Spring 2002 - Haverford College

Alumni Magazine Spring 2002 

ThePromise 

of Tomorrow 

JERRY LEVIN RENEWS I JOHN WHITEHEAD RESTORES I HOWARD LUTNICK REBUILDS

New Beginnings 

Welcome. The redesigned magazine you are holding in your 

hands (or viewing on the Web) is a visible, tangible result of a 

yearlong conversation about Haverford – its strengths, its values, 

its essence and ethos. 

That conversation was started late last summer, when the 

Institutional Advancement department asked Norman Pearlstine ’64, 

chair of the newly formed Virtual Communications Committee, 

to help schedule a series of national alumni focus groups. Led 

by President Tom Tritton and Vice President for Institutional 

Advancement Jill Sherman, we traveled across the country to hold 

informal discussions about Haverford College. Similar meetings 

were held on campus with faculty, administrators, and students. 

As you might expect, some dominant themes emerged from the 

focus groups. Whether we were in San Francisco, or Chicago, or 

Boston, or New York, common ideas about Haverford quickly 

crystallized. Academic excellence. Honor Code. Quaker values. 

Sense of community. A beautiful campus. 

A comprehensive attitudinal survey was sent out in October. 

We had a 28 percent response rate – extraordinary for a long and 

involved survey instrument. (I’d like to personally thank each one 

of you who took the time to fill out a survey for us.) The results 

of that survey, which fit very well with the themes emerging from 

the focus groups, were presented to the Board’s Advancement 

Committee in February. If you’d like to see more about the survey, 

please drop me a note and I’ll send you more information. 

What does all of this mean? In the everyday workings of the 

Marketing & Communications office, we hope to have a better idea 

of where our publications, our website, and other outreach efforts 

need to go. We hope to have a better idea of what to look for when 

we try to capture Haverford and deliver it to you in the pages of a 

magazine or in a brochure. 

When we set out to improve the design of the alumni magazine, 

we had conversations on campus with alumni, faculty, staff, students, 

and administrators; a panel of faculty and administrators interviewed 

graphic-design candidates in December. Preliminary magazine 

designs were reviewed by the Virtual Communications Committee, 

whose members are alumni volunteers working in publishing, 

advertising, marketing, and communications. At the end of that 

process, we hired Acquire LLC, a design firm in Ardmore whose 

crisp, clean work you see here. 

We hope you like what you see in these pages. Of course, 

change is not always met with open arms. We’d like to hear 

from you just the same. 

S T A F F 

Jill Sherman 

Vice President for 

Institutional Advancement 

Stephen Heacock 

Editor, Executive Director of 

Marketing & Communications 

Tom Ferguson 

Production Manager, 

Class News Editor 

Brenna McBride 

Staff Writer 

Hilary O'Sullivan 

Office Manager 

Acquire, LLC 

Graphic Designer 

Contributing Writers 

Chris Kent ’74 

Romina Levy 

Howard Lutnick ’83 

Maya Severns ’04 

Erin Tremblay ’04 

Virtual Communications 

Committee 

Norman Pearlstine ’64, Chairman 

Editorial Advisory 

Committee 

Violet Brown 

Emily Davis ’99 

J. David Dawson 

Delsie Phillips 

Jennifer Punt 

Willie Williams 

Stephen Heacock 

Executive Director of Marketing & Communications 

Haverford College Marketing 

and Communications Office 

370 Lancaster Avenue 

Haverford, PA 19041 

(610) 896-1333 

©2002 Haverford College

The Alumni Magazine of Haverford College Spring2002 

FEATURES 

ThePromise 

of Tomorrow 

15 Haverford shows its resolve in 

three illustrations of integrity, 

courage, and leadership. 

16 The Era of Restoration 

John Whitehead ’43 tackles 

the project of a lifetime. 

by Brenna McBride 

DEPARTMENTS 

2 The View from Founders 

4 Letters to the Editor 

5 Main Lines 

7 Ford Games 

10 Reviews 

12 Faculty Profile 

36 Notes from the Alumni Association 

37 Class News 

52 Moved to Speak 

20 Looking Forward, Looking Back 

Jerry Levin ’60 talks about 

life after AOL Time Warner. 

32 In the Company of Heroes 

The CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald 

rebuilds his life and his work. 

by Howard Lutnick '83 

Haverford Alumni Magazine is printed four times a year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Please send change of 

address information to: Haverford College in care of Jeanette Gillespie, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, 

or via e-mail: jgillesp@haverford.edu. 

C Haverford Alumni Magazine is printed on recycled paper. 

On the Cover 

Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, 

is native to eastern North America 

and flowers April through May. 

Illustration by Acquire, LLC.

The View from Founders 

by Tom Tritton, President 

Brownian Motion 

In 1822, the English botanist Robert Brown noticed that small grains 

suspended in water underwent continuous movement. This movement— 

rapid, irregular, unpredictable, and random—came to be known as 

Brownian motion. 

Nearly a century later, in 1905, 

Einstein offered the first mathematical theory 

that could explain such complex yet 

erratic behavior. Modern scientists are still 

extending and refining our understanding 

of Brownian motion and the theory 

has also been used to explain such disparate 

phenomena as stock market fluctuations, 

scheduling problems in manufacturing, 

and aerosol disposition in the 

human lung. 

Brownian motion has come to be a 

metaphor for all events that are random 

and unpredictable. One would hope that 

the progress of a college in achieving its 

ideals would not depend on Brownian 

motion, but on an orderly, systematic, and 

thoughtful analysis. Alas, on some campuses 

forward progress has been more random 

than intentional, especially concerning 

the development of buildings and 

structures, which often seem to have been 

placed and designed without much forethought 

(or even afterthought). Not so at 

Haverford, fortunately, where the campus 

has evolved into a beautiful, aesthetically 

arranged, and lovingly tended array of 

buildings and arboretum. 

In the continual thinking that occurs 

on this campus, we have come to realize 

that the College will need to consider several 

construction, building, and remodeling 

projects over the next several decades. 

Phase I 

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Phase II - Option A 

Phase II - Option B 

These include: an academic building to 

house programs not yet imagined; a residence 

hall to decompress our somewhat 

constrained current dorms; a performance 

center for music, dance, theater, lecture, 

and other gatherings not currently well 

accommodated; and, most immediately, an 

indoor athletic center to replace and 

expand our outdated facilities and allow 

us to have a respectable showing to 

prospective students, faculty, and staff 

interested in sports, recreation, health, 

and wellness. With these needs identified, 

and mindful that others may 

arise from future generations of 

Fords, we became aware that 

Brownian motion was not the 

optimal way to allow the campus 

to develop and evolve. So, this 

year we embarked on a master 

planning exercise that defines the 

potential for development over the 

next five to 50 years in an orderly 

way while preserving the essential 

beauty of the Haverford campus. The 

result is shown pictorially on the next page 

and the remainder of this column provides 

a commentary of how a very complex 

process unfolded. 

The initial meeting with our architectural 

consultants (Bohlin Cywinski 

Jackson, an exceptionally accomplished 

and prominent firm) began at 9 a.m. on 

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. No reminder 

is needed of other events that transpired 

at that exact moment, and no 

one will be surprised that the architects’ 

meeting did not proceed 

exactly as planned. And it later 

became apparent—especially to 

those of us present for that first 

meeting—that the development 

of the Haverford campus will be 

forever linked to the redevelopment 

of the nation and the world 

that emanated from that fateful day. 

Once master planning was underway, 

we had to bear several objectives in 

mind at once: locating the site of the first 

phase of the planned indoor athletic facility 

(now called the Douglas B. Gardner 

Memorial Athletic Center); elaboration of 

options for Phase II of the athletic project; 

provision of sites for the other buildings 

that are foreseen but not yet underway; sustenance 

of the natural beauty of the campus; 

and commitment to environmentally 

sound design and sustainable energy use. 

Over the course of several months the 

planning committee and architects examined 

dozens of options and sub-options. 

There were discussions of the evolving 

ideas at a variety of meetings of students, 

faculty, staff, and the Board of Managers. 

The College Planning Committee oversaw 

and coordinated the vast amount of consultation 

needed to seek a consensus and 

eventually held two all-campus meetings 

to thrash out the ideas. In the end, two 

options emerged as the best alternatives. 

Either would have served the College well 

for the foreseeable future but, in the end, 

we decided that one of these allowed the 

most imaginative combinations of space 

and architecture; this may be seen in the 

diagrams shown here. 

Phase I places the planned athletic 

center adjacent to the 

Whitehead Campus Center. This 

site is intended to enliven the 

focus on student life in what has 

come to be called the “South 

Quad” and to provide a new and 

vibrant entry to the campus from 

the main parking lot. Construction 

of the athletic center also frees 

the space in the Ryan Gymnasium 

for other uses such as the new 

Humanities Center and the Center for 

Peace and Global Citizenship. The two 

options shown for Phase II allow for different 

placements of a new fieldhouse as 

well as building sites for future projects. 

Overall, the master plan preserves the 

essential features of the Haverford campus: 

a core of buildings surrounded by open 

space, trees, and arboretum. As the plan 

is realized, we will also see the now 

somewhat barren and little-used south 

field transformed into a series of rectangular 

quads that match the sprit 

and aesthetic of the north campus, 

giving the college a mature, orderly, 

and satisfying panorama. 

Coming back to where we 

started, it is evident that Brownian 

motion is fine for random events 

but not for the development of college 

campuses. By completing the 

master plan we have set ourselves on 

a well-designed and intentional path. 

There are many more details and ramifications 

than space allows here, but I 

assume that I will hear from you all with 

questions and commentary. Meanwhile, I 

propose to call what we have done 

Haverfordian motion and let the next 

Einstein come up with a fitting mathematical 

description of our work. Should 

make for some wonderful equations... 

Spring2002 3

Letters to the Editor 

Honor Code 

Revisited 

I read your lead article “Is Honor up for 

Grabs?” (Haverford Alumni Magazine, Fall 

2001) with great interest. As a graduate of 

Haverford (’56) and a professor at the 

University of Virginia, I am extremely 

proud of both honor systems. I feel that 

Robert Boynton ’85’s article was unfair to 

both. 

There are a number of inaccuracies in 

the article that I would like to address. 

First, is there cheating at the University of 

Virginia? Yes. Several cases have been 

brought to my attention without my specifically 

looking for them. In my field of computer 

science it is too easy to copy an entire 

file of code and make superficial alterations. 

The cases in which I have been 

involved were prosecuted by students and 

judged by students; I only gave testimony. 

Some students were expelled and others 

were not. I disagreed with several decisions. 

I also disagree (along with many faculty) 

with the “single sanction” mentioned 

in the article. But this is a student-run system. 

Whenever attempts to repeal the single 

sanction (permanent dismissal from 

the university or acquittal are the only possible 

trial outcomes) are brought before 

the student body, they have overwhelmingly 

voted to retain it. 

Our student honor system has come 

under severe pressure from outside the 

university, as perhaps Haverford’s honor 

system has not. We have recently emerged 

from a year-long law suit pressed by a wellknown, 

high-powered Washington law 

firm claiming that their client was denied 

due process and denied professional counsel. 

I am proud that, instead of caving in, 

our administration defended the student 

system and eventually won. It is still a “student 

honor system.” 

I am disappointed that Mr. Boynton 

chose to scold the professor who had “written 

a software program to ferret out 

cheaters.” Lou Bloomfield, whom I know 

somewhat, delights in teaching well and 

is consistently one of the most popular 

professors at U.Va. He would be right at 

home at Haverford. He most certainly does 

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not get his kicks from “ferreting out 

cheaters.” In fact, he wrote the program 

out of pure intellectual curiosity. He wondered 

aloud whether it was possible to 

write a program that would detect such 

plagiarism. He was astounded at the 

results. And, as a matter of his own intellectual 

integrity, he felt that he was compelled 

to make these results public. Whistle 

blowers are seldom popular; but thank 

goodness there are still a few in public service. 

Personally, I am proud of Lou. 

I am also disappointed that Mr. Boynton 

chose to link this incident with the “trust, 

but verify” policy of the Reagan-Gorbachev 

era. Creating an association with an unpopular 

policy is a cheap journalistic trick. In 

the only journalism class I ever took (at 

Columbia), I was taught to establish a 

“trusting relationship with my sources, but 

to always verify the facts.” Is verification 

no longer a journalistic tenet? 

The tone of the article is scolding, as in the 

final paragraph, 

“Rather, I am suggesting the reverse of 

the Reagan-Gorbachev adage: ‘Trust, 

but don’t verify,’ the assumption being 

that any honor code worth having 

should operate more as an ideal than 

an enforcer. The students who violated 

U.Va.’s honor code – no less than the 

professors trying to thwart them – are 

missing the point.” 

But beneath this scold one senses an 

undercurrent of fear that perhaps students 

are also cheating at Haverford as well, but 

that Mr. Boynton doesn’t want to hear 

about it. It would be a shame to have an 

illusion of the ideal shattered. 

Students are cheating at Haverford. 

Perhaps not many, or possibly more than 

we suspect. With it so easy to download 

paragraphs or even entire essays from the 

Internet, I can assure you that some students 

are cheating – even if they don’t talk 

about it. And that is one of the great values 

of both honor systems. At neither 

school do students talk about cheating, let 

alone boast about it. At the large Midwestern 

state university where I took a sabbatical, 

boasting was the rule. 

My greatest disappointment is that an 

important issue is left completely unexplored 

in the article. He lauds the 

Haverford honor code as “a philosophy 

of conduct through honesty, integrity, and 

understanding.” I agree completely. It is 

a marvelous way to live, to study, to 

become an adult. But this is a philosophy 

which is relatively easy to maintain in a 

close-knit, almost-family environment 

such as Haverford where almost everyone 

knows each other. The issue that 

should be addressed is, “how can such a 

valuable ethos be extended to a much 

broader society?” The University of 

Virginia is more than 10 times the size of 

Haverford and much more diverse. Its 

honor code, which was adopted when the 

University was not much larger that 

Haverford, is showing cracks and strains. 

It is very unlikely that we can really maintain 

the kind of code that works at 

Haverford. But we are trying to keep the 

best, the most important part of it. And, 

while Virginia is larger and more diverse 

than Haverford, it is nowhere as large or 

as diverse as the Midwestern university I 

mentioned. What would be required to 

establish and preserve a working honor 

code in that kind of society? 

This last issue is of real importance 

because it represents, in a kind of microcosm, 

a fundamental issue facing the 

United States today. How does one export 

and encourage the philosophy of democracy 

in societies that are much larger, much 

more contentious, much less homogeneous 

than ours or western Europe? Could 

“democracy” take a different form in these 

societies, and will we look down our noses 

at efforts that lack the purity we experience 

in our own society? I believe that both 

Haverford and the United States will suffer 

if we become too smug and assured of our 

own perfection. 

John L. Pfaltz ’56 

Charlottesville, Va. 

Haverford Alumni Magazine welcomes letters to the editor. Items for publication should be 

addressed to: Editor, Haverford Alumni Magazine, 370 Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 

19041-1392. Letters may be sent via e-mail to Steve Heacock at sheacock@haverford.edu. 

Letters are subject to editing for space and style considerations.

Main Lines 

Artwork courtesy of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. 

An architectural rendering of the new athletic center, with the Whitehead Campus Center at left. 

New Athletic Center Named 

Haverford’s new athletic center, which is being designed by the award-winning architectural 

firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, will be named the Douglas B. Gardner Memorial 

Athletic Center. On April 18, at the New York City campaign celebration, this announcement 

was made public by Howard Lutnick ’83, the lead donor for this facility. Gardner 

was Lutnick’s Haverford classmate as well as his professional colleague at Cantor Fitzgerald. 

Gardner, along with the three other Haverford alumni who were victims of the Sept. 11 

terrorist attacks—Thomas Glasser ’82, Calvin Gooding ’84, and Philip Haentzler ’74—will 

be featured in the Summer 2002 special memorial issue of the Haverford Alumni Magazine. 

J. David Dawson Appointed New Provost 

John David Dawson, professor of religion 

and comparative literature and 

Constance and Robert MacCrate Professor 

in Social Responsibility, has been named 

provost of the College. Dawson succeeds 

Elaine Hansen, who has served as provost 

since 1995. Hansen will be the new president 

of Bates College effective July 1, 2002. 

“David is a scholar and academic leader 

of the first rank,” says President Tom 

Tritton. “I am exhilarated that he will be 

Haverford’s new provost.” 

Dawson did his undergraduate work at 

Towson State University, earned his M.Div. 

at Duke University, and his M.A., M.Phil., 

and Ph.D. at Yale University. At Haverford, 

he presently serves as director of the 

Humanities Center and director of the 

Mellon Tri-College Forum. 

“I’m eager to join students, faculty and 

all who support their work in building further 

on our solid foundation of academic 

excellence,” Dawson says. “I hope to help 

us all imagine new ways to continue to 

enact Haverford’s long-standing commitment 

to the productive interaction of intellectual 

creativity, curricular innovation, 

and social responsibility.” 

The next issue of Haverford Alumni 

Magazine will carry an in-depth profile of 

Dawson. 

John David Dawson, Haverford’s 

new provost 

Faculty News 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

has awarded $500,000 to Haverford 

College, for use over approximately five 

years, to support the Andrew W. Mellon 

Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows program. 

Karin Åkerfeldt, associate professor 

of chemistry, received the Lise Meitner 

guest professorship, which will enable 

her to work with her collaborator at the 

University of Lund, Sweden. 

An article by Professor of Astronomy 

Stephen Boughn called “Cross-Correlation 

of the Cosmic Microwave 

Background with Radio Sources: Constraints 

on an Accelerating Universe” was 

published in the journal Physical Review, 

Vol. 88 Issue 2. 

Professor of Mathematics Lynne 

Butler gave an invited talk titled “Lattice 

Theory, Enumerative Combinatorics 

and Topology” at the Annual National 

Meeting of the American Mathematical 

Society, Jan. 6-9 in San Diego. 

Rebecca Compton, assistant professor 

of psychology, has been awarded a 

grant from the National Institutes of 

Health for her project “Effects of 

Anxiety on Interhemispheric Processing.” 

Alison Cook-Sather, director of the 

education program and assistant professor 

of education, wrote the chapter 

“Teachers-to-Be Learning from Students-Who-Are: 

Reconfiguring Undergraduate 

Teacher Preparation” for the 

book Honoring the Teacher’s Heart: 

Stories of the Courage to Teach, published 

by Jossey-Bass. 


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Bill Davidon, emeritus professor of 

mathematics, co-authored the article “A 

characterization of convexity-preserving 

maps from a subset of a vector space into 

another vector space,” which appeared in 

Vol. 64 of the Journal of the London 

Mathematical Society. 

Four professors have been awarded 

Mellon New Directions fellowships: Doug 

Davis, professor of psychology; Richard 

Freedman, professor of music; Deborah 

Roberts, Barbara Riley Levin Professor of 

Classics and Comparative Literature; and 

Robert Scarrow, associate professor of 

chemistry. Mellon New Directions fellowships 

allow these faculty members to take 

one-semester leaves to explore new directions 

in teaching, research or other forms 

of engagement deemed critically important 

to institutional goals. 

Professor of Religion John David 

Dawson’s book, Christian Figural Reading 

and the Fashioning of Identity, was published 

by University of California Press. The book 

analyzes the practice and theory of “figural” 

reading in the Christian tradition of 

Biblical interpretation. Dawson is also a 

contributor to Cambridge University Press’ 

Cambridge History of Early Christian 

Literature; his chapter explores Christian 

literature in the third century. 

Assistant Professor of Religion Kenneth 

Koltun-Fromm’s book, Moses Hess and 

Modern Jewish Identity, is a co-winner of 

the Koret Foundation Jewish Book Award 

in Jewish Philosophy and Thought. The 

Koret Foundation awards a prize in four 

categories (Fiction, Biography and 

Autobiography, History, and Philosophy 

and Thought) to heighten visibility of the 

best new Jewish books and authors. Also, 

Koltun-Fromm’s article “Imagining Moses: 

The Burden and Blessing of Reading 

Freud’s Moses and Monotheism,” was published 

in the most recent edition of Jewish 

Book World. 

Associate Professor of Philosophy 

Danielle Macbeth wrote the chapter “Frege 

and Early Wittengenstein on Logic and 

Language” for the book From Frege to 

Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic 

Philosophy, published by Oxford University 

Press. In March, Macbeth also chaired an 

Invited Paper Session on the Philosophy 

of Language on “Demonstrating Necessity” 

at the American Philosophical Association’s 

Pacific Meeting in Seattle. 

Wyatt MacGaffey, Emeritus John R. 

Coleman Professor of Social Sciences, contributed 

a chapter entitled “Twins, Simbi 

Spirits and Iwas in Kongo and Haiti” for 

the book Central Africans and Cultural 

Transformations in the American Diaspora, 

published by Cambridge University Press. 

Associate Professor of English Rajeswan 

Mohan presented “Modernist Literary 

Landscapes and the Imperial Unconscious” 

at the 20th Century Literature Conference 

in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 22-24. 

Judith Owen, Elizabeth Ufford Green 

Professor in the Natural Sciences, has 

received a National Science Foundation 

RUI grant for her research, “m-survivin 

Expression in Differentiating Lymphocytes.” 

Visiting Assistant Professor of 

Mathematics Keith Pardue attended the 

Annual National Meeting of the American 

Mathematical Society, Jan. 6 through 9 in 

San Diego and presented two invited papers: 

“Syzygies of Semi-Regular Sequences” and 

“Generic Sequences of Polynomials.” 

Deborah Roberts, Barbara Riley Levin 

Professor of Classics and Comparative 

Literature, gave a contributed paper on 

translations of Petronius as part of a seminar 

on translation at the American 

Philogical Association’s annual convention 

in Philadelphia, Jan. 3-6. 

Walter F. Smith, associate professor of 

physics, presented his paper “Shadow 

Mask Evaporation and its Application in 

Nano-electronics” at the March meeting 

of the American Physical Society in 

Indianapolis. The paper, of which Smith 

is co-author, describes a method for making 

clean electrical contacts to such macromolecules 

as DNA and carbon nanotubes. 

Assistant Professor of Psychology 

Wendy Sternberg was awarded a National 

Institutes of Health grant for her work in 

“Analgesia Induced by Athletic 

Competition.” 

Martha Wintner, senior lecturer in 

English, will retire this spring after more 

than 30 years at Haverford. The College 

will celebrate the careers of both Wintner 

and her husband, Claude, adjunct professor 

of chemistry who retired several years 

ago, with a reception and the commemorative 

planting of two willow trees by the 

duck pond. 

Associate Professor of English Christina 

Zwarg published two articles in two leading 

academic journals. “Du Bois on 

Trauma: Psychoanalysis and the Would- 

Be Black Savant” appeared in Cultural 

Critique, Vol. 51. “Work of Trauma: Fuller 

and Emerson on the Border of Ridicule” 

was included in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of Studies 

in Romanticism. 

McBride Joins IA Staff 

Brenna McBride joined the Institutional 

Advancement staff on January 21. As the 

chief writer for the Marketing and 

Communications department, she is 

responsible for generating stories for this 

magazine, as well as press releases, newsletter 

copy, and items for the College’s website. 

She also develops stories for media 

placement and works with reporters on 

general College publicity, including student 

and faculty achievements. 


McBride, a native of Philadelphia, 

comes to Haverford from the John F. 

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 

in Washington, D.C., where she was assistant 

manager of publications. Prior to the 

Kennedy Center, she was a writer and editor 

for University Publications at the 

University of Maryland, College Park. 

McBride is a 1996 graduate of Loyola 

College. She earned her B.A. in Writing 

and English and was a Dean’s List student. 

Errata 

Due to an editing error, a class note 

from Alan Armstrong ’61 on page 38 of 

the Winter 2002 issue contained a misspelling 

of the name of the late Haverford 

librarian Michael Freeman. It appeared in 

the note as Friedman. 

A class note on the same page referred 

to Douglas Bennett ’68 as president of 

Wesleyan College. He is president of 

Earlham College.

Ford Games 

by Steve Heacock 

Mission Accomplished 

As an incoming freshman, J.B. Haglund ’02 wondered if he could keep pace with a 

strong cross-country team. He graduated this spring as one of the best distance runners 

in Haverford College history. 

As a Haverford freshman, J.B. 

Haglund went to Nationals with the crosscountry 

team and, after the competition 

was over (he came in 131st), watched the 

awards ceremony. He watched members 

of other teams walk up to the podium to 

accept trophies. And he thought about how 

badly he wanted that kind of recognition, 

that thrill of winning, for himself and for 

his teammates. 

