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Headline: MORE AND MORE, OURS IS OPEN-ALL-NIGHT WORLD
Friday, June 11, 1999
Section: NATIONAL
Page: A01
By Marian Uhlman, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
BODY:
Want to tee off at 2 a.m.? A golf course on Long
Island can accommodate you. Can't wait for a new set of dishes? Not a
problem if a 24-hour Wal-Mart Supercenter is nearby. Need an airline
ticket? Call up a Web site.
. . .
For some, the exploding 24-hour economy in which
you can shop till you drop heralds convenience and flexibility. But
researchers suggest that it might not be all that healthy. The
never-ending day may leave many feeling exhausted, frustrated and
frantic. They may think they are working harder and relaxing less.
They may become isolated.
. . .
"For some people, there is a temptation to do
things at night, to get one up on their neighbor in the competitive
world," said Kenneth Gergen, a Swarthmore psychology
professor who specializes in cultural change. Economically, he said,
it may pay off. But it may further undermine a sense of community.
"You are not expected to be anywhere," he said. "You become a
free-floating atom."
HEADLINE: Check-cashing industry offers convenience - at a price
State & Local Wire
June 14, 1999, Monday, PM cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 839 words
BYLINE: By SHERRI WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: JACKSON, Miss.
BODY:
Reggie Nwsome has been taking his disability checks
to a check-cashing outlet rather than a bank for two years, with a
good chunk of his cash going to pay stiff fees for the service. Like
a lot of Mississippi's poor, the 27-year old Jackson man believes he
simply has no other choice. "You have to have some ID to have a bank
account," said Nwsome, a thin man who wore thick eyeglasses and a
faded T-shirt and jeans. He declined to say he had no identification.
"If had some ID, I would go to a bank."
The explosive growth of the check-cashing industry,
which offers after-hours convenience and speed in return for fees
ranging up to 10 percent, has some experts concerned.
John Caskey, a Swarthmore (Pa.) College
economics professor, says check-cashing outlets do not offer the
opportunity to build the banking history needed to obtain credit. "If
you go there all the time and you're cashing your checks there all
the time, its not a process that encourages you to build up savings,"
said Caskey, author of "Fringe Banking: Check-cashing Outlets,
Pawnshops and the Poor." . . .
HEADLINE: FINDING MICHENER IN DOYLESTOWN
June 13, 1999; SUNDAY; ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: TRAVEL; Pg. T03
LENGTH: 820 words
SOURCE: Wire services
BYLINE: JOANN LOVIGLIO, The Associated Press
BODY:
In an extraordinary 90 years, author James A.
Michener went from a Pennsylvania orphanage to the farthest reaches
of the world as he helped chronicle and define the 20th century.
"This is a man who taught America about racial and ethnic diversity
before America wanted to hear the lesson,"says Bruce Katsiff,
director of the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa."He
was a teacher and his audience was the world."
. . .
All his work touched on religious and racial
tolerance, hard work, and self-reliance, themes that made him popular
with the masses but not in the literary or academic worlds. That
mattered little to Michener, who wrote for his readers, not the
intelligentsia, says Alfred Bloom, president of Michener's alma
mater, Swarthmore College.
HEADLINE: Minority hiring poses a challenge for Harvard's Kennedy School
June 16, 1999, Wednesday ,City Edition
SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B4
LENGTH: 587 words
BYLINE: By Karen Hsu, Globe Correspondent
BODY:
Last week, in a graduation address at Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Rev. Jesse
Jackson challenged the school's administration to double the number
of tenure-track minority faculty in the next one to two years. Of the
106 professors at the Kennedy School, only six are black, a school
spokesman said. Of those, only one is tenured and two are on tenure
track. A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a black retired federal judge who
died last December, was a tenured professor at the school.
. . .
In terms of meeting the number Jackson called for,
academic dean Fred Schauer said he couldn't give a definite answer. .
. . Schauer said the problem with the number of tenured faculty is
more serious among blacks than for any other ethnic group. Associate
professor Keith Reeves, who is black, is leaving for Swarthmore College.
HEADLINE: Kids have contracted 'Pokemania'
June 16, 1999 Wednesday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: DAY; Pg. E9
LENGTH: 428 words
BYLINE: DARRYL E. OWENS, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
BODY:
Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jonathan White
grabs the TV remote, switches to the WB network, and watches his
favorite show, "Pokemon." Come Sunday morning, the Maitland, Fla.,
boy repeats the ritual.. . . So hooked is Jonathan on the cartoon
critters that he finds that even two doses of the 30-minute show only
leaves him craving more. So he plays Pokemon on his handheld Game Boy
system until his fingers fall numb. Or stages battles with his
Pokemon plush toys. Or matches wits in the card game with
neighborhood chums.
