HAVERFORD AWARDS: Did you know that 19 People from Haverford have received Rhodes Scholarships? How about the four Haverford graduates who have received Nobel prizes? Or the 15 who have received NCAA scholar awards? Or the 6 Pulitzer prize winners in the past 20+ years, including 2 in 2003?
ATHLETES WHO HAVE WON MAJOR ACADEMIC AWARDS -- this ink will provide you brief biographies of some of the many Haverford varisty athlete who have won awards such as Rhodes, Luce, Watson and NCAA Postgraduate scholarships and fellowships
HAVERFORD ALUMNI DO WELL: a recent analysis of the various data bases maintained by Marquis (Who's Who in America, etc.), ranked colleges and universities by percentage of living alumni who appeared. HAVERFORD was ranked eighth, with 4.10% of its living alumni listed (not including me). This placed Haverford after Yale, Princeton, Cal Tech, Harvard, Columbia, Amehrst and Williams, and in front of Dartmouth, MIT, Swarthmore, Cornell, Penn, Brown, Duke, Georgetown and every single state university. Some of the examples of Haevford listees are below.
Since I'm very proud of my career ( beginning in 1963 and ending in 1973, but that's a different story) at Haverford College (founded in 1833), I will periodically post interesting news/tidbits about my alma mater, which is also the alma mater, among others of:
Koichiro Matsura ('61), former Japanese Ambassador to France, now Director-General of UNESCO
Dave Barry ('69), Pulitzer Prize winning humor columnist of the Miami Herald
Ron Shapiro ('64), successful sports agent for, among others, Cal Ripken
Gerald Levin ('60), served as CEO of AOL-TimeWarner
Juan Williams ('76), writer of among other things an outstanding biography of Thurgood Marshall
Jack Rakove ('68), Stanford History professor and Pulitzer -Prize winning author of Original Meanings, a book about the Constitution
Terry Irving ('73), TV producer (and uncle of Katie Irving, class of 2002 at Eleanor Roosevelt High School)
John Carroll ('63) Editor of The Los Angeles Times
Stephen Bonime ('66) vocal conductor in New York (Polyhymnia; previously with NY Madrigal Singers, Canby Singers, Renaissance Chorus of NY)
John Morse ('73) president and publisher of Merriam-Webster (dictionaries)
Alan Meltzer ('85) Foreign Service officer, has served as human rights officer in Guatemala
Daniel Serwer ('67) Foreign Service Officer; formerly #2 in Rome, now at U.S. Institute of Peace
Charles Canady ('76) former member of Congress from Florida, now chief counsel to Governor Jeb Bush of Florida
Rob Simmons ('65) Member of Congress from 2nd District of Connecticut
Rebecca Herman ('87) Ph.D. sociologist and education policy researcher who is also a glass blower
Molly Finn ('85) Vice President of Booz Allen and Hamilton and head of firm's Philadelphia World Technology Business Office
David Hackett ('76) Managing partner of Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie, world's largest law firm
Margaret Padin ('86) Union Carpenter (one of only 100 women among 10,000 men in Philadelphia), organizer of inner-city basketball program
Ralph Boyd ('79) Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights
Ariana Daner ('95) Singer-songwriter in New York
S. David Noboru ('67) Japanese Ambassador to France
Tadashi Suzuki ('67) Japanese Ambassador to Cameroon
Kim Everett ('89) teachers English and Social Studies to expelled middles schoolers in Boston, referees high school and college lacrosse and field hockey
Deborah Gross ('91) Chemistry teacher, Carleton College, Northfield MN
Katherine Preston Koshland award winning scientist and member of Board of Managers, Haverford College
Nicholson Baker ('79) Successful author (Vox, Double Fold, etc.)
Wendy Smith ('87) while a student was All-American in Lacrosse, now the successful Woman's Soccer Coach at Haverford
Dan Senecal-Albrecht ('86) advocate for Native Alaskans, liaison with scientific community, lobbyist before government organizations on their behalf
Josh Byrnes ('92) Assistant General Manager of the Colorado Rockies
Jonathan Mednick ('80) unfortunately recently deceased, was field producer for the series, "American High" on PBS
Tom Inui ('65) President of the Fetzer Institute, which has sponsored several Bill Moyers series including "Death and Dying" and Healing the Mind"
Oscar Goodman ('61) former pitcher for the baseball team, now Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, who in 2003 was reeelcted with over 80% of the vote.
(this list will be updated periodically)
Find out about athletes who attended Haverford College and were successful in other areas of their lives.
FACTOID ABOUT HAVERFORD:
America's third oldest athletic rivalry, after Princeton-Rutgers in football, and Harvard-Yale in rowing, is Haverford-Penn in Cricket, a competition that began in the 1864. The C.C. Morris Cricket Library, housed in the college's Magill Library, is one of the most comprehensive collections of cricket publications and memorabilia in North America.
last updated 04/16/03