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3 unusual facts about Haverford College


Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja

In 2010, one of the stolen items, a letter from Descartes to Father Marin Mersenne concerning the publication of “Meditations on First Philosophy”, was discovered in the library of Haverford College.

In June 2010, one of the documents he stole—a letter from the French philosopher René Descartes, dated May 27, 1641—was handed back to France after being found in a library in Haverford College, in Pennsylvania.

Harry L. Hansen

He studied at Haverford College in 1933, and continued on at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to earn his master's degree in 1935, and a doctorate in 1939.


Alvin Wiederspahn

The couple has one daughter, Annaliese Wiederspahn, a graduate of Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Beth Cavener Stichter

Though she had been trained in the classical atelier style through the art department at Haverford College, the Cecil Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, and through an apprenticeship with sculptor, Alan LeQuire in Nashville, Tennessee, she was drawn to the surrealist movement of the 1920s, and more contemporary narrative artists, such as Francis Bacon, Joel-Peter Witkin, George Tooker, and Odd Nerdrum.

Chester, Vermont

John Royston Coleman, economist, president of Haverford College, and host of CBS program Money Talks; innkeeper of The Inn at Long Last in Chester

Frederic M. Wheelock

He taught at Haverford College, Harvard University, the College of the City of New York, Brooklyn College, Cazenovia Junior College, the Darrow School for Boys, the University of Toledo, and Florida Presbyterian College.

Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque

Haverford College Professor Michael A. Sells has accused the renovators (whose money came in large part from Saudi Arabia) of Wahhabism in the mosque.

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Westtown School, founded before the schism, and Haverford College became the educational mainstays of the Orthodox meeting.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Tristram Potter Coffin

Coming to Rhode Island after his father died of influenza in 1927, he was educated at the Providence Country Day School, Moses Brown School (1939), and then Haverford College (1943).

Twin Peaks books

The book includes Dale's upbringing in Philadelphia, family, education at Quaker institutions Germantown Friends School and Haverford College, first stumbles with love, obsession with the FBI, and the relationship between him, Windom Earle, and Earle's wife, Caroline.

Ulmus americana 'Penn Treaty'

Plants under that name were raised at the Morris Arboretum, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from grafts made in 1945 from a tree at Haverford College, itself a graft from the Shackamaxon Treaty Elm (felled by a storm in 1810) in what was later named Penn Treaty Park, Kensington, Pa.


see also

Aaron Lemonick

He taught at Haverford College and became chair of the physics department there in 1957, as well as working as a research collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Montclair Plaza

John Darnielle, of indie rock band the Mountain Goats, wrote an impromptu song regarding a date with his first girlfriend that took place at the mall during a sound check at Haverford College in 2003.

Roberto Castillo

Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Chilean author and professor of Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania

Stephen Emerson

Stephen G. Emerson (born 1953), American stem cell biologist and clinical hematologist/oncologist; president of Haverford College from 2007 to 2011; as of 2012, director of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center