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Spring 1988
N E
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L E T T E R
Payne Named
President of :Hamilton
College
Profe&S«S John Ashmead (len) and John Davison, co- authors of The Songs of Robert Burns.
Redisco~ering Robert Burns
It is not often that two humanities
scholars from two entirely different fields
collaborate on a book-length project. At
Haverford, however, Professor of English
John Ashmead and Professor of Music John
Davison '51 have just completed a groundbreaking study of the famous Scottish poet
and composer Robert Burns.
Their book, The Songs of Robert Burns,
to be published later this year by Garland
Press, will provide 45 modern harmonizations by Davison along with literary and
musical analysis of the relationship between
Burns's music and lyrics. According to
Davison and Ashmead, their study is the
first of its kind to treat the music and poetry
of Burns's songs simultaneously in the
same text.
"The meaning of the words is not apparent until they are sung with the proper
music," explains Davison, who has taught at
Haverford since 1959 and whose own instrumental and orchestral compositions have
been performed and recorded across the
United States. "What we discovered is that
the music and words go together with
extreme sensitivity."
Ashmead, who has been a member of
the English faculty since 194 7 and whose
literary interests aside from the Scottish
Enlightenment include modern American
fiction , film and narrative, and fiction writing,
concurs. "It was important not to separate
the two realms of poetry and music if we
were to understand how either one of them
functioned in Burns's compositions. Not only
Burns's work," says Ashmead, "but almost
all English lyric poetry written before 1620
was meant to be sung."
ot surprisingly, says Ashmead , Burns's
lyrics took on new and richer meanings
when they were sung along with their original melodies. The process of finding these
original melodies, however, was no easy
task. Supported in part by grants from the
American Philosophical! Society and the
Mellon Foundation, the two scholars made
five trips to Scotland in order to identify the
original folk songs that were the basis of
Burns's compositions. Unlike Schumann and
Schubert, who built their songs on completed
poems, Burns, as Ashmead explains, often
began with just a phrase or a line from some
half-forgotten folk song and then adapted his
lyrics to accompany the remaining tune.
Once they had discovered the most
authentic melodies, Davison began the
difficult process of resetting the melodies in
their original modal scales dating from medieval times. Because the classical musicians
of Burns's day no longer understood these
medieval scales, they forced the folk songs
Burns had unearthed into major or minor
scales. Davison's modern re-harmonizations
are among the first to recapture the original
modal scales, thus allowing each song to
stand as a more authentic and, as it turns
out, more beautiful musical entity in its own
right.
"Some critics may be astonished
t the combination of music and
cholarship."
The inspiration for the study originated
from a course Ashmead and Davison cotaught at Haverford in 1984 on "Words and
Music," which surveyed the lyric genre from
the early ballad to the Beatles. Taking this
dual approach to the genre, Ashmead and
Davison soon realized that a particularly
large gap existed in the critical understanding of Burns's work.
"Some critics may be astonished at the
combination of music and scholarship,"
Davison predicts. But, as Ashmead says, "It
should also open up a new body of both
music and poetry for the performer, scholar,
and the general public.'' I
John Lovett '88
Haverford's Provost and Acting President
Harry C. Payne will be leaving the College
on July 1 to become president of Hamilton
College in Clinton, N.Y.
Describing Payne as an outstanding
scholar and leader with exceptional personal
qualities, John B. Jones, Jlr., chair of the
College's Board of Managers, said "We at
Haverford have profited greatly from Hank
Payne's services as provost and particularly
this year, as acting president. While we will
miss him sorely, I speak lfor the entire Haverford College community in wishing him and
his wife, Debby, every success and happiness
in their new environment."
Payne has been serving as acting president since last July, when Robert Stevens
assumed the chancellorship of the University
of California at Santa Cmz. Tom Kessinger
will become Haverford's eleventh president
on September I .
