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WILLIAMS AWARDED
GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

Haverford’s curator of photography and chair of the fine arts department, William Williams, has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to complete his photographic record of Civil War battlefields and historic sites where African Americans played an important role. Williams is one of only four photographers among the 184 artists, scholars and scientists selected from over 3,200 applications for this year’s fellowships.

Willie Williams

Williams’ interest in creating a photographic documentation of the contributions of black soldiers during the Civil War stemmed from his photography project of Gettysburg’s memorial park. Begun in 1986 and completed in 1996, this series of photographs taken with large-format cameras was later published in a book titled, Gettysburg: A Journey in Time. “As I photographed the park over the years in different seasons, the significance of this historical landscape began to clarify itself for me as an idea and as a series of photographs,” he explains.

The experience also made him acutely aware that many Civil War battlefields and historic sites are in constant jeopardy of being lost, particularly many of the 449 sites where black soldiers fought and died. One example, says Williams, is in the Port Hudson, Louisiana, area near the Mississippi River, which is considered one of the best preserved Civil War commemorative areas. “It was also where black troops first demonstrated their fighting ability in a large Civil War battle,” explains Williams. “But the portion of the site where black troops fought rests outside of the park boundaries on private land, unprotected and almost impossible to visit.”

Williams became aware of other sites that are also in danger of being lost as a result of property sales, lack of any formal historical designations or, in one case, flooding. “Fort Wagner,” notes Williams, “was the scene of a massive battle involving black soldiers. It’s underwater today as a result of construction by the Army Corps of Engineers.

“Historic sites such as these deserve to be preserved just as much as Gettysburg,” says Williams.

In addition to the lack of care for the battle sites themselves, Williams believes little acknowledgement has been given to the contributions of black Civil War soldiers. “The Robert Gould Shaw 54th Massachusetts Monument on Boston Common is the best known and until recently, one of the few memorials dedicated to black Civil War soldiers,” says Williams. “But, it wasn’t until 1989 that the black members of the 54th were inscribed on the back of the monument.”

Williams plans to continue the work he began at Gettysburg by locating and photographing these neglected sites. “It has been a profound experience to work and use history as a starting point for creative work which is both documentary and interpretative,” he says.” My goal is to transform these killing fields into spaces of contemplation, reflection, and remembrance through still photography, and to refute the notion that blacks were given their rights after the Civil War without having fought and won them.”

Williams’ work has received support from a number of prestigious organizations including the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the Pew Foundation Fellowships in the Arts program. In 1993, the Pennsylvania Convention Center commissioned four photographs of the Gettysburg National Military Park from Williams for the Center’s permanent collection. His work from these projects and his earlier subjects is part of a number of museum collections around the country, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Baltimore Museum, and the permanent collections of several colleges and universities.

A graduate of Hamilton College and Yale University, Williams has exhibited in dozens of one-man, two-person and group shows throughout his career. He is an expert on the photography of Walker Evans and has lectured widely on the interpretations of Evans’ photographs of vernacular architecture and other quintessential American subjects.

At Haverford, Williams teaches courses on the technical and creative aspects of photography. In 1979, the year following his appointment to Haverford’s fine arts faculty, he founded the College’s photography collection and continues to serve as its curator. The 3,000 photographs in the collection represent the history of the medium from its beginnings in 1839 to the present.

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CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
SPRING HONORS

Regular-season and post-season spring honors from the Centennial Conference have begun to flow, and Haverford College has its share of recipients. On the heels of weekly Centennial honors in baseball, softball, and women’s lacrosse, the final Conference men’s lacrosse Player of the Week was Joe Mauri ’06, who had 12 goals and an assist in Haverford’s final two wins, including eight tallies in an 18-5 rout of DeSales University to tie the College’s single-game record. Mauri’s 37 goals for the season are the third-best mark by a Fords rookie in the three decades of the men’s lacrosse program.

In conference post-season balloting, Mindy Walman ’04 was a first-team women’s lacrosse all-star, pitcher Nick Chanock ’05 a second-team baseball all-star, and women’s lacrosse’s Leigh James ’03 and Margaret Sampson ’06, men’s lacrosse’s Eric Seideman '04 and Mike Fischette '04, and baseball's Brandon Mills ’05 and Chris Hancock ’03 honorable mention selections.

Walman was Centennial Player of the Week when first-year head coach Mary Ann Schiller’s team won the Seven Sisters Championship in March en route to a 9-8 overall record. The season climaxed with a 12-11 overtime win at Swarthmore to clinch the 2002-03 Hood Trophy. James will represent Haverford in the STX Lacrosse Festival Division III North-South Senior All-Star game in Baltimore on June 7, while Sampson collected the most goals ever in season (62) by a Fords frosh.

