Winn ‘97, Lauren
Doerr and Monisha Parikh ’97, David
Warner ’97 joined us by video teleconference
at midnight."
For news of Brad Dickey, see note on
Nicole Dueber ’97.
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Attending the wedding of Nadine Khoury ’96 and Hany Damien are (l. to r.) Matthew Feliz ’98,
Victoria Elison ’97, Nadine and Hany, Greta Doctoroff ’96, and Matthew Abraham ’97.
Attending the July 9, 2000, wedding of Melissa Greene Robinson ’96 and Alex Robinson ’96 are
(back, l. to r.) Monisha Parikh ’97, Chris Wershoven ’96, David Sasson ’96, Gabrille Sasson, Mark
Papadopoulos ’95, Doug, Kathy Chandless ’98 and (front l. to r.) Julie Wolf ’97, Melissa and Alex,
and Jill Papadopoulos (BMC ’89).
For news of Gita Dubovis, see note on
Nicole Dueber ’97.
For news of Mika Efros, see note on
Nicole Dueber ’97.
Seth Eilberg married Donna Graham
’97 in June, 2000, in Wilmington, DE.
Seth is an assistant basketball coach at Tufts
University while working on his master’s,
and Donna is pursuing a doctorate at
Harvard.
For news of Ryan Field, see note on
Nicole Deuber ’97.
Debra Garlin married Michael Yellin
on June 27, 1999, at Congregation Or
Hadash in Fort Washington, PA. Debra is
currently a student at Lake Erie College of
Osteopathic Medicine, and Michael is pursuing
a doctorate at Lehigh University.
Melissa Greene and Alexander
Robinson were married July 9, 2000.
Melissa is a candidate for a Ph.D. in clinical
psychology at New York University, from
which she received her master’s degree in
psychology. Alexander is an associate analyst
at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a New
York investment bank.
Christina Gutierrez writes, “I have
recently moved to the Noe Valley area of
San Francisco after living in Philadelphia
for the past year and a half. I have left the
world of pharmaceuticals to become a
dot.com junkie and am working as the
brand manager at a start-up telemedicine
company called Mdvista. I don’t know if I’ll
ever get used to the one hour commute
down to Fremont, but since it’s 70 degrees
and sunny almost all of the time, I can’t
complain too much. San Francisco has
brought me closer to my sister, Gigi Gutierrez
(BMC ’88), my brother-in-law, Jim
Kuo ’86, and my three nieces Emily, Chloe
and Alex, all of whom live in San Diego. In
July, I’ll meet up with Steve Leonard ’95 in
Los Angeles, and Noreen Alvarado will be
my first Haverford visitor when she comes
out here in August.”
For news of Julie Harris, see note on
Samuel Weissman ’95.
For news of David Jellinek, see note on
Jason Brennan ’95.
For news of Dan Johnson, see note on
Nicole Dueber ’97.
Jennifer Loukissas writes, “In August I
left my job at CSIS in Washington to move
to Durham to start a master’s degree program
in public policy at Duke University.
This means, among other things, that I live
in a forest and I drive my own car (I finally
got a driver’s license in May of 2000, only
about 10 years late); she’s a late 80’s Honda
Civic Wagon, and I love her. Durham is
lovely. I can’t wait for basketball season to
start. Go Blue Devils! More details of the
graduate school adventure to follow...”
For news of Colleen Madden, see note
on Nathaniel Sterrett ’93.
For news of Jon Mills, see note on
Samel Weissman ’95.
Alex Robinson writes, “On July 9, 2000,
I married my best friend, Melissa Greene
Robinson. We had a beautiful wedding in
Woodburg, New York, with lots of our
Haverford friends. After returning from our
honeymoon in Hawaii, Melissa is completing
her doctorate in clinical psychology at
New York University, and I am working as a
securities analyst in New York.”
Maria Roeper is continuing her
activism as the coordinator of the Worker
Rights Consortium, which works with
colleges and universities across the nation
to educate about sweatshops and act as a
watchdog with companies that use sweatshop
labor.
Bill Stern writes, “Brian Girard and I
went down to Ecuador to visit Nate Brown
who is still leeching off the Federal Govern-
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Pictured are (l. to r.) Jacob Yohay ’96, Anne Santoro ’97, Ellen Winn ’97, Lauren Doerr ’96 and
Monisha Parikh ’97 and front Katherine Danek ’96.
Attending the October 8, 1999 wedding of Jacqueline Socastro ’97 and Garrett Allen ’96 are (l. to r.)
Mike Tannenbaum ’96, Greg Pare ’96, Karen Kingsbury ’96, Mat Kendall ’97, Bill Allen, Heather Bell
’97, Craig Geneve ’96, Doug Goldstein ’96, Jennifer Mulhern ’97, Sang Cho ’96, Catherine DiMartino
’98, Sarah Pedersen ’96, Don Suh ’96, and Leah Watson ’97.
ment under the guise of Peace Corps volunteer.
I returned with a beautiful collection
of indigenous indentured servants. Brian
returned with the clap. Nate was left on the
Galapagos Islands, where his complete lack
of fear or common sense will attract tourists
from every continent.”
Georgia Tetlow writes, “I’m gaining
fluency in Spanish, falling in love and waiting
to hear back from Duke and UNC-
Chapel Hill medical schools. It snowed two
feet here in the Triangle.”
For news of Luke Voellmy, see note
from Jim Kuo ’86.
For news of Curtis Ward, see note on
Jason Brennan ’95.
For news of Maya Watanabe, see note
on Nicole Dueber ’97.
97 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Adams wrote
to inform us that their son Jonathan
Adams received his law degree from
Columbia in May, 2000. He plans to clerk
for a judge for a year and then return to
New York to work with a law firm.
For news of Liz Crane, see note on
Whitney Barnett ’98. For more news of
Liz, see note on Catherine DiMartino ’98.
Nicole Dueber writes, “Hey there fellow
’Fords! The past year has been an exciting
one for me – after working and having fun
for two years in Washington, DC, I went to
Germany for a few months on a scholarship.
I lived in northern Bavaria, and had
an amazing time studying German and
meeting people from all over the world.
Then in early spring, I moved up to the
Boston area to work as an analyst at Boston
Scientific. Most recently, I got to hang out
with many wonderful ’Fords at Michele
Lutz and Ryan Field’s ’96 wonderful wedding.
It was great seeing you all there...
Laura and Julie Lehnhoff, Nicole Gergans,
Alyssa Adams, Jon Adams, Maya
Watanabe ’96, Dan Johnson ’96, Brad
Dickey ’96, Mika Efros ’96, and Gita
Dubovis ’96.”
Michael Froehich writes, “I’m going to
Berkeley (Boalt) Law School this fall. Quite
pysched about going to the Bay Area. Less
interested in the whole law classes and all
that...I quit my job last month and have
been vagabonding around since. Two
weeks in California, one week in Montana,
and just got back from a couple days in
Oregon. I’ll be visiting my folks in Ohio in
two weeks, too.”
For news of Donna Graham, see note
on Seth Eilberg ’96.
Elizabeth Lynch married Kevin
Mulhearn on May 20, 2000, in Bridgehampton,
NY. Elizabeth and Kevin met on
a blind date during their freshman year.
Elizabeth recently completed her first year
of study toward a master’s in international
affairs at Columbia University. Kevin works
as a museum educator at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art.
For news of Mike Mueller, see note on
Samuel Weissman ’95.
Geoff Neimark writes, “I am back living
in Brooklyn, about to enter my third year at
Downstate Medical College. After graduation,
I spent a year in Israel studying the
Torah.”
For news of Monisha Parikh, see note
on Katherine Danek ’96.
For news of Amands Rieder, see note
on Samuel Weissman ’95.
Jeanne Reilly married Jason Stern on
April 24, 2000, in Ridgewood, NJ.
Cesar F. Rosado writes, “I finished my
M.A. at Princeton and will now be working
on a J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
I will be living in Center City, Philadelphia,
with my wife Marina Del Rios ’98.”
For news of Anne Santoro, see note on
Katherine Danek ’96.
Julie Simon writes, “I moved from DC
to NYC in May. I’m taking film classes at
NYU for the summer. I attended Elizabeth
Lynch and Kevin Mulhearn’s wedding
May 20th.”
Mark Smith writes, “I just moved to
East Lansing, MI, and am greatly missing
Philadelphia. I’ve begun my studies in the
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Andrea Baker ’98 and Anthony Bufort were
married on September 30, 2000.
Pictured are (l. to r.) Brian Glass ‘98, Zach Gemignani ‘95, Tony Gemignani ‘98, Elizabeth Deerfield
‘00, Becky Gemignani ‘02, and Dan Fienberg ‘98 at an August gathering at the Vermont home of
Mary Gemignani.