This past May, Haglund received his 

diploma from Tom Tritton. Marking the 

end of his Haverford career with friends, 

family, and teammates, he received his 

degree in English. And he graduated as 

one of the most accomplished runners ever 

to compete at Haverford. 

In a powerhouse track program that has 

produced stellar runners and results for 

many years under legendary coaches like 

Pop Haddleton and Tom Donnelly, Haglund 

belongs in the all-time elite company of 

Ford runners Jim Grosholz ’49, the late 

Seamus McElligott ’91, and Karl Paranya 

’97. Haglund is only the second national 

men’s cross-country champion in College 

history (McElligott won the Division III 

title in 1990 after being runner-up in 1989; 

Paranya was runner-up in 1996). 

Haglund is a seven-time All-American: 

twice in cross-country and five times in 

indoor track. He was named National 

Runner of the Year in 2001 for cross-country. 

He served as a captain of the crosscountry 

and track and field teams both this 

year and last. In March, Haglund learned 

that he won the NCAA’s most prestigious 

scholar-athlete award, the NCAA Post- 

Graduate Scholarship, the seventh Ford 

athlete in six years to do so. As this magazine 

was going to press, he traveled to 

California for the Stanford Invitational, 

J.B. Haglund ’02 has emerged as a leader of Haverford’s cross-country and track teams. 

where he qualified for the NCAA Division 

III outdoor championships; he will be a 

strong contender to win one or more additional 

NCAA titles in late May. 

This summer, Haglund will attempt to 

qualify for the USA Track & Field 

Nationals. If things go well and his times 

continue to improve, future Olympic trials 

are not out of the question. 

“J.B. is very mature, a joy to coach,” 

Donnelly says. “He’s not a runner blessed 

with pure athleticism. J.B. is strong, 

focused, self-motivated, and a hard worker. 

He works not for himself as much as 

for the team. He’s all for the team and the 

guys really appreciate that. That kind of 

competitive attitude makes everyone on 

the team work that much harder and pull 

for each other.” 

Haglund was born in New Mexico, 

where his father, Richard, worked at Los 

Alamos National Laboratory. His mother, 


Ford Games 

Haglund is likely to add to his NCAA titles in late May. 

Carol Ann, who taught high-school 

English for a while, decided to stay at 

home to raise the five children: three boys 

and two girls. The family moved to 

Germany for a year when Haglund was 

four years old. Then, about six months 

after they returned to the States, the 

Haglunds moved to Tennessee, where 

they’ve lived ever since. Richard (who, 

coincidentally, ran track at Wesleyan with 

Paranya’s father, Stephen) is a physics professor 

and chair of the department of 

physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt 

University. 

“We had a very nerdy house,” 

Haglund recalls with a laugh. “My friends 

used to joke about it sometimes – I 

remember one of my track buddies in 

high school giving me a hard time when 

my dad asked him if the ham at the athletic 

banquet was ‘synthetic.’ It never 

occurred to me that it was strange to say 

‘synthetic’ instead of ‘fake.’ My dad would 

have his colleagues and grad students over 

for dinner and they would start talking 

about stuff you couldn’t even understand. 

The mother of one of my best friends is a 

marine archeologist, so I had some friends 

who were serious about school and were 

in similar situations. My dad would come 

home from work and ask us to spell hard 

words and tell us about what was going 

on in the office. There were always a lot 

of books in our house and everyone read 

a lot. We didn’t have a television for a 

while. We often had some pretty intellectual 

discussions over dinner.” 

All of Haglund’s siblings ran track, but 

none had long careers or notable success. 

J.B. started running competitively in middle 

school. It was a rocky beginning to a 

running career, with Haglund coming in 

second or third to last in most of his races 

in 7th and 8th grade. “I was starting to 

get a little better at the end of 8th grade,” 

he says, “but I would rather have been 

playing football. My parents wouldn’t let 

me play, though, so running was the 

option I pursued.” 

In high school, Haglund found the 

going tough again. He attended 

Brentwood High School in suburban 

Nashville, a public school of approximately 

1,600 students. There were only 

about a dozen runners on Haglund’s 

freshman cross-country team. Over the 

next two years, however, the team 

improved and grew to nearly 50 runners. 

Brentwood won its first-ever regional 

championship during Haglund’s junior 

year and repeated the feat the next year. 

The team went to the state championships 

both years, coming in 10th the 

second year, Haglund’s senior year. “I was 

the best distance runner in my high 

school,” he says, “and I finished fifth in 

the state my junior and senior years. We 

did well at States in cross-country, but 

most public schools in Tennessee don’t 

finish that high. It’s mostly private schools 

at the top. The state is not very deep as 

far as distance running is concerned. 

There are a few good guys, but it dropped 

off quickly from the top. I wasn’t recruited 

by anybody, anywhere.” 

After high school graduation, Haglund 

had his heart set on the U.S. Air Force 

Academy and training to fly F-15s. The 

dream was never realized when a routine 

eye exam revealed that he had 20/25 

vision in one eye. “I found out later that I 

still could have pursued the Air Force, 

that I wasn’t really disqualified,” he 

explains, “but I was under the impression 

that I was out. But at that point I started 

my college search, very late and without a 

clue as to what I wanted.” Haglund’s father 

suggested small schools, since he’d 

enjoyed his experience at Wesleyan. But it 

was Haglund’s eldest sister, Kristine, who 

played a pivotal role. Living in Ardmore 

at the time, Kristine knew Haverford was 

an outstanding college and when she saw 

a newspaper story about Tom Donnelly 

and the stellar track program at Haverford, 

she knew J.B. would be a good fit. “It wasn’t 

until late December of my senior year,” 

Haglund recalls, “that I actually came up 

for a visit. It was the last day of exams and 

almost all of the students were gone. Tom 

showed me around campus a little bit and 

I ran with some guys from the team that 

afternoon. I never really had an official 

admission tour and I never visited any 

other college except Haverford because I 

was so late. Grinnell was my second 

choice and Centre College in Kentucky 

was kind of my safe school.” 

Before he arrived at Haverford, 

Haglund realized that he was stepping up 

to a higher level of competition. He called 

then-captain Chris Hood ’96 the summer 

before freshman year, hoping to get a sense 

of the team and where he would fit in. “I 

had the impression that they had Karl 


I certainly wasn’t confident 

about my running ability 

when I got to Haverford. 

Tom was more confident 

in my abilities than I was. 

That’s a powerful thing, to 

have someone with that 

kind of running knowledge 

and coaching perspective 

and you know you can trust 

him more than you can trust 

yourself. 

(Paranya) and maybe a couple of other guys 

but then it really dropped off,” he explains. 

“I thought I could break into the top five 

until I asked Chris how fast they usually 

ran five miles to be in the top 7 and he said 

26 minutes flat. I had been running three 

miles in about 16 minutes in high school, 

so I thought there was no way I could make 

this team. But it made a big difference learning 

how to train better and working with 

a really good bunch of guys. I snuck on as 

the 7th man and there were some great runners 

on the team, like Jason Bernstein ’01 

and Stephon Petro ’01.” During Haglund’s 

freshman year, Paranya ran the first subfour-minute 

mile in Division III history, a 

mark that still stands. 

Instead of spending the next two years 

improving his times with his Haverford 

teammates, Haglund followed in his father’s 

and his eldest brother Rich’s footsteps – he 

served his mission for the Church of Jesus 

Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In fact, all five 

Haglund siblings have paused in their youth 

to serve or to take stock of life in some way. 

Kristine was in the missionary training center, 

preparing for her mission in Japan, 

when she became ill and couldn’t go. Rich 

spent a year at Boston University before 

serving his mission in Dresden just after 

the Berlin Wall came down. J.B’s other 

brother, Evan, who attends the University 

of Chicago, served his mission in Brazil 

and returned last July. And his youngest 

sister Erika ’04 took a year off to decide 

whether she will pursue a professional violin 

career. She will return to Haverford in 

the fall. 

J.B. went to Seoul, where he fell into a 

routine of running at 5 a.m. (when he 

would coax a fellow missionary to get out 

of bed an hour early), working for the 

church all day, and either working or studying 

until 10:30 at night. Away from his strict 

running regimen, he gained about 30 

pounds over the two years. The work 

ranged from spreading the word about the 

church to working in orphanages and 

teaching English classes. Haglund has studied 

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in addition 

to the German he picked up as a young 

child. “My mission was a very satisfying 

experience even though it was difficult in so 

many ways,” he says. “You have to get used 

to a new way of communicating, new culture. 

The church in Korea is very small, so 

there isn’t a large, established network of 

relationships to work with. You end up 

knocking on thousands of doors. The volunteer 

teaching and the orphanage work 

balanced things out, though.” Haglund 

plans to build on his mission experience 

and use his NCAA scholarship to pursue 

East Asian Studies in graduate school. 

Haglund faced a much stiffer jolt of culture 

shock when he came back home. 

Suddenly, he was surrounded by Caucasians 

and confronted with the wide, open spaces 

of the United States. Driving through a 

crime-ridden neighborhood, he realized 

just how low the crime rate was in Korea 

and how little thought he’d given it. 

American food now made him feel sick. 

“You also realize,” he says, “that while 

you’ve been gone, everyone’s been living 

their lives for two years. Sometimes friends 

have moved on and you don’t occupy the 

same place in their lives anymore.” His tight 

relationships with the track program helped 

him through this time, as he worked to 

shed the extra weight and to get back into 

top running condition. “Running is what 

I do,” he explains, “and being a better runner 

is what I really want to be, so being 

around familiar guys, who know what to 

expect from me, made a big difference.” 

Fast-forward to senior year and 

Haglund and his cross-country teammates 

are wondering just how good they’re 

going to be. “I knew we’d be strong, but 

there was quite a progression as the season 

went on,” he says. Donnelly changes 

up their training routines a bit, doing 

more threshold work as opposed to faster 

intervals with more rest. As the season 

progressed, Donnelly saw Haglund emerging. 

He was working out alone because 

the others couldn’t maintain his pace, a 

difficult and lonely assignment for the 

team-oriented Haglund. Coach Donnelly, 

now in his 27th season at the helm of 

Haverford’s cross-country and track teams, 

responded with wise assessment and 

encouragement. “Tom was saying, ‘You 

know, nobody’s doing what you’re doing. 

You’re going to win Nationals. There’s no 

one you can’t beat.’ ” 

As the season wore on, however, 

Haglund was wearing down, even as the 

team won with record performances at 

Conference and Regional races. Everyone 

on the team expected to turn in a solid performance 

at Nationals in Rock Island, Ill., 

and Haglund was going to lead the way. At 

the beginning of the race, however, he felt 

so sick he nearly dropped out. “I really 

focused and relaxed a bit,” he recalls, “and 

after about three miles I took the lead. I 

started pushing really hard and at about 4 

and a half miles, the race was basically 

over.” Haglund had won NCAA gold, running 

the 8-kilometer course in 24 minutes 

and 16 seconds. Like the Kapok Kid, 

Haglund’s favorite character in one of his 

favorite novels, Alistair MacLean’s H.M.S. 

Ulysses, he had navigated the course. He 

had, in MacLean’s words, risen magnificently 

to the occasion. 

Like most Fords, Haglund is modest. 

He credits Donnelly and his teammates 

with much of his success. “Tom is very 

straightforward and honest with you right 

from the start,” he says. “I certainly wasn’t 

confident about my running ability when 

I got to Haverford. Tom was more confident 

in my abilities than I was. That’s a 

powerful thing, to have someone with that 

kind of running knowledge and coaching 

perspective and you know you can trust 

him more than you can trust yourself. One 

of his goals is to teach people how to coach 

themselves. Looking back on what’s been 

valuable to me at Haverford, by far that 

which stands out the most is running track 

and cross-country and learning how to get 

from being a mediocre high school runner 

to being in a position to run competitively 

after Haverford. It’s been quite an experience 

and absolutely wonderful every step 

of the way.” 


Reviews 

Bart Campolo ’85 

Kingdom Works 

SERVANT PUBLICATIONS, 2001 

Bart Campolo has devoted his life to Christian service, working as an urban missionary and 

directing Mission Year, a program that recruits young people to give a year of their lives to serve 

in outreach teams. These outreach teams live and work in inner-city neighborhoods, inspiring 

people to love one another and work together as a community. Kingdom Works is a collection 

of stories based on the author’s own experiences and those of the students who participate 

in Mission Year. Some of the stories feature difficult situations for Mission Year participants, 

while others show the obstacles inner-city kids have overcome to become Christians. Not 

every story, however, is one ending in success. Campolo does not attempt to hide this fact, and 

is not afraid to discuss his own shortcomings as well. Regardless of religious conviction, 

Kingdom Works invites the reader to reflect on humanity, and how many people there are 

who could use just a little help, a little guidance, and a little love. 

– Maya Severns ’04 

Richard Lederer ’59 and Gayle Dean 

Merriam-Webster’s Word Play Crosswords, Vol. 1 

MERRIAM-WEBSTER, 2001 

Lederer and Dean have teamed up to produce a collection of word play crossword 

puzzles that will keep even the crossword guru busy for hours. The duo determined 

that the possibility of wordplay in a crossword puzzle is the most enjoyable and challenging 

factor in the game, and so with Lederer’s knack for wordplay and Dean’s perfect 

puzzle constructions, 50 brand new puzzles were born. Each puzzle is centered 

around a different form of wordplay from homophones to beheadment, puns to anagrams, 

and cynical definitions to euphemisms. Lederer is the well-known author of 

many linguistic books and articles, including Anguished English, Get Thee to a Punnery, 

The Play of Words, and The Word Circus. Dean’s puzzles have appeared in The New York 

Times, The Washington Post, and Dell Puzzle magazines. 

– M.S. 

Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk ’86, eds. 

Felicia Hemans: 

Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century 

PALGRAVE, 2001 

This collection of 12 scholarly essays analyzes the poetry of Hemans and its importance to modern 

readers. An extensive forward by Marlon B. Ross poses the question “Why Hemans now?” as 

the editors try to answer that very question. Divided into three sections, the book examines the 

Romantic poet’s work, analyzes her reputation as a domestic feminine poet, and reveals the significance 

of Hemans’ work during both her lifetime and our own. Sweet and Melnyk demonstrate 

the evolution of the poet’s work from her early works (praised for their seemingly masculine 

tones), to a middle period (termed “feminine” and “affectional”), to her later works (which 

attempted to free women’s poetry from its traditional confines by turning to religious inspiration). 

From feminine to feminist, Sweet, Melnyk, and their colleagues argue that Hemans has 

much to teach us about gender, culture, and poetry itself. 

– M.S. 


Brian D. Cohen ’81 

Brian D. Cohen: Etchings and Books 

BRIDGE PRESS, 2001 

This collection of previously published black-and-white images provides 

an introduction to and survey of the work of visual artist Brian Cohen. Cohen’s 

etchings are strikingly paired up with only sparse commentary, simple titles, 

and occasionally an accompanying literary passage or poem. The book format 

provides a pleasant pace with which to view the art and also a sense of 

continuity, connection, and progression between the various images. 

– Erin Tremblay ’04 

Baylis Thomas ’54 

How Israel Was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 

LEXINGTON BOOKS, 1999 

The ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East seems 

to have no end in sight. According to Thomas, there is no 

hope of an end to Palestinian terrorism, given the current 

conditions of the Palestinians, who live scattered throughout 

unwelcoming Arab countries. 

As for the causes of this civil strife, Thomas insists that 

the situation is not merely Jewish people desiring a homeland 

after the Holocaust versus Arabs who don’t want to give 

up their land as reparation for a European-caused atrocity. 

The actions of the U.S. and many European and Arab nations, 

Thomas insists, must also be analyzed. The Arabs and Israelis 

did not start this war on their own; they had some help along 

the way, all for the sake of politics. 

In 1897, the First Zionist Congress proposed the need for 

a Jewish state. All initial attempts to use alliances with Britain 

and Germany and their ties to the Ottoman Empire to attain 

this state failed. However, during World War I, Britain found 

itself in need of assistance from both Arabs and Jews, and 

knew what each one would want in return. Britain simultaneously 

promised Arab national independence over 

Greater Syria, including Palestine, in 

exchange for help in defeating the Ottoman 

Empire, and a Jewish homeland in Palestine 

for assistance in ending U.S. neutrality. 

These conflicting promises were not made 

public, though, until the 1930s, when 

Britain, in need of Arab oil in wartime, 

acknowledged its pledge of Arab independence 

in Palestine. The Jewish reaction was a 

demand for a state over all of Palestine in 

1942. Thus began years of opposition, which 

would not be helped by third-party politics, 

particularly U.S. and Soviet relations, or lack 

thereof, during the Cold War. 

The optimists among us place hopes in peace negotiations. 

However, Thomas does not think that this conflict will 

be resolved in the near future. He points out the fundamental 

problem in negotiations, which is that one side is considerably 

stronger than the other. “Negotiations between the 

powerful and the powerless are largely rhetorical and come 

down to gift-giving,” the author states. Unfortunately, when 

the powerful see themselves as the victims, there is little 

chance that they will choose to give gifts to their enemies 

and seek peace, nor would their enemies be grateful if gifts 

were given to them. Thus we are faced with a “Gordian knot 

of mutual hatred,” as Thomas calls it, virtually impossible to 

untangle. 

The author also calls attention to the fact that history contains 

many stories of the colonizer, who sees himself as morally 

justified in taking any land away from the colonized and 

imposing his culture upon them, while the colonized are 

expected to be grateful despite their loss of land, resources, 

and culture. In fact, according to 

Thomas, every group of people has 

either been colonized or are colonizers 

themselves. 

Thomas has presented a very reasonable 

argument, grounded securely 

in historical facts, with even more 

details in the pages of notes following 

each chapter. How Israel Was Won 

presents a historically accurate, well 

written, and just account of the 

Arab-Israeli conflict, exemplifying 

that, in war, no one ever truly wins. 

– M.S. 


Faculty Profile 


SavingOurCities 

Through his research on urban policy and development, 

Steve McGovern explores the best ways to revitalize 

American cities—and how ordinary people can affect 

significant changes in politics and policy. 

Steve McGovern, a faculty member since 1999. 

When assistant professor of political 

science Steve McGovern was growing 

up in Manhattan in the late 1960s, his 

working-class neighborhood was hit by a 

wave of development. Most of the walkup 

tenements in which his friends lived, 

as well as his school, were demolished to 

make way for office buildings and highrise 

luxury apartment buildings. “It was 

very scarring,” he recalls, “watching all of 

my friends move away.” 

Years later, when McGovern was in 

graduate school at Cornell University, the 

memory of those years in Manhattan 

returned. “I asked myself if that development 

was inevitable, or could ordinary citizens 

have had any meaningful opportunity 

to change it.” 

For the past decade, McGovern, who 

joined Haverford’s faculty in 1999, has examined 

various answers to that question 

through his research in urban policies and 

development, and the social activism that 

often results from such plans. He studies the 

myriad strategies used by mayors and other 

political leaders to revitalize their cities, and 

how the citizens of those cities can play a 

valuable role in influencing policy decisions 

and seeing their needs met. “In graduate 

school, I became very interested in democratic 

theory,” he says. “I wanted to know 

the extent to which ordinary people could 

participate in politics and bring about fundamental 

changes in policy.” 

McGovern’s fascination with urban politics 

grew naturally out of a love of politics 

in general, which, he remembers, 

began to take root sometime in eighth 


grade, at the height of the Watergate scandal. 

“My social studies teacher was talking 

about current events and the Watergate 

revelations, and at one point said—probably 

for the first time herself—‘It looks like 

the President is a criminal.’” He was jarred 

by her words, particularly because both of 

his parents were strong supporters of 

Richard Nixon. 

I, like lots of political 

science majors, went into 

law hoping it would open 

a lot of doors. I wanted 

to be a public-interest 

lawyer. 

“At that point it dawned on me that I 

had to think for myself, and ask myself 

what I thought was right,” he says. “I started 

paying attention to politics and forming 

my own opinions.” 

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in 

government at Cornell in 1981, McGovern 

entered law school at New York University. 

“I, like lots of political science majors, went 

into law hoping it would open a lot of 

doors,” he says. “I wanted to be a public 

interest lawyer. 

“No one told me, when I was an idealistic 

senior in college,” he laughs, “that 

getting a job doing public interest law 

would be difficult.” 

During his law school years, McGovern 

immersed himself in the city, serving in a 

number of non-profit organizations 

throughout New York. He volunteered 

with the Coalition for the Homeless, which 

at the time was filing several important 

lawsuits and establishing precedents for 

the rights of the homeless in the state of 

New York. He also worked for a law firm 

specializing in labor and an immigration 

law, doing pro bono work for both. “When 

it came time to graduate,” he says, “I knew 

I was not going to practice law for all that 

long. So I decided to pursue job possibilities 

with corporate law firms in order to 

make money very quickly to pay back 

some pretty steep debts.” 

He found that job in 1985, as an associate 

with a large firm in Los Angeles. Fielding 

the inevitable “L.A. Law” jokes, McGovern 

focused his energies on commercial litigation. 

“It was the kind of corporate law that 

had the least adverse impact on the public 

interest,” he says. “My firm had a very big 

environmental law practice but represented 

mostly oil companies, and a big labor 

law practice but represented management. 

I saw business litigation as a situation where 

one big company sues another big company, 

and the outcome would have little or no 

impact on the public.” 

McGovern continued in this vein until 

1987, when he came to the conclusion that 

he was not doing anything truly meaningful 

with his life. “When I look back 

now, I realize it would have been a pleasant 

life,” he says without a hint of regret. “I 

would probably have made partner and 

had a very comfortable existence. But it 

just wasn’t fulfilling.”

He returned east to attend graduate 

school at Cornell, thinking he would study 

public law. But a prominent political theorist 

came to the university during 

McGovern’s second year, and encouraged 

him to apply his interests and background 

in a new direction: “He pointed out that 

since I had become so interested in democratic 

theory, and applying democratic theory 

to politics, then why not study politics 

at the local level, since it is at the local 

level where ordinary citizens have the most 

potential to influence political decisionmaking.” 

The memory of what had happened 

to the Manhattan neighborhood of 

his youth cemented his decision. 

For his dissertation—which would turn 

into his 1998 book The Politics of 

Downtown Development: Dynamic Political 

Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, 

D.C. (University Press of Kentucky) — 

McGovern turned his attention to two 

major American cities on opposite sides of 

the country, whose citizens had both 

McGovern’s research 

focuses not only on citizen 

involvement and activism, 

but also on the revitalization 

methods used by 

city officials. 

engaged in community-based activism in 

the face of rapid downtown development 

during the 1970s and ’80s—with very different 

results. 

“Activists in San Francisco had a very 

progressive vision of politics; they believed 

in citizen empowerment and an activist 

role for government in bringing about 

social justice and greater equity throughout 

the city,” says McGovern. “Moreover, they 

practiced what they had preached—their 

actions were consistent with their progressive 

ideology.” For example, the 

activists relied on grassroots-oriented, citizens 

initiative campaigns as their primary 

vehicle for changing downtown development 

policy. They also pioneered the use 

of linkage policies, which set aside substantial 

sums of revenue from the developers’ 

high-rise buildings for affordable 

housing, mass transit, child care, and job 

training and placement programs. As a 

result of their progressive activism, community 

groups in San Francisco succeeded 

in changing popular and elite conceptions 

about the future development of the 

city, and that transformation in consciousness 

paved the way to important 

changes in public policy. 

By contrast, although Washington’s 

activists claimed to adhere to the same progressive 

vision of politics, their actions 

unwittingly undermined that vision. “Close 

inspection of the D.C. activists’ behavior in 

pushing their agenda revealed a surprisingly 

elitist and libertarian orientation,” says 

McGovern. He found two predominant sets 

of activists in Washington: the planning 

activists, who trusted the government much 

more than they did their fellow citizens with 

land-use decision-making, and the housing 

and community development activists, who 

had faith in other people but were skeptical 

of what the government could hope to 

accomplish, and more inclined to put their 

faith in the market. 

“The D.C. activists’ market-oriented 

rhetoric and practices, combined with their 

elitism, actually reinforced the vision of 

politics already supported by dominant 

groups in the city, and reaffirmed their policy 

preferences and approach to governing 

in general,” he says. 

McGovern would like to see other cities 

learn from San Francisco’s example and 

engage in practical activism of their own, 

but, he says, the City by the Bay remains 

the exception, not the rule. “Effective grassroots 

activism is a necessary but not sufficient 

condition for the adoption of progressive 

policies,” he says, explaining that 

a city’s capacity to generate the resources 

for equitable development policies also 

matters. “In a desperately poor city like 

Camden, N.J., it would be very difficult to 

pull off what activists in San Francisco had 

accomplished, even if they followed their 

actions to the tee. San Francisco is very 

privileged, with lots of resources and 

amenities, while Camden has few.” 

