New Scholarship Fund Honors Steve Cary '37
In October an anonymous Haverford alumnus donated $500,000 to the College to endow a new scholarship to honor the life and service of a person who embodied the spirit and strengths of Haverford: Stephen G. Cary ’37. For more than 68 years, Steve was connected to the life of the College as a student, dean, vice president, and acting president. Beyond those roles, however, Steve perhaps was remembered best by Haverfordians as a fervent cheerleader and mentor of students.

Steve was an extraordinary leader whose wit, intelligence, grace, and humanity touched all who interacted with him. Steve’s love for Haverford and its generations of students was immense. To many of his former students Steve remains an important inspiring force and a personal role model. His generous spirit and his ability to implement his Quaker spirituality into practice embodied the enduring values of personal service and social responsibility. His optimism and faith in students, as well as his unwavering belief in the educational mission of Haverford College, make this new scholarship a fitting extension of his life's work. Steve's influence on students—and on this institution—will ever be part of the Haverford community, thanks to the creation of a scholarship in his name.

Those who would like to learn more about this endowed scholarship or are interested in making a donation to help support the Stephen G. Cary ’37 Memorial Scholarship are encouraged to contact William Roth in the Haverford Office of Institutional Advancement, (610) 896-4984 or via e-mail at wroth@haverford.edu

Roth Named Director of Major Gifts
Senior Major Gifts Officer William Roth has been promoted to Director of Major Gifts.

William has worked to establish and develop the current National Gifts Program (prospective donors of $25,000 - $99,999) and to recruit its volunteer leaders. He has effectively increased the number of volunteers while also guiding the program to reach its current financial goals. In addition to his work with National Gifts, he is project manager for the “Educating to Lead, Educating to Serve” campaign’s scholarship initiative as well as the Douglas B. Gardner ’83 Integrated Athletic Center project. (Groundbreaking for the new Athletic Center will occur during the April Board of Managers weekend.) In addition to working with donors and prospects, William will provide leadership for the Major Gifts staff.

William is a 1993 graduate of Swarthmore College, where he majored in medieval studies. He holds a master of arts degree in history from the University of Virginia (1995). He has taught history at both UVA and at Tulane University.

Family & Friends Weekend
Can art help to build an international bridge in a time of high worldwide tension? Haverford believes it can. From October 17 through 26, the College’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship hosted an Indonesian group of artists who work collaboratively to create public art projects. While the group has exhibited throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia, the artists’ visit to Haverford and the Philadelphia area was part of their first to the United States.

The four artists—Sam Indratma, Warsono, Ari Diyanto, and Arya Pandjalu—call themselves Apotik Komik, or “Comic Pharmacy,” because they want to heal their audiences’ social or cultural illnesses through comic books. Working outdoors on the main quad during Family & Friends Weekend in October, they collaborated with Haverford students to design a 20' X 5' mural on the theme of “art for peace.” The completed mural will be displayed in the future Center for Peace and Global Citizenship Café.

First-Year Student Produces NPR Segment
Even before first-year student Allison Jones completed the fall semester at Haverford, her life’s experiences had been the subject of a segment on National Public Radio. What’s more, she produced the story herself.

For six months, beginning last March, Allison was an intern at New York City’s NPR station, WNYC – FM (93.9). She was part of the station’s “Radio Rookies” program, which gives young people from around the city a chance to produce a story about an issue that’s important to them personally.

Allison’s story, which aired on “Morning Edition” through November 1 on WNYC, is about class division in New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, a predominantly black, impoverished neighborhood where she grew up. Most of her life, however, was spent in private, predominantly white schools. “My tastes, interests, and life-style were more similar to those of my white friends than those of kids in my community,” says Allison. “At home the other kids often ridiculed, me calling me a ‘white girl’ and saying that I was not ‘black enough.’”

Their comments, says Allison, made her think about her role in her home and the black community at large. “I felt excluded from the black community because of the school I attended, yet I felt pressured to give to my community because of the shared history and culture,” she says.

Over fall break, Allison attended the Third Coast International Audio Festival, a “celebration of the best feature and documentary work heard worldwide on the radio and the Internet.” Organized by a team from Chicago public radio, the festival included a competition, a nationwide broadcast, website, and a Chicago-based listening series.

You can listen to Allison’s story, archived online at http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/Midwood/Alison.html

Leadership Weekend 2003
On Saturday, Oct. 4, during Leadership Weekend 2003, the College community gathered to dedicate the Humanities Center in memory of John B. Hurford ’60, who served on Haverford’s Board of Managers. On hand to unveil the plaque were his wife, Hildegard Hurford, and daughter, Jennifer Hurford ’06. Jennifer delivered a heartfelt speech in honor of her late father at a luncheon held after the dedication.

