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University Requests Student Towers Newest Step $17 Million in Aid The University has requested $17,214,- In University's Building Program 813 in state aid for the fiscal year of Construction on student housing total- imately 400 residents, with the remainder 1969-70, an increase of about $5.7 mil- ing more than $40 million is the latest of designed as two-occupant apartments suit- lion over the $11.5 million received last several new facilities now being developed able either for married students or two year. A separate request for $100,000 for by the University. The others include single students. Underground parking for the Museum has been submitted to the performing arts facilities in the Annen- 129 cars will be provided as well as retail Historical and Museum Commission. berg Center, medical and dental medical and storage areas. The new request for state aid, if ap- teaching and research buildings, and a so- Area 3, known as the "superblock," is proved by the State Legislature, would cial science unit. designed basically as an undergraduate represent a major change in the way fi- A $10 million housing complex for area housing 3,550 students. Three "T" nancial assistance is accorded the Uni- graduate students will be built on a site shaped high-rise structures of 25 stories versity by the Commonwealth. known as Area 2, bounded by Chestnut, will be built, as well as three four story Up to now state aid has been divided Sansom, 36th and 37th streets. A $30 mil- walk-up type units. Accommodations will into various categories including general lion housing complex for undergraduate include 16 different type of apartments maintenance, schools of medicine and students is being constructed in Area 3, of single, double and four-occupant veterinary medicine as well as the hos- bounded by Walnut, Spruce, 38th and units. Common facilities in the high-rises pitals. 40th Streets. will include lounges and laundries on al- Next year's request, however, is based Area 2 is designed for 1,550 graduate ternate floors and major lounges at the on the "doctoral support" program rec- students. Four high-rise structures will roof and basement levels. ommended by the State Board of Edu- be built, three 16 stories high and a Other facilities to be built in this area cation's Master Plan for Higher Educa- fourth unit, 22 stories high. These ac- include two parking garages at 38th and tion in Pennsylvania. commodations will consist of single 40th streets for 1,000 automobiles and a (Continued on page 3) rooms with semi-private baths for approx- dining commons at 38th and Locust. The housing project is the first pro- gram under the newly established Penn- sylvania Higher Educational Facilities Authority. Completion is scheduled for with two-thirds of the students occupying residence one year earlier, for the 1970 academic year. (Continued on page 4)

Penn One of Many Involved In Area Redevelopment A University in a city has more prob- lems than most, particularly if it is sur- rounded by businesses and homes. Last year the University of Pennsyl- vania was accused of being a "monster of expansion" which was establishing an "educational ghetto" that would cover a substantial portion of West Philadelphia. Students and faculty both have ex- pressed concern over the displacement of residents in the area, particularly black residents. A radical few have even suggested that the University is responsi- ble for all redevelopment going on in the area and should be held to task. It is too often forgotten that rede- velopment is a complex, painstaking pro- These three "T" shaped high-rise buildings will be constructed in the area dubbed the cess involving not only the University "superbiock" and will house approximately 3,000 students. (Continued on page 5)

Additional Faculty Members Granted Leaves Nearly thirty more faculty members Dr. Joseph Soffen, associate professor try, will spend the year doing research have been granted leaves for this year in of social work, will spend this term do- in his area of specialization. addition to those already mentioned in ing research on the subject, "Reversing Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, assistant the Almanac. A Polarization." the last May issue of Group professor of political science, has re- WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE list of the more recent recipients and ceived a Guggenheim Fellowship and AND COMMERCE what they will be doing follows: will spend spring term doing research on COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Dr. Gerard Adams, associate profes- political alliances of 19th Century Eu- sor of economics, is as a member Dr. William Blitzstein, of serving rope. professor of the staff of the Council of Economic astronomy, will devote this fall term to Dr. Edmund S. Phelps, professor of Advisers this year with particular respon- drawing up a proposed plan for future economics, will spend the year working sibilities in the area of forecasting. research at Flower and Cook Observa- on a monograph for the Brookings Insti- Dr. Jere Behrman, associate professor tory and will work at both the Observa- tution on the problems of unemployment of economics, will spend the year in San- tory and Rittenhouse laboratory. and inflation. tiago, Chile as a member of the Center Dr. John C. Fogarty, assistant profes- A. Pollak, assistant for International Studies project on eco- Dr. Robert pro- sor of mathematics, will spend the year fessor of economics, will the nomic development problems of the Chil- spend year in Kyoto doing research sponsored by his work on theoretical ean economy. continuing prob- the National Science Foundation under in analysis un- Dr. Lucy C. Behrman, assistant pro- lems empirical demand the U.S.