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Sphinx Senior

Society of the University of

Fall/Winter 2016 Newsletter

ALUMNI AND UNDERGRAD SPHINGES AT THE HOMECOMING RECEPTION 2016 IN THIS ISSUE

Alumni and Undergrads Attend Annual

Alumni and Undergrads Attend Annual Homecoming Reception – 1

Homecoming Reception 2016 From BOG President – 2

Help us to identify honorary members – 2 Over 50 Sphinx alumni and current undergraduate members gathered on Help us to find missing/deceased members – 2 October 29, 2016 in Houston Hall, Bodek Lounge, for the annual Sphinx-Friars

Homecoming Reception. Buoyed by Penn’s 21-14 football game win over Sphnix Class of 2017: What we’ve been up to - 3 Brown, the festive crowd drank, ate, reminisced about their shared Penn past, and reconnected about their Penn and non-Penn futures. President Gutman hosts Class of 2017 – 4

2017 Chief’s Report – 4 Here’s a link to Homecoming pictures. (If you can’t open this link, try copying and pasting the link directly into your browser): Sphnix Alumni News:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7LVdHqOiU0bRkxXNFVVWnN Josh Gottheimer, ’97, Elected to Congress – 5 ySjg?usp=sharing Jeffrey Goldberg, ’87, Selected as new Editor- in-Chief of The Atlantic – 5 Jibran Khan, ’12 , travel start up whiz - 6

Rare Antique Sphinx ring for sale – 7

Bill Squires, ’71, MLB’s favorite singer – 7

Susan Molofsky Todres, ’75, Penn Archives Curator – 8

“Sphinx Links” seeks alumni mentors – 9

Town and Country reports Sphinx as Penn’s “most prestigious” Senior Society- 10

From one Sphinx generation, John To the next… Vosmek, C’61, and Lucy Vosmek, David Scollan, C’17, Current Chief, with CW’63, talking with unidentified Diana Cabrera, C’16 Sphinx alumnus….

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FROM THE BOG PRESIDENT… Help Us Identify Honorary Sphinx Members Steve Klitzman, Esq., C’66 Sphinx members - we need your help. We are trying to complete our list of honorary Sphinx

I became President of the Sphinx Senior Society Board of Governors (BOG) in July members. ThisOn picture our caption website uses the we Caption have 2 good 2013. The last three plus years have been very successful ones for the Society as we records forparagraph 1903, the style very and early is inside days a text of box Sphinx, continue to achieve and build on our five major goals during this 117th year of Penn’s a few listingsso that in 1939, you can and move then it easily the as list picks up needed to accompany a photo. oldest senior honor society: again in 1997! We also have a list of people who were made honorary members but either 1. Strengthen Alumni Outreach. Strengthen outreach to the approximately 1600 not the year that they were inducted or their living Sphinx alumni through our newsletters, emails, campus and regional gatherings; title. If you have any recollection of the 2. Support Undergraduate Program. Support the 30 Sphinx senior undergraduates honorary Sphinx inductees from your or other each year as they select and induct their classes each spring and fall and undertake missing classes on the Honorary Members list, social service and other projects and activities such as Fall and Spring Sphinx gear or old photos or articles that might help solve sales, the Spring Banquet and the Alumni-Graduation Weekend Champagne Brunch; the mystery, please let us know at 3. Expand “Sphinx Links” Mentoring Project. Continue and expand the “Sphinx [email protected] Thanks for Links” mentoring project we started in 2010 to offer the career and life advice of your help. Sphinx alumni to Sphinx undergraduates; You can find our incomplete list of Honorary 4. Upgrade An Online Class Directory on Our Sphinx Web Site. Upgrade an online Sphinx members at Sphinx classmate directory on our improving Sphinx web site at http://www.sphinxseniorsociety.com/alumni/ www.sphinxseniorsociety.com; and honorary/ 5. Raise $10,000. Build up the financial resources of the Society to support all of the above activities, starting with a modest $10,000 fundraising goal we’ve now achieved Here are the “missing years” for induction of and seek to exceed. our Sphinx Honorary Members: 1901, 1902, 1904-1938, 1940-1996, 1998- You can read in this Fall 2016 Newsletter about our actions to date to reach these 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007 goals.

