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5 unusual facts about Swarthmore


Corinna E. Lathan

Dr. Lathan received her B.A. in Biopsychology and Mathematics fromSwarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ezra Townsend Cresson

Ezra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior (18 June 1838, Byberry - 19 April 1926, Swarthmore) was an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

Homer A. Jack

In the late 1980s, Jack retired from official positions and moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he authored two books and continued to be active in various peace and human rights organizations.

Michael Paine

After working in the U.S. Army, Paine worked a few months for Griswold Manufacturing Co. After that, Paine worked at Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania for about a year.

William Graham Sumner

Robert C. Bannister, the Swarthmore historian, . . . describes the situation: "Sumner's 'social Darwinism,'" he writes, "although rooted in controversies during his lifetime, received its most influential expression in Richard Hofstadter 's Social Darwinism in American Thought," which was first published in 1944.


Chris Mulford

She acted as sound designer for the Players Club of Swarthmore's 2007 productions of Reckless and Many Moons, and their 2010 production of Doubt, a Parable.

Don Cooney

He also served at a Parish in Brooklyn, New York, before being chosen to be the director of "A Better Chance" House in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he helped nine disadvantaged young people win scholarships to some of the best Colleges in America.

Eran Thomson

Eran Thomson was born in San Francisco and attended 11 different schools in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island and Mexico City before moving to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania where he graduated from Strath Haven High School.

Kenneth J. Gergen

He is currently a Senior Research Professor at Swarthmore, the Chairman of the Board of the Taos Institute, and an adjunct professor at Tilburg University.

Mary Wiltenburg

A graduate of Swarthmore College, she is the daughter of Candace O'Connor and the niece of Kyrie O'Connor.

MichaƂ Zadara

After two years of study, he took a leave of absence from Swarthmore, and studied directing at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, and then oceanography at Sea Education Association in Massachusetts.

Project Xanadu

In the summer of 1979, Nelson led the latest group of his followers, Roger Gregory, Mark S. Miller and Stuart Greene, to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Ruth Munce

As a widow, her mother, Grace Livingston Hill, author of over 100 Christian-themed romance novels, provided a comfortable lifestyle for Munce and her siblings in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.


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