McGovern’s research focuses not only 

on citizen involvement and activism, but 

also on the revitalization methods used by 

city officials. He has been published in such 

academic journals as Critical Sociology and 

Policy and Politics, discussing such issues as 

mayoral leadership and economic development 

policy in Mayor Ed Rendell’s 

Philadelphia and political culture as a catalyst 

for political change in American cities. 

He is seeking publication of an article entitled 

“Ideology, Consciousness, and Inner- 

City Development: The Case of Stephen 

Goldsmith’s Indianapolis,” studying how 

mayor Goldsmith, a Republican, ostensibly 

used a conservative populist approach 

to revive inner-city neighborhoods. “This 

is a political vision that has become increasingly 

common in urban politics during the 

last decade,” says McGovern. His research 

reveals, however, that the Goldsmith 

administration actually employed the 

power and resources of government far 

more extensively than one would have 

expected of an avowed conservative. The 

combination of conservative rhetoric and 

progressive action produced a contradictory 

consciousness among community 

leaders in Indianapolis, which has impeded 

revitalization efforts. 

Throughout the country, McGovern 

has seen a trend of cities spending large 

amounts of money on downtown development, 

but paying less attention to surrounding 

neighborhoods in decay. 

“There’s been very little community revitalization 

in American cities,” he says. 

In the 1990s Philadelphia 

had a very popular mayor, 

who was reelected by a 

lopsided margin for a 

second term, yet the city 

lost more residents than 

any other city in the country 

during this decade, largely 

due to its substandard 

public schools. 

“Most of the revenue for rebuilding major 

cities comes from the federal government, 

and it has been reluctant to substantially 

fund the redevelopment of inner-city 

neighborhoods.” There are many reasons 

why this is so, he explains, but the biggest 

is that cities have, over the past few 

decades, lost political clout to the suburbs. 

“The problems are so immense in 

poor urban neighborhoods, you need a 

very aggressive strategy.” 

Currently, McGovern is exploring such 


Faculty Profile 

strategies while co-authoring a book with 

Charles Euchner, Executive Director of 

the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston 

at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of 

Government. Called To Make the City 

Whole: Dialogues on the Problems and 

Prospects of Urban America, the book will 

give an overview of past and present urban 

policy in the areas of economic development, 

poverty and welfare, housing and 

community development, education, and 

crime, and recommend policy proposals 

and revitalization strategies for the future. 

The class encourages 

students to make an 

attempt to see the political 

world through the eyes 

of these groups. 

“The number one policy priority, in my 

view, ought to be education,” he says, and 

uses the case of Philadelphia in the ’90s 

to illustrate his point. “In the 1990s 

Philadelphia had a very popular mayor, 

who was reelected by a lopsided margin 

for a second term, yet the city lost more 

residents than any other city in the country 

during this decade, largely due to its 

substandard public schools.” The core 

problem, he says, is that city schools are 

underfunded, with fewer resources than 

their suburban counterparts. “The textbooks 

are sometimes more than 20 years 

old, classes are far too large, and there are 

a lot of physical problems. In an urban 

school on a rainy day, you can count the 

number of puddles inside in the hallway.” 

Next year, when McGovern is on leave, 

he plans to take a closer look at 

Philadelphia by beginning a new research 

project centered on two aspects of the 

city’s redevelopment: its waterfront refurbishing 

(and the extent to which citizens 

are involved in the planning process) and 

Mayor John Street’s Neighborhood 

Transformation Initiative (NTI). Budgeted 

at more than $250 million, the NTI aims 

to demolish 14,000 decaying structures 

and assemble large tracts of land in distressed 

neighborhoods beyond Center 

City for new market-rate housing. “This is 

a bold move,” says McGovern, “and it raises 

all kinds of questions: How will it disrupt 

neighborhoods? Will lower-income 

residents benefit?” 

McGovern, who normally hires at least 

one student as a research assistant per 

year, wants to involve his students even 

more deeply in this new project, bringing 

them into the field to conduct interviews 

and gather data. In the meantime, he continues 

to offer them an alternate perspective 

on the American political scene by 

teaching a course in politics as seen from 

the point of view of marginalized groups, 

such as people of color, women, gays and 

lesbians and the poor. “It encourages students 

to make an attempt to see the political 

world through the eyes of these 

groups,” he says, although he has noticed 

that most Fords are already inclined to do 

so even before they arrive on campus. 

“One of the unique things about 

Haverford is its long tradition of supporting 

social justices causes,” he says. 

“This sets it apart from other small liberal 

arts colleges.” 

Outside of his teaching and research, 

McGovern spends quality time with his 

wife of 11 years, Lisa Baglione, an associate 

professor of political science at St. 

Joseph’s University in Philadelphia who 

specializes in international relations and 

Russian politics, and his two children, 

three-year-old Jack and one-year-old 

Maria. It’s not unusual to see Jack and 

Maria strolling around campus with their 

mother and father and greeting their many 

fans in the Haverford community, or playing 

in the sandbox outside of the Hall 

Building on nice days. When they leave 

campus, the family sometimes goes to 

Philadelphia to explore neighborhoods 

and new development sites. “Jack is a big 

fan of large construction sites,” says his 

proud father, “especially if there are any 

mobile cranes around.” 

McGovern has still another vision for 

the future that would bring students from 

Haverford and Bryn Mawr full force into 

the midst of his research: an urban center, 

located in Philadelphia, that would 

allow participants to live and study in the 

city and work as interns in local government 

offices and nonprofit organizations. 

“It would expose them to urban life firsthand,” 

says McGovern, “and I think they’d 

love it.” And, with any luck, they’ll follow 

in the footsteps of their professor, 

searching for ways to make cities whole 

once again. 

Steve McGovern currently teaches the 

following classes in political science: 

American Politics: Difference and 

Discrimination—An introduction to 

American politics through the 

perspective of individuals who 

have experienced discrimination 

Mobilization Politics—Explores 

how ordinary citizens have sought to 

advance their interests outside the 

normal institutions of politics and 

government 

Social Movement Theory—A theoretical 

analysis of origins and development 

of mass-based protest movements in 

the U.S. 

Urban Politics—Examines power and 

politics at the local level of government, 

particularly of large American cities 

Urban Policy—An analysis of public 

policies aimed at revitalizing U.S. cities 

following several decades of suburbanization 

and capital disinvestments 

McGovern’s most recent publications include: 

The Politics of Downtown Development: 

Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco 

and Washington, D.C. (University Press of 

Kentucky, 1998); “Cultural Hegemony as 

an Impediment to Urban Protest 

Movements: Grassroots Activism and 

Downtown Development in Washington, 

D.C.,” Journal of Urban Affairs, vol. 19, 

no. 4, December 1997; “Political Culture 

as a Catalyst for Political Change in 

American Cities: An Analysis of 

Competing Models,” Critical Sociology, 

vol. 23, no. 1, November 1997; and 

“Mayoral Leadership and Economic 

Development Policy: The Case of Ed 

Rendell's Philadelphia,” Policy and 

Politics, vol. 25, no. 2, April 1997. He has 

presented several of his papers at leading 

academic conferences, among them 

“Ideology, Consciousness, and Inner-City 

Redevelopment: The Case of Stephen 

Goldsmith’s Indianapolis,” at the Ninth 

National Conference on American 

Planning History, Philadelphia/Camden, 

November 2001; and “Revitalizing the 

City: New Strategies from a Republican 

Mayor,” at the Northeast Political Science 

Association, Annual Meeting, 

Philadelphia, November 1997. 


Three extraordinary New Yorkers – John Whitehead ’43, 

Jerry Levin ’60, and Howard Lutnick ’83 – have been 

touched by September 11 in ways difficult to comprehend 

even now, nearly eight months later. 

All three have different stories to tell, different roles 

to play. They draw on strengths and perspectives unique 

to Haverfordians. Here are their stories. 


The Era of 

At age 80, John Whitehead ’43 finds himself 

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John Whitehead (left) meets with Gov. Pataki. 

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facing the biggest challenge of his life: restoring New York City to its former glory. 


September 11, John Whitehead was in London, having 

lunch. It was 2 p.m.– 9 a.m. New York time– when someone 

flew through the doors of the restaurant to announce the news. A patron 

turned on the television, and Whitehead watched in stunned silence as the city he 

loved bled from wounds that seemed irreparable. 

“I felt like a sailor who had missed his ship,” he explains. “Like the ship had 

gone off to war without me. I felt badly being so far away from home.” 

New York City had been more than a home to Whitehead; it was a lifelong friend, 

the kind with which you grow up and share triumphs, tragedies, happiness, and 

heartbreak. It’s the friend that even distance can’t chase away. Aside from his years 

at Haverford and his time in the Navy, John Whitehead had never lived far away 

from New York for more than four years, having been raised in nearby Montclair, 

New Jersey, and then living in Manhattan for the past 13 years. And now, when the 

city was in unimaginable pain, he couldn’t be there to comfort, help, or heal. It 

took him three more days to get a flight home from London. 

Now, he’s more than making up for that lost time. As chair of the Lower Manhattan 

Development Corporation—an 11-member agency organized by New York governor 

George Pataki to coordinate rebuilding efforts in Manhattan and direct the spending 

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of federal money—Whitehead is charged 

with the unenviable task of putting his 

city back together again. Despite his love 

for New York, it wasn’t a chore he was 

eager to undertake. 

“I was both surprised and distressed 

when Governor Pataki asked me to head 

this,” he says. “I said to him, ‘Governor, 

when you created this company, you said 

that this would be a 10-year project. I’m 

80 years old, so I’ll be 90 when the project 

is completed. Did you know that?’” Pataki 

admitted that no, he hadn’t realized this, 

but, says Whitehead, the governor 

responded, “I still want you to do it.” He 

gave Whitehead 48 hours to make a decision, 

during which time a variety of friends 

and colleagues called him and begged him 

to accept the position, reiterating their belief 

that he was the only person for the job. 

In the end, says Whitehead, “I couldn’t 

say no. I called the governor about five 

minutes before the 48 hours were up and 

accepted.” 

Looking back on the reasons Pataki and 

others wanted him for the job, Whitehead 

chuckles, “I think they thought that at my 

age I wouldn’t be very ambitious.” 

Seriously, he says, “I had spent 38 years 

working in Wall Street, so [Pataki] knew 

that the city was a big part of my life and 

that I understood it. He also knew that I 

had many friends, fellow New Yorkers, 

who would be involved in all of this.” 

Since taking the position, Whitehead 

has found that a typical day “begins when 

I wake up and ends when I go to sleep.” 

There are many people to consult, many 

meetings to call and attend, press conferences 

to host, and advisory committees 

whose voices must be heard. In contrast, 

says Whitehead, a weekend of board meetings 

at Haverford is the equivalent of a 

vacation. 

Whitehead and his committee are not 

merely charged with revitalizing Lower 

Manhattan, but also sending an undeniable 

message to the rest of the world. “It 

should send the message that New York 

City has recovered from a terrible disaster, 

one that we and the rest of the country 

and world will never forget.” It’s a 

responsibility that would make many 

blanch, but John Whitehead accepts it 

with grace and easy confidence. 

It seems as if everything Whitehead 

has seen, done and experienced in his lifetime 

has prepared him for his present task. 

He grew up in Montclair, where he cultivated 

his love of all things New York. 

His mother’s passion for opera took them 

both to the Met several times, while 

Whitehead’s passion for baseball drew him 

to the home games of the famous New 

York Giants. He made a special point to 

visit the Statue of Liberty as a birthday 

treat one year. 

His Haverford education, he says, significantly 

contributed to his professional 

and personal development. “I think in 

many ways Haverford set my character, 

who I turned out to be,” he says. “I realized 

here the importance of service, that 

we were all here to try and serve, and that 

accomplishing things for ourselves was 

not the most important thing. I learned 

that each individual, and his views, were 

important.” 

This philosophy served him well as he 

and his fellow Fords prepared for war in 

1943, the year of Whitehead’s graduation. 

“That was a war that unified the country,” 

he remembers. “Everybody in my class at 

Haverford went into the service right after 

we graduated. In those days being classified 

4-f—unqualified—was an embarrassment 

rather than a privilege.” Some 

of his classmates left school before graduation 

to join the service, but most— 

including Whitehead—benefited from 

Haverford’s accelerated graduation: “We 

took classes the summer after our junior 

year and graduated in January rather than 

June, so we could sign up.” 

Whitehead joined the Navy, and found 

himself traversing both the Atlantic and 

Pacific to join in the invasions of 

Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima and 

Okinawa. “The ship that I was on was an 

amphibious transport ship,” he says. “It 

carried small boats on deck, lowered them 

into the water loaded with troops, and sent 

them in to make invasions.” Despite his 

participation in these historical battles, 

Whitehead is reluctant to refer to himself 

as a “hero;” he reserves that term for the 

soldiers who fought on those beaches. “I 

drove one of these small boats and landed 

in the first wave on D-Day. More than 

half the 20 soldiers in my boat were killed 

before they got off the beach. They were 

the ones that deserve heroes’ medals.” 

After returning from the war, 

Whitehead received his MBA with distinction 

at Harvard Business School, and 

then entered into the first of what he calls 

the “three phases” of his life. In 1947 he 

joined Goldman Sachs, a leading 

Manhattan-based investment banking and 

securities firm; established in 1869, it is 

one of the country’s oldest and largest 

investment firms. He rose rapidly through 

the ranks, becoming partner in 1956 and 

senior partner and co-chairman in 1976. 

He retired in 1984 after 38 years with the 

firm, but continued to serve on the boards 

of numerous financial companies and as a 

director of the New York Stock Exchange. 

In 1985, the second phase of his life 

unexpectedly led him to Washington, 

D.C., to be Deputy Secretary of State in 

the Reagan Administration under 

George Shultz. He took special interest 

in relations with Eastern Europe, the 

United Nations, and reforms in the 

State Department, and was awarded the 

President’s Citizens Medal for his 

efforts. 

In 1989, Whitehead returned to New 

York City and began the third—and what 

he assumed would be the final—phase of 

his life, as a dedicated philanthropist and 

an active board member of many educational, 

civic, and charitable organizations. 

He wore the hat of chairman in several 

capacities: for the board of the Federal 

Reserve Bank of New York, the United 

Nations Association, the Andrew W. 

Mellon Foundation, the Brookings 

Institution, the Asia Society, International 

House, and AEA Investors, Inc. And he 

has been an active member of Haverford’s 

Board of Managers and Chairman of the 

Board from 1972 to 1982. 

“I was lucky to make a lot of money,” 

he explains, plain and direct as usual. 

“And my tastes were never very fancy. I 

was never interested in owning yachts or 

racehorses or anything like that; I preferred 

to give it away to worthy institutions.” 

He finds philanthropy extremely 

satisfying, he says, because it allows him 

to be involved in the organizations to 

which he gives, and so offers him the 

opportunity to make a difference in ways 

besides simply providing money. 

Reflecting on the winding road of his 

life, Whitehead realizes a lesson he has 

learned. “People can be a lot of things in 

their lives—they don’t necessarily have to 

be one thing forever—and life goes on 


“I think in many ways Haverford set my character, who I turned out to be,” he says. 

“I realized here the importance of service, that we were all here to try and serve, and 

that accomplishing things for ourselves was not the most important thing. I learned 

that each individual, and his views, were important.” 

longer than you think,” he says. “I was 62 

when I retired from Goldman Sachs, and 

I thought my life would wind down from 

there. Instead, I had two more exciting 

phases. And now I have a new chapter, 

bigger than any other.” 

With the Lower Manhattan Development 

Corporation, he finds himself putting 

into practice strategies and approaches 

that have worked well for him in 

business and government. “I know the 

importance of listening before you decide, 

and not having preconceived conclusions,” 

he says. “When you listen to the other person’s 

point of view, you sometimes find a 

solution that can meet their needs and also 

accomplish your own objectives. And I’ve 

found that achieving consensus, instead of 

voting on things, is very important. If you 

can reach consensus, there are no losers.” 

Whitehead is well aware that he will 

have to do a lot of listening—and achieve 

a great deal of consensus among many disparate 

factions—if he is to make a success 

of his new job. Not just for himself, but 

for New York City, too. 

Whitehead and the corporation have a 

specific vision of how Lower Manhattan 

will look when the project is complete. 

“We want it to be developed as a multiuse, 

diversified community with not only 

tall office buildings but also residences, 

and therefore shops, restaurants, movie 

theaters.” He says that it would be impossible 

to once again build towers as high 

as the 110-story World Trade Center. 

Instead, he envisions a new performing 

arts center and small museums. He plans 

to restore and renovate all subway and 

street transportation in the downtown 

area. Construction on the first building 

should begin by the end of the year. 

In general, Whitehead describes the 

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation 

as being in a “listening mode” right 

now, gathering information and advice 

from the company’s advisory boards: one 

to represent families of victims, one for 

downtown residents, one for restaurants 

and retailers, and others for arts, culture, 

and tourism. In frequent public meetings, 

the board members describe for the corporation 

their wishes and needs, and give 

Whitehead a clearer picture of how the 

President’s $21.3 billion in aid should be 

spent. 

And, of course, there will be a memorial 

to the victims of Sept. 11. “We want 

the memorial itself to be a wonderful, 

inspirational structure that will be, we 

believe, an important visitors’ center,” he 

says. “I actually believe that it may 

become the most significant visitors’ 

attraction in New York, vying with our 

many cultural places like the Metropolitan 

Museum of Art and the Metropolitan 

Opera.” The memorial itself would very 

likely be built on the site of the Twin 

Towers, which should be completely excavated 

by summer’s end. But even after the 

cleanup is finished, the six underground 

stories of what was once the World Trade 

Center will have to be rebuilt before anything 

on the surface can be restored. 

Therefore, the memorial itself will not be 

built for several years. 

Whitehead plans to have an international 

competition among the world’s best 

architects to decide who will have the 

honor of building the memorial, with an 

expert panel of judges making the final 

selection. As for the structure itself, 

Whitehead says, “I liken it to the Lincoln 

Memorial or the Jefferson Memorial, both 

of which I believe are very beautiful, inspirational 

buildings. We want this to be the 

same.” 

In the meantime, New York City has 

chosen to honor the victims and their families 

with interim memorials. Beginning 

March 11 (the six-month anniversary of 

the attack), two ethereal beams of light 

began illuminating the Manhattan skyline 

in the place where the World Trade Center 

once stood. This “Tribute of Light” is made 

up of 88 intense searchlights, juxtaposed 

in two 50-foot squares. A companion 

interim memorial, a 27-foot bronze sculpture 

by Fritz Koenig called “The Sphere,” 

sits in the center of Battery Park, a stretch 

of green along the southern tip of 

Manhattan. “The Sphere” once stood on 

a black granite base in the plaza of the 

World Trade Center, symbolizing peaceful 

global commerce. It was damaged but 

not destroyed in the attack, and has been 

cleaned and placed upon a concrete footing 

in the park, surrounded by flowers, 

cherry blossom trees, and a plethora of 

benches. It will remain here until a permanent 

memorial is built. 

“It has always served as a symbol of 

world peace,” says Whitehead of “The 

Sphere,” “and now it will stand as a testament 

to our resilience in the aftermath of 

this terrible tragedy. The interim memorial 

will provide a respectful and contemplative 

place for families, survivors, and 

the general public.” 

It’s times like these when Whitehead 

can’t help but think of another national 

tragedy he witnessed—Pearl Harbor—and 

its unexpected effect on the United States. 

“It brought the country together,” he says, 

“and now Sept. 11 seems to have done the 

same thing.” He has noticed a decrease in 

petty differences and bickering, even in 

the halls of Congress: “The passage of the 

campaign finance bill never would have 

happened if not for the new spirit in this 

country,” he says. There’s a precious unity 

throughout the nation, a unity Whitehead 

hasn’t experienced since the dawn of 

World War II. 

And now, at the most unexpected time 

in his life, he’s playing a vital part in putting 

that unity to work and keeping it alive 

by rebuilding what he calls “the greatest 

city in the world.” New York City has been 

a close friend to Whitehead all of these 

years; now he can return the favor. 


Looking Forward, 

As Jerry Levin ’60 transitions to life after AOL Time Warner, 

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he remembers the person he was at Haverford College— and the values he found there. 

Early last December, Jerry Levin was interviewed by 

Marvin Kalb on C-SPAN’s “The Kalb Report.” The topic was 

how media companies balance costs with editorial needs and, more 

specifically, the impact of war coverage on newsroom costs. The transcript of the 

interview follows. 

KALB Hello and welcome to the National Press Club and to another edition of 

“The Kalb Report,” which is co-sponsored by the George Washington 

University, The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy 

at Harvard, and the National Press Club. I’m Marvin Kalb, the executive 

director of the Washington office of the Shorenstein Center. Our program 

is called “Journalism at the Crossroads.” Our guest is Gerald Levin, the 

Chief Executive Officer of AOL Time Warner, which is, without doubt, 

the world’s largest, most powerful communications company. Also, without 

doubt, that makes Gerald Levin, the CEO, the single most important, 

most powerful person in media and communications. His face may not 

be as well known as Dan Rather’s, but Levin makes the decisions. Now 

about what, you may ask. Well, very quickly, let me give you just an idea. 

AOL Time Warner owns, among many other things, Harry Potter—the 

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books, the movies, the T-shirts. It’s said to 

be the biggest franchise since Star Wars, 

may prove even a bigger one. AOL has 

32,000,000 subscribers. Time Warner has 

a magazine division with 160 different 

titles, including such as Time magazine, 

People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and 

many more. Time Warner also has CNN, 

the most watched cable news operation 

in the country, though lately, Fox has 

been moving in. CNN has the technological 

capacity to reach a billion people 

around the world. Warner Brothers, also 

part of this conglomerate, makes movies, 

as you know. It has a library of 7,000 feature 

films, and its cable system reaches 

20 percent of American homes wired for 

cable. Turner Broadcasting owns four of 

the top 10 cable networks in the country. 

HBO ranks number one in pay television 

with hits such as “The Sopranos” 

and “Sex and the City.” Warner Music 

Group owns a million music copyrights. 

I could go on, but I think you get the 

idea. 

Gerald Levin has clout. When he 

speaks, people listen. Last Wednesday, he 

spoke and his words stunned Wall Street, 

the media conglomerates and the world of 

journalism. Levin announced that he was 

resigning next spring. The question— 

why? And maybe that is, in fact, a good 

place to begin our conversation. And for 

the sake of truth in advertising, this is not 

the first time that I have met Jerry Levin. 

He has been on a number of my panels 

in the past and that is the one terrific reason 

to bring him back. I am going to call 

him Jerry. He can call me whatever he 

likes. 

So, Jerry, why the resignation—why 

now? 

LEVIN When you make a movie, the 

most difficult part is deciding how to end 

it. We do a lot of market testing and, in 

several cases, the ending has been altered. 

Sometimes that hasn’t worked. I believe 

the same thing applies to a career and the 

issue of succession. Normally, I think 

people fall in love with their position to 

the point where it becomes part of their 

identity and they’re reluctant to leave. My 

own view has always been that among 

the most important decisions I’ll make is 

who to recommend as my successor. Over 

the last couple of years, it became very 

clear to me that in Dick Parsons and Bob 

Pittman we had a terrific team, and in the 

case of Dick Parsons, an extraordinary 

human being. I felt he had imprinted in 

his DNA values that are really important, 

and at age 53 he was ready. So I defined 

my own view as to when I should step 

down in relationship to Dick’s preparedness. 

At the same time, I want to bring 

joy to my family and this announcement 

has done that. 

KALB You haven’t quite answered the 

now part of it. Why—why now? 

LEVIN That’s more complex. Most people 

are not capable of psycho-analyzing themselves, 

so I won’t do that. But in addition 

to what I’ve articulated about succession, 

I would say to you that since September 

11th, work has been more of an emotional 

experience for me. That event 

caused me to reflect on what happens to 

families when there is the sudden, violent, 

inexplicable death of a loved one. 

Why should that, then, lead to a change 

in my own position? It’s an emotional 

question, a deep desire to help those 

who’ve been hurt. In the case of terrorism, 

it’s always been there. And yet, now 

we recognize it for the absolute evil that 

it is. In the case of our own mortality and 

what’s important in our lives, it causes 

you to think more about ultimate issues. 

