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January 1968 Luce, Harris Named Faculty, Administration Give University Professors Two faculty members were named $3 Million to University Professors by the Board of Capital Campaign Trustees during their meeting last A total of 1,630 faculty and staff the country couldn't ask for a more month. They are Dr. Robert Duncan members of the University of Pennsyl- heartwarming vote of encouragement." Luce, professor of psychology, and Dr. vania have given $3,288,682 anony- It is hoped that by the May Trustees Zellig Harris, professor of linguistics. mously to its Development Program, meeting, at least 75 percent of the faculty University professorships were estab- Wilfred D. Gillen, chairman of the and staff will have participated. lished at Pennsylvania in 1961 to honor University's trustees, announced in Leading the appeal among the aca- those faculty members who are particu- December. demic faculties is Dr. George 'W. Taylor, larly distinguished in scholarship and It is believed that this is the larg- Harnwell Professor of Industry and whose contributions to knowledge have est amount ever contributed by any noted labor mediator; among the medical been made in more than one discipline, faculty and administration to a campaign faculties, Dr. Richard H. Chamberlain, rather than in a narrow field of speciali- of this kind. Over 50 percent have con- chairman of the Radiology Department zation. Dr. Luce and Dr. Harris are the tributed to the campaign. in the School of Medicine; and among eighth and ninth scholars to be named Gillen said the faculty-staff gifts had the administrative staff, Dr. Donald S. University Professors. given the campaign "its greatest inspira- Murray, assistant to the president for Dr. Luce was graduated from Massa- tional lift." federal relations and professor of chusetts Institute of Technology with a "Our teachers and supporting staff statistics. B.S. in aeronautical engineering and ob- have told us in a most convincing way (continued on page 4) tained his Ph.D. in mathematics there that they believe in what we are doing," five years later. Before coming to Penn- he commented. "They set their own sylvania in 1959, he held positions at quota of $3,000,000. Having topped it, Appropriations Approved MIT, Columbia University and Har- they are shooting for more. Our vol- State appropriations to the University, vard. (continued on page 2) unteer workers and donors throughout totaling $11,227,845, were approved by the Legislature in the closing hours of its 1967 session. Limits The amount represents a five percent Proposal University Research reduction in the amounts recommended by Governor Shafer in his budget mes- To Which Are Publishable sage last spring. The cuts produced final Projects allocations of $2,004,800 to the School A proposal limiting University re- or revised to exclude such a requirement of Medicine; $1,352,800 to the School of search to projects whose results are pub- as rapidly as possible; in no event will Veterinary Medicine; $95,000 to the lishable was passed 106 to 35 by the any such contract or grant be renewed or University Museum; and $7,775,245 to Faculty Senate at their meeting Novem- extended for more than one year beyond the general operating fund of the Uni- ber 27. its present expiration, nor in any case versity. The bill, earlier adopted by the Uni- beyond June 30, 1970. The appropriations are for the 1967- versity Council, was proposed by Law The policy statement sets up new 68 fiscal year, which began last June School professor Paul Mishkin. Mish- proceduresthe in accepting, carrying out, 30th. Approval hadby been delayed kin is chairman of the Committee on publicizing and administrating research political deadlock over revenue measures Implementing University Policy in the projects. required to produce the funds. Conduct of Research Programs which The University, the statement says, State appropriations represent about 8 produced the policy statement. as a corporate entity" can accept only percent of the University's total operat- According to the statement, all exist- external research contracts "whose prin- ing income, but a substantially larger ing contracts of grants requiring formal cipal purpose is to produce results which proportion of the "core" budget for basic security notification will be phased out (continued on page 3) educational expenses. THE ALMANAC Council To Have Students Alumni Seminars Fels Institute Studies On Three Committees Prove Successful Use of System Analysis the A demonstration to evaluate The University Council voted Decem- Academic seminars conducted by project the use of advanced of ber 13 to admit undergraduate represent- University for alumni in Puerto Rico techniques sys- in atives to membership on three of its have proved so successful, similar sessions tems analysis solving major urban be held in other cities across the has been undertaken the committees-undergraduate affairs, plan- may problems by Fels Institute of Local and State Gov- fling and development, and continuing country. ernment