- Cooperative Science pro- of the Bureau of Labor fessor of political science, will spend the der the auspices gram. in Chile research on the Statistics. Dr. Elliott D. Mossman, assistant year conducting pro- influence of the Catholic Dr. Leonard Rico, associate professor fessor of Slavic will political languages, spend Church. of will serve as visiting pro- term in the conduct- industry, spring W. Doede, assistant fessor of business administration this research on Russian literature. Dr. Robert pro- ing the at the of Dr. Harris B. Savin, assistant fessor of economics, will spend year year University . profes- in full-time research on macro-economic Dr. Hans Stoll, assistant professor of sor of will the at psychology, spend year models and will a series of semi- finance, will the year at the Board Rockefeller with Dr. organize spend University George and of Governors of the Federal Reserve Miller, the leader of Ameri- nars on the usefulness interpretation recognized research on capital mar- can of these models. system doing Psycho-Linguistics. kets. Dr. Charles S. J. White, assistant pro- Dr. William 0. Whitney, assistant pro- fessor of religious thought, has received Office Research fessor of economics, will the year a fellowship from the American Institute spend of Indian Studies for research in Name Changed at a British University teaching on a part- research and in connection with his book on the medi- It has been announced by Mr. time basis and pursuing Scurlock, Director, that the interests in the area of economic eval Hindu devotional religion. Reagan writing GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION name of the Office of Project Re- history. search and Grants has been Dr. Robert C. Hammock, professor of changed Dr. Yoram Wind, assistant professor the Office of Research Adminis- education, will spend the year teaching to of marketing and international business, tration. at the University of Southern Alabama. will spend the year as Visiting Senior Dr. Joseph M. Scandura, associate Lecturer at the Graduate School of Bus- professor of education, has received a Dr. Phoebus Dhrymes, professor of iness Administration at the University of grant from the U.S. Office of Education economics, will spend the year on re- Tel Aviv. for a post-doctoral fellowship program search supported by a Ford Foundation Dr. Marvin Wolfgang, professor of so- in education research and will work at Faculty Research Fellowship. ciology, will spend the year in Italy on a Pennsylvania, Stanford and Berkeley. Dr. Marten S. Estey, associate profes- Guggenheim studying crime and punish- SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING sor of industry, is spending the year on ment in Renaissance Florence. the senior staff of the Council of Eco- Dr. Pier L. associate Bargellini, pro- nomic Advisers. fessor of electrical engineering, has ac- Dr. Paul Green, of market- an as Senior Staff professor cepted appointment and international business, will Langfeld Named Associate Chief member of the Comsat Laboratories this ing spend spring term completing a book dealing Of Regional Medical Program year. with the use of and multi- Dr. B. on the fac- Dr. Daniel D. Perlmutter, of psychometrics Stephen Langfeld, professor variate in the measurement of ulty of the Department of Medicine since chemical has been awarded analysis engineering, behavior. 1955, has been appointed Associate Chief a Senior Research Grant and marketing Fulbright Dr. John Horlacher, of the University of Pennsylvania Unit will the at the Control Perry professor spend year Sys- of science, will of the Greater Delaware Valley Regional tems Center of the of Man- political spend spring University term completing his book, The Strike Medical Program, part of a National effort chester Institute of Science and Tech- and Public Policy. to make available to all patients the latest nology. Dr. Herbert S. Levine, associate pro- advances in diagnosis and treatment of SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK fessor of economics, has received a Ful- heart disease, cancer and stroke. Dr. George Hoshino, associate profes- bright-Hays grant and will spend the Dr. Langfeld has been active in clini- sor of social work, has been elected to a year working at the London School of cal medicine for the past 13 years as At- Simon Senior Research Fellowship at the Economics; he will also be in Moscow tending Cardiologist and Assistant Direc- University of Manchester in England and for two months. tor of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab- will spend the year there. Dr. John Lubin, professor of indus- oratory at the Pennsylvania Hospital.

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Aid Requested William Marshall Honored Honorary Degree Candidate (Continued from page 1) Nominations Are Requested This calls for to and With Victorian Collection grants colleges The friends of the late Dr. William H. Nomination of candidates for honor- universities in amounts of $5,000 for have ary degrees to be conferred by the Uni- each full-time candidate for the Marshall, professor of English, eligible to the William versity at the May, 1969 Commence- doctorate enrolled at the school (the joined together establish H. Marshall Memorial Collection of ment, is being requested by the Commit- State defines doctoral degree candidates tee on Affairs. Nominations are Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Faculty as full-time students who have completed due November 15. The purpose of the Marshall Collec- by a year's graduate work and are U.S. Cit- In order for nominees to receive full tion is to expand the holdings of the Li- izens). consideration, infor- brary of the University in the fields of complete supporting It is anticipated that in 