§Sip vîiWtîWiM'tïi A mascot for Swarthmore? Two thirds o f voters said “yes, ” but which o n e? H ere’s your opportunity to m ake the final choice . □ The Garnet Foxes Our fox is wily and smart and native to the Crum. The broadbrimmed hat reminds us o f George Fox, founder o f the Religious Society o f Friends. □ The Little Quakers A Swarthmore tradition, this old Friend sym bolizes the College’s religious heritage, but he seem s to have a mis­ chievous twinkle in his eye. □ No Mascot Vote “n o” if the idea o f a m ascot doesn ’t square with your image o f Swarthmore. ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEPHEN BAUER t’s election season everywhere, and though the New Hampshire primary may be over, the Swarthmore mas­ cot voting is not. Remember our last issue, when we brought you six mas­ cot candidates—plus the opportunity to just say no? When all the votes were counted (more than 1,000 came by mail, and 300 more were cast on campus by students, faculty members, and staff), none of the candidates had achieved a clear victory. About a third of you voted “no mascot,” leaving a majority that favored having one. But which one? Our two top vote-getters were “The Garnet Foxes” and “The Little Quakers.” So in an effort to “reach consensus” (which we are reminded can never done by voting), we’re having a runoff. Before you rush to the polls, consider the campaign speeches: In the margin of her “no mascot” ballot, one alumna called a mascot “a truly terrible idea.” Other nega­ tive comments: “undignified,” “ludicrous,” “tacky,” “a com­ plete joke.” But others remembered previous mascots, including the “Fighting Quaker” (such a delicious oxy­ moron) played by Jack Gelman ’83 and Donald Lloyd-Jones ’86. And then there was the infamous turkey from the mid’50s: “The alumni were not amused,” remembers Jane Holt deFrees ’56, “but we were!” And for those of you who tend to vote only on looks, the preliminary sketches at left will give you an idea of what our mascot might look like. Ballots must arrive at the College by Monday, April 1. So don’t be left out of the democratic process—mail yours today. I A Mascot for Swarthmore ... Round Two Mail this ballot today to vote in the Great Mascot Election, Round Two. Please return this card by Monday, April 1. Swarthmore couples may cast two votes. 1. Should Swarthmore adopt a mascot? □ Yes □ No 2. If you answered “yes,” which of the two final candidates should represent Swarthmore? (Vote for one.) Person A Person B The Garnet Foxes..................... .....................□ ............ .............. □ The Little Quakers..................... .....................□ ............ ..............□ Please sign your ballot and indicate your class year or other College affiliation. Person A Person B From: Place 20 cents postage here A lum ni Office Sw arthm ore College 500 College Ave. Sw arthm ore PA 19081-1397 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 1996 Editor: Jeffrey Lott Assistant Editor: Nancy Lehman ’87 News Editor: Kate Downing Class Notes Editor: Carol Brevart Desktop Publishing: Audree Penner Designer: Bob Wood Editor Emerita: Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 Associate Vice President for External Affairs: Barbara Haddad Ryan ’59 Cover: Neil Gershenfeld ’81 is a physicist, not a cellist. He says,“Any real cellist would be appalled by how I’m holding the instrument.” Find out why he’s playing it at all on page 10. Photograph by L. Barry Hetherington, © MIT Media Lab. Changes of Address: Send address label along with new address to: Alumni Records, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore PA 19081-1397. Phone: (610) 328-8435. Or e-mail alumni@swarthmore.edu. Contacting Swarthmore College: College Operator: (610) 328-8000 Admissions: (610) 328-8300 admissions@swarthmore.edu Alumni Relations: (610) 328-8402 alumni@swarthmore.edu Publications: (610) 328-8568 bulletin@swarthmore.edu Registrar: (610) 328-8297 registrcir@swarthmore.edu ©1996 Swarthmore College Printed in U.S.A. on recycled paper. The Swarthm ore College Bulletin (ISSN 0888-2126), o f w hich this is volum e XCIII, num ber 4, is published in Septem ber, Novem ber, January, February, M ay, and August by Swarthm ore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthm ore PA 19081-1397. Second57, phieak“He the ock that beting. ime get just *gy i. IUS- ;ree ;rsiical is a 19 ed, medically sanctioned therapy. Or they could try antibiotics, which were much less expensive and had fewer side effects. Brown adm inistered the tetracy ­ cline and its derivatives both orally and intravenously. “To the end he was still trying to determine which was most effective,” says Dr. Cap Oliver, a former student of Brown’s at George W ashin gton U niversity who la ter becam e his partner in the Arlington clinic. In some, though far from all, c a se s th e a n tib io tics redu ced the swelling and pain within a matter of days. And in cases that included the rela­ tives of Congressmen, foreign digni­ ta rie s, and th e wife of th e late H. Thomas Hallowell Jr. ’29 (who gave Brown’s clinic an electron microscope to further its studies), Tom Brown’s treatments made a positive difference. In a 1987 letter to Swarthmore Vice President Kendall Landis ’49 suggest­ ing Brown for an honorary degree, Hallowed described Brown as a man who “has taken more people out of w heelchairs and hospital beds and put them on the golf course and made normal healthy people out of them than anybody I have ever heard of.” The d eg ree was n ever co n ferred , though Landis says he tried. I rwin Burton regained his mobility within a month of taking the antibi­ otics. He says that “Tom Brown never claimed to be able to cure the dis­ ease.... He would say that it was in rem ission— in my case, th at of my daughter, and so many others I sent his way. He tried to make converts of other rheumatologists, but the medi­ cal profession did not see eye to eye with him and his methods.” Indeed, though even som e early Eu rop ean stu d ies in d icated th at antibiotics could be effective in treat­ ing the inflammation associated with arthritis, in America Brown’s work was called baseless, unscientific, even fraudulent. When he presented papers about his work at arth ritis con fer­ ences, he found few who were willing to listen. It is especially ironic that the Sev­ enth In tern a tio n al C on gress on Rheumatic Diseases in 1949, at which Brown presented his findings on the beneficial effects of aureomycin, was 20 the same conference where the seem­ ingly miraculous relief given by corti­ sone was announced. As the cortisone craze took off, Brown’s ideas were lost in the shuffle. “He would act as if it wasn’t bother­ ing him,” Olive Brown recalls, “but th e re ’d be nights when h e’d com e home and say he could not under­ stand what the problem was. He had results. He had patients who loved him and wrote letters about how he’d helped them. And he had letters from other doctors who, sometimes against their judgment, prescribed the antibi­ o tics to th e p atien ts who w anted them, and had got promising results. I guess results weren’t enough.” In 1987, facing a recurrence of the cancer that would eventually kill him, Brown collaborated with freelance writer Henry Scammell on The R oad B ack. As Scammell examined Brown’s research, he became convinced that a significant breakthrough in arthritis research was being ignored. “There were lots of different ways that people dismissed his theory. The principal way was that it just didn’t fit the con­ ventional wisdom. They would say, sure, he may have been successful, but there’s been a high placebo effect with rheumatoid arthritis. Care and loving might trigger something that helps people with the disease. Tom would ju s t say, ‘If it w orks, why doesn’t everybody else try it?”’ Tom Brown lived long enough to see The R oad B ack generate a small amount of publicity. He died before Pat Ganger created the Road Back Foundation and before the latest stud­ ies were published. Henry Scam m ell has sin ce pub­ lished an update of the book, called The A rthritis B reakthrou gh. “I found that, on the average since 1988, I’ve spent one day of every week answer­ ing letters, talking to people, making speeches—for which I wouldn’t take a dime— about Dr. Brown’s work. Most rheum atologists still think that Dr. Brown’s treatment is unorthodox, but it’s coming closer to the mainstream. “And it appears that the world is giv­ ing this man’s ideas a second look.” ■ B ill K ent is a frequent contributor to the Bulletin. He is the author o f three books an d serv es as the A tlantic City corre­ spondent for The New York Times. JAmerica’s Values Changing? By Christopher F. Edley Jr. ’73 like what Nazi U Just Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is doing again to the evangeli­ cal Christians.... It’s hap­ pening all over again. It’s the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media, and homosexuals who want to destroy all Chris­ tians.... The ACLU, the radi­ cal feminists, the militant homosexuals, radical athe­ ists, and anti-Christian big­ ots are using the courts in America to destroy the life of America’s little chil­ dren.” This little homily is from the Rev. Pat Robert­ son, a graduate of C9T FEBR U A RY 1 9 9 6 21 Editor’s Note: This essay w as ad ap ted from a talk given at the C ollege on O ctober 7, 1995, during the annual Fall W eeken d Forum. We also presen t excerpts from the respon ses o f the three faculty m em bers w ho p articipated in the discussion. META MENPEL-REYES : lïp ïl Ìt| Assistant Professor of Political Science I don’t think it gets us very far to say that it’s dangerous to bring values into politics, because without values what would politics be about other than hard-headed realism, cold-hearted logic, and narrow self-interest? Even to say that politics should be about those things instead of values ignores the extent to which choosing to regard human beings simply as creatures of reason, logic, and self-interest is, in itself, a value judgment. ILLUSTRATIONS BY BOB WOOD lead millions and claim tens of millions. Yale Law School and the New York Theological Semi­ At the center of their message there is, of course, nary, former Republican presidential candidate, and a kernel of truth. Polls tell us th at 80 percent of leader of a media conglom erate with an estimated Americans believe that the United States is suffering value substantially in excess of $1 billion. from a moral crisis, and much of what I see leads me How about this: “I want you to just let a wave of to agree. A recen t study reported that intolerance wash over you. I want you to almost one in three black males age 20-29 let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, From gangsta is incarcerated, on parole, or otherwise h a te is good . Our goal is a C h ristia n rap to crack, under the supervision of the criminal jus­ nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are from cyberporn tice system — a num ber that is up from called by God to conquer this country. We one in five ju st a few y ears ago. From don’t want equal time and we don’t want to skinheads, gangsta rap to crack, from cyberporn to p lu ralism .” T h a t’s from Randall Terry, from swastikas skin h ead s, from sw astikas in Harvard founder of the antiabortion group Opera­ in Harvard Square to burning cro sses in suburban tion Rescue. A tlanta, th is is not th e A m erica that I And co n sid er th is from Ralph Reed, Square to executive director of the Christian Coali­ burning crosses want. These and other realities reflect the prevailing judgment that we have strayed tion: “What Christians have got to do is in suburban from our moral bearings. take back this country one precinct at a Are A m erica ’s v alu es changing? A Atlanta, this tim e, one neighborhood at a tim e, one recent Gallup poll said that 90 percent of state at a time. I honestly believe that in is not the parents want schools to teach values to my lifetim e we will see a co u n try once America that I their children, but the question is which again governed by Christians and Chris­ want. These values, whose values? Most civil libertari­ tian values.” ans support values-based education in and other public schools, provided it teaches secu­ his is the martial language of the reli­ realities reflect lar values that are shared across religious gious right, a collection of increas­ the prevailing and cultural traditions—values like hon­ ingly sop h isticated fundam entalist esty and civility. But the term “secular val­ religious organizations that share a con­ judgment ues” has been criticized on the right as an servative political agenda marked by hos­ that we oxymoron at best and a dangerous con­ tility to th e se p a ra tio n of ch u rch and have strayed spiracy at worst. They want schools that state. These are the statem ents— indeed are steep ed in religion— th eir religion. from our moral the com m itm ents— of som e of the m ost W ith o u t th a t th e s c h o o ls a re simply powerful political figures of our time. They bearings. T 22 S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E B U L LETIN The real question is not whether, but how to bring val­ ues into American politics. I think it has a lot to do with rec­ ognizing that values them­ selves are subject to political deliberation and that all should participate in as direct a way as possible in those delibera­ tions—as well as in the political decisions we take together as citizens. In my view politics has always been the activity of deciding what is to be done, but at the same time it’s an activity of deciding, through action, who we are. By deciding what to do, we also decide who we are. And that means our val­ ues are themselves the very J Ml subject of politics and thus are always open to reconsideration and change.... It’s my sense that the ques­ tion about American values is going to be answered by action, and I see the young peo­ ple of today engaging in the kind of activities and experi­ ences that have the potential to rebuild trust and a sense of community. I would add the simple equality that this coun­ try is really about. I have writ­ ten about the 1960s, but it’s not because I want to go back to them—it’s because I really want the new generation that’s going to make the difference in the ’90s to have a full agenda of choices to make. I imposing th e governm ent’s I values. Pat R o b e rtso n has a said, “I certainly do not want government teaching my grandchildren about val­ ues.” School prayer, of course, is the focal point of the church-state debate. Fundamentalist activist David Barton, generally considered the chief theoretician of the school prayer movement, argues that “remov­ ing prayer and the acknowledgment of God from our classrooms has been the primary cause of the devastatingly serious decline in the lives of students, their fam ilies, th e sch o o ls, and our n ation.” But these activists want more than the right to pray— which we all enjoy anyway, w hether in or out of school. They want som e m easure of governm ent endorsem ent in settings th at con fer governm ent approval. Why? Because, they explain, they are not moral relativists. Some values are better than others. And the best, of course, are Christian values. I t seems to me that there’s more at work here than a critique of moral chaos born of relativism and its supposed behavioral counterpart, permissive­ ness. Those on the religious right say they are wag­ ing a war to reassert values that are under siege, but their argument about values is often combined with another argument about two institutions— govern­ ment and the family. What is in the public realm, and what is private? And what principles should regulate the relation between the public and the private? To many of us, there is an overarching civic princi­ ple reflected in the First Amendment: that religious FEBRUARY 1 9 9 6 values are private values, and their collec­ tive imposition on others is an affront to that civic principle. But this formulation doesn’t always work. The values I hold in my heart are the ones I try to live by. They guide my public life by shaping my policy preferences and determining how I vote. Last year my personal values clearly took on a public cast as I advised President Clinton on the challenges of racial healing and equal opportunity. But how much should a person’s (or a group’s) private religious beliefs affect public policy? Consid­ er the following two situations: Scene