Haverford College

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.

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.

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.

Samantha Tubman '01 is working at the White House, and is included in a <em>New York Times</em> profile.

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."

Ottman, a double major in history and Spanish, will teach English to secondary students next year. She studied abroad in Spain during her junior year, and researched her senior thesis in the country's archives.

Melissa Nylander '08 aims to give grade school students hands-on knowledge of other lands with a project called The Box Exchange. As part of the project, a class of third-graders at an Ohio school and a group of students at a school in Nepal will exchange cardboard boxes filled with items they think best represent them and their community.

Good Memories…Good Friends…Do I look that old?...Beautiful Campus…Fall and Spring…The Quad…Ginko Trees…Mioganite…Gil White, Arch Manintosh, Frank Parker, John Roche, Sir Francis Drake, Roy Randle, Norm Bramble, Ernie Pruident, Bill &amp; Pat Docherty, Doc Harter, Pop Haddleton, and Lou Coursey – We all have our own fond memories.