. . .
Tim Burke, professor of cultural history at
Swarthmore
College in Pennsylvania, suggests Pokemon may have longer legs than
some recent trends because Pokemon offers a glimpse into what he
calls "a deep and powerful aspect of entertainment" - interactive
amusement where consumers nurture and sustain a virtual pet. . . .
"People want those godlike fantasies of building and nurturing a
society," says Burke, co-author of "Saturday Morning Fever," a book
about cartoons. "Pokemon strikes me as the first real conglomeration
of all these trends into a pop culture powerhouse."
Headline: BOFFO REVIEW IN BIG APPLE
Monday, June 14, 1999
Section: Living
Edition: Final
Page: 2E
SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: GAIL MEADOWS, Herald Staff Writer
BODY:
. . .
Some reunion
Miami's Penny McPhee and Rustin Levenson,
classmates of Hillary Rodham Clinton at Wellesley College in
Massachusetts in the late 1960s, recently returned home from a class
reunion at the White House. ``Of a class of 408, more than 300
came,'' Levenson says. ``We're hoping Hillary will become president
so we will all be invited to return.''
Levenson, an art conservator, took husband Randal
along. McPhee, vice president of the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation, took daughter Cameron, a recent Swarthmore
graduate.
Headline: LET THE MARKETPLACE TAKE OVER SCHOOLS
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Section: EDITORIAL
Edition: 1 STAR
Page: A12\
BODY:
. . .
TOP SCHOLARS PICK FAMOUS COLLEGES
. . .
My real concern is that for those students leaving
Ohio, none is going to a four-year, liberal-arts college. I fear this
may be the fault of their high-school guidance counselors. They are
attending "Big 10" schools (such as Michigan), Ivy League schools
(such as Harvard) or other famous institutions (such as MIT), but
where are the liberal arts colleges such as Swarthmore, Middlebury,
Pomona or Williams, or for that matter, Ohio's own nationally ranked
colleges, Oberlin, Kenyon and Wooster? I hope the students did not
limit their choices just to those that are well known or have big
football programs.
For most college students, the best preparation for
graduate school (which most of these seniors plan to attend) is found
in small classes and in close interaction with professors, areas on
which liberal arts colleges have always prided themselves. One can
find these at major universities, too, but it will be harder
. . .
Constance B. Bouchard
Wooster
Headline: THE HEROES OF THE FIRST COMPUTER GET RESPECT
Sunday, June 13, 1999
Section: FEATURES BOOKS
Page: H01
Reviewed by Albert H.E. Brown
BODY:
ENIAC: The Triumph and Tragedies of the World's
First Computer; by Scott McCartney Walker. 262 pp. $23
Even technology has its creation myths. For the
Information Age, the story, as recounted by Scott McCartney in ENIAC:
The Triumph and Tragedies of the World's First Computer, goes like
this: In the beginning there was ENIAC, a revolutionary machine
brought into being by "a kid and a dreamer." In its wake would come
generations of ever more powerful computers that would become part of
our daily lives. But ENIAC's creators would never reap the rewards or
the credit they deserved. "The invention of the computer ranks as one
of the greatest achievements of the century, indeed the millennium,"
McCartney writes. "Yet the inventors remain obscure, and the story of
how their invention came to be has been largely overlooked."
And for Philadelphians, this creation myth is a
local story: It all happened right here, in the city where Ben
Franklin drew electricity from the sky. The two main figures in this
drama are J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995) and John Mauchly
(1907-1980).
. . .
John Mauchly came of age in the post-World War I
era, when electricity was a new technology. As a professor of physics
at Ursinus College, Mauchly worked on weather prediction, which led
him to look for ways of dealing with complex mathematical
relationships involving large amounts of data. Through contacts at
Swarthmore
College, he became interested in electronic circuits using vacuum
tubes as counting devices.
Headline: PUTTING GIRLS' ISSUES INTO FOCUS
Monday, June 14, 1999
Section: NEIGHBORS
Page: B02
By Kay Raftery, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
BODY:
Three years ago, nine Swarthmore College
students created a mentoring program for adolescent girls, who, they
said, still struggle with many of the same issues as girls throughout
time: gender and power, femininity and self esteem. They called it
the Summer Community Learning Project and invited the daughters and
granddaughters of faculty and staff to participate. There were 19
girls in the group, ages 9 to 14, and the Swarthmore women worked
with them in a variety of ways, from self-expression through writing
to building self-sustaining ``ecocolumns'' from worms, dirt, fruit
peels and other distinctly non-girlish materials.
