2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996

2002
March World Vision: Dan Aubry ’57 has circled the planet in search of great pictures. On the cover: Children on a tramp steamer photographed by Daniel Aubry.	June Pig Iron Theatre Co. leaps onto national and international stages.	September Are You a Renaissance Soul? Swarthmoreans find a way to juggle many interests.	December The 2003 Swarthmore calendar—mailed to alumni, parents, and friends of the College in November—is titled Through Student Eyes. Its images of the College were all taken by students, mostly during the week of Sept. 9.

2001
March “The best way to teach stewardship is by example,” says biologist Roger Latham ’83 of the effort to preserve Swarthmore's priceless Crum Woods.	June International students adjust to another culture: Olga Rostapshova ’02, a Russian citizen and a U.S. permanent resident, feels most at home on the campus under the Wharton Hall magnolia trees.	September High Stakes for Education: Can federally mandated testing improve learning in America’s public schools?	December War and Peace. This issue focuses on the many aspects of peace including the study of peace and the effects of the September 11, 2001 tragedies on the College community and alumni.

2000
March Correspondence between alumni and their former professors ranges from the personal to the professional. Have you written home to Swarthmore lately?	June Eva Allan ’00 made the “harp room” in the Lang Music Building, next to the Crum Woods, her home at Swarthmore. The Bulletin asks Eva and others in the Class of 2000 what they are taking away from Swarthmore.	September Kathryn Morgan was Swarthmore's first African-American professor. After nearly a decade of retirement, she speaks about her struggles and joys at Swarthmore.	December Artist Patrick Dougherty wove hundreds of saplings into a 50-foot environmental sculpture in front of Trotter Hall.

1999
March This portrait by Mildred Miller is among 300 of her works recently donated to the College.	June Choreographer and dancer Sasha Welsh ’99 has some new partners—digital dancers.	September Nathan Florence ’94, a modern painter with a classic style, captures a perennial Swarthmore summer activity—construction work—in his 1996 painting, now in the collection of the College.	December Physicist and theologian Ian Barbour ’44 has spent a lifetime trying to bridge the conflicts between religion and science.

1998
March Associate Provost Emeritus and Associate Dean of the College Gilmore Stott still comes to work in Parrish Hall.	June Professor Richard Schuldenfrei says he's not a philosopher—he just teaches philosophy. The ideas he brings to class come from a pantheon of great thinkers, some of whom surround him here.	September The campus that never was: This fanciful rendering of a proposed amphitheater, which looks like it should be in a public park, was drawn for Swarthmore in the 1920s.	December New head football coach Peter Alvanos wants the Garnet Tide to “play with one heartbeat.”

1997
March Odetta performs in the Pearson-Hall Theatre of the Lang Performing Arts Center, January 1996.	June The Future of Dying: Physician and Supreme Court plaintiff Thomas Preston ’55.	September There's a lot of action on campus during the summer—and not all of it on the playing field.	December Faces Like Mine: Conversations about identity and diversity at Swarthmore

1996
February Virtuoso Computing: Neil Gershenfeld ’81 is a physicist, not a cellist. He says, “Any real cellist would be appalled by how I'm holding the instrument.”	May This 1993 theater poster by Polish artist Andrzej Majewski is part of the collection exhibited this winter by poster collector—and assistant professor of theater—Allen Kuharski.	August The current “get tough” approach to fighting drug abuse in this country isn't working, say political scientist Kenneth Sharpe and former student Eva Bertram.	November Nadia Murray ’00 holds a treasured picture of herself and her mother, who died when Nadia was 15. It’s one of many “things from home” brought by first-year students.