VOLUME 16, NUMBER 6 FEBRUARY, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF

Martin Meyerson of State University of N.Y., at Buffalo Elected President by Trustees to Succeed Dr. Harnwell The election of , nation- recessed on January 16. A joint trustee, governance, and community problems af- ally prominent authority on urban affairs faculty, and student committee established fecting the character of this independent and university governance, as President- criteria and procedures for the selection of urban university in a time of dramatic designate of the University was announced a new president and subsequently served as change. Our joint trustee, faculty, student Wednesday, January 28, by William L. the search committee which unanimously committee was particularly pleased to find Day, Chairman of the Trustees. He will recommended his appointment. Meyerson and recommend a man who enjoys national succeed Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell when the was the first choice of the search committee, respect for his contributions to the relevant latter retires from the presidency in Sep- which considered approximately 200 nomi- issues confronting all higher education and, tember, 1970. nations made by all members of the Uni- at the same time, is familiar with the Uni- Mr. Meyerson, president of the State versity. versity of Pennsylvania and the University of at Buffalo since Mr. Meyerson, who was a member of community with which it has been in- 1966, is also currently serving as Chairman, the University's city planning faculty from extricably linked since Colonial days. The Assembly on University Goals and 1952-1957, will become the 19th chiefexecu- "His election will help insure for the 70's Governance, which was established in Sep- tive officer of the University. the pre-eminent position of strength which tember, 1969, by The American Academy of In announcing Meyerson's election, Day, has characterized the University of Penn- Arts and Sciences. The Assembly is charged who also served as chairman of the joint sylvania under 's dis- with "exploring, developing, and helping criteria-search committee, said: "At this tinguished stewardship of 17 years." to implement alternative approaches for particular juncture in the University of In response to his election, Mr. Meyerson resolving some of the principal issues af- Pennsylvania's history, Martin Meyerson made the following statement: "No fecting colleges and universities today." comes to us endowed by temperament and American city in our generation has remade His election took place at a reconvened experience with the ability to deal sensi- itself as dramatically as Philadelphia. The meeting of the Trustees which had been tively and innovatively with the academic, renaissance of the University of Pennsyl- vania has paralleled that of the city. One of the most important satisfactions of my life was to be part of both. Therefore, it is with Interest in the greatest pleasure that I return to where Great Cities Reflected much of my professional and academic career was established. Together with the In Career and Trustees, the professors, the students, and Meyerson's Writing (continued on page 4) As former director of the MIT-Harvard From 1952 to 1957, Mr. Meyerson was a Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1959-63; member of the University of Pennsylvania and later as a faculty member and Dean of faculty as an associate professor and then the College of Environmental Design at the professor of city and regional planning. Trustees Endorse Meetings University of California at Berkeley, 1963- (continued on page 6) On Unit 3 Land Use 66; as well as Buffalo's president, Mr. Meyerson has long been concerned with The Trustees resolved at their meeting the interaction betweeen the university and January 16, that the "...full Board of the urban community. Trustees of the University confirms the He was at Berkeley when the Free Speech resolution of its Executive Board adopted movement of 1964 began on that campus. on November 14, 1969, and requests that In the midst of the crisis he was appointed the Board of the (University City) Science acting chancellor and was generally cred- Center expedite to the extent possible a ited with easing the tense situation during response to the Quadripartite Commission the remainder of the academic year. In (on University-Community Development) 1966, he was named President of the State concerning the charrette proposals." University of New York at Buffalo. During It was also resolved that ". . . the Trustees 1944-45 he was a member ofthe staff of the endorse the proposal of Science Center Philadelphia City Planning Commission. officers that direct negotiations be entered He served the as an into between representatives of the Science assistant professor in the planning program Center andthe Quadripartite Commission." of the College of Social Sciences from The Trustees noted that on November 14 1948 to 1952. Martin Meyerson (continued on page 3)

Bernard Wolfman Elected Peace Monument Dean of the Law School

The new monument to peace on College resolution endorsing the monument at its Bernard Wolfman, professor of law here Hall quadrangle adjacent to the Van Pelt October 30 meeting, and reads, "This since 1963, has been elected by the Trustees and Dietrich Libraries was dedicated on monument erected by members of the as Dean of the Law School, effective July I. January 27. The nine-foot diameter monu- University Community symbolizesour com- He succeeds Jefferson B. Fordham, Dean ment is formed of stainless steel in the mitment to peace and the principle of since 1952, who will become University shape of the traditional peace symbol in- self-determination of peoples, as well as our Professor of Law. corporating the semaphore signals for N deep sorrow over the deaths in the Viet- Before joining the Law School faculty, and D (i.e., nuclear disarmament) in a namese War of millions of Vietnamese and Mr. Wolfman had been a member of the circle. tens of thousands of Americans, including Philadelphia law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr Rev. Mr. William Sloane Coffin, Chaplain alumni of this University." and Solis-Cohen since 1948, where he was of Yale University, spoke at a dedicatory Thecost of the monument is being funded a partner. He received both the bachelor service held in Irvine Auditorium. A state- by individual contributions from students, of arts (1946) and bachelor of laws (1948) ment on the reasons for establishing the faculty and staff of a maximum of $1 per degrees here. monument was read by George Castelle, person. Contributions may be made through While a member of the faculty, Mr. a senior in the College, who is one of five the office of the Vice-Provost for Student Wolfman served as general counsel of the student members of the committee ap- Affairs, 110 College Hall, or the Com- American Association of University Pro- pointed in November by President Harnwell munity of Students office in Houston Hall. fessors from 1966 to 1968 and was a con- to plan for the monument. The introduction Other members of the committee on the sultant on tax policy to the U. S. Treasury was given by John A. Russell, Jr., Vice- monument are Donald K. Angell, Vice Department from 1963 to 1968. He was a Provost for Student Affairs and chairman President-Assistant to the President; Dr. member of the advisory group to the U. S. of the monument committee. Lee Benson, professor of history; Dr. Commissioner of Internal Revenue in At outdoor ceremonies adjacent to the Hennig Cohen, professor of English; 1966-67. He also served in 1968 as chair- monument, a dedicatory prayer was led by Robert M. Engman, professor of fine arts; man of Sen. Eugene McCarthy's Task Force Rev. Mr. Stanley E. Johnson, University Richard B. Grose, a junior in the College; on Tax Reform and Tax Policy, and is the Chaplain, and vice-chairman of the com- Dr. John N. Hobstetter, Vice-Provost for author of Federal Income Taxation of Busi- mittee. The inscription on the monument Research and Acting Associate Provost; ness Enterprise, published last year. was read by Lawrence R. Cohen, a senior in Neil S. Lutsky, a senior in the Wharton Mr. Wolfman is presently chairman of the College and also a member of the School; Dr. John W. McCoubrey, professor the University Senate and of the Task monument committee. The text of the in- of the history of art; Dennis C. Wood, a Force on Governance. sripion is based on the University Council's junior in the College. Senate Acts on Research Policy New StaffMembers Named The University Senate at a special meet- statement under which detailed descrip- In External Office ing on February 5, endorsed the recom- tions of research proposals will not be gen- Affairs mendation from the Joint Council-Senate erally released by the University without James Robinson has been named assis- Committee for Implementing University the consent of the faculty investigator con- tant director and Andrew J. Sullivan ap- Policy on the Conduct of Research Pro- cerned. At the same time, any investigator pointed coordinator of community-related grams which states that the elimination of who does not wish to give such consent will programs in the office of the Assistant to classified research contracts at the Uni- have to prepare a detailed abstract of the the President for External Affairs, now versity has been completed. In 1967, the project (to be submitted and processed with located in 117 College Hall. University Council and the Senate had the original proposal through all stages) Mr. Sullivan is a former planner in the adopted a policy against the continuance of which will be generally available and which Office of Planning and Design and will now conducted classified research contracts and this was (continued on page 7) have responsibility for projects supported by the Trustees. The original formerly through the Office of Community date for conclusion of any classified re- Relations as well as for facilitating Univer- search was July 1, 1970. sity participation in community programs. Concerning research projects not under Daniel O'Kane Named Dean Mr. Robinson, who comes to the Univer- University contract the Senate endorsed the Of the Graduate School sity from the United Fund of Philadelphia following statement: "Any research pro- where he was director of community ser- gram utilizing University personnel and Dr. Daniel J. O'Kane, professor of vices, will work closely with community facilities on campus must comply fully with microbiology and Associate Dean of the organizations including those already in- all criteria and requirements of University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has volved in joint programs such as Project Policy on the Conduct of Research Pro- been appointed the School's Acting Dean, MANTUA and the Quadripartite Com- grams. Normally such work is (and should President Harnwell has announced. mission on University-Community Devel- be) carried out under a contract or grant to Dr. O'Kane was Vice-Dean from 1966 to opment. which the University is a party, but the 1968, when he was named Associate Dean. He will also help create new programs stated policy will be fully applicable in any Hesucceeds Dr. John N. Hobstetter, who that draw on the joint resources of the event." This policy is not intended to inter- has been named by Dr. Harnwell to serve University and the community, and will fere with normal individual consulting as Acting Associate Provost. seek to broaden the University's contact relationships. Dr. Hobstetter also has served as Vice- with Greater Delaware Valley institutions, Concerning release of information about Provost for Research since 1967, and con- business and industry, in joint approaches research projects, the Senate endorsed a (continued on page 11) to community problems.