1969-70, the mation should be This should Professor Marshall's greatest interest, provided. University will have 3,017 students eligi- standard the Romantic and Victorian periods of go beyond the biographical ble for such grants. This would account sketch and should tell the Committee English literature. Particular attention for $15,085,000 of the appropriation candidate should an hon- will be to as as pos- why the receive requested. paid acquiring many out- sible of the significant editions of the orary degree; a description of the In addition, the request for state aid of works of selected poets and novelists. standing aspects the person's career was based on three other factors. and his contributions is essential. Gifts in Professor Marshall's memory primary The bulk of University research con- Nominations which were not acted tracts are with of the Federal may be made in the form of cash or of agencies books. upon in previous years will not auto- government which require that the Uni- come before the committee this Gifts of money for the acquisition of matically versity share in the cost of the project. year. New nominations with full, cur- The rate books for the collection may be sent to Federally approved cost-sharing Dr. William E. Miller in the Furness Me- rent supporting material should be made for the University is nine percent. in order that such individuals be recon- morial Library. Checks should be made In view of the value of these contracts sidered. to the of and payable to the University of Pennsyl- quality graduate profes- vania. All nominations and supporting data sional programs, their economic value to should be sent to the Chairman, Dr. Rob- the State and their contribution to the Those wishing to donate books should consult with Dr. Neda M. Westlake of ert Maddin, 201 Laboratory for Research solution of society's problems, the State on the Structure of Matter. is asked to contribute half of that the Rare Book Department of the Li- being in advance to avoid cost, or 4.5 percent. brary duplication. Based on an research bud- All gifts are deductible for income tax "Wrapped" 18-Foot Trees expected Further information about the of $38,865,835 in 1969-70, 4.5 purposes. On Exhibit at Art Institute get per- Marshall Collection be obtained cent of this would amount to $1,748,963. may are now fea- from the persons named above. "Wrapped things" being The Commonwealth is also being tured at the Institute of Contemporary asked to pay part of the cost of library Art. Created by Christo, a controversial services rendered by the University: A Another Office Moves young Bulgarian-born New Yorker, the recent survey by the Library indicated The office of Fellowship Informa- works include two 18-foot trees, muf- that 20 percent of all library usage was tion and Study Programs Abroad fled and tied; an undisclosed number of by persons not associated with the Uni- has moved from 226 South 38th articles shrouded in an overall package versity, including business, industry and Street to the basement of College about 15 feet in diameter; and a special faculty and students of other colleges Hall. monument for the ICA which measures and universities. 21 by 30 by 40 feet. The State has been asked to contribute Christo's special art form is empaque- one-half the cost to the University of Planning Office Requests (age, the packing of objects large and services to non-University users; this Copies of Institutional Studies small, what ICA Director Dr. Stephen would run to $240,850 in 1969-70. Copies of institutional studies drawn Prokopoff calls a "homemade bundle" is Finally, the Commonwealth being up by the administrative staff, faculty, fashion. to asked to assume rental payments due students and various colleges, depart- His works will be on view to the public the General State Authority. The first of ments, institutes and other units of the free through November II, daily and these payments-$150,000 for the Den- University are being requested by the Of- Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and tal Research and Teaching building-will fice of Institutional Studies and Plan- Sundays from noon to 5. fall due in 1969-70. ning. Such studies may include those currently being worked on and those ex- pected to be started during the current Herman Kahn Will Conduct New Procedures Established academic year. Tutorials on Recent Book "Institutional Studies" are defined as For Center Grants Herman Kahn, director of The Hud- Computer studies or research relating to "the poli- son Institute in New York, will present a New procedures for the allocation of cies, goals, purposes, organization, func- series of three tutorials on his recent University-supported computer time for tion, operation, programs, history, prac- book, Speculations on the Year 2000, at faculty, staff and student research are tices, activities, students, faculty, staff, the national meeting of the Operations now in effect at the University Computer supporting personnel, internal and exter- Research Society of America to be held Center. On June 30, all funds in Uni- nal clientele of this University, any of its November 6 and 7 at the Sheraton Ho- versity-supported projects were zeroed; organizational or activity components, or tel. Additional information about the therefore, those requiring Computer more generally, institutions of higher tutorials can be obtained from Dr. Peter Center grants must reapply under the learning." T. Fitzroy, assistant professor of mar- new procedures. New forms are avail- Survey findings are incorporated within keting, or Dr. Sidney W. Hess, associate able from the Computer Center Business the library on institutional study subjects professor of statistics and operations Office. on the 7th floor of the Franklin Building. research.