That’s what’s happened to me. I can go 

on and on and describe what it’s like to 

be CEO of a company, but there is no 

preparation for it. Many people think they 

should be CEOs or they have sufficient 

training, but to assume responsibility, not 

only for a company’s fate, but for the people 

in the company – and at AOL Time 

Warner, that’s 92,000 people – is something 

you can’t prepare for. The emotional 

strain is intense and that was something 

that I felt was making it difficult for me 

to really concentrate on some things that 

I wanted to do and say. In a sense, I had 

to choose between following my heart 

and concentrating on helping people 

grieve and heal or follow my head and 

re-immerse myself in running the business. 

I won’t say it was an easy choice but 

now that I’ve made it, I believe it was 

inevitable. 

KALB Since you made the announcement 

last Wednesday, there has been, as you 

can imagine, a great deal of speculation. 

I’m sure you’ve heard and read most of it. 

Newsweek today speculated that one reason 

for your resignation was the growing 

strain of tension between you and Steve 

Case at AOL. Any truth to that? 

LEVIN Well, you know, certainly there’s 

not a set way to talk about journalism. 

Very often, particularly for CEOs or those 

who run companies, there is a tendency 

to resort to a caricature, cliché and certain 

kinds of mythology. It’s hard to believe 

that someone in my position would walk 

away from this job at this particular time, 

on the cusp of putting together two com- 

“In the case of terrorism, it’s always been there. And yet, now we recognize 

it for the absolute evil that it is. In the case of our own mortality and 

what’s important in our lives, it causes you to think more about 

ultimate issues. That’s what’s happened to me.” 


“First of all, in those early moments, we had to help the mayor set up this 

command center with digital cable lines and mobile communicators, then we 

helped the Family Assistance Center. Increasingly, our people became volunteers 

to work with the families who were coming in there.” 

panies. But when I say the real reason, it’s 

not accepted because there is always an 

assumption that there’s a hidden agenda. 

The intensely personal reason as to why 

I chose this time relates to a provision I 

put in my contract at the time of the death 

of my son when I wondered whether I 

should really continue with the company. 

The first time that I could exercise that 

provision was right now. 

KALB Do you mean the terms of what 

was written into the contract? 

LEVIN Yes, it was written four years ago 

when I wanted the ability to trigger a sixmonth 

notice period—at my option, as 

opposed to at the corporation’s option— 

to end earlier then what my contract said. 

This was the first occasion I could do it, 

and I did it, and I also thought it was 

appropriate to have a six month’s run 

until our annual meeting in May. It’s as 

simple as that. There isn’t any other agenda. 

I wanted to leave and I was confident 

about the person I had chosen to succeed 

me. 

KALB Jerry, an interview that you did with 

Ken Auletta with The New Yorker magazine 

which was published I believe at the 

end of October, has a line in there and I 

assume you did this at some point in 

October with Auletta. There is a line in 

there that there was “no defined timetable” 

for succession, and that you had at the 

time you spoke to Auletta, “no plan to 

leave any time soon,” quote unquote. Now 

you’re telling us about this clause which 

you wanted to trigger at this time, but that 

phrase to Auletta would suggest that 

something has arisen within the last 

month to have triggered your action. 

LEVIN Well, first of all as you know, 

Marvin, The New Yorker has a long lead 

time. The interview with Ken Auletta was 

done over the summer. 

KALB Oh, I see. 

LEVIN There was no subsequent conversation 

at all. 

KALB Okay, thank you. 

LEVIN Secondly, it’s important in talking 

about retirement that you don’t make the 

timing overly specific. What I’ve observed 

in other companies is that when you make 

a fairly significant announcement, it sets 

up a competition within the company and 

breeds a lot of tension. I thought it would 

be good to surprise—at least the external 

world—with this announcement. If you 

check an interview that I did with David 

Frost last May, you’ll see that he asked me, 

“Well, when are you going to retire?” He 

was the first person to ask me that. My 

answer was that there were three options: 

either you die, get fired, or retire—two of 

those options I don’t care for. So I said, 

I’m going to retire because, unlike some 

others in the media world—some of the 

older demographic in our business—I 

don’t intend to be around so long that 

they’ll have to carry me out. So I, at least, 

established a principle and, interestingly, 

I got a lot of questions that week about, 

are you thinking of retiring? I just put it 

aside for the moment. But I had very 

much intended to do this when I was certain 

that there was a person in place who 

could run the company. 

KALB And that’s Parsons— 

LEVIN Dick Parsons, yes, along with Bob 

Pittman and Steve Case. 

KALB Let me go back to September 11— 

a little bit. One of your colleagues was 

quoted in The New York Times last 

Thursday as saying that September 11 

affected you quote “both deeply and personally.” 

And I think there was some reference 

further down in the story that it 

was linked in some way or another, in 

your mind, to your son’s death back in 

1997. Was there in your mind, a linkage 

between your son and the mass murders 

that took place on September 11? 

LEVIN For my family and for me, yes. 

And you know, it comes with struggling 

with the ancient question of why do the 

just suffer? It was etched so vividly and 

movingly in the faces and the cries of 

those who lost their relatives, whose only 

sin was to go to work that morning. It 

opened all of the emotional wounds that 

my family had suffered. Certainly in New 

York, and within our company, I found 

almost immediately that there was this 

collective grieving process taking place, 

whether you were directly affected 

because someone you were close to had 

perished, or you actually witnessed the 

results of the attacks. If you didn’t see it 

happen, although most people in New 

York certainly did, you saw the media 

images, and these images were profound. 

And so, we began almost immediately 

doing things as a company that companies 

don’t ordinarily do. First of all, in 

those early moments, we had to help the 

mayor set up this command center with 

digital cable lines and mobile communicators, 

then we helped the Family 

Assistance Center. Increasingly, our people 

became volunteers to work with the 

families who were coming in there. 

Almost every week we would send out 

e-mails to the company. I would go 

around, and it was like conducting a ministry, 

except here there were no histori- 


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cal parallels. There really was nothing in 

anybody’s experience to prepare us for 

this. History is usually our teacher. But 

here there was no precedent for any kind 

of normal psychological assistance. 

People looked to me for compassion and 

understanding—even hugs and physical 

embraces—responses you don’t associate 

with CEOs. Increasingly, if you look 

at it philosophically, the company’s soul 

was coming to the fore. It had always 

been there. It had always led us to substantial 

public service. But now, it was 

taking precedence. The line between 

what a government does and what a 

company does blurred. We assumed the 

role of security, which we had always 

looked at as mainly a governmental function. 

And I don’t just mean physical security, 

although our networks now, I think, 

are understood to be rather important in 

the war on terrorism, but psychological 

security. Then, finally, if we ever needed 

an object lesson of what the role of journalism 

is, September 11th and its aftermath 

have helped teach us. Just compare 

what was occupying all of us a year ago 

or the subjects you covered in your book 

to what’s happening now. Trivia and 

celebrity hype have given way to the job 

of providing insight and understanding 

so that people can grasp what’s happening. 

The importance of real information, 

of global and local information—the 

heart of journalism, became paramount. 

KALB I want to talk much more about 

that very point, but I want to clear up just 

one thing here. You said, with respect to 

September 11, again that our entire society 

has begun to doubt itself, question its 

values, perhaps seek the false security of 

withdrawal and retreat. What did you 

mean by that? 

LEVIN It’s that simple. We can’t hide from 

what’s happened. 

KALB That’s right. 

LEVIN If you can’t explain the evil, then 

at least we still have the power to reaffirm 

our own sense of values not just in words 

but in acts. Evil must be resisted. That job 

doesn’t begin and end with the military, 

it includes the defense of our culture, our 

heritage, the defense of moral values like 

freedom and tolerance. We sent around a 

quote—actually Dick Parsons did this— 

that C.S. Lewis had written in 1939, right 

at the onset of the invasion of Poland. 

Lewis basically said that this is not a new 

era—we’ve always known that we were 

on the razor’s edge, and the most interesting 

advances in human culture and 

have usually come in our darkest hours. 

Crisis often returns us to the fundamentals. 

This is true in journalism as well as 

music and theatre. We saw that curiously 

played out even in the camps in Germany. 

There is something about the human spirit 

that rises up when it’s challenged by this 

inexplicable force. I’m simply saying we 

can’t retreat. We have to recognize a constant 

human need to affirm the good. I 

took a lot of philosophic comfort, certainly 

as a college student, in reading 

about the Resistance Movement in the 

Second World War. People like Camus— 

a favorite of mine—might have lost faith, 

but through resistance, rebellion, and in 

certain cases, death, they never surrendered 

to evil. Whether it was an uprising 

in the ghetto, or what took place on the 

plane that went down in Pennsylvania— 

it’s all part of this fight against evil which 

persists and always will. 

KALB I’m puzzled in one respect here. In 

several months you are going to join a 

fairly large army of former CEOs of AOL 

Time Warner, but before you made your 

announcement last week, before you 

became an effective lame duck, you had 

given the bully pulpit that you’ve referred 

to also, given the bully pulpit, you had 

the built-in power center. You could talk 

and people would listen to you and try to 

figure out what is journalism really getting 

at here because you were recognized 

as a power. Now, I don’t want to make you 

feel bad on this thing, but once you leave 

power and there’s a glowing record of that 

here in Washington, D.C., once you leave 

it people then look to the new power center. 

They’re not that interested then in 

what it is that a former has said. So why 

leave now—it is given everything you’ve 

been telling us now—you have such— 

you have so much more of an opportunity 

to express yourself from the bully pulpit, 

why go? 

LEVIN This is the most difficult issue for 

me to articulate because you’re giving me 

the arguments that my wife gave me, and 

she said no one will listen to you after 

May. I’ve wrestled with this. It is certainly 

true that one of the reasons I’ve been 

so intense about this issue for quite some 

time, is because it relates to my own family, 

my son, and also, to the moral heritage 

of my company. Henry Luce, in his will, 

said that Time, Inc. should be run in the 

public interest as well as the interest of 

shareholders. I grew up with that. 

Increasingly, I do believe that the dividing 

line between government, nonprofits, 

the educational world, and the private sector 

needs to be altered. We need to re-orient 

the kinds of people we’d like to be 

CEOs. We need to imprint on them a 

sharp sense of financial responsibility, of 

course, of truthfulness and integrity, but 

“I believe that discipline is very important. I would compare it to the operation of a government 

or a public agency or of a nonprofit organization where you don’t have the 

discipline of that financial performance, of meeting objectives in order to provide the 

resources to be reinvested.” 


“But before all that started, I was a student at Haverford College. I had a certain 

world-view and a certain sense of values that I’d actually like to return to, not to 

the campus, but to that person. That person is responsible for most of what I 

did subsequently. But I took on different layers of identity” 

also of their responsibility to the larger 

community. No one has a lock on defining 

the public interest. The Founding 

Fathers understood that clearly. That’s why 

they divided power among the executive, 

legislative and judicial branches, and left 

so much room for the private sector, particularly 

when they guaranteed freedom 

of the press. And so, I’ve been speaking 

out on that, including to the financial 

community. And yes, people are listening 

because I am the CEO. But there’s a tension 

there. I can’t separate myself from the 

position I hold. I must always be aware of 

the effects on the company of what I say. 

To a certain extent, then, I’m exploiting 

the platform that I have at AOL Time 

Warner, the most powerful media and 

entertainment company in the world. But 

at the same time, it’s a check on my own 

identity. I’m continually balancing who I 

am as Jerry Levin, private citizen, with 

who I must be as a CEO. I know some 

people are only interested in me because 

I’m CEO, but that has never mattered to 

me. It’s a difficult thing to articulate, but I 

feel I need to have my own integrity and to 

articulate ideas that really are important 

to me. 

KALB Independent of your position. 

LEVIN Yes. They have to come from me, 

because so often, what happens is you 

really do lose your identity. You lose a lot 

of other things too, I believe, in the 

process. 

KALB Of the corporate suit. 

LEVIN You do become a corporate suit. 

There’s not a lot of aesthetics involved in 

that. Or, you know, you live a life that’s 

definitely 24/7, and you miss a great many 

things. Another way of saying it is, since 

I’ve been a fairly young person, I’ve always 

had a title. I ran a company for a man 

named David Lilienthal who, by the way, 

also believed that companies should be 

operated for the public good. He taught 

me that. We trained Peace Corps 

Volunteers in the ’60s. We did a lot of economic 

developmental projects around the 

world. We received a project from Lyndon 

Johnson to plan for the redevelopment of 

the Mekong River Delta after we “won” 

the war in Vietnam. I was the Chief 

Operating Officer of the company, and 

that’s how people viewed me when I 

would travel around, by my title. But 

before all that started, I was a student at 

Haverford College. I had a certain worldview 

and a certain sense of values that I’d 

actually like to return to, not to the campus, 

but to that person. That person is 

responsible for most of what I did subsequently. 

But I took on different layers of 

identity. This is really a sidebar, a wild, 

but not relevant thought: you know, the 

oral tradition, as exemplified by Homer, 

the way you could communicate an individual, 

you used an epithet. In The Iliad 

and The Odyssey, each character would 

be connected to a descriptive phrase— 

Martin of the noble voice—and that’s the 

phrase that would constantly be repeated. 

Tradition required this constant repetition 

and what happens over a period 

of time, there are business epithets—and 

I use the word broadly—that are applied 

to you and constantly repeated. Indeed, 

a whole form of caricature comes into use 

among those who don’t fact-check or do 

their sourcing properly. I just want to get 

away from those caricatures and return 

to something more essential. If it means 

no one will listen, then that’s the risk I 

take, but I’ll be much truer to myself. It’s 

a hard thing to explain and, certainly, I 

don’t think most people, certainly the 

financial press, buy it. They believe there 

must be something else going on. 

KALB Yeah, well let’s buy it and move on 

to something you’ve already gotten to, but 

not in enough detail for me. Help us 

understand the pursuit of corporate profit. 

Just about everything else in the world 

of journalism these days, you yourself 

have been quoted as saying, “I’m a hawk 

on margins, profit margins, that means 

up, up and away.” And, I’m told by colleagues 

of yours that you’ve been this way 

from the beginning. This is not a new 

thing. And yet you’ve also been quoted as 

saying much more recently that AOL Time 

Warner executives should “have a higher 

order of priority than simply delivering a 

return to the stockholders.” That you’ve 

got a public trust. Now, are you suggesting 

that some of the executives at AOL 

Time Warner do not have that as a higher 

priority? That they are simply intent on 

delivering this return to the stockholders, 

that you yourself are a hawk on the margins? 

I’m having trouble understanding 

your philosophical explanation of your 

decision to move with the continuing reality 

of this hawk, and I’ve overused that 

term, but the idea that profit margins are 

absolutely essential, and the higher the 

better. 

LEVIN Well, the infrastructure for a company 

relates to its financial performance. 

That’s where the resources come from. I 

believe that discipline is very important. 

I would compare it to the operation of a 

government or a public agency or of a 

nonprofit organization where you don’t 

have the discipline of that financial performance, 

of meeting objectives in order 

to provide the resources to be reinvested. 

Financial discipline breeds a form of 

decision-making that is sufficiently precise 

and takes into account lots of competing 

objectives. That is helpful also in 

the public policy arena. So, your first 

order of business is to make sure that 


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there is a sufficient return, so that shareholders 

are investing and, by the way, 

that they and their families are doing 

okay. That provides the foundation to do 

certain things. 

KALB Look, Jerry, excuse me, but there’s 

a balance between the pursuit of profits, 

say at the level of 20 percent a year or even 

30 percent a year, or let us say 15 percent 

a year, knowing that you could get to 30, 

but you go for 15 so you can take the 

extra 15 and invest it for example in news. 

LEVIN Now, Marvin, I used the phrase 

“allocation of resources,” and that’s the 

key. For example, I have said, as it relates 

to CNN and Time and now NY1, our 

local news services, and to a certain 

extent that part of AOL that delivers the 

news, that we will spend what it takes. 

Let’s take each example. At Time Inc. we 

have something called People magazine. 

It’s the most popular magazine in the 

world by far, so they are a leader in magazines. 

The same thing is true of Sports 

Illustrated. Time’s news-gathering can 

command the resources that it requires 

because I know we’re getting to make 

money over here. We have something 

called CNN. Well, there’s TNT and TBS. 

There’s a cartoon network, the fastestgrowing 

network on cable. The worldwide 

news-gathering of CNN can be preserved 

and enhanced thanks to the 

profitability of these networks. That’s 

one way of making the balance. Where’s 

the connection with Wall Street? 

Everything I’ve said probably doesn’t resonate 

with Wall Street, but here’s where 

the connection can be made. I believe 

in having a committed work force. It’s 

helpful for them to understand that the 

things that they want to do to achieve 

some meaning aren’t done outside the 

company, aren’t just done with philanthropy, 

but are actually done right in the 

center of what they do. Obviously, they 

want a paycheck, but they will be more 

committed to the organization because 

of that, and therefore that will result in 

better performance. That’s the one connection 

I think for the financial community 

that I can make, and I believe it’s 

the case. The issue for me is, does that 

only apply to media companies because 

obviously we’re not in the business of 

widgets or furniture making? In our 

case, we affect the minds and hearts of 

people around the world every minute 

of every day. But I still believe this 

should apply to every corporation, no 

matter what it makes. 

KALB And I fully understand that and 

sympathize with it. What I’m trying to get 

a little more deeply into is this balance 

between profit and the public trust and 

the public service that you talk about. For 

example, last week CNN felt the need to 

let 31 news people go. At the beginning 

of this year, CNN bought out about 500 

people and at that time said that the 

bloodletting was over. But then there is 

this minor, except to the 31 people 

involved, they were let go. AOL in August 

let go 1,200 people. You talked about Time 

magazine a moment ago. It cut its research 

library. That research library, I know an 

awful lot of Time reporters who’ve lived 

on that, and that was a matter of great 

concern. It couldn’t have cost that much 

to keep it. 

LEVIN Well, let me start. Let’s start with 

the research library because I used it my 

entire career. We had a wonderful clip 

library. You could get a file practically on 

anyone and I loved it. Now we have all of 

this automated. 

KALB But some people like clips. I mean, 

really, just because… 

LEVIN No, all the data that was in that 

library is now available online, and rather 

than having a central, corporate clipping 

service, Time, People, Fortune, Sports 

Illustrated, all have access to this. It’s 

probably the finest online library in the 

world. We also have 20 million photographs 

in the Time & Life building that 

are fully catalogued and have the most 

interesting kind of taxonomies, so you 

can go in and get them. As for CNN, 

Walter Isaacson… 

KALB Who is he? 

LEVIN Walter was one of the finest print 

journalists in our company and is now 

heading CNN’s journalist operations. 

Walter is making his allocation of 

resources. He’s hired 175 people for certain 

areas that he’s emphasizing. Examples 

are Aaron Brown, Paula Zahn, and he’s… 

KALB I wanted to ask you about that. 

LEVIN And he’s deciding that there are 

other areas that in his journalistic judgment, 

not financial judgment, where he 

must hire more people. At the beginning 

of the year, CNN decided to build up its 

Internet, particularly the Internet side of 

CNN, cnn.com, because with the AOL 

Time Warner merger, we are essentially 

able to use the AOL infrastructure all 

throughout the Time Warner Internet 

services. That’s what that primarily related 

to. 

“No, no, this is an essential part of American journalism. There was a Lucean 

tradition that, where it really counted, you’d spend the money. That’s the premise 

that’s worked its way through Time and now CNN. I’m very comfortable with the 

fact that there appears to be a tension between dogged financial performance and 

delivering the highest-quality journalism.” 


“We have a clearly articulated set of values. Fundamental to who we are and 

what we do are journalistic independence and respect for the creative process, 

even at the risk of controversy.” 

KALB AOL 1200. 

LEVIN Yes. AOL, of course. I mentioned 

before that there’s a journalistic part of 

AOL, but the business side of AOL is subject 

to the market place itself. It doesn’t 

have the same, news-gathering functions 

that CNN and Time have. Let me go back 

in history and tell you why I’m a product 

of all this. I often quote the prospectus for 

Life magazine that has always been for me 

a touchstone. It was written by Archibald 

MacLeish, although Henry Luce took credit 

for it. Its message is that the essential 

mission for Life is “to see the world.” Life 

lived up to this mission. If you took its 

reach as a percentage of the population of 

the United States, it was the biggest massmarket 

news operation in history, larger 

than the networks. I know this because I 

studied it all. But Life magazine never 

made much money at all. Never. 

KALB The networks didn’t either during 

those years. 

LEVIN Well, they’re trying now. 

KALB I mean, the news departments of 

the networks. 

LEVIN No, no, this is an essential part 

of American journalism. There was a 

Lucean tradition that, where it really 

counted, you’d spend the money. That’s 

the premise that’s worked its way through 

Time and now CNN. I’m very comfortable 

with the fact that there appears to 

be a tension between dogged financial 

performance and delivering the highestquality 

journalism. I think those who can 

solve that equation will do better than a 

form of organization that is totally publicly 

supported, that doesn’t have the 

profit motive. It was important to me to 

make sure that this approach, these values, 

are built into the organization. And 

so, we have a values committee on the 

board. There are very few companies with 

that. We have a finance committee that 

vets the financial plan and audits the 

financial statements. We have a values 

committee that is still working its way 

through value creation as a moral priority. 

We’ve run a thousand or twelve hundred 

people through a values seminar. 

We’ve asked them to be the CEO and 

given them tough questions, tough journalistic 

questions, tough questions about 

violence in the media, music lyrics. The 

purpose is to imprint in their being a 

response mechanism that embodies our 

shared values. Here’s something I didn’t 

mention before. Being CEO is not a particularly 

powerful position because all 

the important decisions are made every 

day by people who are creating a magazine, 

making a movie, servicing a cable 

system, recording a song… 

KALB They all work for you. 

LEVIN Ah, that’s why my role has been 

to set at the highest level some broader 

recognition that values are important. 

KALB Let me get on to, we’re, we don’t 

have that much time, and I have about 

five hundred questions. 

LEVIN Fine. I just don’t want that to pass. 

KALB No, go ahead. 

LEVIN It is important that the people who 

are making the real decisions are the people 

on the line, and your assignment is to 

make sure that they understand what the 

company and you stand for. It’s important 

that they do it, not just that you represent 

them. I felt that was my assignment. 

KALB I have a question. You mentioned 

Paula Zahn before. I wanted to ask you, 

if you can do this, because I’ve never heard 

it done before, how do you calculate, how 

does the boss level at a network, at a conglomerate 

such as AOL Time Warner, calculate 

the work of talent? How is Paula 

Zahn worth almost 2 million dollars? How 

is Larry King worth 7, perhaps if he goes 

to Fox, 10? What is the value system that 

you place on this? Does it just relate to 

the number of, as they put it, the eyeballs 

that are brought in, the ratings, the circulation 

if you’re a newspaper? 

LEVIN Well, what’s the value of Jewel or 

Enya, to take two of my current favorites? 

Let’s step back a second. First of all, we 

do have journalistic independence. Walter 

Isaacson or Norm Pearlstine, they make 

those judgments. 

KALB They don’t check with you for a 

salary that large? 

LEVIN No. It’s the same thing with the 

movies. There may be certain guidelines 

or understandings, but we do not tell 

Alan Horn that he should pick Chris 

Columbus to direct “Harry Potter” as 

opposed to someone else, and we would 

not tell Walter Isaacson that Larry King 

should be re-signed. It’s all a part of the 

market place, and it runs through everything, 

including what’s the salary of an 

executive, and it’s based on what the 

competitors set, what that person might 

be paid on the open market, and what 

value is being brought in. It’s not just the 

question of ratings. We use the word 

franchise a lot. That’s simply a code word, 

or a surrogate, for something that has 

broader applicability and appeal than the 

specific usage, which is ratings in television, 

or the number of people who go to 

the box office or those who watch an 

HBO show. 


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KALB But, you’re not really saying, are 

you, Jerry, that somebody, I shouldn’t be 

picking on one person, but that somebody 

such as Paula Zahn, brought into CNN 

from Fox, has a franchise value? 

LEVIN Well, let me use another example, 

CNN. Lou Dobbs. Lou Dobbs has a 

financial news show. It’s been broadened 

to include general news. There’s an extra 

dimension to Lou Dobbs. It’s an X-factor, 

an ineffable quality, therefore I can’t 

describe it. There’s a certain attraction to 

what he does, a certain authoritative 

nature that goes beyond any judgment 

that you could make. Here’s a little 

thought. The fact that we have journalism 

and entertainment and all these 

things in the same company, I see a continuum 

of the magic of creativity that 

they all possess. There’s something truly 

marvelous that is worthy of respect in 

every form of human creation. In one 

case, it may be storytelling in the form 

of a music lyric or a movie. It could be 

a magazine story or a piece on CNN. But 

it comes out of the same creative wellspring. 

