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Class of 1969 – 50Th Reunion Then and Now Campus Tour 1 Class of 1969 – 50th Reunion Then and Now Campus Tour 1. Houston Hall - exit on Spruce St. Houston Hall was the country’s first student union martial arts and aerobics as well as a juice bar. Just like when you were at completed in 1896. It originally featured a 4 lane bowling alley, swimming pool, gym Penn! If you look west on Walnut Street, you can imagine Smokey Joe’s and locker room in the basement. A student lounge, billiards room and reception at 38th and Walnut. It is now on 40th St. If you look east, you can picture area were located on the first floor. An auditorium, athletic department and trophy Pagano’s. room were on the second floor and offices for student clubs including The Daily 10. Walk down Walnut to Penn Book Store and Hill Square. The Institute of Pennsylvanian were on the third floor. Houston Hall is still in use today with lower Contemporary Art (ICA) is at 118 S 36th St. The Penn Bookstore Building level food court and upper floor performance spaces, meeting rooms and offices for also contains The Inn at Penn, The Faculty Club and numerous shops student organizations. and restaurants. The bookstore itself is a combination of a full service 2. Claudia Cohen Hall formerly Logan Hall opened for use as the Medical School in 1874. academic bookstore and a Barnes and Noble. The computer connection When the Medical School moved to Hamilton Walk, Logan Hall became home to the is housed in the bookstore. As we walk down Walnut, remember the Wharton School. With the completion of Vance Hall, the last Wharton programs left State Store and The Dirty Drug at 34th and Walnut. Logan Hall and the building became home to several School of Arts and Science Walk down 33rd St past Engineering Buildings- Moore which houses departments as well as University Life and other administrative offices. It houses the 11. ENIAC the first electronic general-purpose computer, Towne, class of 1969 Lecture Room G1,7 our 35th reunion gift. This is now used for admissions. Rittenhouse, Levine, and Skirkanich. Skirkanich Hall promotes an 3. Face the Quad which is of course co-ed today. When Class of 1969 was at Penn, you enhanced connection between the School of Engineering and Applied lived in dorms. Students today live in College Houses. There are 5 first year Houses, Sciences (SEAS) and the greater Penn academic community. Continue 4 four year Houses and 3 upper class Houses. These range from 24 story high rises past the Palestra and Franklin Field. Notice the statue of Young Ben with over 800 students to smaller 4 story Houses with 170 students. Every House or Youthful Franklin (Tait McKenzie). Weiss Pavilion at Franklin Field is different in focus and tradition. There are also over 40 specialized “theme floors” houses an intercollegiate athletic weight training room and recreation called Program communities in which students may choose to live in a smaller fitness center. Once you get to Spruce Street you will see the University community within the Houses. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Do you remember Art History lectures in the auditorium? 4. Pass The Wistar Institute, a major research facility not directly part of Penn and The Class of 1956 Trolley replica which remembers the days when trolleys ran down 12. Vagelos Lab: Institute for Advanced Science and Technology with 102,00 Woodland Ave. right through the center of the Green- before 1965. square feet of research, office and meeting space in bioengineering, chemistry, chemical engineering and medicine. We are passing Irvine 5. Platt Performing Arts House advises and trains students pursuing their extra-curricular Auditorium completed in 1932 by the firm of Horace Trumbauer. It is passions for the performing arts and those preparing for a career in the arts. The noted for its nearly 11,000 pipe Curtis Organ. Platt House includes Room 177: “Class of 1969” This space was our 40th reunion gift a medium size music room that features a baby grand piano and ample space for small 13. Back to College Hall and Blanche Levy Park ( The Green). The Green to medium sized ensembles. is surrounded by the Furness Fisher Fine Arts Library ( designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness), Meyerson Hall home of the Penn 6. Enter Tannenbaum Quad – Vance Hall and Lauder Institute of Management and School of Design (recently named the Stuart Weitzman W’63 School of International Studies which offers a joint degree – an MA from the School of Arts and Design), and Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. This is still the center of campus Sciences and an MBA from Wharton or a JD from the Law School. This was built to life with Ben Franklin (John Boyle) seated in front of College Hall. One of house Wharton’s graduate education program. 80 works in Penn’s collection featuring Ben Franklin. Public art at Penn began as a part of a 1959 Phila law calling for 1% of construction costs Huntsman Hall/ Locust Walk/ McNeil Building for social sciences. Huntsman Hall 7. to be set aside for fine arts. The Green has benefitted from this law with is Wharton’s biggest building opened in 2002. It houses Wharton graduate and the Peace Sign (Engman) and Split Button (Claus Oldenberg) outside undergraduate divisions as well as Marketing, Legal Studies, Statistics and Operations of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library and the Love Statue (Robert Indiana). and Information Departments. In 1969, you will remember, this was the location of the College Hall, the first building on campus, still contains the offices of the Bookstore and Kelly and Cohen’s. president and provost. It was also the inspiration for The Addams Family 8. Down 37th St to Walnut past the Graduate School of Education Building part of a home conceived by Penn alumnus Charles Adams. Note that the Ivy Day quadrangle of academic building that received a renovation in 2001 to create a new Tradition continues today. entry and presence on Walnut St. 14. Walk to Ben on the Bench (George Lundeen). Notice that he is reading 9. 37th and Walnut/ Annenberg Center cross Street to Pottruck Gym. The Annenberg the Pennsylvania Gazette- the newspaper he owned and published, now Center for Performing Arts opened in 1971. It contains 3 theaters and is adjacent to the Penn Alumni Association magazine. the Annenberg School of Communication. The Pottruck Health and Fitness center is across the street and contains a climbing wall, a golf stimulator, swimming pool, Tour created by Wendy Cantor Santoro, CW’69, GED’71 3 basketball courts, a spinning room, pro shop and multi-purpose room for dance, The Penn Art Collection - www.artcollection.upenn.edu/ 30TH STREET STATION 30th Street and Market Street MARKET STREET 50TH REUNION LUDLOW STREET CAMPUS MAP The Study CHESTNUT STREET w New College House ICA Golkin Hall Penn La REET SANSOM STREET TREET TREET TREET TREET e Class of ’69 Green T REE ST REET Franklin ST er s Annex REET Pottruck ST City Tap onomic Hill House ST 40TH 39TH 39TH 36TH S 34TH S 33RD S 38TH S Inn@Penn 30TH House Gym Penn lman Cent Franklin Fresh re ks Bookstore Building buc 7TH Grocer Pe for Political Scienc and Ec Star 9 3 10 WALNUT STREET Du Bois CH GSE 8 rg Addams Fisher Moore Hall Bennett GRW David Annenberg Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Rittenhouse Center Annenbe Labs n Kelly Writer’s vine Annenberg Skirkanich House PPC ardt Penn rson Lerner Le Smokey Womens ye Solomo Center Joes Rodin CH SteinhHillel Perry Huntsman Stiteler Center Me World C Arthur Ross House Caster Sweeten Morgan Towne Building Alumni Gallery GS Bldg. 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