2020 Counselor Guidebook SPECIAL EDITION
FROM THE DEAN JESS LORD, VICE PRESIDENT & DEAN OF ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID
Dear Friends, I am always appreciative of your colleagueship in support of students, and working in partnership has never been more important than now. The pandemic has disrupted our school communities and our students’ experiences in myriad ways. And we are clearly living through a historic moment in the ways we are currently confronting issues of racial injustice and systemic racism that have been a reality for many, many years. All of this has only reinforced our commitment to supporting students in this process and has helped us to think more deeply about how we can strengthen our commitment to access and opportunity, to anti-racism, and to supporting students to successfully navigate the admission process. To that end, I want to offer some sense of what resources we are providing and how we are changing our process: • As you may have heard, we will be Test-Optional for a three-year period. We will be assessing this policy continually, and at the end of three years we'll make a decision about an ongoing policy. You can read more about this on the next page. • We will be flexible and sensitive about academic changes and disruptions. We will be fully supportive of students with pass/fail grades, whose curricula are changed or disrupted, who are facing challenges because of limits to access to technology and/or safe spaces to learn and do their work, who are experiencing fewer opportunities to pursue their non-academic interests, and who may need to devote even more time in support of their family, just to name a few circumstances. • We have built and continue to add to a Virtual Visit experience for prospective students. • Slate.org is now available for you to get information about your students who applied to Haverford. • We have organized counselor-specific virtual opportunities for engagement, including virtual office hours (which you can read more about below). We will continue to offer more opportunities for engagement and will reach out with more information! I know, too, that all that is going on in our world is impacting all of us—and I know that each of us is impacted in different ways. I hope that you and those close to you are healthy and safe, and that you are finding ways to support your well-being. And thank you again for your colleagueship in our mutual commitment to supporting students. Warmly, Jess
Application Deadlines Early Decision: Nov. 15 Early Decision II: Jan. 1 Regular Decision: Jan. 15
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TEST OPTIONAL POLICY a t h re e-ye a r p il o t Beginning with the admission process for students entering in Fall 2021, Haverford is adopting a testoptional admission policy for a three-year period. Given the significant disruptions students are experiencing, we believe this change to our standardized testing policy will reduce stress and provide students with much greater flexibility as they navigate a college admission process that is unfolding much differently than expected. We also see this policy change as aligning closely with our mission and core values. We have always taken a holistic approach to evaluating students for admission, including making our admission decisions by consensus, and we embrace an approach that is mindful of how the admission process impacts students. We also believe that further limiting the role that standardized testing plays in our process strengthens Haverford’s leadership in and commitment to access, diversity, and inclusion.
Moving forward, first-year and transfer candidates for admission may choose whether or not to submit the results of the SAT and/or the ACT as a part of their admission application. While standardized testing has traditionally played only a small role in our evaluations, we are eager to better understand the impact a test-optional policy will have on how students experience our application process and on our ability to build a diverse, talented, and dynamic community of scholars at Haverford. And at the end of the three-year period, we will evaluate the role standardized testing should play in our admission process going forward. As always, we feel so excited to work with prospective students as they get to know Haverford and start the journey of imagining themselves as members of our community. We hope that this policy change offers some relief and clarity, and supports students to have the fulfilling, engaging college admission process they so richly deserve.
October 25–27, 2020 Have-A-Look, a program designed for students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in higher education, offers the opportunity to become acquainted with the academic and social opportunities at Haverford. The program allows students to interact with professors, visit classes, learn about diversity and inclusion on campus, hear current Haverfordians' perspectives, and immerse themselves in the Haverford experience. Interested high school seniors (U.S. Citizens, Permanent Residents, and undocumented/DACA students living in the United States) are welcome to apply. Haverford can provide need-based travel scholarships. This event will be held virtually in the event of serious disruptions to the fall semester due to COVID-19. We will be making a decision by July 1 as to whether or not this program will be virtual.
PRESIDENT WENDY R AYMOND'S MESSAGE TO THE HAVERFORD COMMUNIT Y IN THE WAKE OF THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD Friends, I reach out to connect with you via words of invitation so that we can, together and individually, connect via action.
