Imagining a New Life: FPS Shares Art Among Friends

Imagining a New Life: FPS Shares Art Among Friends

Swarthmorean Staff

Under way for more than a year at Swarthmore College, the Friends, Peace and Sanctuary project is about to roll out to a wider world with three public events. The seed of the program was sown in the Swarthmore’s libraries. College Librarian Peggy Seiden was thinking about the Swarthmore Peace Library’s Trocmé Collection, and perceived connections between the international refugee crisis of the past decades and the Jewish diaspora chronicled in the papers of Christian minister Andre Trocmé and his wife Magda (who protected French Jews during World War II).

Caregiver Academy at Schoolhouse

Swarthmorean Staff

Caregiving for a loved one or friend is serious business with serious responsibilities, but often a dearth of resources for the caregiver. Schoolhouse Center in Folsom is remedying that with a series of presentations beginning Thursday, April 4, and running alternate weeks until June 13.

WSSD Board and Administration: Plenty of Questions, Few Answers

Chris Reynolds
WSSD School Board

As reported in last week’s Swarthmorean, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board meeting last Monday, February 11, was punctuated by an attempt by a resident named “Peter” to read into the record a victim’s impact statement by a WSSD female student who he says was raped by a male student. The latter is now involved in WSSD extracurricular activities, according to Peter. Neither Peter nor the school board divulged the names of the parties, and Peter was prevented from reading the impact statement into the record at the 2/11 meeting.

ASP Plans to Go South Twice this Summer

ASP Plans to Go South Twice this Summer

Linton Stables
Volunteering

The Wallingford-Swarthmore area is full of people who want to make a difference in the world. Volunteering seems to be in our DNA, and another opportunity is opening up as we organize teams of young people and adults to Appalachia to work on making family homes “warmer, safer, and drier.” This year the trip promises to be even more meaningful, as members of our community plan their work to improve the lives of people in another community in Kentucky through the Appalachia Service Project (ASP).

Luminaria Fundraiser Lights up the Town

Luminaria Fundraiser Lights up the Town

Georgie Perullo

Members of the Wallingford-Swarthmore community, cast your minds back to the evening of Tuesday, January 1, 2019, and you should be able to picture how beautiful the streets looked, lined with glowing luminaria. Wallingford and Nether Providence neighborhoods that who recently joined Swarthmore in this annual event, some who light their luminaria on January 1 and some at other times over the holidays. Regardless of time or place, the fruition of the 2018-2019 Luminaria fundraiser was a beautiful sight. Now it is time to thank everybody involved and share with the community the success of the event.

Onward and Upward for Garnet and Their Coach K

Onward and Upward for Garnet and Their Coach K

Swarthmorean Staff
Swarthmore College

Tarble Pavilion will be rocking this weekend with home court energy as the Swarthmore men’s basketball team hosts the Centennial Conference tournament for the third consecutive year. Following a regular season in which they had the conference’s best record at 15-3 (23-3 overall), the Garnet earned the #1 seed and will play Washington College in the second semifinal game on Friday, tipping off at 8 p.m. Winners of the semifinals meet at 7 p.m. Saturday for the conference title game.