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Hospital Expansion Approved; Tuition and Fees Increased by $200 New Trustees Named the Trustees at their Janu- Tuition and fees for most full-time stu- been most significant in helping to reduce Approved by was continuation of dents will be raised by $200 per year to an deficits in the current year as well as in ary meeting planning for the revised Centennial Plan for annual level of $2,550 at the start of the previous years," Dr. Harnwell said. expan- sion of the of the of 1970-71 academic year in September, Presi- "Because of necessary increases in the Hospital University This first known as dent Harnwell has announced. level of student financial aid to permit able Pennsylvania. phase, Joint Also the rental rates in existing Univer- and needy students to attend, we will gain Independent Management (JIM), will facilities for non-medical ser- sity residence halls will be increased in only about 54 cents from each additional provide will shared 1970-71 to make the average rates range dollar of tuition revenue," said Harold E. vices that be by University Hos- and Children's of Philadel- generally from $600 to $720 per year. The Manley, Vice-President for Business and pital Hospital increase will be $50 in the Men's Dormi- Financial Affairs. "Tuition was increased phia. The new Children's Hospital now is tories and Hill Hall (the largest women's because the University desperately needs under construction on 34th Street south of dormitory) and $100 in the otherresidences. the funds to balance the basic educational University Hospital. A separate rental rate schedule has been operating budget." He said that tuition and Expenditure of $997,000 was authorized established for the new high-rise apartment fees provide 57 per cent of the income to for initial construction and additional plan- and dormitory complexes which are this budget (totaling $50 million of the ning of JIM. Space in the basement of scheduled to open in September. overall some $150 million in the total several University Hospital buildings, as Concerning the increase in tuition, Dr. University budget). "Use of these well as in a courtyard, will be renovated or Harnwell said that a December meeting of unrestricted funds is not limited to any excavated to house such service facilities the Ivy League universities policy com- specific purpose and it is in this budget that as central processing, receiving, food serv- mittee brought out clearly that our sister the critical deficit situation exists. By con- ice, linen handling, mail room, purchasing, institutions are experiencing similar finan- trast, the restricted budgets, where funds pharmacy production, plant and grounds cial problems. He also noted that a recent must be used for specified purposes, are maintenance, waste disposal and the print survey among many of the nation's largest essentially balanced," Mr. Manley said. shop. indicates G. chairman of the independent universities the pros- Frederick Kempin, In addition, expenditure of $254,000 was Council's on Tuition pect of a continuing pattern of tuition University Committee authorized for continued planning by archi- increases. Among the universities partici- and Fees and Vice-Dean of the Wharton tects for expansion of University Hospital, pating in this survey, the lowest increase School of Finance and Commerce, stated which will be constructed over part of the in tuition for the coming academic year is that "this increase in tuition will not in JIM structure. $100 and the highest is $400. itself answer the need to balance outgo In their report in January to the Trustees, "Proceeds from our Annual Giving cam- with income, but hopefully it will help us the University's planning consultants said paign and other unrestricted income have from getting further into a deficit situation." the two hospitals could more effectively utilize their present personnel, because they Land Use... would make joint use of this expensive equipment in properly designed new facilities. (continued from page 1) Unit 3 was adopted: In other action Charles D. the Executive Board of the Trustees had WHEREAS a Committee Dickey, Jr., Planning spon- President of Scott was elected a resolution which endorsed the sored the Commission Paper Co., adopted by Quadripartite a Term Trustee to serve for five He of the charrette for has an alternative land use years. concept plan calling proposed plan is as Chairman of the Parents Cam- mixed residential and institutional to that in the current Urban serving develop- approved in the 1970 Annual ment in Unit 3, and that the Renewal Plan for Area paign Giving program, redevelopment Redevelopment and is a director of Scott as well as Executive Board had directed the Unit and Paper appro- 3: of Insurance of North America, officers of the to exercise WHEREAS the Science Company priate University University City the Greater Chamber of Com- in their behalf their best influence on the has, a fundamental Philadelphia Center as objective, merce, and Trust in Unit 3 to the end that those the of human welfare: There- Morgan Guaranty Co., redevelopers improvement of New York. His son is a member of the their land use to be fore be it RESOLVED: That the Chairman developers adjust plans Class of 1971 in the Wharton School of consistent with the be authorized to a subcommittee principles underlying appoint Finance and Commerce. the land reuse plan advocated by the plan- to negotiate with representatives of the ning charrette, which was sponsored in Quadripartite Commission relative to the Wesley A. Stanger, Jr., of Cranford, October by the Quadripartite Commission specific proposals of the Charrette with N. J., has been elected by alumni residing and conducted by the Young Great Society regard to the legal and practical consider- in Region 2 of the General Alumni Society Architecture and Planning Center. ations of the proposed plan and, any modi- to a five-year term as an Alumni Trustee. Negotiations concerning the use of cer- fications thereof. In entering into negotia- Mr. Stanger, a 1929 graduate of the Whar- tain land presently assigned to the Uni- tions the Science Center does so with the ton School, is senior partner in the New versity City Science Center in Urban sincere desire that a mutually agreeable York stock brokerage firm of Riter and Co. Renewal Unit 3 are being conducted solution will be reached. Such negotiations Mr. Stanger will represent alumni residing between a special subcommittee of the are to be consistent with recognition of the in New York, New Jersey (excluding the Science Center board of directors and University City Science Center's basic greater Camden area), Pennsylvania (ex- the area), representatives of the University's Quadri- objective, i.e., thecurrentlyapproved Urban cluding greater Philadelphia Puerto Rico and the Islands. partite Commission on University-Com- Renewal Plan, as well as with the Corpo- Virgin munity Development. ration's desire to serve the best interests of Mr. Stanger is chairman for the New At a January 20 meeting of the Science the surrounding community. The results of York Metropolitan Area in the Univer- Center board the following resolution con- such negotiations are to be presented to sity's 1970 Annual Giving campaign and cerning the negotiation on land use in the Board of Directors for ratification. (continued on page 11)

A'! of a great urban university in America of eyerson... today, and Pennsylvania can look forward History University's (continued from page 1) to an era of rapid progress under his Chief Executives Outlined of was the alumni, I look forward to building upon leadership." The University Pennsylvania the tremendous educational achievements Bernard Wolfman, Dean-Elect of the unique among American universities in of President Gaylord P. Harnwell." Law School, Member of the Search Com- having no office of President until 1921. President Harnwell said, "The University mittee, said, "We have been fortunate in From the time of founding in the Colonial until that the Provost was the is very fortunate indeed to have secured this attracting a man with outstanding profes- period year, chief executive officer of the distinguished educational leader as its in- sional qualifications and familiarity with University. The initial move toward creation of the coming president. Martin Meyerson's ex- our faculty and our institution. It is heart- office of President camewhen Gen. Leonard perience in all phases of university opera- ening to see a man who got to know both Wood was elected to the new in tion and administration has been extensive our strengths and our problems, while position 1921. the Trustees that and varied; he is deeply concerned with the serving as a member of the University Upon agreement by Gen. Wood's title should be President, Dr. fostering of the highest quality in academic faculty, choose to return to accept the Josiah Penniman, a former performance; and he is a sensitive leader in challenges of the presidency. I know the Vice-provost, was named Provost. There was no clear the progressive currents of the national members of the faculty who worked with differentiation of that the educational scene. His particular expertise Meyerson while he was here will be pleased powers except President was to be head and the Provost in the areas of political science and sociology to learn he is returning, and that all faculty was to be in charge of morepurely academic could not be more responsive to the needs (continued on page 5) affairs. While he accepted the position of President, Gen. Wood continued to serve as Governor-General of the Philippines. Statistical of Achievements Upon the insistence of the Trustees that he Summary assume his office by Jan. 1, 1923, Gen. Wood resigned from the position on Dec. Under Dr. Harnwell Detailed 18, 1922, without ever exercising the powers of his office. In a letter to Trustees, faculty, and stu- The following statistical summary illus- On Oct. 15, 1923, Dr. Penniman was dents seeking nominations for the presi- trates in part the dramatic progress of the