August 14, 2009
(HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. This was updated August 28 and September 25, 2009.)As the academic year begins, some parents, students and faculty members have inquired about Earlham College's planning regarding the H1N1 flu as classes convene and our community once again begins to live, work and learn in close quarters. The College's Emergency Readiness and Response Planning (ERRP) committee began formulating pandemic flu plans as soon as the virus was isolated in the Spring and continues to monitor the situation.
The oldest building on campus is the Old Observatory, nestled between Landrum Bolling Center and Carpenter Hall. While it is in the center of a bustling area on campus today, when it was constructed in 1861, it was far away from the action. The first observatory on a college campus in Indiana, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Amelia Psmythe, a Portland, Ore., advocate for breast feeding says that she learned lessons on advocacy while an EC student.
Earlham College honored Sen. Allen Paul for his efforts to procure a traffic signal on National Road West at the College entrance.
Earlham earns excellent marks on the latest "green" survey of colleges and universities.
After decades of working to end the death penalty, Bruce L. Pearson '53, has turned his experiences into art. 
Earlham College has become an organ donor. The Barckhoff tracker pipe organ that has graced the front of Runyan Center's Hancock Room since 1983 has been dismantled and is on its way to the tropical lowlands of Santiago, Bolivia, thanks to the efforts of several EC alums.
Catch up on all the action with Earlham's dynamic new athletics Web site, goearlham.com. The site, which launched this month, contains many interactive features.
August 20, 2009
In the final installment of our five part series, we introduce you to members of the Earlham College Class of 2009 who tell us their stories about and reflect on their time at Earlham. In this episode: Kyla Pitts, Coleman Yunger, April Bowman and Elsa Sanchez share their stories.