Payne, 40, joined the College in 1985 as
provost and dean of the faculty. Prior to
coming to Haverford, he was a professor of
history and director of the division of social
sciences at Colgate University in Hamilton,
N.Y. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Payne
earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in
history from Yale University. I
Haverford Shares in
Pew Fundin~~
Haverford was among a ten-member
cluster of colleges and universities in the
Mid-Atlantic region to receive $1,822,950
from the Pew Science Program in Undergraduate Education. Adminisltered by Haverford,
the grant will support a number of collaborative projects to improve Ulndergraduate education in science and mathematics.
Similar grants ranging from $1 million
to $2.2 million were awa1rded to four other
college and university clusters around the
country. The Pew program was created by
The Pew Charitable Truslts in 1986 to help
combat the critical shortage of scientists and
mathematicians in the United States. "We
know that at least some of the problem stems
from the undergraduate educational experiences of potential scientists since only 35
percent of those who enter college planning
to major in science or mathematics actually
end up doing so," explains Dr. Joan S.
Girgus, director of the Pew Science Program.
"It is this enormous loss of talent that these
programs will try to address."
Institutions were selected for funding
largely because of the leading role they have
played in the education of scientists and
mathematicians, as measured by the number
of their graduates who mceived doctorates
between 1971 and 1980 .and National Science Foundation fellowships between 1973
and 1984.
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H
""'"••d'o Mogill
Ubrary is taking part in a major
exhibition at the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania this
spring.
"Legacies of Genius: A
Celebration of Philadelphia
Ubraries" highlights more than
250 treasures from research
libraries in the Philadelphia
area. Haverford is well represented with 15 entries, including
first editions of Dante's Comincia La Comedia (14 72) and
Copernicus' De Revolutionibus
Orbium Coelestium (1543),
letters from John Keats and
Abraham Uncoln, and a rare
Civil War photograph of black
troops.
The exhibit opened in midApril at the Historical Society at
13th & Locust in Philadelphia
and will run through the end of
September. Admission is free.
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HAVERFORD
N E VV S L E T T E R
A
three-doy AsW.
American poetry festival took
place on the Haverford campus1
in March.
Six poets from across the
country participated In the
festival: RusseU Endo, Cyn
Zarco, Lawson Fusao lnada, Mei
Mei Berssenbrugge, Chin Woon
Ping, and Agha S. Ali. Each read
from their work and took part in
a panel discussion entitled "A
Sense of Self, ASense of Place."
Coinciding with Poetry
Week, the festival was the first:
event of its kind in the Phila·
delphia area to highlight the
achievements of Asian American
poets and their contributions to
American literature.
Phyllis Schlany answers questions from the audience
during Collection in March.
Interest in Collection
Revived on Campus
It's been a long time since Haverford
students were required to attend weekly
Collection, where they would hear announcements from the president and the deans, as
well as lectures from outside speakers. Attendance became optional in 1969, although
the practice continued, with no classes or
activities scheduled for the appointed hour:
Tuesdays at I 0:00a.m. ow, Haverford's
long tradition of Collection is being
revitalized.
The Dean's office was troubled when
attendance at Collection was dropping off
this fall . "We were concerned that the stu·
dents were having to fight to keep it alive,"
says Matthews Hamabata, associate dean
and director of minority affairs. Hamabata
adds, "It's unique for the college to take a
recess for an hour in the middle of the week
for deep thought about important issues,
whether social or spiritual."
A grant from the President's Office has
provided the needed boost to bring in some
exciting speakers. "I was concerned that
there was not enough political di cussion on
campus," says Acting President Hank Payne.
"If you get 200 or 300 students hearing an
interesting speaker, there is bound to be
discus ion. I think a small college needs that
kind of stimulus and coherence," Payne
adds.
Molly Yard, president of the ational Organization for Women, and Phyllis Schlafly,
head of the conservative Eagle Forum organization, appeared at Collection a week apart
in March . Yard's lecture focused on how
feminists hope to influence the outcome of
this year's presidential race. Pointing out that
there are now ten million more women than
men eligible to vote, Yard told the students
"Many concerns of the women's movement
may, at long last, have an impact on who
gets the presidential nomination."
