Luce and Watson Fellows, Rhodes and NCAA Postgraduate Scholars who were Haverford Varsity Athletes -- Information current as of June 2003
William Lloyd Garrison Williams '09/10 (track & field. B.A. Classics; B.A.1913, M.A. 1916 Mathematics, Oxford; Ph.D. 1920, Chicago). Williams won a track Has a sophomore in 1907, winning virtually mile and two-mile race that future British Olympic Team captain and Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip J. Noel-Baker 10 didn't. Williams took a year off, then graduated Phi Beta Kappa and became the Rhodes Scholar from North Dakota. He taught at Miami (Ohio), Gettysburg and William & Mary before acting as thesis advisor to Elbert Frank Cox, the first African-American ever to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, at Cornell, one of only seven doctoral programs in mathematics in the U.S. at the time. Founder of the Canadian Mathematical Society as a McGill University mathematics professor between 1924-52, abolitionists namesake Williams arranged for Cox to come to Montreal for the final stages of his dissertation on the properties of difference equations, which was accepted internationally by Japan's Imperial University of Sendai.
L. Arnold Post '11 (football, B.A., L.H.D. 1958; M.A. 1912, Harvard; M.A. 1922, Oxford) Class and Student Council president Post won gridiron letters as a junior and senior at the Ford. He began studies at Oxford in 1913 but ended up as a Private in the French Army's American Ambulance Unit, then YMCA Secretary to British forces in India and Mesopotamia during the Great War. He rose to the rank of Sergeant on the U.S. Armys Stars and Stripes newspaper staff in 1918-19 before becoming a long-time Professor of Classics at his alma mater.
Chester A. Osler '19/20 (soccer, cricket; B.A.20 or 21) three-time soccer letterman and senior captain from Pennsauken, N.J., he also won two cricket letters and was president of StudentsAssociation. He was Rhodes Scholar from New Jersey beginning in 1920.
Owen B. Rhoads '25 (football, basketball?, track & field?, B.A. History, B.A. Biology; B.A. 1927, M.A. 1927 Oxford) Lansdowne, Pa. native Rhoads was Haverford's football captain in 1924.
Francis C. Evans '36 (soccer, B.S. Biology; Ph.D. 1939 Zoology, Oxford) is a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Michigan and a former member of the Corporation of Haverford College.
Warren D. Anderson '42 (fencing, B.A. Latin; B.A. 1949 Classics, Oxford; M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1954, Harvard) is a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts.
F. Jackson Piotrow '53 (tennis, B.A. German; M.A. 1955, D.Phil. 1960 Russian, Oxford)
Richard M. Cooper '64 (basketball, B.A. Philosophy; B.A. 1966, M.A. 1970, Oxford; J.D. 1969, Harvard) A graduate also of legendary basketball powerhouse Overbook High School (Phila.), Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes Scholar Cooper is a member of Haverford's Board of Managers since 1997 and a law partner with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Born in Philadelphia on November 13, 1942; he was admitted to bar, 1970, District of Columbia;
1973, U.S. Supreme Court.. President, Harvard Law Review, 1968-1969, Volume 82. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1987-1992; 1995-1996. Law Clerk to Justice Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-1970. Senior Lecturer, Law Development Center, Kampala, Uganda, 1970-1971. Senior Member, Office of Energy Policy and Planning, Executive Office of the President, 1977. Chief Counsel, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1977-1979.
Hunter R. Rawlings 66 (basketball/baseball, B.A. Classics; Ph.D. 1970, Princeton) Honors graduate and Norfolk, Va. native Rawlings was conference MVP in basketball and had major league baseball tryouts as a pitcher. He was appointed Cornell University's 10th president after serving as president of the University of Iowa from August 1988 through June 30, 1995. He served for four years as vice-president for academic affairs and
research and dean of the system graduate school of the University of Colorado, which he joined in 1970, as assistant professor of classics. He became department chair in 1978, and was named full professor in 1980. He served as associate vice chancellor for instruction from 1980 to 1984. Rawlings' scholarly publications include a book, The Structure of
Thucydides' History (Princeton University Press, 1981). He is also the author of scholarly monographs and articles, and has served as editor of The Classical Journal. At Princeton, Rawlings was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and National Defense Education Act Fellow. Rawlings was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. Rawlings also chaired the Council of Ten, presidents and chancellors of the Big Ten Conference, and was a member of the Presidents' Commission of the NCAA from 1993 to 1995.
