98 percent of Haverford students live on campus near the Dining Center, most of them in singles (even the freshmen).
Gummere Hall: a coed first-year residence hall with single rooms grouped in four-person suites.
Barclay Hall: a coed first-year residence hall with singles, doubles, and three-person suites.
Haverford College Apartments (HCA): a residence hall that is coed by floor but not by apartment, with four freshmen per each two-bedroom apartment. Each apartment has a kitchen with a stove and refrigerator.
Cadbury House: a substance-free quiet dorm.
Reid House: the Black Cultural Center, which doubles as a dorm.
Casa Hispanica: the Hispanic center, which also doubles as a dorm.
All buildings come with laundry facilities and high-speed internet, and there are no residential advisers. Instead, ’Fords bond with their hallmates and their Customs Person the first week of freshman year.
Dr. Stephen G. Emerson took over the presidency at Haverford College in the summer of 2007. He is a graduate of the school, having been awarded his B.A. summa cum laude in 1974; he then went on to obtain a M.S., an M.D., and a Ph.D. from Yale. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he also practiced medicine (he is one of Philadelphia Magazine’s “Top Docs”).
Nicholson Baker (1979) wrote the novels Vox and The Mezzanine.
Dave Barry (1969) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.
Chevy Chase (attended) was a cast member on the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live.
J. Howard Marshall (1924) was a Texas oil magnate who married Anna Nicole Smith fourteen months before his death.
Judd Nelson (attended) is an actor most famous for his roles in St. Elmo’s Fire and The Breakfast Club.