Here are the named inductees whose year of Finally, I want to thank the following members of the Sphinx BOG for their excellent induction and/or title we still need to identify: help in achieving our goals this year and beyond. They are: Gregory Suss, C’75, Vice President; John K. Fiorillo. W’86, Treasurer; Elizabeth Miller, W’87, Secretary; Devin C Louis Borie III, Architect Grossman, Chief Emeritus, W’16; Eric Apple, W’91; Louis “Tripp” Hornick, III, C’02; Morris L. Clothier Samir Malik, C’08, W’08, GEN’13, WG’13; Jeremy Pincus, C’14; Kiera Reilly, C’93, Charles Day Coordinator, Alumni Outreach; Anita Saggurti, C’12, Coordinator, Sphinx Links Thomas Blaine Donaldson Mentoring Program; Glen S. Schuster, C’86, Co-Coordinator, Web Site and Alumni Thomas S Gates, University President ’30-44 Data Base; Franklin Shen, ENG’03, Co-Coordinator, Web Site and Alumni Data Base; Frank Bacon Hancock Kevin Vaughan, C’77; Current Student Officers: David Scollan, C’17, Chief; Erina Shan, Robert Cramer Hill, University Trustee C’W’17, Pharisee; and Kaleb Germinaro, C’17, Scribe. Samuel F. Houston, University Trustee Sydney E. Huchinson, Head, Athletics Council Please help us reach our five goals for Sphinx in 2016-2017 and let us hear from you this Joseph Levering Jones school year. We love to receive your emails, letters and donations! (For the latter, Crawford C. Madeira please click on www.sphinxseniorsociety.com/donate ) Louis Childs Madeira Randal Morgan, University Trustee Think Sphinx! Harry R Neilson, University Provost George W. Pepper, U.S. Senator Steve Klitzman, C’66, President, Sphinx Senior Society BOG, Owen J. Roberts, A.J., U.S. Supreme Court [email protected] , Sydney Thayer [email protected] H: 301-263-0616; M: 202-277-9509. Francine Walker, Director, Student Life Joseph Henry, Dean, Wharton School, ’33-‘39 Please Help Us Find Missing or Deceased Sphinx Alumni The following is a link to a list on the Sphinx web site of 250 Sphinx alumni from Penn Classes of 1929-2009. The alumni are listed chronologically by class year. In each case Send Us Your News, Comments and we either have no email address or an email address that keeps bouncing back to us: Suggestions: http://www.sphinxseniorsociety.com/alumni/ If you have any personal news, PLEASE SEND TO [email protected] AND COPY KIERA REILLY comments or suggestions for future AT [email protected] : newsletters or emails you’d liked to 1. Current email addresses for any one on this list. share with us and/or the Sphinx alumni 2. Notice that any one on this list is deceased, date of death if known, and any obituary or other information about the deceased alumnus we can insert into a future Alumni community, please email us at Notes section of one of our three annual newsletters, Spring, Summer, and Fall/Winter. [email protected] Thank you!

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FOR MORE INFORMATION Carol Quezada Olivo (C ’17) Sigma Lambda Sphinx Class of 2017: What We’ve Been Up To! Upsilon / Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority Inc. Abico eum, ille et, conventio obruo duis Penn’s Latina cultural sorority uniting students of Selection of Seven More Members. The Sphinx ullamcorper Class of 2017 ut, neo completed demoveo. Vel its reprobo: roster in the Latin American community in sisterhood, advocacy, and programming. October 2016 by inducting seven more membersHEADING of its class 5 in a pinning ceremony in the E. Craig Sweeten Alunni House. Here’s a pictureContact of Info five of the seven newest Praveen Rajaguru - (C ’17) . World’s members of the Sphinx Class of 2017: first and premier Group Temi Ransome-Kuti - (W ’17) United Minorities Council (“UMC”). Umbrella organization for all . minority communities at Penn, uniting students and student groups for advocacy and programming. Gavi Reiter, Apparel Chair - (C ’17) Student Sustainability Association at Penn (“SSAP”). Penn’s umbrella organization for all undergraduate sustainability and environmentalism, uniting students and student groups for programming and advocacy. David Scollan, Chief - (C ’17) Nominations & by [Article Author] Elections Committee. Branch of Penn Student Government charged with appointing all undergraduates to university-wide boards and committees, running student government elections, and educating the student body about the working of Penn Student Government. Erina Shan, Pharisee - (E ’17, W ’17) Wharton Five of the seven newest members of the Sphinx Class of 2017 receive their Sphinx Council. Student group responsible for fostering a certificates at the annual Fall Induction ceremony held on Oct.16, 2016 in the E. Craig more rewarding co-curricular experience for the Sweeten Alumni House. Left to right: Will Wang (Asian Pacific American Leadership Wharton undergraduate community. Initiative), Kellen Wartnow (Transfer Student Organization) , Clare Whitney (Student Lauren Silberberg, Alumni Relations Chair - (E Nurses at Penn), Tunmise Fawole (Undergraduate Assembly), and Max Levy (Class Board). ’17) Panhellenic Council. One of the major