Ph.D. program in educational psychology
at Michigan State University.”
For news of Jacqueline Socastro, see
note on Garrett Allen ’96.
Joanne Spector writes, “I’m living in
the Boston area with John Tracy ’99. I will
be graduating in September with a master’s
in occupational therapy from Tufts
University.”
For news of David Warner, see note on
Katherine Danek ’96.
For news of Ellen Winn, see note on
Katherine Danek ’96.
Julie Wolf writes, “I am in my first year
of graduate school at the University of
Connecticut, working toward my Ph.D. in
clinical psychology.”
Christopher Zafiriou is engaged to
Jessica Harper (BMC ’97). He proposed in
February, 2000, atop the Eiffel Tower, and
an October 21, 2000, wedding is planned.
Christopher is currently a graduate student
at the Carnegie Mellon School of Industrial
Organization.
98 Andrea Baker and Anthony Bufort
were married on September 30, 2000.
Whitney Barnett writes, “I’m getting
married in DC in August, 2000. I’m currently
working at a school for kids with special
needs outside of Philly, and I’m going
back for a special education certification
this summer. In November, 1999, I saw
John Saroff, Catherine DiMartino and
Liz Crane ’97 in New York City. Catherine
also came to Pennsylvania in January, 2000.
Bethany Carson writes, “After spending
last year teaching in India, I’m now working
at a small non-profit in Orlando, FL.
It’s pretty hectic at times, but I do enjoy the
kids I’m working with. This summer, I’ll be
heading up to Maine, where Emily Clark
and I will be leading a farm program for
teenagers.”
For news of Marina Del Rios, see note
on Cesar F. Rosado ’97.
Catherine DiMartino writes, “I have
moved to New York City, where I live with
Liz Crane ’97 on the Upper West Side and
teach middle and high school history at the
Professional Children’s School.”
For news of Chris Edgar, see note on
Gregg Jackson ’69.
Gian Paolo Einaudi writes, “Since
June, 1999, I have enjoyed coaching youth
soccer, facilitating discussions of preventative
health and community organization
within women’s groups, promoting an inexorable,
dual-chambered composting latrine
and building small, inexpensive, fuel-efficient
wood-burning stoves with chimneys
while riding the ups and downs of life in a
rural town in northern El Salvador. Since
arriving in El Salvador in March, 1999, my
skinny self has somehow become even skinnier,
although I have maintained a decent
tan year-round.”
Anthony Gemignani returned home
safely after more than two years with the
Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa, and
has begun medical school at Georgetown.
Zachary Gemignani ’95 graduated with an
M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s
Darden Business School in May and
announced his engagement to Andrea Barnett
(SC ’97). Not to be outdone by his
brother, Anthony also announced his
engagement. He will marry Elizabeth
Deerfield ’00.
Benjamin Hall writes, “I am teaching
middle school math at the Wheeler School
in Providence, RI, and having a wonderful
time.”
Donna Kaminski writes, “I am doing
AIDS research at the National Institute of
Health, fencing sabre, volunteering at a
United Way soup kitchen in DC, translating
Spanish for patients in the N.I.H. clinic
and taking graduate school classes in
immunology. I have connected with Patch
Adams and may go on a clinical trip with
him to Russia. In the summer of 2000, I
am planning to apply to medical school.”
Kirsten Miller writes, “I am currently a
second year law student at Georgetown Law
and will be employed by Dechert Price &
Rhoads in Philadelphia this summer.”
Ntobeko Ntusi writes, “I just finished
my second year of medical school at the
University of Cape Town in South Africa. I
miss everyone very much.”
Katie Quirk writes, “I am still teaching
journalism at Saint Augustine University in
Tanzania. I will return to the States in June
and am already sad I’ll have to leave. I’ve
learned I love teaching and hope to go on to
get a degree in Irish Literature, so that I can
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Pictured are (l. to r.) TJ Filip ’98, Barry Zubrow ’75, and Nehad Chowdhury ’98 at a conference held
by the Credit Risk Management & Advisory group of Goldman Sachs & Co. in June 2000 in Newport,
Rhode Island. Barry is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Executive
Vice President, and co-head of the Operations, Finance and Resources Division. T.J. and Nehad
are analysts in the Credit Risk Management & Advisory group in Hong Kong and New York, respectively.
continue teaching. I’ll miss Tanzania and
my students greatly.”
Daniel Rausch has been awarded the
$42,500 American Liver Foundation
Pamela Denmark Memorial Student
Research Fellowship to study “Identification
and Characterization of the Molecular
Defect in Navajo Neuropathy.” He will do
his research at Tufts University under the
supervision of Daniel Ortiz Ph.D.
Eric Rochkind writes, “Best of luck to
the Class of 2000! It was great coming back
to the ’Ford and seeing everyone. Anyway,
I’m still at Tulane Law School in New
Orleans, although this summer, I’ll be
interning with the Environmental Protection
Agency in Washington, DC. Look for
me on the final (May 22) episode of MTV’s
‘The Real World: New Orleans.’”
Paul Somner has been engaged to Sarah
Snyder, a graduate of Princeton University
and program coordinator for the Philadelphia
Health Management Corporation.
Somner is a management consultant with
Anderson Consulting in Philadelphia. A
fall 2001 wedding is planned.
Derek Sykora writes, “I did finally find
a job. A lot of companies contacted me, and
I had a number of options (which was
great). In the end, I decided on Newport
Corporation in Irvine, CA. The official title
of the position is Photonics Process Development
Engineer II...lengthy...but certainly
an interesting position. It’s essentially a
research position developing equipment for
the optics industry. One of the best parts of
the job is that I’m going to be working with
many different companies and getting a lot
of exposure to what’s out there, which is a
huge bonus for me.”
Julia de la Torre writes, “I’m still teaching
French out here in Denver, CO, and I
have been since graduation. I have been taking
classes in American Sign Language in an
effort to start an ASL program at the high
school where I teach.”
Ryan Walker writes, “I will be starting
a Ph.D. program in math at New York
University in the fall.”
For news of Mark Weinsier, see note on
Mo Tantawi ’95.
Christina West has been promoted to
senior legislative assistant for Washington-
Tennessee Congressman Bob Clement’s
Washington DC office on Capitol Hill.
Christina joined Clement’s staff as staff
assistant in 1998, most recently working as
legislative assistant. Christina will cover the
Budget Committee, Arts and Humanities,
Military and Defense, Education, Religion,
Immigration, Foreign Policy and Human
Rights, Veterans Affairs, International
Trade and other issues for Clement. She
also serves as intern coordinator.
Brent Wible recently returned from two
years as a Peace Corps teacher in Benin,
Africa and plans to attend Yale Law School
this fall.
99 Sarah Cooley writes, “I will be
attending the University of Georgia’s
marine sciences program in the fall for my
Ph.D. in chemical oceanography. I have
been awarded UGA’s Presidential Graduate
Fellowship, which is a new award given to
up to twelve entering graduate students.
Right now I’m teaching 7th and 8th grade
science at Samford School in Hockesson,
DE. It’s odd being back at my old school as
a teacher instead of a student!”
Will McCulloch is the managing editor
of Schwing! magazine, a Generation-X
look at the golfing world. Schwing is a
quarterly publication owned by High Speed
Productions, Inc., which is based in San
Francisco and owns numerous magazines
that target young adults.
For news of Eleanor Race, see note on
Adam Blistein ’71.
For news of John Tracy, see note on
Joanne Spector ’97.
00Rich Billings was selected to receive
a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship from the
NCAA. He plans to attend graduate school
for economics.
Joel Bryan has moved to Philadelphia
and is hoping to join The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
For news of Elizabeth Deerfield, see
note on Anthony Gemignani ’98.
Laura McTighe attended the 13th
International World AIDS Conference in
Durban, South Africa. The conference dealt
with making anti-HIV drugs available to
the third world, decreasing the spread of
HIV/AIDS and developing an AIDS
vaccine.
For news of Frank Rosch, see note on
Lynette and Manuel Mattke ’91.
For news of Katie Shotzbarger, see note
on George Shotzbarger ’73.
Friends of the College
Dick Morsch writes, “Thinking back
over the 27 years I was the athletic trainer
for Haverford College brought back many
wonderful memories. It was an honor and a
privilege to spend so many fun hours with
the athletes, both at the college and at away
games. I would like to thank the entire college
community for 27 wonderful years.
I retired in 1978, and Ruth and I are still
in good health and enjoying ourselves in
Florida, the ‘Land of Sunshine.’ Our best
wishes to all.”
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B I R T H S
68 Ethan Feinsod writes, “I have a
daughter, born April 23, 1998. I’m wondering
if I’m the last kid on my block to
become a parent.”