In her talk, entitled "The Changing
Roles of Men and Women ," Phyllis Schlatfly
set forth her arguments against the Equal
Rights Amendment, federally-funded child
care, and affirmative action for women. She
concluded by saying "Feminism was an
ideology that really held sway in the 70's,
but most people today think of it as old-hat
and out-of-date."
Other speakers this semester have
included Reverend Joseph Roberts, senior
pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta, who gave a powerful lecture on
"The Legacy of Martin Luther King," Jerry
Herman of the American Friends Service
Committee, di cussing "The War and the
Student Movement in Southern Africa," and
Philadelphia Judge Lisa Richette, who talked
about child abuse.
Each Collection was followed by a reception, where students had the opportunity for
an informal question-and-answer se io:n
with the speaker.
The Collection program is organized by
students. The committee solicits suggesltions
for speakers from the faculty and other students, then contacts the speakers and negotiates fees.
Kathy Galvin '88, chair of the committee, believes Collection is filling a need on
campus. "I think it's a very positive thing for
students to be exposed to current events
through these speakers."
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Japanese Added to
Curriculum
For the first time, Haverford will be
offering students the chance to study the
Japanese language beginning next fall. The
College has been awarded a $225,000 grant
from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation in
New York to develop a program in Japanese
language and culture.
"We're very pleased," says Acting President Hank Payne. "We've been looking for
ways to strengthen language study at Haverford for several years."
According to Eleanor Jorden of the
ational Foreign Language Center in Washington, the study of Japanese in colleges and
universities is increasing more rapidly than
that of any other language in the countrya 45 percent gain between 1983 and 1986.
This compares with a 28 percent jump for
Chinese and a 12 percent increase for Russian during the same period. Jorden attributes the heightened interest to America's
growing economic ties with Japan and to this
country's fascination with Japanese culture.
"Even more high school students are now
studying Japanese than Russian," adds
Jorden.
Over a four-year period, the grant will
enable Haverford to e tablish a program in
Japanese language, develop courses in Japanese culture and society, and incorporate
materials on Japanese culture into existing
courses. The College will hire a new faculty
member to teach the language courses,
which will make extensive use of the language laboratory recently installed under a
grant from the Pew Memorial Trust, providing access to the most modern audio and
video materials.
The development of a Japanese language program comes on the heels of a
newly-created Ea t Asian Studies area of
concentration, which is administered jointly
by Haverford and Bryn Mawr. The conc1entration draws on both colleges' strength in East
Asian history, anthropology, religion, philo ophy, and language instruction. "The addition
of Japanese at Haverford will help on a twocollege level in the same way Bryn Mawr
helps with Russian and Italian," says Payne.
Bryn Mawr al o received a grant from
the Mellon Foundation to support its pro·
grams in Russian and Chinese studies, which
are open to Haverford students. The grants
are part of an effort by the Foundation to
improve the teaching and learning of foreign
languages and cultures in selected liberal
arts colleges. I
Reverend Joseph Roberts addresses Collection audience
on "The Legacy ofMartin Luther Kin g."
Attendance at Collection has bounced
back this semester and interest remain
high. The added financial support from the
College will continue, and according to
Galvin, students already are busy planning
for next year's speakers. I
Pew Science Grant
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Recognizing that the high costs of science education have made it difficult for
even the best undergraduate institution ,
The Pew Science Program asked the participating schools to design projects that could
be undertaken collaboratively.
In addition to Haverford, the MidAtlantic cluster will include Bryn Mawr,
Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Lafayette,
Muhlenberg, the University of Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Swarthmore, and Vassar. Together
they will develop new laboratory materials
for courses in physical chemistry, modern
physics, cell biology, and computer science.
Chairing the cluster's Scientific Coordinating
Group will be Haverford physicist Jerry Gollub. "The development of new teaching
laboratories requires great resources that are
not usually available at any one college or
university," says Gollub .
"By pooling our resources, we can
provide new laboratory experiences for students that reflect science as it happens in the
1980's."
Gollub explains that in biology, for
example, these experiments will include
biochemical and genetic techniques, while
in chemistry and physics they will involve
modern computer-based instrumentation
and lasers. ''An interdisciplinary program in
neuroscience will bring together aspects of
biology and psychology," he adds.