one: a budget discussion involving Office of Management and Budget officials and a dozen eco­ nomic and policy aides to President Clinton. It’s an occasion to present som e of the most difficult and significant policy choices to him and Vice President Gore. Almost everyone sitting around the table in the Cabinet room would have thought it extremely odd— even inappropriate— had I argued with the attorney general about her request for additional FBI funding or more federal prisons by quoting religious scripture. I did cite social scientists, and, being a pro­ fessor, I probably would have had license to cite Bentham or Mill or de Tocqueville, but certainly not Abraham or Jesus or Mohammed. Scene two: Instead of 15 people around a table in the Cabinet room, there are four of us with the presi­ dent in the Oval Office. We have just spent 90 min­ utes going over some of the thornier parts of a draft speech on affirmative action that he will give in two days at the National Archives, using as his backdrop the Declaration of Independence and the Constitu23 ROB HOLLISTER Joseph Wharton Professor of Economics I want to call attention to four major facts that I think cre­ ate the particularly fertile ground for intolerance. I think it’s important to keep these in mind when we’re talking about what we can do about values: The first is the decline in real earnings for the lower half of the income distribution. This went on slowly from 1972 to 1980, but with increasing rapid­ ity from 1980 until the present time. And it has fallen dispro­ portionately on African Ameri­ can men and women. tion— the great texts of our secular Torah. It’s been a good meeting, and the president is pumped up. He says, “You know I was up late last night, and I was reading my Bible,” and then he walks over to his desk, and he pulls out his Bible, a little thing with m icroscopic print. He puts on his glasses and starts reading from Luke. It seems natural, just like Bill Clin­ ton. I can find no fault with this, but why? Why my unease about the notion of appealing to religious val­ ues around the Cabinet Room table, when 10 steps away in the Oval Office it seems perfectly appropri­ ate? I think the difference lies between invoking per­ sonal religious values as independent authority for p u b lic p o lic y and u sin g th em as illu s tra tio n , metaphor, or parable. The president did not mean to su g g est th a t our argum ent favoring affirm ative action should be accepted becau se he could find so m e a u th o rity for it in th e G ospel. He m erely recalled to us a familiar moral teaching that further grounded the policy argument, providing a moral context. he question, then, is what constitutes proof in our public discourse? What kind of argument should be allowed to carry the day? Should a debate in the Senate be different from a conclave of card inals or of Talm udic sch o la rs? I believe the answer is yes, it must be different, but by way of argum ent I can only a sse rt the First-Amendment value— or metaprinciple— that distinguishes Ameri­ ca from theocracies and makes it possible for faith T 24 to flourish. Here’s an oth er way to think about th e school prayer problem: Is the public school an extension of the family or an extension of the state? The answer: some of both. We are in a dilemma because we think of educating our children as p erso n a l, yet we dele­ gate a large portion of the task to the governm ent, thus inviting conflict over the public/private distinc­ tion. And th at argument exp resses the fundamental tension within liberal dem ocratic theory— the ten­ sion betw een representative government and per­ sonal liberty. The American constitutional solution, resting on both d em ocratic p articipation and an antidem ocratic Bill of Rights, has served well, but will it survive? It’s ideas like those of Randall Terry, who rejects the public/private distinction in toto, that I’m worried about. Those things that our tradi­ tions have always considered public becom e over­ whelmed by the private in Randall Terry’s value sys­ tem. This leads to my fundam ental proposition: We cannot regulate the public/private distinction by seg­ regating values on either side of some arbitrary pub­ lic/private boundary becau se no stable boundary can be found. We should instead appreciate and con­ tinually repair the delicate, discom forting balance that is characteristic of liberal dem ocratic culture. Abortion, school prayer, and a balanced budget are all difficult public p olicy m atters, w hich can be S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E B U L LETIN The second is the increasing arrest and incarceration of African American males. The figures on incarceration from 1980 onward are simply breath­ taking. And if you compare them with the crime statistics, you see that we have lots of fear about crime but in fact the crime rates have been essen­ tially stable, indeed decreasing a little bit during that period. The third major fact is the persistent residential segrega­ tion of African Americans com­ bined with the movement of employment to the suburban fringe. So jobs have moved,* but the ability of African Americans to follow those jobs remains constrained by very serious residential segregation. Fourth is the large inflow of immigrants, the largest we’ve had since the beginning of the century. Further, it appears that the skill lev­ els of the incoming immi­ grants have become lower and lower compared to previous periods of immi­ gration. I think that if you put these four facts together you can see how it cre­ ates a tremendous cli­ mate of anxiety within society and a lot of zero-sum game thinking. This is the ground on which intolerance grows. resolved only by the application of values. It’s not the agenda of the religious right that’s the problem, it’s the intolerance. There’s every reason to see the New Deal and the Great Society as historical aberrations. Liberals should not delude themselves by thinking that it’s only a matter of time before things go back to “normal.” For better and worse, Bill Clinton is not Lyndon John­ son— and it is no longer 1965. here is an o th er cru cial te s t of our nation’s values, and it concerns our commitment to social and economic justice. The current debate over welfare reform and Medicaid budget cuts has been taken by many liberals to be a dram atic turning-away from America’s commitment to elim inating th e evils of p o v erty and racism. I see it som ewhat differently. As I look over the sweep of time, our commitment to such altruism seem s to have a now-yousee-it, now-you-don’t quality. There’s every reason to see the New Deal social insur­ ance com m itm ent and the Great Society social welfare com m itm ent as h istorical aberrations. In short, we may not be as good as we think we are. Liberals should not delude themselves by thinking that it’s only a matter of tim a short time— before things are corrected and come back to “normal.” What is being wrought in Washington today may in fact be normal, and it is a challenge that calls for response, not complacency. It is essential to understand that we have a great capacity to hold one set of ideals and princi­ ples and quite a different set of practical values. And by ignoring facts and ugly realities we often do pre­ T FEBR U A RY 1 9 9 6 tend that we have put our aspirations into practice when this is clearly not the case. Consider poverty issu es, where there is an amazing amount of cognitive dissonance and denial. People just don’t want to face the challenges implicit in the facts about poverty and will simply not h ear them . B ack when P resid en t Johnson spoke of “poor black babies,” it was too powerful a m essage to ignore, and the nation was moved. But for better a n d w orse, Bill Clinton is not Lyndon Johnson— and it is no longer 1965. In m atters of ra ce , th e sam e ph e­ nomenon is at work, and we have trou­ ble m ediating our aspiration al values with our p racticed values. Last year I was privileged to be a p art of a long series of discussions with President Clin­ ton and Vice President Gore over affir­ m ativ e a c tio n and ra c ia l is su e s. We argued vigorously about why America is divided and how it can heal. We talked about th e difference betw een dream s and plans, betw een ra ce and sex and class and sexual orientation. We talked about why it d o esn ’t m atter m uch in civ ic life w h eth er you are an E p isco ­ palian or a Presbyterian or a Catholic— and why it’s OK for each of those groups to hang out together on Sunday morning but not OK to make hiring decisions on that basis com e Monday morning. 