78 Milo Cividanes writes, “Julian was
born in December, 1999, to me and Wendy
Cividanes. He is our first child. Eddie
Andujar ’79 is Julian’s godfather.”
Carl Shuman writes, “My wife, Beth,
and I welcomed Simona Maya into the
world on August 28, 2000. She joins her
older sister, Saskia (age 15), and her older
brother, Sam (age 10 1 /2). Simona’s name in
Aramaic means “treasure,” and we have
certainly been blessed with one.”
81 Matthew Sekelick and his wife
Manisa announce the birth of triplets,
Alexandra, Zachary and Tatiyana, born
March 31, 2000. They join their no-longer
lonely sister, Isabella, who is fast approaching
two years old. Matthew writes, “Manisa
and I are ecstatic over the blessings bestowed
to us through the birth of our four children.”
Randy Mack Weiner writes, “Our two
little boys, Aaron and Sage, were born on
July 3, 1999.”
82 Daniel Stern and his wife Dr. Deborah
Nadel announce the birth of a son, Benjamin
Theodore Stern, on March 16, 2000.
Charles Sturrock writes, “I am delighted
to announce the birth of a daughter, Evelyn
Jane Sturrock, on March 24, 2000, to me
and my wife Amy L. Hardin (BMC ’82).
Evelyn is our first child.”
84 Christopher Coss and Jessica Cone
Coss ’86 are pleased to announce the birth
of their second child. Claire Coss, born on
June 20, 2000, joins her two-and-a-half year
old sister, Madeleine.
William Hunter Knowles-Kellett and
Emily Knowles-Kellett are the proud parents
of William DuPree Knowles-Kellett, born
February 26, 2000.
Aaron Levy writes, “On March 22,
2000, our son, Max Elliot, arrived! We are
truly blessed!”
Duff Pickering writes, “My son Christopher
was born December 28, 1999. He
joins his three-year-old sister Caroline and
parents living in Encinitas, CA.”
Jennifer Schecter writes, “Our daughter
Claire was born December 12, 1999, one
month early and on her daddy’s birthday.”
85 Anne-Marie Schaaf writes, “My husband,
Bill Grisham, and I traveled to China
in March 2000 to adopt our daughter, Petra
Chun Yu Schaaf-Grisham.”
Pnina Berkowitz Siegler writes, “I just
had my third and last child, another gorgeous
and smart daughter! Yonah Rachel
was born on April 8, 2000.”
86 Lisa Halperin writes, “We are
delighted to announce the birth of Caroline
Rachel Coopersmith on November 6, 1999.
She has baffled her brother, Alexander
Samuel, who is three. All is well in the university
life in Texas.”
John McDonald and Kristen
Olofsson ’87 had a baby boy, John
McDonald (“Jack” for short). John was
born September 3, 2000, nine pounds six
ounces and twenty-one inches long.
Patricia McMillan writes, “My husband
Peter and I were blessed with our second
child on July 22, 1999. David Andrew, who
weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz. at birth, joins an older
brother, Daniel Peter, who is eager for
bunkbeds.”
Brooke Norris Murray writes, “My husband
Karl and I were blessed on Leap Day
with the birth of a baby girl, born February
29, 2000. With much love, five-year-old sister
Allie and we welcomed Charlotte into
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our lives. I am a stay-at-home mom while
Karl tries to figure out the stock market as
V.P./Broker with Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter.”
87 William Agranoff writes, “My wife
Lisa and I welcomed our beautiful twins
Madeleine Rose and Leo Bernard into the
world on January 12, 2000. All other events
of the past year pale in comparison. When
we’re not sleep-deprived, we’re deliriously
happy! Look out class of ‘22!”
Peter Kaplan writes, “Deirdre O’Halloran
(BMC ’87) and I were thrilled at the
birth of Owen Morris O’Halloran Kaplan
on October 10, 1999. He joins Aidan and
Liam in our house of five.”
Michelle Muller Wilkins writes, “We
welcomed our new son Lane Muller Wilkins
on April Fool’s Day of 1999. Can you
believe our first son Madison is off to
kindergarten next year?!”
88 Congratulations to Tina and Mark
’89 Deuber on the birth of their little girl,
Laura Elizabeth, on June 2, 2000.
Binem Dizenhus writes, “My wife
Sharon and I enjoyed the arrival of our second
child, Nina, on October 14, 1999.”
Madeleine Gutow writes to announce
the birth of her daughter, Anna Elisabeth,
born on May 19, 2000.
Annelise Cooney Mora writes, “This
April my husband Jeff and I welcomed our
baby boy Brendan, who is bringing us
incredible joy every day. I plan to go back to
work at SC Johnson part-time after five
months of maternity leave.”
Tamis Nordling writes, “I gave birth to
a boy, Evan Burton Bush, on December 7,
1999.”
Tom Robertson writes, “I am a proud
father of Collete Robertson, born May 30,
1998.”
89 Lisa Leone Pak writes, “Ho and I
have had a new addition to our family this
year. My Samantha was born on March 10,
2000. Her brother Hyun Nicholas (2 years
old) has accepted the job of big brother and
is doing a wonderful job.”
90 Martin Anderson and his wife,
Rachel ’92, are pleased to announce the
birth of their son, Benjamin Pearce Anderson,
who was born May 13, 2000 at 12:11
A.M., 9 pounds 2 ounces and 21 inches
long.
Sherri Thomson Mara writes, “My husband
and I are thrilled to announce the
birth of our first child, Ethan Andrew, who
was born on April 12, 2000.”
Carmen Perez writes, “My husband
Mark and I were blessed with the arrival of
our daughter, Carina, in May. Her big
brother, Frankie, is now two and a half.”
Heike Schuessler writes, “On February
28th, my husband Sven and I were blessed
with a beautiful baby boy, Maximilian. His
Bavarian name fits our new location since
the beginning of the year, Munich. I am
taking advantage of the German system and
staying home for a year with Maximilian
while my job is still guaranteed. With the
upcoming merger between Deutsche Bank,
my employer, and Dresdner Bank, I could
not have picked a better time.”
91 Dan and Sara Beuhler’s baby
daughter, Kaitlyn Malia, was born on May
13, 2000. Dan writes, “All are healthy and
well and adjusting to our new lives.”
Breno Lorch writes, “My wife Ashley
Nering Lorch (BMC ’92) and I are the
proud parents of Nicholas Nering Lorch
HC 2022 (we hope). Nicholas was born on
February 24, 2000, at 4:47 P.M. weighing 6
lbs., 15 oz. Breno, Alyssa and Nicholas are
currently living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”
Lynette and Manuel Mattke write,
“Our third child, son Aiden Matthew, was
born on May 3, 2000, joining his proud
older sisters Joanna (6 years) and Elia (3 1 /2
years). The girls attend a Waldorf Kindergarten,
and Elia’s best friend there is Olivia
O’Neill, daughter of our neighbor, Tim
O’Neill ’80.”
92 Wendy Rumble VonBronkhorst
writes, “My son, Matthew, was born in the
summer of 1999, and I have spent a wonderful
year at home with him.”
93 Richard Piccirillo writes, “My wife
Renee and I wish to announce the recent
birth of our son, Zachary David, on January
11, 2000, as well as the birth of our oldest
son, Christopher Daniel, on February 2,
1997.”
Allison Cohen Stahl writes, “On January
31, 2000, Kevin and I gave birth to a
son, Jacob Monroe Stahl. He was eight
pounds and 21 inches and is absolutely perfect!”
94 Jeanne Velonis reports that on
February 23, 2000, she became the mother
of twin boys, Adrian Theodore and Nathan
Alexander Velonis.
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D E A T H S
26 Donald Baker, a classics professor,
died August 25, 2000, at Pine Rock Manor,
Warner, NH. He held a master’s degree
and doctorate in classics and taught at St.
Georges School in Rhode Island and then
at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA, as a
professor of Greek, Latin, and English. He
was an avid soccer player and coached the
sport for 40 years. He was a founding member
of the National Soccer Coaches Association
and received the NSCA Honor Award
in 1980. He also coached cricket and was
the captain of the team at Haverford. Baker
enjoyed hiking, birding, and natural history.
He built and maintained many of the
trails and cleaned the springs on Thompson
Hill and Lovewell Mountain. He was an
active member of the Society of Friends all
his life. He was clerk of both Schuylkill
Meeting in Pennsylvania and of Weare
Meeting in Henniker. He was chairman of
the temperance committee and active on
the social relations committees of Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting and Peace and Social
Concerns of New England Yearly Meeting.