elected President and continued to serve as dency of the University, William L. Day, University since Gaylord Harnwell became Provost. In 1926, the title of President was Chairman of the Trustees, wrote: "As you President in July 1953. abolished by the Trustees, only to be re- know, President Harnwell has publicly an- created in 1930 for President Thomas S. Facilities nounced his desire to retire on or around Physical Gates. Dr. Penniman served as Provost construction his sixty-seventh birthday on September 29, Since 1953, some 100 major until 1939. cost 1970. His retirement will bring to a close a projects have been completed at a total Following is a list of the chief executive distinguished stewardship which has seen of approximately $117,000,000, including officers of the University and the periods in our great University ever striving for aca- 35 new buildings. An additional 15 projects which they served. demic excellence and increasing its stature are underway at an estimated cost of Years esti- among educational institutions and leading $93,830,830. Six more projects at an Served the way in handling the sensitive problems mated cost of $14,321,228 are scheduled to William Smith 1754-1779 In the which confront academic leaders on all begin this academic year. planning 1779-1802 major campuses of the nation." stage are projects estimated at $100,574,364. John McDowell 1806-1810 1953 1969 1810-1813 Frederick 1813-1828 $174,874,000 Beasley Plant Value...... $ 56,140,000 William H. DeLancey 1828-1834 199,484,000 Endowment. 38,876,000 John Ludlow 1834-1853 Operating Expenditures. 27,264,000 151,647,000 Vethake 1854-1859 45;, 124,000 Henry Research and Training Contracts...... 4,000,000 Daniel R. Goodwin 1860-1868 14,330,000 Student Aid...... 1,300,000 Charles J. Stille 1868-1880 104,553,000 389,054,000 Assets...... 1881-1894 Enrollment 1894-1910 Total (full and part-time)....... 14,294 19,021 1910-1920 Full-time ...... 7,997 13,901 Josiah H. Penniman 1921-1930 Undergraduate ...... 4,954 7,109 Thomas S. Gates 1930-1944 Men...... 3,868 4,844 George W. McClelland 1944-1948 Women...... 1,086 2,265 Harold E. Stassen 1948-1953 Graduate and Professional...... 3,043 6,792 Gaylord P. Harnwell 1953-1970 elected Academic Martin Meyerson Staff Jan 28, 1970 Size...... 2,600 4,611 for full 8,000. 21,239* Salaries (Average professor)...... "How Can We Save the Environ- *Can be $23,973 with fringe compensation. ment?" will be the topic of Dr. M. L. The for full rose more than average salary professor Goldberger, Higgins Professor ofPhysics the 1953-69. $13,000 during period at , in the E. 1. Gifts and Bequests du Pont de Nemours & Co., lecture to (Total for all purposes) ...... $ 3,061,000 $ 22,862,851 be given at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Annual Giving for Current Operations...... 210,560 2,609,659 February 25, in Room A-I of David Number of Donors ...... 13,149 27,430 Rittenhouse Laboratory. Total-all sources since 1953...... $207,862,851

Procedure Presidential Selection Meyerson... for (continued from page 4) And Search Committee Work Described members will be pleased with his personal ability and his dedication to academic President Harnwell announced in Jan- integrity. excellence. Mr. Meyerson's insights into uary, 1969, his intention to retire on or 3. Evidence of capacity for administra- the issues which face universities today and around his 67th birthday on September 29, tive work. his approaches to their solutions bode well 1970. He reminded the Trustees that when 4. Sensitivity to the aims and desires of for the University's setting the mark for he had accepted the presidency in 1953 he students and faculty. higher education in the Seventies." had indicated that in all probability hewould 5. Ability and willingness to articulate William D. Patterson, Trustee, President not wish to serve beyond his 67th birthday his views to associates both inside and out- of the General Alumni Society, said, "I or year. Dr. Harnwell said he wished the side of the academic community and to know all alumni will be proud of this precise effective date of his retirement set listen to and appraise the views of his appointment. Mr. Meyeson is articulate, to be convenient to his successor. colleagues. likable, and has the background to cope Concurrently with public announcement 6. High sensitivity to social and com- with the problems of a large urban univer- of Dr. Harnwell's intention to retire, Wil- munity problems affecting the University sity. I am confident that he will be able liam L. Day, Chairman of the Trustees and the ability to organize intelligent efforts to communicate well with the alumni and and Chairman of the First Pennsylvania toward their solution. other members of the University family." Banking and Trust Company, announced 7. Great flexibility in thinking and judg- David A. Harris, Member of the Search establishment of a Committee on Criteria ment, including the ability toplace in proper Committee, Member of the Class of 1970 and Procedures for the Selection of a New perspective the whole spectrum of activities of the College of Arts and Sciences, said, President. Appointed to this committee, of at Pennsylvania-educational, athletic, and "Mr. Meyerson is a professional educator which Day was the chairman, were: recreational. who has not been corrupted by his pro- Trustee Members 8. Sensitivity to the need for adequate fession. There is no rigidity of thinking, no communication to and relations with the staleness about him-rather, there is an Henry M. Chance, II, President, United alumni and other and a aura of excitement. He is not afraid of Engineers and Constructors, Inc. publics, willingness to assist in in both the is he a to Robert G. Dunlop, President, Sun Oil fund-raising private change nor simply respondent the and public sectors, with the understanding times. He is an idea man, an initiator. Company that the candidate chosen will not become Paul F. Miller, Jr., Partner, Miller, Ander- "He has an intense faith in the mission of involved in direction of en- son and Sherrerd the business our universities, yet he is unsatisfied with William D. Patterson, President, General terprises. the impersonal nature of these institutions. Alumni Society; President, Patterson, Also, it was pointed out that candidates He has a devotion to scholarship and Schwartz, and Associates should have the personal qualities of un- excellence; he has proven himself to be an Ernest Scott, Esq., Chairman, Pepper, questioned integrity, respect by and for his effective and creative administrator, acces- Hamilton and Scheetz peers, good health, and "... hopefully a sible to all the constituencies on campus; Bernard G. Segal, Esq., Partner in Schnader, sense of humor." he has a social consciousness and more than Harrison, Segal and Lewis At the same time the Committee an- just a casual interest in the future of our cities and the role the urban Faculty Members nounced the guidelines noted above, nomi- university should Dr. Charles C. Price, nations for President of the University were play." In Mr. Professor of Chemistry solicited in a letter mailed to Trustees, announcing Meyerson's resigna- Dr. Ned B. Williams, Professor of Micro- students, and members of the faculty and tion from the Buffalo presidency, Dr. Samuel D. Gould, chancellor of the State biology administration. Nominations from alumni of New York said, Dr. Julius Wishner, Professor ofPsychology were sought by means of a reprint of the University system, "Martin decision to leave the Bernard Wolfman, Professor of Law letter in the July 1969 Pennsylvania Gazette. Meyerson's Student Members It was requested that nominations be di- presidency of the State me David A. Harris, Class of 1970, of rected to the Secretary of the Committee, is accepted by with deep regret. College "Under his the Arts and Sciences William G. Owen. leadership, University Center there has made E. Mullin, Class of 1970, Graduate The Criteria Committee was continued outstanding pro- Gary in the levels of academic School of Arts and Sciences as the Search Committee to Advise the gress both lifting excellence and in administrative effective- Cathy R. Riegelman, Class of 1970, College Trustees on the Selection of a University for Women President with the additional ness. His ability to attract superior faculty, appointment the structure Mark Rindner, Class of 1971, of of one member, Dr. William J. his reorganization of academic College faculty and Arts and Sciences Williams, Professor of Medicine, Chairman better to serve the university's goals, his introduction of a new of Howard A. Schoenfeld, Class of 1970, Col- elect of the University Senate, who has style govern- ance are contributions to the lege of Arts and Sciences that post, because of accepting a adding greatly resigned intellectual endowment of a fine institution. In June, 1969, the Committee on Criteria as chairman of the department of position "I President feels a sense and Procedures the medicine, in the State University of New hope Meyerson adopted following of satisfaction from his efforts at Buffalo, to be used in York Medical Center at Syracuse guidelines evaluating persons Upstate and I wish him a nominated for the The Committee began in similarly rewarding presidency: University. measure of success in his new endeavor." 1. A youthful, progressive, vigorous per- September to meet once a week to screen son roughly between the ages of 35 and 55. the approximately 200 nominations. Even- 2. An individual with a broad academic tually, the field was narrowed to 10 or 12 selection committee, Trustees, and senior background and earned doctorate or its outstanding nominees and, of these, seven University officers. A final priority list of equivalent in his discipline. He must have were sufficiently interested in considering the preferred candidates was submitted to a commitment to excellence in teaching and the position to engage in daylong visits to the Executive Committee of the Trustees research, and to academic freedom and the campus to meet with members of the on December 19, 1969.

