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Since the 1980s, Mariette The Annenberg School’s 32 Pathy Allen GFA’65 has focused 42 Damon Centola thinks the her camera on gender identity contemporary wisdom about and expressions of gender. Some how behavior spreads is missing consider her the unofficial photographer something fundamental—and that may of transgender life. But finding her be why mindless trivialities crowd out place in the fine art world has been civic engagement. Can anything be another story. done? He has an idea or two. By Molly Petrilla By Trey Popp

The Outsiders

Celebrating the University’s 50 most storied sports team on its 40-year anniversary. By Dave Zeitlin

William Walker’s Dark Destiny

Newly settled in Costa Rica, 60 a recent alumnus investigates the legacy of “filibuster” William COVER Mariette Pathy Allen GFA’65 Walker M1843—largely forgotten in the “Bob becoming Malinda.” 1982. US but still perhaps the most hated From Transformations. man in Central America. By Myles Karp

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with each other. Ever since the NCAA Final Four. He also Fateful Malcolm Gladwell’s 2000 caught up with head coach book The Tipping Point pop- Bob Weinhauer, star forward ularized the idea, it’s become W’79, and other conventional wisdom that key players on the team, who the way behavior spreads— returned to campus for a trib- Moments everywhere, but the internet ute at the during the is a compelling case—is best Penn–Princeton game on compared to an epidemic January 12. (thus the term “going viral”). Finally, moving from he- her website, the pho- ground research. “For me, as But Penn sociologist Damon roes to villain, we have tographer Mariette a millennial trans person who Centola has a diff erent view, “William Walker’s Dark On Pathy Allen GFA’65 didn’t experience the ’70s and which senior editor Trey Popp Destiny.” Writer Myles Karp has described the ’80s,” Drucker told Molly, lays out in “The Virality C’12 stumbled on Walker’s photo that appears on page “Mariette is crucial to helping Paradox.” Key to his perspec- story shortly after moving to 34 this way: “The moment I me locate my own history.” tive is his childhood spent Costa Rica and catching sight started on my exploration.” Molly also talked with Allen tagging along with his activist of a T-shirt bearing the in- In this issue’s cover story, parents as they attended pro- scription “William Walker “Beyond the Binary,” frequent “I began at a tests and otherwise advocated was a punk ass bitch.” contributor Molly Petrilla C’06 for various not necessarily Intrigued, he learned that shares the details of that when I really popular causes, along with Walker M1843 had gained fateful moment in 1978 (no his own experience of com- popular acclaim in the US— spoilers here) and traces the was needed, in munity service and research and ignominy throughout extraordinary artistic jour- many ways. on organizing eff orts such as Central America—as a “fi li- ney that proceeded from it. the civil rights movement. buster,” a term then associ- Allen’s groundbreaking fi rst Now I am not.” While the virus model may ated with a breed of “guerilla book—1989’s Transformations— explain actions—sharing a expansionists” who deployed illuminated the community about her childhood, when cat video, say—where the the logic of manifest destiny then known only as “cross- she felt out of place both at eff ort required is minimal to seize foreign territory. dressers,” from glamor shots home and at school; her happy and the stakes involved are At one point, exploiting a to casual gatherings to inti- years at Penn’s then-School of low, in many other cases civil war in , Walker mate family portraits, while Fine Arts fi nding her way as a spreading behavior is a lot took control of the country, her 2003 follow-up The Gender photographer; and her harder than sneezing. (Citing installing himself as president Frontier charted the growing charged relationship with the a local example, Trey contrasts and prompting Costa Rica to openness and pride of the art world. And Allen the hundreds of students who declare war. The tide turned trans community and push spoke frankly about the im- indicated on Facebook that when—legend has it—Costa for transgender rights. More pact changing attitudes sur- they were going to a protest Rican national hero Juan recently, she has continued rounding representation have against reduced hours at Santamaría (still celebrated her exploration on a global had on her work: “The focus Huntsman Hall to the handful annually on April 11) sacrifi ced stage, with books set in Cuba now is that transgender peo- that actually showed up.) his life to set fi re to Walker’s and in Burma and Thailand. ple should photograph trans- Forty years ago, a contagion stronghold. Walker escaped In reporting the article, gender people … I began at a stronger than any internet but was later captured at- Molly interviewed some of time when I really was needed, meme swept Penn’s campus. tempting another land grab in Allen’s portrait subjects, art in many ways. Now I am not.” In “The Outsiders,” Dave , where he was ex- scholars, and admirers of her Aside from that issue, the Zeitlin C’03—a longtime free- ecuted by fi ring squad in 1860. work like Penn LGBT Center article also notes that tech- lance contributor who joins Director Erin Cross Gr’10 nology—digital cameras, so- us as associate editor with and Zackary Drucker, a pro- cial media—has altered how this issue (Welcome, Dave!)— ducer on the Amazon series members of the trans com- recalls the fever of excitement Transparent, which used munity can portray them- associated with the 1978–79 Transformations for back- selves and communicate men’s basketball team’s trip to