Michael E. Bratman '67 (basketball, B.A. Philosophy; Ph.D. 1974, Rockefeller U.) was a rugged forward from Philadelphia's Northeast High School. He led the Fords in scoring with 259 points his senior year and was third-high scorer on the crack 1965-66 cage squad which went 13-2 before losing in the MAC finals to Drexel. Bratman, who has been Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University for many years and has served as that
institution's Dean of Faculty, was recently named for one of the most prestigious honors in the American and Canadian academic world as a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2000-01. The Guggenheim fellowships are "to further the development of artists and scholars by assisting those selected to engage in creation in any of the arts and to do research in any field of knowledge under the freest possible
conditions." Bratman was one of 182 fellows from the two countries chosen from 2,928 applicants, "on the basis of unusually -impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment."
Paul H. Haagen '72 (lacrosse, B.A. History; M.A. 1976, Oxford; M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1986, Princeton; J.D. 1982, Yale) Professor Haagen was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and raised in Connecticut. After graduating from Haverford, he studied history first at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and later at Princeton, where he also taught. In law school, he was an editor of Yale Studies in World Public Order and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law and Policy Review. Since law school, he has clerked on the United States Court of Appeals and then practiced law in Philadelphia for two years before coming to Duke University School of Law in 1985. His principal academic interests are contracts, legal history and sports law. He was senior associate dean for academic affairs from 1991 to 1993. He also served as Duke's Faculty Athletic Representative and on its panel which advises future professional athletes.
Bill O'Neill '73 (basketball, B.A. History; M.S. International Affairs 1977, London School of Economics; M.A. 1978, Stanford; J.D. 1982, N.Y.U.): O'Neill won a Watson Fellowship to study education in Francophone countries in Africa and the Caribbean. A long-time international lawyer, O'Neill has taught at Haverford and serves as a consultant for the United Nations in such places as Haiti, Kosovo, and Rwanda.
Timur F. Galen '77: (soccer, B.A. Physics; M.Arch., M.S.S. 1983, U. Pennsylvania): Galen won a Luce Fellowship to study architecture in Japan, and now lives in Hollywood as senior vice-president and general manager of Walt Disney Imagineering.
Richard P. Voith '77 (basketball, B.A. Economics; M.S. Public Affairs, 1980, Ph.D. Economics 1986, U. Pennsylvania) is the all-time leading scorer with 2,175 points and the only first-team All-America selection in Haverford mens basketball history. He is an economic advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and formerly vice-chairman of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority.
Daniel M. Bloomfield '82 (lacrosse, B.A. Chemistry; M.Phil. Social Anthropology 1984, Oxford; M.D. 1989, Harvard) Rhodes Scholar Dr. Bloomfield is the Herbert Irving Professor of Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.
Kevin M. Foley '83 (cross country, track & field, B.A. Economics; M.B.A. 1987, Columbia), three-time NCAA track champion is chief executive officer of Bloomberg Tradebook LLC, an electronic broker of equities for institutional investors and for other brokerage firms, and manages U.S. transaction products at Bloomberg Financial Markets. Mr. Foley has been
with Bloomberg for nine years. During this time he oversaw the development of many popular Bloomberg products for the analysis of fixed income and equity securities. He has also served as a regional sales manager and as a manager of Bloomberg's team of applications specialists. He helped launch Bloomberg Magazine, and served as an editor. Before joining Bloomberg, he traded U.S. government bonds for Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York City.
Carol A. Compton '84 (field hockey/lacrosse, B.A. Anthropology; M._. U. Pennsylvania; Ed.M. 1996, Harvard) is still the only Haverford female athlete to earn first-team Academic All-America recognition. She is now a computer software specialist for Medici Technology in Lebanon, N.H.
Christopher J. Lee '89 (soccer/lacrosse, B.A. Economics; M.A. in Public Policy 1991, Harvard), Dallas Morning News writer was an alternate for the NCAA scholarship.
Matthew E. Leighninger '92 (cross country/track & field, B.A. History, B.A. Philosophy; M.P.A. in Urban Studies 1994, Columbia), Matt was an NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee chair has been a foundation executive and policy Analyst since college and lives in Canada.
