In addition to her commitment and enthusiasm displayed on the
lacrosse field, Hannah
Bahn has contributed in numerous ways to the community with her
most recent accomplishment requiring the sacrifice of playing in
four lacrosse games.
During the College’s 2012 spring break, the Bi-Co 360
program traveled to northern Ghana to work in an impoverished
region to help build upon local educational advances. At the
beginning of the spring semester Bahn, along with 15 other
students, was accepted into the program which required enrollment
in literacies in education, teaching in the post-colony, and
culture and development. For ten days Bahn worked at a preschool in
the town of Delun with 2-5 year olds, helping to provide them with
a primary education that would benefit preschoolers in their later
schooling. She said that her “experiences in Ghana allowed
[her] to fuse together [her] primary academic interests: the
anthropological study of cultures through the lens of education and
schooling.”
Bahn brings her experiences back to the Education Reform Club,
which she joined last year. “The Education Reform Club
provides a forum for discussing current challenges and largely
debated remedies within the American education system,” she
explained. The club holds weekly dinner discussions, makes visits
to schools in Philadelphia, listens to speakers, and screens
movies. “I am able to take the theoretical material I learn
in my education classes and attempt to translate it into tangible
ideas, and hopefully someday results.”
When asked about her sacrifice to miss lacrosse games, Bahn
said, “it was in Ghana that I discovered just how invested I
am in my team. When you are half way across the world, engrossed in
a new place and new people and still obsessively checking team
emails and game stats and braving a swarm of flies and goats to try
to condition in 95-degree weather…that’s when my
experiences as a college lacrosse player were fully
solidified.”
Bahn is not only welcomed back to campus by the lacrosse team,
but also by the freshman in Apartment 46. “Being an HCO has
allowed me to meet an entirely new group of people on
Haverford’s campus. While I do not manage to see my freshman
as much as I would like, the dinners and get-togethers we are able
to share have been a great experience for me this year.” Bahn
also works as an admissions tour guide and host, and is a member of
the Student Admissions Advisory Committee.
– Josie Ferri ‘12
Haverford SAAC
SAAC is the college’s student-athlete advisory
committee, which discusses issues that affect the well-being of
Haverford’s student-athletes on campus and within the
Centennial Conference and the NCAA. For more information, please
check out the SAAC
website.