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I offer this invitation during a month of grief, fury, and fear across the nation about the killings of Black Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, which come juxtaposed upon our increasing clarity of the disproportionately harmful impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color in the United States. These killings are part of the growing list of killings of Black Americans that involve police or flawed law enforcement processes; these COVID-19 health disparities are part of systemic racial injustices in the US that include employment, health, public education, incarceration, and civil rights. To our Black students, staff, and faculty and to all our students and colleagues of color: I join you in grief, anger, and outrage while acknowledging—and decrying—that you bear the undue burdens of lives at risk and collective trauma when structures meant to provide civil and health protections fail.
Being Anti-Racist, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture hav.to/read1
To those of you in the White majority at Haverford College, I seek to inspire and invite us all, and to inspire Haverford College, to grow our intellectual, social, and emotional intelligence about racism, inequality, and inequities—racism and inequities in America and racism and inequities in our own ways of knowing and being. We White members of this community need to take responsibility for doing this work. I invite all of us not yet on this path to join our students, faculty, staff, and alumni who already actively practice anti-racism, recognizing that the goal of anti-racism sits firmly in the educational mission and values of Haverford College, including the Quaker value of equality. For those not familiar with the term “anti-racist,” I invite you to see yourself in it and in our aspiration. I have compiled a set of resources that is by no means complete but may provide a start. Please expand upon this; I welcome all suggestions.
An Antiracist Reading List, by Ibram X. Kendi hav.to/read2
Anti-Racism Resources for White People and Parents hav.to/read3
Thank you to those of you who are moving us toward this anti-racist aspiration, and for the many who have done so across Haverford’s history. In particular, I applaud our students and alumni, who often lead by alerting us to the ways and extents to which we must change—often whole cloth—in order to teach, mentor, and be in community inclusively. This generally requires persistence and risk, debts that we will owe perhaps forever, unless we might be able to pay them forward by the positive impacts of our antiracist future. We have learned so much in a few months about a scourge previously unknown to humans—COVID-19. What are our reasons for allowing the scourge of racism to continue? Let us all apply our capacities to learn, create, adapt, discover, and thrive to becoming an anti-racist institution. For if not at Haverford, where? Words are important, and words are not enough. I hope you will accept my invitation to action. Yours, Wendy
Haverford President Wendy Raymond and Bryn Mawr President Kim Cassidy made a joint announcement regarding Fall 2020, including the plan to begin in-person learning on September 8. Read more details about the plan at: hav.to/74x
COVID-19:
Meeting the Challenge SUPPORTING STUDENTS
THE HONOR CODE
You might be wondering what steps Haverford has taken to accomodate our students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the ways the College has worked to support our students since our move to remote learning in March.
Faculty worked with students to adapt the honor code culture of trust, concern, and respect to the unprecedented circumstances of dislocation. Most of these arose from domestic challenges (access to family internet; disruptive siblings).
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Families were offered a rebate on room and board. Those who couldn’t go home (either because they were international and at risk of not being able to return, or for personal reasons were unable to leave) were permitted to remain on campus. About 100 students opted to remain on campus and continued to receive room and board accomodations. For students on campus and beyond, funds were available to help make ends meet in the wake of the disruption via our LIFTFAR (Low-Income and First-in-Their-Family Assistance and Resources) fund. Technology (hardware and software) was made available to those who needed it. Deans retrieved and mailed essential items such as laptops and medicine to students who did not come back to campus following spring break. Students were offered "pack and ship" or on-campus storage for the belongings they left behind in residence halls, in addition to a schedule for in-person retrieval. Faculty worked with students to determine the best times for each class to meet virtually in light of time zone differences. The grading system defaulted to Pass/Fail with students having until September to choose to uncover their numerical grade. Seniors were celebrated with a special virtual graduation event and will be invited back to campus in 2021 for an in-person commencement ceremony.