Missing: Megan Kelly (Varsity Women’s Lacrosse) and Megan Yan (Penn Association for governing organizations for sorority life at Penn. Gender Equity). Abbie Starker - (C’ 17) Alternative Spring Break. Undergraduate service organization that provides

Here’s an alphabetical list of the entire 30-member Sphinx Class of 2017 with their Penn school service-learning experiences to undergraduates and leadership activity: over winter and spring breaks. Aizhaneya Carter, - (C’17) African American Arts Alliance (“4A”). Promotes an awareness of Sam Summer - (C ’17) Men Against Rape & Sexual Black culture through the arts, specifically focusing on theatre. Assault (“MARS”). Undergraduate service and Sarah Cho - (C ’17) Asian Pacific Student Coalition (“APSC”) Supports the common interests and advocacy/ awareness organization that promotes a concerns of the Asian Pacific-Islander community at the University of Pennsylvania. safer campus community through training on Jeremy Cohen - (C ’17) Student Activities Council (“SAC”) Branch of Penn Student Government sexual assault prevention. responsible for the funding of undergraduate extracurricular organizations. Pranav Vishnu, Webmaster - (E ’17) Dorm Room Tunmise Fawole - (C ’17) Undergraduate Assembly (“UA”) Elected representative branch of Fund. Student-run venture firm that invests in Penn Student Government, charged with improving life for all students through funding, student-run companies. services, and advocacy. Tunmise is a Fall 2016 new member. Pallavi Wakharkar - (C ’17) Excelano Project. Irtiqa Fazili - (C ’17) Muslim Students Association (“MSA”) Unites students of the Muslim faith Penn’s first and only spoken word poetry group. Addfor religious Sidebar services, Content programming, advocacy, and social activities. Will Wang - (C ’17, E ’17) Asian Pacific American Kendall Finlay - (C ’17) UMOJA. Unites students and student groups of the African Diaspora at Leadership Initiative (“APALI”). Povides leadership the University of Pennsylvania through effective collaboration, increased political training and mentorship for students of Asian representation, and the dissemination of information. Pacific American heritage. Will is a Fall 2016 new Kaleb Germinaro, Scribe - (C ’17) Varsity Football, the Fighting Quakers, Penn’s 2016 Ivy member. League Football champions. Kellen Wartnow, Social Chair - (C ’17) Transfer Jeremy Golant - (C ’17) Mask & Wig Student Organization (“TSO”), Unites all transfer Colin Henderson - (W ’17) President, Daily Pennsylvanian students to Penn for programming, advocacy, and Anny Hu - (C ’17, W ’17) Assembly of International Students (“AIS”). Unites international social events. Kellen is a Fall 2016 new member. students and international student groups at the University of Pennsylvania through effective Clare Whitney - (N ’17) Student Nurses at Penn collaboration, advocacy, programming, and social events. (“SNAP”) Unites undergraduate nursing students Ian Jeong - (N ’17) Lambda Alliance. Represents students of the LGBTQA community and their at Penn for programming and professional student groups at Penn. development. Clare is a Fall 2016 new member. CrasMegan ut blandit Kelly diam.- (C- Suspendis17), Varsity quis Women’s urna semper Lacrosse. Megan is a Fall 2016 new member. Megan Yan - (C ’17, W ’17) Penn Association for aliquam. Meredith Kline, Social Chair - (C ’17) Kite & Key Society, largest and oldest campus service Gender Equity (“PAGE”), formerly the Penn organization that aims to present Penn as an institution devoted to academic excellence with a Consortium of Undergraduate Women (PCUW). myriad of opportunities for prospective students. Unites student and student groups for Max Levy - (C ’17) Class Board. Branch of Penn Student Government elected to represent and programming and advocacy focused on gender unite each class through programming and the preservation of annual class traditions. Max is a equity and access at Penn. Megan is a Fall 2016 Fall 2016 new member. new member Ashley Montgomery - (W ’17) Varsity Track & Field

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At the Champagne Brunch, BOG President, Steve Klitzman holds up DP Farewell Ad in honor of Sphinx Class of 2016

Penn President meets in November 2016 for lunch with 23

members of the 30-member Sphinx Class of 2017.

