GRANTS & AWARDS

Grants & Scholarships

Kevin D. Marlo Golf and Tennis Classic

This year’s scholarship fundraiser raised $100,000 for students. J. Michael McNamara, Harcum Trustee and CEO of Impact Health, was the 2022 Presenting Sponsor. The Office of Insitutional Advancement appreciates everyone who came out to support this annual tradition, an ideal blend of fun and philanthropy. PICTURED (L-R): Kevin D. Marlo Scholarship Recipients Jessica Sondermann ’24, Evens Edme ’23, Katelyn Yurkovich ’22, Gabrielle Bonewicz ’22.

ABOVE: Harcum College Board of Trustees (L-R): Jon Jay DeTemple, President; Tracy Johnson-Rockmore ’04; Barbara Bosha; Ellen Farber '12; Alex Klein, Chair; Dennis Marlo; Kent Griswold; David Jacobson; Ted Rosen; Sam Cimino; Denis Boyle; J. Michael McNamara; and Tom Giamoni, Chair, Kevin D. Marlo Golf and Tennis Classic Committee. Toby Pitluck '72

Giving By Donor Type

$711,313 Alumni, Trustees, Friends, Fac/Staff

$289,182 Foundations

$1,000,495 Funding Purpose

$932,254 Student Scholarship Support $68,241 Other (Equipment, Youth Courts, Library, Etc.) DONORS CONTRIBUTED MORE

THAN $1,000,000 this past fiscal year (July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022). The support came from private foundations, alumni, friends, trustees, faculty, and staff with gifts ranging from $19.15 to $192,000. “Each gift, no matter the size,” said Brooke Walker,

Vice President of Institutional Advancement, “is a vote of confidence in Harcum.”

In fiscal year 2022, generous donors permanently endowed six new scholarships with a gift or pledge of $50,000 or more. Additionally, a number of donors and foundations provided term scholarship awards of $10,000 or more. Endowed scholarships are marked with an (*).

FISCAL YEAR 2022 NEW SCHOLARSHIPS Dr. Jiten P. Gohel Media Dental Associates Scholarship* Ellen B. Farber Opportunity Fund Griswold Family Scholarship* Harcum Fund Scholarship Huston Foundation Scholarship Independence Blue Cross Foundation Nurses for Tomorrow Maureen M. Kennedy Scholarship* M. Michael and Constance McNamara Scholarship* W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Scholarship Ione A. Strauss Scholarship* Windmill Foundation Scholarship Dr. Craig Wooters Scholarship*

We continue to support our students with previously named scholarships: Antonia Cavallucci Educational Scholarship Centennial Scholarship Samuel P. and Patricia A. Cimino Scholarship* Kimberly S. Cullen Memorial Scholarship Ellen B. Farber Next Generation Scholarship Devin M. Gold Scholarship* Marilyn and Arthur Klein Scholarship* Jean S. Levitties Scholarship* Kevin D. Marlo Scholarship The Marlo Family Scholarship* Charlotte Newton Sheppard Scholarship Hilary Strauss Scholarship* Helen Thelen Nursing Scholarship* Vet Partners Scholarship

Preserving

Harcum History

A First Lady’s Quest to Honor Harcum’s Origins

Top: Construction along the Harcum Mile to build the Academic Center, 1968. Center: A rendering of the rear entrance to Melville Hall, prior to extensive renovation discovered in a 1917 yearbook.

