Haverford College

Haverford College will wait more than a year to get its first choice for a new leader, Lafayette College president Daniel H. Weiss. The prestigious Main Line liberal arts college on Tuesday announced that Weiss, an art history scholar who has led Lafayette since 2005, would become Haverford's 14th president in July 2013. Weiss, 54, asked for the time to finish his eighth year with Lafayette and oversee projects he had started, including the design and building of a new center for global education and a new arts campus.

The president of Lafayette College in Easton will become Haverford College's 14th president, but he won't start the job for over a year, Haverford officials announced Tuesday. Dan Weiss, who has been president of Lafayette since 2005, was approved by Haverford's Board of Managers on Saturday, following a national search that began last fall. He starts at the 1,200-student liberal arts college in July 2013, which allows him to complete his eighth year of presidency at Lafayette, Haverford said.

While president of Haverford College, Stephen G. Emerson made time to teach, holding class in his living room, which had a movie projector and a screen that rolls down from the ceiling. But just keeping a hand in teaching wasn't enough for Emerson, 57, who announced Friday that he would step down as president to do full-time teaching and research at Haverford. He has led the prestigious liberal arts college of 1,190 students on the Main Line for the last four years. "I felt my students could use more of my time and I missed not being able to give it to them," Emerson said in an interview.

No one would ever accuse Haverford College's soccer team of avoiding the trainer's room. Not when you consider that all 22 players on the squad visited it at least once this season. "The only person who hasn't stepped into that room is me, and I figure I'm about due any day now," said Fords coach Joe Amorim. "It's been a terribly frustrating year trying to get through all these injuries. " Amorim's 11-man unit will end its season tomorrow in the Middle Atlantic Conference title game against nationally No. 1-ranked Elizabethtown.

Haverford College will use a $15 million gift - the largest in the school's history - to help pay for a new, five-story science center designed to enhance interaction among students and professors from all the science fields. The gift, which the school will announce today, comes from Daniel Koshland, 79, a professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor of Science Magazine. In exchange, Haverford will name the new science center after Koshland's wife, Marian, an acclaimed immunologist who was among the first women in her field and whose work led to a cholera vaccine.

Arthur R. Kane Jr., 76, an active alumnus of Haverford College and a resident of Villanova, died Oct. 25 at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Mr. Kane was born in Bridgeport. He was a 1932 graduate of Norristown High School. In 1936 he received his bachelor of arts degree from Haverford College and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939. During World War II, he was a lieutenant in the Navy. After the war, he opened a law office in Philadelphia, Weyl & Kane.

Haverford College will wait more than a year to get its first choice for a new leader, Lafayette College president Daniel H. Weiss. The prestigious Main Line liberal arts college on Tuesday announced that Weiss, an art history scholar who has led Lafayette since 2005, would become Haverford's 14th president in July 2013. Weiss, 54, asked for the time to finish his eighth year with Lafayette and oversee projects he had started, including the design and building of a new center for global education and a new arts campus.

The president of Lafayette College in Easton will become Haverford College's 14th president, but he won't start the job for over a year, Haverford officials announced Tuesday. Dan Weiss, who has been president of Lafayette since 2005, was approved by Haverford's Board of Managers on Saturday, following a national search that began last fall. He starts at the 1,200-student liberal arts college in July 2013, which allows him to complete his eighth year of presidency at Lafayette, Haverford said.

The young Delco Christian basketball team found out on Saturday how much the squad has matured during the season. The Knights (15-12) captured their third straight District 1 Class A championship with a 39-32 victory at Haverford College against a Morrisville (25-3) team that had beaten Delco twice in the regular season. Junior Anna Evans scored all of her 10 points in the first half, and 5-foot-10 sophomore Jamie Barr collected seven rebounds and 10 blocked shots. On defense, Knights junior Jocelyn Chavous played effectively against Morrisville standout Kievanna Lacey, who scored seven points after scoring a combined 36 points against Delco in two previous meetings this winter.

When the dust finally settles - and that is expected to happen in the next week or so - no one can say that Amile Jefferson made a rash decision. Three months after most of the country's top recruits signed letters of intent to play at the college of their choice, the Friends' Central dynamo is still mulling his options and waiting for "that gut feeling" to arrive and signal his future home. "I'm close to ending the process," the 6-foot-8, 205-pound senior forward said Wednesday.

When the dust finally settles - and that is expected to happen in the next week or so - no one can say that Amile Jefferson made a rash decision. Three months after most of the country's top recruits signed letters of intent to play at the college of their choice, the Friends' Central dynamo is still mulling his options and waiting for "that gut feeling" to arrive and signal his future home. "I'm close to ending the process," the 6-foot-8, 205-pound senior said Wednesday.

THE WHITNEY Biennial in New York claims to take the pulse of the country's art scene every two years, but the mother of all American art exhibits rarely digs deeper than New York or Los Angeles. For the radical "People's Biennial" now at Haverford College, curators looked elsewhere. The exhibit eschews work from major art centers in favor of five regional outposts (including Philadelphia) chosen through a jury process open to all. Organized by artist Harrell Fletcher of Portland, Ore., and curator Jens Hoffmann of San Francisco, People's Biennial originated when the two brought their idea for a nontraditional biennial to Independent Curators International (ICI)

There's no better time to meander through Haverford College's leafy campus than the present, when the leaves are crimson and orange and three of the college's five art galleries are simultaneously putting on their own brilliant displays. It's also an opportune moment to immerse yourself in photography, which happens to be the medium of choice through early December at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, the Atrium Gallery in the Marshall Fine Arts Building, and the Magill Library's Alcove Gallery.

Even with today's global narrative hammering home the point that we must take better care of the environment, you may be surprised - and fascinated - by one sculptor's creative response to that challenge. Highlighted in the exhibition "Field Guide: Markus Baenziger" at Haverford College's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is the fresh perspective of a Swiss-born artist from Brooklyn new to Haverford's faculty. The intensity of focus and feeling in his work is strong, and the images become key elements in the tale this show tells, often capturing a sad, resonant - and occasionally high-spirited - beauty.