History Department Sponsors Dr. Harnwell andDr. Goddard Gunnar Myrdal to Give Black History Lectures Receive Awards ofMerit Jayne Lectures in March Aseries ofguest lectures in Black history President Harnwell and Provost Goddard Dr. Gunnar Myrdal, professor of inter- is being presented this semester under spon- were honored with presentation of the national economy at the University of sorship of the department of history. The annual Alumni Awards of Merit by the Stockholm, will give the Jayne Lectures programs, which are coordinated by General Alumni Society at the traditional on thetopic of"Critical Views ofthe United Theodore Hershberg, are scheduled for 4 Founders' Day luncheon January 17 in Nations" on March 3, 6 and 10, under p.m., in Room 200, College Hall, with the the University Museum. sponsorship of the University and the exception of the April 13 lecture by Dr. A tribute to Dr. Harnwell and to Dr. American Philosophical Society. Each lec- Eugene Genovese, which will be given in Goddard, was presented by Dr. George W. ture will be held at 8:30 p.m., in the Uni- B-6 Stiteler Hall. Taylor, who is Harnwell Professor of Indus- versity Museum auditorium. The schedule of lectures follows. try in the Wharton School of Finance and Dr. Myrdal's theme in the lectures will February 18: "The Age of Washington Commerce. The awards were presented by be the significance of intergovernmental and DuBois," by Dr. Louis Harlan, pro- William D. Patterson, president of the agencies. He is widely known for his 1944 fessor of history at the University of Mary- General Alumni Society and a 1943 grad- study, An American Dilemma: The Negro land and editor of the Booker T. Washing- uate of the Wharton School. All previous Problem and Modern Democracy. His most ton Papers there. recipients of the award were invited to recent book is Challenge to Affluence. March 18: "Race Riots in Historical the luncheon. Dr. Myrdal has served in many positions Perspective," by Dr. Elliott Rudwick, pro- The Award of Merit citation to Dr. in the Swedish government and, from 1947 fessor ofsociology at Kent State University. Harnwell reads, "The General Alumni to 1957, was executive secretary of the April 1: "Some Socioeconomic Aspects Society presents its Alumni Award of Merit United Nations Economic Commission for of the Contemporary Urban Scene," by to Gaylord P. Harnwell who has led the Europe. Dr. Homer Favor, professor of economics University through seventeen of the most This series of lectures was established and director of the Urban Studies Institute demanding years in the history of higher by the Jayne Memorial Fund as a memorial at Morgan State College. education.., and has made these the proud- to Henry LaBarre Jayne for the promotion April 8: "CORE: From Interracialism to est years of all for Pennsylvania and its of university teaching in the fields of the Black Power, 1942-67," by Dr. August alumni." sciences, literature and the arts. Meier, professor of history at Kent State The citation on the Award of Merit to University. Dr. Goddard reads, "The General Alumni April 13: "Class and Nationality in Black Society presents its Alumni Award of Merit America: A Socialist View," By Dr. Eugene to David R. Goddard who as Provost since G. Holmes Perkins to Retire Genovese, professor of history at the Uni- 1961 has infected the faculties and the As Fine Arts Dean in 1971 versity of Rochester. University community with his own zest April 22: "The Black Militant Move- for intellectual adventure... and the 0. Holmes Perkins has announced his ment," by Playthell Benjamin, visiting lec- alumni with his own exciting vision of intention to retire as Dean of the Graduate turer in African and Afro-American history Pennsylvania's high place in the world of School of Fine Arts in June 1971. He has at the University of Massachusetts. learning." been Dean since 1951 and will continue as professor of architecture. A former chairman of the department of region I planning at , Perkins was president of the Philadelphia from 1954 to 1956 Career... Housing Association Master of City Planning degree from and chairman of the Philadelphia City Commission from 1958 to 1968. (continued from page 1) Harvard University, where he was a Wheel- Planning wright Fellow, in 1949. During this period he also served the He has served a variety of governmental American Council to Improve Our Neigh- commissions and panels as a member and borhood (ACTION) as executive director consultant, including UN missions toJapan, Herbert Ca/len Chosen of research, and later he was made president Indonesia, Yugoslavia; Commission on Senate Chairman-Elect of this organization and has been vice Economic Development, Housing Panel chairman of its board since 1961. White House Office of Science and Tech- The University Senate unanimously Hejoined the Harvard University faculty nology 1962-63. He was the author of elected, at its January 13 meeting, Dr. in 1957 and was Williams Professor ofCity Politics, Planning and the Public Interest Herbert Callen, professor of physics, as its Planning and Urban Research from 1957 (with E. C. Banfield) 1955; Housing, People new chairman-elect. Dr. William J. to 1963, acting dean of the Graduate and Cities, 1962, Face of the Metropolis, Williams, professor of medicine, had School of Design in 1963, and director of 1963; and Boston: The Job Ahead, 1966. resigned as chairman-elect because he is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology His memberships in professional organi- accepting a position as chairman of the -Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies zations include the American Academy of department of medicine at the State Uni- from 1959 to 1963. Arts and Sciences, American Association versity of New York Upstate Medical Cen- He was professor of urban development for the Advancement of Science, American ter at Syracuse University. and dean of the College of Environmental Society of Planning Officials, American In other action, the Senate tabled, by Design at the Berkeley campus of the Institute of Planners, American Society of voice vote, a motion which would have University ofCalifornia from 1963 to 1966, Architectural Historians, and the American authorized its chairman to invite repre- and acting Chancellor in 1965. Society of Public Administration. sentatives from the Daily Pennsylvanian, Mr. Meyerson was born in New York Mr. Meyerson and his wife, Margy, have WXPN and other persons as he would City in 1922. He received an A.B. degree three children: Adam, 16; Laura, 14; and deem appropriate to observe at particular from in 1942 and a Matthew, 6. Senate meetings.

