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| Harold
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| John M. Morse '73 |
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| Dana E. Shanler '84 |
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| Wesley S. Williams, Jr. |
New
Board Members
Four new members of Haverford’s Board of Managers
were introduced to the College community
on Oct. 5 during Leadership Weekend. The three-year terms officially began
on July 1, 2002.
Harold E. Jordan is president of Madras
Packaging, LLC, the largest minority-owned plastic blow molder in the
U.S.
A graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc., and the University
of Wisconsin Law School, Jordan also is with the law firm of Jordan &
Keys, which he co-founded in 1987. He is a member and past chair of the
board of trustees of Lawrence University and a member of the University
of Wisconsin’s Law School Board of Visitors.
Jordan also serves on the boards of Renaissance Learning, Inc., The Educational
Leadership Program, and Paramount Theatre. An active attendee at Charlottesville
Monthly Meeting, Jordan and his wife Mary Donn Jordan live in Charlottesville.
John M. Morse ’73 is president and publisher of
Merriam-Webster, Inc. Morse began his publishing career in 1976 at Encyclopedia
Britannica in Chicago, and joined Merriam-Webster in 1980. He earned his
master’s in English language and literature in 1977 from the University
of Chicago and also served as fiction editor of Chicago Review, the university’s
well-regarded literary magazine.
Morse and his wife Cynthia S. Ashby live in Wilbraham, Mass.
Dana E. Shanler ’84 is the assistant general counsel
at MetLife Inc., where she specializes in corporate and securities law
at the New York-based company that provides insurance products to over
50 of the Fortune 100 companies.
A political science major while at Haverford, Shanler earned her J.D.
degree in 1987 from the Benjamin J. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
in New York.
Shanler has continued to have a leadership role in alumni affairs and
fundraising. For several years, she has been on the alumni relations and
annual giving executive committees and has served as her class agent since
her graduation. She currently is also a member of the national gifts program
committee for the $200 million “Educating to Lead, Educating to
Serve” campaign.
Wesley S. Williams, Jr., Washington attorney, business
executive, and partner with the law firm of Covington & Burling, chairs
the executive committee of the Smithsonian Institute.
A 1963 graduate of Harvard, Williams also received a master’s degree
as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1964 from the Fletcher School and a J.D.
degree from Harvard Law School. He also received a LL.M. degree in 1969
from Columbia University Law School and has pursued advanced doctoral
studies at the law schools of both universities.
Williams also heads the Lockhart Companies, a conglomerate of 15 affiliated
companies in the Eastern Caribbean involved in real estate, insurance,
and other financial services, and he is deputy chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond. He currently serves on the board of directors
of CarrAmerica Realty Corporation and is the senior trustee of the Penn
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
A past president of the Harvard Law School Association, Williams currently
chairs the Harvard Law School Fund and is a member of the American Law
Institute. In the past he has served on the executive committee of Harvard’s
Board of Overseers and on the boards of a half dozen other educational
institutions.
Williams is on the board of several other charitable, church, and cultural
organizations including the National Prostate Cancer Coalition, the World
Affairs Council, and the Family and Child Services of Metropolitan Washington.
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Rufus Jones |
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Thomas Deans |
This year, Haverford College will implement its own writing program for the newly arrived class of 2006, combining the resources of all academic departments to develop versatile writers who can communicate with a range of audiences and construct convincing arguments and effective prose.
“Students need writing to thrive in college,” says Thomas Deans, assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and director of the program. “The best way to learn is by working closely with experienced writers and by doing a good deal of writing. The courses in this program introduce students to analytical skills and intellectual inquiry, and give them ample practice in different ways of writing.”
The seminars, the foundation of the program, will consist of no more than 15 students and are offered in three categories: those taught from the perspective of a particular academic discipline; others organized around a particular topic; and classes designed for students who need extra preparation to succeed in the higher-level courses.
What makes Haverford’s program distinctive isn’t simply the way it’s organized to cover many different fields of study, but the fact that senior faculty are involved. “Having senior faculty lead first-year writing seminars signals the value Haverford puts on the teaching of writing,” says Deans.
In a typical first-year writing course, students will be expected to complete 20 to 25 pages of finished text by the end of the semester. Most seminars will have tutorials, small groups of classmates who meet with their professors and with each other on a weekly basis to discuss the progress of their writing. Critical analysis will be emphasized, not just of the course’s assigned texts but of the students’ texts as well; workshop formats will encourage them to respond to each other’s words and ideas. While the English department will continue its strong presence in first-year writing by offering several sections of “Introduction to Literary Analysis,” seminar themes run the gamut of topics and disciplines. This year’s seminars include “Community, Race, and Xenophobia in Film,” taught by a playwright and screenwriter; “Inequality in Society,” taught by a sociologist; and “Light and the Colors of Life,” an interdisciplinary examination of light and color in art, science and technology, taught by a chemist.
“Students will move toward a greater appreciation of writing in different disciplines, learning to value how writing happens in the sciences as well as the humanities,” says Deans. “Along with this, they’ll be learning how to sit around a seminar table and have a provocative discussion or argument.”