On Friday night, noted speaker and Princeton professor Cornel West delivered a stirring speech about the challenges facing higher education today—and how value systems are formed during the undergraduate years.

Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly Rankings
The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly both published college rankings this fall.

In a September 26 Wall Street Journal article, Elizabeth Bernstein reported on graduate school admissions, and some of the undergraduate origins of those students who started their graduate studies this fall at 15 — five each — of the top business, medical, and law schools. Besides researching the background of more than 5,000 students who enrolled at schools such as Harvard Law School and Wharton, the Journal survey “canvassed grad-school admissions offices, spoke to officials at more than 50 colleges and in some cases counted up kids one by one in student ‘face book’ directories.” The article also included examples of what several schools are doing to help their undergraduates gain admission to top graduate schools.

The Journal’s ranking of “the top feeder schools” was based on the number of students a college sent to one of the 15 top graduate schools divided by the college’s class size.

Of the top 50 feeder schools, Haverford was ranked sixth among all colleges and 18th among all colleges and universities.
(From its survey of the Class of 2002 approximately six months after graduation, the Career Development Office at Haverford found that of those who responded, 47% said they planned to attend some type of graduate program within five years, the largest percentage being in the arts and sciences.)

In the November 2003 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Haverford was ranked 29th among the 50 most selective colleges and universities in the country and 10th among all of the colleges for the year 2002.

The Atlantic Monthly's selectivity ranking was based on 2002 student admission rates, SAT percentiles, and high school class standing for the freshmen class matriculating in the fall of 2002. The pool included U.S. doctoral universities, liberal arts colleges, and service academies.

Anita Isaavs Observes Guatemala National Elections
On Nov. 9, Guatemala held national elections for the second time since the end of its brutal 36-year-old civil war during which an estimated 200,000 Guatemalans were either killed or disappeared.

In the days leading up to and following the Guatemalan elections, Haverford College political scientist Anita Isaacs was part of a team of election observers representing the Organization of American States. Since the Guatemalan peace accords were signed in 1996, Isaacs has spent considerable time in that country studying the challenges of peace building there. The current regime has permitted the resurgence of some of the most repressive and corrupt elements from the authoritarian, wartime era.

“One of the leading contenders for the presidency is Rios Montt, a former general—now president of Guatemala’s congress—who was a dictator during the worst of the repression,” says Isaacs. “ He and his party have reversed the initial progress made toward the end of the 1990s.” She also notes that there also has been a resurgence of political violence against those Guatemalans seeking some kind of reckoning or accounting for the past.

Montt came in third in an election field of 11 candidates. Oscar Berger, the former Guatemala City mayor, and Alvara Colom, a former peace fund administrator were the top vote getters. Neither man received half of the vote, however, and a runoff election was scheduled for Dec. 28.

Following the completion of her last book project, The Politics of Military Rule and Transition in Ecuador, Isaacs turned her attention toward researching the ways in which the international community can contribute to the building of democracy.

"Although the international community was not central to the democratization that swept through Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s, it did play a secondary role, principally because of the Carter administration’s emphasis on human rights as a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy,” explains Isaacs. She points out that under the Reagan administration, the emphasis on American foreign policy shifted away from human rights narrowly defined toward the notion of exporting democracy, a theory of which Isaacs remains skeptical.

“In the case of Guatemala, the international community did play a role with regard to that country’s peace accord,” says Isaacs,” but I believe that in the long run the success of peace hinges on Guatemala’s resolve to continue toward peace.”

Isaacs was accompanied by her research assistant of the past several years, Virginie Ladisch '00, who has studied reconciliation in South Africa and Guatemala.

Isaacs, who holds the Stinnes Professorship in Global Studies, has focused much of her research on both Ecuadorian and Guatemalan politics.

Athletic Center Wins Board Approval
Financing and construction plans for the Douglas B. Gardner ’83 Integrated Athletic Center were approved during the October 3-4 Board of Managers meeting. The 100,000-square-foot facility will cost an estimated $28,000,000.

A formal groundbreaking ceremony is slated for April 23, 2004; construction will take an estimated 18 months.

The facility is named for Douglas B. Gardner, who died in the World Trade Center along with fellow athletic alumni Tom Glasser ’82 (for whom the Hall of Achievement in the new building will be named) and Calvin Gooding ’84 (in whose memory the basketball performance court will be named). Lead donor for the project is Howard Lutnick ’83.

Honored during a Saturday night, Oct. 4, athletic event were two of the most prominent coaches and administrators in Haverford athletic history. Thanks to generous donors, the Gardner Center’s multipurpose room will be named for longtime coach and athletic director Dana Swan, and the wing adjacent to the Gooding Court will be named for current athletic director and associate dean (and former baseball coach) Gregory Kannerstein '63.

