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  • A new children's book, co-authored by John M. Dolbey '92 and his daughter Mae, tells the story of a courageous young iguanodon who leads his herd in a new direction.
  • A new, Greek-language book by associate professor of history Alex Kitroeff focuses on the soccer club Panathinaikos, whose story reflects themes of Greek history in the early 20th century.
  • As director of medical services for the state of Rhode Island's Department of Corrections, former philosophy major Fine oversees health care for more than 20,000 people each year.

  • Haverford College was a major focus of sports writer Bill Pennington's 2005-2006 New York Times series about athletic recruiting at small colleges. Recently, Pennington published a two-part follow up to that series that looks at how recruitment efforts have played out for the College and the role sports has played in the lives of some student athletes.
  • In an interview with Miller that appears on the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe blog, she talks about the conventions of Roman theater and her Haverford senior thesis on the plays of Plautus. An intern with the Festival last year, Miller is working for the organization this summer as an editorial assistant.

  • Eisenberg's winning short story, originally published in the Haverford Review, is featured in the online anthology Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009.
  • Choosing the winners of the Experiencing Study Abroad Photo Contest must have been a tough challenge for the five faculty and staff members who volunteered as anonymous judges this year. The group sifted through more than 80 student entries featuring striking images of such locales as Ghana, Morocco, Greece, Hungary and Hawaii to choose winners in four categories: Faces, Places, Nature and Events.

  • Learn more about Alumni Weekend registration, open positions in Alumni Relations & Annual Giving, and the Preview Report of Gifts.
  • Congratulations, Class of 2010! <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/ns/commencement/2010/">Watch the video</a>, <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/gallery.php?id=4151">view Legacy Photos</a>, or stop by the Haverblog for photos and behind the scenes tidbits.

  • Smith, a University of California San Francisco MD/PhD student in biophysics, is one of fifteen recipients of the prestigious fellowship, which is the nation's most generous award for young innovators in the fields of applied science and engineering.

  • During the spring semester, a reading group started by political science professor Harvey Glickman and sponsored by the Hurford Humanities Center looked at the diversity of thought in the Muslim world.
  • Hough has won the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction for his book <em>Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg</em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2009). Hough will receive the award from the American Library Association at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on June 29. The novel (reviewed in the Fall 2009 <em>Haverford</em> magazine by history professor Roger Lane) will be issued in paperback in June.

  • The Florida Supreme Court Justice talks about his judicial philosophy.

  • The College Arboretum donated one of the Orchard Lot elms to Philadelphia's Penn Treaty Park, site of the 1682 treaty between William Penn and the Lenape people. Haverford's elm is a descendant of the original American elm under which the treaty was made.
  • More than 30 former members of all-male a cappella group the S-Chords returned to Haverford in April. They joined the current S-Chords singers on April 24 for a day of reminiscing and rehearsing and a Saturday night concert in Marshall Auditorium in which the combined group gave a spirited performance of three S-Chords signature songs:“Hurry,”“Maryanne” and "Viva."

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