He was a founding member of the New
Hampshire American Friends and Service
Committee. Baker is survived by four children,
Louise Malcolm of Peterborough,
NH, Elizabeth Wenny of Wilmington, DE,
W. Wilson Baker of Tallahassee, FL, and
Marian Baker of Hillsborough; a brother,
Richard Baker of Boyertown, PA; seven
grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. His
wife of 67 years, Margaret Baker, died
February 10, 2000.
27 George Hansen Renninger, 95, of
Media, PA, died January 25, 2000, at Dunwoody
Village, Newtown Square. Born in
Ardsley, Montgomery Co. (PA), he graduated
from Abington High School in 1923
and from Haverford College in 1927. He
lived in Bowling Green before moving to
Dunwoody Village in 1974 as its first resident.
Renninger began his career with Providence
Trust Company in 1944 and then
moved to Liberty Real Estate Bank. In
1954, he joined Philadelphia National
Bank as vice president of Chester area
offices. In 1961, he returned to Philadelphia
with Fidelity Bank as senior vice president
of the trust & investment department.
In 1962, he was named Chester Business
Men’s Association’s “Man of the Year” for
his contributions to the United Way Community
Fund, Chester Rotary Club, Central
YMCA, Boy Scouts of America, and the
Delaware County Historical Society. Mr.
Renninger retired in 1970 and did consulting
work for Fidelity Bank in Media. He
was predeceased by his wife, the late Anna
Mildred Filemyr Renninger. He is survived
by two daughters, Margaret Ann Di Panni
of Media, and Jane Hansen Gabroy of Arizona;
a grandson, Christopher George
Gabroy; and two granddaughters, Nicole
Frances Ayaz and Megan Ann Di Panni.
29 Rev. Richard Gunsaules Urban,
93, passed away July 26, 2000. He had
retired from the Episcopal Ministry on July
31, 1979, and remained in Gonzales, TX,
where he had last served as Rector of Episcopal
Church of the Messiah. He is survived
by two daughters, Rev. Mary Lucia
Urban Walker and Catherine Urban
DeNatale; brother, William Urban; four
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
30 Robert Le Conte Halberstadt,
retired captain in the United States Naval
Reserve, died December 7, 1999. He is
survived by his wife, Eda N. Halberstadt.
31 James Houston died in September
at the age of 90. A longtime Pittsburg
lawyer, Mr. Houston was a founder of the
firm Houston Harbaugh. Houston’s areas
of expertise were the canons of legal law and
tax law. Family and friends described Houston
as a quiet, private man with a passion
for playing piano, painting, and writing
poetry. He also enjoyed traveling in Europe,
particularly to Paris. A graduate of the University
of Pittsburg Law School, Houston
served as president of the Allegheny County
Mental Health Society, director of the
Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery and
director of the Pittsburg Chamber Music
Society. He is survived by his wife, Helen;
his sons, Bill Houston ’61 and John
Houston ’63; his daughters, Roberta Houston
and Jean Encinosa; six grandchildren;
and five great-grandchildren.
32 Charles S. Strickler died on May
14, 2000, at his home in Haverford, PA.
He was 89. Mr. Strickler was a graduate of
Lower Merion High School and Haverford
College. He received his M.B.A from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
A certified public accountant, he
served as financial vice president and director
for C. Schmidt & Sons, Inc. He was
also a director of Fleer Corporation. Mr.
Strickler also served as acting president and
chairman of the board of managers for St.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children and
was a member of its board for 25 years, as
well as a member of the board of its parent
corporation, United Hospitals. He served as
treasurer and chairman of the board of the
Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia. A
member of St. Christopher’s Church, Gladwyne,
PA, he served as a vestryman and
accounting warden for the church. Mr.
Strickler was also president of the Gladwyne
Free Library and a trustee of the Scholler
Foundation. He was a member of the Merion
Cricket Club and a former member of
the Philadelphia Country Club, the Union
League of Philadelphia and St. David’s Golf
Club. He is survived by his son, Matthew
McC. Strickler ’62, and his grandsons, M.
David Strickler ’91 and Edward C.
Strickler ’00.
33 Wilbert L. Braxton, science teacher
and involved Quaker, died April 12, 2000,
at Foulkeways in Gwynned, PA. He was
88. Born April 22, 1911, in the Green Hill
Community, Snow Camp, Alamance
County, NC, Wilbert Braxton was a son of
the late John Braxton and Ila (Newlin)
Braxton, whose family farm was deeded to
William (Planter) Braxton in 1761 and is
the oldest North Carolina land grant still
owned by the original family. He graduated
from Eli Whitney High School in 1928 and
from Guilford College in 1932. While at
Guilford, he was the North Carolina State
Association of Colleges’ tennis singles
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champion in 1931 and 1932. He received
his master’s from Haverford College in
1933 and an honorary Ph.D from Haverford
in 1976. Wilbert Braxton began his
career as a Quaker educator at the Friends
Boys School in Ramallah, Palestine in
1935, where he met his wife, Nina (Piper)
Braxton. He then taught mathematics and
science at Olney Friends school in Barnesville,
Ohio from 1936-42 and returned
as principal from 1944-47. He taught
physics at Stanford University from 1942-
44 while researching X-rays. In 1947,
Wilbert Braxton accepted a job teaching
physics and chemistry at The William Penn
Charter School in Philadelphia, where he
became principal in 1967 and held that
position until his retirement in 1976. During
his 29 years at Penn Charter, he developed
a style of dealing with students and
faculty that a visiting accreditation committee
lauded for its “calm but effective leadership,
quiet enthusiasm and spirited conviction.”
Wilbert Braxton and his wife Nina
also influenced many children and youths
through the Quaker summer camps they
directed from 1940 until 1962. These
included some of the first American Friends
Service Committee’s camps: Camp Onas,
Camp Dark Waters, and the Quaker Youth
Pilgrimage in England. Following retirement,
Wilbert Braxton worked as director
of the American Friends Service Committee.
During this time, in the midst of the
Cold War, he was a delegate for the American
Friends Service Committee at a conference
in the former U.S.S.R. entitled,
“Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.” He published
two books, This I Remember and
William Braxton, Planter, and his
Descendants, both in 1999; and two articles,
“A Glimpse of Farm Life in a Quaker
Community” in 1993 and “Absolute X-ray
Intensity of Alpha Line of Copper” while a
graduate student at Stanford in 1944. He
was a member of numerous associations,
including the Gwynned Friends Meeting,
the American Friends Service Committee,
the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, the International
Friendship Committee, the Upper
Gwynned Township School Board, and the
Country Day Headmasters’ Association.
He is survived by Nina Braxton, his wife of
61 years; his sons Lowell P. Braxton of Salt
Lake City, UT and John Braxton of
Philadelphia; his daughters Nancy E. Braxton
of New York City and Jane Braxton
Little of Greenville, CA; eight grandchildren
and two great-grandsons. He was predeceased
by his brother Howard T. Braxton
and his sister Evelyn Cox.
Frederick L. Fuges, a lawyer, died
February 26, 2000, in Abington Memorial
Hospital in Norristown, PA. He was 88.
Mr. Fuges, a resident of Gwynedd and formerly
of Chalfont, was the solicitor for the
Schollar Foundation from 1947 to present.
He practiced law for more than 40 years,
working as a partner in the law firm of
MacCoy Evans & Lewis and also working
for the firm of Hepburn Willcox & Puttnam.
He was a member of the American
Friends Service Committtee’s Rights of
Conscience program from 1955-1957. He
received his law degree from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1937. Born April 29,
1911, in Philadelphia, he was a son of the
late Frederick C. and Jane (Blankarn)
Fuges. He is survived by his wife Janet
(Aldrich) Fuges; two sons, Christopher of
Titusville, NJ, and Frederick of Edgewater,
NJ; a daughter, Betsy Kreisberg, of Miami,
FL; two stepdaughters, Betty Becker of
Media, PA, and Janet Wismer of Havertown,
PA; four grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren;
and a sister, Gretchen Day,
of California.
William L. F. Hardham died February
28, 2000, at John Knox Village Retirement
Home in Orange City, FL. He is survived
by his wife, Florence.
36 Howard Thomas Lodge Jr., 85, of
Rosemont Presbyterian Village, PA, and
retired senior vice president of the Fidelity
Bank, died of cardiac arrest January 25,
2000, at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Mr. Lodge, a
lifelong Rosemont resident, graduated from
Lower Merion High School, Haverford
College, and the Stonier Graduate School
of Banking at Rutgers University in 1949.
He served as a communications officer in
the Navy during World War II aboard the
destroyer Albert W. Grant in the battle of
Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines. Mr. Lodge
started his career in 1939 at Liberty Title &
Trust in Philadelphia, where he established
its personal credit department. In 1964, he
became a divisional vice president with
Fidelity and later senior vice president in
charge of administration and operations
until his retirement in 1979. Mr. Lodge was
active with the Valley Forge (PA) Council
of the Boy Scouts of America, and he
received the certificate of merit from the
Main Line district. Mr. Lodge was on the
board of deacons at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Church, where he had been a member
since he was 15. Mr. Lodge is survived
by his wife of 60 years, Lois Rinehart
Lodge; his sons Thomas R. and Howard R.
Lodge; four grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.
Edward Parry, 87, of Fox Chapel, PA,
died September 9, 2000, after a brief illness
in St. Barnabas Nursing Home. He is survived
by his wife of 58 years, Virginia Lloyd
Parry; three sons, Edward Parry, Jr. of
Charlottesville, VA, David Parry of Erie,
PA, and William Parry of Raleigh, NC;
four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Parry spent a year at Prince Royal’s
College in Chiengmai, Thailand, before
serving honorably in the Army from 1942
to 1946 in the Phillipines during World
War II. He spent his business life in the
computer and information processing fields
for insurance companies, railroads, and utilities.
He was an avid reader, history buff,
geneaologist, and published memoir author
(A Life Remembered, Professional Press,
1998), who never tired of learning. After his
retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to
research and writing. One of only eight Fellows
in the U.S. Army Military History
Institute, Parry was also a member of the
Sons of the Revolution, Mayflower Descendants
and the Civil War Roundtable.
37 William M. Dugdale, a retired
account manager and vice chairman of
VanSant Dugdale & Co. Inc., once Baltimore’s
largest advertising agency, died
October 28, 1999, of cancer at Union
Memorial Hospital. He was 84 and lived at
Elkridge Estates. The former longtime
Roland Park, MD resident worked for 35
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years at VanSant Dugdale, which his father
H. Kirkus Dugdale had co-founded with
Wilbur VanSant in 1925. The agency,
which had such blue-chip clients as Martin-
Marietta, United States Fidelity and Guaranty,
Maryland National Bank, Davison
Chemical Company Division of W.R.
Grace & Co., Allegheny Airlines and Baltimore
Paint & Chemical Corp., was on
West Fayette Street until it moved into the
Blaustein Building on North Charles Street
in the early 1960s. Since 1976, the agency,
which is now known as Gray Kirk VanSant,
has been in the World Trade Center. A gregarious
personality and genuine liking for
people put Mr. Dugdale in good stead
because he was responsible for developing
new business and clients.
“He was the kind of man who could enter a
room filled with strangers, and because he
was a happy man with a natural gregariousness,
would know everyone within a halfhour,”
said Daniel J. Loden, who retired as
chairman of VanSant Dugdale in 1979.
“He was a skillful businessman who could
meet people and get their business,” he said.
Mr. Dugdale retired in 1971. The Washington
native graduated from McDonogh
School in 1933 and attended Haverford
College. He graduated in 1938 from the
Wharton School of Finance at University of
Pennsylvania. In 1940, he entered the
Naval Reserve as a seaman, was commissioned
from the ranks, and served on an
attack transport during World War II in the
European and Pacific theaters. He was discharged
as a lieutenant commander in
1945. He served on several boards, including
the Red Cross, Fellowship of Lights,
Travelers Aid Society, Union Memorial
Hospital, the National Marine Bank, the
Savings Bank of Baltimore and the Bank of
Baltimore. He was board president for the
Chesapeake Foundation for Human Development.
Mr. Dugdale’s lifetime hobby was
music; he was an accomplished pianist. He
was a former member of the Baltimore
Country Club, L’Hirondelle Club, and the
Elkridge Club, and enjoyed golf and gardening.
Mr. Dugdale is survived by his wife
of 57 years, the former Barbara Barton;
three sons, David B. Dugdale of Naples,
FL, William K. Dugdale of Baltimore and
Robert Dugdale of Atlanta; a brother, H.K.
“Doug” Dugdale Jr. of Wilmington, DE;
and six grandchildren.
Paul Grimley Kuntz, philosopher, professor
emeritus, Emory University Professor,
spent his life in the pursuit of philosophical
inquiry and was renowned for his
contributions to metaphysics, aesthetics,
and concepts of order. His interests in
order-disorder began in his youth, and
throughout his life he studied and was fascinated
by the problem of order and its counterpart,
disorder. Most of his scholarly writings
delved into the problem of order in the
universe in all its various aspects. The concept
of order was a catalyst for his final
scholarly book, a manuscript of more than
2000 pages, on the Decalogue, which will
be published posthumously under the title
The Lost Commandments. In addition to
this work, he was the author of Philosophy:
A System of Alternate Beliefs (with
Neal Klausner), Alfred North Whithead,
Bertram Russell, Jacob’s Ladder and the
Tree of Life and Concepts of Hierarchy
and the Great Chain of Being (with
Marion Leathers Kuntz). He was also the
author of more than 100 scholarly articles
and reviews. Born in Philadelphia on
November 22, 1915, son of Rev. Frank
Kuntz and Sadie Grimley, Prof. Kuntz
graduated from Haverford College with
high honors in philosophy. He received
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sacred
theology in 1940-41 and a Ph.D. in philosophy
from Harvard in 1946. He also pursued
post-doctoral studies at Yale University
in 1954-55. He taught philosophy for
many years at Smith College and Grinnell
College before coming to Atlanta, where he
taught at Emory University from 1966
until his retirement in 1985. He was a
member of numerous scholarly organizations
and led in the founding of the Santayana
Society, the Gandhi King Society
and the International Society of Metaphysics.
He and his wife, Prof. Marion
Leathers Kuntz, lived in Venice, Italy when
not in residence in Atlanta, and traveled
together to learned conferences, both in the
US and in Europe. According to his wife,
he was “a philosopher’s philosopher, with
extraordinary knowledge and insight; his
great passion was ideas and meaning.” He
was endowed with a gentle and charming
personality and had a host of friends and
admirers. Prof. Kuntz suffered a stroke on
June 22, 1999, in Venice. He was able to
return to Atlanta with his wife in July and
was confined to the hospital until his death
on January 28, 2000, occasioned by implications
from cerebral ischemia. In addition
to his wife, Marion Leathers Kuntz, he is
survived by four children, Sarah Dilworth
of Maine, Susan Sawyer of Vermont, Joel
Kuntz of Oregon and Timothy Kuntz of
Virginia; six grandchildren; two stepsons,
Charlie Daniels of Decatur, GA and Alan
Daniels of Atlanta; and five step-grandchildren.
38 Robert B. Burnside, retired business
leader, of Kingston, PA, died peacefully at
home on November 24, 1999, while a
patient of Hospice Community Care. He
was 83. Born October 10, 1916, in Hazleton,
PA, he was a son of the late Helen
DeRemer Burnside and Attorney Francis P.
Boyle of Hazleton, and the adopted son of
Malcolm MacNair Burnside of Wilkes-
Barre, PA. He was a graduate of Wyoming
Seminary, Haverford College, and earned
an M.B.A. from Wilkes University. For
most of his career, he was associated with
Fowler Dick & Walker, The Boston Store,
in Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton. He served as
assistant director of advertising and public
relations, manager of the budget division,
and ultimately vice president and general
merchandise manager until his retirement
in 1980. He then attended King’s College
for certification in casualty insurance and
real estate sales, beginning a second career
that spanned another fifteen years with
Coldwell, Banker, Howell and Jones, of
Wilkes-Barre. He had a lifetime passion for
golf, travel, and good conversation. He was
a member of the Board of Directors of the
Wilkes-Barre YMCA (1964-82), the
Wyoming Valley Chapter of the American
Red Cross (1940-79), a deacon and elder of
the First Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-
Barre, and a member of the Wyoming Valley
Country Club (40 years). He was a
32nd Degree Mason and life member of the
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Irem Temple, where he sang baritone with
the Irem Temple Chanters. He was retail
chairman of the Wyoming Valley United
Way (1946-79). He was preceded in death
by his beloved wife, Marian Lauer. Surviving
are his brother Frank, of Harveys Lake,
PA; sister Mary Mangelsdorf of Swarthmore,
PA; sons Malcolm MacNair Burnside
II, of Trucksville, PA and Robert Boyle
Burnside Jr. of Kingston, PA; daughter
Laurie Faraday Cummings, also of
Kingston; five grandchildren; one greatgrandchild;
and nieces and nephews.
Malcolm Danforth McFarland, a
retired physician, died October 14, 1999, at
Holy House at Meadowood in Worcester,
PA, where he had lived for the past eleven
years. He was 83. Dr. McFarland, formerly
of Philadelphia, served as a general practitioner,
making house calls in the Germantown,
Mount Airy, Chestnut Hill and
Wyndmoor sections of Philadelphia for
more than 50 years before retiring in 1986.
