22nd December 2010 9:00
By Blue Tutors
A tutor at the A Better Chance House (ABC) in Ardmore has become the 20th person to attend Haverford College and become a Rhodes Scholar according to the Main Line Times website. The tutor’s name is Andrew Lanham, and the scholarship gives him to opportunity to study at Oxford University for the next three years.
Lanham was considering applying to graduate programmes in the US, and in the meantime has been tutoring at ABC to make full use of his academic abilities. Graduating in English and Philosophy, Andrew is mainly a tutor of English – something he hopes to continue at an undergraduate level at Oxford, but he has also been helping students by tutoring Maths and Physics, and recalls that his most challenging task was supporting a student who was building a catapult.
Andrew accepted a position as a live-in-tutor at ABC shortly after graduating. The ABC is a college preparatory program, which tutors students from outside the Philadelphia area, in the hope that they might attend Lower Merion High School. The students live in the house on Ardmore, which also houses a number of tutors, and the director of ABC. Every evening the students are required to studying for 2-3 hours, and this was Lanham’s main role, tutoring students if and when they required his help.