About Larry Forman

Lawrence Forman '60 attended Westtown School before becoming one of the most graceful and versatile athletes in Haverford's long athletic history. Forman was the second HC basketball player to score 1,000 career points, leading the Fords to wins over Delaware and Navy in his last two years with the program. His deadly outside shooting and acrobatic drives to the basket often brought Alumni Field House alive with chants of "Roll, Fords, Roll."

Forman was equally successful on the soccer field where he was an All-American goalie his last two seasons on Coach Jimmy Mills' teams which played a schedule dominated by colleges which are today in NCAA Division I. He was also a fine quarter-miler on HC track teams. Forman's athletic ability, leadership qualities, support of teammates and grace under pressure won him great admiration.

He went on after Haverford to a career in social service, including relief work overseas. Forman met an untimely death in Thailand, fatally injured in a fall from a building which was being ravaged by fire.

About the Forman Award

Friends and relatives of Larry Forman approached the College in 1991 about creating an award in his honor. Haverford responded enthusiastically with an award designed to recognize someone whose athletic career in college and subsequent devotion to serving society was reminiscent of Forman.

The first award, fittingly, went to Harris David '60, Forman's basketball teammate and also captain of the HC baseball team. Harris has been for many years a public interest attorney in Northern New Jersey. Other Forman Award winners have included Bill O'Neil '73 (basketball/United Nations Human Rights specialist), Holly Taylor '80 (field hockey/physical therapist for seriously handicapped individuals) Ernest Prudente (long-time HC coach) and Bob Swift '68 (tennis/representative of victims of oppression in the Philippines).

Previous Award Recipients