Letters

Please donate my book, Tips for Living Happily and Gracefully as You Grow Older, to McCabe.

I was thrilled to see “All Together Now” (fall 2017). When I arrived in 1964, I was delighted that the College had a water ballet team that I could become a part of.

Inclusion. Such a lovely word, thought, and action. Recent Bulletin articles on Swarthmore student involvement in civil rights, being a naturalist, mental health issues, formation swimming, and beekeeping made me feel that perhaps I might one day feel included.

I’m not an alum, but I’ve lived in Swarthmore almost 25 years; my kids grew up on campus. This spring, I met Sylvia Hand Pott ’52, whose grandparents had lived in my house.

Elizabeth Slocum’s “Hive Minded” (fall 2017) reminded me of a wonderful lab I had in the 1960s in Professor Kenneth Rawson’s Biology of Animal Communities class—one of my first experiences with a science class where the labs weren’t meant to test how well you could reach a “correct” answer.

I was gladdened to see fall 2017’s “Unbarring Progress” about prison work.