The summer project became a continuing part of
their lives. This weekend, the nine women who began the project
sponsored a conference aimed not at adolescents but at their mentors
- parents, social workers and members of the community. Called ``Lean
on Me: Educating and Mentoring Adolescent Girls,'' it was open to
adults only - parents of the girls in the project, and other parents
and members of the community who are interested in mentoring. . .
.
HEADLINE: Townsend served well for 22 years;
June 15, 1999, Tuesday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. 3
LENGTH: 670 words
BYLINE: H.A. Branham;
BODY:
TAMPA - Jeryl "Jerry" Townsend retired Friday. Not
surprisingly, she reported for work Saturday. Therein lies all you
really need to know about Townsend, who really has left her job -
honest - as manager of the City of Tampa/Hillsborough Community
College Complex. It seems hard to imagine. She had become a
fixture.
. . .
From 1977-81 she was HCC's women's coach, then from
'82 89 she ran the facility for the school. In '89, when the city
took over the operation, she began her final 10-year stint that was
part accomplishment, part frustration.
. . .
Townsend and tennis were joined at the hip early
on. Her father, Ed Faulkner, was the long-time coach at
Swarthmore
(Pa.) College near Philadelphia. In 1970, he wrote one of the sport's
instructional Bibles: "Tennis - How To Play It, How To Teach
It."
HEADLINE: Wellstone reports 11 trips sponsored by outside groups
State & Local Wire
June 11, 1999, Friday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 208 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., took eleven trips
sponsored by outside groups last year while he was weighing whether
to run for president, according to his annual financial disclosure
report released Friday. All of the trips were for speaking
engagements.
The sponsors of his trips included the Disabled
American Veterans, which paid his way to Las Vegas; the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, which flew him to San Antonio; Americans for Democratic
Action, which provided his air fare to Los Angeles; and a variety of
other activist groups. He gave the commencement address at
Swarthmore
College in Pennsylvania in May 1998. . . .
ALUMNI
Headline: D. GOLDWATER; WORKED AT FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
Friday, June 11, 1999
Section: CITY & REGION
Page: B08
By Rusty Pray, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
BODY:
Daniel L. Goldwater, 77, who helped to make science
accessible to school-bus loads of wide-eyed children visiting the
Franklin Institute, died Monday of leukemia at his home in
Swarthmore.
In the 17 years he worked at the museum on the
Parkway Mr. Goldwater held several positions, including director of
education and principal scientist from 1976 to 1983. None of his
roles had a more direct impact on getting noses pressed to glass than
when he served first as director, then vice president, of exhibits
from 1984 to 1987, when he retired.
. . .
Mr. Goldwater grew up in the Bronx. He earned an
engineering degree from Swarthmore College. After
working in scientific research, he taught junior high and at a
technical school before becoming a faculty member of the Community
College of Philadelphia in 1965.
Headline: GOP'S SENATE LEADERS DISTORTING THE CHARACTER OF GAY AMBASSADOR
Sunday, June 13, 1999
Section: EDITORIAL
Page: E07
By Chuck Colbert
BODY:
Senate Republican leaders and their religious and
socially conservative allies just can't get over the fact that James
C. Hormel - the first openly gay ambassador in U.S. history - has led
a good life. The 66-year-old San Francisco businessman and
philanthropist, heir to the family chili and meat-packing fortune,
has led a full life, both personally and professionally - one that
eminently qualifies him for the ambassador's post in Luxembourg. . .
. Still, there are those who do not care to know Hormel, the person,
or really care about his qualifications for the job. Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott, for example, along with Republican Sens. Tim
Hutchinson of Arkansas, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Robert Smith of
New Hampshire, have succeeded in blocking a full-Senate vote on
Hormel's confirmation, even though the Foreign Relations Committee
approved it, 16-2, nearly two years ago.
. . .
That Hormel has achieved professional success does
not seem to impress Sen. Inhofe, himself a successful businessman.
Inhofe has compared Hormel to former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David
Duke. Ironically, Duke is now a Republican, while Hormel serves as
chairman of Equidex Inc., which manages the family's business
investments and philanthropic endeavors. A 1955 graduate of
Swarthmore
College, Hormel earned a law degree from the University of Chicago,
where he later served as dean.