"Speaking for myself, I can say that the Honor Code has certainly been useful and helpful for my assessments during the remote period this semester (and I have been teaching mainly first-year students during this time). It fosters an environment of trust that means I can feel relatively confident asking students to take a timed exam, for example, on their own clock. Problems with remote assessments and the robustness of the Honor Code have both surfaced through my communications with students about taking exams and quizzes: I have had, for example, students check in with me about being interrupted at home or not having a quiet place to do timed assignments, and through this Honor Codeinspired communication I have been able to adjust and to make accommodations as necessary. We all need to work with both trust and flexibility during this time, and the Honor Code has created (as it does in person) an environment of trust that enables the necessary flexibility and communication to help students succeed in what can be a really challenging environment." Casey Londergan, Chair and Professor of Chemistry
Even with campus effectively closed, machinery from Haverford's Maker Arts Space is working overtime to help make personal protective equipment (PPE). Kent Watson, the Maker Arts technician and coordinator, donated the facility's stores of protective gear, and he loaned out the facility's 3D printers along with spools of filament to a local organization making PPE. “I gave them all of what we had: boxes of nitrile gloves, four boxes of N95 face masks, safety glasses and splash goggles, and two face shields usually used for machining. There are a lot of ways the equipment could be used, and it has been inspiring to see how creative people are and how many people want to help,” said Watson.
Drew Cunningham ’20 Receives Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grant Drew Cunningham ’20 loves literature and teaching, and hopes to combine the two in his future career. At Haverford, the English major, who is double minoring in German and philosophy, has prepared for such a path by serving as a teaching assistant for the “Intermediate German” class and as a writing tutor for the College’s Mentoring and Student Teaching (MAST) outreach program. Next year, he will put those skills to use as the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award in Germany.
ROBERTS HALL ADDITION Roberts Hall will become the new home for the Department of Music, which serves both Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges. Uniting under one roof music study, practice, performance, and scholarship, the focus of the project is to create acoustically robust, purpose-built music spaces to support the goals of the music curriculum. To meet these programmatic priorities, a new wing will be added to the north side of Roberts. The completed project will include features that benefit the music program, enhance the campus aesthetic, and further Haverford’s sense of community. ACADEMIC SPACE A new 35-person classroom will be equipped with modern technology specific to the study of music, and which serves the pedagogical needs of the program. The project will bring seven faculty offices with acoustical treatment and sound isolation. VENUE FOR REHEARSALS, RECITALS, AND CONCERTS Facing the Duck Pond, a stunning new 100-seat hall will take advantage of the campus’ natural beauty and act as a noteworthy landmark to visitors entering from College Lane. MUSIC LIBRARY In the lower level of Roberts, the music library will feature a large stack area for the College’s extensive music holdings, workroom and office space, and a large quiet study area. QUARTET ENSEMBLE AND PRACTICE ROOMS Six practice rooms and a quartet ensemble room will accommodate musicians for practice, coaching, and rehearsals. Students will be able to securely store their instruments in temperature and humidity controlled lockers and storage units.
The ETA program places Fulbrighters in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to the local English teachers while serving as cultural ambassadors for the U.S. That means that for six months, Cunningham will work with German teachers of English to help students improve their language proficiency and to answer questions about the United States. His stipend from the Fulbright will cover his monthly living expenses as well travel to and from Europe. Cunningham, who studied abroad in Berlin last year, is eager to return to Germany and explore more of the country and Europe in general. He is also excited that “the Fulbright will allow me to get more teaching experience and improve my German-speaking skills.” Though he doesn’t yet know where in Germany he will be placed and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already moved the usual German Fulbrighters’ September departure date to January, he is looking forward to the future with optimism. Cunningham has advice for his fellow Fords: “I encourage any current or prospective student to seriously consider either majoring or minoring in a foreign language,” he said. “I hadn’t taken any German before arriving at Haverford, and I had no intention of minoring, but I am so glad that I did. Studying a foreign language will help you with your other courses—sometimes in unexpected ways— create more opportunities for you, and introduce you to new friends. You can’t go wrong. It’s incredibly rewarding!”
