Haverford Headlines


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

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
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    History major Kreider-Carlson will spend next year exploring women's craft organizations throughout Mexico, Egypt and Indonesia, hoping to learn how they promote sustainability, cultural traditions, and equitable livelihoods.
  • Alumni, parents, students and friends gathered in Founders Great Hall to celebrate scholarship students and donors.
  • David Brooks, a visiting assistant professor of fine arts at Haverford, helped students at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts fashion works of architectural sculpture during a week long visit to the school.
  • Some very cool and somewhat creepy photos documenting that creepiest of American venues, the carnival.

  • "I look forward to our reunion weekend as an opportunity to spend time with my friends and family on Haverford's beautiful campus. Our reunion gatherings have always been relaxing and enjoyable experiences that have allowed me to celebrate lifelong friendships and discover 'new friends.'”

  • Bisceglio will pursue a master's degree in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. He is among a handful of winners selected from nearly 600 applicants for U.K. Fulbrights.
  • Koshland, a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institute for Science's Department of Embryology, will be formally inducted into the Academy next April. Haverford's Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center is named for Koshland's mother, an immunologist and former member of the Board of Managers.

  • What started as a six-month internship turned into a year-long stint at NASA Headquarters for Thomas Gregg '11. The sociology major got the chance to work in the policy arena for the space agency, which is in the midst of major changes as the space shuttle program comes to an end.
  • A collaboration between Haverford's Arboretum Association and Thomas Devaney's Advanced Poetry Workshop led to“Under an Oak: A Tree Poetry Tour,” in which Devaney's students read their original poems dedicated to campus trees.
  • David F. Pyke '76 is interviewed about the increasing number of ecology-minded business students.

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