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Relief from “Cyber-Frenzy” I think I will make copies of Linda’s FERPA Endangers Students I thoroughly enjoyed the article by article and send it to certain friends— Penn’s appointment of the Ivy League’s Linda Willing, “A Woman of Letters” inside of actual, handwritten letters! fi rst Chief Wellness Offi cer [“Gazetteer,” [“Expert Opinion,” Jan|Feb 2019]. Jill Becker CW’64, Lambertville, NJ Jan|Feb 2019] is clearly a sign of the Like her, I send handwritten letters/ times, acknowledging the problems that notes through regular mail. This is done Past Preserved in Letters can no longer be ignored—with more to avoid transmitting messages on the I was so pleased to read the article suicides on campuses, students getting internet, an impersonal and very anti- about letters and letter writing by Linda sidelined by depression, abuse of drugs social media, in my opinion. Willing. I am a proud believer in the and alcohol, and pervasive feelings of People are so spellbound by the cyber- power of the art form and glad to see it helplessness, hopelessness, and worth- frenzy which seems to dominate our era get some recognition. lessness that contribute to so many of that they overuse it. Many have forgot- Letter writing has brought me joy since our children fi nding themselves at risk. ten the beauty of handwritten words 1985. I have done it far less often with the As parents of four children, we have (ink on paper) conveying how we care advent of email but on special occasions, experienced this during the past year about each other as human beings. for special people, I’ll make the extra ef- with our youngest child, who was at- Thankfully, there are still those like fort … in cursive on white lined paper! tending another university. I am hope- Ms. Willing who have not forgotten. I still have two shoe boxes containing ful that the University of Pennsylvania Frank A. Fratoe Gr’74, Fredericksburg, VA old letters I received through the years. has clearly rallied around this challenge A vast majority of them are from my and obviously taken important steps to Spreading the Word (By Hand) peak letter-writing years of 1985–1988 address the “staggering number of sui- I so much enjoyed Linda Willing’s “A (my senior year in high school and fi rst cides” (among other profound signs that Woman of Letters.” Like her, I had a couple years at Penn). There are letters this generation is in pain) and that other mother who insisted on thank-you notes, from maybe 10 people in there, one of schools will quickly follow suit. but I think the letter writing habit really whom I see regularly (my sister), some As they do and Penn continues to grow got its start in the need to communicate others I’m sure I’ll never see again. its program, I want to know: Where are with school friends the summer and There are a couple from my freshman the parents and what role is being fash- camp friends over the winter. I also loved year roommate Ted Katramados W’90. ioned for them? When our three older stationery and enjoyed buying it, even Is it overly sentimental, silly, or even children were students in university as keeping samples of my favorite pieces ridiculous of me to still have these boxes well as graduate school programs, we once a box was used up. It’s frustrating after 30-plus years and many moves? I had contact with their schools through to no longer have the need for even note never had the heart to discard them. paper mail occasionally; they shared cards, or the chance to select the most They are me, a past version at least. I grades with us and we were very aware appropriate letter paper for the recipient. was glad to read in Linda Willing’s ar- of their progress, their frustrations, and I do text and email, but I think of these ticle that someone she knew produced were always able to be there to help and more as substitutes for phone calls. I draw a 10-year-old letter from her. guide them as parents should. With our the line at e-cards and won’t even open I am certain that my letter writing youngest, our son, this was not the case them. At least around Christmas and days will continue, and if I receive a few and there was no contact with any offi ce birthdays I have the pleasure of sending too, that would be great. in the school, even though we reached and receiving hand-addressed envelopes. Greg Landry W’90, Erdenheim, PA out to try to have such. This is due to the