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Medical School, Science Center Among Those Building. (Continued from page 1) fall. The $7.3 million Johnson Pavilion Center with facilities for R.O.T.C. and Three new theaters will be housed in for Medical Research and Teaching is lo- physical education. Located near the the new $5.7 million Annenberg Center cated on Hamilton Walk at 36th Street. River fields at 3000 South Street, the five for Communication Arts and Sciences, The top four floors will house the depart- story building includes classrooms and now under construction at 37th and Wal- ment of microbiology and research lab- office space. A two story annex has been nut Streets. The main theater-named oratories for microbiology and a number added with locker room and showers. after Mr. Harold Zellerbach, Emeritus of clinical departments including inter- Other construction projects on campus Trustee of the University and donator to nal medicine, neurology and ophthalmol- include a Legal Research Center, Mor- the project-will seat up to 950 and has ogy. Eight multi-use teaching laborator- ris Dormitory renovation, School of ies will be on one floor and the library Medicine Hyperbaric Research Unit, on the other. Museum parking garage, Bennett Hall Another six-story teaching and re- alterations, faculty club addition, and search facility, a Center for Oral Health squash courts. Planning is also being de- Research, is being constructed at a cost veloped for several projects including the of $4.6 million on the southwest corner Humanities Building, Men's Dormitory of and Locust Streets. The new Triangle, University Museum expansion, center will be devoted to advancing the Graduate Center, Computer Center and knowledge of dental scientists in both a New Bolton Center Research Facility. basic and clinical fields, with em- special BUILDINGS ALSO RISING OFF CAMPUS phasis on collaborative studies among In addition to those build- scientists of many disciplines. University now constructed, there are A for treat- ings being psychiatric day hospital several other facilities near the ment and research in going up psychosomatic campus that are of interest. medicine is being constructed on Gates II of the University Hospital. The new unit is designed for treatment of patients who need more care than can be The University began construction last pro- vided once or visits to year on the Oral Health Sciences Building by twice-weekly the service, but who do not of the School of Dental Medicine. outpatient require the full range of inpatient serv- been designed for drama, music, dance ices. Initially, staff will work with emo- and multi-media shows. A laboratory tionally and medically unstable diabetics, theater, named after Mr. Harold Prince, post-cardiac surgery patients with emo- chairman of the new Advisory Council tional difficulties, patients with chronic for the Performing Arts at the Univer- psychosomatic problems and those with sity, will be a multi-level experimental eating disorders. and facility with movable seating stag- Newly renovated obstetrical facilities theater will ing. A smaller workshop at the Hospital include three specially for an provide an intimate atmosphere equipped rooms for electronic monitor- audience of 150 for film screenings, ing before, during and immediately after chamber music, recitals and reading. delivery. Designed for use when birth The Center is expected to be in opera- complications can be anticipated, the tion by 1970. special suite includes a labor room, a de- will A new six-story structure which livery room and a laboratory for re- house the School of Medicine's library search in the physiology of the newborn. and many basic and clinical research lab- A five-bed Clinical Research Center oratories is scheduled for occupancy this was completed last spring at the Gradu- ate Hospital, 19th and Lombard. The Center is being used to develop new means of treating a variety of disorders Three University offices are now housed under carefully controlled conditions. in the new Number One University City The costs of construction, equipment, office building. staffing and operation of the research center are a A being supported by five-year four story $1.5 million research fa- $1.5 million grant from the National In- Science Center stitutes of Health. cility-University City Building No. 2-will be built on the ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS PLANNED south side of 36th and Market. The first A five story Social Sciences Unit which step in the development of a $100 mil- will include Economics, Sociology and lion research complex that will stretch Regional Science is going up at 37th and from 36th to 40th Streets along both Locust on campus. The $4.4 million sides of Market, Building No. 2 will building also includes an underground house the University City Science Insti- parking garage. tute, a radiology laboratory and the West The new 14-story International House is An unused steam plant has been con- Philadelphia Community Mental Health planned to house 450 students. verted into the William M. Hollenback (Continued on next page)

Penn Just One of Many, City Agencies also Involved. (Continued from page 1) is vested in agencies of the City Govern- and a corporation formed by several ment with ultimate review of all a merchants in the Official and many other developers but city and plans area. documents of the Com- of federal government as well. And it is responsibility City Planning the Redevelopment Authority estimated mission. on the basis of visits, that too often forgotten that the University house-by-house It was decided the commission there were 33 non-white families is as concerned about displacement and early by residing that one of the of the in the area. These with all but two relocation as are those who are being objectives redevelop- along moved. ment of the University area was "to pro- of an estimated 108 white families have vide a suitable environment been The idea of this area is neighborhood relocated. redeveloping for the of and The controversial area of relocation not a new one. The of Philadel- University Pennsylvania City Drexel." has been in Renewal Unit 3 where Re- was concerned as far back as World phia Three main units were estimates indi- War II with areas it felt needed to be redevelopment development Authority set These were Urban Renewal Area cated were 574 families of