S.I. Newhouse '03 is Featured in the Documentary, "Born Rich," Now Airing on HBO...
S.I. Newhouse ’03 is featured in the documentary “Born Rich,” currently airing on HBO. The film, which contains interviews of several young heirs to large fortunes, was directed and produced by a long-time Newhouse friend, Jamie Johnson, himself an heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical empire. Newhouse and Johnson grew up together, and both attended the Pingry School where they shared an art class. “Jamie came up with the idea for this film while he was at N.Y.U., and I was a freshman at Haverford,” recalls Newhouse. “It was his first film project, and he asked if I would agree to be interviewed.” The young director interviewed S.I. three times, including once while Newhouse competed with his Haverford fencing teammates during a match at Drew University, and again during his senior year on campus. “I was flattered that he asked me,” says Newhouse.

As a result of his friend’s project and the four film courses he took while at Haverford, S.I. says he would eventually like to study film theory. For now, he’s applying his English degree and creative writing concentration from Haverford to the world of publishing, specifically through an executive training program at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

For a schedule of "Born Rich" air dates, go to the www.HBO.com and click on Documentaries.

Faculty Notes
Rebecca Compton, assistant professor of psychology, attended the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Nov. 6-9. She presented a poster—co-authored by Robert Ocampo ’04—called “The relationship between rumination and task-switching.” The study demonstrates that individual differences in a self-reported tendency to ruminate about problems are associated with the speed of shifting from one type of cognitive decision to another.

Assistant Professor of Biology Robert Fairman was co-author of the article “Mechanism of XIAP-mediated inhibition of caspase-9” for the journal Molecular Cell, Vol. 11 Issue 2, and “The SNARE motif contributes to rbet 1 intracellular targeting and dynamics independently of SNARE interactions” for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 278 Issue 16.

Jerry Gollub, John and Barbara Bush Professor of Physics, wrote the article “Discrete and continuum descriptions of matter” for the journal Physics Today, Vol. 56 Issue 1.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Laurie Kain Hart contributed a chapter called “How to do things with things: Architecture and ritual in Northern Greece” to the book Ritual Poetics in Greek Culture, published by Harvard University Press.

Assistant Professor of Religion Naomi Koltun-Fromm wrote the chapter “Zipporah’s complaint: Moses is not conscientious in the deed! Exegetical traditions of Moses’ celibacy” for the book The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, published by Mohr Siebeck.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Stephen McGovern’s book Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities, co-authored with Charles C. Euchner of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, was published by Routledge in July. McGovern’s article “Ideology, consciousness and inner-city redevelopment: The case of Stephen Goldsmith’s Indianapolis” appeared in Vol. 25, Issue 1 of the Journal of Urban Affairs.

Charles Miller, assistant professor of chemistry, was awarded a three-year grant from NASA for his proposal “Improving Atmospheric CO2 Retrievals,” submitted in response to the NASA Research Announcement for “Investigations that Contribute to the NASA Earth Science Enterprise’s Multidisciplinary Research in Climate, Chemistry, and Global Modeling.” Miller also contributed “The Rotational Spectroscopy of Iodine Dioxide, OIO” to the Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.118 Issue 14.

Robert Mortimer, professor of political science, contributed the chapter “The Return of Bouteflika” for the book Africa Contemporary Record, published by Holmes and Meier; and the chapter “African Union” for the New Book of Knowledge, published by Grolier Publishing Company.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist co-authored articles published in the journals Acta Crystallographica E, Vol. 59 Issues 6 and 7; Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 15 Issues 7 and 10; Journal of the Chemical Society (Dalton Transactions), Issue 6; Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 113 Issue 1; and Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society, Vol. 122.

Iruka Okeke, assistant professor of biology, wrote the article “Export of antimicrobial drugs by West African Travelers” for the Journal of Travel Medicine, Vol. 10 Issue 2.

Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge was co-author of the chapter “The OTHER Keck Observatories” for the book The Future of Small Telescopes, published by Kluwer Academic Publishing Co. He also co-wrote the article “So What IS the Astronomy Major?” for the Astronomy Education Review, Vol. 1 Issue 2.

Jennifer Punt, associate professor or biology, was co-author of the article “Cutting Edge: Identification of the Targets of Clonal Deletion in an Unmanipulated Thymus" for the Journal of Immunology, Vol. 170 Issue 1.

Professor of History Paul Jakov Smith was co-editor of the book Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History, published by the Harvard University Asia Center. He also wrote two chapters: "Introduction: Problematizing the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition" and "Impressions of the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition: The Evidence from Biji Memoirs."

Associate Professor of Psychology Wendy Sternberg was co-author of the article "Effects of gestational stress and neonatal handling on pain, analgesia, and stress behavior of adult mice" for the journal Psychology and Adult Behavior, Vol. 78 Issue 3.

Christina Zwarg, associate professor of English, attended the English Institute Meeting in Sept. 19-21 at Harvard University.