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A Fall Semester Like No Other Students—properly masked and distanced— gathered on Founders Green.
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Haverford Magazine
ach year, the Dean’s Office sends firstyear students a welcome bag as a way of marking their entry into the Ford fold. When members of the Class of 2024 received theirs over the summer, it contained some typical Haverford-branded items—a lanyard, a phone wallet, a baseball cap. But in this very atypical year, the Class of 2024 also received two protective face masks, temperature strips, and a picnic blanket intended for use in outdoor, physically distanced socializing. That was just one of the many ways college life has had to adapt to the pandemic. And while Haverford managed to successfully complete a remarkably COVID-free fall semester, with zero
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active cases among students at its close, getting there wasn’t easy. As the pandemic continued into the summer, planning for the safe return of students to campus became a massive and complex undertaking requiring the adoption of strict protocols on mask wearing, hand washing, maintaining physical distance, and cleaning and sanitizing spaces. Also required: several outdoor tents, trailers to be used as isolation units, and more than 5,000 indoor and outdoor campus signs reminding people about the pandemic protocols in place. Haverford faculty and staff planned in concert with their counterparts at Bryn Mawr College and relied on the counsel of a group of alumni pub-
