CUPRAP President Anders Back has written a groundbreaking publication called Harcum College: A Centennial History, the first full-length publication to document the private Main Line institution ™s first hundred years.

On Saturday February 4, 2017  at 2 p.m. Back will discuss the research and writing of the book and read from selected chapters at the Haverford Township Free Library,1601 Darby Road, Haverford, PA.

The  book  contains dozens of carefully curated color and archival photos and was published by Donning Company Publishers. It is the culmination of years of research Back conducted, information first showcased in a series of history articles for the Harcum College magazine.

Harcum College was founded in 1915 by Edith Hatcher Harcum, a woman ahead of her time and probably the first woman to found a college in Pennsylvania. The  book  chronicles three significant phases in the 100-year history of the private college: œBeginnings,  œThe Klein Years  recognizing the significant leadership of the Klein family, and œThe 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, featuring a campus photo that Back himself shot.

The history  book  was published in October 2016. Harcum Trustee Louise Strauss said, “I’m floored at the amount of work this must have taken to produce a history that reads so well and shows the development of the College. At times, it was almost like reading a novel, as you wrote about what was going on in the outside world and its effect on Harcum,” For more information go to www.harcum.edu/historybook.