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UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA At presstime, URLs had not been finalized for the home pages of the President’s and Provost’s offices Tuesday, shown here. Navigators can September 3, 1996 expect to find them by September 3 via Penn’s home page: Volume 43 Number 2 http://www.upenn.edu/ Credits for Page Construction: Penn Library’s CETI: Home on the Web IN THIS ISSUE 6 COST CONTAINMENT: Dr. Joseph Ryan Over the summer a host of new 2 Deaths of Dr. Digby Baltzell, Report of the Faculty Members Fr. Hermann Behrens, and on the University-Wide President’s Office: electronic resources have been Dr. Ernest Dale Cost Containment Committee Holly Loth, C’97 placed on line via the Penn Web. To note a handful of central ones: 3 Welcome Back: Dr. Rodin Provost’s Office: 10-13 Compass Features on The Changing University Alex Edelman, C’97 The President and the Provost are 10 Dr. White and the Revelations 4 The Summer of 1996; University Archives: mounting home pages that act as of Ban Chiang Naming a New Chaplain; Steven Morgan Friedman windows on the work of their 11 WEPIC’s South African Visitors offices, with links to many sites Offerings of the involved in the formation of plans Academic Resource Center; 12 Modifying Diels-Alder Reaction and academic initiatives for the PENNcard: Going Digital for Medicine and Industry 21st Century. 5 SENATE: Chair’s Overview 13 Well Said: Some Quotes of the 1996-97 Agenda; from Penn in the World’s Press The web site just opened by SEC Agenda for September 4; 14 OSHA Bulletins the University Archives (below Reports of SCAFR and the right) is not only a repository of Committee on the Faculty 15 CrimeStats, Bulletins history in words and images, but a working tool for answering Centerspread: September at Penn questions about Penn today. On the back cover: Among the most ambitious of the nation’s growing number of scanning initiatives is the Library’s new Center for Electronic Text and Image, based on unique materials gathered over the past 200 years by the University Librarians. And, not shown but newly online is the Faculty Senate’s home page, found at http://www.upenn.edu/ faculty_senate/. #211 Nichols House, 3600 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-6106 Why is this issue of Almanac individually addressed? We do this once a year to notify faculty and staff that the journal of record, opinion and news is back in weekly production, with Compass features continuing as a special section. (Job Opportunities resume weekly production next week; but see page 15 of this issue for information on finding them during breaks.) Normally Almanac is distributed via bulk drops to individual buildings, where each department chooses its own system for further distribution.To find out how the system works, try the departmental secretary first, or the head of the school or building mailroom. If all else fails, mail your label to Almanac (see address above), or fax it to us at 898-9137, adding your campus phone number so we can direct you to a source of help. Almanac and the Compass features are also available electronically at http://www.upenn.edu/almanac. 16 ALMANAC September 3, 1996 DEATHS Dr. Digby Baltzell: Philadelphia Gentleman and Scholar Dr. E. Digby Baltzell, the renowned Penn Outside the University, Dr. Baltzell’s fame sociologist whose studies of the White Protes- rested primarily on four well-known books. tant Anglo-Saxon establishment and the cre- Two that were produced early in his career ation of its acronym, WASP, made an indelible (the 1958 Philadelphia Gentlemen : The Making impression on the American consciousness, died of a National Upper Class, and the 1964 The on August 17 at the age of 80. Protestant Establishment : Aristocracy and Caste Dr. Baltzell, who had houses on Delancey in America) established his reputation—among Place in Philadelphia and in Wellfleet, Mass., American social commentators as well as schol- was vacationing at his summer home when he ars and students—as a man with something new was stricken with chest pains and hospitalized at to say and a persuasive way of saying it. He had Hyannis, then moved to Boston, where he passed studied the haves as other sociolgists studied the away at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. have-nots, identifying sociological factors that As the East Coast’s media learned of his he believed would bring about a decline in lead- death, reams of newsprint were once again de- ership if the ruling elite did not take its respon- voted to Dr. Baltzell’s work, just as they had sibilities and at the same time open its doors to been each time he delivered a new insight into rising new energies. the workings of the ruling elite of America. Decades later his