Sphinx Class of 2017, Report of David Scolllan, C’17, Chief

The Sphinx Class of 2017 has been keeping busy this semester! Since we rounded out our 30-member class with the tapping, selection, and induction of our seven new members in the beginning of October we have been focused on community-building, laying the groundwork for our spring semester service/philanthropy work, social events, and collaborations with other senior societies.

Service/Philanthropy: We have selected the Bread & Roses Community Fund as our class’ philanthropy beneficiary organization. We hope to establish a long- term relation with Bread & Roses, which is a local based community assistance funding organization. We are not experts on what the Philly community needs, so we thought rather than doing philanthropy to “look good,” we thought raising funds for an organization that are the experts on funding small local charities and community projects would be the most impactful way we can make a difference. http://breadrosesfund.org

Social Events: We have successfully institutionalized bi-weekly Sunday potluck brunches, bi-weekly “Thursday Fun Nights” (TFNs) in which each week we choose another Philly activity to do as a group (bar crawl, going to the orchestra, concerts, wine & painting etc.). We have had routine happy hours. Friday, December 2nd - Saturday, December 3rd we will be going on an overnight group-bonding retreat thanks to the generosity of a Sphinge’s parents who are letting us use their house on the Jersey Shore! We also brought back the traditional Sphinx Winter Semi-Formal, which took place before we left for the holidays. It was a great break from finals and an amazing time was had by all!

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SPHINX ALUMNI NEWS

Josh Gottheimer, Sphinx Scribe, 1997, on November 8, 2016, was elected to Congress by the 5th Congressional District of New Jersey. He defeated by a vote of 50.5% to 47.5% Rep. Scott Garrett(R-NJ). Garrett was a seven-term conservative, and founder of the ultra-right, anti-government “Freedom Caucus” in the House Republican majority.

Gottheimer thanks any Sphinges who contributed to his campaign and no doubt will seek to make Sphinx alumni proud of their contributions. endorsed Gottheimer over Garrett. In its endorsement, the Times noted that: “New Jersey’s Fifth District, covering parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Warren Counties, has had the misfortune of being represented for nearly 14 years by a founding member of the ultraconservative, antigovernment Freedom Caucus, Scott Garrett. He voted recently against helping 9/11 first responders. He infuriated fellow Republicans by refusing to contribute to the National Republican Congressional Committee because it backed gay candidates. He opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage.His Democratic opponent, Josh Gottheimer, was a Microsoft executive and a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. He says he wants to work for more civility and productivity in Congress, for comprehensive tax reform, for better

constituent services and for government investment in the district, something his opponent often rejects on ideological grounds. Mr. Gottheimer would serve the district far better than Mr. Garrett.”

Jeffrey Goldberg, C’87, Selected as New Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic

Jeffrey Goldberg, Sphinx, Class of 1987, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, on October 11, 2016 was named the new editor in chief of the 159 -year-old magazine. Goldberg, who joined The Atlantic in 2007 from The New Yorker, succeeds James Bennet, who left the company this spring to become editorial-page editor at The New York Times. Goldberg is The Atlantic’s 14th top editor since the publication was founded in 1857. Goldberg has written 11 cover stories for the magazine and is a prolific contributor to TheAtlantic.com, helping shape the website’s voice. His most recent cover story, “The Obama Doctrine,” chronicled the U.S. president’s evolving foreign policy.

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SPHINX ALUMNI NEWS

. Jeffrey M. Goldberg, Sphinx 1987, interviews President on his foreign policy doctrines.