Stephen M. Leonard '95 (baseball, B.A. Russian): Leonard, who has coached baseball and taught in high school since graduation, used his Watson Fellowship to study baseball in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Meredith A. Unger '97 (cross country/track & field, B.S. Biology; Ph.D. candidate U. Pennsylvania) Meredith Anne Unger of Medfield, Mass. and Medfield High School, is a doctoral candidate in the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania's Biomedical Graduate Studies program. A five-time All-American in cross-country and track, Unger plans to seek an M.B.A. degree from Wharton Business School
while at Penn. Her career goal is to direct a national scientific organization specializing in women's health research. Unger became the first two-time winner of the Stephen G. Cary Award for outstanding contribution to women's athletics at the college. She also took home the Alumni-Varsity Award for her support of other teams and educational programs. A Haverford College biology research fellow, Unger had received an "Aspire for Higher" grant from the Women's Sports Foundation and been recognized by USA Today with its weekly "Positive Performer" awrd. She was Haverford's nominee for the 1997 NCAA "Woman of the Year Award." A three-time All-American in track and field, Unger placed second in the 3,000-meter run at the 1997 Division III outdoor championships after
running third indoors in the 1500. She was fourth in the 1500 outdoors in 1996. Unger garnered All-America honors in cross-country her last two years, finishing 19th in 1995, and seventh nationally in 1996 after her victory in the NCAA Mideast Region meet. Unger captained four Centennial Conference championship teams in cross-country and track during her career. The conference's cross-country Runner of the Year in 1995 and 1996, she went on to set Centennial Conference track and field records in the indoor 800- and 1500-meter runs. Her seven school records included indoor and outdoor times in the 800 and 1500, and three distance relays.
Ntobeko A.B. Ntusi '98 (cross country/track & field, B.S. Biology, B.S. Sociology; M.D. candidate U. of Cape Town) from Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pa., was 1997 Centennial Conference cross country Runner of the Year and a Division III All-American in three different races (800-1500-3000 steeplechase) during his career. He attends medical school in hopes of one day serving as a general practitioner in the rural areas of
South Africa. Ntusi won or shared four of the college's major academic and community awards -- the First Clementine Cope Fellowship for graduate study, the Hughes Scholarship for excellence in interdisciplinary work in the biological or biomedical sciences, the Jonathan Mohrig '86 Memorial Prize for special contribution to the quality of life at Haverford, and the W.W. Smith Prize for "academic distinction, high personal character,
involvement in important community activities and leadership." A member of 12 conference champion cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams in 12 seasons of running at Haverford, Ntusi shared the Varsity Cup as his classoutstanding athlete as well as the Archibald MacIntosh '21 Award as the top scholar-athlete in the college's first-year class. Ntusi was recognized by Black Issues in Higher Education with an Arthur Ashe, Jr.
Sports Scholar Award in 1998.
Nathan C. Doty '99 (fencing/cricket, B.S. Philosophy; J.D. candidate, Stanford Law School) from John Handley High School in Winchester, Va., was a four-time NCAA regional qualifier with a 115-30 dual meet record in fencing, as well as vice-captain of Haverfords cricket XI. He had two papers accepted at national conferences, one in philosophy entitled
"Intuitions in Conceptual Shape Motivations and Misconceptions" at the SUNY Philosophy Conference, Oneonta, N.Y., in 1999, and one in computer science, "Parallel Application Performance on a Network of Workstations," at the Super Computing 1998 Conference in Orlando, Fla. A four-year team member and starter for three years in fencing, Doty was armourer and co-captain of his team the last two years and led the Fords to a 12-2 conference record in 1997-98. Finalist at the Temple Open that season, he went on to place
third and earn first-team all-conference at the 1998 MACFA championships after a regular season record of 36-1. His success helped long-time head coach Jim Murray's team to their first MACFA epée championship in 14 years. Doty was the only epée fencer from a small college to reach the final 12 at the NCAA regionals. Doty was also a four-year team ember and starter and three-year letter winner for Haverford's cricket team, the only varsity XI at any U.S. college or university. Though cricket is not an NCAA sport, Nathan was vice-captain of that team and helped captain and fellow Phi Beta Kappa Jay Mehra '99 lead HC to an 11-2 record and the finals of the Philadelphia Cricket Festival this spring. Doty won the Grace fielding award as one of two freshmen on HC's undefeated Centennial tour of England in 1996.
Rich Billings '00 (soccer, B.A. Economics; NCAA II-III At-Large), a former all-state soccer player from East Greenwich High School in East Greenwich, R.I., is Haverfords all-time leading scorer and the only player in 99 years of Fords soccer to record 10 or more goals in all four of his seasons. His total of 61 goals and 25 assists for 147 points in 71 games is also the second-best total in Centennial Conference history. He was a three-time,
first-team all-Centennial selection, a two-year captain and a Division III coaches' all-region selection in 1999, when he led the team to a 12-6 record. Billings shared the Varsity Cup as the outstanding athlete in the Class of 2000, as well as the Archibald MacIntosh '21 Award for the college's top freshman scholar-athlete in 1997.