which In 1942 the up. there redeveloped. City Planning Unit 3 whose boundaries are Chestnut 467 were non-white. The residen- Commission was created ordinance of major by Street from 34th to 39th, Ludlow Street that was the Council. Tentative for re- tial portion of Unit condemned City plans from 39th to 40th, north to Powelton, the School Board for a were discussed but it wasn't by Philadelphia development southeast on Lancaster, then south to 34th; for a school which until the an Urban campus public high passing of Redevel- Unit 4 which runs from 1970 act approximately will open in and is planned to serve opment by the Pennsylvania State 34th to 38th between Walnut and Chest- 3000 students. Other in 1945 and the formation of major developers Legislature nut Streets and from 37th to 40th between in Unit 3 include the the of Phila- working University Redevelopment Authority and Walnut Streets; and Unit 5 Science Center, the Food and (which has the of Emi- Spruce City Drug delphia power which runs between 33rd Administration, the nent Domain) five months later, that approximately Presbyterian-Univer- and 34th from Chestnut Street to Powel- of Medical Center, In- development plans began in earnest. sity Pennsylvania ton; at the north end, Unit 5 extends east ternational House, the Working Home In 1948 the Chairman of the City to include Winter and Summer Streets. for the Blind, St. Leonard's School, the Planning Commission notified the Rede- After five years of planning sessions and Lutheran Student Center, Drexel Insti- velopment Authority that nine areas of public hearing involving at least a thou- tute and builders of a private apartment the met city the criteria for redevelop- sand participants, redevelopment plans for The Home for Women, ment; the building. Indigent "University" area was one of Units 3, 4 and 5 were accorded final ap- the Father Divine Hotel and several other the nine. proval by the City Planning Commission, smaller properties will remain at their The City Planning Commission, the the Redevelopment Authority, City Coun- present site. City Council and the Redevelopment Au- cil and the United States Department of Work on Unit 5 in which Drexel In- thority met with institutions in the area Housing and Urban Development and stitute is the major developer has been as well as consultants, business and edu- these areas were acquired by the Rede- held up by Court proceedings instigated cational leaders and other agencies to dis- velopment Authority. by residents in a portion of the project cuss possible land uses. For while private In Unit 4, the University has been the area. agencies, institutions, organizations and principle developer; others include St. Under the law the Redevelopment Au- individuals are involved, the formal plan- James Catholic Church, Tabernacle Pres- thority has responsibility for relocation ning function involved in redevelopment byterian Church and Community Center of residents. However, the University has assisted many of those who had to be Building Continues story now going up at 37th and Chestnut relocated from the Unit 4 area. In an (Continued from page 4) Streets, will accommodate 450 interna- effort to accommodate some of those res- Consortium. The building is scheduled tional and American students. In addi- idents who are being displaced in Unit for occupancy in the fall of 1969. tion to its resident accommodations, the 3, low-income housing projects are be- Also scheduled for occupancy in the multi-purpose building will have a dining ing planned near the Presbyterian-Uni- fall of 1969 is a third Science Center room with seating for 200, meeting versity of Pennsylvania Medical Center building, between 34th and 36th Streets, rooms, program facilities including audi- and the University City Science Center. on the South side of Market. Half of the torium, lounges and shopping area as new structure will be occupied by the well as administrative offices. Ackerman Named Chairman Monell Chemical Senses Center, jointly The new house is being made available administered by the University of Penn- through funds from the Philadelphia Of Orthodontics Department sylvania schools of medicine, dentistry community, an area foundation and a Dr. James L. Ackerman, has been and veterinary medicine and financed by $2.5 million loan from the Department of named chairman of the Orthodontics De- a $1 million grant from the Monell Housing and Urban Development. partment and C. M. F. Egel Associate Foundation of New York. Smaller re- Construction on a new, high-rise mo- Professor of Orthodontics at the School search units will occupy the other half tel on the southwest corner of 40th and of Dental Medicine. He succeeds Dr. of the building. Chestnut will begin this fall. The 23- Paul V. Reid, who has resigned the post A new $2 million Food and Drug Ad- story structure will include a restaurant, and is on sabbatical leave. ministration Regional Laboratory will be meeting rooms, administrative offices and Dr. Ackerman, 30, comes to the Uni- constructed on the south side of 38th and pool as well as provide rooms and inside versity from four years of private ortho- Market Street. The two-story structure parking for approximately 300 guests. dontic practice in Westfield, N.J. He has will employ some 200 employees and will A new seven-story office building at held teaching appointments at Harvard serve the eastern half of Pennsylvania, 4025 Chestnut has been built. University and at Fairleigh Dickinson School of southern half of New Jersey and all of offices located in the building include the Dentistry and has served as a consultant Delaware. Occupancy is scheduled for Placement Service, the Center for Studies in orthodontics to the University of Ken- early 1969. in Criminology and Criminal Law and the tucky and to the Children's Specialized International House, a modern 14- Marriage Council. Hospital, Westfield, N.J.