"By pooling our resources, we can
provide new Ia oratory experiences
for students ..."
In addition, summer research programs
in biology and neuro cience will permit
students to work at other institutions in the
cluster. There also are plans for the development of a faculty consultant pool in neurocience, and there will be collaborative use
of the primate facility at Bucknell.
"The resulting links between MidAtlantic colleges and universities should
significantly strengthen science teaching in
this area," says Gollub. I
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Bruce Partridge
Receives Double
Honors
Associate Dean Matthews Hamabata greets the Sooiet
delegation following signing ceremonies in Middlebury, Vt.
Haverford to Enroll
Soviet Students
Among the new students arriving on
campus next fall will be two students from
the Soviet Union, making Haverford one of
the first colleges in the country to host Russian students for a year's study at the undergraduate level.
As a member of the new American
Collegiate Consortium for East-West Cultural
and Academic Exchange, Haverford also will
have the opportunity to send students to
study at Soviet universities, starting in 1989.
The exchange agreement was signed in
March during ceremonies at Middlebury
College. Six prominent Soviet academic
leaders and representative of the Ministry of
Higher Education of the Soviet Union were
on hand for the signing. Representing Haverford at the ceremonies was Associate Dean
Matthews Hamabata.
The new program is expected to begin
with the arrival of about 50 Soviet students
this August. All of the students will spend
their first month together on one U.S. campus for orientation about American college
life.
Once they have enrolled at a specific
college, the Russian students will be permitted to do half their studies in liberal arts
courses unrelated to their peciality. Previously, Soviet students were sent to the U.S.
only to take graduate or postgraduate level
courses.
The agreement calls for at least onethird of the Soviet students to be women , a
major departure from the oviet tradition of
ending only male graduate student to the
U.S. The Russian students also will be
encouraged to live with American students.
The American students chosen to study
in the Soviet Union will be nominated by
their schools and will most likely be juniors
or seniors who have reached an advanced
level in the study of the Russian language.
Significantly, the U.S. students will not be
sent to the Ru sian institutions generally
"reserved" for non-Soviets. Instead, they will
be assigned to 20 Soviet universities, including the major universities in each of the
country's 15 republics, plus the universities
of Leningrad and Novosibirsk.
The new consortium was formed last
year after several college and university
presidents vi ited the Soviet Union and
suggested an undergraduate exchange. The
headquarters for the 24-member consortium
has been established at Middlebury College.
The other chools participating in the
exchange are: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin,
Colby, Colgate, Connecticut, Hamilton,
Lafayette, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke,
Oberlin, St. Lawrence, Sarah Lawrence,
Smith, Swarthmore, Trinity, Union, the
University of Vermont, Vassar, Washington
and Lee, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and
Williams. I
Astronomer Bruce Partridge, the Bettye
and Howard Marshall Professor of atural
Sciences at Haverford, recently was named
the recipient of two distinguished honors: a
1988 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1988
American Physical Society Award for
Research in an Undergraduate Institution.
Partridge is one of 262 scholars and
artists to be appointed a Guggenheim Fellow
this year on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
He will use his fellowship for further study of
the cosmic microwave background.
The APS citation, presented at the
Society's April meeting in Baltimore, commends Partridge's "internationally recognized research in the study of the cosmic
microwave background radiation and his
enthusiastic, conscientious, and outstanding
commitment to the guidance of the undergraduate students participating in his
research ."
The $3,000 award was e tablished by a
grant to the American Physical Society from
the Research Corporation to recognize and
encourage research at institutions where
undergraduates have made important
research contributions. Thi is the second
time a Haverford professor has won the
award since it was established just three
years ago. Physicist Jerry Gollub, a pioneer
in fluid flow patterns research , received the
first award in 1986.
An expert on cosmology and radio
astronomy, Partridge's most recent work
centers on the formation of galaxies, and has
involved using the largest radio telescope in
the U.S. to determine the properties of galaxies which are just beginning to form stars.
He also has been involved in a collaborative
attempt to measure more accurately the
present temperature of the Universe.