From a management point of 

view, you’re asking a question about 

value, and we’re very comfortable with 

our values. Whereas if you were running 

a packaged goods company, you might 

feel very differently about it. And by the 

way, there is a relationship to our moral 

values, and not just to our financial values, 

because if you respect the creative 

process, you award that process a certain 

stature and worth. Sure, it’s filled with 

all these human foibles, but at the end, 

it’s the most amazing part of the whole 

human endeavor. 

KALB Let me, let me get to, in a sense 

forward but reaching back at the same 

time, to September 11, and your views 

about that. Before September 11, CNN 

was doing Gary Condit most of the summer. 

Not just CNN, by the way, all of the 

cable operations and many of them that 

are not cable. In 1998, you were doing, 

and you generically here, were doing 

Monica on just about every program. 

During the O.J. Simpson trial, there was 

nonstop coverage of that. And so, those 

of us who worry about journalism, not 

today, but tomorrow, next week, can we 

be sure that AOL Time Warner, after 

you’ve left and in the time that you still 

have there, are going to provide the 

resources that will be necessary for better, 

more diversified, higher-quality journalism? 

And I ask this because you do 

have five, six months left in this very powerful 

position. What can you do while you 

still have all of this power to insure that 

good journalism will still carry on after 

you’ve said goodbye? 

LEVIN It’s all about people. It’s about the 

people to whom you entrust your future. 

In the case of Dick Parsons, we have 

worked closely together since 1994. I 

think he has made the importance of 

journalism an integral part of himself. 

Walter Isaacson at CNN and Norm 

Pearlstine at Time Inc. come from the 

finest journalistic traditions, and we’ve 

made it very clear that at the heart of the 

company is journalistic independence. 

It doesn’t make a difference what any 

business executive at our company says, 

what the advertiser says or what any government 

says. Our journalists tell the 

story as they see it. To me a touchstone of 

journalistic independence is whether a 

company (not everyone agrees with this) 

covers itself objectively. All you have to 

do is read the pages of Fortune and Time 

that cover AOL Time Warner. Although 

I might not always agree with that coverage, 

I’m proud of their independent 

voice. I’ve made that very clear to the 

journalists themselves. Not all companies 

do that. 

KALB But how can you be sure, after 

you’ve left, that it’s going to be pretty 

much a continuation of the spirit that 

you’ve been brought in? You said that you 

imprinted, that was the word you used, 

your value system on this new set of people. 

LEVIN Well, I’ve tried to institutionalize 

it. We have a clearly articulated set 

of values. Fundamental to who we are 

and what we do are journalistic independence 

and respect for the creative 

process, even at the risk of controversy. I 

made sure that little phrase was in our 

value statement because I’ve been subject 

to a lot of controversy. Those are part 

of the values adopted by this combined 

new company, and you can find a lot of 

the roots in Time Inc. I’m amazed and 

pleased how in a short time those values 

have permeated AOL Time Warner. For 

example, if you go into Steve Case’s office 

in New York, you’ll see a picture of Henry 

Luce on the wall. Steve came from AOL, 

from a different tradition, but he feels 

part of the Time Inc. tradition as well. 

That’s where we are. All you have to do is 

travel around the world and see the 

importance of Time and CNN, see what 

it means. Yes, our movies are there. Yes, 

our music is there. Yes, our other networks 

are there. But you know that those 

in Afghanistan, our friends and foes alike, 

are watching CNN. 

“When Time made Ted Turner Man of the Year in 1991, the reason above all 

was because CNN had become a global network that wasn’t only reflecting 

what was happening, but was actually affecting what people around the world 

were watching and how governments were reacting.” 


“Time Warner agreed several years ago with the then head of the FCC that in 

every one of our cable franchises for a certain amount of rate regulation relief 

we would build out particularly broadband connections to all parts of our franchise, 

not just the higher economic areas, but also that we would serve schools, libraries, 

and all public institutions.” 

KALB Yes, they are. 

LEVIN When Time made Ted Turner Man 

of the Year in 1991, the reason above all 

was because CNN had become a global 

network that wasn’t only reflecting what 

was happening, but was actually affecting 

what people around the world were 

watching and how governments were 

reacting. That’s an enormous responsibility, 

and anyone who assumes this role of 

CEO takes on that responsibility. I’m 

proud that this has been institutionalized, 

and I’m confident Dick Parsons will 

strengthen it even further. 

KALB We’ve got only a couple of minutes 

of the interview part of our program left, 

and I want to use, want to throw a quote 

back at you. When you were asked to 

explain why you were leaving, you said, 

“I want the poetry back in my life.” That’s 

a large word. Not life, poetry. What did 

you mean by the poetry? 

LEVIN Well, the day after I made my 

announcement, I went to a meeting of the 

stock exchange board, which I serve on. 

Most people came up to me and asked me 

for my book of poems, which is not what 

I meant, although I have written poetry. 

It’s essentially a metaphor for all those 

things that are emotional, aesthetic, that 

because of the requirements of the job, of 

the assignment, you have to put aside… 

KALB You can’t be both at the same time. 

LEVIN Here’s a terrible thing to say. I love 

the movies. I’ve always loved the movies. 

I find it difficult to watch a movie now 

because I know either we made it, or who 

made it, or what it costs…I know the 

inner workings of the movie business. I 

want to return to an aesthetic appreciation 

of movies as movies, as art. I acknowledge 

that I get teary, as a matter of fact, 

when I see and experience all the things 

that we do, but it’s always in the context of 

their competitive performance. Fortunately 

or unfortunately, since we are in the 

business of book publishing, television, 

movies, music, the Internet, HBO, I’m surrounded 

by everything that we do, and I 

can’t just step back and let it roll over me, 

or even watch things that we didn’t make. 

KALB Is there in that way, Jerry, a kind of 

repudiation of the corporate suit decades 

of your life? 

LEVIN It’s not a repudiation. I’ve done 

what I think is important in that period. 

I’ve been true to the part of myself that’s 

valued being a CEO. But over time the 

caricatures build up and along with them 

come expectations that you’re supposed 

to meet. You know, we all find ourselves 

identified by certain roles. You’re a father, 

you’re a daughter, you’re a CEO. You walk 

into a room, and that’s the expectation, 

and you fulfill it. It’s not that I didn’t like 

it or necessarily that I want to get rid of 

it, but I want to take it off because I think 

there is something that’s more essential 

that I would like to return to. 

KALB The New York Times last week sort 

of encapsulated your career, and they said 

it had to do with two mergers, the one for 

CNN and the one at AOL. Do you think 

that’s a fair description? 

LEVIN No, because on November 8, 

1972, a young person got on a television 

set and welcomed a network called Home 

Box Office to 350 people in Wilkes-Barre, 

Pa. For me, that was a stunning moment, 

to have conceived the idea and then to 

bring it to the world. When we brought 

Warner Brothers into the company, not 

everyone agreed with doing it. So I played 

a little reel for the board from 

“Casablanca” and suddenly what we wanted 

to do became much clearer to everyone. 

KALB Let us go to our questions now, to 

our audience, and there are two microphones, 

one on this side and one on this 

side. If you have a question, and I hope 

that you do, please identify yourself, your 

affiliation, and then ask a question. I really 

don’t want a speech at this point. So, 

we can start right here. 

Q. I’m a free-lance writer. I wanted to 

thank you for your honesty, for speaking 

from your heart and following your heart, 

and I actually did go to Haverford for two 

years, and I went on to Sarah Lawrence 

College. I also wanted to say that there are 

three leaders of the great religions, 

Buddha, and I’m not comparing you to 

them, the Buddha who went on from his 

priestly background to do what we know 

he did, and Jesus who started out in a 

manger, and Moses who started out in the 

bulrushes, who was in a little boat, a little 

boat. I want to ask you just one question, 

which is, I go to a church, and we 

have a growing hedge fund for people who 

are just at the beginning of their careers. 

Now do you have something similar at 

AOL Time Warner for people who don’t 

have the kind of clout that some people 

will have or that don’t have a way in? 

There are plenty of struggling artists out 

there. 


Jerry Levin 

LEVIN I’m not sure I understood the 

question. 

KALB A kind of hedge fund for beginners 

is the way I understood it. 

Q. A growing hedge fund, a growing 

hedge fund to encourage young artists 

who don’t have the kind of, you know… 

LEVIN We have several examples. HBO 

for example, each year, I’m not even sure 

what the amounts are anymore, at some 

points they’re up to $25,000 apiece, to 

encourage new artists, young people, particularly 

with screenplays, that are very 

hard to get produced these days. So, we 

have various examples around the company. 

That’s the most prominent because 

I’m very interested in things that come 

from that. 

Q. I’m a freshman at the George 

Washington University. In today’s New 

York Times there was an important Op-Ed 

that suggests companies like yours need to 

be doing more to make broadband 

Internet more physically and financially 

affordable for the 90 percent of the 

population that does not have access. 

What is AOL Time Warner’s plan? 

LEVIN This is, you know, the common 

phrase is the digital divide, and we don’t 

want to develop an information aristocracy. 

Here’s an example where public policy 

and private companies, they’re just not 

working together. Time Warner agreed 

several years ago with the then-head of 

the FCC that in every one of our cable 

franchises for a certain amount of rate regulation 

relief we would build out particularly 

broadband connections to all parts 

of our franchise, not just the higher economic 

areas, but also that we would serve 

schools, libraries, and all public institutions. 

We’re just about there. What the 

public policy needs to do is to somehow 

superimpose on not only the cable companies 

but also the telephone companies, 

in exchange for probably loosening regulations. 

So, this is a case where no one 

company can do it, but there is a way of 

kind of prodding some of the companies 

to continue to do it. It’s a real issue 

because, increasingly, broadband capability 

and the ability to deliver information 

on demand, any kind of information, is 

going to represent, kind of, the learning 

tool of the future. So we’ve just, my final 

answer is there needs to be more public, 

private cooperation—that we actually 

have the same objective that’s underneath 

your question. 

Q. I’m a socio-linguist with an interest in 

media and I also teach at George 

Washington in the anthropology department. 

I was interested in your lighter 

remarks in which you were saying that 

you want to put the poetry back into your 

life and you were talking in particular 

about your own experience as sort of 

knowing too much about things like going 

to the movies, so that it was no longer a 

sort of poetic experience. And of course, 

that made me think of the fact that for 

many of us, it’s not that different, because 

we see the previews and we read, you 

know, the film reviews and a lot of these 

things. And, I’m wondering if your own 

experience has made you think, in any 

way, about what the world of journalism 

might be in the future. I believe you said 

that you thought a major role was to 

understand. 

LEVIN Well, I do think there’s a qualitative 

difference—getting as much information 

out so that people can make their 

own judgments about every issue including 

lifestyle issues—what movie to go to— 

and you know what’s available locally as 

well as how to understand the anthrax 

threat. But the qualitative difference that 

I was describing for myself, by understanding 

the construction of a film, understanding 

the marketing parameters, it’s 

just so, the taxonomy is so detailed, so 

sterile that it really doesn’t compare to that 

wonderful process of reading reviews and 

talking to friends and you know, getting 

some kind of assimilation about a particular 

work of art. The innards of its construction 

and the budget, “Matrix” II and 

III are being shot now by the Wachowsky 

brothers. It’s the most remarkable kind of 

movie making, but it’s all part of a financial 

plan that we have. I can visit the set, 

but it’s not the same joy I had as a 

Haverford student when I went to see a 

good foreign film. 

Q. Do you plan to travel, most specifically 

to Israel? Could you be next year in 

Jerusalem? 

LEVIN I have been traveling quite a bit 

lately, not only on behalf of the company, 

but recognizing that, in many cases public 

policy around the world whether it’s in 

China or Germany or elsewhere, involves 

a lot of what we do, but also to try and 

be helpful. You know, what’s happening 

in Israel with the Palestinians is, obviously, 

very significant. I’ve had the opportunity 

to meet with many of the leaders 

in Israel and, no, I don’t think I’ll be playing 

a particular role, although I’ll mention 

two things to you. First, Shimon 

Peres has something called the Peres 

Center for Peace and he has joined with 

Kofi Annan, a part of the UN that 

engages in specific projects, and they 

have a notion, an idealistic notion, of 

“I would make the outright statement that I think the American Dream has been 

held together in many difficult times of peril, you know, whether that was the 

Vietnam War, or the McCarthy Era, or the Depression, by the press. I honestly 

think and believe that.” 


“Well, part of my belief in Succession 101 is that when you step down, you step down. 

You don’t hang around. I will be available if anyone wants to call, but I want to go off 

the board. The worst thing is to sit there in judgment of your successor, who, inevitably, 

is going to change things that maybe you held dear.” 

starting something that wherever there 

is a peace negotiation that we should 

bring in the private sector, the media to 

try and understand that culture to get 

young people to use, to employ the media 

so that there will be real understanding 

as opposed to the normal negotiated 

peace that never seems to work. The second 

example I would give to you, tonight 

on HBO, well, I’m not sure, we may have 

missed it already, 8 o’clock there is something 

called “Into the Arms of Strangers” 

which is a documentary about the 

Kindertransport. I mention only because 

we premiered this documentary financed 

by Warner Brothers, released as a theatrical 

in Berlin a year ago. Chancellor 

Schroeder came and thought it was significant 

enough to put this film into every 

German high school with a German 

study guide. So it’s just an example of a 

program that’s going on HBO. It happens 

to be a documentary of extraordinary 

power that again, in my continuum of 

journalism, there are all these things that 

fit in that as well as compelling movies. 

And so, in that respect, we had an impact 

on Chancellor Schroeder. 

Q. I’m a senior at the George Washington 

University. And on your way to the top 

you’ve served in a bunch of different positions 

in AOL Time Warner. I’m just wondering 

which area that you have the most 

interest in, and what you have personally 

done to make it grow. 

LEVIN It’s a little bit like when asked 

about your children, you try not to favor 

one over the other. You know, I have experience 

in almost all parts of the business. 

I happen to have started with others something 

that became Home Box Office, and 

I am extraordinarily proud of everything 

from “Band of Brothers” to “Curb Your 

Enthusiasm.” And, so I like what’s happened 

there. But having said that, I guess 

if you really press me and not just because 

I’m here, it’s CNN and Time, it’s, you know, 

when I travel, when I go to a political convention, 

I actually was a great fan of 

Marvin Kalb as a reporter earlier on at CBS 

and NBC. This is the most extraordinary 

thing and I would make the outright statement 

that I think the American Dream has 

been held together in many difficult times 

of peril, you know, whether that was the 

Vietnam War, or the McCarthy Era, or the 

Depression, by the press. I honestly think 

and believe that. 

Q. I’m with Bloomberg News here in 

Washington. I have a two-part question 

also relating to your departure. Can you 

confirm or deny these reports that an offer 

or some courtship by Philip Morris of Dick 

Parsons played a role in the timing of your 

announcement, and secondly, what role 

do you expect to have with AOL in the 

future or what are your plans for after 

May? 

LEVIN Well, part of my belief in 

Succession 101 is that when you step 

down, you step down. You don’t hang 

around. I will be available if anyone wants 

to call, but I want to go off the board. The 

worst thing is to sit there in judgment of 

your successor, who, inevitably, is going 

to change things that maybe you held dear. 

So as of May, I’ll go off the board; I’ll 

become an advisor, but that’s a surrogate 

for, you know, I’ll have an office. With 

respect to Dick Parsons, it is true he is an 

extraordinary executive and, at various 

times, has been recruited, and I’ve read 

these reports about one particular company. 

In May of this year I had a conversation 

with him which I reminded him of 

this provision in my contract and why it 

was in there and I suggested to him, without 

trying to persuade him to do anything 

else that I was not going to fill out my contract. 

I also made the statement to him, 

without any guarantees that whatever else 

he might consider, there’s nothing like 

AOL Time Warner. Dick could have had 

a major political career. I felt he could do 

more within this company, and I felt that 

compared to any other company, that it 

was an extraordinary opportunity for him. 

So, that was an important conversation 

and would suggest to you that, even then 

I was thinking of exercising this provision. 

KALB Jerry, thank you. I’m sorry that we 

don’t have any more time for other questions, 

but thank you all for coming forth. 

Because our time is up, my thanks go once 

again to the Knight Foundation for supporting 

this series and to C-SPAN for carrying 

it to homes across the country. Our 

thanks as well to the National Press Club, 

The George Washington University and 

the Shorenstein Center at Harvard, which 

are all the co-sponsors of the “The Kalb 

Report,” and most especially tonight, my 

thanks go to Jerry Levin for taking the 

time to be with us, for answering all of the 

questions. We wish you a happy new life 

as you discard your corporate suit. You’ve 

already done that and become, in your 

words, a real human being, which I think 

you have always been. So I want to thank 

you all for coming. I’m Marvin Kalb. Good 

night and good luck. 


In the Compa 

Driven by the tragedy of September 11, Cantor 

Howard 

Mary Ellen Mark 


ny of Heroes by Howard Lutnick ’83 

Fitzgerald and eSpeed are moving forward with a profound sense of purpose. 

By now, most Americans know what happened to 

Cantor Fitzgerald and our subsidiary eSpeed on Sept. 11, 2001. 

Every person in our World Trade Center headquarters at 8:45 AM, 

658 people in all, was killed by the terrorist attacks that morning. The brave men 

and women we lost included traders and salespeople, administrative assistants and 

executives, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, friends and associates. I lost 

my younger brother Gary and my great friends Doug Gardner ’83 and Calvin 

Gooding ’84, who were my partners. More than six months later, it is still difficult 

to comprehend the magnitude of it all. 

Soon after the tragedy, the surviving employees and partners of the firms joined 

together with a new sense of purpose and dedication. While obviously unsure 

of our future, we fully committed our hearts and energies to rebuilding and growing 

the firm not only for those that remained, but much more importantly, to 

help care for the families of the 658 colleagues we lost in the tragedy. These families, 

Our Families, became the driving force behind everything we do at Cantor 

Fitzgerald and eSpeed. 

Lutnick 


The days immediately following the tragedy were among the most difficult. 

With the help of countless business associates and friends, we set up a crisis 

center in Manhattan for families to be together, collect information, share stories, 

and begin to grieve. In those very early days, we also established the 

Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. 

To be clear, this driving force is more 

than a rallying cry; it is the defining 

essence of our business culture and our 

decision-making process. The partners of 

Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. committed to distribute 

to Our Families 25 percent of the 

profits of the company for the next five 

years, including paying for 10 years of 

their healthcare and pledging a minimum 

of $100,000 in cash per family. We also 

paid out more than $45 million in discretionary 

bonuses to the families of our 

lost colleagues in October and November. 

The days immediately following the 

tragedy were among the most difficult. 

With the help of countless business associates 

and friends, we set up a crisis center 

in Manhattan for families to be together, 

collect information, share stories, and 

begin to grieve. In those very early days, 

we also established the Cantor Fitzgerald 

Relief Fund, headed by my sister Edie (see 

related article, p.35). The fund, whose 

expenses are completely underwritten by 

the firm and myself, has raised and distributed 

more than $14 million to our 

families. 

At the same time, a group of courageous 

survivors worked around the clock, 

beginning on the afternoon of September 

11th, to make sure that our firm would 

survive and that our system would be 

ready when the markets reopened. You 

see, Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed are the 

NASDAQ and NYSE for U.S. Treasury 

notes and bonds. 

Inspired by the memories of those lost, 

these heroes overcame every obstacle put in 

front of them so that when the U.S. 

Treasury Markets reopened on the morning 

of September 13th, less than 48 hours after 

the disaster, Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed 

reopened. And when the equity markets 

reopened on Monday, September 17th, we 

were ready to service our customers as well. 

In the ensuing months, our jobs have 

not gotten easier, but we continue to move 

forward. Our days and evenings are filled 

with client meetings, strategy discussions, 

negotiations, staffing decisions, new product 

demonstrations, and talking to the 

families of those we lost. Our people are 

consumed with maintaining and growing 

our leadership position in our markets. 

But it is the connection to the Cantor 

Families that is our motivation. 

That’s why we have worked tirelessly 

with the Special Master of the Victim’s 

Compensation Fund to help the families 

of our lost colleagues obtain fair compensation. 

It’s also the reason why I hold 

periodic family “town hall” meetings. 

These energizing and reinvigorating sessions 

generally last about three hours and 

take place throughout the tri-state area 

to accommodate those who find it difficult 

to come into New York City. Whether 

I am traveling to New Jersey, Long Island, 

Connecticut, Staten Island, or Manhattan, 

the rules are always the same. I start by 

reminding everyone that after I have finished 

speaking, I will answer every question 

and will stay until there are no more 

questions to answer. The meetings provide 

everyone with a chance to speak and 

be together, share their thoughts, and 

keep up-to-date on vital information. 

It is with great pleasure that I write 

today about our extraordinary business 

success. With all that has happened to our 

company and our employees and through 

all that they’ve suffered, I am proud to say 

that both of our companies, Cantor 

Fitzgerald and eSpeed (ESPD), were profitable 

in the last quarter of 2001. Our business 

success is more important now than 

ever because we have rebuilt the foundation 

upon which we can continue to support 

Our Families. 

In February, Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. distributed 

to Our Families a total of approximately 

$4.9 million dollars, representing 

25 percent of our fourth-quarter 2001 earnings. 

This is just the first installment and 

we hope to have more exciting progress on 

the horizon. Since September 11th, our 

New York-area employees have been spread 

out in three makeshift offices, two in New 

Jersey and one in Manhattan. After months 

of searching, we recently announced an 

agreement for temporary office space in 

Manhattan that will reunite these 352 

employees under one roof. Words cannot 

describe how fortunate I am to be bringing 

such an amazing team of heroes together. 

It is difficult to understand why I survived. 

And it’s just as tough to consider 

why my brother, friends, and colleagues 

did not. They were there, I was not. But I 

know they are rooting for us, telling us 

to carry on in their honor. I know, 

because if circumstances were different, 

that’s what I would have wanted. 

The achievements of Cantor Fitzgerald 

and eSpeed are a tribute to the employees 

we lost, and a testament to the 

Herculean efforts of our surviving 

employees and new hires. They are all 

heroes. They get up every day and come 

to work excited, dedicated, and anxious 

to help the firm succeed. Our offices are 

filled with an intense determination on 

the part of every employee to rebuild 

what was taken from us in order to care 

for the families of our lost friends in the 

way that they deserve. More than six 

months later, I could not be prouder to 

be a part of their team. 


Coping with September 11th 

After Romina and Jerry Levy ’83 moved to New York, their new life was changed forever. 

Now, Romina finds some measure of solace with family, friends, and volunteer work with 

the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. 

As a cancer survivor, I thought I understood 

the depths of despair. My own personal 

battle has already re-shaped my life 

and priorities: our precious family, including 

the daughter my oncologist told us we 

could never have and our close friends 

whom I love so dearly. Six months after 

the fateful September date I find myself 

accepting the inevitable. My life, together 

with so many other lives, will never be the 

same again. At times, desperation arises 

from within. September 11th is a powerful 

reminder that time is not a limitless 

commodity but a much-treasured and 

appreciated luxury. 

A dear friend of mine, from my native 

country Malta, married to a Canadian U.N. 

official, had been living in Gaza up until 

the end of 2001. Often I would receive e- 

mails from her, which made both Jerry and 

I fearful for her and her family’s safety. Still, 

it felt so alien to me. Gunfire. Suicide 

bombers. Physical and emotional devastation. 

What did I know of those things? My 

thoughts and prayers were with them 

because I understood the emotional turmoil. 

But never did I imagine that in my 

lifetime I, too, would soon experience the 

extent of human evil here in my own back 

yard. 

So much happened in those first 

months of 2001: Jerry’s new job with BNP 

Paribas NYC meant that he commuted 

between New York and our home in 

London for nearly six months; the birth of 

our baby daughter Zara at the end of May; 

our inevitable move to New York, and the 

emotion-laden closing and eventual sale 

of our wonderful London flat, our home 

for the past 10 years. 

New York. August. I walk into the flat 

(“the apartment”) and the smell of freshly 

painted walls and newly polished hard 

floors hits my senses. New beginnings. 

Monday, September 10th. Zack, our 

four-year-old son, has his first day of pre- 

K. Exciting. Our new city is starting to feel 

like home. We’re riding a wave and nothing, 

no one, can stop us. 