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DR. HERMAN LEVIN, associate Among other things... professor of social work, received a sum- mer faculty research grant from the Uni- on Advancement APPOINTMENTS: DR. JAMES E. GRIFFEN, associate versity Committee the of has been of Research to continue his work on DR. BURTON CAHN, assistant pro- professor physical therapy, elected Chairman of the Section on Re- "The Right to Assistance." fessor of psychiatry, has been named Di- DR. JOHN 0. BRAINERD, director rector of search of the American Physical Therapy Psychiatry Resident Training and of electrical engineering, for the Association. professor Philadelphia State Hospital at received the annual Philadelphia IEEE Byberry. AUTHORS: Section award for his leadership in edu- DR. FREDERICK V. BRUTCHER, DR. WILLIAM T. KELLEY, associ- cation and research. Dr. Brainerd was JR., associate of has professor chemistry, ate of and commun- the American delegate to the meeting of been to the Editorial Advis- professor marketing reappointed ications, is the author of a new book a committee of the International Elec- Board of Current Contents, Chemi- pub- ory lished Press of London, trotechnical Commission last spring and cal Sciences, the Institute by Staples published by The continues as chairman of the inter-uni- for Scientific Information. "Marketing Intelligence: Manage- ment Marketing Information." versity National Committee for Electri- DR. RALPH M. SHOWERS, of profes- DR. CHARLES E. ROSENBERG, cal Engineering Films. sor of electrical has engineering, been associate of has written a Two other engineering faculty mem- Vice Chairman of professor history, appointed the Stand- book on The Trial the Assassin Gui- bers have also been recently honored. ards Committee C63 on of Radio-Electri- teau: and Law in the Gilded DR. GRACE HOPPER, visiting associ- cal Coordination, of Psychiatry part the U.S. Stand- the of Chi- ate professor, received both the Phila- ards Institute, and Age, published by University attended the working Press. delphia section IEEE Achievement of cago group meetings the International An article on of Award as well as the Bobbie C. Con- Committee on "Aspects Sequence Radio Interference in the on Visual Communication," SOL nelly award of the Miami Valley Com- Netherlands in by June. WORTH, associate of com- puter Association. ARTHUR D. HALL, DR. DAVID professor LEFKOVITZ, assistant munications, in the summer is- III, lecturer, has received the State De- of appeared professor electrical engineering, served of AV Communication Review. partment Scroll of appreciation for his as sue program chairman for the Fifth An- DR. WILLIAM W. BRICKMAN, work on the International Organization nual National pro- Colloquium on Information fessor conducted a for the International Radio Consultative Retrieval. of education, recently of attitudes to- Committee and for his work as U.S. DR. national survey professional MANAS CHATFERJI, assistant ward the Plan for Mutual Inter- spokesman for Study Group XI at the of science, has been Ogontz professor regional national Education (in which qualified Oslo Plenary Session. He recently pre- appointed Associate Professor of Busi- students enrolled in U.S. univer- sented a paper to the Philadelphia Sec- in foreign ness the State University of New York their cultures to elemen- tion of the Operations Research Society at sities present Binghamton. and school which of America and for the last three years DR. WILLIAM KANAR, tary secondary pupils) instructor was the Plan Com- has been Editor of IEEE Transactions in at published by Ogontz psychiatry Pennsylvania Hospital and mittee of International House of Phila- on Systems Science and Cybernetics; he director of the Inpatient service at its Dr. Brickman is currently edi- has also been elected as Administrative Mental delphia. Community Health Center, will tor of School and Committee member and treasurer. direct a new mental Society. health program at DR. GEORGE deVRIES KLEIN, as- DR. ALBERT P. SELTZER, associ- State Philadelphia Hospital at Byberry sociate of has edited ate professor of otolaryngology, has to activate professor geology, designed patients and prepare an article entitled "Late Paleozoic and been elected an honorary member of the them to move back into the community. Mesozoic Continental Sedimentation, Foundation Portmann at the University DR. A. NORMAN HIXSON, assistant Northeastern North America" which was of Bordeaux, France, where he studied vice for studies in en- in 1937. He is also the president graduate published as the Geological Society of otolaryngology gineering, has been appointed to the America 106. author of a recent article in the Journal Board of Special Paper Directors of the Engineers [Last month it was incorrectly reported of the National Medical Association. Council for Professional Development that the book, A Reading of Beowulf, (Continued on the next page) the American for representing Society written by Dr. Edward B. Irving, Jr., was Education. DR. STUART Engineering published by Yale Student University W. CHURCHILL, Carl V. S. Patterson Press; that should have been Yale Uni- 72, Professor of Chemical Erwin Gutkind, Dies; Engineering, has versity Press.] been reappointed to the Executive Com- Directed 10 Volume Work mittee of that organization representing HONORS: Dr. Erwin A. Gutkind, senior fellow the American Institute of Chemical En- Portraits of DR. HERMAN BEER- of the University's Institute for Environ- gineers. MAN, chairman and professor of derma- mental Studies, died August 7 at the age WILLIAM CARR, director of the tology and chief of dermatology at the of 72. At the time of his death he was di- Office of International Services, has been Graduate Hospital, and DR. ROBERT rector of "The International History of appointed to the Commission on Current A. GROFF, Charles Harrison Frazier City Development," a 10 volume work and Developing Issues in Student Life of Professor of Neurologic Surgery and of which three have been published. the Council of Student Personnel Asso- chairman of the neurologic surgery divi- Born in Berlin, Dr. Gutkind was edu- ciations, a coordinating body for thir- sion, were presented to the University cated at the University of Berlin and re- teen leading professional associations in at receptions held in the men's honor in ceived his doctorate in architecture there. higher education. Mr. Carr, on aca- May and June. This last year he was awarded the City demic leave this year, will coordinate the CLARENCE MORRIS, professor of of Berlin Prize for Architecture in recog- College Personnel Program in the Grad- law, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant nition of his design of apartment build- uate School of Education while teaching to conduct research in law at Cambridge ings there and for his major contribu- and doing research. University in England this year. tions to that city's planning.

