Campus News

The stories, footage and vision produced by Steve Sabol will last forever. Now his legacy will, too.

Sabol will be included in the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Centennial class to be inducted this summer, albeit posthumously. The longtime NFL Films steward died in 2012 at the age of 69 following brain cancer. 

Read the full story in USA Today or see the full slate from the Pro Football Hall of Fame >

Students in Marion Jacob’s sixth grade science class learned about the Spotted Lanternfly throughout the fall and created informational posters for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture calendar contest. Blake Lee won second place for his age group; his work is featured as the July 2020 calendar page. Read the story >

Why aren’t our children learning to read? At its debut, the Common Core gave hope that we could improve the reading, writing, and math outcomes of American children being outpaced by their international peers. Read more about the science of reading in this opinion piece by Dr. Pam Greenblatt, Head of Lower School and Nichole Pugliese, Director of the Enrichment and Learning Center >

By Bruce Adams, Main Line Media News

There were many memorable moments and championship teams on the Main Line high school sports scene in 2019. Read the story, featuring basketball's perfect 28-0 season, PAISAA state tournament title, and back-to-back Inter-Ac titles >

Middle School students heard from alumnus and Board of Trustees member Roland Yang ’10 in December as part of a speaker series on kindness. Yang discussed shared examples of how kindness and vulnerability transformed his relationships and his time at Haverford.

Read the PAPrepLive story, featuring Mitchell Hark, Luke Macaione, and Asher Laackman.

Ravi Reddy '90 and Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn discuss their inspiration for starting a school in Tanzania. "We all made a pact together that we're going to build a school for these children," said Reddy. 

Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Antiracist’ made me, a black educator, change my definition of racism | Perspective. Read Brendon Jobs' Opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer >

The Haverford School Athletic Department recognizes its All-Inter-Ac individual performers from the fall 2019 season. Team highlights from the fall season include Inter-Ac Championships in golf and water polo and an appearance/second place finish in the 2019 PAISAA soccer championship game.

By Tom Naatz, The Observer

Notre Dame senior Tommy McNamara was having lunch with a friend at The General restaurant in South Bend on Friday. While he was eating, he said he noticed another young man moving suspiciously about the establishment. Read the story >

As part of the early signing period for Division I athletes, nine seniors at The Haverford School have announced their decisions to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level.

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TROY, N.Y. – Junior forward Stanley Langyintuo was named to the All-Liberty League first team, as the league announced the 2019 end of year winners. Junior defender Josh Ridenhour received All-Liberty League Honorable Mention. Read the story about Ridenhour '16 >

Middle School boys took part in STEPs Day – or “Solving The Earth’s Problems” – this fall. The boys learned about the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets the UN has defined to solve those problems. 

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top newcomer: In the short term, that’ll be Sherif Kenney, who’s expected to start at point guard as a freshman. In the long run, Howard said guard Christian Ray, the top recruit out of The Haverford School, will develop into a leader. As a high school senior, he led his team to an unbeaten season, and averaged 23.3 points and 11.1 rebounds. Read the story >

On Oct. 24, Middle School students heard from Joshua Foer, author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders and co-founder of AtlasObscura.com. Foer uses his book and website to share discoveries of new adventures and encourage intellectual curiosity. 

In Kristin Brown’s Digital Art class, students learn about digital photography, graphic design, and 3D printing. As part of their current photography unit, they’re progressing from camera functions, to editing in Photoshop, to creating video.

John Urschel, a former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens and a mathematician, spoke about his time as an athlete and a scholar at The Haverford School’s Best for Boys event on Oct. 21, 2019. Urschel signed copies of his book, Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football, after the lecture.

By Bruce Adams, PAPrepLive.com

The senior central midfielder has been a potent two-way performer for the Fords’ soccer team. In his last five games (as of Oct. 28), Macaione has dished out five assists, plus he has scored a number of key goals for the Fords throughout the season. fall, Macaione received second team All-Inter-Ac and All-Main Line soccer honors as a key member of Haverford’s Inter-Ac champions. Ford head coach said, “Luke has dominated as a central midfielder and helped our team find its offensive identity. He is a servant leader and a model student at our school.” Outside the pitch, Macaione spoke recently to the Haverford Upper School as a student leader of the Character Mentorship Program – a group dedicated to mentoring students that have committed honor code violations. Read the story >

Since its inception more than a century ago, The Haverford School's squash program has been the best in the country. It has garnered more Inter-Ac school titles than any other school.The legacy of this storied program is now memorialized in Squash, A History of Excellence by James Zug ’87.