its education and community services. The seminars, held December 1 and 2 through Government Studies The Council's action will allow two in San Juan, were conducted under the Center. The year-long project, which is student representatives to sit on each auspices of the Alumni Relations office. funded by a grant from the U. S. De- of and Urban Devel- of the committees. Only one student vote Eight faculty members participated, in- partment Housing is conducted in per committee will be allotted. However, cluding President Harnwell. opment, being cooperation with International non-voting students on each committee One of the most successful enterprises the City Managers Association, the American of will succeed to voting positions the fol- of this nature planned by the University, Society Officials, and the National Bu- lowing year. the Seminars drew over 800 participants Planning reau of Standards. Student representatives on the Com- in their two-day program. Approxi- According to Charles P. Cella, Ad- mittees had been recommended October mately 35 percent of those attending ministrator of the Government Studies 5 by the University Forum, an advisory were alumni and the rest interested Center, the will include two one- group of students, faculty and admin- business, government, and education project week for selected istrators. On November 22 the Steering leaders. symposia city managers and urban planning directors. Controlled Committee of the University Council The idea of the seminars originated experiments will be conducted involving voted to recommend the proposal. with alumni in Puerto Rico (numbering governmental policy bodies, city execu- 400) who wanted to sponsor an educa- tives and staff, faculty members of uni- tional which would be non- program versities near the cities chosen for the University Professors fundraising. A year's planning went into experiments, and research staff of the (continued from page 1) the seminars which from eight ranged Government Studies Center. Dr. Luce is considered one of the fore- labor relations to the cultural heritage The first of the symposia was held most theoretical in the and future of Puerto Rico. psychologists at the Municipal Services Building in members in the world today. He has done extensive re- Faculty taking part Philadelphia, November 12-17, with fif- included Dr. Irwin Friend, search in the application of mathematical program pro- teen city managers and sixteen planning in the social and behavioral fessor of economics and finance, who techniques directors from cities throughout the sciences, in and in the seminar on recent particularly game theory participated United States attending. in the U.S. financial mar- utility theory. The author of over 69 developments At the second symposium, to be held ket; Dr. Dan McGill, chairman and journal articles and numerous books, in August or September of 1968, results he is a member of the of of insurance, who Society Experi- professsor participated of the experimental projects will be eval- mental Psychologists and the American in two seminars, one entitled "Insurance uated and recommendations formulated. Academy of Arts and Sciences. -Property, Liability & Casualty" and Dr. Harris has been a member of the the other entitled 'Life Insurance"; and faculty since 1931 and received his B.A., Dr. Froelich Rainey, Director of the Robert McCorkle Dies; M.A., and Ph.D. here. He was the first University Museum who spoke at lunch chairman of the reconstituted Depart- and later took part in the seminar on the Head of Printing Office ment of Linguistics and served as such cultural heritage and future of Puerto Robert C. McCorkle, director of the for fifteen years. Rico. University's Printing Office since 1963, Dr. Harris has been concerned with Others participating included Dr. died November 16 at Graduate Hospital methods used in structural linguistics and Reavis Cox, professor of marketing, after being stricken at work the previous his work helped lay the groundwork for who took part in the seminar on market- morning. He was 36. transformational grammar. Particularly ing; Dr. John Lubin, director of the Before becoming Printing Office di- interested in the mathematical analysis Computer Center and associate professor rector, McCorkle was associated with of linguistic structure, Dr. Harris is cur- of industry who dealt with computeriza- A. Pomerantz & Co., printers, in Phila- rently attempting to convert chemical tion; Dr. Howard Mitchell, director and delphia. From 1955 to 1957 he was a notation into linear form and is respon- professor of Human Resources Program compositor at The Wistar Institute and sible for developing a research project who took part in the seminar on sociology in 1957 joined the printing office as as- on information retrieval that has been and human relations; and Walter Isard, sistant production manager later becom- going on for several years under federal chairman and professor of regional sci- ing production manager. auspices. ence who along with Drs.
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