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MRS. VIRGINIA HENDERSON, di- at the University during the spring semes- United States, England and Australia. Pro- ter. He will be for rector of the Continuing Education responsible investigat- DR. KENNETH A. FEGLEY, pro- gram for Women, was one of the 16 lo- ing opportunities for programs in which fessor of electrical engineering, pre- cal women honored by Temple Univer- Negro high school students may improve sented two papers on formation flight those skills to their studies at sity as "Women of Achievement." important simulation at the Symposium on Avia- DR. HOWARD MITCHELL, direc- the University and will also help to de- tion Electronics held at Fort Monmouth, additional resources to tor and professor of human resources, velop help Negro New Jersey in March. In addition, he is students in and on was featured in a special television pro- studying living campus. the co-author of an article which ap- Mr. Bradshaw comes to gram on "Men Who Teach," which ap- Pennsylvania peared in the IEEE Transac- from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dal- peared on the networks during May. tions on Automatic Control and presided las where he for the DR. HARVEY J. LERNER, associ- taught history past at a meeting of the Middle Atlantic Sec- two and He ate in surgery and head of the section years coached. received a tion of ASEE, held at Bell Telephone Lab- on cancer chemotherapy at the Pennsyl- BA degree in history with honors from oratories. aimed Yale in 1963. vania Hospital, will direct a study University DR. SIDNEY WEINTRAUB, blad- profes- at developing methods of treating DR. ERIC KAFKA has been ap- sor of economics, lectured at universi- der tumors. A grant of $166,000 has pointed Acting Director of the Office of ties, central banks and research institutes been received from The John A. Hart- International Services and Coordinator in France, Ireland, , Austria and ford Foundation, in Penn- Inc., support. of the Morgan State-University of Germany during the course of a tour as Friars Senior on last Society campus sylvania Cooperative Project. He re- an American Specialist under State De- honored CHARLES R. SCOTT, as- May ceived his Ph.D. in Student Personnel partment auspices. Topics included in- sistant director of athlet- from intercollegiate Michigan State and has been Di- flation and the price level, economic ics with its Friars Award while Faculty rector of Overseas Study Programs at trends, optimal growth and af- ROBERT F. "BO" BROWN, cartoonist growing Justin Merrill College, Michigan State. fluence and business decisions. for and creator University publications HERBERT HOWARTH, of of the "Professor Quagmire" cartoons TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS: professor on and which have appeared for nearly 25 years DR. HENRY J. ABRAHAM, English, spoke "Impressionism profes- British Literature" at the of the in the Pennsylvania Gazette, was given a sor of science, addressed the Congress political American Literature Asso- silver champagne bucket. 61st Annual of the Comparative Meeting Organiza- ciation held at Indiana Bloom- DR. LESTER LUBORSKY, professor tion of American Historians in Dallas, University, ington, last April. of psychiatry, has received a five-year Texas on "A Multidisciplinary Approach DR. DELL HYMES, of an- Scientist Award from the National Insti- to the Teaching of the American Negro: professor tute of Mental Health Research Devel- A Political Scientist's View." He also thropology, presented a paper on com- municative to a conference opment Program; he will work with DR. participated in a at competence symposium Wayne on and education ARTHUR H. AUERBACH, associate in State University on law as an obstacle anthropology spon- sored the American psychology, on effective conditions for to social change and later testified at by Anthropological Association and held in Miami psychotherapeutic change. length before a subcommittee on the Beach sep- Later in the month Dr. aration of powers (part of the Committee mid-May. Hymes STAFF APPOINTMENTS: on the on the role of the U.S. was chairman of a study group on Judiciary) "Mechanisms of DR. GEORGE A. SCHLEKAT, pro- Supreme Court. Language Development" held at the Ciba Foundation in London gram director of the College Scholarship DR. LEONARD NANIS, associate and co-sponsored by the Centre for Ad- Service at the Educational Testing Serv- professor of chemical engineering, and ice in Princeton, has been named Dean of vanced Study in the Developmental Sci- DR. PHILIPPE JAVET, research associ- ences. Admissions at the University. Dr. Schle- ate, attended the of the meeting DR. ARTHUR H. kat was graduated from Pennsylvania in Electro-Chemical to their SCOUTEN, grad- Society present uate chairman and 1959 and received his MS and Ph.D. a for "visual- professor of English, paper announcing technique read a on here in 1962 and 1966. Since 1966 he electrochemical effects at a paper grievances and appeals izing" magni- at the National has also been a special consultant to the fication of a million times, evolved English Association Con- during vention in U.S. Office of Education's Office of Pro- their work on field ion in- Chicago. microscopical DR. NORMAN BROWN, gram Planning and Evaluation. vestigation of atomic scale electrode professor A. of and materials science, REAGAN SCURLOCK, a former processes. metallurgy gave Air Force Colonel, has been a talk to the Geology Department of appointed DR. JOHN McM. MENNELL, asso- Director of Office of Research Adminis- Bryn Mawr College on "Slipping, Twin- ciate of medicine and tration Office of Re- professor physical ning and Faulting in Crystals." He also (formerly Project rehabilitation, was at search and Grants) ENCEL keynote speaker the talked to the Elastomere of replacing 1968 Iowa State Laboratory DODGE who left for a similar Physical Therapy Con- the du Pont Company on "The Rela- position vention in Des Moines, Iowa, where he at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala- tionship of the Behavior of Crystalline spoke on joint manipulation. bama. Mr. Scurlock received a BS degree Materials to that of Elastomeres" and DR. from Sul Ross College in Alpine, Texas HENRY J. TUMEN, professor