He also taught at Hahnemann University,
Thomas Jefferson University and Temple
University medical schools, all in Philadelphia.
He was a member of the Phi Alpha
Gamma medical fraternity, the Pennsylvania
Country Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He also served on
the board of the North Penn ARC, was an
elder at the first Presbyterian Church of
Germantown and Philadelphia and worked
with the Red Cross. Dr. McFarland was a
U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War
II, serving as a captain in the medical corps
in Florida, Hawaii, Guam and Japan. He
was educated at Germantown Academy and
Haverford College. He earned his medical
degree at Hahnemann Medical College in
1942. Dr. McFarland enjoyed golf, music,
astronomy and natural history. Born
August 28, 1916, in Philadelphia, he was a
son of the late William and Elizabeth (Danforth)
McFarland. Surviving are his wife
Margery (White) McFarland; a son, Douglas
William of Blue Bell, PA; and three
stepsons, Richard Beazley of Michigan,
Robert Beazley of Ocean City, NJ, and
Thomas Beazley of Memphis, TN.
39 John McElmoyle Finley, aged 82,
died on December 27, 1999. Born in Elkton,
MD on March 17, 1917, Mr. Finley
was the son of the late Col. Charles Beatty
Finley, Jr. and the late Emilie Elizabeth
McElmoyle Finley. Known to some as Jack,
Mr. Finley was a longtime resident of
Chestnut Hill, PA, until moving into the
Osborn Retirement Community in Rye,
NY, near the Greenwich, CT, home of his
daughter, Elizabeth Kelsey. He was a graduate
of the Haverford School and Haverford
College. In addition to a career as an advertising
executive, he pursued his lifelong
interests in writing, painting and sculpting.
As an avid golfer, he was a member of the
Philadelphia Cricket Club and was considered
a distinguished member of the Legends
of St. Martins Golfing Group. He was a
member of the St. Andrews Society and a
former member of the Society of Colonial
Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
He is remembered for his enduring
sense of humor and wit, his deep sense of
the value of verse, his eternal devotion to his
family and his sincere love of chocolates. He
is survived by his children Elizabeth B. F.
Kelsey of Greenwich, CT, John Michael
Finley of Clearwater, FL, Ann G. F.
Manierre also of Clearwater, FL and Beatrice
Thompson of Denver, CO; four grandchildren;
three great-grandchildren and a
brother, Charles B. Finley III of Annapolis,
MD.
Richard Lillie, a Milwaukee surgeon
whose expertise extended into corporate
and financial matters, died of a heart attack
on March 5, 2000 at St. Luke’s Medical
Center in Milwaukee. He was 82. He is survived
by his wife, Jane; his daughter,
Dianne McCallister of Bryn Mawr, PA; his
son, Richard Jr. of Chicago; and his sister,
Edith McGovern of Winnetka, IL. Lillie
was born on February 3, 1918, to surgeon
Osville and Sylvia Lillie in Milwaukee. After
earning his medical degree from Harvard
University, he became a captain in the
United States Army’s 82nd and 101st Airborne
divisions during World War II and
operated field hospitals in France and at the
Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he did his
residency at the University of Michigan and
established a practice in Milwaukee in
1951. Lillie was chief of surgery at Milwaukee
Lutheran Hospital from 1968-1980
and retired in 1981. He served on the board
of the Bradley Foundation from 1985 to
1996 and sat on the State Investment Board
from 1991 to 1997.
40 Winton Pettibone, age 81, of Oakland,
CA, passed away June 30, 2000. He
was born November 18, 1918 in Spokane,
WA, and grew up in the Spokane Valley.
He attended Oberlin College, Oberlin OH,
graduated from the University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, and received an M.A.
degree from Haverford College, Haverford,
PA. He did graduate work at the University
of California, Berkeley, then worked as an
assistant economist at the US Office of
Alien Property Custodian in Washington,
DC. After serving in the Army, he was assistant
professor of economics at the University
of Washington, 1947-1951, then
economist for Standard Oil of California in
San Francisco, 1952-1970. Following that
he was an independent economic and
financial consultant. He enjoyed raising
flowers, particularly old roses, reading and
playing piano. He loved animals and was a
friend to all of the dogs in the neighborhood.
He is survived by a sister, June
Holmes; nephews, Dale Holmes, Earl and
John Pettibone; niece Marcia Boehm and
many friends.
42 Henry W. Johnstone, Jr., 79, of
State College, PA, died February 18, 2000,
at Foxdale Village. He was born February
22, 1920, in Montclair, NJ, a son of the
late Henry Webb and Beatrice Grieb Johnstone.
He attended the Hill School in
Pottstown, PA, and received a bachelor of
science degree from Haverford College, a
master of arts degree in classics from Penn
State University and a doctorate in philosophy
from Harvard University. A World
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War II veteran, he served in the Pacific as a
captain in the Air Force. After the war, he
taught for four years at Williams College.
He then taught in the philosophy department
at Penn State from 1952 until his
retirement in 1984. Johnstone was the
author of eight books and more than 160
articles on subjects in philosophy, logic,
argumentation theory, rhetoric and classics.
He founded and, for 22 years, edited the
journal Philosophy and Rhetoric. While
at Penn State, he also served as acting
department chair, director of the Institute
for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, and
assistant to the vice president for research.
He held a Belgian American Foundation
Fellowship at the Free University of Brussels
and, as a Fulbright Scholar, he was a
visiting professor at Trinity College,
Dublin; the University of Bonn, Germany;
and the American University of Beirut. He
is survived by his wife, Margery; a daughter,
Barbara Johnstone of Pittsburgh; a son,
Henry III of Tuscon, AZ; a sister, Barabara
Bennett of Concord, MA; and two grandsons.
He was preceded in death by a daughter,
Anne, in 1989.
43 Ellis Little of East Aurora, NY, died
August 10, 2000. He leaves his wife,
Dorothy, and brother, Frank Little, Jr. A
native of Rochester, he moved to Buffalo to
establish Executone of Buffalo, Inc in 1954.
He conducted the business as president and
owner until his retirement in 1983. He was
a member and past president of the Buffalo
Executive Association as well as a member
of East Aurora Kiwanis and a member of
the First Presbyterian Church of Aurora.
Little and his wife, Dorothy Thomsen, were
married in 1955. During World War II, he
worked for a chemical company in Pennsylvania.
44 Peter R. Cebulka, 77, of Danville,
PA, died May 15, 2000 at Geisinger Medical
Center, Danville, where he had been a
patient for three days. He had been in failing
health for two years. Cebulka had resided
in Danville since 1990 and previously
lived in Chesterfield Township, NJ, for
many years. Born in Hawk Run, PA, he was
the son of the late George and Anna
(Sudik) Cebulka. He graduated from Morrisville
High School in Pennsylvania in
1940, as well as Haverford College and the
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary
Medicine. An Army veteran of
World War II, Cebulka was employed as a
veterinarian in Chesterfield Township, NJ,
from 1951 until his retirement in 1990. He
was a member of the St. Columbia Catholic
Church of Bloomsburg, PA. Cebulka is survived
by his wife, the former Alice
Segerstrom, with whom he celebrated a
47th wedding anniversary on August 16;
four children: the Rev. Peter R. Cebulka, C.
O., of Somerset, NJ; Mrs. Timothy J. (Terry
A.) Davis of Columbus, NJ; James M.
Cebulka of Washington, NJ; and Mrs.
Gary (Joan C.) Hauck of Danville; seven
grandchildren; a brother, Steven Cebulka of
Trenton, NJ; and three sisters: Suzanne
Cebulka and Mrs. Russell (Anna Mae) Corrigan,
both of Phillipsburg, PA; and Rose
Cebulka of Pittsburgh. Two brothers died
previously: John Cebulka and George
Cebulka, as did a sister, Helen Cebulka.
47 William McIlhenny, former Pastor
of Chelten Baptist Church from 1946 to
1953, died August 8, 2000. He was 86.
Dr. McIlhenny was a former U.S. Army
Chaplain. He served as a Chaplain in the
European Theatre of Operations, with the
35th Infantry Division, as well as other special
troops. He was awarded the World
War II Victory Medal with five battle stars.
After honorable service during World War
II, he left the Army in 1946 and became
Pastor of Chelten Baptist Church. Dr.
McIlhenny was active in his community
and affiliated with Leisure World Baptist
Church. He has been Hospital Chaplain in
the Huntington Beach Medical Center for
five years. He is survived by his wife, Lilly,
three children, Dr. Charles McIlhenny, a
pastor in San Francisco, Robert McIlhenny,
high school teacher in Huntington Beach
and Janet Callaway, a registered nurse in
Long Beach; nine grandchildren; three
great-grandchildren; and a brother, Arch
McIlhenny.