Goldberg’s April 2015 cover story, “Is it Time for the Jews to Leave Europe,” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award, a prize he won in 2003 for “In the Party of God,” his story for The New Yorker on Hezbollah, the Shia militant group in Lebanon. Goldberg began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. He was the Middle East correspondent and former Washington correspondent of The New Yorker, and also wrote for The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine Re. -Goldbeelectedrg, for a anotherformer Newthree York-year bureau term was chief Anita of the Saggurti, Forward C’12,, is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. At Penn,Newly Goldberg elected served to the as Boardan editor for onalso The a three Daily- yearPennsylvanian. term are:

- Eric W. Apple, Esq., W’91, New York City, NY - Louis “Tripp” Hornick, III, C’02, NewJibran York Khan,City, NY W’12, C’12, reports that he is “based in working in travel technology for a start up company called - Jeremy Pincus, C’14, Chicago, IL “HotelTonight.” They are replacing three Board members who have completed or stepped down from their terms of office: He writes that he is “on our Strategic Partnerships team at HotelTonight, Merrie S. Frankel, Esq., C’76, Board President, 2009-2013, Alexis Ruby Howe, C’07, and Eileen McKeown, C’10. We managing our corporate agreements with, and driving portfolio growth thank all three of them for their excellent service and friendship for, the hotel brands/management. companies. You should download the

app and try it out next time you need a hotel room at the last minute Here’s the complete listing of the 2016(booking-2017 Sphinx within Senior 7 days Society of check Board-in)!” of Governors: Also check out the web site Stephen Klitzman, Esq., C’66, President; Gregorywww.hotelt Suss,onight.com Esq., PhD, C’75,. Vice President; John K. Fiorillo, Esq., W’86, Treasurer; Elizabeth Katz Miller, W’87, Secretary ; Devin Grossman, W’16, Chief-Emeritus; Eric W. Apple, Esq., W’91; Louis “Tripp” Hornick, III, C’02; Samir Malik, C’08, W’08, WG’14; Jeremy Pincus, C’14; Kiera Reilly, C’93,

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Estate of Widow of Late Alumnus, Eugene C. Felt, ’24, Offers Sphinx Ring for Sale Editor’s Note: Since our Summer 2016 Newsletter we received the following email. If any of you would like to make an offer for this adjustable, at least 92- year-old Sphinx ring, please respond directly to the sender below:

Sir or Madam,

I'm the Trustee of the Trust of Barbara Felt, who died in June of this year. I'm in the process of liquidating her estate, and among her possessions I've found a Sphinx ring owned by her father, Eugene C. Felt, who was a member of the Class of 1924 and who died in 1998. I've attached pictures of the ring for your reference. The ring appears to be adjustable in size, and there are no engravings on the inside or outside.

I'm afraid my obligations as Trustee preclude me from donating this ring outright, but I wonder whether any member of your Society may wish to purchase it. If you would disseminate this information to your members, I would certainly be willing to entertain any offers.

Thank you,

Lynn Chipperfield

Barbara Felt Trust Lynn Chipperfield, Trustee 12415 Betsy Ross Lane Saint Louis, MO 63146-4619 Cell: 636-448-3653 [email protected]

Bill Squires, Sphinx ’71, at Fenway Park, Boston, MA William Squires, Sphinx’71, reports that he has turned to singing at various ball parks and stadiums since he retired as president of Esquire Gas Products Company. Bill’s new avocation was featured in an article entitled “Star-Spangled Singer” in the Penn Gazette, Sept.-Oct. 2016 issue. The article was written by Bill’s friend, fellow classmate and fellow Sphinge, Stephen Marmon, W’71,

and Sphinx Chief, ’71. The article notes that Bill has performed the American and Canadian National Anthems at over three

hundred events from Vermont to Florida and Texas at venues including TD Garden in Boston, Gillette Stadium, Mohegan Sun

Arena, Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, and at spring training for three major league baseball teams. In June 2016, Bill sang “God

Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch at the Boston Red Sox -- Seattle Mariners game at Fenway Park.

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Susan Molofsky Todres, Sphinx ‘75, Curates a Penn Memorabilia Exhibit in Sweeten Alumni House

Since 2002, Susan Molofsky Todres (Sphinx '75, CW'75, WG'77) has acted as a volunteer memorabilia and historical agent for University of Pennsylvania Archives. Having acquired and donated over 600 items to Archives' collections, Susan has brought home to Penn many treasures and iconic representations of Penn history. A sampling includes manuscripts,

photographs of previously unseen 19th century professors, early 20th century William Pabst-carved senior spoon awards, enameled sterling silver pennant pins and brooches, an original 1905 F. Earl Christy "hoo-rah girl" watercolor, and a bronze 1780 Jean Baptiste Nini medallion bearing Benjamin Franklin's likeness.