HAVERFORD WAS NAMED A TOP PRODUCING INSTITUTION FOR FULBRIGHT STUDENTS FOR THE 5TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
Linda Strong-Leek Named Provost of Haverford College We are thrilled that Linda Strong-Leek will be the next provost of Haverford College! The current provost, vice president for diversity and inclusion, and professor of women’s and gender studies at Berea College joins us Aug. 25, succeeding Fran Blase, who is returning to the chemistry lab and classroom following five years in the Provost's Office. Strong-Leek is a distinguished scholar of major African authors, and her current research focuses on the novels of Caribbean women writers. Though she said she was initially an “accidental administrator,” over the course of her career she discovered how satisfying it was to serve students and develop programming in her administrative roles. “I have learned that having a ‘seat at the table’ matters greatly for women and people of color, who are often marginalized by our nation’s history of patriarchy and white supremacy,” she said. “I have watched conversations shift when there were other voices at the table, and believe that part of my work is to always bring the voice of the marginalized from the ‘margin to the center,’ as bell hooks so beautifully argues. So for me it is a call and a duty to do this work.” Read More: http://hav.to/742
Joyce Bylander Named Interim-Dean Haverford College is pleased to announce the appointment of Joyce Bylander to the position of interim dean of the College, starting July 1. Bylander, who retired as vice president and dean of students at Dickinson College in 2018, served the Carlisle, Pa., institution for 20 years in a variety of student-centric roles. She brings with her decades of experience mentoring students, bringing communities together in collaboration, overseeing collegiate student life, and executing a vision for an inclusive and supportive campus environment. Bylander is the interim replacement for Martha Denney, who served as dean of the College for 11 years. A national search for her long-term replacement will be undertaken during the 2020–2021 academic year. “I care deeply about the future, and young people are the architects of that future,” said Bylander. “I hope to apply my experience and my deep commitment to ‘be the change’ to make a difference at Haverford. I hope to help the community transition to their next long-term dean of the College.” Read More: http://hav.to/73y
Five Fords Earn 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Five Haverford alumni who are or will be pursuing graduate degrees in anthropology, astrophysics, bioengineering, chemistry, and mathematics have received awards from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
At Haverford Epstein was a chemistry major with a biochemistry concentration and conducted research with both Associate Professor Lou Charkoudian and Professor Casey Londergan, including for his senior thesis on protein biochemistry related to antibiotic research and development.
This year, the GRFP awarded 2076 fellowships to graduate students pursuing research-based master’s or doctoral degrees at institutions in the United States. Each fellowship includes a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 alongside a $12,000 allowance towards tuition and fees at their research institution. Though the GRFP prioritizes funding researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, this year’s Haverford awardees have demonstrated their disciplinary versatility as a group.
“The amount I learned from my laboratory experience at Haverford, in terms of transferable technical skills, work ethic, and presentability, has set me up well to apply for and be selected for this fellowship as a graduate student,” he said. “I plan to approach my graduate studies with the same level of rigor as I did at Haverford, keeping in mind the importance of being both comprehensive and intersectional in my research efforts.”
Sam Epstein ’19 is currently finishing his first year of a chemistry Ph.D. program at New York University. The NSF GRFP will provide three years of funding for his doctoral thesis project in Professor Tania Lupoli’s chemical microbiology lab, where he studies the bacteria that causes tuberculosis and researches ways to design selective therapeutics.
