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During winter break, 335 Swarthmore students participated in Career Services’ Extern Program.

Art Laver ’64 and his wife, Marcy, have created a therapeutic riding program on 12 acres of pastureland near Swarthmore.

Tour southeast Alaska with Carr Everbach, professor of engineering.

Anne Chandler Fristrom ’55 received the 2015 California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) Distinguished Service Award.

What was your favorite place on campus? Send your comments to bulletin@swarthmore.edu.

We received the following submissions to the winter caption contest:

Be creative! Submit a caption by May 4 for this cartoon.

Swatties near and far reunite.

Tax evaders, beware.

They may have smiled two years ago when they heard the good news. Their nemesis, relentless Carl Levin ’56, the senior senator from that old rustbelt state, had announced his retirement. For only two more years would they turn on the network news and see his blue eyes peering over those glasses slung low on his nose, hear that voice with its flat Michigander vowels drilling, drilling for the truth as he led a Senate hearing investigating offshore subsidiaries devised by corporations to evade the taxman. 

Coaching is typically associated with activities such as sports, singing, or SAT prep. Yet, two years ago, after reading physician Atul Gawande’s 2011 essay “Personal Best” in The New Yorker, about the lack of mentors for doctors, Kenneth Sharpe, working on a Templeton Foundation project on Institutional Design for Wisdom, had a question: “Why shouldn’t faculty members be coached—even coach one another?” The seed for the Faculty Teaching Seminar was sown. 

Sharpe pitched the idea to Professor of History Timothy Burke, then recruited Professor of English Literature Betsy Bolton.