Professor Bruce Partridge
Partridge, 47, was a member of a panel
which prepared a report entitled Physics
Through the 1990's, an analysis of the entire
discipline carried out by the National Academy of the Sciences.
.
Haverford strongly encourages its undergraduate science students to take part in
their own research or the research of faculty
members both during the academic year and
during the summer. According to Partridge,
"If we are to attract the ablest students to
scientific careers, we in undergraduate colleges need not only to prepare them well by
teaching them well, but also to give them
experience with real , publishable, research ."
More than a dozen Haverford undergraduates
have co-authored scientific papers with
Partridge, whose research articles have
appeared in such publications as The Astrophysical Journal and Nature.
A 1962 graduate of Princeton University
and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University
from 1962-1965, Partridge taught physics at
Princeton from 1965 until 1970, when he
joined the Haverford faculty. I
H
averlo•d ;sexpanoting
its exchange program to offer
students the chance to live and
study at Pitzer College in Califor·
nia. Haverford students currently have the option to spend a
semester or a year at Spelman
College in Atlanta or at Claremont McKenna College, which is
part of the Claremont College
system in California, as is Pitzer.
According to Assistant Dean
Steve Watter, Pitzer offers very
strong courses in the behavioral
and social sciences, which
complements Claremont McKen·
na's strength in political science
and economics.
Applications are being
reviewed now for the Pitzer
exchange, which begins next
fall.
Gest Dialogue on
Fundamentalism
Religious fundamentali m and its sociopolitical implications was the focus of a daylong dialogue by leading theologians and
social scientists this spring at the College.
Under the auspices of Haverford's Gest Center
for Cross-Cultural Studies in Religion, four
scholars examined the Christian, Jewish,
and Islamic perspective on religious
fundamentalism .
Duke University Professor Bruce
Lawrence, who has written extensively on
the history of religion , Islam, and Hinduism,
opened the morning program with an overview of the issues in the comparative study
of fundamentalism. Sociologist James Hunter
from the University of Virginia followed with
a discus ion on American fundamentalism .
Citing recent studies which indicate that
between 18 and 25 percent of the American
population are fundamentalists, Hunter
offered his opinion as to why fundamentalist
religions have flourished in this country.
Tracing the history of American fundamentalism from the late 19th century to the present,
Hunter concluded that " ... this is the last
hurrah for fundamentali m" in terms of its
influence in this country.
The author of Evangelicalism: The
Coming Generation, Hunter currently is
conducting an historical and cross-cultural
study of the interplay between religion ,
culture, and power in advanced capitalism.
Partic/pantl Robert Freedman (left} and Mamoud Ayoub
con fer at the Gest Dialogue on Fundamentalism.
Robert Freedman, dean of graduate
studies at Baltimore Hebrew College, outlined
the historical development of Jewish fundamentalism, which he defined as a reaction to
Reformed and Conse atfve Judai m, the
former being "the first great breakaway." He
also discussed the emergence of Zionism,
which coincided with the ri e of European
nationalism in the late 19th century.
While noting that there were a few
imilarities between ultra-orthodox Judaism
and American fundamentalism, Freedman
said that the bulk of American Jews oppo ed
fundamentalism both for historical and
theological reasons.
Mahmoud Ayoub, a research associate
with the Centre for Religious Studies at the
University of Toronto, completed the dialogue
with a discussion of Islamic resurgence, its
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HAVERFORD
NEWSLETTER
Freshmen Make Their
Mark in Athletics
In college athletics, freshmen are not
normally expected to contribute much to
their teams. Often, they must back up the
older, more experienced athletes while learning the coach's system. The difficulty in
adjusting to the greater academic and social
demands at the college level also prevents
freshmen from making a major impact on
their teams.
Haverford College is an exception to this
rule. Year after year, the College's athletic
teams feature several freshmen stars. In the
past year alone, several teams have enjoyed
tremendous success because of strong freshmen performances.
In the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC)
Cross Country Championship, Paul Reitter
'91 and Ken Bonenberger '91 finished 8th
and 1Oth respectively out of 149 runners to
H
averford olumni won'l
be the only ones taking in tbe
beauty and excitement of the
campus this Alumni Weekend.