Press Comments on Election Appointments and Promotions Meyerson Of Faculty Announced Coverage by national publications as well In "The Week in Review" section of The New include Dr. as editorial comment by local newspapers New York Times on Sunday, February 1, faculty appointments Evan H. Turner, of art has been extensive on the election ofMartin education writer Fred M. Hechinger said: adjunct professor Dr. Vincent McHale, assistant Meyerson as President of the University. "Mr. Meyerson, who was dean of the Col- history; pro- fessor of science; and Dr. Ira 0. The Philadelphia Inquirer in an editorial lege of Environmental Design at Berkeley political Wade, lecturer in Romance lan- on January 30, said: "Not only is Mr. before the environment became a visiting political the semester). Meyerson an expert on urban affairs, but he slogan, links the renaissance of the univer- guages (for spring has demonstrated an awareness of the im- sities with the renaissance of the cities." Appointed to positions in the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine were Dr. portant role that the University must play NEWSWEEK in its 9, issue February James R. assistant of anes- in the city.... We welcome Mr. Meyerson said: "As Martin Harp, professor college presidents go, Dr. Nair, as- back to Philadelphia, we wish him a long is one of the hottest in thesiology; Kappiareth Gopa Meyerson properties Dr. I. and rewarding association with the univer- academe.... was sociate professor, and Nahib Abdou, Meyerson clearly pleased of medicine; sity and the to return to Penn. 'I have had roles in the assistant professor, Dr. Oscar city." A. Ross, assistant of The Evening Bulletin in a January 29, edi- renaissance of the city of Philadelphia and professor pathology; and Dr. G. Coslet, assistant torial stated: "Mr. Meyerson seems espe- in the parallel renaissance of the Joseph pro- university,' fessor of cially qualified to head a prestige university he said. 'The history of these involvements periodontics. New in the School of Medi- in a troubled big city at this moment in his- makes it one of the few places in the world promotions cine include Dr. John R. Williamson to tory.... Such is his reputation that Penn for which I would leave Buffalo.'" of Dr. R. students lately petitioned in behalf of his professor biophysics; George Green and Dr. Francis H. to as- candidacy.... It's nice to know that candi- Sterling dates of the of Mr. and sistant professor of clinical medicine; Dr. quality Meyerson James J. Cerda and Dr. Marvin L. Sachs to the others who were being considered are Senate.. assistant of medicine; Dr. Thomas still interested in running colleges these (continued from page 2) professor after the of recent R. Hedges to associate professor of oph- days discouragements will serve to communicate to any interested It is a testimonial to the institutions thalmology; and Dr. Walter L. Eaton to years. member of the University or the public the and to the men." assistant professor of radiology. subject of the work being carried on in The News in Dr. Francis A. Castano of the School of Philadelphia Daily stated a that project. 30, editorial: "For our we Dental Medicine was promoted to assistant January part, On the matter of service projects (Uni- of Dr. David welcome the choice of as an indi- professor operative dentistry. Meyerson versity contracts or grants supporting ser- B. O'Connor in the Graduate School of cation that the is to the university looking vices which are not and do not purport to Arts and Sciences was to as- future and not to live in the promoted attempting past. be research) the Senate recommended that sistant of Oriental studies. The new is to be a professor president reported the University Council set up mechanisms For one ofthe nation's 'urbanologist'. great to consider this area and to formulate gen- schools, located smack in the middle of one eral policies and procedures, if they are Jefferson Fordham Named of the nation's great cities, there could needed. Professor of Law hardly be a better recommendation." The Senate the University accepted recommendation In of his distinction in the of the Joint recognition Council-Senate Committee for field of law, Dean Jefferson B. Fordham of Implementation of University Policy on the the Law School has been named War Condemnation Poll Conduct University of Research Programs that this Professor of Law effective 1, his Results Presented committee be reconstituted as a July upon Standing retirement as Dean. Subcommittee of the Committee on A referendum of University Senate mem- Special In 1969, when he announced his in- Research of the Council but May bers, conducted after the October 29 meet- University pre- tention to retire as Dean, Mr. Fordham the to the ing, indicated by a vote of 377 to 355 that serving present relationship stated that he wished to devote full time to Council as well as the Senate the they desired a statement concerning the regarding the of law, as well as to research direct the teaching Vietnam War be circulated on which indi- reporting by Implementation and service. His inter- Committee and that two students an community primary vidual members could expresstheir opinions. (one ests are in the fields of urban and the other a or generally The text of this statement is: "We, the undergraduate graduate affairs and local He has been school student) be government. undersigned, condemn the continuing mili- professional added to Dean at the Law School since 1952. involvement in Vietnam and call for the Committee. tary The newly-created University Professor- the immediate withdrawal of all American The Senate resolved concerning the ships recognize senior faculty members who forces from that and demand a Quadripartite Commission on University- country, are distinguished in their fields of scholar- reversal of national priorities from Community Development "its deep con- away ship who have contributed much to the life militarism in all its guises and toward a cern that adequate solutions be found to of the University, particularly as admini- social reform in this the structural problems raised by the Sen- country." strators. They may also be awarded to an A total of 328 members of the Senate ate Advisory Committee with respect to the occasional in order have indicated, as individuals, that Commission, and also that distinguished professor they Quadripartite that he or she be freed of routine de- subscribeto this statement. Also, 229 Senate the Senate maintain a continuous interest might partmental duties. members have indicated their disagreement, in the substantive efforts of the Quadri- as individuals, with this statement. partite Commission, as well as in the coop- Dr. and Mrs. Philip George wish to In addition to the indications of erative activities the agree- involving University thank the many colleagues and friends ment and in the informal and its The Sen- disagreement poll, surrounding community." who have expressed sympathy to their 93 Senate members abstained while 13 re- ate also "with thanks for its dili- accepted family on the death of their son, Francis. turned the with indication of work" the of the Senate Ad- poll approval gent report Their thoughtfulness and concern is of modified forms of the Committee on the 1969, individually visory February deeply appreciated. statement. College Hall "Sit-In".

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Wharton to StaffAppointments Announced Joins Group Expand At University Hospital Business Education for Minorities Reorganization of top administrators at the Hospital of the University of Pennsyl- The Wharton School of Finance and area. This organization is led by some of vania has been announced by executive Commerce is one of nine graduate schools our black students, and it so impressed our director Ralph L. Perkins. Kenneth N. of business and management which have faculty that a new course, the Enterprise Wenrich, H UP assistant director since 1963, joined to form the Council for Opportunity Developmental Laboratory, was introduced has been named associate director of the in Graduate Management Education into the curriculum a year ago to increase Hospital. (COGME) with the assistance of a $1 mil- the learning experience for those consulting Named new assistant directors of the lion grant from the Alfred P. Sloan with black business concerns. This is the Hospital are William J. Flaherty, B. Foundation. kind of creative interface between urban Saunders Midyette, and Barry Stupine. This council will work to encourage problems and educational patterns that Mr. Flaherty has served as assistant to minority students to enter management COGME can foster within the cooperating the executive director at University Hospital careers through graduate education in busi- business schools." since 1967. He formerly held administrative ness, by increasing the awareness among Thomas Settle, Director of Admissions posts at Brookdale Hospital Center, minority group members ofthe relevance of for the Wharton Graduate Division, said, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Bellevue Hospital master's degree programs as the profes- "The students think that worthwhile man- Center, New York City. Mr. has been with the sional-school link between undergraduate agement careers are closed to them. Most Midyette Hospital education and actual work in management. of us know that that is not true now. five years, moving up from assistant comp- troller to in 1968. In his new COGME will broaden the base of financial COGME will be working with black stu- comptroller he retains his former support forminority groupstudents through dents as early as their sophomore year in position responsibili- ties, under the title assistant director and a program of graduate fellowships and will college to encourage them to aim for of the help theparticipating universities strengthen careers in management of private business comptroller Hospital. Mr. has served as ad- their existing programs for members of concerns and public organizations. From Stupine evening ministrator of since minority groups. my visits with black students on college University Hospital 1968. Prior to that, he a in COGME has been conceived as an organ- campuses, this area of career selection spent year administrative at the dur- ization of limited life through which the seems to me to be the place in which training Hospital for a master's in participating schools will cooperate in in- COGME counselors will make their most ing graduate study degree health care administration from creasing the enrollment of minority stu- important contribution." George Washington University. dents in graduate management programs "Enrollment in is a graduate programs The physician-researcher instrumental in over the next five years. The Sloan Founda- of particularly important way widening establishing the nation's first viable frozen tion grant will sustain it through the first