Brett Pogostin ’18, a Haverford chemistry major with a biochemistry concentration and a health studies minor, started his Ph.D. in bioengineering at Rice University this year, following a year spent in a lab in Sweden on a Fulbright Award. At Rice, Pogostin is working to develop better vaccine technology. “My project focuses on leveraging peptidebased biomaterials that are designed to
communicate with the immune system to help our bodies develop a specific and robust immune response to vaccinations to reduce the number of boosters required,” he said. “Think of it as a study guide to help our bodies study the correct material for the exam, which would be fighting an infectious disease. This is particularly important in low-resource environments where going to the doctor multiple times a year to get boosters is a huge barrier to receiving proper immunizations.” He first developed the idea for his research project during his health studies capstone course with Elizabeth Ufford Green Professor of Natural Sciences Judy Owen, even writing his first grant proposal for it as an assignment. “I received two honorable mentions from the Ford Foundation, but no award to support my graduate studies,” said Pogostin of that original grant proposal. “Now, two years later, I have actually been awarded funding to work on this super exciting project! It just goes to show that tenacity can get you a long way.” Maurice Rippel ’19, an English major with a minor in educational studies, will start a joint Ph.D. program in African
American studies and anthropology at Yale University in the fall after finishing his Watson Fellowship year. The NSF GRFP award will fund his project looking at the experience of Black boys who play basketball at elite athletic prep schools. “I intend to produce an experimental ethnographic project where I work with these boys in their classes, attend their games, public practices and ‘media days,’ where they are subject to questioning by scouts and reporters from across the U.S,” says Rippel. “I will shadow these boys on the recruiting trail to universities across the nation and overseas for developmental play. … My study takes a critical look at how this early specialization takes away from these boys' ability to ‘just be kids,’ how they navigate an overall exploitative racist, capitalist system, but how despite this, they form intimate relationships.” Though his graduate studies are in fields outside of his undergraduate major, they were very much inspired by his course of study at Haverford. His interest in pursuing anthropology, for example, was inspired by a “Feminist Ethnography” class he took with Assistant Professor Juli Grigsby, his interest in a career in academia was nurtured by his Mellon Mays Undergraduate Advisor Maud McInerney, and his background in Black studies he credits to Associate Professor of English Asali Solomon. “In anthropology, you're working closely with people whom sometimes can be coming from very different backgrounds than your own,” he said. “I think my Haverford education has impacted me to think critically about the work I'm doing, listen deeply to the people I'm working with, and more ethically engage with the communities I'm in.” Laura Seaberg ’20, who recently graduated with a degree in math with a linguistics minor, is headed to a pure math Ph.D. program at Boston
College in the fall. The NSF GRFP will provide the funding for three of her five years in graduate school and will allow her the flexibility to decide what she wants to teach and to devote more time to her research. “I cannot overstate how integral Professor Josh Sabloff has been to my studies,” says Seaberg. “I took a six-person course with him my first year at Haverford, which propelled
“I think my Haverford education has impacted me to think critically about the work I'm doing, listen deeply to the people I'm working with, and more ethically engage with the communities I'm in.” me into advanced courses my second year. He has encouraged me to apply to numerous opportunities, helped me shape my thesis in a way that will be applicable to my future work, and more. I knew I was interested in mathematics when I entered college, but the Haverford math community really convinced me to persist.” Physics and astronomy double major David Zegeye ’19 is pursuing his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Chicago, where his NSF-funded research combines cosmology, the study of the large-scale universe, with quantum mechanics, the study of small-scale physics. “The universe near the period of the Big Bang was very hot and dense, and many of our current understanding
of physics breaks down,” said Zegeye. “Using hints from our knowledge of quantum mechanics, there are predictions that at this early time period, separate points in space to be correlated and entangled with each other. As the universe ages and grows, those points would no longer be entangled, but there should be relics of them having once been connected. These relics would leave the noticeable patterns in the current distribution of galaxies in our universe. By using maps of current galaxy distributions to search for these patterns, we can probe what physics at the early universe may have been like and better understand our origins.” In addition to his research, he is involved in his university’s Space Explorers Program, which helps local public school students develop their curiosity about STEM. His NSF fellowship helps to fund his planning for the program this year. “Even though astronomy is a science, there has always been a deep connection to the humanities and social justice,” he said. “… Last summer, using my experience in coding and studying city policy, I helped students learn to use artificial intelligence to analyze data about Chicago, so that they can create their own public policies to help better the city. In conjunction, we held discussions with our students on the ethics of AI and inherent biases that can exist in algorithms, which have resulted in discrimination against Black and Brown residents.” In addition to the fellowship recipients, 1,827 of the roughly 13,000-person applicant pool received honorable mentions, including six Fords: Erica Blum ’18, Emmett Culhane ’13, Daniel Feshbach ’20, Daniel Konstantinovsky ’16, Mandara Levine ’18, and Ellen Reinhart ’15.
