New History Book of Harcum College

Bryn Mawr, PA – September 21, 2016 – An 80-page history of Harcum College written by Anders Back, Director of Internal Communications and Publications, will be launched with an author talk and signing on October 8, 2016, at 11 a.m., on the West Lawn of the Trout Library on Harcum's Bryn Mawr Campus during 2016 Homecoming festivities.

The groundbreaking publication called Harcum College: A Centennial History contains dozens of color and archival photos and was published by Donning Company Publishers. It is the first full-length publication to document the private Main Line institution’s first hundred years. Harcum College was founded in 1915 by Edith Hatcher Harcum, a woman ahead of her time.

A Main Line book tour follows the October 8 launch. Upcoming book talks for Harcum College: A Centennial History happening on the Main Line include:

• Wednesday, October 12, 6 p.m., Ardmore Free Library Processing Center
• Sunday, October 16, 2:00 pm, Haverford Township Free Library, 1st Floor
• Saturday, December 10, 11 a.m., Ludington Library, Bryn Mawr, Auditorium

The book chronicles three significant phases in the 100-year history of the private college: “Beginnings,”
“The Klein Years” recognizing the significant leadership of the Klein family, and “The 70s and Beyond.” Harcum selected an environmentally sound cover created by Ecological Fibers for the hardbound volume. Each book comes with a full-color dust jacket.

Author Anders R. Back has worked as a director within the Communications Department at Harcum
College since 2007. Back formerly served as Director of Communications at Montgomery County Community College for twelve years and held marketing communications positions at Philadelphia University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised on the Main Line, he has a B.A. degree from Antioch College and an M.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His interests include digital and print media, 20th century political and social history as well as the history of Philadelphia and the surrounding region. Back has been an active free-lance writer since 1990.

This history is available for pre-order now for $39.95 and can be placed online order at harcum.edu/historybook. Contact Gale Martin in the Marketing & Communications Department at gmartin@harcum.edu for more information.

About Harcum College

Since Harcum’s founding in 1915 as a music school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Harcum College has become a durable and exceptional presence, transforming lives and careers, empowering, enlightening, and enriching its alumni, confounding its critics, and emerging in the twenty-first century as one of the leading
independent associate degree granting institutions in the United States. Harcum’s full story, and particularly that of founders Edith Hatcher Harcum and Octavius Marvin Harcum, has never been told before. From its deep roots in Virginia with the Hatcher and Harcum families to its acquisition by The Junto and the Klein family in the 1950s and its flowering in the past decade as a popular destination for students majoring in allied health, business, and social sciences, Harcum’s history is a unique mix of personalities and programs
revealed in the pages of Harcum College: A Centennial History.