for careers," said opportunity management skin bank has been named chief of plastic year while it seeks substantially larger funds Arthur L. vice of the Singer, Jr., president surgery at the Hospital of the University from other sources. Sloan Foundation. "The com- minority of Pennsylvania. "We are the does not have its of especially impressed by munity supply young The appointment of Dr. Herndon B. and ofthe Sloan Founda- men and women who receive their depth significance training Lehr as head of the division of plastic and tion's for COGME," Dean Willis J. means of business plan informally, by experience reconstructive surgery has been announced Winn of the Wharton School commented. beginning immediately upon graduation by Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, chairman of "The Foundation's officials are not from To the student, the trying college. minority the department of surgery. to increase the number of black accreditation the MBA de- merely represented by Dr. Lehr is now an associate professor students; have included coun- the essential of a graduate they gree may be starting point of plastic surgery. As an assistant surgeon on curriculum for the in career." seling colleges managerial at University Hospital, he led a research which these students do their undergradu- COGME expects that the anticipated ex- team working under a Hartford Founda- ate work. Also COGME is to in some bring pansion of minority representation will tion grant that developed a way to freeze advice to the schools on graduate adapting require adjustments by the schools them- skin by preserving it in liquid nitrogen for their to meet the needs of these program selves. later grafting onto patients. This work minority group students. We have 33 black the end of COGME's existence, cur- enabled University Hospital to establish students enrolled now in our two-year By rently seen as some time in 1975, the Sloan the nation's first successful bank for frozen master of business administration degree skin in 1965. Dr. Lehr's recent research an increase of about 20 from last Foundation expects that each school will program, accomplished under another Hartford semester. Our for next with the be able to continue activities of this kind goal year, Foundation grant, has been with organ assistance of COGME, will be to without a joint effort of this magnitude. greatly preservation and techniques of freezing and the educational for The chairman of COGME is Dr. John expand opportunities thawing human organs to replace diseased students in the Wharton Gradu- W. Hennessey, Jr., Dean of the Amos Tuck minority or non-functioning parts of the body. ate Division." School of Business Administration of Dartmouth A chiefoperating exec- Dr. Samuel Sapienza, Vice-Dean of the College. Frank Kermode, who is Lord North- Wharton School and Director of the Grad- utive will be appointed shortly. It will be cliffe Professor of Modern English at uate Division, said, "In the Graduate Divi- based at Columbia University in New York. University College in London, will speak sion, we recognize that some changes in Other members are the graduate schools on "The Structures of Fiction" in the will be needed as of of the of Calif- program minority group management University Leon Lecture Series at 8 p.m., Friday, enrollment rises. Two our stu- ornia, years ago, Berkeley; Carnegie-Mellon University, March 20, in the new Fine Arts Building dents formed their own Busi- Columbia Cornell organization, University, University, auditorium. He is presently a guest ness Harvard Practices Services, in which our Dartmouth College, University, scholar at Wesleyan University's Center graduate students share their business Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and for the Humanities. know-how with entrepreneurs in the urban Stanford University.

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Leaves of Faculty Members Announced by Provost's Office One new appointment and over twenty Dr. John W. McCoubrey, professor of multivariate analysis. leaves were announced recently by the art history, is continuing research this Dr. Jeremiah J. O'Connell, associate Provost's Office. Dr. Thomas J. Sargent semester on the English painter, J. M. W. professor of industry, has accepted a posi- has been appointed associate professor of Turner. tion from January to December at the economics in the Wharton School. A list of Dr. Donald F. Morrison, associate pro- Centre D'Etudes Industrielles, associated those on leave this semester and what they fessor of statistics and operations research with the University of Geneva, Switzerland. are doing follows: will pursue research for a monograph on Dr. George Rochberg, professor of Dr. Otto E. Albrecht, associate professor the analysis of repeated measurements, ex- music, this spring will be doing further work of music, will spend this semester working periments and other related problems of (continued on page 10) on several scholarly projects. Dr. Reavis Cox, professor of marketing and international business, will spend the spring term completing a study of certain aspects of comparative marketing. Preservation Beaches Studied Dr. Phillip H. DeLacy, professor of of classical studies, is spending this semester Engineers in the Towne School of Civil connected jetties and groins are specifically completing his project on editing, translat- and Mechanical Engineering are devising a designed to inhibit wave action and current ing and annotating Galen's De Plactis Hip- flexible, and hopefully economical, system flow they also interfere with the natural pocratis et Platonis. for artificial beach nourishment. equilibrium of coastal areas (the constant fluctuation between of erosion and Dr. Peter G. Earle, associate professor of Dr. Iraj Zandi, professor of civil engi- periods and thus often Romance languages, is conducting research neering, said the plan stems from the failure deposition) deprive neigh- beaches of sand. in Salamanca, Spain, this semester in prepa- of earlier experiments conducted by groups boring ration of a book to be entitled Unamuno and in New Jersey, New York and California, Other weaknesses of structural protec- tion the 19th Century. which sought to use natural ocean currents schemes besides only protecting the Dr. Irwin Friend, of finance to transport replacement material to the beach in their immediate vicinity, are that professor are over has been invited by the of Min- beach. It was recently discovered that the they extremely costly great lengths University of beach and commit a fi- nesota to spend spring term as the first sand dumped offshore in these experiments community's nancial resources to a line of action Frederick R. Kappel Professor in business at Atlantic City and Long Branch, N. J., single that or not work. and government. not only has failed to wash ashore, but has may may On the other hand, while the submersible Dr. Jean D. Gibbons, associate actually remained stationary for more than professor also minimizes wave effects, its of statistics and research will four years-even while nearby beaches con- jet pipeline operations limitation is whether or not a suitable term on an extensive tinued to erode. only spend spring working stock of sand of the size is research in the field of These "inactive zones" some 20 to 30 proper grain project nonpara- available nearby for economic metric statistics. feet deep and beyond the surf line are the transporta- tion to the trouble spot. If it is, then it's a Dr. Alan W. Heston, associate key factor in the Pennsylvania plan. Be- professor simple matter for hopper dredges to stock- of South Asia regional studies, will spend cause of this phenomenon, sand can be moved in and over a field of sub- pile the offshore jet pump fields prior to a January through August doing research in stockpiled severe storm or of erosion. merged jet on the ocean floor. lengthy period India in conjunction with the joint Penn- pumps High- Other include im- pressure water, to the fields advantages virtually United Nations International Comparison piped jet by mediate beach restoration after a storm, the project. shore-based drive pumps, would then en- able the to deliver a sand-and- support of adjacent beaches through the Dr. Johannes Ipsen, professor of epi- jet pumps water to the beach a natural transport mechanism, and the fact demiology and medical statistics has ac- slurry through line. A booster that the system requires no major com- cepted an Honorary Visiting Professorship submerged discharge pump, if needed, could the sand on mitment of resources. at the Institute of Hygiene, University of help spread the beach. The team is also looking into the possi- Copenhagen this spring. of a movable This means that once a town installs its bility developing jet pump Dr. Paul J. Korshin, assistant professor field, or a fixed offshore fields, it could share setting up long-distance pumping of English, this spring term is undertaking jet pump between man-made or natural the cost of the shore-based operation a study entitled The Typologies of Neo- larger power sand and the beaches a series and the with traps through classicism which he hopes will become a supply hopper dredges neigh- of booster resorts, the scheme less ex- pumps. book-length study of the influence of theo- boring making From a both ideas for all. design standpoint, ap- logical typology on certain aspects ofeight- pensive pear to be feasible since the jet pump itself eenth century English literature. In New Jersey alone, notes George involves no moving parts and relies entirely Dr. Richard Lambert, professor of South Govatos, a graduate research fellow work- upon a high-pressure jet of water for its Asia regional studies and professor of soci- ing toward his Ph.D. in water resources on power supply. Its simple construction also ology will continue his work this spring for the project, beach protection plans costing permits it to be placed in position in any the Social Science Research Council study- many millions of dollars have already been type of environment. ing Programs in International Studies committed to other methods that offer no Finally, studies made to determine the offered by universities throughout the guarantee of success. economic and technical feasibility of the country. Equally important, perhaps, would be new beach nourishment system in terms of Dr. Craig C. Lundberg, assistant pro- the virtual elimination of the problem available equipment indicate that unit costs fessor of industry, will take residential where beach protection methods initiated would compare favorably with other beach training during spring term at Esalen Insti- by one town disrupt beaches of other nourishment plans including dredging, tute in California to augment his compe- towns. Since offshore structures such as sea- trucking and drag scoop methods currently tence in behavioral science programs. walls, bulkheads and revetments or shore- in use.