Tuesday, September 11th. Jerry is so 

sick he can barely move. He can’t get out of 

bed. I call the doctor’s office at 8:30 a.m. 

and she tells me to bring Jerry in at 10 

o’clock. She will run some tests. I quickly 

jump in the shower with the radio droning 

in the background. Minutes turn into 

hours into days into memorial services. 

One after the other. We see the same faces 

at all the services. It was surreal and numbing 

at the same time. There is a paralyzing, 

overwhelming feeling of helplessness. 

For Jerry, still re-acclimating himself to the 

New York style of life, the settling-in period 

is over – he no longer feels out of place. 

He is American again. 

We met Edie Lutnick at one of the 

memorial services. Through Jerry, I knew 

a lot about Howard and Gary’s sister, but 

I’d met Edie only briefly at social events. 

She mentioned that they had just incorporated 

a nonprofit organization, the 

Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, to assist 

with the immediate to long-term emotional 

and financial difficulties of the afflicted 

families. There was an urgent need for volunteers. 

Located in midtown, the Relief Fund 

office is guided by Edie, a willowy blonde 

whose demure looks belie her strong and 

determined character. She has a heart of 

gold. Volunteers work in shifts from 9 a.m. 

to the wee hours of night, five days a week, 

to assist more than 800 families (including 

1,500 children) from 12 WTC companies. 

Since the 20th of September, my 

first day of volunteer work, I have come 

into contact with more than 300 volunteers. 

Some are friends of Cantor employees. 

Most of them simply called or e-mailed 

the Relief Fund, desperate to help out in 

any way they could. They are special people 

from all walks of life. Some of the volunteers 

drive for more than two hours each 

way to volunteer a few hours each week. 

Others have temporarily uprooted themselves, 

leaving their families and/or jobs to 

assist in the Relief Fund’s efforts. I have 

met people who have come to New York 

at their own expense from California, 

Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. One 

volunteer continues to commute from 

Pittsburgh on a weekly basis. 

I am only now starting to find equilibrium 

in this roller-coaster ride of emotions. 

This work is immensely important to me; 

I want to remain involved in the rebuilding 

of this beautiful and energetic city. I want 

to enjoy my home life. I feel privileged that 

I am able to do so. There is no time to 

waste. Our lives are a tapestry of relationships. 

I want to enjoy the people closest 

to us. Our children should be enriched 

with fond memories of eating forbidden 

chocolate mousse with their grandparents, 

of sandy beaches, of flying kites, of squabbles 

over who gets the Winnie-the-Pooh 

sleeping bag. 

We spent time with my sister-in-law 

and her partner, Steve, a flight captain, in 

Florida a few weeks ago. Out of the blue, 

Zack asked Steve to be sure to take care of 

the people on his flight so that nothing bad 

happens to them, too. The innocence of 

children is a powerful healer. 

– Romina Levy 

For more information, please log on to www.cantorrelief.org 


Notes from the Alumni Association 

Greetings, 

By now I’m sure that all of you know that we are halfway 

through a capital campaign whose theme is “Educating 

to Lead, Educating to Serve.” 

So many alums have commented to me that 

this is a particularly appropriate theme for 

a Haverford campaign. While other colleges 

vaguely name their campaigns “The 

Meaning of Swarthmore” or “The 

Campaign for Yale,” it seems even more 

appropriate that Haverford emphasize its 

core values: a strong education that prepares 

students to take leadership roles in 

many different fields and to serve their local 

and global communities. I thought I’d take 

a few minutes to highlight some accomplishments 

of just a few of our alums. 

Some of our alums are well known to 

anyone who reads the newspaper or 

watches the news on television. John 

Whitehead ’43 served his government 

during the Reagan administration, led 

Goldman Sachs for many years, chaired 

our own Board of Managers, and has now 

accepted Governor Pataki’s appointment as 

president of the Lower Manhattan 

Development Corporation. Howard 

Lutnick ’83 has led Cantor Fitzgerald 

through some of its brightest and darkest 

days and now serves the College as chair 

of the Advancement Committee of the 

Board. Ralph Boyd ’79 leads the fight for 

civil rights as an assistant attorney general 

of the United States. 

But for every “famous” alum there are 

at least 20 or 30 alums leading in fields 

such as education, business, law, medicine, 

social services, the arts, government, 

science, and journalism. There are more 

who serve their families and communities 

by feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, 

and working for peace and justice. 

There is Oscar Goodman ’61, the mayor 

of Las Vegas. There is Hunter Rawlings 

’66, the president of Cornell University. 

Koichiro Matsuura ’61 is the director-general 

of UNESCO. Jill Maurer Emmert ’88 

is a stay-at-home mom who is raising three 

young boys while serving her school and 

church communities. There is Shanin 

Specter ’80, who works with the homeless 

in Philadelphia, and Kitty Ufford- 

Chase ’88 who works for the American 

Friends Service Committee in Arizona. 

The current Campaign will ensure that 

the next generation of alums will be prepared 

to lead and serve in the 21st century. 

We expect great things from Student 

Government Presidents Samir Shah ’03 

and Joe Vazquez ’03, Honor Council 

Chairs Andrew Peterson ’04 and Rachel 

Werner ’04, as well as the many other students 

currently leading and serving the 

campus community. The campaign will 

also fund initiatives such as the Center for 

Peace and Global Studies, new athletic 

facilities, and student scholarships so that 

many more alums in the years to come 

will lead and serve in the Haverford tradition. 

The Executive Committee of the 

Alumni Association has been supporting 

the College’s fundraising activities as well 

as encouraging more regional events, supporting 

career networking receptions, and 

finding more ways for alums and students 

to interact. Feel free to contact me, or any 

member of the EC, if you’d like to get 

involved. Staff in the Alumni Office (610- 

896-1004) will be happy to put you in 

touch with us. 

Sincerely, 

Eva Osterberg Ash ’88 

Eva.ash@esc.edu 

(631) 261-5048 (h) 

A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e 

President 

Eva Osterberg Ash ’88 

Vice President 

Rober Eisinger ’87 

Members and Liaison Responsibilities: 

Ty Ahmad-Taylor ’90 

Northern California 

Technology 

Amarilis Cespedes ’03 

Student Representative 

Heather Davis ’89 

Chicago 

Multicultural 

Jonathan LeBreton ’79 

Maryland 

Technology 

Anna-Liisa Little ’90 

Pacific Northwest 

Regional Societies 

Brad Mayer ’92 

Southwest 

Communications Committee 

Emilie Heck Petrone ’91 

New Jersey 

Athletics 

Rudy Rudisill, Jr. ’50 

E. Pennsylvania 

Senior Alumni 

Garry W. Jenkins ’92 

New York City 

Regional 

Christopher B. Mueller ’66 

Central U.S. 

Paula O. Brathwaite ’94 

New England 

James H. Foster ’50 

Connecticut 

Ron Schwartz ’66 

Washington, D.C., Metro 

Admission 

Ted Shakespeare ’49 

N. Delaware 

Major Gifts 

Karen Vargas ’03 

Student Representative 

Sarah Willie ’86 

Philadelphia Metro 

Multicultural 

If you would like to nominate 

an alumnus/a for the Alumni 

Association Executive Committee, 

please contact the Alumni Office 

at (610) 896-1004. 

(continued on p. 51) 


Class News 

Send your class news by e-mail to: classnews@haverford.edu 

31 Arthur Mekeel writes, “Foxdale 

Retirement Village is next door to Penn 

State University which has an excellent 

music school from which we have benefited 

many times. It has spacious ground 

level apartments on a spacious and beautiful 

campus. The rates are reasonable. 

Come and join us.” 

36 William Loesche Jr. writes, “The 

fall weather is great!! Ideal for us old 

timers.” 

39 StephenThiermann writes,“Crossing 

the Divide: Peacemaking in a Time of 

Cold War, is due to be published by Sessions 

of York, U.K. February 2002. In it 

I share my experience during those years 

with AFSC in international conflict resolution. 

(Glad to supply copies on request 

@ $12, e-mail: sthiermann2@juno.com)” 

43 For news of Robert MacCrate, 

see note on Sydney Cone ’52. 

44 Cassin Craig writes, “Jeannie and 

I have now moved to a retirement residence 

in Foulkeways.” 

45 William Lehmann writes, “Jim 

Wright and Bill (Toby) Lehmann, roommates 

all three years in Barclay, Lloyd, 

and Founders, checked out the Spring 

Breakers on the beach at Port Aramasas 

Texas. Jim observed that he still got excited, 

but forgets why.” 

49 Robert Harper writes, “I refuse 

to fade away into retirement. I presented 

a paper at the International Vacuum 

Electronics Conference, April 2001, in 

Holland and I continue to do some consulting.” 

F. Thomas Hopkins writes, “Have enjoyed 

a recent visit with Jim Buckley, 

and Omar Bailey, very close friends from 

class of ’49.” 

50 James Foster writes, “Delighted 

to get back to campus 3-4 times/year 

since joining the Alumni Association 

Executive Committee. Recently published 

A Doctor’s Shakespeare (Xlibris 

Corp.), a book of quotations of medical 

interest. I hope Ralph and Ned would 

approve.” 

Peter Stettenheim writes, “I have stepped 

down from two of my former responsibilities, 

but I am still active on the boards 

of the state Audubon society and a local 

community college. I review manuscripts 

and write book reviews for ornithological 

journals, serve as recording clerk for 

Hanover Friends Meeting, take photographs 

for a local land trust, and find 

other ways to be busy and useful.” 

Ford Highlight 

George Nofer ’49, an attorney in 

Philadelphia, saw a longtime dream 

become reality on Nov. 7, 2001, at the 

opening of the Clarke Pennsylvania 

Auditory/Oral Center in Bryn Mawr. 

During Nofer’s 16 years as the executive 

director of the Oberkotter Foundation, 

he has been involved in the creation of 

more than 15 new Clarke schools 

throughout the country, where deaf children 

learn to listen and talk. Nofer, a 

fourth-generation Philadelphian, has 

long hoped to open a school in the 

Philadelphia area. Now, his hopes have 

been realized, as more than 100 area families 

and professionals attended the opening 

reception at the Bryn Mawr school— 

a reception dedicated to Nofer. 

Expressing his pride in the new facility, 

Nofer says, “I am just the instrument 

of Paul and Louise Oberkotter’s beneficence. 

Clarke Pennsylvania is a remarkable 

piece of creativity.” 

The Clarke Pennsylvania Auditory/ 

Oral Center will offer early intervention, 

preschool, kindergarten and individual 

listening, speech, and language therapy 

for deaf children up to the age of seven. 

Professionals will also provide support 

to hearing-impaired children, and children 

who use both hearing aids and 

cochlear implants will benefit from the 

staff’s experience. 

Since its founding in 1987, Clarke’s 

mission has been to instill in hearingimpaired 

children a belief in their own 

capabilities, and to provide them with 

the tools and self-confidence they need to 

participate fully and independently in 

society. 

–B.M. 

George Nofer ’49 realized a 

lifelong dream when he helped 

bring a school for deaf children 

to the Philadelphia area. 


Class News 


52 Sydney Cone writes, “I am busy 

as Visiting Professor at Harvard Law 

School, as C.V. Starr Professor and Director 

of the Center for International Law 

at New York Law School, and on bar 

association committees including one 

chaired by Robert MacCrate ’43. I enjoy 

being in frequent contact with my son, 

Timothy Cone ’79.” 

53 Thomas Bisson writes, “This is 

my last full year of teaching. I plan to 

teach half-time hereafter, and to retire in 

2005 (God willing). One of the students 

I have been privileged to teach, Stephen 

Sachs, has won a Rhodes Scholarship. 

His undergraduate subject is medieval 

European history – and he plans a career 

in law and (today’s) public affairs. He 

exemplifies the critical importance of 

early history to modern life. Yet Haverford 

College, virtually alone among institutions 

of its caliber, presently employs 

no one teaching medieval history. I have 

expressed concern to President Tritton 

in a letter sent jointly by 15 persons 

(including Wallace MacCaffrey, Richard 

Lingeman, and Akira Iriye ’57). Any 

other persons who share this concern 

may have a copy on request.” 

Walter Kidney Jr. writes, “Still working 

for the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks 

Foundation. Am finishing a book 

on the architect Henry Hornbostel, and 

slowly working on a new one on Eclecticism 

in Pittsburgh architecture. 

Research and writing in general.” 

55 Alexander Scott is retired, spending 

half his time in Sarasota, Fla., and 

half his time in West Chester, Pa. He is 

currently building houses with Habitat 

for Humanity and “doing lots of cycling.” 

56 Thomas H. Garver is working 

on the development of a one-person 

museum for the railroad photos of O. 

Winston Link which will be created in a 

wing to be built as part of the rehabilitation 

of the old Norfolk & Western Railway 

passenger station in Roanoke, Va. 

He has written a class biography similar 

to the one he wrote for the class of 1956 

for the 50th reunion of his high school 

class this year and has written introductions 

for several books of photographs 

and art which have been published either 

recently, or will be in the coming future. 

Ford Highlight 

Richard W. Besdine, M.D., ’61 was 

named the first Greer Professor of 

Geriatric Medicine, director of the 

Division of Geriatrics for Lifespan, and 

director of the Center for Gerontology 

and Health Care Research at Brown 

University. The Center for Gerontology 

and Health Care Research is a multi-disciplinary 

research center with a focus on 

the health and social service needs of persons 

with chronic illnesses, especially 

older adults. It is counted among the 

leading academic research centers in the 

country, with a mission to advance the 

fields of gerontology and health services 

research through both methodological 

and substantive research. 

“I am thrilled to be at Brown, a firstrank 

university and medical school with 

exciting and gifted students,” says 

Besdine. “Leadership of the Center, in 

combination with responsibility to develop 

teaching and research related to clinical 

care of older adults throughout the 

Brown Academic Medical Center, is a 

dream position.” 

Prior to this appointment, Besdine was 

professor of medicine, director of the 

UConn Center on Aging, and Travelers 

Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at 

the University of Connecticut Health 

Center (UCHC) School of Medicine. He 

was principal investigator of a National 

Institutes of Health Claude Pepper Older 

Americans Research Center, and oversaw 

studies of interventions for prolonging 

vitality in older persons. During his years 

in Federal Service as HFCA’s Chief 

Medical Officer and director of its Health 

Standards and Quality Bureau, Besdine 

was responsible for setting standards, 

enforcement and improvement of health 

care quality for our nation’s 70 million 

Medicare beneficiaries and Medicaid 

recipients. He also served on the faculty 

of Harvard Medical School for 15 years, 

where he co-founded Harvard’s Division 

on Aging and developed one of the first 

academic geriatrics fellowship training 

programs. 

Besdine is also happy to report that his 

wife, Fox Wetle, is the new Associate 

Dean of Brown Medical School for Public 

Health and Public Policy and a tenured 

Richard W. Besdine, M.D., ’61 

has been appointed to Brown 

University’s Academic Medical 

Center to develop teaching and 

research related to clinical care 

of older adults. 

professor in Community Health. “After 

six years of airplane commuting when I 

was at the University of Connecticut 

Health Center and she at NIH in Bethesda, 

Md.,” he says, “we are reunited in a marriage 

we both think is great.” – B.M. 


57 Gary Kravis writes, “Though 

retired in February 1999, have co-founded 

a new enterprise: Med-i-Med Associates, 

Inc. (I am the president). This is a 

firm that specializes strictly in alternative 

dispute resolution (ADR) for the 

health care field. We believe this is a field 

whose time has come.” 

Robert Lindeman writes, “I’m retiring 

as a physician and re-inventing myself. 

Dividing my time between the Washington, 

D.C., area and Sarasota, Fla. Visiting 

children in Santa Cruz, Calif., and 

Boston. My wife, Nancy, and I would 

welcome contact with any of our old 

acquaintances.” 

58 Robert Krause writes, “My wife 

and I are retired physicians and are auditing 

courses in history and other subjects, 

traveling a little, continuing to help support 

our children as they gain financial 

independence, doing some voluntary 

activities, and enjoying each other’s company 

and having a wonderful time. I 

wish the same for all of my classmates.” 

62 Michael Hampden writes, “In 

February 2000, I left Westchester/Putnam 

Legal Services, and became staff 

attorney at Legal Services for Children 

Inc. in Manhattan.” 

Preston Mearns writes, “I continue my 

work with the Food and Nutrition Service/USDA 

as well as a variety of churchrelated 

work. Most recently, working 

with the local Unitarian Church, I have 

been involved with Muslim, Christian, 

Jewish, and U.U. Dialogues. Prince 

George’s County, Md., where we (Laurie 

and I) live is a culturally diverse, interesting, 

and challenging community.” 

Edward Zobian writes, “In a few days, 

Barbara and I will be leaving for the 

Philippines where, for the 14th year, I 

will be serving the Free Rural Eye Care 

Mission, operating to restore vision to 

blind indigent Filipinos in Panasia. I am 

looking forward to our 40th reunion.” 

63 George Houston writes, “My 

five-year term as Chair of the Department 

of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill 

ended June 30th. I am on academic leave 

this year, happily reading, writing, and 

catching up on my sleep.” 

For news of Greg Kannerstein, see note 

on David Sloane ’72. 

64 Robert Riordan writes, “Having 

retired from public school teaching, 

I’m now president of Hand and Minds, 

INC, a nonprofit education consulting 

firm. John Aird is a leading member of 

the Board of Directors – an indication of 

our high standards and stringent quality 

control systems.” 

William Shafer writes, “Began serving 

my second interim pastorate in October 

2001 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 

Somerton (Philadelphia). Immanuel worships 

in both German and English every 

Sunday, and I get by having taken only 

one year of German at Haverford 39 

years ago! Some of the German folks 

remember Harry Pfund ’22.” 

65 Richard Adelmann and Lucille 

Peterson celebrated the sacrament of 

marriage on Nov. 19, 2001, at Wayfarers 

Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. 

Stanford Pritchard writes, “In December 

2001, ‘Waiting to Connect,’ an 

evening of my one-act plays (‘Lift,’ ‘The 

Newcomer,’ ‘Thanksgiving,’ ‘You and Me,’ 

and ‘Act Two’) gave seven performances 

at New Media Repertory Company in 

New York City.” 

Thomas Reed has been named chair of 

the New York State Bar Association’s Corporate 

Counsel Section. He is a contract 

attorney acting as in-house corporate 

counsel for British Telecom’s BT North 

America Inc. unit in New York City. At 

BT North America, Reed handles contracts 

as well as various commercial and 

legal matters related to the provision of 

global communication services. His professional 

affiliates include memberships 

Lucille Lohmeier Peterson and 

Richard Lewis Adelmann ’65. 

in the American Bar Association and the 

Association of the Bar of the City of New 

York. As an active member of the community, 

he recently served on the boards 

of directors of two nonprofit educational 

institutions, Indian Mountain School, 

Lakeville, Conn., and Kinhaven Music 

School, Weston, Vt. 

66 Roy Gutman writes, “I left Newsday 

after 19 years to work for Newsweek 

where I’m chief diplomatic correspondent.” 

For news of Hunter Rawlings, see note 

on Ashley Pierce ’93. 

68 Jim McKerrow is now Director 

of the Spordler Center for Basic Research 

on parasitic diseases at U.C.S.F. His goal 

is to develop drugs for diseases of Third 

World children in regions of no interest 

to the pharmaceutical industry. 


Class News 


69 David Lazaroff has published his 

first children’s book, Correctamundo: 

Prickly Pete’s Guide to Desert Facts and 

Cactifracts, with the Arizona-Sonora 

Desert Museum in 2001. Check the website 

www.desertmuseum.com. 

Craig Saxer writes, “With PNC bank for 

25 years – now S.V.P. – Sales Department. 

Daughter K.C. is 24 – living in Fredericksburg, 

Va., and into art restoration. 

Daughter Samantha is 21 and a junior at 

James Madison University – economics 

and finance major. Spouse Barbara is a 

teacher of gifted children in Springfield 

Middle School. Hope things are well for 

all of the class of ’69!” 

Christopher Snyder Jr. writes, “I’m still 

in a private pediatric practice in Springfield. 

My younger son, Ben ’03, spent his 

fall semester this year abroad in Nepal.” 

William Zumeta writes, “I’m now professor 

and associate dean of the Evans 

School of Public Affairs and professor of 

educational leadership and policy studies 

at the University of Washington. 

Daughter Rebecca recently graduated 

from Whitman College and son Ben is a 

freshman at Willamette University (really 

a liberal arts college). Haverford taught 

me the value of such an education.” 

Graham Ashmead ’73 and daughter Alexandra in Ireland 2001. 

70 Thayer McCain is doing well 

emotionally, spiritually, and almost financially 

having started a health care practice, 

Thriving at Home. He was about 

ready to leave his chosen field of occupational 

therapy because of drastic changes 

in health care in the late ’90s but was able 

to establish a niche that feels like his “true 

calling.” To support the continued independence 

of his clients and improve their 

quality of life, he teaches simple adaptive 

techniques and provides low-tech assisting 

devices that make some of those small 

daily hassles (dressing, cooking, getting 

around the house or community, bathing, 

etc.) consume less energy. He’s never been 

happier, professionally. 

72 David Sloane writes, “At the 

recent annual meeting of the Actuarial 

Society of New York, I organized a panel 

to discuss issues relating to the Social 

Security Trust fund. Richard Thau ’87 

was the featured panelist and his presentation 

was a highlight of the entire 

meeting. Richard is president of Third 

Millennium. Also hosted recent alumni 

event at the Penn Club in New York featuring 

baseball coach Dave Beccaria, Athletic 

Director Greg Kannerstein ’63, and 

saw my old roomie, Bill O’Neill ’73.” 

73 Graham Ashmead writes, “Still 

doing high risk obstetrics in Cleveland, 

but this year had the unique honor and 

conjunction of four presidencies: President 

of the Cleveland Society Obstetrics 

and Gynecology, President of the Maternal-Fetal 

Medicine Society of NE Ohio, 

Co-President of the Weather Professional 

Fellows (associated CWRU) and Condo 

President – all nonpaying jobs. The high 

point of the year was a two-week trip to 

Ireland, North and South, with my 17- 

year-old daughter, Alexandra. The Irish 

seem to love Americans, despite not 

always being able to get along with each 

other. Sometimes I wish the Haverford 

College traditions of tolerance and community 

were more easily exported! Wishing 

the best!” 

For news of Bill O’Neill, see note on 

David Sloane ’72. 

74 Michael Davis, attorney, poet, 

and fledgling novelist, read from his new 

book, In the Evenings Dark Edges, as well 

as new poetry from his upcoming publication, 

Shots of Shady Faces, at the Tyme 

Gallery on Jan. 16, 2002. He is a writer 

who strives for directness and accessibility 

in the word structure of his poetry. 

Davis started writing poetry as a child. 

While at Haverford, he read at most of 

the area colleges. He was first published 

in the ’70s through a college publication 

on which he collaborated, RA, a joint 

effort of African-American students at 

Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. 

Lewin Rose writes, “Our daughter, 

Dorilona ’00, is working at MIT Press in 

Cambridge and our son, Duron, is a 

freshman at St. Joe’s. Faina and I are getting 

our first real taste at being empty 

nesters. I am now Secretary/Treasurer of 

the Medical Staff at Jefferson. I am also 

working on my next language – Spanish.” 

Stephen Shulman writes, “I was re-elected 

to the board of the National Association 

of Jewish Chaplains. This past spring 

I was honored for 10 years of service as 

a staff chaplain at the Memorial Sloan- 

Kettering Cancer Center by the Health 


Care Chaplaincy. This spring Eva and I 

are looking forward to celebrating as our 

son, Joel, becomes a bar mitzvah, and 

we just celebrated our 20th wedding 

anniversary!” 

Richard Steele writes, “The big news this 

year was the publication of my second 

book, Heart Religion, in the Methodist 

Tradition and Related Movements, Vol. 

12, in the Pietist and Wesleyan Studies 

of Scarecrow Press. Whatever modest 

professional significance that may have, 

however, pales before the awful tragedy 

we have all suffered on Sept. 11 – a 

tragedy which came very close to home 

for me when I learned that my college 

roommate, Phil Haentzler, was among 

the victims.” 

75 Richard DeJesus-Reuff writes, 

“Marcy (BMC ’75) and I celebrated our 

25th wedding anniversary last December. 

Our daughter, Virginia, graduated 

from Dartmouth and works at the Federal 

Reserve Bank in Boston. Our son, 

Vincente, is a senior at Beloit College and 

expects to graduate May ’02. Our 

youngest son, Joel, is a sophomore at the 

University of the Arts. I continue in my 

fifth year as dean of students at St. John 

Fisher College.” 