25 DON SWEARER Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Religion W ith advice from my col­ leagues and testimonies of my students, I looked at two books that I thought would provide me with counter-per­ spectives on changing values in America: our own [Professor of Psychology] Barry Schwartz’s The Costs o f Living: How M arket Freedom Erodes the B est Things in Life, and William J. Bennett’s The B ook o f Virtues. it ? Over and over, however, th ere was a m issing co n n e ctio n in our d iscu ssio n s between the values we claim and the val­ ues we live. The best example of this came ■■gilt over th e issu e of ra ce blindness. Many conservatives attack affirmative action by arguing that to be a race-blind society we must live with race-blind policies. The fact that prejudice, bias, and e x c lu s io n s till e x is t and re q u ire e ffe c tiv e responses seems to matter little to those who see no distinction betw een A m erica’s aspirations and its practices. Do these ugly realities matter as you con­ struct public policy? Not if you have an unlimited capacity to repress and deny contradictions. What is to be done? Here I want to appeal to the w isdom of our friend and fellow Sw arthm orean Robert Putnam ’63, the Gurney Professor of Political Science at Harvard. He has stressed the importance of building communities by investing in what he calls “social cap ital”— the networks, relationships, and norms that provide a foundation for social and eco­ nomic strength. But in his vision of restoring civic virtue and community, Bob acknowledges that racial divisions may be the biggest challenge. I think it is more than that. The call for community carries with it the risk of an intolerant parochialism and ethnocentrism that could be the very antithesis of pluralism and tolerance. There may arise in this call for community, if it goes awry, exclu sionary effects of the broadest and m ost potent sort. The challenge to the Putnam project is how to shrink the vast distances in economic circumstance, where we live, social conditions, and in aspirations, that now 26 > J '* V __ J 1 . \ . 1 The books are very different. Barry offers us an impassioned, reasoned, personal, and at times whimsical critique of the pervasive effects of the domi­ nance of the free market on all aspects of our lives. “Our emphasis on the individual in this free market world we have created has a dark side,” Schwartz writes. “It leaves peo­ ple frighteningly alone, indeci­ sive about what to do and why, unsure of the harsh misfor­ tunes they may encounter. There is a price for freedom— danger. There is a price for individualism—loneliness. There is a price for autono­ my—vulnerability. And there is exist between communities— e s p e c ia lly co m m u n itie s of color and the m ajority white community. A dozen years ago, the city of Boston was in the grips of a wave of ugly, racially motivated violence, and there was much hand-wringing and soul-searching. I was am ong a handful of Harvard Law Sch ool faculty members who were invited to a very informal talk with the newly appointed Catholic cardinal, a man who was reportedly conservative on doctrinal mat­ ters, but had a record of very substantial leadership on civ il rig h ts in th e Deep Sou th . I asked him whether he could foresee an end to this kind of con­ flict. He said, “Yes, absolutely.” I asked why, and he said b e c a u s e he b eliev ed in th e p o ss ib ility of “redemption.” Playing law professor, again I asked why, and he added, “Because Christ has risen, and I have faith.” Now I think there are at least two difficulties with this formulation, met by the same answer. The first is th at the Cardinal’s con fiden ce d o esn ’t give us much practical guidance about how to translate our aspirations of racial healing into practice. The sec­ ond is that his confidence that redemption is possi­ ble is less than reassuring for those of us without his religious faith. What, short of religious conversion, will bring about a shift in aspirational values and practical commitments? My answer: We must selfconciously seek out and create experiences that will lead to a transformative civic conversion, in our val­ ues and sense of community. S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E B U L LET IN a price for enlightenment— uncertainty.” Bennett, on the other hand, gives us a collection of moral tales, which illustrate 10 virtues: self-discipline, compas­ sion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty, and faith. In an odd w ay... both Schwartz and Bennett reflect my col­ leagues’ sense that the major problem we face is whether there is any hope of a common morality in this particularized, deconstructed, postmodern age. And my students felt need for community and moral exemplars. Yet what is our vision of community? Is it a Norman Rockwell America? A nostalgia for some mythic com­ munity whose reality never lived up to its promise? Our vision must be both aspiration and actual. Our exemplars should not be unattainable moral heroes and heroines, but flawed embodi­ ments of virtue and principle who are capable of inspiring us, but who also leave a practi­ cal legacy to help all of us with the daunting social, economic, and political transformation. This will call for all the virtues William Bennett lists and a lot more. It will certainly demand of each of us, regardless of gender, race, sexual preference, or however else we define our particularity, to share in the fashioning and pursuit of common goals, strategies, pro­ grams, if you will, a prac­ tical common good. W e can’t escape the important connec­ lo s e it and liv e w ith th e c o n s e ­ We can’t tion betw een the private values of quences. escape the our personal lives and the public val­ Finally, we must acknowledge that ues we expect to operate in the civic sphere. the values we hold and live are not connection Our best constitutional traditions seek to bal­ im m u tab le. Our co m m itm e n ts to between ance the tension between state and individual, social and econom ic justice, to diver­ values and the and so to o m u st we b a la n c e th e te n sio n sity, or to the aesth etic triumph of between public and private value claims. I see civic sphere. the arts—we should vigilantly guard four ways to tend this balance. what we hold dear against assau lt Our best First, we must ch erish and reassert such and erosion, lest those commitments traditions m etaprinciples as the separation of church prove ephem eral. A m erica’s values balance the and state and our commitments to pluralism. are changing, and the challenge is to At the same time we must understand that plu­ transform our nation’s moral journey tension ralism need not lead to a morally empty rela­ from a walk in the desert to a journey between the tivism. Even while tolerating our differences, toward what we have promised our­ state and we can still debate what is good. selves and our children. ■ Second, we should not mistake our aspirathe individual, tional values for the values we live. The gap Christopher Edley Jr. ’73 is professor o f and so too we between our preachments and our practices is law at the Harvard Law School, where must balance not only a m easure of our personal failures, he has taught since 1981. He served as but also a measure of how far America is from the tension national issues director for the 1988 the nation we want it to be. presid en tial cam paign o f M ichael between Third, we m ake a dangerous erro r if we Dukakis ’55, as senior transition policy public and believe th at p o litics is not an ap p ro p riate adviser for the Clinton/Gore presiden­ private values* arena for values discourse. Yes, it is easier to tial transition, and as associate direc­ talk about who is up and who is down, who’s tor o f the Office o f Management and ahead and who’s behind, but it is even more Budget in the Clinton administration. important to argue about what is right and what is In 1995, as special counsel to President Clinton, Edley wrong. Politics must be about that too. The religious led the administration’s review o f affirmative action right understands the political importance of values programs. His book on affirm ative action, Not All discourse, and values warfare has becom e the ani­ Black and W hite: An E ssay on R ace, Affirm ative mating energy of politics today. If we are not combat­ Action, and American Values, will be published by Hill ants in this battle, then we should be prepared to and Wang this spring. FEBRUARY 1 9 9 6 27 A L U M N I to know some current Swarthmore students who were home for winter break. Also, an added feature to the Garnet Sages’ annual visit to the High­ land Park Club in Lake Wales, Fla., was a luncheon with Harry Gotwals, Swarthmore’s vice president of alum­ ni, development, and public relations. Roberta Chicos 77, Emily Gage ’90, and Jennifer Cousar Costa ’91 (left to right) take a break from a service project in Boston where Connection members did yardwork and housework at a public housing project for the elderly last October. Recent Events Chicago: On Jan. 26 Chicago young alumni got together for a Swarthmore TGIF cocktail party at a local bar and cafe. Jennie Romich ’94 and Darius Tandon ’94 put the event together. Los Angeles: More than 30 alumni, parents, and friends came out to the California Institute of Technology to cheer on the Swarthmore women’s basketball team as they took on Cal­ tech on Jan. 6. Following the game players, coaches, and members of the LA Connection gathered for a recep­ tion planned by Jenny Rickard ’86. New York: The New York Connection gathered for its almost-annual Chinese banquet on Feb. 7 at the 20 Mott Street Restaurant. The event was organized by Penel Owens Adelmann ’ 66 . Philadelphia: Members of the Con­ nection came to campus when the Swarthmore College Chamber Orches­ tra featured alumni composers and performers in a concert of 20th-centu­ ry American music in November. In February Mark Kenward ’89 brought his solo adaptation of Melville’s whal­ ing novel Moby D ick to Swarthmore’s campus. A reception with Mark fol­ lowed the performance. Also in Febru­ ary Swarthmoreans attended a show­ ing of Cold Fever, a film by James Stark ’71. James met with alumni and par­ ents at a reception following the film. Seattle: On Jan. 27 the Seattle Connec­ tion toured two special exhibits at the Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park. Following the tour everyone gathered at a local Thai restaurant for some casual conversation. Deb Read ’87 coordinated the afternoon outing. South Florida: South Florida alumni and parents spent part of Jan. 11 at the home of Mark Shapiro ’88 getting Washington, D.C.: Chekhov’s classic play Three Sisters was at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., in December, and area alumni, parents, and friends enjoyed a performance. After the play the group had the opportunity to meet and talk with cast members. Dorita Sewell ’65 and Serge Seiden ’85 organized the event. Upcoming Events An Evening at the Basic Theatre is planned for the New York Connection on Feb. 28. Also planned for early- to mid-spring are an event at the Brook­ lyn Academy of Music, a visit by Swarthmore President Alfred H. Bloom, and a showing of the new movie Cold F ever by Swarthmorean James Stark ’71. Planned for the Philadelphia Connec­ tion some time in early April is a tour of the new Kohlberg Hall followed by a student panel on volunteerism. Com ing Soon for Sw arthm ore Alum ni March 9 -2 1 ........... ...... Alumni College Abroad Costa Rica and the Panama Canal March 22-23......... ...... Black Alumni Weekend March 29-31......... ..... Coolfont Retreat, West Virginia April 1 2 -1 3 ........... ..... Alumni Council’s spring meeting April 1 9 -2 1 ........... ..... Parents Weekend June 4 - 7 ............... ..... Alumni College on campus June 5 ................... ..... Garnet Sages garden tour, Unionville, Pa. June 7 - 9 ............... ..... Alumni Weekend Aug. 19-Sept. 1 ... ..... Alumni College Abroad— Turkish Coast Sept. 2 0 -2 1 ............ ..... Volunteer Leadership Weekend Alumni Council’s fall meeting For information on alumni events, call the Alumni Office at (61(0 328-8402, or e-mail alumni@swarthmore.edu. 28 S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E B U L L E T IN i ALABAMA Joan Maddy Harris ’40 3527 Conestoga Way Birmingham, AL 35242 Day/Eve: (205) 991-0810 NP MAXL 3 MAXG 4 ARIZONA Chuck Kaplan ’80 and Debra Simon ’81 6651 N. Catalina Avenue Tucson, AZ 85718 Day: (602) 299-3677 NS MAXL negotiable MAXG negotiable Scenic mountains, hiking trails CALIFORNIA Carol and Whitney Collins ’39 P.O. Box 1035 Carmel Valley, CA 93924 Day/Eve: (408) 659-4665 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 2 Alone in Arizona? Lost in Louisiana? Short of cash in California? Tuck this directory into your suitcase, and traveling m ay n ev er b e the sam e again! warthmore alumni and parents in 34 states and four foreign countries have put out the welcome mat for College alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and students. Instead of spending the night in a motel, stay in the home of a Swarthmore alumnus/a or parent. You’ll have firstrate company while saving money, and part of the cost goes to the College’s Alumni Scholarship Fund. A onenight stay is usually $30 (can vary according to location). S How to arrange a stay with Swarthmore hosts: Simply write or phone the hosts with the dates that you will be in their area. Hosts can decline to accept trav­ elers at any time. They may have certain limitations, such as no smoking, pets, or alcohol, which are listed by code (see box). Travelers may not arrive unannounced. They must make arrangements at least two days in advance and notify the hosts if plans change. This service is for Swarthmore alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and students; it is not transferable to others. The hosts have no obliga­ tion to provide meals. We hope that you’ll use and enjoy this service. If you’d like to be a host, please write to: Alumni Office, Travel Directory, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081-1397. Include your address, tele­ phone numbers, and restrictions. —Alan Symonette 76, President, Alumni Association Ann M. Baerwald ’60 P. O. Box 692 Idyllwild, CA 92549 Day: (909) 659-4658 Eve: (909) 659-3579 NS NC NP MAXG 4 MAXL 7, $50 Chuck Kimball and Nanessence ’64 The Artists’ Loft A Bed & Breakfast Retreat P.O. Box 2408 Julian, CA 92036-2408 Day/Eve: (619) 765-0765 NS NC NP MAXG 4 $70 per couple Sachiko and Paul C. Berry ’55 3787 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA 94303-4512 Day: (408) 734-8100 Eve: (415) 494-2031 NS NC NP MAXL 2-3 MAXG 2, futon, $15 Internet: Paul_Berry@ACM.org Harriet Butts ’71 and Dale Gatlin 14800 Nash Mill Road Philo, CA 95466 Day/Eve: (408) 336-5094 MAXL 2 MAXG 4 Beautiful 360° view, no phone/elect., comfortable house Margaret Dickie Linden ’60 P.O. Box 309 Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 Day/Eve: (415) 663-1488 NS NANP MAXL 7 MAXG 2 Edwenna Rosser ’63 and Michael Werner 2160 San Pasqual Street Pasadena, CA 91107 Day: (213) 740-4626 Eve: (818) 796-4092 Email: ewerner@mizar.usc.edu 1double bed, 1single bed NS (except outside) MAXL 2 MAXG 2-3 Benjamin W. White ’42 20 Malvino Court Belvedere-Tiburón, CA 94920 Day/Eve: (415) 435-3590 NS NC MAXL 2 MAXG 3 Edie Young ’68 843 Copper Privado Ontario, CA 91762-4994 Day: (909) 986-4899 NS NA MAXG 4 One hour drive to Disneyland DELAWARE Paul ’65 and Diana Judd Stevens ’63 12 Crestfield Road Wilmington, DE 19810-1402 Eve: (302)475-2111 NS NC NP MAXG 4 MAXL 3 IOWA Ferrel Rose ’83 1325 4th Avenue Grinnell,IA 50112 Day/Eve: (515) 236-4489 NP MAXL 3 MAXG 3 $25 for 2 COLORADO Deanna and Michael Held ’66 3625 Cholla Court Boulder, CO 80304 Day: (303) 492-0385 Eve: (303) 444-2830 (before 9:30 p.m.) NS MAXL 3 MAXG 4, two on sofa bed $30 for two, $10 each add’l guest DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Louis and Cushing Niles Dolbeare ’49 215 Eighth Street NE Washington, DC 20002-6105 Day/Eve: (202) 547-2918 or (202) 544-5505 (ans. machine) NS NP MAXL 4 MAXG 3 LOUISIANA Mary Keller Zervigon ’60 1119 Fern Street New Orleans, LA 70118 Day/Eve: (504) 861-3391 NS MAXL 4 MAXG 2 Kathy Purcell ’77 840 South Estes Street Lakewood, CO 80226-4205 Day: (303) 987-2356 Eve: (303) 989-8517 NS MAXL negotiable MAXG negotiable Michael and Virginia Spevak 5320 Belt Road NW Washington, DC 20015-1961 Day: (202) 362-9119 Eve: (202) 244-8644 NS NA MAXL 7 MAXG 1 Barbara Nelson Wells ’49 1030 Estes Street Lakewood, CO 80215 Day: (303) 969-7257 Eve: (303) 238-4315 MAXL 5 MAXG 2, sofa bed FLORIDA Janet Hotson Baker ’47 550 Gaspar Drive Cape Haze Placida, FL 33946 Day/Eve: (941) 697-3581 NP MAXL negotiable MAXG 2 Available October thru May CONNECTICUT Patricia and Jay Weiner ’55 150 Brushy Hill Road Danbury, CT 06810 Day/Eve: (203) 743-6379 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 4 Martin ’66 and Eva Reissner Ewing ’66 2001 Durham Road Guilford, CT 06437 Day/Eve: (203) 457-0030 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 2 Jane and Rufus Blanshard ’43 310 Gurleyville Road Storrs, CT 06268-1416 Day/Eve: (203) 429-4908 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 3 Roy’80 and Sarah Fleischmann Schutzengel ’83 165 Butternut Lane Stratford, CT 06497 Day: (203) 371-7111 (Roy) Eve: (203) 375-4738 NS Pets negotiable MAXL 5 MAXG 5, 2 adults, 3 children H O S T C O N D ITIO N S NA: no alcohol NC: no children NP: no pets with travelers NS: no smoking MAXG: maximum number of guests host can accommodate MAXL: maximum length of stay (in days) Wendell ’51 and Dorothy Watt Williams ’50 124 Whispering Sands Drive Siesta Key, FL 34242 Day/Eve: (813) 349-4218 NS NC NP MAXG 2 Available Jan 1 thru mid-April GEORGIA George and Gloria Harley 617 West Lake Circle Augusta, GA 30907 Day/Eve: (706) 868-1935 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 4 John and Donna Crystal Llewellyn ’80 3517 Cedar Valley Drive Smyrna, GA 30080-5646 Day: (404) 894-2340 Eve: (404) 434-8548 NS NC NP MAXL 2 MAXG 2 IDAHO Jay and Sandra King 800 Bacon Drive Boise, ID 83712 Day/Eve: (208) 336-3516 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 4, 1 on bed, 3 sleeping bags, $5 per person ILLINOIS Wendell ’51 and Dorothy Watt Williams ’50 2214 S. Lynn Street Urbana, IL 61801 Day/Eve: (217) 344-5180 NC NP NS MAXG 2 Available May thru mid-December MAINE Chris ’54 and Jane Walker Kennedy ’55 HC 61 Box 124 Damariscotta, ME 04543 Day/Eve: (207) 563-1646 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 5 MARYLAND Judith Graybeal Eagle ’66 501 West Gordon Street Bel Air, MD 21014-3520 Day: (410) 838-0900 Eve: (410) 836-0339 MAXG 2, plus futon Smoking on screened porch Virginia Bordeweick Colin ’72 13205 Park Lane Fort Washington, MD 20744 Day/Eve: (301) 292-5999 NS MAXG 2-4 Pets outside only Daniel M. Mont ’83 16512 Kipling Road Rockville, MD 20855-1929 Day: (202) 226-2672 Eve: (301) 330-9467 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 4 MASSACHUSETTS Diana and Paul Peelle ’69 161 High Street Amherst, MA 01002-1853 Day/Eve: (413) 253-3682 NS MAXG 4 David E. ’62 and Alice E. Kidder ’63 239 Randall Road Berlin, MA 01503 Day: (617) 349-2483 or (617) 924-7236 Eve: (617) 924-7236 NS NAMAXG 3 10-minute transport to Harvard Square, Cambridge available Thomas R. Corwin ’59 42 Sunset Road Cambridge, MA 02138 Day: (617) 497-6753 Eve: (617) 876-5252 NP MAXG 2 Winthrop and Barbara Hertz Burr ’65 55 Hemenway Drive Canton, MA 02021 Day: (617) 735-6198 Eve: (617) 821-2105 NS NP MAXL 7 MAXG 4 Joan Litchard Wyon ’50 143 Fairway Road Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 Day/Eve: (617) 731-3381 NS NC NP MAXG 2 MAXL 3 Ruth Tuley Broderick ’56 173 Packers Falls Road Durham, NH 03824 Day/Eve: (603) 659-2711 NS NP MAXG 5 Sara Bolyard Chase ’60 1 Grassland Street Lexington, MA 02173 Day/Eve: (617) 861-6646 NS NC NP MAXL 5 MAXG 3 Catherine Stone ’74 28 South Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Eve: (603) 436-9745 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 2 Liz Augustine ’79 10 Mockingbird Lane Maynard, MA 01754 Eve: (508) 897-6976 NS NC NP NA MAXL 3 MAXG 2 NEW JERSEY Lois and Richard Waddington ’52 10 Sunset Avenue Linwood, NJ 08221 Day/Eve: (609) 927-2803 NS NC NP NAMAXL 3 MAXG 4 $40, including breakfast Susan Turner ’60 and Wallace Clausen ’60 64 Westland Road Weston, MA 02193 Day/Eve: (617) 894-0794 NS NP MAXL 2-3 MAXG 2-3 MICHIGAN Nicholas Jay Herrick Jr. ’94 1012 E. Sunnybrook Drive Royal Oak, MI 48073 Day: (313) 839-9800 Eve: (810) 588-3292 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 2 MINNESOTA Betsey Buckheit ’83 and Justin London 610 Union Street Northfield, MN 55057-2542 Day/Eve: (507) 663-0705 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 3 1 double bed, 1 cot MISSOURI Keith ’84 and Margaret Smith Henderson ’84 4814 Fisher Lane Arnold, MO 63010 Day: (314) 843-4151 (Keith) Eve: (314) 282-2478 NS NAMAXL 5-6 MAXG 4 $25 Milton and Dorothy Brodie Clarke ’50 1060 West 55th Street Kansas City, MO 64113 Day/Eve: (816) 523-3058 MAXL 5 MAXG 6 MONTANA Emilie Smith Loring ’44 500 Daly Avenue Missoula, MT 59801 Day/Eve: (406) 721-4852 MAXL negotiable MAXG 2 NEW HAMPSHIRE Dale Shoup Mayer ’47 14 Bickford Crossroad Center Sandwich, NH 03227 Day/Eve: (603) 284-7726 NS No cats MAXL 2 MAXG 4 Swimming, canoeing, mountain climbing Sandra M. Greenberg 37 Elliot Road Parsippany, NJ 07054 Day/Eve: (201) 335-3054 NP MAXL 30 MAXG 4 Joseph and Geraldine Higham 117 Corrine Drive Pennington, NJ 08534-3502 Day/Eve: (609) 737-2584 NS NP MAXL 6-7 MAXG 4 Ricki Feingold Waldman ’61 148 Lincoln Avenue Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Day: (201) 982-3416 Eve: (201) 444-8398 NS MAXL 3-4 MAXG 3 NEW MEXICO Niki Giloane Sebastian ’65 HC69 Box 5A Sapello, NM87745 Day/Eve: (505) 425-7610 NS Pets negotiable MAXL 7 MAXG 2 futon plenty of outdoor camping space Children only with campers $10 Close to Santa Fe and Taos NEW YORK Thea Mendelson ’57 P. O. Box 291 Main Street Aurora, NY 13026 Day: (315) 364-3279 Eve: (315) 356-5174 NS MAXL 2 MAXG 4 Crib Philip ’48 and Alice Higley Gilbert ’48 174 Kilburn Road Garden City, NY 11530 Day/Eve: (516) 747-3227 NS NP MAXL 5 MAXG 3 Judith Anderson Lawler ’60 29 Division Avenue Nyack, NY 10960 Day: (914) 358-7400 Eve: (914) 353-0534 NS NP MAXG 5 Fred Marshall ’83 34 Laureldale Drive Pittsford, NY 14534 Day: (716) 275-0557 Eve: (716) 387-9895 NS NP NAMAXL 2 MAXG 2 (if able to share double bed) Chris and Deborah Wright Percival ’73 95 Mill Street Williamsville, NY 14221 Day: (716) 636-3180 Eve: (716) 633-5830 NS MAXL 7 MAXG 5 NORTH CAROLINA Nancy E. Shoemaker ’71 and Stephen Davis 7009 Jeffrey Drive Raleigh, NC 27603 Day/Eve: (919) 773-1340 NS NP MAXL2 MAXG2 Email: shoemaker@acm.org OHIO Russell Benghiat ’70 23370 Ranch Road Beachwood, OH 44122 Day: (216) 831-8580 Eve: (216) 464-1178 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 4 Colin ’82 and Ann Bauman Wightman ’82 601 Park Street Socorro, NM87801 Day/Eve: (505) 835-3293 NS NP NAMAXL 4 MAXG 5, $20 Children welcome Bill and Jane Dixon McCullam ’62 9880 Fairmount Road Newbury, OH 44065 Day/Eve: (216) 338-3253 NP MAXL 4 MAXG 4 Primitive campsites also avail. $10 H. Laurence Ross’55 3939 Rio Grande Blvd. #43 Albuquerque, NM 87107 Day: (505) 277-2501 Eve: (505) 344-0488 FAX: (505) 277-8805 Email: Iross@unm.edu NS MAXG 2 Richard and Catherine Hall Roberts ’63 1026 22nd Street Portsmouth, OH 45662 Tel: (614) 353-2463 NS MAXL 10 MAXG 2 David and Betsy Ring Kolasky ’65 4940 Turnbridge Road Toledo, OH 43623 Day/Eve: (419) 885-3869 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 3 OREGON Pat and Paul Frishkoff ’60 Lundquist CBA 1208 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1208 Day: (541) 346-3313 NS NP MAXL 2 MAXG 3 $35 One child only George ’54 and Elsa Bennett Struble ’53 210 18th Street NE Salem, OR 97301 Day: (503) 370-6122 Eve: (503) 364-3929 NS MAXG 3-4 PENNSYLVANIA Steven Kraft and Margot Hillman ’78 1807 Homestead Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18018 Day: (215) 865-4400 (Margot) Eve: (215) 868-8987 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG3 Anne and John Schubert ’74 5996 Beverly Hills Road Coopersburg, PA 18036-1838 Day: (610) 282-3085 Eve: (610) 2824246 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 4 Molly and Alex Henderson ’75 2051 Rice Road Lancaster, PA 17603-9544 Day: (717) 299-7254 Eve: (717) 872-9319 NS Pets negotiable MAXL 3 MAXG 4 Barbara Seymour ’63 307 Moylan Avenue Moylan, PA 19065 Day/Eve: (610) 565-9278 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 1 Mrs. James K. Blake 9950 East Lake Road North East, PA 16428 Day/Eve: (814) 7254162 MAXL 3 MAXG 3 Barbara and Robert Hoe ’68 463 W. Chestnut Hill Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118-3711 Day: (215) 233-6900 Eve: (215) 242-9098 NS MAXL 34 MAXG 2 David and Anna Reedy Rain ’83 613 S. Burrowes Street State College, PA 168014611 Day/Eve: (814) 234-1737 NS MAXL negotiable MAXG negotiable Tom Reiner ’52 and Patrice Lopatin 27 S. Wyoming Ardmore, PA 19003 (610) 642-6897 NS NP MAXG2 one double room $50 Available November thru mid May TENNESSEE Nancy and Lee Hallberg ’55 211 Semore Drive Jonesborough, TN 37659 Day/Eve: (423) 753-9345 MAXL 2 MAXG 4 TEXAS Joan Rudel and Chris Stinson ’73 906 Crystal Creek Drive Austin, TX 78746 Eve: (512) 263-5916 NS MAXL 2 MAXG 2 Sally Mills Watkins 2500-D Quarry Road Austin, TX 78703 Day: (512) 327-8760 Eve: (512) 477-7677 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 3 Kate Rose Grossman ’84 and Paul Gottsegen 1707 Briarmead Drive Houston, TX 77057 Eve: (713) 266-2900 NS NC NP MAXL 4 MAXG 2 UTAH Matt ’83 and Suellen Heath Riffkin ’83 11607 South 700 West, Draper, UT 84020 Day/Eve: (801) 572-0500 NS MAXL 5 MAXG 4, $20, students halfprice VERMONT Tom Reiner ’52 and Patrice Lopatin High Meadow, A Bed and Breakfast P.O. Box 3344 Goshen Ripton Road Goshen, VT 05733 Day/Eve: (802) 247-3820 Alt. (610) 642-6897 NS NP MAXG 6 $45 per room Available June thru November Randolph and Beverly Bruhn Major ’57 RFD 3, Box 631 Putney, VT 05346 Day: (802) 722-3241 Eve: (802) 387-5737 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 4 VIRGINIA Ann and Francis C. Tatem Jr. ’46 140 Hickory Drive Christiansburg, VA 24073 Day/Eve: (703) 382-6169 NS MAXL 3 MAXG 3 David Tucker ’58 114 N. Court Street Luray, VA22835 Day/Eve: (703) 743-1166 NC MAXG 6 Susie and Bob Fetter ’53 2923 Carolina Avenue SW Roanoke, VA 24014-3203 Day/Fax: (703) 982-1034 Eve: (703) 342-9950 NP MAXL 3 MAXG 5, 2 beds, 2 sleeping bags WISCONSIN Robert and Marilyn Mathews Bendiksen ’59 N1664 Timber Lane La Crosse, WI 54601 Day: (608) 789-7661 Eve: (608) 788-0268 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 3 Martin ’55 and Elizabeth Likert David ’53 207 Du Rose Terrace Madison, WI 53705 Day: (608) 266-8299 Eve: (608) 238-2181 NS NP MAXG 5 AUSTRALIA Betty Nathan ’50 13 Jaeger Circuit Bruce, ACT, .2617 AUSTRALIA NS NC NP NAMAXG2 MAXL3 $40 (Australian) CANADA Helen Copeland Grattidge ’53 5105-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 3Y5 CANADA Day/Eve: (403) 472-4564 MAXG 4 Richard C. Conlin ’50 270 Chemin de la Boucle Montebello, Quebec J0V 1L0 CANADA Day/Eve: (819) 423-6379 NS NP MAXL 7 MAXG 4 $40/person, $60/couple, $12/child under 12 Ge'rtrude Joch Robinson ’50 415 Mount Pleasant Avenue Westmount, Quebec H3Y 3G9 CANADA Day/Eve: (514) 934-5967 NS NP MAXL 3 MAXG 4 $40/person, $60/couple MEXICO Janet Hill Coerr ’39 la Priv. Humboldt Casa 2 Cuernavaca 62000 Mor MEXICO MAIL: Apdo. Postal 1-233 Day/Eve: 011-52-731-8-90-57 NS NC NP MAXL 5 MAXG 3 NEW ZEALAND H. Alan Shapiro ’71 9/28 Gloucester Street Christchurch 1 NEWZEALAND Tel: 64-3-379-4828 FAX: 64-3-364-2576 Internet: CLAS01 l@csc.canterbury.ac.nz NS NC NP MAXL 3 MAXG 2 D I G E S T Sing It Loud! Black Alumni Weekend, March 22, 23 lan on a treat during Black Alumni Weekend, March 22 and 23, when the Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir presents its 25th anniversary concert. Featured in the Saturday evening event will be new P pieces, written for the choir and per­ formed on its first recording, Hallelu­ ja h Amen. Also scheduled for the weekend is a performance featuring The Seventh Principle dance troupe with C. Kemal Nance ’92 and a lecture by Martha Jackson-Jarvis during the opening reception of her multimedia installation “Boxes of Oshun” in the List Gallery. For more information on this event, call the Alumni Office at (610) 328-8412. Swarthmore Weekend at Coolfont, March 29-31 as well as the future of the major parties. Campaign P ro m ise s/ Greer con­ sults with com­ Hardball Politics munity-based organizations on aspects of arol Nackenoff, associate pro­ development fessor of political science, and her husband, independent con­ projects from planning to sultant James L. Greer, will join Histo­ advocacy. He ry Professor Marjorie Murphy in lead­ has a special ing discussions at the sixth annual interest in the Swarthmore Weekend at Coolfont in consequences West Virginia. of elections for The event will be Friday through cities and sub­ Sunday, March 29-31, at the scenic resort owned by Sam Ashelman ’37. urbs, the Carol Nackenoff, associate professor o f political science, will be decline of This year’s theme is “Campaign Projoined by her husband, independent political consultant Jam es Greer, urban prob­ mises/Hardball Politics.” at the sixth annual Swarthmore weekend at Coolfont. lems as issues Nackenoff is an authority on the in national elec­ rhetoric of U.S. politics—candidates’ tions, and the appeals to voters, their coded lan­ geography of presidential politics. watching, and live entertainment. guage, the symbols they invoke, and In addition to the discussion pro­ Details on the Swarthmore Weekend the ways that their messages rework are available from the Alumni Office, gram, Coolfont offers hiking in the American myths. She is studying the (610) 328-8402, fax (610) 328-7796, or foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, role of such issues as race, gender, e-mail cdumni@swarthmore.edu. golf, swimming, aerobics, great bird­ and immigration in the ’96 campaign, C FEBRUARY 1 9 9 6 29 A Footprint We Leave Behind From early adversity as a student Paul Gottlieb ’5 6 created a m asterpiece o f a career. M y observation is that most people who succeed at anything encounter adversity of some kind and learn to transcend it,” says Paul Gottlieb ’56, museum trustee, president, publish­ er, chief executive officer, editor-in-chief of publishing house Harry N. Abrams Inc., and producer of a best-selling art catalog. Early adversity came while he was at Swarthmore, when a “paralyzingly good time” in pursuit of wine and women led to bad grades, a summons to the dean, and dismissal for one semester from the College. He returned to graduate with a major in political sci­ ence. “Having experienced early fail­ ure,” he says, “yet surviving find tran­ “When you see something that’s really scending that point of adversity, I unique, the hairs on the back o f your head gained strength and self-confidence.” really stand on end, ”says Paul Gottlieb Forty years later, with a career and (right), seen here with Hermitage director reputation in the art world that are as Dr. Mikhail Pyotrovsky during an inter­ colorful and impressive as any master­ view on CBS Sunday Morning last April 2. piece, Gottlieb was the expert called to be on the spot when, in 1994, a collec­ tion of priceless paintings was brought Abrams produces a list of titles, half out of hiding at the State Hermitage of which is devoted to art and half to Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. other illustrated subjects. The revela­ With a father born in St. Petersburg tion in St. Petersburg was not Gottlieb’s and a mother from Ukraine, Gottlieb first experience of seeing hitherto undis­ spent his New York childhood steeped closed art. The excitement is still audi­ in Russian culture and acquired native ble in his voice as he tells of a call he fluency in both Russian and English. His received 11 years ago from a graphic art sensitivity to art also grew out of his publisher in Florida, who was talking to background, where “a love of art, music, “someone who had just bought from literature, and culture were part of the Andrew Wyeth 240 works all about one deal.” All his life Gottlieb has been soak­ woman.” The buyer was Leonard ing up art history, visiting exhibitions Andrews, the pictures the famous and museums all over the world. “Helga” series, created in secret by His actual career in the publishing Wyeth between 1970 and 1985 and world began in 1956 at the William Mor­ stashed away until he revealed their ris Agency in New York City, where he existence in a 1985 interview. Gottlieb served as a literary agent. In 1959 he arranged to meet with Andrews to see was one of a number of young bilingual color transparencies of the pictures. He Americans chosen to act as a guide and said: “When you see something that’s interpreter at the American National really unique, then the hairs on the back Exhibition in Moscow, the launching of your head really stand on end. Wyeth event of a cultural agreement between is still the most popular living American the Soviet Union and the United States. artist, and when I saw the Helga pic­ The State Department recalled him to tures, the feeling was just amazing.” Moscow in 1961 to serve again as inter­ Andrews invited Gottlieb to arrange an preter, as the cultural exchanges exhibition of the pictures. He did so in 1987 in collaboration with J. Carter between the superpowers continued. After holding a string of executive posi­ Brown, then director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The book tions at the American Heritage Publish­ ing Company, founding the American Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures, in which Gottlieb is credited with having branch of the British Thames and Hud­ son Company, and running his own con­ “initially called attention to this group of sulting firm, he joined Abrams as editor- pictures,” was published by Abrams in-chief in January 1980, taking over and was the first-ever art book to be chosen as a Main Selection of the Booklater that year as its president and pub­ of-the-Month Club. lisher. 42 Gottlieb describes the Hermitage event as another “dazzling experience and one of the most exciting moments in my life.” Albert Kostenevich, a senior curator at the State Hermitage Museum, had told Gottlieb in February 1994 that something was afoot there. In July Museum Director Dr. Mikhail Pyotrov­ sky informed him of an exhibit of spec­ tacular Impressionist and Post-Impres­ sionist paintings that had been removed from Germany by Soviet authorities at the end of World War II. He invited Gott­ lieb to involve Abrams. Visiting the Her­ mitage in September, Gottlieb accompa­ nied Kostenevich to an isolated section of the museum “through endless corri­ dors, around corners, up and down staircases, and through long, long gal­ leries,” until they reached a room con­ taining 74 paintings—by Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Pis­ sarro, Matisse, and others—all unframed and being worked on by a conservator. Taken from a bunker in Berlin, where they had been stored for the duration of the war, the paintings were then hidden as war booty in the Soviet Union. Gottlieb was the first per­ son outside the Hermitage staff to see a trove that was to rock the art world once again. Abrams was commissioned to pro­ duce the catalog for the Hermitage exhibit within a fraction of the time nor­ mally required to publish such a book. Gottlieb and his staff arranged for the photography, writing, translating the Russian text, editing, retranslating the edited English text back into Russian, design, and printing of a landmark book featuring all 74 works in full color plates and titled, like the exhibition, Hidden Treasures Revealed. Sales are predicted to top 250,000 books by March 1996, when the exhibition closes. It is the second-ever art book to be a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Decades have passed since Paul Gott­ lieb was “tossed out of Swarthmore and forced to face reality.” His reality is the world of art, and his mission is to make it accessible to the public. As he puts it: “Art is one of the few continuums of the human experience; when you look at all civilizations, each produces art; it’s a kind of footprint we leave behind.” Judg­ ing by the place he has forged for him­ self in that reality, he must have a pretty large foot. —Carol Brévart S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E B U LLETIN u R B A C K P A G Spring, Md., wife of the well-known the m onasteries in 1532. The gri educator Benjam in Hallowell— and freestone of the walls has long sin certainly a “weighty” Friend in her been covered with plaster and pebbl H adSw arthm ore’s founders own right—is credited with suggest­ dash, but the local slate roof and mi not had a sense o f history, ing “Swarthmore.” We do not know lioned windows preserve the the alternatives proposed, but, unlike century character of the exterior T1 your diploma might have the choice of site, the name seems to building’s austerity is relieved only read “Westdale College. ” have cau sed no co n tro v ersy . The a large three-story window bay meeting directed the Board of Man­ the now-restored balcony from wh| By Mary Ellen Grafflin Chijioke ’67 agers to draft and apply for a charter George Fox occasionally preachec L The interior was paneled thre ug to incorporate “Swarthmore College.” It is hard not to read significance out, though the original paneling arrish Hall is 127 years old in 1996— 115 as rebuilt after the into the fact that a woman proposed vives in only two bedrooms. The fire of 1881. Swarthmoor Hall, the name of Swarthmore for this radi­ stone floor and large stone fireplai th e E lizabeth an m anor h ou se cal for experiment, a college offering the give the dining hall a clear 17th-ce which the College was named, will sam e curriculum to both men and ry flavor, though the oak panelii soon reach the age of 400. English women on the same site. Swarthmoor the result of 20th-century renovation Quakers are now restoring and reno­ Hall was a symbol of the strong lead­ Also surviving from the building’s vating the older building to ensure it ership roles taken by early Quaker wo­ liest days are a beautiful carved men. It was the home of Margaret Fell, place and a rare newel staircase risii at least another century of useful life. If those Hicksite Friends who chose who from 1652 provided the adminis­ from the ground floor to the atti the College’s site 11 miles southwest tra tiv e skill th at of Philadelphia had followed custom­ kept the movement ary Quaker practice, our alma mater from falling apart would have been called Westdale Col­ from the centrifuged lege. This area, at the time part of forces of its individ­ Springfield Township, had taken its u a listic th eology. name from the family who owned the When, as a widow, farm west of Chester Road by the rail­ she married George road sta tio n . A lm ost u niv ersally Fox, Q u akerism ’s before 1850, Quaker m eetings and dom inant lead er, in stitu tio n s were named after the Sw arthm oor Hall place where they were located. Memo­ became his home as rializing individuals or places was well. Strikingly, he very unusual until the late 19th centu­ renounced all con­ ry, so that the Friends School, Provi­ trol over her wealth, dence, only becam e M oses Brown making her an S ch o o l in 1904. So why did th o se anomaly in the 17th 1860s H icksite Quakers ch o o se to cen tu ry — an inde­ name th eir new institution after a pendent, propertied building near the small town of Ulver- m arried woman. The building is thus ston in northwest England? In this case the name was chosen both a landmark in before the site. At the December 1863 Quaker history and annual meeting of the Friends Educa­ in women’s rights, tion A ssociation , which had been an ideal model for a organizing and raising funds for the co lleg e th at num­ p ro je c t, th e final c h o ice betw een bered Lucretia Mott, Westdale in Springfield or Wissahick- Martha Tyson, and on in Upper Dublin was submitted to Margaret Hallowell the unquakerly procedure of a vote, among its founders. The building it­ with a 10-day allowance for receipt of mail votes. (The final tally was West- self was construct­ dale 1,458, W issahickon 427.) The ed by George Fell, ch oice of a name was made at the an Ulverston attor­ The College’s namesake, Swarthmoor Hall, is not only a same meeting, before the results were ney, on an e s ta te famous landmark in early Quaker history but also a symbol I in. acquired by his fami­ o f the strong leadership roles taken by early Quaker women\ M argaret E. Hallowell of Sandy ly at the breakup of The 16th