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Dali Pomfret is pictured on a baseball field. He leans against a chainlink fence while an out of focus scoreboard sits in the background.

Major League Mindset

Dali Pomfret '25 started out wanting to play professional baseball. After an eye-opening internship, he’s now got his mind set on an even loftier goal.

Scott Peltzer poses for a portrait in the shop at Brooklyn Woods. He is surrounded by numerous woodworking tools.

Alumni Haverford magazine

Building Futures

Through Brooklyn Woods, Scott Peltzer ’82 teaches job hunters a lost art and self-sustaining skills for life.

Faculty Students

Education as Liberation

Philadelphia’s Freedom Side School imagines future intersections between education and anti-carceral movements with a Haverford first-year writing seminar.

An Old Dog Teaches Some New Tricks

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Alumni

In Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, Dave Barry '69 takes some wise cues from his beloved dog about how to live a better life, offering thoughts about letting go of anger, having more fun, not letting your happiness depend on things, making new friends (and keeping the ones you have), and the importance of paying attention to the people you love, “Not later. Right now.”
What They Learned: Chris Goings ’19

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Alumni

For his thesis, Chris Goings ’19 pulled research and advice from a wide range of sources, materializing years of classroom experience.
Jayme Guokas' Craftwork

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Alumni, magazine

Jayme Guokas '97 started out with a hobby of teaching himself how to remodel homes on the weekend. He ended up with a fully operational business that designs and constructs interior spaces.
Where They’re Headed: Nick Perez ’19

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Alumni

The economics major and baseball player is preparing for a career in the front offices of the major leagues.
Where They’re Headed: Gabe Halperin-Goldstein ’19

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Alumni

As a Haverford House Fellow, Gabe Halperin-Goldstein ’19 will spend next year working at the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, which advocates for policies that relieve food insecurity in Philadelphia.
Summer Centered: Allison Wise ’20 Digs Into the Archives

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Students, Centers

On her Hurford Center-sponsored internship, religion major Allison Wise ’20 is working with images and illustrations at the Library Company of Philadelphia to supplement one of the Philadelphia area’s canonical records.
Haverford College Welcomes President Wendy Raymond

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Campus

Raymond's presidency began July 1, and her busy first day included a celebratory, campus-wide meet-and-greet. A gallery of images chronicles the 16th president's campus debut.
What They Learned: Olivia Legaspi ’19

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Alumni

For her thesis, the English major wrote two linked short stories, centered on themes of mental illness and coping.
Summer Centered: Claire Blood-Cheney '20 Thinks Creatively About Business

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Students, Centers

The classics major is spending the summer at Stanford to assist emerging startups at StartX.
What They Learned: Marley Asplundh ’19

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Alumni

The linguistics major spent time in a Philadelphia classroom to research the relationship between linguistic discrimination and education for her thesis.
What They Learned: Rebecca Chang ’19

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Alumni

Personal experience and a semester abroad in Peru informed the growth and structure of cities major’s thesis.
Summer Centered: Mary Cott ’21 Peeks Behind the Curtain

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Students, Centers

Education studies minor Mary Cott ’21 is honing her passions for both dance and education by interning with the instructional wings of two New York City-based dance companies.
Quaker Values and Digital Scholarship

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Campus, Faculty

Haverford is committed to making important texts accessible to all, and recently made “Studies in Mystical Religion” by famed Quaker educator and philosopher Rufus M. Jones available to the HathiTrust, a digital library offering millions of titles.
Where They’re Headed: Kirsten Mullin ’19

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Alumni

The political science major was motivated to pursue a MENAR Fellowship teaching in Tunisia following a CPGC summer-internship abroad in Morocco.
What They Learned: Alexandra Corcoran ’19

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Alumni

The political science and Spanish double major built her thesis upon two summers’ worth of experience studying Medicaid policy and reform with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families.