Donald N. Meldrum, 78, of Malvern,
PA, died Friday, February 18, 2000, at the
Bryn Mawr Hospital. He was the husband
of Florianne Greer Meldrum. Born in
Haverford, he was the son of the late
William Buell Meldrum and Phillipa Coleman.
He graduated from Haverford High
School. He also earned his bachelor’s degree
and master’s degree in chemistry, both from
Haverford College. He served in the U.S.
Army during World War II and was awarded
the Combat Infantry Badge Bronze Star
and the Purple Heart. He was employed as
chairman and chief executive officer of
National Foam System in Pennsylvania,
senior vice president of Philadelphia Suburban
Corp., chairman of Hale Pump Co.
and Venture Chemicals in Louisiana, for 32
years until retiring in 1988. He also served
as the elected director of the Great Valley
School Board for 18 years. He was a member
of the Church of the Good Samaritan.
He enjoyed golfing, music, hiking, and was
a member of the Edgmont Country Club.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a
son, Duncan Meldrum of Macungie; four
daughters, Sandra M. Mackay of Pittsburgh,
Toby M. Delaney of Springfield,
PA, Heather M. Satterfield of Malvern, PA,
and Lynne Frezza of Texas; and 14 grandchildren.
48 Murray Fox Freeman, 72, of Paupack,
PA, died March 30, 2000, at the
Wayne Memorial Hospital, Honesdale following
a short illness. Born in Bryn Mawr,
he was the son of the late Edgar and Alice
(Murray) Freeman. He was educated at
Haverford College and Princeton University
as a mathematician. At Princeton, he
became interested in computing and
worked with some of the world’s earliest
computer developers. Mr. Freeman’s inter-
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ests directed him toward a 35-year career as
a computer programmer for Ford
Aerospace, where he worked on the nation’s
first military field computer projects and
reported for the Pike County Dispatch, and
with Bell Labs, later Bellcore, where he was
one of approximately 200 computer programmers
who divided the assets of AT&T
with the divestiture of the Bell Telephone
operating companies. That same interest in
computing also brought him into the international
standards development process. He
was a member of the American National
Standards Institute and Computer and
Business Equipment Manufacturers’ Association
and served on the committee for the
development of the FORTRAN language.
He helped write, as part of this committee,
FORTRAN 77 and FORTRAN 8x. More
recently, he was secretary and vice chair of
ANSI’s “T2” committee, focusing on computer-to-computer
telecommunications
standards. Since 1986, he was president and
treasurer of Winton Consolidated Companies,
a real estate and other asset-holding
company. Mr. Freeman was a descendent of
former congressman Andrew Beaumont;
Elisha Blackman of Wilkes-Barre, PA; and
of William W. Winton and Catherine
Heermans Winton of Scranton, PA. He
was actively involved in managing the Beaumont
and Winton real estate and financial
interests in Northeast Pennsylvania. He was
also the former president, trustee and treasurer
of the Society of the Descendents of
William Fox, a family charitable organization.
In retirement, Mr. Freeman’s primary
hobby was as a newspaper reporter for the
Pike County Dispatch of Milford, PA.
His interest in newspapers developed in college
when he was employed in the pressroom
of the suburban Philadelphia-based
Main Line Times. Surviving are his wife
of 41 years, Aileen; his son Richard, also of
Paupack; his sisters Ailsa of Blue Bell, PA,
Priscilla of Philadelphia, and Katherine of
Houston, TX; and many nieces, nephews
and cousins.
50 Robert Boyd Betson, 74, of Radnor,
PA, a commercial real estate broker,
died October 28, 1999, at the Wayne Center
nursing facility in Radnor. Mr. Betson
worked in commercial real estate for many
years, retiring in 1990. He was a 1942 graduate
of Landsdowne High School, where he
and his brother were national doubles tennis
champions. He was captain of the basketball
and tennis teams at Haverford College.
In 1943, Mr. Betson was ranked first
in the Philadelphia Tennis Association
Juniors category. He received an honorable
mention by the Junior Davis Cup in 1946.
He was a member of the Idle Hour Tennis
Club. Mr. Betson served in the European
theater during World War II. He is survived
by a sister, Joan Hough of Ambler,
PA; a brother, Jack Betson of Cherry Hill,
NJ; eight nieces and nephews; and fifteen
great-nieces and grand-nephews.
Richard N. Meyers, 70, of Longs, SC,
formerly of Gladwyne, PA, a retired plastic
surgeon, died of polyneuritis December 31,
1999, at Conway (SC) Nursing Home. Dr.
Myers was on the staff at Lankenau Hospital
from 1961 to 1980. He lived in Gladwyne
for eighteen years, leaving in 1979 to
practice surgery in Louisville, KY and
Longs. He was associate professor of surgery
at Jefferson Medical College from 1974 to
1980. A colleague, Dr. Robert D. Smink,
Jr., said Dr. Myers had many research interests
and by 1976 had published 40 articles
in surgical literature. He is survived by children
Richard N. Jr., Robert, Lisa Flynn and
Carol Duffey; a brother and twelve grandchildren.
52 Robert A. Johnston, chairman of
the psychology department at the College
of William & Mary who was dedicated to
helping others make the most of themselves,
died January 9, 2000, at Williamsburg
(VA) Community Hospital. Aside
from his duties at W & M, Professor Johnston
was an instigator in the establishment
of Child Development Resources, a local
nonprofit that provides services for young
children and their families. He also served
on the board of several other local agencies
and was very active in the Elderhostel program
at the college. He joined the W & M
faculty in 1963 as associate dean of the faculty
and associate professor of psychology.
He was promoted to professor of psychology
in 1973 and served as chair of the
department from 1994 until his death. W
& M President Timothy Sullivan said,
“Bob Johnston’s service as an administrative
leader and faculty member materially
enhanced the quality of William & Mary’s
educational program. He will be missed by
his friends and colleagues, but his legacy of
service and scholarship will long be remembered.”
Professor Johnston’s area of focus
was on personality and motivation. He
taught statistics, personality, motivation and
emotion, analysis of variance, developmental
psychology and introductory psychology.
He was the author of many articles and
scholarly papers, and, in 1982, he wrote
Introductory Psychology: Readings for
Discussion. In 1996, he addressed the
Association of Heads of Departments of the
Psychology Southeastern Psychological
Association. He served on the executive
committee of the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute during 1998 and on several college
committees, most recently the Millington
Renovation & Expansion Planning Committee.
Professor Johnston was a collector
and dealer of antiques and promoted
antique shows throughout the region with
Holly Glenn Antiques. He was a past member
of the Newport News Rotary Club. He
was born in Allentown, PA, but spent most
of his formative years in Brigantine, NJ. He
received his bachelor’s degree from Haverford
College and his master’s and doctorate
from the State University of Iowa. He
began his teaching career at University of
Richmond, where he also served as director
of the University Center for Psychological
Services. He served as chair of the Psychology
Section of the Virginia Academy of Science
during 1964-66.
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He is survived by his wife, Janet Johnston;
three sons, Robert Paul Johnston,
Kenneth Moffett Johnston and Scott
Andrew Johnston; two stepdaughters,
Robin McCleary Deas and Marlynn
Nadine Shelton; five grandchildren, Eric
Johnston, Matthew Poteate, Kevin Johnston,
Morgan Johnston, Alyssa Johnston,
and Spencer Shelton. He was preceded in
death by his parents, Robert and Marion
McBride Johnston, and a sister, Kathleen
Stanton.
53 Lawrence C. Morris, a pioneer in
health-care management, died of lung cancer
June 29, 2000, at his home in Wilmette,
IL. He was 68. During his 35-year
career in the health insurance industry, Mr.
Morris dedicated himself to ensuring that
patients received quality care and that hospitals
and physicians contained costs.
Among his many accomplishments, Mr.
Morris was most proud of his work to have
every child in his home state of Delaware
inoculated against polio. He frequently
advised federal and congressional officials
on health insurance and financial issues facing
the industry. Mr. Morris began his
career with the Medical Society of
Delaware, where he served as director for
ten years. In 1966, he and his family moved
to the Chicago area when he joined the
national Blue Shield Association as assistant
director of professional relations. Mr. Morris
rose through the ranks at the not-forprofit
health benefits provider. Following
the 1978 merger of Blue Cross and the Blue
Shield Association, he was named senior
vice president, health benefits management,
a position he held until 1989 when he left
the organization and become a private consultant
on health care finance and policy.
