Haverford Spring/Summer 2011 : Page 5A Message From the College Board of Managers We trust that you have heard the news that President Steve Emerson will not seek reappointment but rather step down and begin a sabbatical year to be followed by a new role at Haverford as Professor of Biology. We are disappointed that Steve will no longer be in the presidential suite, but understand why he might wish to return to teaching and scholarship. He is one of our most accomplished alumni and a world-Cathy Koshland ’72 renowned stem cell biologist who, by neces-sity, has had to dramatically curtail his teach-ing and research while president. It was a huge sacrifice on his part. Thousands of you have met Steve at scores of alumni functions, and know him as a warm, insightful and energetic fellow alum. Though his students will be the immediate beneficiaries of Steve’s return to the classroom and lab, his hard work over the past four years will enrich the lives of all Haverfordians for generations to come: from financial aid reform to the construction of new dor-mitories to expansion of faculty and curricula (including the first-ever academic program jointly administered by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore), Steve’s time as president has been marked by a vision for what Haverford can be, while remaining true to what it has been. This energy and determination has helped frame the outline for our next comprehensive fundraising campaign, which we look forward to telling you more about in due course. Those of you who are already familiar with the fundamentals of our plans can be confident that your Board fully supports the collaborative work that has informed both academic and campus master planning. Steve may be stepping down from his current role, but the vision he championed—and which so many of you have helped articulate —remains. We will also look forward to introducing you first to our interim president, to be named later this summer and, following a search beginning this fall, to the 14th President of Haverford College. Thank you for your continued support for the College we all share and admire. We appreciate your being here with us, in person when possible and in spirit always. — Cathy Koshland ’72, Chair of the College Board of Managers Interviewing Obama In March, Jon Delano ’71 became the first Pennsylvania television reporter to do a sit-down TV interview with President Obama at the White House. Delano, the Money & Politics Editor at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, questioned the President about how the administration’s commitment to education squared with the drastic cuts to state education budgets going on across the nation, and about his views on U.S. reliance on nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan. In 2008, Delano was also the first Pennsylvania TV reporter to interview Candidate Obama. STREET ART MAKES ITS MARK ON CAMPUS In April, a John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center-sponsored panel discus-sion, titled “Street Communications,” brought some of the most interesting figures in street art to campus. (The term “street art” refers to art in public spaces and also encompasses unsanctioned art such as graffiti, stencils, pasted posters and guerilla sculptures.) The panel included New York artist Jordan Seiler, known for challenging what he calls “outdoor ad-vertising’s abuse of the public environment” by removing ads and re-placing them with his own artwork; Marc and Sara Schiller, street art curators and collectors, founders of New York’s Wooster Collective, and An image painted by Baltimore-based street artist Gaia now adorns James House. co-authors of the book Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art ; and Gaia, a Baltimore-based artist, featured in the book Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art , whose large-scale posters and on-site paintings employ animal imagery. In addition to the panel discussion, which was moderated by event organizer Michael Rushmore ’14, the street art event featured a workshop with Seiler. And after dark, Gaia (a pseudonym he uses to hide his identity) got to work painting a permanent mural on a wall of James House, the student arts building. Rush-more, who blogs about street art himself at blog.vandalog.com, reported on Gaia’s late night painting project: “It turned into a bit of a party as people came by to watch him work.” KOSHLAND PHOTO: PEG SKORPINSKI; STREET ART PHOTO: MICHAEL RUSHMORE ’14 Spring/Summer 2011 5 Publication List Using a screen reader? Click Here |