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1. MATT WETHERELL ’12 is a secondyear family medicine resident. 2. .KIAME MAHANIAH ’93 (center) is CEO and a family medicine specialist at Lynn Community Health Center, which serves about half of Lynn, Mass. 3. PHOEBE WALKER ’90 is a county public health services coordinator.
4. Social worker ANNELISE HERSKOWITZ ’12 is working remotely for a nonprofit clinic counseling clients on Zoom. 5. MARINA ZAMBROTTA ’11 is an internal medicine resident at a Boston hospital.
6. DAVID MINTZER ‘00 is a hospitalist at a Denver hospital. 7. SUHAVI TUCKER ’12, trained in internal medicine, took a leave from her consulting job to help out at a hard-hit hospital in Queens.
8. Knoxville Mayor INDYA KINCANNON ’93 gives a briefing on COVID-19. 9. MARK LEVINE ’91 is a New York City Council Member and Health Committee Chairman.
Find out more about Haverford graduates who are playing a role in the pandemic in the College’s “Fords on the Front Lines” video series, which features interviews conducted by David Wessel ’75 and Natalie Wossene ’08. Visit: hav.to/73x
10. Infectious disease expert JOSEPH KIM ’93 is helping to manage COVID-19 cases at two medical centers in New Jersey. 8
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11. Primary care doctor NATE FAVINI ’05 works for a startup that runs primary care.
14. WILL GARRETT ’12 is a resident on a COVID floor at a New York City hospital.
12. TIFFANI ZALINSKI ’04 is a critical care nurse in San Diego.
15. JEFF NUSBAUM ’08 is an ER physician working at several rural Pennsylvania hospitals.
13. PAULA BRATHWAITE ’94 practices emergency medicine at an Atlanta-area community hospital.
16. SARAH TAYLOR ’07 works in a health center in Washington, D.C.
Class of 2024 : Enrolling Student Stats
34 & 23 countries
U.S. states
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CONTACTS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION & DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL ADMISSION
Kathleen Abels ’09 CA (San Francisco, Marin, and Alameda Counties), CO, NY (Manhattan & Brooklyn), Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia/ Oceania, Caribbean, Middle East kabels@haverford.edu
ADMISSION COUNSELOR
VP & DEAN OF ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID
Jess H. Lord IL, Europe jlord@haverford.edu
Carly Valenzuela CA (Los Angeles, San Diego & Orange Counties), DC, MD (not including Baltimore), TN, VA cvalenzuel@haverford.edu
DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION & ACCESS AND DIVERSITY INITIATIVES
Mary Green Maier ’05 DE, Home School, MA (Boston), PA (Montgomery & Delaware Counties) mmaier@haverford.edu
Tyler Clauson-Wolf LA, MN, MO, NJ, OR, PA (Bucks County) TX, WA tclausonwo@haverford.edu
Ryan Dukarm ’19 AR, CT, KY, MA (excluding Boston area), ME, MI, NH, NY (upstate), OH, PA (excluding the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area), RI, WI rdukarm@haverford.edu
Breahna Pierce CA (Northern), HI, MD (Baltimore), NC, NJ (Essex and Southern Passaic County, Hudson County & Bergen County ), NY (Staten Island, the Bronx & Queens), PA (Philadelphia County), VT bpierce@haverford.edu Bre will join us on July 6!
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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION
Praxedes Quintana ’18 AK, AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY (Long Island, Rockland & Westchester Counties), OK, PA (Chester County), PR, SC, SD, US Territories, UT, WV, WY pquintana@haverford.edu
FOSTERING CONNEC TIONS Every year, we look forward to celebrating Pinwheel Day as a campus community. At Haverford there is a secret society that decorates Founders Green with Pinwheels to mark the first warm day of Spring. It's a time for us all to pause, to bask in the beauty of the sesason, and to spend time together. While we weren't together on Founders Green this year, Virtual Pinwheel Day was an opportunity for Haverfordians around the world to celebrate together.
Haverford alumni, staff, faculty, and students shared their at-home celebrations using #virtualpinwheelday.