Headline: MAXFIELD PARRISH -- HE KNEW A SUPERSTAR'S POPULARITY
Sunday, June 13, 1999
Section: FEATURES INQUIRER MAGAZINE
Page: 08
BY CARRIE RICKEY
BODY:
There are blues and there are blues. For Della
Robbia, it was a color, a jewel tone close to lapis lazuli. For
Billie Holiday, it was a mood of lyric melancholy. For Maxfield
Parrish, the Philadelphia-born graphic artist and painter, it was a
hue, a hope, a color from dreamland. Blue, iridescent and
crystalline, modulating from aquamarine to sapphire, was not just a
color but an atmosphere his posters and paintings embodied.
. . .
Frederick Maxfield Parrish was born in 1870. When
he was 7, he accompanied his prosperous Quaker parents on his first
Grand Tour of Europe. After a year at Swarthmore's preparatory
school, Parrish began his undergraduate career by sampling local
institutions of higher learning. . . .
HEADLINE: Don't let senator's snit hold up confirmations
June 16, 1999, Wednesday , METRO
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. 4B
LENGTH: 247 words
BODY:
The fate of the free world will not depend upon who
is named U.S.ambassador to Luxembourg. Yet Sen. James M. Inhofe,
R-Okla., has equated the post to the infinitely more critical ones of
secretary to the Treasury andambassdor to the United Nations. All
because of the sexualorientation of an ambassadorial nominee.
In 1997, President Clinton nominated James Hormel,
a businessman,philanthropist and heir to the Hormel Meat Co. fortune,
to be ambassador to Luxembourg. Hormel is also a father, a
grandfather, a dean at the University of Chicago Law School and a
member of numerous boards, including theSan Francisco Chamber of
Commerce and Swarthmore College. He's also gay.
. . .
Hormel is at least as qualified for his job as
Inhofe is for his.The work of the Treasury, the United Nations and
the Senate is much too important to be stalled by this
tantrum.
HEADLINE: Teen first recipient of service award
June 16, 1999, Wednesday
SECTION: NEIGHBORHOOD TIMES; GOOD FOR YOU; Pg. 9
LENGTH: 614 words
BYLINE: DARRELL CUTSHALL
BODY:
. . .
Katherine Davis Giacoletti, daughter of Michael and
Carol Davis of St. Petersburg, received a master's degree in
statistics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. She
received her bachelor's degree in economics from Swarthmore College (Pa.)
in 1994. The 1990 graduate of Lakewood High School has begun work at
the Research Triangle Institute near Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
HEADLINE: STEP INTO THE FUTURE WITH A COMPUTER IN YOUR SHOE
June 14, 1999 Monday, FINAL / ALL
SECTION: PERSONAL TECH; Pg. 6C
LENGTH: 852 words
BYLINE: BALTIMORE SUN
BODY:
Neil Gershenfeld wants to wire, weave or wedge a
microchip into just about everything but your underwear. A physicist
at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Boston, Gershenfeld envisions a day when computers no longer mean
ugly boxes on the desktop but everyday items infused with silicon
smarts.
. . .
It sounds like science fiction, but in his new
book, "When Things Start to Think" (Henry Holt, $25), Gershenfeld
stresses that the technology is not as far away as you might
imagine.
Gershenfeld, 39, studied physics at Swarthmore College and
Cornell University and got his start at Bell Labs in hard-core laser
research. Today he heads the Media Lab's Physics and Media group and
is co-director of the Things That Think research consortium, a
collaboration with more than 40 companies interested in making our
everyday world smarter. . . .
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
June 13, 1999, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: METRO; Pg. C06
LENGTH: 1182 words
BODY:
. . .
Dorothy W. Imlay
Lawyer
Dorothy Willenbucher Imlay, 74, a lawyer who for
the last 30 years did pro bono legal work for friends and neighbors,
died of a stroke June 9 at her home in Boonsboro, Md.
Mrs. Imlay, a former Olney resident, worked as a
staff lawyer for the Department of State in the 1950s and as a
substitute teacher in Montgomery County public high schools in the
1970s and early '80s.
She was born in Westwood, N.J., and was a graduate
of Swarthmore College. . . .
HEADLINE: Investment Advisers NASAA Unveils New Competency Exam
June 11, 1999, Friday
SECTION: WASHINGTON; Pg. 4
LENGTH: 786 words
BYLINE: By Lynn Hume
BODY:
. . .
Leichter Nominated For Housing Board
President Clinton intends to nominate Franz S.