Robin Herlands '01 (biology, B.A. Biology, Ph.D. program in immunology at Yale Medical School; NCAA) A two-time Fords' field hockey Most Valuable Player and captain, Herlands was second-team all-Centennial Conference in 1998 and 2000, All-Seven Sisters tournament in 1999 and 2000, and set Haverford career points (69) and assists (23) records last season. She was also a two-time women's lacrosse captain and a 2001 All-Seven Sisters
selection. Herlands won the college's Archibald MacIntosh '22 Award in 1998 as the top scholar-athlete in the freshman class as well and made the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll every season. Her senior research with Haverford biologist Judy Owen and her husband Professor Charles Owen of Thomas Jefferson Medical School concentrated on "factors which enable cells in the inner part of a tumor to survive despite the low pH conditions they encounter there." They hope to develop "new technology
based on mRNA differential display which will enable the identification of the 5' ends of differentially-expressed genes." Robin and Judy Owen's goal is to "perfect our technique, while simultaneously performing some flow cytometrical analyses on the expression of various anion exchange pumps expressed by melanoma lines."
Matt Popowsky '01 (baseball, B.A. English; NCAA) Honors in English. Popowsky was one of 17 male Division III spring sport athletes to receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Popowsky hit .319 with 11 steals to earn second-team All-Centennial Conference at third base in 2001 to conclude a brilliant four-year career that combined superb fielding and solid hitting. He was named CC Player of the Week on March 19 for leading the Fords to a 5-2 record on their
season-opening trip to Havana, Cuba, with 14 hits in 20 at-bats (.700). Popowsky had six runs, eight runs batted in, three doubles and a triple for a .950 slugging percentage against Cuban pitching. He was also hit by three pitches for a .739 on-base percentage, stole four bases and was errorless in the field.. He hopes to work in journalism for a year or two, then use his scholarship at law school or in an English literature Ph.D. program
J.B. Haglund '00/2 (cross-country, indoor and outdoor track). Haglund, who took time off for his Mormon missionary tour, is one of the very athletes at any level in NCAA history to win national championships in three different sports, winning individual gold his senior year in all three of his sports.
Additional Rhodes Scholars who were not varsity athletes at Haverford
Christopher D. Morley '10 successful author (Kitty Foyle) and editor (Saturday Review), and founder of the Sherlock Holmes fan group known as the Baker Street Irregulars
Lucius R. Shero '11. Swarthmore professor of classics.
Felix M. Morley '15 who won a Pulitzer Prize at the Washington Post, where he later served as editor, and who served as president of Haverford College
Frank V. Morley '19
Charles D. Abbott '24 In 1934, Charles D. Abbott was appointed Director of Libraries at the University of Buffalo (N.Y.). Abbott (1900-1961) was a young English professor with degrees from Haverford, Columbia and Oxford, who was hired in part because of Thomas Lockwood's desire to build the special collections of the University Libraries. Abbott's annual reports continued to chronicle the growth of the collection, the attendance, the
circulation figures and what seemed to be an unending issue of maintaining quiet in the reading room. His reports also document his efforts to establish the University Libraries as a cultural resource on the campus, and to secure support for the development of the Modern Poetry Collection.
Carl B. Allendoerfer '32 The Mathematical Association of America's Carl B.
Allendoerfer Awards, established in 1976, are given for articles of expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine. The Awards are named for Carl B. Allendoerfer (1911-1974), a distinguished mathematician at the University of Washington and President of the Mathematical Association of America, 1959-60. This is an award of $500. Up to two of
these awards are given annually at the Summer Meeting of the Association.
Timothy B. Atkeson '48. Timothy B. Atkeson (1927--) was confirmed in 1989 by the U.S. Senate to be Assistant Administrator for International Affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He had been involved in international issues since 1970 in government and the private sector. In 1958, Atkeson began a three-year term as Deputy General Counsel with the U.S. Development Loan Fund, followed by a year as Regional Legal Advisor for Latin America, Agency for International Development. From 1967 to 1969, he was the first General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, the Philippines. In 1988, he served as Special Counsel to the High Level Review Committee at the Inter-American Development Bank. When the Council on Environmental Quality was created in 1970 in the Executive Office of the President, Atkeson was appointed General Counsel and served there until 1973. He became General Counsel of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment in 1974. Atkeson has been a partner with the law firm of
Steptoe and Johnson in Washington, D.C., since 1975 and was an associate and a partner there between 1962 and 1967. He also was an associate with the Philadelphia law firm of Dechert, Price and Rhoads from 1952 to 1957. Atkeson was the co-author of "Superfund Deskbook," published in 1986, and "Superfund: Litigation and Cleanup," published in 1985. He has also taught environmental law at Georgetown Law School, Dartmouth College and Catholic University Law School. Atkeson was born in Philadelphia in 1927, graduated from Haverford in 1947, attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1947 to 1949 and received a law degree from Yale University in 1952.
Richard A. Norris '52
Montgomery Furth '54. UCLA professor of philosophy