Chanock started 11 games for Haverford and finished 5-5 with a fine 2.33 ERA, striking out 49 in 65 innings and earning designation as Centennial Pitcher of the Week earlier in the season. Second-baseman Mills batted .347 with 41 hits and ran to a team-leading 23 stolen bases in 25 attempts. Centerfielder Hancock hit .436 with 14 RBIs even though most of his starts came late in the season. Hancock, who recently won Haverford’s A.W. (Pop) Haddleton senior award, also pilfered 15 bases in 18 tries as the Fords had 120 successful larcenies during the season. The Fords swept playoff-bound Ursinus to open the Centennial season, and closed the campaign with its first sweep of Swarthmore since 1994 to finish 19-14-1 and tie the most wins in a season by a Haverford diamond nine.

Fischette finished seventh in the league in total points with 20 goals and 26 assists, while Seideman had 16 goals and 23 assists for 39 points while leading men’s lacrosse by a wide margin in ground ball successes with 71. Aside from doubling the Fords’ win 2002 win total from three to six, the high point of Mike Murphy’s first season as head coach was an impressive 7-6 overtime loss to two-time defending NCAA finalist Gettysburg.

Nora Spriggs ’06 pitched a one-hit shutout in the opener, then knocked in the game-winning run in the nightcap as Haverford snapped its 36-game Centennial Conference losing streak with its first two softball victories ever versus Ursinus. Spriggs threw a five-hitter later in the week to earn Centennial Pitcher of the Week honors with a 2-0 record and just two earned runs and six hits allowed in 14 innings. Team captain Sasha Brady ’03 hit .536 in her last nine Centennial games to help the Fords reach 11 victories for the first time and repeat as a first-team all-conference selection at first base.

Men’s tennis shared second-place in the conference (6-2) behind perennial champion Washington College (8-0). In the Centennial individual tournament, Harrison Lee ’04 and Aaron Scherb ’04 advanced to the semifinals, but third-seeded Carl Lederman ’05 and Matt Stein ’05 were surprised in the other half of the doubles bracket. Scherb and fifth-seeded Lederman were eliminated in the singles quarterfinals. In the women’s tourney, Jennifer Hurford ’06 and Anjani Naidu ’06 both won easily in their first round singles matches before losing individually and collectively to seeded players in the singles and doubles Rounds of 16.

Senior James, junior Fischette and sophomore Mills all had the unusual distinction of making both the Centennial’s all-league playing squads and Academic Honor Rolls in the same season. With spring field teams demonstrating much-improved play in 2003, and six of the eight all-league honorees back plus excellent supporting casts, 2004 should be a season to watch for those HC squads.

The first weekend of May, Haverford's track teams again made a sterling showing at the Centennial championships at Gettysburg, with the men winning their 10th straight CC title and the women finishing fourth. Gold-medal winners also receive first-team all-league honors so Haverford had 10 more representatives in that select company. Will McGuire ’05 took the 10,000 meters Friday evening in 31:43.71. Three-time Centennial champion Caitlin Kight ’03 upped her meet-record to 3,942 points and led a 1-4-5 Haverford finish in the two-day heptathlon, winning the 100-meter hurdles (17.16), high jump (5’0.25”), 200-meter dash (26.83) and 800-meter run (2:25.30) en route to the title. Casely Doryumu ’04 long jumped an NCAA provisional 23’2.75” to win, Tom Reynolds ’05 (139’0”) won the discus, and Scott Sargrad ’04 (Musselman Stadium-record 9:26.93) captured the 3,000-meter Steeplechase. Terry Kegel ’03, Jamie Diorio ’04, Eddie Papalia ’05, and Varsity Cup winner Greg Bielecki ’03 (7:55.80) won the 4x800-meter relay to end Saturday's events on the track. The win gave Kegel an unusual “triple-double” with first-team All-Centennial and Academic Honor Roll recognition in all three seasons of his senior year (soccer, indoor and outdoor track). Jane Steinemann ’04 won the 5,000 on in a meet-record 17:35.94 on Sunday to complete Haverford’s all-Centennial lineup. 

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Professor Jerry Gollub has received one of the most prestigious awards in physics, the 2003 Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society (APS). The award will be presented at a ceremony on Nov. 23, 2003. He is the only winner in the history of the prize to hail from a liberal arts college.

The Fluid Dynamics Prize is one of a number of prizes awarded annually in different areas of physics by the APS. Established in 1979, the prize recognizes and encourages outstanding achievement in fluid dynamics research. The prize consists of a certificate and a cash award.

The APS cited Gollub for “his elucidation of chaos, instabilities, mixing and pattern formation in various contexts including fluid convection, and his contribution to our understanding of surface waves, film and granular flows, all through his clever experiments, lucid papers, and lively lectures.” Twenty-four Haverford students, from the class of 1975 to the class of 2003, collaborated on the work the prize recognizes.

This is not Gollub’s first award from the APS; he was the first recipient of the Society’s Award for Research in an Undergraduate Institution in 1985. He has also held Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim Fellowships. He became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and, the following year, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, where he is the only physicist from an undergraduate institution.