Leichter, a former New York state senator who called for further
curbs on pay-to-play practices in the municipal market, as a board
member of the Federal Housing Finance Board, the White House
announced on Wednesday.
Leichter, who is currently a practicing attorney
with the New York City-based law firm of Walter, Conston, Alexander
and Green, retired from the New York State Senate last year after
almost 25 years.
. . .
Leichter was a member of the New York State Senate
Banking Committee and published a guide to banking services in New
York City. He also helped establish and provide funding for
organizations aimed at conserving affordable housing and sponsoring
community improvements in north Manhattan. He received his law degree
from Harvard Law School and is a graduate of Swarthmore College.
HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE
June 11, 1999
LENGTH: 265 words
BODY:
The President today announced his intention to
nominate Franz S. Leichter to serve as a member of the board of
directors for the Federal Housing Finance Board.
Senator Franz S. Leichter, of New York, New York,
is a practicing attorney, presently with the law firm of Walter,
Conston, Alexander, and Green, P.C. He has been in the New York State
Senate for almost twenty-five years, since 1975.
. . .
Senator Leichter attended Swarthmore College and
after serving two years in the Army, and received his law degree from
Harvard Law School.
HEADLINE: HISTORIAN, JOURNALIST, MOVIEMAKER ... SPY?
June 10, 1999, Thursday, FIFTH EDITION
SECTION: NATIONAL, Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1321 words
BYLINE: FRANK WHELAN; The Morning Call
BODY:
In the fall of 1986, Stephen Laird, a 71-year-old
former correspondent for Time magazine and one-time Hollywood
producer, returned home from Europe. . . . But there was one chapter
that Laird, who died in Europe in 1990, neglected to include that
October day. Laird had been a Communist spy, according to a new book
culled from U.S. government documents. Starting in the 1930s, he had
been a Communist and in the 1940s had provided information to agents
of the Soviet Union.
The story of Laird's secret life, and that of other
American Communists, surfaced for the first time last month in
"Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,' published by Yale
University Press. The authors, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr,
uncovered information about Laird and others in recently declassified
files kept by American intelligence.
. . .
Exactly what information Laird could give to the
Soviets from Hollywood is unknown. David Wiener, a free-lance writer
from La Jolla, Calif., who is researching a book on spying in
Hollywood, said access and the ability to travel without being too
closely questioned were things that made movie figures important to
spies.
. . .
Wiener, who recently filed a Freedom of Information
request for Laird's government file, suggests that Laird might have
made his first contact with the Soviets while he was at
Swarthmore
College in the early 1930s. Laird told The Call in 1986 that he had
become close friends with Oleg Troyanovsky, the son of a Soviet
diplomat. Troyanovsky was a fellow student and member of the football
team, of which Laird was assistant coach.
HEADLINE: FRIEND FINDS SPY TALE HARD TO SWALLOW
June 11, 1999, Friday, FIFTH EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL/REGION, Pg. B1
LENGTH: 759 words
BYLINE: FRANK WHELAN; The Morning Call
BODY:
After John Gould of Emmaus read in Thursday's
Morning Call about a new book suggesting former borough resident
Stephen Laird had been a Communist spy, he walked over to the
Moravian Cemetery to check the graves of Laird's parents, Dr. Fred R.
and Mary Laird Lichtenwalner.
"I wanted to make sure their tombstones were still
standing up," the former owner of Gould's Pharmacy said with a
chuckle. "Doc Lichtenwalner and May were red, white and blue, apple
pie, flag-waving Americans. And so was Laird when you talked to him.
I can only imagine what they would have thought of all this."
The story was not a total surprise to Gould. About
a month ago, California freelance writer David Wiener, who is working
on a book about Hollywood spies, called and told Gould about the
Venona Project and that Laird apparently was a Soviet agent.
Laird had been a correspondent for Time magazine
and a Hollywood producer. In their book, "Venona: Decoding Soviet
Espionage in America," John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr say that
recently declassified documents show Laird had been a Communist since
the 1930s and provided information to Soviet agents in the '40s.
. . .
When Laird returned to the Lehigh Valley in 1986,
he asked Gould if he could stay with him. Gould agreed, but only if
Laird kept his out-of-control German shepherd in a kennel. Gould
already had a dog and a cat. "Well, you never could tell Laird
anything, and he shows up with the dog anyway." After about a week,
Laird went to live with a family friend in New Tripoli and then to a
south Allentown apartment. Gould next heard that Laird had returned
to Swarthmore College, which he attended in the early '30s, and then
that he had become ill.