The College is hosting the
1988 NCAA National Collegiate
Championship Finals in women's
lacrosse on Saturday, May 21.
The NCAA Division Ill Championhip game will be played at
1 p.m., followed by tbe National
Collegiate Divisions I and U
Championship game at 3 p.m.
Both games will take place on
Walton Field.
According to Associate
Athletic Director Penelope
Hinckley, director of the event,
Haverford is the first college of
its size to host an NCAA Championship of this magnitude.
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Wiring and rebounding thi& winter.
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help the Fords to their third straight MAC
title. Haverford went on to win the NCAA
Division III Mideast Regional and place II5th
in the NCAA Championship. "I thought
coming in that I might be able to make tlhe
varsity," reflects Bonenberger, "but the difference was that the coaching here is a lot
better than I had in high school, and all the
guys here want to win ."
In women's soccer, Ellen Braithwaite '9 1
led the Haverford team in scoring in her first
season and scored all four goals in the Fords'
4-0 win over Marymount.
Four freshmen , Tom Boogaard, Rob
Shaker, Toby Rodes, and Jonathan Wren
started for the Fords' men's soccer team this
past fall. Boogaard posted eight shutouts,
and Rodes and Wren played in the defensive
backfield that supported Boogaard. Shaker
was one of the team's top scorers, with five
goals and three assists. After an 8- 10
season in 1986, Haverford rebounded with a
12-5-3 mark in 1987, including a 5-0 shutout
of Swarthmore.
Haverford's women's basketball team
had four freshmen , Monica Esser, Liz Dowling, Beth Chittick, and Laurie Rubel, in its
starting lineup. Although the you ng team
struggled most of the winter, it improved
greatly during the last half of the season.
Another strong freshman class will further
strengthen the squad.
Six freshmen helped Haverford's wrestling team to its finest season in a decade.
The grapplers won nine dual matches and
finished 7-6 against MAC competition. Andy
Cohen '91 set a Haverford record for freshmen with 21 victories at 150 and 158
pounds. Freshmen Tony Fuentez (118
pounds) and Devon Smith (190 pounds),
both from Central High in Philadelphia,
finished with 15 and nine wins respectively.
Fuentez was named the team's most
improved wrestler. Fine performances by
other freshmen Ward Breeze (134 pounds),
Scott Tayler (167 pounds), and Ben Atkeson
(heavyweight) fueled hopes for an even
better season in 1989.
"Haverford College tells its freshmen not
to wait and see, but to get involved right
away," says Haverford's Director of Athletics,
Greg Kannerstein. "Since the College is
smaller than most of our athletic compeltitors,
we're very pleased that our freshmen have
performed so well , and that our coaches
have been so successful in helping to attract
young men and women who can excel both
academically and athletically."
Ken Bonenberger '91 helped lead the Fords to their third
straight MAC title.
These student-athletes continue to
improve throughout their Haverford careers.
Three past winners of the Archibald Macintosh Award, presented annually to the previous year's outstanding freshman scholarathlete, Lydia Martin '86, Patty Dinella '86,
and John Loughnane '87, enjoyed their most
productive seasons as seniors. Martin and
Loughnane earned All-American honors, in
lacrosse and baseball, respectively, while
Dinella qualified for the NCAA Division III
Tennis Championship in singles and doubles. I
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history and aims. In his review of the cultural
and religious developments in the Middle
East, Ayoub explained that the term " fundamentalism," particularly as defined in the
context of Western experience, was not
relevant to Islamic history. Instead, he chose
to describe various periods of Islamic development as " ... recurrent movements of
renewal." He concluded his presentation by
calli ng for a revival of humanistic tradition in
Islam. " For Islam to make an impact," he
noted, " it must revive its spiritual heritage."
Chairing this year's Gest Committee was
John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences
Wyatt MacGaffey. "The annual dialogue
offers faculty and students an occasion for
relaxed interdisciplinary discussion," said
MacGaffey. "We are grateful to Gest Visiting
Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina for bringing
together this interesting group of scholars." I
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