Haverford Headlines

Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

At a time of conflict and divide, the College is working to bring students, faculty, and staff together to support one another and engage these important issues through peaceful and constructive dialogue.

Fall Fun with Friends

On a beautiful fall weekend, more than 700 friends and family members flocked to Haverford.

Alumni

Brandon Alston ’14 Shares Research on Police Countersurveillance and “Camera Cues”

The Haverford alum returned to campus to share his most recent research on Black protectionism and the camera as self-defense.

Roads Taken and Not Taken: Dawn Potter '86

Discovering the "Essence of Learning" after Haverford
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Rob Korobkin '08

Giving the Gift of Life
Charles McCurdy Mathias '44: "The Conscience of the Senate"

The former United States senator from Maryland died Monday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. During his years in Congress the liberal Republican, who clashed with the Nixon and Reagan administrations, supported civil rights and an end to the war in Vietnam, and backed legislation that cleaned up the Chesapeake Bay.
Anthony Amsterdam '57 Honored for Fighting Against Capital Punishment

The New York University professor of law recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Amsterdam helped win the 1972 case Furman v. Georgia, which resulted in a four-year moratorium on U.S. executions.
Anne Light '00: Boosting Early Learning Skills

Light, a pediatrician, has written Sundays Are Rainbow Days, a picture book that shows parents and caregivers an effective way to read with young children. The book is distributed by the Optimizing Early Learning Foundation, which Light founded in 2008.
Reunion: A Great Way to Reconnect

Gregory Goggin and Jeff Hecht, both class of 1959, renewed their friendship 50 years after graduation, thanks to a recent reunion. Plans are underway for <a href="http://fords.haverford.edu/s/973/index.aspx?sid=973&gid=1&pgid=9... Weekend 2010</a>.
Roads Taken and Not Taken: E.D. (Tully) Rambo '93

The Art Doctor
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Allison G. (Cohen) Marvin '93

Art Consultant Finds Fulfillment as an Art Matchmaker
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anna Lancman Kotler '91

Follow Anna in her mission to get the world to "waste less"
Haverford Conversation: Jane Silber '85

Silber was recently named CEO of Canonical, the London-based firm founded by billionaire software entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Silber has been with Canonical since its start as the launching pad for Ubuntu, the open source computer operating system that has become one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world.
QuaC Goes on the Road

Haverford's Quaker student group QuaC has received a grant to fund a series of visits to other Quaker-affiliated colleges across the country. The aim: to build stronger ties and learn from each other.
Jennifer Boal '85 Named New Magistrate Judge by U.S. District Court for Boston

Longtime lawyer Boal is chief of the civil division in the U.S. attorney's office.
David B. Thornburgh '80 on the Radio

In two radio commentaries, Thornburgh, the executive director of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, muses on the value of a liberal arts education and finding a calling in life.
"Recovering Couch Potato" Mike Schatzki '66 Launches Second Career as Fitness Motivator

Through a web site and a lecture tour, Schatzki is showing the public how to get in shape "sweatlessly."
Richard Max Bockol '64 Publishes Book about Jerry Wolman

With his son Joseph as co-author, Bockol writes about the "legendary" ups and downs in the life of the former developer and Philadelphia Eagles football team owner.