Daniel Iracki writes, “I’m still in solo 

practice in pulmonary medicine in the 

suburbs south of Pittsburgh, and my wife 

Natalie is in solo practice as a breast cancer 

surgeon. Our four kids keep us busy. 

My oldest (Dan) wouldn’t go to Haverford 

because they didn’t have a football 

team and is in his 2nd year of a 3+3 law 

school program at Duquesne University, 

plays football, and is in Army ROTC. 

My oldest daughter Maria is a junior in 

high school, a varsity cheerleader, a 

three-year member of the high school’s 

top 10 national dance team, and wants 

to go to a college where it is warm. My 

middle daughter Kimberly is my only 

hope for Haverford. She is a freshman in 

high school, plays soccer for a three-time 

state cup soccer team and has her mother’s 

good looks. My youngest child Tina 

is in 6th grade and is a very talented 

singer and has already been in various 

musicals in Pittsburgh, recorded a song 

on a CD made for learning disabled children, 

and has recorded two of her own 

CDs (watch out Britney Spears). I enjoy 

being the alumni representative for 

Haverford, including going to local college 

fairs and interviewing prospective 

students.” 

Andy Klein writes, “I am president of 

the cable TV division of Beta Research 

Corporation. We do audience research 

studies for almost all basic cable networks 

including the Discovery Channel, 

ESPN, CNN, A&E, the History Channel, 

TNT, and many more.” 

76 For news of Dave Boguslaw, see 

note on Jonathan Beers ’77. 

For news of Glenn Mackin, see note on 

Don Sapatkin ’78. 

77 Allen Aradi writes, “My most 

recent activity helped the automotive 

industry worldwide lower levels of the 

Global Warming Greenhouse gas, carbon 

dioxide, by participating in the 

development of the emerging engine 

technology “Direct Injection Spark Ignition” 

(DISI). In collaboration with 

ExxonMobil Corp., and Siemens Automotive, 

I played a leadership role for 

Ethyl Petroleum in DISI injection 

deposits problem which was a road stopper 

for this technology, because it 

increased pollutants.” 

Jonathan Beers writes, “David Royko’s 

review of the International Bluegrass 

Music Association Festival in the Oct. 

10, 2001, Chicago Tribune raves about 

Mark Schatz ’78. A very small number 

of us attended Mark’s first gigs at the 

Bryn Mawr Beef and Ale, where he 

played as a duo with guitarist Dave 

Boguslaw ’76. Mark has recorded with 

a wide variety of artists, including Bela 

Fleck, Mark O’Conner and Yo Yo Ma, 

and Doc Watson. Last time I talked with 

him he was enthusiastic about his work 

as musical director of the Footsteps 

dance company in Annapolis.” 

Michael Leeds writes, “I am co-author 

of the Economics of Sports, just published 

by Addison-Wesley.” 

The Reverend Cecil Charles Prescod, an 

ordained minister with the United 

Church of Christ, was featured in the 

Feb. 18, 2002, issue of the Oregonian, 

the daily newspaper of Portland, Ore. 

The article focuses on his post-Sept. 11 

work with the American Friends Service 

Committee, a Quaker organization with 

a long anti-war history, as well as his 

longtime activism in peace, human 

rights, and anti-bigotry issues. 

Paul Schroy writes, “Life is good in 

Wellesley, Mass., and Sunday River, Me. 

I just received another grant from the 

National Cancer Institute to continue 

my work in the area of colorectal cancer 

control. My wife Hope (BMC ’77) loves 

her job as a social worker at Brookline 

(Mass.) High School. My older son, Gregory, 

is away at boarding school pursuing 

his dream of making the national 

freestyle ski team, and my younger son, 

Bryan, is gearing up for a return trip to 

the national snowboard championships.” 

Tom Shotzbarger is now General Manager 

for the Tomlinson Bomberger Lawn 

Care & Landscape Company, based in 

Lancaster, Pa. 

78 David M. Aronowitz has been 

named Executive Vice President, General 

Counsel, and Corporate Secretary 

for The Scotts Company 

David Cowhey writes, “I regret to report 

that last summer I suffered a massive 

heart attack and underwent quadruple 

bypass surgery. I have fully recovered 

with the help of the nurturing of my wife 

of 18 years, Vicky. I implore my classmates 

to undergo regular cholesterol and 

blood pressure screenings.” 

Don Sapatkin writes, “I got married two 

years ago to Carol Bates, an architectural 

photographer. Dori Heinrich Middleman 

(BMC ’78) helped hold the chuppah, 

and Glenn Mackin ’76 was in 

attendance. We live in Philadelphia, 

where I am the Health and Science editor 

for the Philadelphia Inquirer.” 

For news of Mark Schatz, see note on 

Jonathan Beers ’77. 


Class News 


79 David Albright writes, “ I will be 

sending my oldest son, Jacob, off to college 

next year. Unfortunately, since swimming 

competitively in college is very 

important to him, Haverford will not be 

an option. My hope is that my younger 

son, Isaac, and daughter, Ariel, will consider 

Haverford someday.” 

For news of Timothy Cone, see note on 

Sydney Cone ’52. 

Thomas Roby writes, “After 15 years of private 

architectural conservation work based 

in Rome, I have become institutionalized 

at the Getty Conservation Institute in L.A., 

working primarily on training projects in 

Tunisia and Central America.” 

All persons who have attended Shanghai 

American School since 1979, please 

contact your school’s alumni group, the 

Shanghai American School Association, 

by writing to jcvm530@aol.com. 

80 Ron Akins has been appointed 

Academic Dean at the new and growing 

Friends Meeting School in Ijamsville, 

Md. He writes, “It’s exciting being 

responsible for curriculum and faculty 

development, among other things, at a 

new Quaker school.” 

Amr El-Badry writes, “After holding out 

for 40 years, I’ve finally gotten married to 

Nina Petrushova. We now reside in Maryland, 

where I am an anesthesiologist at 

Southern Maryland Community Hospital.” 

Stephen Estner writes, “I am closing my 

11-year private practice of forensic medicine 

and psychiatry to join the U.S. Air 

Force and hopefully make a contribution 

to the war against terrorism.” 

Mark Schecter writes, “I am a psychiatrist 

in the Boston area. I am married to 

Risa Weinrit (BMC ’80) and have two 

daughters: Rachel, 10 and Emma, 6.” 

Thomas Williams Scott writes, “I have 

taught 10th grade chemistry and 8th grade 

physical sciences for three years at Hunter 

College High School, a public school for 

the gifted in New York City. The student 

body is very talented and diverse.” 

82 For news of Michael Hatem, see 

BIRTHS. 

George Mitchell writes, “I am in my 10th 

year as Director of Admissions and 

Financial Aid at my high school alma 

mater, St. Paul’s School, in Baltimore. 

Attending Tom Glasser’s memorial services 

reminded me how important my 

Haverford experience has been in my 

life.” 

For news of Michael Rosen, see BIRTHS. 

For news of Phil Shields, see note on 

Paul Kelly ’83. 

83 Paul Kelly writes, “Our girls 

(Diana, 6, and Abigail, 10) continue to 

delight us in play, music, soccer, inquiry, 

and good company. My wife, Denny, now 

coordinates enforcement of the Clean 

Air Act for the EPA, New England 

Region. I have been remodeling our 

house while pursuing a masters in Geo 

Information Science and continuing to 

be a full-time dad. We visited Phil 

Shields ’82 in Wisconsin this summer 

and see Cynthia Berkowitz and sons Isaiah 

and Aaron.” 

Alan Miller writes, “Recently returned 

from a two year tour in Puerto Rico. It’s 

good to be back in the USA! We had a 

lot of fun and worked hard at our tans. I 

am now the Chief of Urology at 

Charleston Naval Hospital and was 

recently promoted to the rank of Commander 

in the U.S. Navy.” 

84 George Fee writes, “Like almost 

all others, I was greatly saddened by the 

terrorist attacks in America on Sept. 11. 

The deaths of classmates and colleagues 

are never easy to bear. It is especially difficult 

under these circumstances. I pray 

for those lost and for a swift and terrible 

vengeance against those responsible.” 

85 Michael Kim is still chairman of 

Carlyle Asia, based in Seoul, Korea. For 

more news of Michael, see BIRTHS. 

For news of Ron Laby, see BIRTHS. 

Holly Toye Moore writes, “After the end 

of the Clinton Administration, I briefly 

stayed on at the Treasury Department as 

the Senior Adviser to the new Deputy 

Secretary, helping him set up his office 

and hire my replacement. I left in May 

after the birth of my second child Lily 

Swaine-Moore on May 12, 2001. In 

October, I returned to work at the office 

of the Legal Adviser at the Department 

of State.” 

Pnina Siegler writes, “Busy working part 

time as an SLP and full time as a mother 

of three girls ages 18 months, six, and 

eight. Just celebrated KP’s (Kelley 

Palmer) daughter’s 2nd b-day. Saw Elizabeth 

Rohr too. She has two boys.” 

Aiden FitzGerald, son of Ross FitzGerald ’86. 


86 Adam Dubin writes, “Hi, all. 

When I’m not happily practicing in a 

large, suburban Chicago practice, I can 

still be found playing my piano (finally a 

nice one, Boesendorfer) and collecting 

antique phonographs and 78 rpm, mostly 

early opera and jazz, shellac records.” 

Ross FitzGerald writes “Howdy. My son 

Aidan, at age two, completed his second 

climb at 5,000’ and Mount Jefferson in 

the Presidentials. His comment was ‘I 

miss my friend Maeve Donnelly’ (daughter 

of Hank Donnelly), and he gave a 

wink!” 

Margery Mazoh writes, “Moved back to 

Cleveland this summer after swearing I 

would never return. I’m working as a 

contract analyst at the Cleveland Clinic, 

and am thinking about joining mom’s 

mustard business. E-mailed Basil Musnuff 

recently –we’ll be nearly neighbors 

– hope to get together in 2002.” 

87 For news of Jim Ehrenhaft, see 

note on Alexandra Ashbrook ’88. 

Richard Espey writes, “My first play, 

‘Take Two,’ was produced by the Director’s 

Choice Theater Company as part of 

the Baltimore Playwright’s festival during 

the summer of 2001.” 

Jonathan Lowe writes, “Since June 2000, 

I’ve been exploring corporate culture at 

IBM as a geospatial evangelist. In March, 

a few friends and I climbed to 17,769 

feet in Nepal’s Annapurna Region. The 

city of Kathmandu was a crash course in 

the magic of Buddhism – a must see…” 

Dr. David L. Stevens is co-editor, with 

Anna B. Reisman, M.D., of Telephone 

Medicine: A Guide for the Practicing Physician 

(American College of Physicians- 

American Society of Internal Medicine, 

2002). The book aims to provide a solid 

understanding of how telephone medicine 

can improve patient care. 

For news of Richard Thau, see note on 

David Sloane ’72. 

88 Alexandra Ashbrook writes, “Jim 

’87 continues to teach comparative religion 

and English and coach cross-country 

and track in D.C. Alex is off for five 

months on maternity leave and then will 

return to Street Law part-time where she 

directs a program that teaches teen parents 

practical law.” For more news of 

Alexandra, see BIRTHS. 

Janet Coffman writes, “After six years as 

a project manager/researcher at UC-San 

Francisco, I have returned to UC-Berkeley 

to pursue a Ph.D. in health services 

and policy analysis. I’m enjoying the 

intellectual stimulation and flexibility of 

student life. A student’s budget…well 

that’s another matter.” 

David Kris writes, “It has been a busy 

year. Our daughter, Hannah, turned one 

in December: she is pure joy. I remain at 

the Department of Justice, but have shifted 

from law enforcement to national 

security work. Especially since Sept. 11, 

it has been quite hectic.” 

For news of Lynne Richardson, see 

BIRTHS. 

Michael Rubin writes, “I am a partner 

with New Rochelle Radiology, Associates. 

My two wonderful daughters, Elena 

and Ariana, turned four and two years 

of age this summer.” 

Ed Zoneberg is now a Fellow of the 

Casualty Actuarial Society. Tolly 

Zoneberg enjoys spending time with sons 

Nicholas, 4, and Andrew, 18 months. 

89 Diane Castelbuono and husband 

Gary are busy enjoying spending time 

with Helen (age 3) and Owen (7 

months) – a heckuva lot of fun! 

For news of Andrew Johannesen, see 

BIRTHS. 

Christopher Lee, correspondent for the 

Dallas Morning News, was featured in the 

October 2001 issue of Baltimore. Lee 

received a master’s degree in public policy 

from Harvard. He joined the Morning 

News in 1991, spending the next 

decade covering the state legislature and 

some of George W. Bush’s campaign. 

Now he’s in Washington covering Congress. 

Jonathan Rabin writes, “After an exciting 

two-year stay as visiting rabbi to Glasgow, 

Scotland, we’ve resettled our ‘spirits’ 

in suburban Jerusalem, where I’ve 

accepted a teaching position in a prestigious 

rabbinical seminary.” For more 

news of Jonathan, see BIRTHS. 

On a mild day in Rockefeller Center (l. to r.): Katita Strathmann ’89, Laurie Stevens 

Dray ’89, Sara Liebman ’89, Sharon Fiarman ’89, Rebecca Cole Moore ’89, and Katya 

Robinson ’89. 


Class News 


90 Julia Coleman writes, “Still in 

Boston (living in Somerville). Secondyear 

resident of Psychiatry at Massachusetts 

General Hospital. Busy having a 

great time taking care of the mentally ill. 

I’ve been in contract with Don Morrison 

since he and my husband Steve were 

classmates at the Teacher’s College of 

Columbia last year. Don is back in 

Tampa, Fla., teaching history but I saw 

him in Denver, Colo., two weeks ago. 

Also, I ran into Ravi Sheth last spring in 

N.Y.C. while having lunch with Don at 

an Indian restaurant. Small world!!! Ravi 

was doing a post-doc in Chicago and 

planning a June wedding in Italy to his 

Italian fiancé.” 

Emma (Fortney) McCarty writes, “It has 

been a busy year and a half. I finished 

my residency at Massachusetts General’s 

Med/Peds program in June of 2000, 

moved to Shreveport, La. (no kidding), 

and got married to David McCarty. Needless 

to say, I haven’t seen a ’Ford in 

Shreveport, but if anyone is interested in 

Mardi Gras-Lite, Shreveport is the place 

to be, and we would love the visitors.” 

For more news of Emma, see BIRTHS. 

Andrew Shepherd is serving in the Peace 

Corps. 

May 12, 2001, wedding of Alison Volpe 

’93 and Michael Holmes. Back row (l. to r.): 

Jessica Kahn ’94, Rebecca Jackson 

Wright ’93, Matt Fitzgerald ’93, Alison 

Volpe Holmes ’93, Michael Holmes, Dora 

Carson ’94, Vinny DeLeo ’93. Front row 

seated (l. to r.): Heidi Benedict Fezatte 

’93, Adi Cohen-Weinsaft ’93, Heather 

Donaldson ’95, Kathie Jordan 

91 For news of Rupali Chandar, see 

BIRTHS. 

Lorin Fearn writes, “I’m still living in 

Northampton, Mass., but have changed 

jobs. I’m flying out of Chicago as First 

Officer on a Dornier 328 for Air Wisconsin/United 

Express. Come say hello if 

you hear me on the P.A. – just wait until 

we’re on the ground!” 

92 For news of Yinog Young-Xu, see 

note on Sarah Young-Xu ’94. 

93 Mitchell Cohen writes, “If any 

of my Haverford ‘homies’ visit South 

Florida, I will be happy to show you 

around. There are subtle nuances 

between the Sunshine State and the Keystone 

State. Example: here instead of 

Superfresh and Shoprite, we have Winn- 

Dixie and Publix. Oh, BTW, I was featured 

in the Miami Herald on Jan. 28, 

2002, for having won a two-plus year 

battle against the Immigration and Naturalization 

Service, on the basis of the 

U.N. Convention Against Torture.” 

July 22, 2001, wedding of Anna Blau 

Zay ’93 and Alexander Zay. Front row 

(l. to r.): Mike Zarin ’93, Micah Drayton 

’01, Tanya Bartucz (BMC ’94). 

Back row (l. to r.) James Wetmore ’73, 

Alexander Zay, Anna Blau Zay ’93. 

Gregory Cooper writes, “Last year I 

graduated from the University of Maryland 

with a Ph.D. in physics. While I was 

a graduate student, I created a new technology 

for manufacturing integrated circuits. 

Since I graduated, I have been 

working full time for Pixelligent Technologies, 

a company I founded to develop 

this technology. We are currently 

located in Alexandria, Va. Pixelligent is 

still a very small company, and I am 

learning how to manage the startup 

process. Since we are always looking for 

good people, anyone looking for a job 

with a background in physics, chemistry, 

or engineering should feel free to contact 

me at gcooper@pixelligent.com.” 

Kaeza Kristin Fearn writes, “I am continuing 

to grow and change, learning to 

let go (an ending of a relationship teaches 

this!). I spend time teaching piano, 

nursery school, acting as youth director 

at a congregational church here in the 

Boston area, and am seeking new musical 

collaborators! Please send them my 

way. I am tending a seed that contains 

the idea of beginning a small sustainable 

community here in New England. 

Dreams take time to manifest. Blessings 

to all.” 

Ashley Pierce writes, “I was married to 

Rick Slade in Mexico on Nov. 23, 2001. 

I’m working as a certified nurse-midwife 

in private practice in northern Virginia. 

’Fords in attendance included Hunter K 

Rawlings ’66, Clay Kelly, and Bronwyn 

Sisk.” 

Allison Stahl writes, “Kevin, Jacob and I 

are living in Larchmont, N.Y., where we 

bought a house in the spring. I’m still staying 

home with Jacob and I’m having the 

time of my life doing it. The time is flying 

by – Jacob turned two on January 31st!” 

Alison Volpe married Michael Holmes 

in New York, N.Y., on May 12, 2001. Ten 

’Fords attended, including the best man 

Matt Fitzgerald and the maid of honor 

Adi Cohen-Weinsaft. Heather Donaldson 

’95 and Kathie Jordan ’94 were in 

the wedding party. Alison and Mike currently 

live in Chapel Hill, N.C., where 

Alison is a second year resident at the 

University of North Carolina Hospitals, 

and Mike attends the UNC Kenan-Flagler 

Business School. 


Justin Warner writes, “Just finishing an 

M.F.A. in playwriting at Catholic U. in 

spring of ’02. Have just spent fall of ’01 at 

New Dramatists in New York City. New 

Yorkers are impressive in the sense of 

normalcy they have maintained.” 

Anna Blau Zay and Alexander Zay were 

married July 22, 2001, in Great Barrington, 

Mass. “We laughed and ate and 

danced the night away!” 

94 Kathleen Hinman writes, “I am 

writing from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where I 

am currently a volunteer with the MBA 

Enterprise Corps. I have already been here 

for almost six months, and I should be here 

for another nine months. I would be thrilled 

to hear from anyone and everyone.” 

For news of Kathie Jordan, see note on 

Alison Volpe ’93. 

Renanit Levy is living in Brooklyn with 

her husband Steve Mazie and working 

as a Program Executive at UTA – Federation 

of New York. She recently saw Jessica 

Berson in Iowa over Thanksgiving 

where she is teaching dance and choreography 

at Grinnell College. 

David Lippel writes, “I’ve finished my 

math Ph.D. at UC-Berkeley, and I’m in 

the process of moving to Hamilton, 

Ontario where in January, I’ll start a postdoctoral 

position at McMaster University.” 

Lowry McAllen writes, “I married Jessica 

Campbell on Aug. 25, 2001, in 

Corales, N.M., and several fellow Haverfordians 

were in attendance. They included 

Theo Posselt, Garth Beams, Kevin 

McCulloch, Paul Dubbeling, Mark Fine 

’97, and Andrea Vergara-Wilson. Jessica 

and I were married in the manner of 

Friends at the Old San Ysidro Church, 

and the late-August weather was not 

painfully hot. We’d met in New Mexico 

while I was working as a reporter for the 

Albuquerque Tribune and she was with 

the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. 

We’ve both changed careers in a big way 

since then. Starting last May, I’ve been 

working as the manager of a sheep ranch 

in southern Wisconsin. It’s a shift I’d been 

contemplating for quite a while. So far, 

Aug. 25, 2001, wedding of Lowry McAllen ’94 and Jessica Campbell in Corrales, 

N.Mex. (l to r.): Theo Posselt ’94, Garth Beams ’94, Kevin McCulloch ’94, Jessica 

Campbell, Lowry McAllen ’94, Paul Dubbeling ’94, Mark Fine ’97, and Andrea 

Vergara-Wilson ’94. 

it’s been great to combine the jobs of handling 

animals, regulating grazing, and 

putting together breeding plans. We’ve 

been very lucky this first winter together 

in Wisconsin as the weather has been 

unseasonably warm.” 

Sarah Young-Xu writes “Maomao (Yinog 

Young-Xu ’92) and I have had an exciting 

year. I finished my family practice 

residency and have started practice in 

Woodsville, N.H. I love my job and am 

happy to be living in the country again. 

Maomao is working on his Ph.D. in epidemiology 

at Harvard and enjoys 

telecommuting.” For more news of 

Sarah, see BIRTHS. 

95 Liza Ayuso writes, “I am very 

happy to announce my engagement to 

Alan Coronado. We will get married in 

July, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I plan to 

finish my residency in pediatrics this 

June, and then move to Manhattan to 

start practice as a general pediatrician. I 

recently saw Carlos Rodriguez ’96, who 

visited Miami for a few weeks.” 

Eric Barnhill writes, “I’m performing 

piano lecture recitals, mostly in the Midwest 

and South, entering the occasional 

competition, coaching privately, and 

studying Feldenkrais and Dalcroze. I’m 

living in Sunnyside, Queens.” 

Keisha Jones ’95 and Trayton Cappel. 


Class News 


Elson Blunt writes, “Since getting married 

in March 2000 to Cheryle Oshman 

(SC ’94), I have been teaching physics 

and Quakerism at Sandy Spring Friends 

School in Maryland.” 

David Canes writes, “Since January 2001, 

I have been working at the US-China Policy 

Foundation as a research assistant. I 

have worked on various projects, including 

a short book on President Bush’s 

China Policy, a textbook on US-China 

relations since 1945, and a report on the 

recent APEC Summit in Shanghai.” 

Keisha Jones Cappel and Trayton Cappel 

were recently married. Both the bride 

and the groom work at Price Waterhouse. 

For news of Heather Donaldson, see 

note on Alison Volpe ’93. 

Melanie Ellsworth writes, “I am currently 

attending a one-year Masters program in 

Language and Literacy at Harvard’s Graduate 

School of Education. I married 

Patrick McManus, a truly wonderful man, 

on October 27th. Our joy was tempered 

somewhat by the Sept. 11 attacks and 

subsequent war, but we were very happy 

that some of our Haverford friends, 

including Holly Heinzer (bridesmaid), 

Daniel Smith, Kate Rosi Haines and her 

new husband Dan, and Laurie Pounder 

could be there to celebrate with us.” 

For news of Eric Sasson, see note on 

Matt Townsend ’96. 

96 For news of Carlos Rodriguez, 

see note on Liza Ayuso ’95. 

Matt Townsend married Lisa Uebelacker 

on Sept. 15, 2001, in St. Thomas More 

Chapel in New Haven, Conn. Attendees 

included Joshua Twilley ’97, Heather 

Ingram ’97, Jennifer Wise, Eric Sasson 

’95, and Mark Sloan. Matt is currently 

living in Massachusetts where he is finishing 

a degree in neuroscience. 

97 Jill Blumenthal writes, “I’m disappointed 

that I probably won’t be able to 

attend next year’s reunion. I’ll be busy 

preparing my 9th graders for their final 

exam, but I’ll be thinking about everyone 

at Haverford.” 

For news of Mark Fine, see note on 

Lowry McAllen ’94. 

For news of Heather Ingram, see note 

on Matt Townsend ’96. 

For news of Joshua Twilley, see note on 

Matt Townsend ’96. 

98 Ressa Adamek-Griggs is engaged 

to Christopher Jones. Ressa is a teacher 

at Frog Pond Early Learning Center in 

Alexandria, Va., and is pursuing a master’s 

in special education at George 

Mason University. Christopher is the 

director of marketing for SWR Worldwide 

and a student at the George Mason 

University School of Law. 

Kathryn Chandless graduated from 

Georgetown Law School in 2001 after 

completing a study away for the last 

semester in Melbourne, Australia and the 

University of Canterbury in New Zealand. 