Puritan Boston and Quaker Edward Digby Baltzell was born in Philadel- Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the phia to a comfortable but not privileged family, Spirit of Authority and Leadership contrasted and grew up in Chestnut Hill. He took his two styles of urban aristocracy, with Philadel- bachelor’s degree at Penn in 1940. After World phia coming off second best in the book though War II service as a naval aviator he earned his not in his own estimation as the preferred city to Ph.D. from Columbia and returned to Penn to live in. Last year in Sporting Gentlemen: Men’s become one of the University’s most popular Tennis from the Golden Age of Amateurism to and influential teachers as well as a best-selling the Cult of the Superstar, he identified Arthur author whose books were popular with the gen- Ashe as the “last best example of the gentle- eral public and at the same time respected by manly values of the amateur.” colleagues. Dr. Baltzell, whose first wife, the artist Jane An outstanding teacher who built lifetime Piper, died in 1991, is survived by two daugh- ties with many of his students, he won SAS’s Ira ters, Eve and Jan Baltzell and by his second wife, Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching in Jocelyn Carlson Baltzell and two step-daughters Dr. E. Digby Baltzell. The Department of 1985, an Alumni Award of Merit, the Philadel- Justina Carlton and Julie Carlson Groves. He is Sociology plans a campus memorial service phia Athenaeum’s Nonfiction Book Award, and also survived by a brother, Dr. William Baltzell, this month, to be announced shortly. honorary degreees from LaSalle College and the and a niece and two nephews. University of Pennsylvania. Rev. Hermann Behrens, Sumerian Scholar and Pastor The Rev. Hermann Behrens, a distinguished Sumerologist and who had been one of the core group of scholars in the University Museum’s Sumerian Dictionary Project for the past 15 years, died on August 1 at the age of 52. Only a month before his death Father Behrens had been named editor-in-chief of the dictionary project, a massive effort involving some 250 scholars worldwide who are working to produce 20 volumes (three have been completed so far). Considered a top-ranking Sumeriologist at 52, he was expected by his Museum colleagues to be the leader who would carry the project into the twenty-first century. He had just returned from a visit to his native Germany when he died, apparently of a heart attack in his sleep, at the Rectory of St. Frances de Sales in West Philadelphia. In addition to being an outstanding linguist and scholar of the world’s first oldest known written language, Father Behrens was also the choir director and pastor-in-residence at St. Frances de Sales, active in parish and community life in his adopted city. Born in Ankum, Germany, he was a member of the Order of the Sacred Heart who received his doctorate from Freiberg University and began his scholarly work as a student and teacher of the Old Testment. After participating in an archaeological expedition to Kamid el-loz in Lebanon in 1971-72, and after further study, he began teaching Near Eastern archaeology and Sumerology at Frieberg in 1979. The author of three books on Sumerian historical texts and one on Sumerian literature, he joined Penn in 1981 as a research associate on the Dictionary Project. He also taught courses in Near Eastern geography at Penn. A funeral mass was held on August 5 at St. Francis de Sales, celebrating his life as a scholar and priest noted for his warmth and humanity. On Thursday, September 12, Fr. Hermann Behrens. A campus service will be University colleagues will hold a memorial service at 4 p.m. in the University Museum. held September 12 at 4 p.m. in the Museum. Dr. Ernest Dale of Management At presstime Almanac was notified of the death of Dr. Ernest Dale, a longtime professor of management in the Wharton School whose worldwide scholarship and consulting influenced economic development across national boundaries. Details of his career will be published next week. 2 ALMANAC September 3, 1996 WELCOME BACK From the President The Changing University Over the summer, I have watched from my office window in It is certainly true that some Penn employees, through no fault of College Hall the rise of the structure that will become the Roy and their own, have lost jobs over the past year, and others will in the Diana Vagelos Laboratories of the Institute for Advanced Science future, as positions are eliminated in individual schools, departments, and Technology. As this important and impressive building has or offices over time. Since July 1, 1995, 160 positions have been taken shape, I’ve thought about the “construction” of the University discontinued across 18 administrative departments and schools.