Bryn Mawr and Haverford Classes of the 1970s

Two generations on…

Maggie Larson '10 has been drawing cartoons for "The New Yorker" since 2017. When we asked her to draw a cartoon for the latest issue of the Bulletin magazine, Maggie's depiction of friendship — a comically large group trying to squeeze through the “friendship poles” at Pem Arch, based on the more recent superstition that “splitting the poles” can break friendships — was just perfect.

“I wanted it to be funny, but I wanted it to be a love letter to Bryn Mawr,” she says. “It’s the friendships I’m so grateful for.”

Check out how Mawrters have gone from being featured in New Yorker cartoons to drawing them in the latest issue of the Bulletin! https://mawr.life/LTI2

Happy news!

Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges Renew Bi-College Consortium Agreement

In celebration of Tex and the old Bluei Bus!

A 50-year-old partnership allows Haverford and Bryn Mawr students to take classes or even pick a major on the other campus Students can take classes at each other’s campuses, participate in each other’s clubs and programs and eat in each other’s dining halls for no additional charge.

Blue Heron at the Duck Pond!

The winner of this year's Arboretum photo contest is neighbor Mike O'Hallorhan. A regular on the Nature Trail, Mike captured this stunning great blue heron at Duck Pond on an early fall afternoon . "Right place, right time," he says.

The Duck Pond may be a no-fishing zone, but nobody told this hungry heron.

Step Sing 2026!

We had a blast at Step Sing last night! Sing along with the 1s and 6s while listening to the Reunion 2026 Step Sing playlist: https://mawr.life/2026StepSing

Class of ‘76 gathered for their 50th Reunion

Photos from Haverford’s Commencement!

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Professor Emeritus Bruce Partridge Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The honor recognizes Partridge’s meaningful contributions to observational cosmology and the study of the early universe.

Echoes of the peak Bi-Co days!

TODAY: Traveling with Joni Mitchell: A Reading and Conversation with NPR’s Ann Powers
Wednesday, December 4, 4:30pm (tea at 4:15pm)
VCAM Screening Room

In the wake of the publication of her widely and effusively praised 2024 book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, eminent music writer Ann Powers visits Haverford for a reading and conversation with Gustavus Stadler of the English Department, followed by audience Q&A.

Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. Throughout a long career in music writing she has worked at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and many other publications. A former curator at Seattle's Museum of Popular Music, she is the author of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (2024); Good B***y: Love and S*x, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (2017), which was selected as one of the best books of 2017 by the Wall Street Journal, No Depression, NPR, and Buzzfeed; the New York Times best-selling Tori Amos Piece by Piece, co-authored with the artist (2005), and Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. With Evelyn McDonnell, she edited the classic anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop (1995). Her essays have been widely anthologized. In 2017 she co-founded NPR’s award-winning Turning the Tables, an ongoing project to recenter the popular music canon to be more inclusive of marginalized, underestimated and forgotten voices. She lives in Nashville.

Sponsored by the Department of English Weaver Fund and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Important article by Sari Horwitz ‘79 in the Washington Post:

‘In the name of God’: Native American children endured years of sexual abuse at boarding schools Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.