A member of Haverford’s faculty since 1970, Gollub received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, in 1966 from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from Harvard University in 1971. He has performed a wide range of experiments on nonlinear and non-equilibrium phenomena, including studies of instabilities and pattern formation in fluids, chaotic dynamics and turbulence, nonlinear waves, patterns formed at the surface of growing crystals, the dynamics of granular materials, and mixing in fluids. He has co-authored a textbook on chaotic dynamics, and is a member of the graduate groups in physics and mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Two Haverford alumni are among this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners: Michael Paulson ’86, who along with the Boston Globe’s investigative team uncovered the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal, and David Wessel ’75 of The Wall Street Journal, who was part of a group of reporters to contribute to The Journal’s year-long series on business scandals. The Globe’s team won the Pulitzer for public service journalism and The Journal, for explanatory reporting. This was the second Pulitzer for Wessel, who also shared in the Prize with reporters at the Boston Globe where he had worked several years earlier.

Paulson joined the Globe in January 2000 after seven years at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he worked as city hall reporter, state house bureau chief in Olympia, and as a correspondent in Washington, D.C. Before that he worked as a political reporter for the San Antonio Light in Texas and as a general assignment reporter at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass.

Since January 2002, he had spent much of his time as part of the Globe’s eight-reporter team covering clergy sexual abuse. The team published more than 900 stories and wrote a book, Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, which was published in hardcover in June 2002 (Little, Brown) and in paperback in March 2003.

In addition to receiving the Pulitzer this year, Paulson and his colleagues have been honored for their work with the Associated Press Managing Editors’ Freedom of Information Award, the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting, the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, the Taylor Family Award for fairness in newspapers, the Worth Bingham Award for investigative reporting, and The New York Times Company’s Punch Sulzberger Award. The group has also won a media award from the Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers and the Spirit Award for Media Responsibility from Jane Doe Inc., a Massachusetts coalition against sexual assault and domestic violence.

David Wessel ’75 has been with The Wall Street Journal since 1984, first in the Boston bureau and then Washington, where he was chief economics correspondent until his Journal assignment in Germany in 1999.

Wessel also has worked for the Boston Globe, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories on the persistence of racism in Boston, and at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant and Middletown (Conn.) Press.

He is the co-author, with fellow Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Davis, of Prosperity: The Coming 20-Year Boom and What It Means to You, published in 1998 (Times Books), which argued that the next 20 years will be better for the American middle class than the previous 20 years.

A frequent contributor to CNBC, Wessel writes the Journal’s “Capital” column, a weekly look at the economy and the forces shaping living standards around the world.

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OWEN FIRST RECIPIENT FROM UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE TO BE GIVEN “EXCELLENCE IN MENTORING” AWARD

Judith Owen, Haverford biologist and director of the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, is the 2003 recipient of an “Excellence in Mentoring” award from the American Association of Immunologists. Owen, who joined Haverford’s faculty in 1981, is the first recipient from an undergraduate institution to be given this award.

In addition to her research in immunology, Owen has taken an active role in recruiting and retaining women scientists on Haverford’s campus. In 1991, she was the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers – an honor given to only 100 educators nationwide in recognition of their significant research and contributions to science and education.

For more information on Professor Owen’s research, click here.

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JOHN CARROLL ’63 IS AMONG NEW FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Haverford College alumnus, John Carroll ’63 is among the newly elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In announcing its new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members on Monday, (May 5), the Academy noted that this year’s new members include Kofi Annan, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald Glaser, and William Gates, Sr., co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Carroll, who is the executive vice president and editor of the Los Angeles Times, is one of two journalists, along with Walter Cronkite, to be selected this year.

Founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people,” the Academy has elected “…the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation.”

Carroll, who has been at the Times since 2000, began his career as a state staff reporter for the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin the year he received a degree in English with honors from Haverford. Following two years of service in the U.S. Army, he joined the Baltimore Sun in 1966 where he covered local news, and later became the paper’s correspondent in Vietnam, the Middle East and at the White House. From 1972 to 1979, he held several editorial positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and throughout the 1980s, he served in a number of executive positions at the Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky. During his editorship at the Inquirer and Herald-Leader, both papers received Pulitzers. The Times received one Pulitzer each in 2000 and 2001; two Pulitzers in 2002; and three this year.

Carroll returned to the Sun in 1991 as editor, was named to the Pulitzer Prize board in 1994, and became vice president of Times Mirror in 1998.

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Campaign Update

As the “Educating to Lead, Educating to Serve” campaign closes in on the $135-million mark, the College is approaching an important fiscal deadline. June 30, 2003, marks the end of the fiscal year. As of last week, The Haverford Fund was at $2,170,340 with 39% participation. All gifts made to the College before June 30 will count toward the 2002-03 fiscal year. And every gift improves our participation percentage!

A class-by-class list of donors will be printed and distributed at the end of the summer. If you haven’t yet made your gift to this year’s Haverford Fund, you can do so via Haverford’s secure site. Thank you for your help!

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