gave another lecture at a meeting of the and holds an LLB Degree from the Uni- of medicine and chairman of the Divi- Philadelphia Electron Microscope Society. versity of Texas in Austin. He is a mem- sion of Graduate Medicine, along with DR. RAYMOND S. BERKOWITZ, ber of the State Bar of Texas. DR. JAMES L. A. ROTH, director of professor of electrical engineering, pre- WILLIAM ADAMS and ROBERT gastroenterology, served as co-directors of sented a paper at the PPAAR Annual Sym- W. BRADSHAW have been appointed a course "Frontiers in Gastroenterology," posium entitled "Evaluation of Multipur- Assistant Deans of Admission at the Uni- given under the auspices of the American pose Radar Systems for Army Helicopter versity. Mr. Adams, a 1962 graduate of College of Physicians as one of its post- Sensing Needs." He is continuing his Cheyney State College has been an English graduate courses. Registration for the work as a consultant to the Missile and teacher at West Philadelphia High School course numbered 700, its faculty including Surface Radar Division, RCA. since 1962 and was a lecturer in English outstanding gastroenterologists from the (Continued on next page)

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Among other things. tion. DR. LENNARD L. WEBER, as- fessor of radiology, and DR. HENRY J. sistant professor of obstetrics and gynecol- TUMEN, professor of medicine and ogy, chaired sessions on afibrinogenemia chairman of the Division of Graduate Another professor of engineering, DR. and amniocentesis and intrauterine trans- Medicine, participated in the Eighth In- MORRIS RUBINOFF, discussed develop- fusion. ternational Congress of Gastroenterol- ment and uses of computerized base per- DR. PIER L. BARGELLINI, associ- ogy in , in July sonnel systems at the second Annual Con- ate professor of electrical engineering, and presented a paper dealing with the ference on Personnel. attended the PPAAF Annual Symposium use of angiography in the study of ulcer- DR. HERMAN P. SCHWAN, chair- at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey where ative colitis; they also displayed an ex- man of the Biomedical Engineering de- he gave a paper, "Investigations of Heli- tensive exhibit concerning the work of partment and professor of electrical en- copter Noise." Another member of the abdominal angiography being done at the gineering, appeared before Senator War- department, DR. JAY ZEMEL, profes- Graduate Hospital. ren G. Magnuson's committee on com- sor of electrical engineering, spoke at MISS CLAIRE S. SPACKMAN, as- merce to outline the possible effects of the Battelle Memorial Institute and the sociate professor of occupational ther- microwaves on humans and other crea- American Chemical Society, where he apy and director of the Curative Work- tures. His testimony centered around discussed "Degeneracy Effects on Semi- shop, attended the Council meeting of three bills being considered which would conductor Surfaces." the World Federation of Occupational authorize the Secretary of Health, Edu- DR. MARTIN BROUWER, visiting Therapists in Gothenburg, Sweden in cation and Welfare to set safety stand- associate professor of communications, June. She is Honorary Secretary-Treas- ards for electronic products emitting rad- was conference chairman for the annual urer of that organization. iation. Dr. Schwan recently served on the meeting of the World Association for BRI1TON HARRIS, professor of city Radiological Health Council of HEW. Public Opinion Research held in con- and regional planning, has been involved Six faculty members who also are on junction with the meeting of American in numerous activities during the last few the staff of Pennsylvania Hospital at- Association for Public Opinion Research. months. In May he participated in a tended the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of Earlier, Dr. Brouwer presented a paper Brookings Institution Seminar on inte- the American College of Obstetricians entitled "Media vs. Mycelia" at a meet- grating technologies to manage urban de- and Gynecologists held in Chicago last ing of professional broadcasters in Chi- velopment, lectured to a Columbia Uni- May. DR. S. LEON , chairman cago in conjunction with the convention versity Planning Seminar and partici- and professor of obstetrics and gynecol- of the National Association of Broad- pated in a conference held in The Hague, ogy, participated in a colloquium on meno- casters. He also lectured at the New Netherlands, on organization for eco- pause and in a television program deal- School for Social Research on the use nomic cooperation and development. ing with medical manuscripts. DR. ED- of social science data archives for cross- In June he consulted with the Centre WARD H. BISHOP, assistant professor of national studies in social psychology. d'Etudes and de Recherches sur I'Amen- obstetrics and gynecology, chaired a con- DR. ROY MIDDLETON, professor agement Urbain, located in Paris and ference on ultrasonic fetal monitoring of physics, attended the International while there was the U.S. Representative while a round-table discussion on dia- Nuclear Conference in Dubna, Russia at meetings of an Ad Hoc Group of Ex- betes and pregnancy was conducted by last July. Other professors in the depart- perts on Urban Simulation for the Or- DR. JAMES GARNET, associate pro- ment-DR. ABRAHAM KLEIN, profes- ganization for Economic Cooperation fessor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology. sor of physics; DR. HENRY PRIMA- and Development. In July he partici- DR. HOWARD BALIN, assistant pro- KOFF, Donner Professor of Physics; and pated in a panel on "Developing Com- fessor of obstetrics and gynecology was DR. J. ROBERT SCHRIEFFER, Mary munity Goals and Institutions" and pre- busy presenting a report, moderating a Amanda Wood Professor of Physics- sented a paper, "Computers and Urban panel discussion on progress in conception attended the International Institute for Decision-Making" sponsored by Task control, and leading two conferences on Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. Force on Economic Growth and Oppor- pelvic endoscopy and induction of ovula- DR. STANLEY BAUM, associate pro- tunity in Washington.

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