If a college president’s life is busy, then so is his or her partner’s. Consider all the events that First Spouses routinely attend besides Commencement: sporting contests, ribbon cuttings, initiations, speaking engagements, inaugurations, and fundraising and friendraising dinners, to name a few. Historically, some of our nation’s First Ladies are held in high regard for courageously using the national platform afforded them. For instance, Dolly Madison rushed many national treasures to safety before the British forces could destroy the White House during the War of 1812. Eleanor Roosevelt is famously credited for turning the role of First Lady of the United States into a highly energetic pursuit—a model embraced by subsequent first ladies from Nancy Reagan (“Just Say No”) to Michelle Obama ("Let’s Move”). Harcum’s First Lady Margi Tucker DeTemple has had a lifelong passion for history and architecture. The COVID-19 pandemic gave her an unexpected hiatus from her career as a licensed Realtor® and many College engagements to pursue a noble cause: ensure Harcum’s history was preserved and that its connections with the town of Bryn Mawr (Welsh for “Great Hill”) shone a bright light on the College. Her forensic research project, still ongoing, uncovered the origins of the town of Bryn Mawr, circa 1869, and married the town’s development with Harcum College history and architecture called, “The Harcum Mile 1869–1969: The Places and People Who Lived There.” Walls with something to say The expression “if these walls could talk” aptly describes how Mrs. DeTemple’s research interests sprang from a desire to explore the history of the President’s House, her primary residence. As the pandemic persisted, the project grew to include all the Victorian buildings on The Harcum Mile, past and present, demolished or still intact. Photo credit: Library Company of Philadelphia

Above: Dr. and Mrs. Jon Jay DeTemple in the President’s House, the project's starting point. Middle: the land that would become The Harcum Mile, by Frederick Gutkunst. The building on the left was the Cottage, which would become Edith Harcum’s residence and later home to Philip and Esther Klein.

Two years later, on April 7, 2022, working with research obtained by Trout Librarian and Archivist Roxanne Sutton, Mrs. DeTemple hosted a multi-media public event including an hourlong PowerPoint of her findings, linking Harcum’s period architecture with Bryn Mawr’s earliest years.

A job worth doing Mrs. DeTemple’s labors required nothing less than a Welsh Hill’s worth of reading. She scoured atlas maps of the Pennsylvania Railroad for the Main Line. These highly decorative items are nothing like what people use today. They provided property lines, owners' names, locations, buildings on prop-

Edith Hatcher Harcum, 1879–1958

Above: Roxanne Sutton, librarian and archivist, Trout Library. Above right: Margi DeTemple reviewing the photos needed for the day’s shoot with Photography students, Bedford Hall.

erties, dimensions, materials used for the frames of houses and barns, bridges, roads, and road patterns, and were updated roughly every six years.

She read books cover to cover on the history of Bryn Mawr and about renowned Philadelphia and Main Line Quaker architect, Addison Hutton.

“Mr. Hutton, who has been attributed to building Harcum’s President’s house, lived across the street from the first family to live there,” Mrs. DeTemple said. She grew up in Bryn Mawr and graduated from Friends School Haverford, where the Huttons worshiped. “Perhaps I sat in the same pew as the Huttons when they attended Quaker Meeting 100 years earlier."

She used Google to locate grave records, photographs, obituaries, and old newspaper articles. She also reviewed Harcum College yearbooks, more photographs and memorabilia from the College archives, and the 2016 Centennial history written by Anders Back.

She also relied on today’s digital tools including a Main Line Memories Group on Facebook, finding a local resident who attended the Miss Wharton School once located in the President’s House.

For Roxanne Sutton’s part, her research expanded from an examination of the president’s residence to investigate the history of all the buildings on campus and the acquisition of Harcum College property, using historical atlases, local archive collections, and the College archives.

Photography, yearbooks, & silver linings Often, the lack of resources Margi DeTemple encountered during her research led to uncovering more documentation.

“Eight of the Victorian houses built on the Harcum Mile were razed. Lacking interior photos, we can’t know the layout or interior architectural details of them,” Mrs. DeTemple said.

However, the scope of the research continued broadening to address it. Ironically, as devastating as the pandemic was, it offered a silver lining to Ms. Sutton who now had more time to archive records, boxes of them. With each year the pandemic lingered, more materials were obtained.

“We are still welcoming photos, memorabilia, diaries, yearbooks, anything from 1915 to 1969,” Mrs. DeTemple said. “Nothing is insignificant.”

To have quality photographs of the houses still standing today, Mrs. DeTemple accompanied by Photography Program Director Drew Simcox and several Photography majors took interior and exterior photos of standing buildings, so that 100 years from now, the spaces inside Melville Hall, Bedford Hall, and the President’s House will be documented.

