Letters

Why, yes, since you ask (winter 2019): I did once attempt to write a romance. In fact, I even finished it, unlike most of the writing projects I’ve begun. It slavishly follows the conventions of the genre at that time (1984). Closed Hearts, I called it.

Nick Martin ’04, CEO of TechChange, met Tigest Tamrat ’08, a consultant for the World Health Organization, for the first time in November while the two were helping to facilitate a workshop on digital health in the tiny country of Lesotho.

The winter 2019 issue of the Bulletin was the best I’ve ever received. This one I actually wanted to read! Thanks for listening to us and covering a wide range of Swarthmore alums in a genuine way.

I have been reading The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols. Nichols bemoans how many children are coddled by their parents, their high schools, and finally by their colleges. They go out into the world knowing everything and believing their opinions are as good as anyone’s on all subjects.

In the winter 2019 edition, I was delighted to see a print of the 1927 Swarthmore campus map (page 75). My parents, Laurie ’78 and Kevin Browngoehl ’78, have a print of this exact map displayed on the wall of their home in Bryn Mawr.