Deans is new to Haverford, having been hired specifically to oversee this program. He received his A.B. and M.A. from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Previously, he taught at Kansas State University for four years, where he was assistant professor of English and associate director of the Expository Writing Program. He received the SAGE Graduate Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award from KSU in 2000. He is the author of two books: Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition, published by the National Council of Teachers English Press in 2000; and Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader, which will be published by Longman Press later this year.
Deans brings his extensive service-learning experience into play as well with a topic-based seminar called “Writing for Change” that will both explore contrasting approaches to community action and match students with local nonprofit organizations in need of writers. The students will work in teams to assist these organizations in grant research, public relations, newsletter production, and a variety of other areas. “This kind of work will complement the students’ academic reading and writing,” says Deans. ‘They’ll see how community action and ethics relate to their academic lives.”
“We hope this new writing program will enhance student proficiency in writing in ways that will help prepare them for the ever-changing and increasingly complex writing challenges they will face,” says Haverford provost David Dawson, “not just in their undergraduate experience, but in their careers after Haverford.”
Scarlet Sages Visit Scranton
If you’re old enough to have
celebrated your 50th Haverford College reunion, you’re eligible
to join the Scarlet Sages, a group that gets together for trips to places
of historic and cultural interest.
A recent, three-day visit to Scranton, Pa., and environs provided perspective
on a region that was the industrial heart of the country, circa 1850.
Pennsylvania wood built the houses of East Coast cities; anthracite coal
from the world’s largest deposits revolutionized heating and power-generating
practices; the railroads and canals helped move both; and the textile
manufacturing of coastal cities moved to the area because it was economically
advantageous to move the mills to the mines.
Approximately 60,000 visitors a year see the 350-foot-deep inactive anthracite
mine managed by Lackawanna County. A well-informed former miner was our
guide, and he made us aware of the stygian darkness in which the men worked;
the all-penetrating 55°F air, which was kept moving and refreshed
by surface fans and a special shaft; the devices (caged canaries) used
to detect carbon monoxide (choke damp) and the Davy lamp to show possible
accumulation of methane (fire damp) as a potential for explosion. Rats
were ubiquitous but were tolerated because it was thought they were sensitive
to earth movement and would provide warning by their behavior.
The exploitative aspects of the organization were obviously severe. Young
boys did errand work and also sat on an inclined plane in the three-story
breaker, where crushers fed small lumps to a belt. Sitting facing the
flow of coal, the boys’ job was to throw out slate and pieces too
large to meet specifications. Illness was high. The quarters were unheated.
There were no benefits. Rebellion flared. At the hotel. we were treated
to a screening of the film, The Mollie Maguires, made in 1968. The film
depicted an incident involving the use of company-hired police and detectives
to break up sabotage by discontented immigrants, desperate but powerless
to improve their lot. The filmmaker rebuilt the coal breaker in the nearby
town of Eckley as part of the set; Eckley is preserved today by the Pennsylvania
Historical Society.
An afternoon was spent at Steamtown, a National Historic Site and part
of the National Park System. Courtesy of Chud Wolfinger ’40,
we went through an observation car of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. We also
went on a guided tour of the former roundhouse of the Delaware Lackawanna,
where many working models of engines and cars are still repaired and/or
rebuilt. We had a brief ride in a Lackawanna coach behind an oil-fired
steam engine, a Hudson type from the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
As the trip came to a close, the sound in our bus of “Ring Out the
Good Old Song” and others reminded us of the long-ago days resurrected
for at least a short time in this adventure.
– Paul Saxer ’42
Family
& Friends Weekend
Below: The Communications Career Panel drew lots of interested students
and their parents. Panelists, from left to right: Steve Bronstein
’75 HC, executive producer, Court TV’s “Hollywood
at Large”; Ann Marie Baldonado ’94 HC, producer
of NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “Fresh Air Weekend”;
Jay Goldman ’78 HC (moderator), editor of The School
Administrator magazine and adjunct professor of journalism, University
of Maryland-College Park; Don Sapatkin ’78 HC (moderator),
health and science editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Noreen O’Connor-Abel
’86 BMC, project editor, University of Pennsylvania Press; and Andrew
Sherry ’84 HC, director, online ventures, for USATODAY.com.
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| Upper left: The Humtones Perform (l. to r.) Eric Jimenez '04, Joe Sacks '05, and Matt Lewis '04. Above: Family and friends congregate in Founders Great Hall. |
Leadership
Weekend
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Oct. 5: Tom Tritton speaks at the ceremony celebrating the completion of the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center and the dedication of the William H. and Johanna A. Harris Wing. |
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Howard Lutnick ’83 delivers the keynote
dinner speech, a personal account of finding meaning and purpose
in the post-9/11 world. |
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Gathering signatures for the Tri-College Iraq
Petition, urging the U.S. government to refrain from a unilateral
preemptive attack against Iraq. The petition was faxed to the Pennsylvania
Congressional delegation, to House and Senate Majority and Minority
leaders, and to President Bush. |