If you were pressed to describe a "typical" Haverford graduate—if you had to include a description for a time capsule, for example—you would do well to start with Hunter Rawlings.

At Haverford, Rawlings was both serious scholar and serious athlete. And his career in academia bespeaks an education steeped in academic rigor, values, a lifelong love for learning, and tools necessary for leadership.

One of the things we try to do when we put this magazine together (when we're not fretting about getting it out six weeks late) is a big-picture inventory of how people, programs, and events have been covered over the years in our own publications. Last winter, we put together an issue devoted to newspaper journalists because it occurred to us that Haverford, for its size and for an institution without a journalism major, seems to have an inordinate number of accomplished newspaper people.

When Hunter Rawlings decided to step down from the Cornell presidency and back into the classroom, it presented us with an opportunity to do a story. After some preliminary research, we couldn't find any stories of ntoe about Hunter and his years at Iowa. Nothing about his years at Cornell. The Spring 1966 issue of Haverford College Horizons carried a photograph of senior basketball players Dave Felsen, Dave Kane, Rawlings, Marsh Robinson, and Walt Whitman, along with a short piece about the team's success.

It's time to make amends. On page 16 you'll find Edgar Allen Beem's thoughtful profile. Ed drove from Yarmouth, Maine, to HUnter's home in Virginia so he could do a proper initial interview. As befits a man of Hunter's stature, the piece is illustrated by the crisp photography of Robert Visser and presented in another elegant layout by John Maki. After all of these years of missed chances, it's only proper that we invited Greg Kannerstein '63 to write a personal sidebar about his friend Hunter (see page 22).

Greg's story, I think you'll agree, is a classic.