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Clarinetist Steve Bloom ’62’s music now resides in the Bagaduce Music Lending Library

Former Swarthmore Vice President Ken Landis '48 reflects on the college during (and after) wartime.

More than a century ago, 70 years before Title IX, Swarthmore women were eager to play sports. In the early 1900s, while male students played football and lacrosse against Penn, Temple and other schools, the women created their own athletics organization, initially named the Girls’ Athletic Club, later the Swarthmore Women’s Athletic Association (SWAA), then the Women’s Athletic Association (WAA). All female students were encouraged to play.

Student-led courses allow Swatties to home in on particular interests in curricula they have created themselves.

Greg Brown joined the College as vice president for finance and administration in June after the retirement of Sue Welsh, the longtime vice president for finance and treasurer of the College. 

We received the following submissions to our fall request for cartoon captions.

Former Sears executive Randy Goldstein ’05 was appointed executive vice president, e-commerce for Blueport Commerce.

Polish President Bronisław Komorowski awarded theater director Michał Zadara ’99 Poland’s Silver Cross For Service July 31 in recognition of his exceptional citizenship and role as a prominent artist and public intellectual.

The MacArthur Foundation named Tara Zahra ’98 a 2014 fellow.

 Physician Ashwin Rao ’99 patches up players competing for football’s grandest glory.