She is now a practicing N.Y. attorney in 

New York City with the firm of Proskauer 

Rose LLP, where she concentrates in labor 

and entertainment law and is interested in 

international law. Before becoming a 

lawyer, Kathryn worked for Proskauer 

Rose in their Washington, D.C., office 

and in New York. She also traveled to 

Thailand, Mexico, and Costa Rica and 

has a trip scheduled for Iceland. She 

expects to be admitted to the D.C. bar 

shortly and contemplates seeking admission 

in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

Susan Frick writes, “I am finishing my 

Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School 

of Education and will spend 2002 studying 

peace and development in Castellon, 

Spain, as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar 

of Goodwill.” 

Kristin Miller writes, “I just joined the 

law firm of Dechert, Price and Rhoads 

in Philadelphia as an associate.” 

99 Zoe Cohen writes, “I have moved 

to West Philly and am teaching children’s 

art classes at the Philadelphia Museum of 

Art and with the Mural Arts Program, in 

addition to doing backstage work at various 

theatres and painting in my studio.” 

Sept. 15, 2001, wedding of Matt Townsend 

’96 and Lisa Uebelacker. Fords in attendance 

were Joshua Twilley ’97, Heather 

Ingram ’97, Jennifer Wise ’96, Eric Sasson 

’95, and Mark Sloan ’96. 


Sarah Newhall writes, “I’m living in 

Brookline, Mass., these days and I started 

law school at Boston College in the 

fall of 2001. I love living in Boston and 

it’s hard to walk down the street without 

bumping into a fellow alum! If you live 

in Boston be sure to catch Rockwell 

Church next time they play at Passin in 

Cambridge – brings back memories.” 

For news of Abby Reed, see note on 

Dorilona Rose ’00. 

00 John Marples writes, “I am still 

teaching in San Jose, Calif., through 

Teach for America. I completed the 

requirements for preliminary teaching 

credential in October 2001. My plans for 

next year are uncertain, but I plan to stay 

in California!” 

Dorilona Rose writes, “All’s well in 

Boston, the relocation city for Haverford 

alums. I’m in my second year as assistant 

publicist for the M.I.T. Press. Last 

year I lived with Ann Mitchell and Laurie 

Giarratani, and now I live down the 

block with Michael Kay. So as not to 

break with the Haverford cycle, Ann and 

Laurie currently live with Abby Reed 

’99. We see alums here so frequently we 

call our regular run-ins ‘Spontaneous 

Alumnae/i Events!’ There have been 

many planned encounters with the following 

people: Katie Shotzbarger, her 

roommates Andrew Prazar, and Beth 

Maier, Cat Kim, Marcy Ciuffreda, Jane 

Weinman, and Anna Farago. And of 

course Shotzie’s Halloween party brought 

together alums from N.Y.C. and Philly 

as well. It has been great to meet friendly 

alums here from many different classes 

and I look forward to more Haverford 

gatherings!” For more news of Dorilona, 

see note on Lewis Rose ’74. 

01 Mark Buckley is teaching English 

to 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders 

at Huangshi II Middle School in Huangshi, 

P.R. China. He also coaches basketball 

and teaches English to five year olds 

on Saturdays. He is having a great experience 

and enjoys wonderful meals for 

35 cents U.S. 

Robin Herlands writes, “I’m having a 

blast at graduate school in New Haven. 

I’m rotating in immunology labs, taking 

courses, and making lots of new friends. 

My best to all at the ’Ford!” 

Patricia Kinser writes, “I’m in Richmond, 

Va., working in the cardiology department 

of the Medical College of Virginia 

Hospital. I will start graduate school next 

summer to be a nurse practitioner of 

women’s health.” 

Letitia Valdes-Dapena was married to 

Michael McGuire, Sept. 29, 2001, in 

Hanover, Pa. 

Births 

82 Michael Hatem writes, “On Aug. 

13, 2001, my daughter was born – Marlena 

Froelich Hatem.” 

Michael Rosen writes, “Laura and I 

would like to announce the birth of 

Emma Gibson Rosen on Sept. 24, 2001. 

Emma is Nicholas’ sister and is our second 

child. Sleep is once again a thing of 

the past, but she is so cute it is worth it.” 

85 Michael Kim had a second child, 

Shane Jaemin, in May 2001. 

Ron Laby writes, “Our daughter Dahlia 

was born April 30, 2001.” 

88 Alexandra Ashbrook writes, “In 

October 2001, Caleb Ashbrook Ehrenhecht 

joined his big brother Ethan. His 

parents are slightly sleep deprived but 

loving every moment with the new 

arrival of his sweet brother.” 

Lynne Richardson writes, “Veronica Rose 

Richardson Campbell – A.K.A Ronnie – 

arrived on Nov. 11, 2001. She and her 

big brother, Ryan, are getting along well.” 

89 Andrew Johannesen writes, “Our 

3rd child, Thomas Clay, was born Sept. 

25, 2001 in Houston.” 

Jonathan Rabin writes, “Baby Shmuel, 

born on May 2, 2001, has joined our 

family staff of highly animated munchkins, 

and presently specializes in eating 

my tie collection.” 

90 Emma (Fortney) McCarty writes, 

“On Nov. 5, 2001, I gave birth to a beautiful 

baby girl – Jacqueline Anne.” 

91 Rupali Chandar writes, “On Nov. 

8, 2001, Rupah and I were blessed with 

the birth of our first child, a daughter 

named Maya Yasmin Chandar-Kouba. 

She made her debut somewhat early but 

is doing well and keeping her parents up 

all night long!” 

94 Sarah Young-Xu writes, “Best of 

all, our daughter Leili Florence was born 

on Sept. 26, 2001. She’s healthy and 

growing. We’re totally in love with her!” 


Obituaries 

25 William Hinrichs, 97, died in his 

home in Meriden, Conn., on Friday, Jan. 

11, 2002. Hinrichs received a doctorate 

from Columbia in 1929, going on to 

work as psychologist at the Connecticut 

School for Boys in Meriden. After World 

War II, he was employed as a professor of 

psychology at Georgia State University. 

He returned to Meriden in 1985 and volunteered 

at Miller Memorial Community 

and in the pharmacy at MidState Medical 

Center for 11 years. Hinrichs 

participated in many walkathons for 

multiple sclerosis. For several years, he 

was both the oldest walker and the oldest 

team captain in the nation. He 

received a gold medal for the 10K in the 

Senior Olympics. Hinrichs is survived 

by his daughter Ange and her husband 

Mohammed Islam, as well as numerous 

nieces and nephews. 

32 A. Keith Smiley died peacefully 

from natural causes on Thursday, Dec. 6, 

2001, at age 91, in Goshen, N.Y. Smiley’s 

lifelong involvement with Mohonk enterprises 

began upon his return from Haverford. 

In 1963, he and his brother Daniel 

were instrumental in founding the 

Mohonk Trust, now the Mohonk Preserve. 

In 1980, Smiley founded Mohonk 

Consultations, which sponsors programs 

that promote a broader understanding of 

the need for the sustainable use of the 

Earth’s resources. He authored several 

published essays on human interaction 

and the environment and was an early 

proponent of the idea that environmental 

degradation arises from regional and 

global problems. He dedicated himself to 

facilitating communication and understanding 

among different constituencies 

to find common ground for maintaining 

the health of the planet. A lifelong Quaker, 

Smiley was involved with the New 

York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society 

of Friends and the Quaker United 

Nations Office. He was a member of the 

Board of Managers of the Oakwood 

School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from 1958- 

67, and served a term as Chairman. He 

also worked with Mid-Hudson Patterns 

for Progress. Smiley was honored in 1978 

with an Award of Merit from Haverford 

College and the Quality of Life in the 

Hudson Valley Award from Mid-Hudson 

Patterns for Progress in 1992. He is survived 

by his wife of 61 years, Ruth Happel 

Smiley, his daughter Sandra, his son 

Albert, three grandsons, and three greatgrandchildren. 

34 Francis Hole, 88, died Tuesday, 

Jan. 15, 2002. Hole received a B.S. from 

Earlham in 1933 in geology and biology, 

an M.A. in French from Haverford, and 

a Ph.D. in soil science and geography 

from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 

in 1943. He joined the faculty of UW 

in 1946 as an assistant professor of soils. 

He published widely and co-wrote a standard 

textbook, Soil Genesis and Classification 

(Iowa State University Press). He 

received the university’s distinguished 

teaching award in 1974. Hole retired in 

June 1983 but remained active in education. 

As an emeritus professor, he lectured 

to any interested audience, from 

preschoolers to academics to retirees, 

In Tribute 

Jonathan E. Rhoads ’28 of Haverford died 

January 3, 2002. He was 94. Rhoads 

received his medical degree at Johns Hopkins 

in 1932 and then began his internship 

at the university hospital. He earned 

a D.Sc. degree from Penn’s Graduate 

School of Medicine in 1940. Dr. Rhoads 

joined Haverford’s Board of Managers in 

1948; he served as chair from 1963 to 

1972. He was awarded an honorary doctor 

of science degree from Haverford in 

1962. Throughout most of his career at 

the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 

and the university’s medical 

school, Rhoads focused his research on 

surgical patients’ nutrition. He first broke 

ground by concocting a mixture that, fed 

intravenously, made young animals grow 

normally to maturity and that kept children 

alive, despite bowel deformities that 

prevented them from processing food. In 

the 1950s, he served as university 

provost. Then, in the 1960s, he directed 

a research project that led to greater use 

of intravenous feeding, and his approaches 

came into common use. From 1935 to 

2001 he published nearly 400 papers. 

Many dealt with his findings about pancreatic, 

gastric, colon, breast, and liver 

cancers. He shed light on blood coagulation 

and the properties of vitamin K and 

on a common blood thinner. Early in his 

career, he was known for his expertise on 

shock and burns and published papers 

on those topics. He was among the first 

doctors to use sulfas, a family of drugs 

fighting bacterial infections, for burns 

and peritonitis. Rhoads worked at the 

university hospital for 70 years, starting 

as a junior physician in 1932. He was 

chairman of the university’s department 

of surgery from 1959 to 1972 and 

Jonathan E. Rhoads ’28 

remained an active member of the medical 

school faculty until his final hospitalization. 

He was a past president of the 

American Cancer Society, whose medical 

journal, Cancer, he edited for two decades. 

Rhoads is survived by his wife Katherine, 

daughter Margaret Kendon, sons 

Jonathan, George, Edward, Philip, and 

Charles, twelve grandchildren, and five 

great-grandchildren. 


about humanity’s stake in the soil. For 

years, he used his battered violin, soil 

auger, and suitcase full of puppets to great 

effect as he performed soil songs, soil 

poems, and puppet plays about the earth 

beneath our feet. In 1983, he began a 

campaign to get lawmakers to name Antigo 

silt loam the state soil, which gained 

eventual success despite media ridicule. 

A conscientious objector during World 

War II and a Quaker, Hole worked in 

civilian public service camps in 1944-46 

and remained devoted to nonviolence 

throughout his life. 

Roger Scattergood, a retired lawyer and 

city planner who also served as executive 

director of the Germantown Businessmen’s 

Association in Germantown, Pa., 

died Friday, Feb. 22, 2002. He was 89. 

Born in Philadelphia, Scattergood graduated 

from Germantown Friends School 

before receiving a bachelor’s degree in history 

from Haverford. He went on to earn 

a master’s degree in history from Harvard 

University in 1935, a law degree from the 

University of Pennsylvania in 1938, and a 

master’s in city planning from Penn in 

1958. Scattergood practiced law for several 

Philadelphia-area firms, including 

Kidder, Peabody & Co. and was a planner 

for the State of New Jersey for several 

years. After retiring from this position in 

1977, he headed the Germantown Businessmen’s 

Association, which worked to 

attract commercial development and new 

business to the neighborhood. He retired 

in 1981. Scattergood belonged to a number 

of professional, political, and civic 

organizations, such as the Philadelphia 

and Pennsylvania Bar Association, the 

World Affairs Council, the Philadelphia 

Committee in City Policy, and the Citizens 

Committee on City Planning. He also 

served on a number of school boards, 

including Haverford, and was a member 

of Germantown Meeting. An avid outdoorsman, 

Scattergood climbed the Matterhorn, 

one of the highest mountains in 

the Swiss Alps, as a young man and maintained 

a lifelong interest in mountain 

climbing, as well as Scottish country dancing. 

He is survived by his wife of 43 years, 

Elizabeth, and several nieces and 

nephews. 

36 William Crawford, 86, died on 

Dec. 14, 2001, in his home in Bethesda, 

Md. A career Foreign Service Officer, 

Crawford went to Romania in 1962 as 

minister of the United States legation in 

Bucharest. He became ambassador in 

1964, after Washington and Bucharest 

had raised their respective missions to 

the embassy level. He worked on a joint 

United States-Romanian communiqué 

in 1964 that established the basis for farreaching 

trade cooperation. In 1965, he 

moved to Paris to be special assistant for 

international affairs to General Lyman 

L. Lemnitzer, supreme allied commander 

in Europe for the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization. He held this post until 

1967. Crawford was predeceased by his 

first wife, Barabara Gardner, in 1979. He 

is survived by his wife Gudrun Hadell 

Crawford, daughters Barbara Huppe, 

Pauline Despain, and Elizabeth Prussack, 

sons William Henry and John Kenneth 

Crawford, eight grandchildren, six greatgrandchildren, 

and his brother John 

Crawford. 

37 George Norris, 86, died on Oct. 

10, 2001, at Hospice of Palm Beach 

County due to complications of Parkinson’s 

disease. A nuclear physics major at 

Haverford, he received his law degree 

from Columbia in 1940 and was admitted 

to the New York Bar, the District of 

Columbia Bar, and the U.S. Supreme 

Court. He served as law clerk to the 12 

judges sitting on the Motions Calendar of 

the Southern District of New York. He 

served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

during World War II as a 2nd Lt. 

He was a member of Bethesda-by-the- 

Sea Church. From 1966 until his retirement 

in 1979, he served as Committee 

Counsel to the House of Representatives 

Armed Services Committee, Seapower 

Subcommittee, in charge of procurement 

of naval vessels. His special interest in 

nuclear energy guided the committee to 

authorize more nuclear-powered ships. 

From 1953 to 1958, he was Committee 

Counsel for the Joint (House/Senate) 

Committee on Atomic Energy in the U.S. 

Capitol. He drafted the Atomic Energy 

Act of 1954, which permitted peaceful 

uses of atomic energy. He also drafted 

the Atomic Energy Communities Act 

and the Price-Anderson Act. He also 

assisted the House and Senate delegation 

to the United Nations in drafting the 

International Atomic Energy Agency 

Treaty. After retiring to Hypoluxo Island, 

Fla., he became involved in the Navy 

League and was elected Director-Emeritus 

of its Palm Beach Council in 1986. 

He initiated the Sea Cadets Program to 

encourage young men to pursue careers 

in the Navy. He was a founding director 

of the Education Foundation of Palm 

Beach County. He is survived by his wife, 

Celia Hill, his daughters Susan and Joan, 

grandsons Michael and Mitchell, and 

great-granddaughter Amanda. 

42 Charles C. Abbott, 82, died on 

Jan. 8, 2002, at Swaim Health Center in 

Newville, Pa. He served in the U.S. Navy 

as a lieutenant during World War II and 

worked for both the Ohio and Pennsylvania 

departments of agriculture as a seed 

analyst. He belonged to the Quaker meetings 

of Langhorne and Middletown and 

was a member of the Society of Commercial 

Seed Technologists, the Association 

of Official Seed Analysts, and the 

Baronial Order of Magna Charta. He is 

survived by his wife Jane, son Glen, and 

a granddaughter. 

Dr. Edgar D. Bell, 81, died on Dec. 8, 

2001, at his home in Littleton, Mass. A 

native of Ingomar, Pa., he became a 

Quaker and a conscientious objector, 

serving in the Civilian Public Service during 

World War II. With other C.O.’s at 

Massachusetts General Hospital, he volunteered 

as a human subject in a study 

about dehydration in sailors, directed by 

Alan Butler, M.D. He studied medicine 

at Harvard Medical School, where he met 

and married fellow medical student and 

Bryn Mawr graduate Ellen Cary. In 1955 

he joined physicians Donnell Boardman 

and Henry Harvey, who shared his interest 

in pioneering a pre-paid health care 

plan, to found Acton Medical Associates 

in Acton, Mass. The group had grown to 

some 18 physicians when he retired in 

1990. He served for many years as trustee 


Obituaries 

of the Littleton Conservation Trust, 

working to save open areas and woodlands. 

In addition to work on the Shade 

Tree Commission, he experimented with 

ways to save the elms from Dutch elm 

disease and ash trees from ash blight. 

Among his efforts at hunger relief, he 

was a key member of the local food 

pantry program, Loaves and Fishes. He 

spearheaded drives for food and clothing 

for the needy, and started a project 

of donating books and reading aloud to 

first-graders in the Ayer public school 

while they ate breakfast. When he realized 

many children no longer received 

lunch after school was out in the summer, 

he organized a summer arts and 

crafts enrichment program which included 

a free breakfast and lunch. He is survived 

by his wife Ellen and five children: 

Thomas ’72, James, Samuel, Sarah, and 

Richard, as well as 10 grandchildren. 

45 Arthur Walden Palmer, Jr., who 

earned a graduate degree at Haverford, 

died in January 2002. A 1939 graduate 

of The Haverford School, he spent most 

of his career as Director of Admissions 

at the Cranbrook School. 

48 Carl Bond, 81, died on Nov. 15, 

2001, at Villa Rosa Nursing Home after 

complications from a stroke. In 1941, he 

graduated from Bryant College in Providence, 

R.I., with a degree in business 

administration. After the Pearl Harbor 

attack, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, 

where he received his officer’s training. 

He took part in campaigns in North 

Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. He 

remained in the Air Force Reserves, retiring 

in 1962 as a strategic intelligence officer 

with the rank of Major. Bond returned 

to the States and enrolled in Haverford 

College. He attended graduate school at 

Boston University, earning a master’s in 

economic geography and an M.B.A. in 

international trade and marketing. Bond’s 

career was in economic development 

with the states of New Hampshire and 

Michigan before coming to Washington, 

D.C., in 1962 to work in the United States 

Department of Commerce. He retired in 

1985. While at Commerce, he served as 

the economist on a long-range United 

Nations economic development mission 

to Venezuela, was assigned to the Alaskan 

field office for aid to interior Alaskan 

communities while the pipeline was 

being built, and carried out other special 

assignments in Puerto Rico, the upper 

Great Lakes, and the Rocky Mountain 

areas. Prior to this service, he was project 

officer with the Economic Development 

Administration’s Office of Public 

Works for four years and area planner 

with the Area Redevelopment Administration 

for three years. Bond is survived 

by his wife Ruth, his daughter Karen, his 

son Steven and wife Sally, his daughter 

Tami and husband Roy Chernikoff, 

grandchildren Aaron and Jacob Hurd, 

Michael and Christopher Bond, and 

Joshua and Sara Chernikoff. 

55 Dr. Edward U. Scherer died on 

Jan. 8, 2002. He received his medical 

degree from George Washington University 

Medical School. After completing 

his internship at Williamsport Hospital, 

he served two years in the U.S. Air 

Force as a flight surgeon. He completed 

Friends of the College 

C. Lloyd Bailey, 82, died of pneumonia 

on Jan. 23, 2001. He attended Olney 

Friends School in Barnesville and taught 

there for three years before becoming a 

conscientious objector. The first CO 

camp he was sent to was Buck Creek 

Camp in Merion, N.C. Bailey was granted 

permission to finish his alternative 

service at Byberry Mental Hospital in 

Philadelphia. After the war and the 

completion of his law degree at Temple 

University in 1947, Lloyd held various 

professional and voluntary positions in 

Quaker organizations, including in 

Geneva, Switzerland. In the 1950s, concerned 

about the dangers of an escalating 

Cold War, the couple directed a conference 

of diplomats from Russia and 

Eastern and Western Europe. In later 

years, they spent extended periods in 

his residency in internal medicine and 

cardiology at the Mount Alto Veterans’ 

Administration Hospital in Washington, 

D.C., and Temple University. Before moving 

to Richmond, Va., he practiced internal 

medicine and cardiology at the 

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Hospital 

in Clifton Forge, Va. In Richmond, he 

was a staff member of Chippenham Hospital 

and Johnston-Willis Hospital as an 

emergency-room physician and later 

practiced medicine and cardiology privately 

until he retired. He was a member 

of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, 

the Medical Society of Virginia, the 

American Medical Association, the 

American Society of Internal Medicine, 

and the American College of Physicians. 

He was a certified Diplomat of the American 

Board of Internal Medicine. He was 

a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal 

Church. He is survived by his wife Mary, 

two children, Susan and Edward III; 

three grandchildren, Natalie, Edward IV, 

and Matthew; and a brother, Robert. 

61 Hal Taylor died of cancer on 

Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001. 

North and South Korea working on 

reunification projects. Bailey served for 

23 years as the chief U.S. fundraiser for 

UNICEF. After his retirement in 1982, 

he devoted the remainder of his life to 

teaching non-violence to prison 

inmates. As a volunteer workshop 

leader for the Alternatives to Violence 

Program, he worked on conflict resolution 

with inmates in Sing Sing Prison 

in New York and Graterford in Pennsylvania. 

He led his last workshop in 

December 2000. Bailey was a member 

of Gwynedd Meeting. He is survived by 

his wife Mary, children David, Thomas, 

Deborah, and Barbara, grandchildren 

Jessica, Robert, Erika, Daniela, Aaron, 

and Nathan, and sisters Florence and 

Elizabeth. 


Notes from the Alumni Association 

continued from p. 36 

Alumni Weekend 2002 

May 31 - June 2 

All alumni are invited to celebrate 

Alumni Weekend; classes ending in a 

“2” or “7” will officially reunite. 

Highlights of the weekend include: 

■ A Celebration of Track at Haverford 

■ All-Alumni Awards Ceremony 

■ Lectures and Discussions 

■ Scarlet Sages Breakfast 

■ GOLD (Graduates of the Last 

Decade) Luncheon 

■ Sporting/Recreational Activities 

■ Class Dinners and Social Gatherings 

■ Campus Tours 

And much more! 

Detailed information and a registration 

form can be found online at: 

http://www.haverford.edu/admindepthome/alumni/reunions.html. 

Registration deadline is May 17, 2002! 

Haverford on the Web 

The Haverford website is a valuable 

resource for alumni. View photos of 

recent events in the Alumni Photo 

Gallery, register online for this year’s 

Alumni Weekend, sign up for e-mail 

forwarding, update your address and 

contact information, obtain Career 

Development information, and see what 

your classmates are up to on your class’s 

own webpage. Visit: www.haverford.edu 

and click on “Alumni.” 

Haverford Fund 

Secure Website 

Alumni, family, and friends may make 

credit card gifts (Visa, MasterCard, and 

American Express) to the College via a 

secure site. From www.haverford.edu, 

click on the Alumni button to find the 

link for the Haverford Fund, then scroll 

down to the Online Giving Form. For 

more information, contact Emily Davis, 

Director of Annual Giving, at (610) 896- 

1129 or edavis@haverford.edu. 

Regional Societies 

Great things are happening in your area! 

“Welcome Freshmen” parties, 

informal alumni gatherings, visits from 

faculty, staff, and President Tritton, campaign 

celebrations, and much more! For 

complete information about these or any 

upcoming alumni events, visit the online 

Regional Events Calendar, accessible 

from: www.haverford.edu. Click on 

“Alumni,” then “Regional Events.” 

This calendar is updated frequently, 

so be sure to check back often. 

Also, the Haverford Alumni Office 

recently has been visiting several key 

cities around the country (San Francisco, 

San Diego, Los Angeles, and Chicago) 

in an ongoing effort to recruit “Regional 

Leaders” to host alumni events in their 

areas. Do you have an idea for a successful 

regional event? Are you interested in 

learning how to become a Regional 

Leader? Contact the Alumni Office 

at 610-896-1004 for details. 

AAEC’s Class of 

1997 Challenge 

In an effort to encourage annual 

giving participation by the members of 

the Class of 1997 at their 5th Reunion 

(Alumni Weekend, May 31 – June 2), 

the Alumni Executive Committee promises 

to contribute at least $50 for every 

member of the Class who makes a gift 

to the Haverford Fund by June 30, 2002. 

John Whitehead ’43 

Challenges the Classes 

of 1998, 1999, 2000, 

and 2001 

John Whitehead will match any 

increased gift (any amount above last 

year’s gifts) to the Haverford Fund made 

this fiscal year (July ’01 – June ’02). 

Our youngest alums are the key to 

raising total alumni participation. 

Thank you for your support. 

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