Towne School Develops Microbial Culture System A research team under the direction of gram quantities. disease or mental illness. E. and The use of the to Dr. Arthur Humphrey, professor Finally, techniques have been developed enzyme asparaginase School of Chemical control certain of cancer director of the Engi- enabling scientists to bond enzymes to in- types by regulat- a the metabolism of the cancer cell has neering, is developing computerized soluble carriers chemically, thus stabilizing ing received considerable attention It prototype system for environmentally-con- the enzyme's activity and allowing its re. recently. now that trolled microbial cultures. use, free of its original cellular appears enzymatic catalysis may peated afford relief from ailments from The project is funded by a grant of environment. ranging from the National Institutes of schizophrenia to the aches and pains of $109,015 "These advances mean that a great po- Health. In this new a of the common cold. system, variety tential exists to employ enzymes for a va- will be to meet the research Dr. Humphrey said, "Over 1,300 differ- cells grown of therapeutic, industrial or National In- riety analytical, ent reactions have been identi- needs of either University and household uses," said Dr. Humphrey. enzymatic stitutes of Health groups. fied and catalogued, but a simple bacterial the most 3,000 attention will be to Perhaps widely-known present cell has the ability to express almost Special paid produc- commercial of is the tion of which are the application enzymes reactions, and the total number of all enzymes, proteins of for use reactions in human cells that and control chemical reac- marketing proteolytic enzymes enzyme-catalyzed perform in Other tions in the cell. Studies will also be detergent compounds. enzyme ap- may exceed 100,000. living include modification of starches made on DNA acid, the plications "One of the important challenges to the (deoxyribonucleic for and fruit molecules information to baking brewing, clarifying engineer of the future will be to obtain carrying genetic tenderization of meats, and the the cells); RNA (ribonucleic acid, the juices, pro- better kinetic models for enzyme behavior duction of synthetic penicillins. basic factor in protein production); ATP and to use them to obtain optimal schemes (adenosine triphosphate, the energy source Future applications appear even more for his own enzyme systems." for cell production); and NADH (nico- promising, especially in chemical analysis tinamide-adenine dinucleotide, the mole- and as chemotherapeutic agents to control cule associated with proton-H +_transfer metabolic upsets in the body caused by in cells). University Operates Facility The will have a 40-liter scale prototype Of Edison Electric Institute fermentation vessel capable of batch or Leaves... continuous operations for microbial cell The Edison Electric Institute has trans- It will be for auto- production. equipped (continued 9) ferred to University operation its Phila- matic sterilization, from page programmable tempera- delphia AC! DC System Operation Labora- ture control and nutrient additions, as well on his Third commissioned by tory, which is located in the Institute's as controllable acid-base, dissolved Symphony, oxygen the Juilliard School of Music, as well as building on Walnut Street east of 33rd and levels. Moni- oxidizing-reducing agent work for the celebration of Street. will be able to on completing toring systems perform Jerusalem to be as of the Israeli The which was constructed in line and At least four given part facility sampling analysis. Music Festival and a new work 1965 will be known as the Power Trans- evaluation runs will be made to composing produce for a festival of his chamber music mission Research Its director microbial cells at least two environ- spon- Laboratory. using sored by the School of Music of the Uni- will be Dr. Cornelius N. Weygandt, pro- mental control devices in each test. Runs versity of Washington. fessor of electrical engineering in the will be set up for: batch production of an Dr. Harry A. Scarr, assistant professor Moore School, which will staff and operate batch production of a phage (bac- enzyme; of sociology, will spend spring term prepar- the laboratory. teria-destroying organism); batch prcduc- the noted anthro- ing a monograph with Dr. Weygandt said that the Laboratory tion of an RNA fraction; continuous pro- Kluckhorn, pologist, Mrs. Florence relating will augment the School's present program duction of an enzyme by a single cell sys- to alternative of value orientations. patterns in the power industry field and will be used tem that will be switched to the production Dr. Sandra Scarr, assistant of professor for undergraduate and graduate education of another enzyme through a change in education, will her husband on accompany and research, principally in the key areas environment. his semester leave. of power system stability and the operation In the decade, said Dr. Humphrey, Dr. assistant past Stephen Turnovsky, pro- of high voltage direct current transmission significant advances have occurred to sup- fessor of economics, is on leave this year as systems. port the biochemical engineer in his pur- visiting associate professor of economics at Dr. John 0. Brainerd, director of the suit to utilize the catalytic capabilities of the University of Toronto. Moore School, out that use of the Not only have scientists de- Dr. Claude Welch, professor of religious pointed enzyme. direct current transmission is to termined the three dimensional structure of thought, will devote this spring and next returning this industry because of several enzymes and obtained evidence of fall conducting a study of graduate educa- country's power certain technical advantages it offers which how they function, but they have developed tion in the field of religion on a grant from conversion (to alternating cur- methods for the automatic synthesis of the Henry Luce Foundation given through outweigh rent) costs at the terminal. proteins as well. A recent example is ribo- the American Council of Learned Societies. Edison nuclease, an enzyme with antimicrobial Dr. Wayne L. Worrell, associate pro- This facility was constructed by Electric Institute in 1965 to the protein properties containing 124 amino fessor of metallurgy and materials science investigate acid subunits. It is now also understood this spring is undertaking some kinetic problems of interconnecting high-voltage direct current transmission how enzymes are produced and controlled studies of surface reactions at elevated alternating and model in the cell, and a number of "purified" en- temperatures in the Nuffield Research lines. It contains the first large-scale DC zymes grown under contrclled environmen- Group at the Imperial College of Science of a parallel AC/DC system, including tal conditions have been produced in kilo- and Technology, University of London. converter control equipment.