Mr. Morris also served as an adjunct faculty
member in allied health at National-Lewis
University. He was adviser to the U.S. Secretary
of Health and Human Services and
was a member of the National Industry
Council for HMO Development. He guided
the Federal Institute of Medicine in
many areas, including technology issues,
quality treatment for Medicare patients,
and standards and guidelines for clinical
health care. Mr. Morris was committee
chair and co-editor of an Institute of
Medicine report to steer the National
Library of Medicine on information services
for health research, advancing a national
strategy to cut costs and improve quality in
health care. After graduating Haverford
College, he spent two years in the U.S.
Army. Mr. Morris is survived by his wife
Meredith; two daughters, Meredith
Zelewsky and Lydia Morris; and his sister
Ann Aydelotte of Wilmington, DE.
J. Peter Schmitz, a lawyer who worked
tirelessly for environmental causes, died
May 24, 1999, at his home in Clayton,
MO, after a yearlong battle with cancer. He
was 67. A partner in the Clayton firm of
Schmitz, Kopman, Schreiber & Kaveny,
Schmitz shunned publicity, so his contributions
to environmental battles often went
unsung. He is survived by his wife, Elsie
Kemp Schmitz; four children, Thomas
Schmitz of Oakland, CA, Peter Schmitz of
Minneapolis, and David Schmitz and Mary
Schmitz of St. Louis; and one grandson.
54 William C. Meads, 67, died at his
home in Trenton, NJ. Born in York, PA, he
lived in San Francisco, moving to Trenton
in 1977. He retired in 1994 from Rider
University as an associate professor emeritus
of language after 17 years. He received a
bachelor’s degree from Haverford College, a
master’s degree in 1958 from the University
of California at Los Angeles and a doctorate
in 1970 from Stanford University. Son of
the late Charles C. and Daisy Ann Cantrell
Meads, he is survived by a sister, Kathleen
V. Hiban of Montgomery Village, MD.
55 Johns Hopkins III, 67, of St. Louis,
died July 20, 2000, at Good Samaritan
Hospital in Baltimore from injuries he suffered
in an automobile accident June 2,
while visiting his other home in Darlington.
He was an indirect descendent of the late
Maryland philanthropist, Johns Hopkins.
Professor Hopkins received his doctorate
from Rockefeller University as a member of
its first graduating class. He taught biology
for 33 years at Washington University
before retiring last year. He was chairman
of the department of biology for several
years early in his tenure there. He began his
career as an instructor of biology at Harvard
University. Among the survivors are his
wife, Margaret Hopkins; a son, Johns Hopkins,
Jr.; and a sister, Ann Gregory.
Robert Read, of Newark, DE, died at
home on May 16, 2000 at age 67. Dr. Read
is survived by his wife, Marjory; daughter,
Katherine Strafford; and grandchildren, Erika
and Robert, all of Newark. His son,
Howard, resides in San Jose, CA with his
wife. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, Dr.
Read spent most of his childhood years in
Shanghai, China, where his father Bernard
E. Read was a pharmacologist and head of
the Henry Lester Institute for Medical
Research. Dr. Read graduated from the
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Haverford
College, and thereafter completed his
M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of
Delaware in the field of organic chemistry.
He was employed by DuPont for 31 years
in the greater Wilmington (DE) area, where
he worked in the Organic Chemicals, C&P,
Central Research and Medical Projects
Departments. Subsequent to his retirement
from DuPont, Dr. Read was employed for
three years by the Terumo Medical Corporation
of Elkton, MD before he retired in
1994. Dr. Read was active in the American
Chemical Society, where he was president
of the Cellulose Paper and Textile Division
and subsequently a division fellow. Dr.
Read maintained a close relationship with
Haverford College where he was active in a
number of volunteer positions with the
Alumni Association.
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58 David J. Gibson, 63, of Cuba, NY,
and Indian Rocks Beach, FL, died suddenly
on March 30, 2000, at his residence in
Florida. He was the son of the late Norman
D. and Hazel (Rudesill) Gibson of Bradford,
PA. Born in Olean, NY, David was
raised in Bradford, NY, graduating from
Bradford High School in 1954. He pursued
academics from Haverford College with a
B.A. and from Middlebury College with an
M.A. While at Haverford, he studied for
one year at the University of Madrid. He
later received his Ph.D. there. Dr. Gibson
retired from Eden Central School District
after teaching Spanish for 30 years. During
that time, he served for 26 years as chairman
of the Department of Foreign Languages
and for 25 years was faculty advisor
to the Eden Chapter of the American Field
Service for foreign students. In 1991, he
became a seasonal resident of Florida and
eventually served on the board of directors
for the Reef Club Condominium Association
in Indian Rocks Beach. Known as
“Doc” to his students, David had a passion
for Spain and the Spanish language and was
instrumental in organizing and accompanying
tours to Spain for the Eden students,
through A.F.S. He was active in and supportive
of school functions, always going
out of his way to help his students and faculty
members. A highlight of his career was
once having the school yearbook (Eden
Embers) dedicated to him. A voracious
reader, David’s interests also included horses
and travel. The Gibson family at one
time owned the block barn in Cuba, NY,
and showed horses. David had many great
opportunities for world travel, including
studying in Berlin, Germany in 1971. He is
survived by three sisters: Norma (Charles)
Griffith of Webster, NY; Ruth (Leo) Schott
of Westons Mills, NY; Mary Jane Gibson
of Jamestown, NY; a brother Charles (Patricia)
Russell of Pennsylvania and neices and
nephews.
60 Robert Lippincott Coles passed
away on March 8, 2000, at the age of 62. A
memorial service was held for him at the
Moorestown Friends Monthly Meeting in
Moorestown, NJ. He is survived by his
wife, Pamela; his daughter, Haley Coles
Driscoll; his son, Marshall Linton Coles; his
brother, John Coles; and two grandchildren,
Alfred Coles Driscoll and Robie
McCammon Driscoll.
61 John Parker Hanson, 65, died on
July 17, 2000. He is survived by his wife,
Julia Loubris Hanson, his son, Michael
Parker Hanson, and his daughter, Lida
Hanson. Parker worked for 30 years as an
analytical engineer with Westinghouse and,
in his retirement, as an adjunct professor of
physics at Duquesne University since 1994.
He received his master’s in mechanical engineering
in 1966 from the University of
Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering
from University of Pennsylvania in
1970. He served in the Coast Guard from
1955-1958. Memorial contributions in lieu
of flowers may be made to Forbes Hospice,
6655 Frankstown Ave., Pgh., PA 15206, or
American Friends Service Committee, 1501
Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, or to
the John Parker Hanson Memorial Scholarship
Fund (Attn: Janet Heron), Haverford
College, Haverford, PA 19041.
69 Jack P. Geise died on Monday,
October 11, 1999, at the age of 52. Born
in Germany, Mr. Geise immigrated to the
United States and resided in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and, for the last 25 years, in
Potsdam , New York. A professor of political
science at Clarkson University, Mr.
Geise received his Ph.D. from Brown University
and held the John Marshall Chair of
Politics at Budapest Economics University
in 1998. He participated in the Wye Faculty
Seminar in Wye River, Maryland, and
served on the Board of Directors of the
Potsdam Youth Soccer Association. He is
survived by his wife, Lou Ann Lange, his
two sons, his mother and a brother.
Friends of the College
John Clough, 77, of Philadelphia, died
August, 2000, of lung cancer at Paoli
Memorial Hospital. A longtime political
analyst for CBS, he owned and operated
WCAU radio and television stations. In
the summer of 1983, he joined the administrative
staff of Haverford College, where he
remained until his retirement in 1988.
Clough was an educator who served at
Franklin and Marshall College as secretary
of the college, and, later, as vice president of
administration. He taught for many years
at University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University,
and Temple University, while also
serving as political analyst and commentator
on Evening Edition, a radio show on
WCAU. A lifelong Democrat, he became
involved in Pennsylvania politics during the
mayoral campaign of the late Joseph Clarke,
Jr. In 1954, he served as an advance man,
traveling the state for the successful gubernatorial
campaign of Democrat George
Leader. He later played a key role in
Clarke’s successful campaign for the US
Senate. During the term of the late Mayor
James Tate, Clough was appointed executive
director of the Philadelphia Commission
on Higher Education. In that position,
he performed the research necessary to
create, finance, staff and open Community
College of Philadelphia. He served as dean
of the college before moving to Franklin &
Marshall in 1969. Clough joined the Army
Air Forces in early 1942, serving as radio
operator on a B-17. Following an honorable
discharge in 1945, he graduated from
Johns Hopkins University in 1949. He
received his master’s degree at Duke University
Law School and received additional
graduate school training in government and
political science at the University of
Philadelphia. He is survived by his wife,
Suzanne; a son, John F. III; three daughters,
Joanne Clough, Suzanne Bell, and Ellen
Devine; seven grandchildren; and a brother,
Captain A. Harley.
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