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Campus colors bloom, under the grounds team’s watchful eye
JEFFREY YANG ‘22
Flowering trees on campus bloom as students walk around campus on a mask break Jeffrey Yang ’22
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looming trees when you look up, blossoming flowers when you look down, and tidy grass, mulch, and plants all around: our campus is simply beautiful. But sometimes we take it for granted, going not far beyond just appreciating the luscious life that adorns our grounds. Yet, behind the curtain, intricately planning ev-
ery aspect of this exhibition is Haverford’s Sodexo grounds team. Grounds Manager Mr. Andrew Stevenson leads this team. Having always liked to spend time outside, Mr. Stevenson jumped at the opportunity for this position. “I’d worked in different facets here for a pretty long time, and then there was a position open in Grounds, and I decided that I
was going to give it a try, and I kind of fell head over heels for it. I love working with plants, and I wanted to learn more about them, so that’s kind of how I ended up [with this position].” His team of three begin planning the plants for the season with a design process. “You want to kind of make sure when you’re designing that there’s going to be
something that pops. So when I go to make a design, I try to look at what flowers or shrubs or perennials might be available to me, and then I try to plant them accordingly,” Mr. Stevenson said. con’t. on p. 6
Ben Fosnocht ’21 adjusts to varsity baseball Jake LaRocca ’22
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Ben Fosnocht ’21 vs. Friends Central on March 16th, 2021
Georgia voting restriction, p. 13
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Life under lockdown, p. 8
TYLER ZIMMER ’21
NACHIKETHAN SRINIVASAN ’21
ith the pandemic canceling spring sports in 2020, many members of the Class of 2021 missed out on their first opportunity as upperclassmen to play on varsity athletic teams. Among those athletes was current Sixth Former Ben Fosnocht. Fosnocht has played Fords baseball since middle school, but his first chance to play varsity baseball came in his final year on campus. Throughout the first couple of games of the season, Fosnocht admittedly struggled at the plate. That being said, after getting the hang of varsity baseball, Fosnocht immediately improved, putting together multiplehit games against some of the toughest competition in Pennsylvania. “I think it was a mindset thing, and I
Caricaturist, p. 5
COURTESY OF MS. COURTNEY SELL
“I think it was a mindset thing, and I just needed to gain some confidence.” BEN FOSCNOCHT ’21 just needed to gain some confidence. This year has been the first chance I’ve had with varsity at-bats because we only had one game last year. What helped was just getting more comfortable seeing varsity pitching and focusing on not doing too much at the plate,” Fosnocht said. con’t. on p. 20
Theater III* play, p. 15
MR. DARREN HENGST