Choose a job you love... While Mrs. DeTemple’s research involved tedious work, at times, it often didn’t feel like work. “This project was like solving a mystery,” Mrs. DeTemple said. “I would be glued to my desk for hours.”

With help from Institutional Advancement, Mrs. DeTemple

Kathleen Droescher McCoy, 1944 yearbook photo

met several alumnae who had graduated decades ago, speaking over the telephone or meeting in person. In this way, she identified more individuals in archival photos and learned many details about Harcum into the late sixties, including the residence halls, and the historic uses of Melville Hall.

“I realized I can make a valuable contribution as the wife of a president, especially with the alumnae,” Mrs. DeTemple said. “Whenever I interview them, they thank me for taking them down memory lane because they loved Harcum very much.”

“I was a geography major during my undergraduate studies, so this project brought me back to my academic roots,” Ms. Sutton said. Surprises along the way During her alumnae interviews, she spoke with Kathleen Droescher McCoy, Class of 1944, and learned that she had painted two presidential portraits in the gallery outside the President’s Office, signed with her married name Kathleen Buffum.

Ms. Sutton was most surprised to find an image of Melville Hall before its 1919 expansion, noting the only photos seen to date were those of Melville significantly expanded. “It was an exciting day when Margi DeTemple found the tiny two-inch painting of Melville Hall in a 1917 yearbook.”

Worth doing well “Harcum has perennially been compared to neighboring colleges and academic institutions,” Mrs. DeTemple explained. “Not only was The Harcum Mile architecturally significant to the history of Bryn Mawr, but also Edith Hatcher Harcum was deserving of a place in local history alongside other pioneers. She started a college for women when women didn’t even have the right to vote.” The President’s Office, as it looked circa 1919, versus 2022. Ms. Sutton added. “We have also contributed to the collective history of our wider community at the same time.” Mrs. DeTemple believes both she and Roxanne Sutton worked to their strengths. “She did more historical research using the census and county deeds. I studied maps and photos, trying to crack the mysteries,” she said. “After a while, a picture of the neighborhood came into view, a small town with very influential people.” Likewise, a clearer view of Harcum College’s influence on the town of Bryn Mawr emerged because of the important work done by Margi Tucker DeTemple and Roxanne Sutton to showcase and interconnect the two. Join us for an Alumni Brunch, Saturday, October 8, learn more about The Harcum Mile, and share your memories, hosted by Margi Tucker DeTemple. Register at www.harcum.edu/homecoming

Immersive Summer

2022 Upward Bound participants were welcomed to campus with a barbecue picnic on Sunday, June 26; Parents and family members help the Cubs move into the Pennswood Residence Hall, marking their first time on campus since the 2019 residency.

for Upward Bound

For the first time in three years, dozens of Philadelphia-area high school students participating in the Upward Bound program returned to a summer residency on the Bryn Mawr Campus. To mark their celebrated arrival, organizers as well as Harcum College faculty and program directors pulled out all the stops and arranged a highly immersive and interactive experience, one that the college-bound Cubs, as they are affectionately nicknamed, are bound to remember.

From an introduction to the health sciences to fashion upcycling to graphic design, Upward Bound participants received valuable exposure to different college major and career options, a critically important component to the success of the Upward Bound program.

Upward Bound’s National Origins Upward Bound’s main goal is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions such as colleges and universities.

It emerged in the mid-sixties as a summer pilot program on 17 college campuses funded by the United States Department of Education (Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965) in response to the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty.

All participants must have a need for academic support and two-thirds are to come from lowincome families (defined as income less than 150 percent of poverty level) where neither parent has attained a baccalaureate degree, in other words, “potential first-generation college students.”

Pictured: One of the Cubs drapes her upcycled creation on a mannequin; the Cubs pose for a professional fashion shoot with their upcycled outfits.

Upward Bound (HCub) at Harcum Since 1970, Harcum’s College’s Upward Bound (HCub) program has brought the opportunity of higher education to Philadelphia’s underrepresented students and to at-risk high schools. The program helps address a profound deficit in Philadelphia, which has one of the lowest college-degree completion rates in the nation. Additionally, only three out of every 10 Philly students has gone to college.