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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Biased Telling of Very Important Story Discover... Act (FERPA), which protects the pri- Your article, “Confi rmation and Its Dis- vacy of students’ educational records— contents” [“Gazetteer,” Jan|Feb 2019] ex- but leaves the parents and supportive presses much dismay over the conduct Luxury Barge Cruises structure no recourse when said stu- and outcome of the hearings to confi rm dent is in trouble. Our children are our Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. dependents, we are paying exorbitant Never mind, of course, that there wasn’t a amounts of money for them to have single human being who could corrobo- their college experience, and we have rate a single one of Dr. Christine Blasey no one to contact when they are in Ford’s claims; the author chose to make P.O. Box 2195, Duxbury, MA 02331 trouble and hiding it from us. What is no mention of that bit of what would seem 800 -222 -1236 781-934 -2454 decidedly wrong with this picture? to me to be rather relevant information. www.fcwl.com While chronologically they may have How does such a biased telling of a very squeaked into some type of quasi-adult- important story serve the common good? hood, the reality is that a signifi cant Emilio Bassini W’71 C’71 WG’73, New York number of college students do not have the skills to negotiate the problems that Progressive Inability to Listen confront them without guidance coun- The Gazette looks more like MSNBC selors, parents being contacted, and every day. The hit piece on the Kavana- grades being sent home. We had to rely ugh confi rmation was typical of the Pro- on what our son was telling us, and he gressive inability to even listen to the chose not to tell us the truth. Then when possible other side of a position. Penn’s his problems mounted to the point that Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies he did not have the skill sets or personal Program hosted Anita Hill and Kimberle resources needed to address them—and Crenshaw, an advisor to Ms. Hill in 1992. STUDENTS AIMING FOR had absorbed the message conveyed to Nobody from the other side of the Kava- TOP COLLEGES: him that he is an adult and his parents naugh debate? No males present? do not need to know what is occurring— Then to whine to the Penn readership Receive strategic advice, tools, and it was too late and there could have been that Ford was “given less than a week to guidance from the nation’s premier college consultants, helping students a disastrous ending to this story. gather evidence.” But it was Ford and for over 20 years. We are among the lucky ones. Thanks her Democratic “allies” who withheld to ongoing contact, an extremely close her accusation for six months before • Unparalleled success rate • Advising and facilitating every family that stays on top of each other dropping it during the last two days of step of the way (in spite of his supposed independence), hearings. If Ford wanted justice, the ac- • Lessen stress and increase and the intervention of non-university cusations should have been given in July college choices adults, our son was saved from his own for a thorough investigation. Join us for personal admissions counseling. worst nightmare and certainly ours. Yet, The Gazette also snidely referred to Call now for information. when I contacted the university he at- “multiple allegations” against Kavanaugh. tended, there was no response. Multiple allegations do not make any of TopTierAdmissions.com Until there are serious discussions and the allegations more truthful. An allega- 781.530.7088 [email protected] considerations of how parents can be tion is still just an allegation … not a fact. kept in the loop in the same way as years Not arranging more balanced semi- ago, I fear that a wellness offi cer and any nars is a disservice to Penn students. number of counselors, no matter how Surely a $70,000 tuition can pay for an- Alumni in Business qualifi ed and well-intentioned, will not other viewpoint. be enough to address the real issue of Sean P. Colgan C’77, Napier, New Zealand Advertise your business or profession our children being given a freedom they with us and reach 270,000 fellow alumni. Learning Objective No. 1 See the current alumni ads on page 81. are not ready for. Please include the par- For more information, call Linda Caiazzo at ents in your wellness equation. President Amy Gutmann’s soul-search- 215 898-6811 or email: [email protected] Saundra Sterling Epstein CW’75 GEd’76 ing column, “Lessons in Leadership” GrEd’83, Elkins Park, PA [“From College Hall,” Jan|Feb 2019] men-