On Oct. 21, Upper School students heard from Mansoor Shams, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, a Muslim, and founder of MuslimMarine.org. Shams uses his identity as both Muslim and a Marine to counter hate, bigotry, and Islamophobia through education, conversation, and dialogue. 

On Oct. 10, Upper School students heard from Terrance Lewis, a man formerly incarcerated after a wrongful conviction for second degree murder – which carries an automatic life sentence without parole – and Brett Zakeosian ’06, an Assistant District Attorney who works in the Conviction Integrity and Special Investigations Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. 

By Maddie Hanna, The Philadelphia Inquirer

In an unorthodox use of a school construction site, the Haverford School, a K-12 boys’ private school, is using its middle school building project both to enhance lessons and also to expose students to job prospects they may not otherwise consider.

V Former (junior) Kieran Dias-Lalcaca is one of 20 students in the Philadelphia metro area selected as a 2019 Germination Project Fellow. The Germination Project was founded in 2015 by the Pamela and Ajay Raju Foundation, which aims to re-establish Philadelphia as a global force in policy, commerce, and culture. Thirteen Haverford School students have been accepted as Fellows since the program’s inception.

At the black heart of the Tim Donaghy scandal, at the place where culture, connections, and camaraderie coagulated into a crime that shook the Gibraltar-like NBA, was a concept called “Delco.” Read the story featuring Andy Callahan '93 >

Fifth and Sixth Formers at The Haverford School and The Baldwin School attended a showing of the play “Actually” written by Anna Ziegler. “Actually” tackles issues of gender, race, identity, and sobriety. 

In 1980, Bob Gillin Jr. was elected student body president of the Haverford School. He was only a junior, and he performed so well that he was reelected the next year. He was also captain of the crew team, and star of the school play. Outwardly, he was confident and successful. Read the story >

Vincent Scuazzo, a senior, serves as The Haverford School’s Student Body President. He also serves as a Features editor of the School’s newspaper The Index, and is a member of the school’s Choir. Scuazzo is in his second year as captain of the Fords’ cross country team, and is a member of Haverford’s winter and spring track and field teams. Outside of Haverford, he serves as an acolyte and a verger at his church, and works as a golf caddie at the St. David’s Golf Club. He was inducted into The Haverford School’s Cum Laude society last year, and was also awarded the Coach’s Award for cross country last fall. Read more >

Middle School art teacher Nancy Agati recently participated in the art exhibit We All Fall Down at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. Her art will also be on display beginning Oct. 12 in FLOW at the Independence Seaport Museum.

A senior, Sebastian Bilash is a World Science Scholar, one of only 45 scholars selected from a worldwide applicant pool. As a member, he participates in lectures and sessions (hosted online) by leading scientists and mathematicians, and is doing his own self-study project. At The Haverford School, Bilash is part of the cross-country and track teams. He’s also a founding member of the Thorns and Noble Book Club, which provided students to discuss high-level books with teachers during a lunch period. Read the interview >

Eleven seniors at The Haverford School have been recognized by the National Merit® Scholarship Program. They are among about 50,000 of 1.6 million entrants, representing some of the highest PSAT/NMSQT® Selection Index scores. 

We’re one week into the school year and our boys are already hard at work. Here are some classroom highlights.

In the history classes I teach, I begin with a digital dialogue called “What Gives Us Pause.” Before we begin formal instruction, I invite students to share with each other the social and political currents that worry them most, or make them most hopeful for the future. This dialogue unleashes a flood of student voices. Read the opinion piece in the Inquirer >

The Haverford School kicked off the 2019-20 school year with time-honored traditions on Sept. 4. Opening Day activities included the annual Walk of Virtues and the announcement of the Virtue of the Year, which is compassion.