Susan recently curated a new exhibit for the display cases in Sweeten House, and is always excited for a chance to share some of the treasures she has found! Included in the current display are four of the seven Ernest Roth etchings of the Penn campus in 1919, featuring the University

Museum, the Quad, College Hall, and . Memorabilia from the annual Thanksgiving Day football rivalry between Penn and Cornell are also on display, including a rare broadside documenting the special Ithaca to Philadelphia train for Cornell fans. Many other treasures are in the

Sweeten display to discover...please stop by next time you’re on campus!

TOP: Susan Molofsky

Todres, Sphinx ’75, in front of her curated exhibit of Penn memorabilia on display in the

Sweeten Alumni House.

ABOVE: Irvine Auditorium,

Etching by Ernest Roth, 1919

RIGHT: PENN-CORNELL Thanksgiving Day Rivalry

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Please send your class notes to our Sphinx gmail account: [email protected]

We also ask each Sphinx Class Chief, Pharisee and/or Scribe to select one class person to be your Sphinx

Alumni Class Note Editor. We’ll then ask that person to compile and send short class notes to: [email protected]

“Sphinx Links” Seeks Alumni Mentors for Sphinx Class of 2017

In 2010, the Sphinx Society Board of Governors created “Sphinx Links” as a new mentoring project to offer the career and life advice of experienced Sphinx alumni to current Sphinx seniors. Since 2010 we've made mentoring matches for nearly 70 Sphinx undergraduates with alumni mentors in dozens of professional fields. These have ranged from the arts, business, entertainment, finance, journalism, law, media and medicine, to biotechnology, global development, and public health.

We would like to invite you to participate in the program. As part of the program, you will be paired with a current Sphinx undergraduate mentee in the Class of 2017 who is interested in working in a field aligned with your career and most likely in your locale. In this role, you will have the opportunity to provide career guidance, job readiness

preparation, and a shared network for your mentee.

You and your mentee will determine how the relationship functions – you can meet, talk or email as little or as often as you’d like. Our past mentoring relationships have been very successful so we hope you will join this year’s cohort! This is an excellent opportunity to give back to the Sphinx community and to have a positive impact on

the career growth of one of our undergraduate members.

Here's what Anita Saggurti, Sphinx Chief,’12, member of the Sphinx Board of Governors, and Coordinator of the Sphinx Links mentoring program, writes about her own mentoring experience:

“I personally have had a wonderful experience with the program. I was matched with my mentor during my senior year of college. Since then, he has guided me through my decision to go to law school, involvement in political campaigns, and has answered questions I have about navigating my career.”

If you are interested in serving as a mentor (or being a mentee), please email Anita Saggurti at [email protected] Please attach a copy of your resume as well as answers to the questions below:

Your Name:

Your School (Wharton/College/Engineering/Nursing):

Graduating Year:

Penn Activities: Career Fields of Interest: For Mentors Only: Brief Summary of Your Career (2-3 sentences):

For Mentees: Preferred locales after graduation (top locations in order of preference, e.g., Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, etc.)

If you have any questions, please contact Anita Saggurti or Steve Klitzman at [email protected] . Please submit your resume and the above information as soon as you can so we can begin to make appropriate mentoring matches with the Sphinx Class of 2017.

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Town & Country Article on Ivy League Senior Societies Describes Sphinx Senior

Society as Penn’s “Most Prestigious”

In its issue of August 9, 2016, Town & Country ran a story entitled “The Most Exclusive Student Clubs of the Ivy League.” See http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/news/g2223/ivy-league-clubs/ Here’s what it said about our Sphinx Senior Society:

“Although senior societies at Penn aren't as important or entrenched in campus culture as they are at some other

Ivy League institutions, the university does have at least three: the Sphinx, the Friars Senior Society, and the Mortar Board. Of the three, the Sphinx is considered the most prestigious, tapping between 25 and 30 new members—called Sphinges—in their junior year. Founded in 1900, in 1952 the Sphinx became Penn's first senior society to admit African-Americans; it went co-ed in 1971.

Famous Members: John Legend, Richard A. Clarke, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jon Huntsman, Sr.”

Join the Sphinx Facebook and LinkedIn Groups We encourage you to join our Facebook and LinkedIn Groups, both named Sphinx Senior Society. These are closed groups and only open to members of Sphinx.