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Changing Faces: Faculty & Staff

Emily Davis is the new Director of Annual Giving. A 1999 graduate of Haverford with a B.A. in political science, Emily worked for three years as the student manager of the phonathon, and has served as the interim director since the departure of Sue Hayden in November 1999. As director, she is responsible for all unrestricted giving to the College.

Tom Ferguson, has been named campaign manager. Tom is a graduate of the University of the Arts, where he received a degree in architecture. He spent many years renovating commercial properties in Philadelphia. Most recently Tom comes to Haverford from the Free Library of Philadelphia, where he was project coordinator for the "Big Change" campaign. Established with a Pew Grant, the campaign taught branch librarians how to raise grassroots funds in an effort to become more self-sustaining. Tom has also done a considerable amount of work at the University of Pennsylvania, acting as event coordinator for the president. Tom is married and has three children and lives in Narberth.

William Roth is the new Director of Regional Gifts. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1993, he received his M.A. in medieval history from the University of Virginia, where he also helped coach the men's and women's track and field teams. For the past four years, he has been the assistant track and field coach at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he also served as an adjunct professor of history for Tulane's University College.

Changing Faces: Board of Managers

Barry Zubrow is succeeding John Hurford '60, who recently passed away after 16 years of distinguished service, five of which he provided as chair (see related memorial). Since joining the board in 1992, Barry has provided valuable expertise as chair of the Board's Committee on Finance, co-chair of the Advancement Committee and former chair of the Investment Committee. He has been a member of the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility, as well as the Committee on Nominations and Governance. Barry is the chief administrative officer of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and co-head of the Operation, Finance and Resources Division. He joined the firm in 1979, became partner in the Investment Banking Division in 1988 and served as the Chief Credit Officer from 1994 to 1999. Following his graduation from Haverford with a degree in economics in 1975, Barry received his MBA and J.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1979 and 1980, respectively. In addition to his volunteer leadership roles at Haverford, he also serves as a member of the board of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia and the visiting committee of the Law School of the University of Chicago.

Catherine Koshland became a member of the board in 1994 and has since served on the Educational Affairs Committee (three times as chair), the Property Committee, the Committee on Nominations and Governance and the Honorary Degrees Committee. The Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, Catherine is also a professor of Energy and Resources and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the university. Her teaching and research interests are reflected in the dozens of artciles she has written on engineering controls in environmental and occupational health, industrial ecology, air pollution and combustion chemistry. A member of numerous university, government and community service organizations, she is a director of the Combustion Institute and past chair and member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Advisory Council. Catherine, her husband James, her brother-in-law Douglas, and her father, Edward Preston III, all graduated from Haverford. Her late mother, Marian Koshland, for whom the new Integrated Natural Sciences Facility is named, was an emeritus member of Haverfod's Board. After receiving a degree in Fine Arts from Haverford in 1972, Catherine completed her master's and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford.