Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin 1982-08-01

nn the Fiftieth on Alumni Day ’82

warthmore has been the greatest
teacher in my life,” said Pres­
ident Theodore Friend, partici­
pating in his last Swarthmore commence­
ment before stepping down as president
on June 30th. Addressing the members of
the graduating class as “fellow seniors,” he
observed, “I share with all of you the good
experience of living and learning here.”
The largest graduating class in Swarthmore’s history, 326 seniors, received
diplomas at the College’s 110th
commencement. In addition, honorary
degrees were given to: Ernesta Drinker
Ballard, women’s rights activist; Katherine
Lindsley Camp ’40, a leader in the inter­
national peace movement; and Howard
A. Schneiderman ’40, biologist and
educator.
For more about commencement, turn
to page 10.

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Thirteen Swarthmoreans share with you
their summer reading lists on subjects as
wide-ranging as their own interests.
Theodore Friend
Swarthmore’s Eleventh President
This summer is the first since 1972 that I
can give systematic thought to a summer
reading list for the Alumni Bulletin. I
will, of course, be immersing myself
more deeply in Southeast Asian history,
a process I’ve already begun in the
company of Steve Piker and Don
Swearer. Teaching with them this spring
(Religion 21/Soc.-Anth. 21: Southeast
Asia: Culture, History, and Religion)
was a joy.
My reading list, however, is for
another part of my mind and spirit:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Pan­
theon Books) by C. G. Jung (in order to
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loosen up the entirely non-positivist
layers of the mind).
Christian Zen (Harper and Row) by
William Johnston (to continue develop­
ing my own religious consciousness,
such as it may be).
A Personal Record (Doubleday) by
Joseph Conrad (because of his austerity
with assumptions).
The White Album (Simon and Schus­
ter) by Joan Didion. (Read this again.
She sees America clearly, and wastes no
words.)
Late Innings (Simon and Schuster)
by Roger Angell. (As a baseball fan, I
need careful, intelligent therapy to
recover from last year’s strike, which

left me feeling that both players and
owners were greedy and obstinate.)
Someone’s History o f the Falkland
Islands (if there be such; in order to
imagine what it has been like to live
there.)
The Book o f Daniel{Bantam) by E.L.
Doctorow (because Victor Navasky ’54
recommends it).
Message in a Bottle (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux) by Walker Percy (because our
son Tad at Harvard recommends it).

Rush Holt
Assistant Professor o f Physics
The Fate o f the Earth by Jonathan
Schell (Knopf). Schell raises the funda­
mental questions—scientific, ethical, and
political—about a horror we all try not
to consider: nuclear war. It is a tremen­
dously compelling and provocative book.
Although some of his conclusions may
be challenged, Schell has gone to the
heart of this dark problem more effec­
tively than any other author I know.
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Michael J. Durkan
College Librarian
To most people Irish literature is that
written by such writers as Yeats, Joyce,
Behan, etc. Irish literature, however,
has a more precise meaning—that of
literature written in the Irish language.
Up to 1847, Ireland outside of the cities
was predominantly Irish speaking. The
tragedy of the Famine changed that
situation. The language suffered from
the mass deaths and emigration, and
writing was practically abandoned except
among the scholars and antiquaries. In
1893 the Gaelic League was founded
which adopted as its object “to keep the
Irish language spoken in Ireland.”
The first writer of importance was
Peadar O’Laoghair (Peter O ’Leary).
In 1917 he published M o Scdal Fdin,
My Own Story (Gill and MacMillan),
which was to initiate an entire new field
in Irish writing—autobiography. This
account of his life by the well-known
priest covered the Famine, the Land
AUGUST 1982

War, and the Easter Rising and is
especially valuable for its picture of
native Ireland during the nineteenth
century.
For unusual summer reading fare, I
recommend a small selection of trans­
lations of autobiographies which have
as their locale the Blasket Islands. The
Blaskets form a group of six small rocky
islands off the south coast of Ireland.
The largest and the only inhabited island
—the Great Blasket (1,132 acres, four
miles long)—was the setting for auto­

biographical works by three Irish writers.
Anti-Oileanach, The Islandman, by
Thomas O’Criomthain (Tomas O’Crohan)
was published in 1929 (Scribner).* The
work describes in spare, simple prose the
story of the life on the islands—times of
famine and times of plenty, the hard­
ships of making a living on the islands—
a way of life primitive but rich in color,
unchanged for centuries.
Muiris O’Sdileabhdin (Maurice O’­
Sullivan) was born on the Great Blasket.
In 1927 he left to join the Irish Police in
Dublin. Because of his familiarity with
the language, he was sent to an Irish­
speaking district in the west of Ireland—
Connemara. While he was there he
wrote Fiche Blian ag Fds, Twenty Years
A-Growing, which was published in
1933 (Chatto & Windus). His rem­
iniscences of life on the island—fishing,
marriages, matchmaking, hunting thrush­
es on Halloween, and salvaging the
riches from ships sunk by U-boats—is,
in the words of the translators, “the first
translation into English of a genuine
account of the life of the Irish peasants
written by one of themselves, as distinct
from what has been written about them
by the poets and dramatists of the
Anglo-Irish school.”
Peig Sayers was born on the mainland
but spent much of her life on the Great
Blasket, where she was famed as a
storyteller. In 1936 she published Peig
(Syracuse University Press), in which
she describes her growing up and her
memories of Dingle town where she was
in domestic service, her marriage to an
islandman, and life on the Great Blasket.
It is a record of hardship, poverty, and
deprivation, while at the same time
celebrating the joys of a simple life—
song, dance, storytelling—and the satis­
factions of work. In Mactnamh SeanaMhnd, An Old Woman’s Reflections
(Oxford University Press), Pieg Sayers
reflects on the daily life as she saw it as a
child and a young woman. She tells of
love and elopement; we experience the
loss of a fishing boat and its crew, the
preparation for the journey to America,
and the return of the Yank.
These books are valuable social docu­
ments portraying a society that has all
but passed away. They have deservedly
received recognition and appreciation.
*Dates refer to original publication,
while the publishers noted here produced
the English translations.
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In 1953 the remaining island families
were transferred to the mainland and
settled there. The Blasket Islands are
now abandoned except during the sum­
mer months when the islanders return
to tend their sheep and tourists make
day trips.

Professor and Chairman, Department
o f Sociology and Anthropology
A lot of really good and sophisticated
material for the educated lay person has
come out recently on the nexus of topics
including human nature, human evol­
ution, and so forth. Some of it is
fictionalized, some not. It includes:
Lucy by D. Johansen (Simon and
Schuster). Popularized science about
human evolution. I will use it in a course
next fall.
The Clan o f the Cave Bear by Jean
Auel (Crown). Sophisticated fiction
that has been on the New York Times
best-seller list for a while. Fifty thou­
sand years ago the human
species and Neanderthals lived
side by side.
The Dance o f the Tiger by
Bjorn Kurten (Pantheon Books).
Fiction about humans and develop­
ing land, by a paleontologist and evolu­
tionist.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
(Summit Books). Years after a nuclear
holocaust, survivors in England, living
in a stone-age tradition, try to figure out
their past. A story about myth-making.

Ruth Sergei *84

Thomas H. Blackburn

Selections from feminist literature:
Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller (Simon and Schuster). Top-notch
examination of the history of rape and
how the rape mentality has permeated
our culture.
The First Sex by Elizabeth Gould
Davis (Penguin Books). This delightful
book presents the case for the natural
superiority of women. Ms. Davis uses
both biological and historical argu­
ments to prove her points. Exciting to
learn about the accomplishments of
forgotten women, including Pope Joan,
Queen Philippa, and many others.
This Bridge Called M y Back, Cherrie
Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, editors
(Persephone). A beautiful collection of
writing by feminist women of color.
This book expresses with clarity and
strength being non-white and non-male
in today’s society.

Professor o f English Literature
Each of the works on the following list
has been selected because it possesses at
least one of these characteristics: histor­
ical importance in the evolution of
science fiction as a genre; a solid
adventure plot with suspense and varied
action; a thoughtful analysis or ex­
trapolation of scientific, technological,
political, or sociological premises; a
successful integration of the preceding
two elements; a decent style; a touch or
more of iconoclastic imagination about
the human condition now and in the
future.
From the Earth to the Moon (Airmont) and Journey to the Center o f the
Earth (Penguin) by Jules Verne. The
Time Machine (Bantam), First Men in
the Moon and The Island o f Dr.
Moreau (both Airmont), and War o f
the Worlds (Berkley) by H.G. Wells.

Janet Dickerson
Dean
This summer I’m going to read Dr. Seuss
books with my daughter Dawn, and:
The Dean’s December (Harper and
Row) by Saul Bellow.
O f Mules and Men (Indiana Univer­
sity Press) by Zora Neale Hurston.
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Last and First Men and Starmaker
(both Dover) by Olaf Stapledon.
Foundation Trilogy (Avon), I Robot,
and Caves o f Steel (both Fawcett) by
Isaac Asimov. Giles Goat-Boy (Bantam)
by John Barth. The Stars M y Destin­
ation (Berkley) by Alfred Bester. A Case
o f Conscience and Cities in Flight
(Avon) by James Blish. Farenheit 451
(Ballantine) and The Martian Chron­
icles (Bantam) by Ray Bradbury.
Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look
Up, and Shockwave Rider (all Ballan­
tine) by John Brunner. Babel 17 (Ace)
by Samuel Delaney. Dune and The Eyes
o f Heisenberg (both Berkley) by Frank
Herbert. The Lathe o f Heaven (Avon)
and The Left Hand o f Darkness (Ace)
by Ursula LeGuin. A Canticle for
Leibowitz (Bantam) by Walter Miller,
Jr. Ringword(Ballantine) and Lucifer’s
Hammer (with J. Pournelle - Fawcett)
by Larry Niven.
Critical works include: Billion Year
Spree (Schocken) by Brian Aldiss; New
Maps o f Hell (Arno) by Kingsley Amis;
The Pattern o f Expectation (Basic) by
I. F. Clarke, The Future as Nightmare
(Arcturus Books) by Mark R. Hillegas;
Science Fiction: History, Science, Vi­
sion (Oxford U. Press) , by Robert
Scholes and Eric S. Rabkin.

Heidi Goldstein $3
Books about the nuclear arms race:
Nuclear War: What’s in it fo r You? a
Ground Zero Committee Packet. Covers
topics ranging from weaponry to the
effects of nuclear war. Unfortunately
it’s kind of cutesy.
Protest and Survive by E.P. Thomp­
son (Monthly Review). Deals primarily
with the European disarmament move­
ment.
Life After Nuclear War: The Eco­
nomic and Social Impacts o f Nuclear
Attacks on the United States (Ballinger
Publishing Co.) by M. Katz. He con­
cludes there won’t be any.
Controlling the Bomb (Yale Univer­
sity Press) by Lewis Dunn. Nuclear pro­
liferation.
Radiation and Human Health (Sierra
Club) by John W. Gofman. Technical,
with many statistics.
Nuclear Culture: Living and Working
in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex
(Coward, McCann) by Paul Lock.
Dialogues with workers at Washington
State’s Hanferd Nuclear Reservation.
A World Destroyed (Vantage Books)
by Martin Sherwin. Implications of
nuclear war.
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The Price o f Defense: A New Strategy
fo r Military Spending (NYT Publishing
Co.) by Boston Study Group. Details
conventional nuclear forces.

J. Roland Pennock *27
Richter Professor Emeritus o f Political
Science
Elena— A Love Story o f the Russian
Revolution by Judith Egan (Tichnor
and Fields). This novel by a Swarthmore faculty wife (Judith Pagliaro) is
based upon the experiences of a Russian
aristocrat during the tumultuous period
of 1916-1923, as told to the author.
That Russian woman was Helen Shatagin, known to many of you as a teacher
of Russian at Swarthmore. Quite apart
from its personal connections for
Swarthmoreans, it is a fascinating story
that also provides a great deal of color
and detail about what life could be like
in Russia during those revolutionary
years.
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
(Random House). This mystery novel is
not only captivating as such but tells us
much about how the Soviet system
works.
Equality, Moral Incentives, and the
Market— An Essay in Utopian PoliticoEconomic Theory by Joseph H. Carens
(University of Chicago Press). Carens

(who was a visiting examiner at Swarth­
more this year), unlike many socialists
who rely largely upon assertion, argues
rigorously and imaginatively that moral
incentives can be so developed that a so­
ciety with equal personal incomes will be
as efficient as one with unequal incomes.
The Limits o f Politics— Collective
Goods and Political Change in PostIndustrial Societies by Roger Benjamin
(University of Chicago Press). Both the
“overload school” and the “neoMarxists” are wrong, argues Benjamin.
The decentralizers are naive and the
proponents of more centralization are
likewise mistaken. Pat answers are
lacking but helpful principles are ad­
vanced and defended in this book.
Economic Report o f the President
(Washington: Government Printing
Office). Nominally the report “of the
President,” the bulk of this volume
consists of the report of the Council of
Economic Advisers. It is written, of
course, by economists who believe in his
economic policies; but much of the
economic analysis will be found inter­
esting and useful by those who do not
subscribe to those policies.

Frank Pierson 34
Joseph Wharton Professor Emeritus o f
Political Economy
My choice for summer reading is Col­
lected Stories by the English author,
V.S. Pritchett, published in this country
by Random House.
I got to know his writings mostly
through his essays in the New Yorker
and later through his account of his
early life in working-class London, A
Cab at the Door. Despite his steady
stream of books—fiction, literary criti­
cism, travel—there has been no letup in
quality, and at age 82 he is still going
strong. Reading his short stories should
be just the thing to help me get through
a Swarthmore summer.

Eugene M. Lang 38
Chairman, Board o f Managers
Apart from the stack of best-seller grist
for the escapist mill, my summer reading
will include the following:
Years o f Upheaval (Little, Brown) by
Henry Kissinger; an exercise in maso­
chism rationalized by the hope of
enlightenment.
The Meanings o f Modern Art (New
York Museum of Modern Art) by John
Russell; this represents a final and deter­
mined effort on my part to substitute
understanding for ?????

David Smoyer
Associate Professor and Chairman,
Department o f Physical Education
I became interested in China while
reading an article in the New York
Times on John Service, a China hand
who fell afoul of Senator McCarthy.
This led to reading Dragon by the Tail
(Norton) by John Paton Davies, a
similarly victimized foreign service of­
ficer. Next I delved into Stilwell and
the American Experience in China
(MacMillan) by Barbara Tuchman ’33.
This study of a fascinating personality—
Vinegar Joe Stilwell, an intriguing
country—China, and its enigmatic once
and future leaders—Chiang Kai-shek
and Mao Tse-tung—is very well written
and whets one’s appetite for more.
And there is plenty more: Red Star
Over China (Garden City Publishing
Co.) by Edgar Snow, various books on
daily life in China then and now,
biographies of Mao and Chou En-lai,
and, finally, or maybe initially, if you
get ambitious, John Fairbank’s classic
study, The United States and China
(Harvard University Press). It’s really
very readable. A not entirely illogical
offshoot of the subject area is Luce and
His Empire (Scribner) by W.A. Swanberg. A powerful man and his strong
wife, neither of whom was shy about
using his or her influence anywhere, any
time.
A hero of mine is Lord Mountbatten,
viceroy of India at the time of its
independence and partition. Freedom
at Midnight (Avon) by Larry Collins
and Dominique LaPierre is a dangerous
book to pick up during vacation: It may
lead to your staying inside or at best
sedentary in the sun when you should be
exercising in beautiful summer weather.
This team can write, and their subject
matter is enormously compelling.

John M. Moore
Professor Emeritus o f Philosophy and
Religion
For light reading: Old Glory by Jona­
than Raban (Simon & Schuster). An
entertaining account by a young English
writer of a trip down the Mississippi
River in an open boat.
For a bit more serious reading:
Friends in the Delaware Valley, edited
by John M. Moore (Haverford: Friends
Historical Association). A series of
essays on the history of Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends in honor of the tercentenary
of that body.

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With fireworks— Head Fireman Alden
Bennett ’40 (and twenty-two friends) made
possible a fifteen-minute pyrotechnic salute
after the banquet for 800 alumni and guests.

1th honorary memberships—Two new
Dnorary members of the Swarthmore
ssociation: President Theodore Friend and
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acentennial and
aFriendly farewell

With a stellar presidential panel probing
Swarthmore’s future— Above: J. Roland
Pennock ’27, Richter Professor Emeritus of
Political Science, and, left to right: Theodore
Friend, president of Swarthmore; Clark Kerr
’32, former president of the University of Cali­
fornia; Richard W. Lyman '47, former president
of Stanford University; James Perkins '34,
former president of Cornell University; and
William C. H. Prentice ’37, former president
of Wheaton College.

With a parade— Louise Lichtenberg Wilson
inspirits the fifteenth reunion of the Class of ’67.

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Workshop— Phyllis Hall
Raymond ’54 leads a
discussion of Swarthmore
admissions with alumni
volunteers.

Open House—The
Computing Center drew
attentive alumni and their
families for a dialogue
with the PRIME 750.

’62 Concert— Musicians
Peter Schoenbach and
Susan Goodman Jolles
enlisted J.S. Bach to help
’62 mark its twentieth.

Conversation— Lily Frank
Youman ’57 and friends.

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bottom, Barbara Brooks Smoyer
’37, chairman, Annual Giving
Funds; Marshall Beil ’67, presi­
dent, Alumni Association;
Margaret McCain Ford ’43, vicepresident, Alumni Association;
Eugene M. Lang ’38, chairman,
Board of Managers; Peter
Schickele ’57, show-stopper at
the Alumni Banquet.

Rain—Showers obligingly skirted
the fireworks and parade but
umbrellas came in handy from
time to time.

Dedication— Lee Smith
Ingram ’66 and daughter
Dabney, along with other
members of the Smith
family, helped dedicate the
president’s house to
Courtney Smith, president
of Swarthmore 1953 to
1969. This event was
spearheaded by the Class
of ’57 in honor of its 25th
Reunion.

Surprise— President Beil honors
Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49,
associate vice president for
alumni relations, with a crown
hand-crafted by past president
Ruth Wilcox Mahler '49.

AUGUST 1982

THE COLLEGE
Commencement ’82: . . you’ll have to last, you’ll
want to laugh, and you’ll need to love.”
The Class of 1982 graduated in a blaze
of sunshine and a blaze of glory.
Eighty-one students graduated with
degrees with honors, thirty-two with
distinction in course. A Master of Arts
in Psychology was awarded to Li Mo
Ying, the first student from the People’s
Republic of China ever to attend Swarthmore. In summarizing highlights of the
past year (academic, athletic, and extra­
curricular), President Theodore Friend
noted: “We have had a remarkable year
among our seniors and young alumni in
winning highly competitive national
and international fellowships. One each:
Luce, Marshall, Watson, Keasby, and
Beinecke fellows; two Fulbrights; and

eleven National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowships.”
In discussing the financial welfare of
the College, the president said: “Pru­
dence moves me to say that major
economic problems are still with us, and
looming ahead. We may all remain
properly apprehensive about the econ­
omy.” Then he added: “While keeping
us alert to problems, I will share with
,you two of our major successes. One is
increasing the size of our applicant pool
and maintaining the quality of our
student body, while at the same time
continuing our student financial aid
policy. Our policy allows admissions to
be need-blind, and we bestow awards to

the full extent of demonstrated and
analyzed need. We are committed to
that.
“The second success is to maintain
the lowest student-faculty ratio in our
eleven-college reference group [Am­
herst, Bryn Mawr, Colgate, Haverford,
Oberlin, Pomona, Smith, Swarthmore,
Wellesley, W esleyan, and W illiams]
while attaining a level of faculty com­
pensation at a rate exceeded on average
by only two colleges. We will pursue a
policy of keeping that compensation at
a range of 100 to 105% of that refer­
ence group.
“I speak to you, finally, in my fa­
vorite role as teacher/advisor. When

Katherine Lindsley Camp ’40

Ernesta Drinker Ballard

Howard A. Schneiderman ’48

“Since we can’t leave peace to the
generals, it is up to us generalists, who
tend to see things whole. Our fevered
pursuit of national security through
military means alone is no longer
credible. Can’t we understand that
peace is our only security? That peace
means international cooperation to the
advantage of all? Peace is possible if we
commit ourselves passionately to insist,
resist, and persist.”

“My experiences have convinced me
that the only way real social change is
going to come about—the only way the
air will be kept clean—the only way
war will be avoided—is for all of us
with convictions to become politically
active. No longer can we effect change
by words or example or by
participation in high-minded and wellprogrammed nonprofit organizations.
Nor is the key to be found in litigation.
Anyone who would change society must
start by changing its laws.”

“A college like Swarthmore is a great
place to develop taste. Good taste in
the broadest sense enables a person to
distinguish fraud from fact, enables a
person to recognize who is or who is
not worth following. By analyzing the
great, the significant, the elegant, the
powerful, and the profound, one learns
to recognize them.”

Commencement photographs by Martin Natvig.

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College Marshall Paul C. Mangelsdorf Jr. ’49 adjusts the academic hood fo r Li Mo Ying as
she is awarded a master s degree in psychology. Miss Li, who came from Peking two years
ago, is the first student to attend the College from the People’s Republic o f China.

the Presidential Search Committee
asked me what qualities I thought they
should look for in my successor, I
answered ‘stamina, humor, and com­
passion.’ I cannot improvise a better
thought for you. Whatever you choose
to do across a lifetime, you’ll have to
last, you’ll want to laugh, and you’ll
need to love. When all the reserve
shelves are emptied, and the books of
account closed and balanced, the world
still needs you to be enduring, smiling,
and tender. Wherever your lives and
careers may carry you, I know that the
College will remain in your hearts to the
end, and that you will come often,
laughingly and lovingly, back to Swarthmore.”
The Baccalaureate sermon was de­
livered by David L. Bartlett ’63, senior
minister of the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist
Church in Oakland, California. His
address elaborated on the text “Behold I
have set before you this day life and
death, blessing and curse, therefore
choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:11), and
extended its message to such issues as
peace, dissent, and nuclear disarma­
ment.

Training Plants, and was the editor of
the 1971 Directory of American Horti­
culture. She has received numerous
horticultural awards, including the Scott
Horticultural Award from Swarthmore,
and the Distinguished Service Medal of
the Garden Club of America.
Katherine Lindsley Camp ’40, a Board
member from 1947-77, has been active
with the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom since 1958,
most recently as its international
president. She has participated in
several fact-finding tours for human
rights and reconciliation: to North and
South Vietnam in 1971; Chile in 1974;
Iran in 1980; and Central America in
1981. In 1978, Mrs. Camp was ap­

pointed an advisor to the U.S. delega­
tion to the United Nations special
session on disarmament, and in 1980 to
a three-year term on the U.S. National
Commission for UNESCO.
She has held office with the Penn­
sylvania Women’s Political Caucus,
Friends Peace Committee, and Ameri­
can Friends Service Committee. In 1972
she won the primary election in an
unsuccessful run for Congress. Mrs.
Camp is married to William P. Camp
’40 and is the mother of David L. Camp
70 and Anthony M. Camp 75.
Howard A. Schneiderman ’48, vicepresident for research and development
of the Monsanto Company, was named
professor and dean of the School of
Biological Sciences and director of the
Center for Pathobiology at the Univer­
sity of California at Irvine in 1969. He is
a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, a member of the
National Academy of Science, and has
been a member of the executive com­
mittee of the Marine Biological Lab­
oratory at Woods Hole. Mr. Schneider­
man held several academic posts at
Cornell University and Case-Western
Reserve University, and was the Jared
Potter Kirtland Distinguished Profes­
sor of Biology at Case-Western from
1966-69. His scholarly research has
yielded more than 200 publications in
the fields of developmental genetics,
insect physiology, and endocrinology.

Honorary Degree Recipients

Ernesta Ballard, a staunch advocate
of the Equal Rights Amendment, found­
ed the Philadelphia chapter of the
National Organization for Women and
has served on the NOW national board.
She is a past president of the Greater
Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, has been
vice-chair of the Pennsylvania Women’s
Political Caucus, was a founder of
Women’s Way, and currently chairs the
Pennsylvania State Board of Public
Welfare. As a horticulturist, Mrs. Ballard
has produced two significant books,
Garden in Your House and The Art o f
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AUGUST 1982

"The time has come to say goodbye----’’sang Walter Hermanns (center) and Ken Short in an
unscheduled serenade to fellow “graduate” Theodore Friend during commencement cere­
monies. They presented the president with a cake and brought the audience to its feet with
their rendition o f the fam ous Mousketeers song, concluding "F-R-I, E-N-D, D-O-R-I-E!”

Thomas B. McCabe ’15, 1893-1982

Thomas B. McCabe 15 dies:
“He involved his heart and his
presence.”
Thomas B. McCabe ’15 died on May
27th at his home in Swarthmore. He
was a man who left his mark on the
world and an indelible stamp on Swarth­
more College. The Board of Managers
issued the following Minute “in loving
memory” of the 88-year-old emeritus
member:
“Thomas Bayard M cCabe’15 seemed
to have found the extraordinary foun­
tain of youth. Throughout his maturity,
in a life of eighty-eight years, he
maintained a vision of understanding of
young people. He not only accepted
with grace the many tumultuous changes
that occurred over his lifetime, he
became part of them. Tom McCabe had
a passionate belief in young people, and
whether or not he agreed with their
point of view, he was unfailingly tolerant
and supportive.
“He was one of the rare men who give
not only of their substance (which he
always claimed was relatively easy be­
cause he had it), but also unstintingly of
themselves. He was not content to partici­
pate in doing good at a distance; he
involved his heart and his presence.
“In his life he represented the Amer­
ican dream. As an entrepreneur with
vision and ability he took a company
from one plant with annual sales of six
million dollars to a multi-national cor­
poration with sales volume exceeding

$750 million. As his energy and direc­
tion left their indelible imprint on Scott
Paper Company, so did they on Swarth­
more College. He insisted on associa­
ting the growth of the College with the
growth of the American economy by
investing the College’s resources in
common stocks. His foresight made
possible Swarthmore’s outstanding re­
cord, among colleges in the United
States, in the management of endow­
ment funds.
“Tom McCabe, in addition to enrich­
ing the College’s endowment through his
own gifts and shrewd stewardship, also
enhanced Swarthmore’s physical facili­
ties. McCabe Library, a focal point of
the intellectual life of the campus,
symbolizes the centrality of Tom to the
life and future of the College.
“Perhaps beyond all other things, he
showed undergraduates how to become
alumni, which is another way of saying
that he has shown them how to become
thoughtful and loyal human beings.
There are now fifty-nine living grad­
uates and twenty-eight undergraduates
who have benefitted from the scholar­
ship fund he established in 1951.
“As we look back over the life of Tom
McCabe, as a founding spirit and
subsequent president and chairman of
the board of the Scott Paper Company,
as a motivating element in the political
life of our nation, as an advisor to
President Eisenhower, and as chairman
of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, as benefactor
of numerous hospital and educational
enterprises, we have the picture of an
extraordinary man. We are proud of his
membership on Swarthmore’s Board of
Managers for over forty years. We
cherish his memory and example.
“Emerson said that ‘an institution is the
lengthened shadow of one man.’ In
this sense, Tom cast a prodigious
shadow. But we will remember him for
his radiance. Even though he is gone, his
vision and values will continue clear and
indelible in the character of the College,
the community, and, indeed, the nation.
“In expressing our tremendous debt to
him, we also extend our deepest condol­
ences to his wife Jean, sons Richard and
James, and to the other members of his
family. The loss to all of us is irrepar­
able, but his gifts of the spirit will stay
with us the rest of our lives.”

Provost Wright to Serve as
Acting President
Harrison M. Wright, provost and pro­
fessor of history, has been named acting
president of the College. The announce­
ment was made by President Theo­
dore Friend during commencement ex­
ercises on May 31, and Wright assumed
his position on July 1.
According to Eugene M. Lang ’38,
chairman of the Board of Managers,
“Harry Wright is exceptionally well
qualified to assume the leadership of
Swarthmore during the period until our
new president is chosen. He has been a
member of the Swarthmore faculty
since 1957, and has served in the
capacity of provost since 1979, during
which time he has been an effective
administrator and a sensitive represen­
tative of the faculty in all its concerns.
Wright has a keen understanding and
knowledge of the curriculum. He has
won the respect of all members of the
College community, who have enthu­
siastically endorsed the Board’s action.”
Wright, who received his B.A. (magna
cum laude), M.A., and Ph.D. degrees
from Harvard University, joined the
Swarthmore faculty as an instructor in
history. He became professor of history
and chairman of the History Depart­
ment in 1968, and, before he became
provost, also served the College as a
member of various committees, in­
cluding the Committees on Promotion
and Tenure, Faculty Procedure, and
Resource Use.
In addition to a number of articles, he

Harrison M. Wright
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has published four books: New Zealand,
1769-1840: Early Years o f Western
Contact; The “New Imperialism”: An
Analysis o f Late 19th Century Expan­
sion (editor); Sir James Rose Innes:
Selected Correspondence (editor); and
The Burden o f the President: LiberalRadical Controversy over Southern
African History.
Among his overseas research awards,
Wright has received a Fulbright Scholar­
ship to New Zealand, 1950-51; a Ford
Foreign Area Training Fellowship to
England and Ghana, 1961-62; and an
American Philosophical Society grant
to South Africa, 1966-67. He also
received College-administered assist­
ance from Old Dominion Fund and
Booth Ferris grants that enabled him to
travel to South Africa in 1971 and 1975.

After more than forty years of
service, Caroline Shero retires
A face familiar to many generations of
Swarthmoreans will be missing when
classes resume in the autumn: Caroline
Shero ’39, controller of the College
since 1978 and an employee of Swarthmore for over forty years, has retired.
Caroline Shero has spent virtually all
of her life at the College. A native of
Wisconsin, she came to Swarthmore in
1928 when her father, the late Lucius R.
Shero, was named professor of Greek.
He later became chairman of the Classics
Department and served as registrar
during World War II.
After graduating with a B.A. in
economics, Caroline Shero earned an

Leading the cheers fo r Caroline Shero were Kendall Landis ’48, Robert A. Barr, Jr. ’56, and
Rodney M. Mebane ’74. More than 500people attended the surprise party.

M.B.A. at Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania. She joined
the administrative staff of the College in
1940.
In 1959 she and her father, along with
her sister Frances ’41, a secretary in the
Engineering Department, were recip­
ients of the College’s John W. Nason
Award. The award, named for the
College’s eighth president, was pre­
sented annually to “one or'more mem­
bers of the total staff of the College, or
to members of their families, who have
made a distinctive contribution, beyond
the scope of their normal duties, to the
life of the College community.”
Anyone who knows Caroline Shero is
aware of two facts about her: She is
extremely modest, and she loves sports.
She steadfastly refused to allow any
“fuss” to be made over her impending
departure, so colleagues resorted to an
elaborate ruse. An all-College party was
scheduled for December 13, 1981, and
widely advertised as a “Pre-Exam Bash”
for the entire campus community. There
were dancing, musical entertainment,
food, and (to make it irresistible to Miss
Shero) an alumni-varsity basketball
game.
The subterfuge worked perfectly. Miss
Shero, firmly wedged between friends in
the stands, could not escape when,
during the half-time entertainment, she
discovered the entire occasion had been

planned as a party to celebrate her
career and achievements.
The guest of honor was presented
with a variety of gifts and tributes,
including a special Minute of Apprecia­
tion from the Board of Managers that
was read aloud by the chairman, Charles
C. Price ’34. The Minute recognizes
Miss Shero as a “major source of
strength for the College, loyal employee,
faithful alumna, and living tradition,”
and resolves that “its lasting gratitude
be conferred upon her for her long
hours, days, and years of service, her
spirited laughter and open door, firm­
ness with understanding, advice with
concern, and all other qualities that
have made her so much admired,
respected, appreciated, and loved.”
Miss Shero was further honored by
the establishment of the Caroline Shero
Scholarship Fund, a sum of $30,000
which will be used to “assist future
generations of Swarthmore students.”
In addition to Caroline Shero, four
other College employees retired in the
spring of 1982: Franklin Briggs, coord­
inator of the Deferred Maintenance
Study, after twenty years with Buildings
and Grounds; Martha Scott, circulation
librarian, after sixteen years; Vivian
Pierce, after thirteen years with the
housekeeping staff; and Barbara
Schleyer, an editor in the library, after
twelve years.

Caroline Shero ’39
AUGUST 1982

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Good Sports at Swärthmore: 1981-82
“Men’s Lax takes MAC,” “Lady Garnet
Softballers conclude finest season,” “Lady
Laxers third in the East,’’“Men’s Tennis
Team takes 14th straight MAC.”
Headlines in this spring’s Phoenix
reflected outstanding seasons by teams
that gained an impressive amount of
recognition and victories.
The fall headlines were equally dra­
matic with the football team achieving
its greatest number of wins in more than
sixty years and bringing national atten­
tion to the Garnet Gridders, and the
women’s field hockey and basketball
teams finishing second and first respec­
tively in the PAIAW Division III.
1981-82 has been a remarkable year for
Swarthmore sports.
The women’s teams had a combined
record of 63-55-2. The field hockey
team had an 8-3-2 record, finishing
second in the PAIAW Division III.
Three of their senior players—Amy
Braverman, Barb Wismer, and Gwen
Erwin—were selected for and partici­
pated in the National Field Hockey
Tournament, played in Florida. The
basketball team finished with a 10-8
record and first in the PAIAW Division
III, the first time for a Garnet women’s
basketball team.
Women’s lacrosse achieved a 9-4
season, with winning scores as high as
18-5 and 19-1, and received its firstever bid to compete in the regional
tournament. Of four teams in the
region, the Swarthmore Lady Laxers
were seeded in the bottom position. The
team played number-one seeded Kutztown and lost, putting up a strong fight
and losing by a smaller margin than it
had in the regular season game. The
Garnet defeated Gettysburg 9-5 in the
consolation game to take third in the
regionals.
In women’s swimming, in the 400meter relay, Kathy Sexton ’85, Kathy

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Mahan ^5, Leisha Shaffer ’84, and
Deedee Victor ’83 set a new College
record, qualifying for and competing in
the nationals. Softball also had its finest
season, compiling a 10-4 record. The
badminton team’s 11-3 record was the
finest winning percentage of all Garnet
sports.
The spring sports program brought
just as much excitement for men in
lacrosse as the fall season brought for
the football team. The men’s lacrosse
team survived its early season difficult
schedule and went on to the MAC
championship game against Franklin
and Marshall. The Garnet Stickmen
defeated the Diplomats 16-12 to win the
MAC crown and ended their season
with a 10-3 record.
The track team pulled the biggest
turnaround of the ’81-’82 season, going
4-2 in ’82 after an 0-6 ’81 season. The
tennis team won its MAC crown and
finished ninth in the NCAA Division III
championships. Bob Sheehy ’82 and
Gerry Van Arkel ^3 remained un­
defeated in doubles throughout the
season. Sophomore Steve Brown copped
the MAC individual singles title and is
now ranked seventh in singles in the
nation (Division III).
Men’s cross country and golf both
turned in improved records with 7-5
and 6-5, respectively. The golf team
claimed its best record since 1963 and
the best MAC finish since 1960.
Although men’s baseball, swimming,
basketball, soccer, and wrestling did not
finish with winning seasons this year,
they did turn in some amazing and
impressive successes, such as soccer’s
2-1 upset victory over Division I Navy;
Pat “Hondo” Holmes becoming the
winningest wrestler in Swarthmore his­
tory, placing second along with senior
Pat Dewar in the MAC championships;
Gary Glessner ’82 sending two home

Fall

Winter

Spring

Cross Country: 7-5
Field Hockey: 8-3-2
Football: 7-2
Soccer: 3-8-3
Women’s Tennis: 6-10
Volleyball: 5-11

Badminton: 11-3
Men’s Basketball: 9-16
Women’s Basketball: 10-8
Gymnastics: 1-6
Men’s Swimming: 1-8
Women’s Swimming: 5-6
Wrestling: 9-16

Baseball: 2-14
Golf: 6-5
Women’s Lacrosse: 9-4
Men’s Lacrosse: 10-3
Softball: 10-4
Men’s Tennis: 10-4
Track and Field: 4-2

One of Swarthmore’s Greats

Patrick “Hondo” Holmes ^2
ended his collegiate wrestling career
with an impressive compilation of
personal statistics. He broke twelve
school records in wins, pins, finishes,
and points, including: the most
career wins at 116 against twentyfive losses; the most dual-match
wins at seventy-six; the most tour­
nament wins at forty; the most
career falls at thirty-two; the most
pins in one season at ten; the most
dual-match falls at twenty-six; the
most tournament points at 136; the
most dual-match points at 345; the
most career points at 481; the most
dual-match wins in one season
(shared with Bruce Grassberger’80)
at twenty-three; and the two highest
finishes in the Division III National
Championships with second in ’80,
and fourth in ’81.
games into overtime with buzzer beat­
ers, and the big Haverford win; fresh­
man Steve Gaull’s first place in the
three-meter dive at the MACs; baseball’s
come-from-behind win over Dickinson
in the ninth inning; and freshman Mike
Lieberman’s record-setting discus toss.
What was said of the Garnet football
team in the Philadelphia Inquirer last
fall can be said of all Swarthmore
athletics: “It’s a different world, this
thing called Division III football. No
huge, double-decked stadiums. No arti­
ficial green rugs. No TV time-outs. No
$1.50 programs.”
In many ways, it’s a better world, a
place where the people playing and the
people coaching and the people watch­
ing manage to keep the game in perspec­
tive.
— By Nan Weinstock ’84
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In this issue:
2 Summertime and the
Reading is Easy
By thirteen well-read
Swarthmoreans

Too Good To Miss!
Swarthmore Alumni College Abroad 1983 and 1984

6 Alumni Weekend
The celebration o f a century
10 The College
15 Class Notes
Edifor:
Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49
Managing Editor:
Nancy Smith
Assistant Editors:
Kathryn Bassett ’35
Kate Downing
Editorial Assistant:
Ann D. Geer
Designer: Bob Wood
Cover: Ben Ludlow, class presi­
dent and reunion chairman for
1932’s Fiftieth, didn’t mind a
little rain on his parade.
Ludlow is now Supreme Sage
of Swarthmore’s Garnet Sages.
Photo: Steven Goldblatt ’67.

Waterways o f
Western Europe
June 6 to 20,
1983

M id-M ed
M ay 13 to 27,
1984

Board the “Argonaut,” follow the sea lanes of Portugal and northern
Spain, cruise the historic Bay of Brest in Brittany, circle the islands of
Guernsey and Sark, and explore in relaxed comfort along the Gironde,
Loire, and Seine Rivers. Step ashore to visit medieval walled cities and
small fishing ports, castles and gardens, chateaux and famed vine­
yards. College art historians Constance Hungerford and Michael
Cothren will travel with you to enhance your enjoyment of the archi­
tecture, sculpture, paintings, and tapestries that enrich these countries.

After three Alumni College visits to the Aegean world and neighbor­
ing lands, it is time to move westward, on the “Argonaut,” to the midMediterranean, along the route that Odysseus might have followed
to Sicily, Malta, and Tunisia (his fabled Lotusland), then up the
Campanian coast to Roman territory and finally Rome itself. The
historical transition from Greek to Punic to Roman to Arabic,
Norman, and modern times is nowhere more vividly perceived than in
the central reaches of the Middle Sea, dominated by Sicily, from pre­
historic times the crossroads between East and West, North and South.
Each of the cultures that met and mingled in the middle of the
Mediterranean has left visible remains of exceptional interest and
beauty. Helen North, Centennial Professor of Classics, will lead the
program.

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