Dr. Alfred Buehler Is Dead, other Headed Public Finance Center Among things A leading tax educator, Dr. Alfred G. Buehler of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, died January 12, after a APPOINTMENTS: DR. ADOLF KLARMANN, professor of short illness. He was 69. DR. PHILIP GEORGE, chairman of the German and general literature, has been For 28 years, Dr. Buehler served as pro- department of the history and philosophy elected the first president of the newly- fessor of public finance at the University. of science and professor of chemistry, has founded American Council for the Study of Hejoined the faculty ofthe Wharton School been namedto theWoodrow Wilson Fellow- Austrian Literature. as associate of IV. in 1939 professor political ship Selection Committee for Region AUTHORS: science and was named a full in DR. STEPHEN B. LANGFELD, associate professor DR. MARTIN OSTWALD, of finance three later. chief of the unit of the Greater professor public years University's classical studies, is the author ofNomos and Dr. Buehler had a record of Delaware Medical Pro- long public Valley Regional the Athenian service on state tax In 1952, heart disease, cancer and stroke, Beginnings of Democracy, study groups. gram for the Clarendon Press ofOxford Gov. Fine named him Chairman of Penn- been elected a director of the published by has Pennsyl- Press. Tax Commission. As a Heart Association. University sylvania's Study vania DR. JOHN O'M. BOCKRIS, of result, he was co-author of the volume on professor is co-author A. K. N. Tax Problem," chemistry, (with "Pennsylvania's published of Modern in 1953. Two later in 1954, Gov. Fine Dr. Francis Phi/brick and Reddy) Electrochemistry, pub- years lished Plenum Press. called on Dr. Buehler to head a 20- by again Dr. Goldie Faith Are Dead IAN L. MCHARG, and chair- member commission to federal-state professor study Dr. Goldie B. Faith, emeritus professor man of the of archi- relations on financial assistance, disaster department landscape of social work who retired in 1962, died tecture and is author of relief, and unemployment compensation. regional planning, December 23. She was 73. with Nature, In 1963, Gov. Scranton Dr. Design published by Doubleday! placed Mrs. Faith had taught at the School of Natural Press. Buehler as vice chairman of a 27-member History Social Work since 1934 and received the DR. A. ORVILLE DAHL, of commission to review state professor Pennsylvania degrees of master of social work in 1937 and director of the Morris Arbore- taxes. In the administration, Gov. botany present and doctor of social work there in 1950. tum, has contributed a "Wall Shafer named Dr. Buehler in 1967 as a chapter, Dr. Francis S. Philbrick, emeritus pro- Structure and of Pollen and member of the commission on the Composition impact fessor of law who retired in 1947, died in and of state and local taxes. Spores," Aspects of Palynology pub- equity January 11. He was 93. lished John & Sons. Dr. Buehler was the author of several by Wiley Dr. Philbrick had been a member of the DR. ENOS E. WITMER, emeritus associate on taxes, Public Finance including Law School faculty since 1929. He held a of is author of an article, jextbooksGeneral Sales Taxation and professor physics, 1936), (1932) Ph.D. degree in history (Harvard, 1902) as "The Electron Rest Mass as a Universal The Undistributed Tax He Profits (1937). well asa bacheloroflaws degree(Columbia, Mass Constant for Nuclei and was co-author ofa volume on Elementary also Property 1913). He also had taught at the law schools Particles," in Scientia, Series VII, Vol. in Connecticut Taxes (1959). of the University of California, North- CIV, 1969. Dr. was founder and director of Buehler western University and the University of Finance Center. TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS: the University's Public Illinois. He was the author of The Rise of the Center, he an an- Through organized the West: 1754-1830, published in 1965 by DR. STUART W. CHURCHILL, who is Carl Conference which attracted offi- nual Tax Harper & Row as part of its New Ameri- V. S. Patterson Professor of Chemical cials, accountants and attorneys to study can Nation Series. Engineering, discussed "The New Engineer- current federal, stateand local tax problems. ing Student" at a January meeting of the Long a leader in business groups, Dr. south Jersey section of the American Insti- Buehler was a member and past president Trustees... tute of Chemical Engineers. He also wrote of both the National Tax Association and an article, "Theories, Correlations and the Tax Institute of America. (continued from page 3) Uncertainties, for Waves, Gradients, and Friends of Dr. Buehler have established is a Fellow of the Benjamin Franklin Asso- Fluxes" which describes the Chemical Engi- a fund to carry on the work of the Public ciates in Annual Giving. neering 640 course, for the fall 1969 issue of Finance Center. Several other changes in membership of Chemical Engineering Education, as one of the Trustees also were announced. Term nine outstanding graduate courses in Trustees John A. Mayer and James M. the field. Deans... Skinner, Jr., have been named LifeTrustees. DR. DAVID M. ROBB, professor of the a Trustee since 1955, is chair- of art, four Martin Lectures in (continued from page 2) Mr. Mayer, history gave man and chief executive officer of Mellon January at Oberlin College on "The Classi- tinues in that position. Prior to that, he had National Bank and Trust Co., Pittsburgh. cal Tradition in Western Medieval Manu- been director of the Laboratory for Mr. Skinner, retired President of the Philco script Illustration." Research on the Structure of Matter since Corp., has been a Trustee since 1960. DR. M. Roy HARRIS, assistant professor 1960, and had been named Dean of the LifeTrustees Henry B. Bryans and Orville of Romance languages, read a paper on Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in H. Bullitt have been named Emeritus "Fin'Amor and Fals'Amor in Marcabru's 1968. Dr. Hobstetter is a professor ofmetal- Trustees for life. Mr. Bryans, retired Presi- Poetry" at the annual meeting of the lurgical engineeringand received the Award dent of Philadelphia Electric Co., has been Modern Language Association in Denver or Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching a Trustee since 1942. Mr. Bullitt, former in December. He also has received a grant in 1959. President of the Beaver Coal Corp., has for the 1969-70 academic year from the Dr. O'Kane is a former chairman of the been a Trustee since 1939, and is a past American Philosophical Society to work on graduate group in microbiology, who has chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra a 13th century Provencal translation of the taught here since 1947. Association. New Testament.

conference on "Peaceful in Modern Among other things. Adsorbents." At Moscow State University, Change he gave a paper on "The Statistical Me- Society" sponsored by the Hoover Insti- chanics of Adsorption of Liquids." tution at Stanford University, and gave a DR. RUTH L. WIDMANN, assistant pro- paper there on "Man's Natural Desire fot fessor of English, spoke on "Use of the Peace: Historical and Philosophical Foun- DR. PAUL M. LLOYD, associate pro- Computer in Historical Collation of Multi- dations." In December at the annual meet- fessor of Romance languages, lectured on ple Editions of Texts" at the annual meeting ing of the American Historical Association "The Notion of'Cause' in Phonetic Change" of the Modern Language Association in in Washington he chaired a discussion on at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Denver in December. Dr. Widmann is the "Laos and Vietnam: The Continuing Crisis." Society of America in December. special editor for the New Variorum Mid- DR. ADOLF KLARMANN, professor of DR. IRAJ ZANDI, associate professor of summer Night's Dream. German and general literatures, lectured on civil engineering, presented a paper on DR. F. HILARY CONROY, professor of "The Expressionist Writer and the Political "Design Procedure for Slurry Pipelines" to history, gave a paper on "The Strange Mission" in January in Vienna at the invi- the Conference on Hydraulic and Pneu- Diplomacy of Admiral Nomura" at the tation oftheAustrian Societyfor Literature. matic Material Handling Systems in Pitts- annual meeting of the American Philo- burgh in December. He was co-author of a sophical Society in Philadelphia in Novem- paper entitled "Beach Nourishment from ber. Also that month he spoke at a Offshore Sources" (with G. Govatos) pre- University Press Book sented at the annual meeting of the Ameri- Wins Prize for can Shore and Beach Preservation Associa- Statement Is Issued History tion in Atlantic City. A book published by the University of DR. VUKAN R. VucHic, assistant pro- On Yale-NCAA Pennsylvania Press, The Private City: Phila- fessor of civil engineering, gave a report on Dispute delphia in Three Periods of its Growth, has "The Minicar Transit System-Description On Jan. 16, the Athletic Advisory Coun- won one of the highest annual awards of and Evaluation of a New Concept" at the cil stated that "the University is and has the American Historical Association. annual meeting of the Highway Research been in sympathy with Yale University's The book, written by Sam Bass Warner, Board of the National Research Council in decision to play Jack Langer. We believe Jr., professor of history at the University of Washington in January. the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- Michigan, was awarded the Albert Beve- DR. ROBERT L. PFALTZGRAFF, JR., assist- tion (NCAA) decision not to sanction the ridge Memorial Prize at the group's annual ant professor of political science, served Maccabiah basketball games wasa grievous meeting in Washington in December. This during the fall of 1969 as a public member error. prize is presented for the best book in on the Board of Selection of the U.S. "Pennsylvania's primary obligation is to English on the history, since 1492, of the Information Agency. protect the opportunity of all University United States, Canada, or Latin America. DR. LEONARD NANI5, associate professor teams and players to fulfill their promise The three sections of The Private City of chemical engineering, lectured on "Tran- in intercollegiate competition. Two Univer- encompass the periods 1770-1780, "The sient Mass Transport" at California Insti- sity students, Steve Bilsky and Alan Cotler, Eighteenth Century Town"; 1830-1860, tute of Technology in December. at some personal sacrifice, chose not to "The Emerging Big City"; and 1920-1930, DR. ALAN L. MYERS, associate professor participate in the Maccabiah basketball "The Industrial Metropolis". of chemical engineering, spent five months games in order that the eligibility of all The Albert Beveridge Memorial Prize at the Institute of Physical Chemistry ofthe University teams and players not be placed was established in 1927 through the Amer- U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in Moscow in jeopardy. ican Historical Association by the widow under the sponsorshipofthe Inter-Academy "Pennsylvania will continue to do all and friends of Sen. Albert J. Beveridge of Exchange Program ofthe U.S. and U.S.S.R. within its power as an NCAA member to Indiana (1862-1927), who had served in the Academies of Sciences. While there he gave see that the NCAA ruling on the Maccabiah U.S. Senate from 1899-1911 and had writ- a paper on "The Problem of Inertness of games is reversed." ten several works of history.

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