“It is not because students aren’t interested in completing a college education. It’s because a lot of barriers stand in their way,” said Liz Walker, director of Harcum’s Upward Bound program since 2009.

Since Upward Bound’s earliest years at Harcum, and with the acquisition of successive grant awards, it has grown to provide 80 students in the Philadelphia region with intensive year-round college-access programming.

HCub works alongside multiple agencies such as BEST Academies; Capture Greatness; target schools such as Bartram, Sayre, and Fels High Schools; and very importantly, the Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN), which has resulted in a stronger college access pipeline.

To help students build the skills necessary to succeed in a college setting, academic and personal coaching, standardized test support, scholarship and financial literacy training, and career exposure are offered on a weekly basis throughout the school year.

Upward Bound costs about $4,800 per student/per year. Between the investment in services and income for doing the things they are supposed to do including getting good grades and making honor roll, students who come into the HCub program in the 9th grade will have been the beneficiaries of significant resources by the time they graduate high school.

“Eight out of ten go on to college from the Harcum Upward Bound program,” Walker said, “and seven of those 10 are now graduating from college.”

She noted that two of the Residential Team members working with this summer’s participants are alumni of the program. Nafisah Confix, Class of 2019, is currently a resident assistant at Shippensburg University. Mya Hill, Class of 2020, who also manages the Harcum College Upward Bound Instagram page is currently a sophomore at West Chester University.

The program helps address a profound deficit in Philadelphia, which has one of the lowest college-degree completion rates in the nation.

The HCubs did a timed single-leg stance, one measure of physical fitness, during their PTA workshop.

An Immersive Summer in Bryn Mawr For six weeks (late June–August), 25 high school students resided on Bryn Mawr campus for a simulated college experience to learn what college and living on a college campus are all about.

Walker noted that current Harcum Upward Bound participants have experienced significant loss over the last three years, owing to the pandemic and its sweeping aftereffects. Several had to relocate to new neighborhoods and schools and lost their social circles and friends, which resulted in increased anxiety and a reticence to speak out in group settings.

Since they have come to campus, she has observed them developing new friendship circles, allowing them to develop the confidence and trust levels to more fully engage in all the activities planned for them to expose them to unique career pathways.

They received two introductory lessons to Harcum’s health sciences programs including a primer in the elements of a kitten wellness exam taught by Veterinary Nursing Program Director Kathy Koar and a hands-on introductory workshop to the Physical Therapist Assistant program, led by Program Director Dr. Jacki Kopack.

The following week they headed to the Art & Design Center for immersive workshops in fashion upcycling and graphic design. The Fashion workshop divided them into groups of five, each receiving bags of second-hand clothing donated by the Bryn Mawr Thrift Shop. They were all presented with a challenge à la “Project Runway,” the popular reality show that focuses on fashion design. The groups were charged with upcyling an outfit, or making something wearable and fresh from cast-off clothes.

Then they modeled their outfits for a haute couture fashion photo shoot, also in the Art & Design Center, with all the special effects available in the photography studio set up in the green room.

Such immersive projects helped reinforce one of the emphases of the HCub program, building friendships through shared experience and feeling like part of a larger Upward Bound family.

Scholarships and Other Funding Strategies Students earned up to $1,000 for the summer to focus on developing social and academic skills and community service initiatives and set them on the Upward Bound track.

PYN funds also allowed Upward Bound to pay 2022 graduates to participate in a summer college readiness program called Achieve! There, they earned up to $1,000 while focusing on getting a head start to college and developing the skills they will need to succeed in postsecondary setting. But far and away, HCub’s primary goal, according to Walker, is to ensure students have the funds to cover their college fees. A weekly Scholarship Club offers intensive coaching to make sure students are applying for scholarships while budgeting classes help the family compare costs of multiple colleges. In fact, 80% of students who enroll in the scholarship club go to college debt free.

With positive outcomes like these, it is no surprise that the federal grant funding for the Harcum College Upward Bound program was renewed for 2022–2027, which means five more years to expand access to a college or university education for hundreds more potential first-generation college students in the Philadelphia region.