Haverford Athlete Forsakes Competition for Caring
by Mike Jensen, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Heidi Jutsum walked through Philadelphia International Airport last week, just off a flight, wearing a Haverford College sweatshirt and sandals, carrying a backpack and small athletic bag. She looked like any other sleepy-eyed college student returning from a fall-break trip.
This was her trip: Flying to Guatemala City, meeting with officials from a Mayan widows' and orphans' group, conferring with an official from the Guatemalan vice president's office and with the Canadian ambassador, and awaiting an Air Canada plane with supplies meant for a village virtually buried by a mudslide caused by a hurricane that went almost unnoticed in the United States.
That was just the start of her journey."
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