Short shorts

Musical Offering

The Presser Foundation of Haverford has given $25,000 to the Music Department toward its $147,000 multi-year plan to replace and upgrade the College’s musical instrument collection.

All instruments still playable will be donated to Broughal Middle School in South Bethlehem, where Joyce Dawley ’96 is band director.

Page-turner

The incoming freshman class is reading The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley. It’s an account of the year she spent teaching English in the ravaged province and a tribute to the remarkable resilience of its people. You can pick up a copy in the Bookstore. Huntley will talk to students at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, August 31, in Foy Hall.

One More

To our list of Moravian family graduates (June issue), add Barbara Liebhaber, assistant professor of music, who saw her daughter, Sarah Golden Liebhaber, graduate with a B.S. summa cum laude in elementary education from New York University.

Lame and Halt

George Diamond, professor of English and chair of the department, underwent mitral valve repair May 19 at Lehigh Valley Hospital, after suffering chest pains when he was dropping off his course grades to the Registrar. He is recovering nicely, though he and Roberta had to cancel a trip to Italy. And he is teaching his Summer II course, as planned.

Karen Keim, outgoing interim director of international studies, had arthroscopic knee surgery.

Deaths in the Family

Rodney Schoch, who had been a custodian at the College since 1987, died June 25.

Sergeant Christopher Coffin, who was killed July 1in Iraq, was the brother-in-law of former Alumni Board president Candy Barr Heimbach ’79, to whom we send our condolences.