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A Life in the Lab

Winter 2015

For her 90th birthday, Pat McGeer hit on the perfect gift for Edith “Edie” Graef McGeer ’44, his wife and neuroscience collaborator: He applied for a patent on a new compound she had suggested synthesizing.

Dark, artistic drawing of Wall Street with sliver of light shining in between two enormous buildings on to a tree surrounded by people and birds.

Social Change and Business Methods Intersect

Winter 2015

Social entrepreneurship could be defined as “doing good by doing well,” says Joy Charlton, executive director of the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. Swarthmore students are intensifying their exploration of this business model, in which the social rather than the financial value is the primary driver.

 

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Men gathered for Thanksgiving in 1919 in the Conscientious Objector Prison Camp dining hall at Fort Douglas, Utah.

Bearing Witness In War And Peace

Winter 2015

On a summer day in London during this centenary of the Great War, sadness salts the air where I stand. A remembrance garden of red poppies adorns the grounds of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, a symbol seen all over a country that lost a generation of young men from every walk of life.

Also worth remembering is Quaker nonviolence during wartime and revolution. The College—and its people—played an important role in the violent drama of World War I a century ago.

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Faces of Civility

Winter 2015

The face is a familiar one—the crown of white hair, wire-rim glasses, a touch of chin hair—a hirsute style he’s recently returned to after a few decades. Last time he sported that look, his hair was black.

Maurice Eldridge ’61 cuts a tall, straight-backed, dignified figure. As vice president for College and community relations and executive assistant to the president, he’s a staple at events on and off campus. He’s that friendly smile, calm voice during tense negotiations, whether between Swarthmore borough residents displeased with College upgrades to roads or with Mountain Justice students urging the College to divest its endowment from fossil fuel funds.

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