8 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 tions two Penn Presidential Professors, Joe Biden and Jeb Bush. She describes them as among “the world’s foremost experts.” In a particular sense, this may hold for Mr. Biden, but not for Mr. Bush. “Israel is, by many measures, the Biden overcame severe family and per- sonal adversity to attain high and long- country, relative to its population, standing political offi ce as a US senator and vice president. He is certainly expert at rising from the depths of despair to that's done the most to contribute political success. Let us wish he shares the life factors responsible for his rise up. to the technology revolution.” Former Florida Governor Bush’s eight years in offi ce featured passion for im- BILL GATES proving public education but no life- altering achievements, such as mass movement of minorities into higher education, establishment of black com- munity safety, or greatly improved job Find out more about Israeli cutting edge opportunities for all. His political career technologies at israelisonit.com went in fl ames during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. His Download a free copy of our ebook about professorship is a strange selection. Israeli inventions at In mentioning mass murders of recent tinydynamobook.com (Pittsburgh synagogue) and distant (Nazi Holocaust) vintages in her column, Presi- dent Gutmann reminds us that evil inten- tions affl ict far too many people. If the we “ought” to do. This admonition comes dence in the American West, 1765–1776 University community learns from presi- from both the Hebrew and Christian [“Arts”], is of particular interest at this dential professors the importance of re- Bible—that people are not inherently time, as attention to the Black Boys is an specting each human life and spreads that good, and all of us striving to achieve our important lesson to the many cross-cur- message throughout their own lives, pros- own selfi sh interests leads to trouble. rents among colonials that continue to pects for peaceful humanity are improved. Author and social critic Os Guinness de- make the history of the Revolution and its In the University virtue of “truth-tell- scribed our human dilemma best: with- origins fertile ground for discovery. Read- ing,” this is learning objective No. 1. out virtue, freedom cannot be preserved, ing of the exploits of this group in Penn- Richard Masella D’73, Boynton Beach, FL and without faith, virtue can’t be pre- sylvania during the Revolution brings served. All of us, including our political feelings of pride in their spirit, while their Practice the Golden Rule leaders—left, right, and in the middle— attitudes on Indian removal and antago- Amy Gutmann’s editorial reminded me need to practice the Biblical admonition nism towards the Eastern elite seem to that in addition to her advocacy of all of the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as presage the nativist movement that re- Americans having equal opportunities you would have them do unto you.” turns from time to time, even today. and our need to protect the environment, Neal Hunt WG’68, Raleigh, NC In the aftermath of the Revolutionary we also need signifi cant improvement in War, I wonder if Spero found the Black how we treat one another. Because of our Revolutionary Lessons Boys joining (perhaps leading) the Whiskey insistence on doing whatever each of us The Jan|Feb 2019 issue excelled in the Rebellion, as the essential taxes espoused thinks is right in our own minds, Amer- number of quality stories, and the “Les- by Treasury Secretary Hamilton ran against ica is approaching anarchy. Political in- sons in Leadership” column spoke vol- the grain of fi ery independence as defi ned tolerance and acrimony have reached a umes in listing the leaders speaking at in the villages of Pennsylvania. fever pitch. Instead of demanding the Penn, with one signifi cant omission. Thanks for one more great edition; freedom to do what we “want” to do, our The interview with Patrick Spero, author Franklin would be proud, indeed. desire should be for freedom to do what of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Indepen- Lee Purcell G’68, New Bern, NC

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 9 FURNISHED Pleasant Surprise them to introduce a resolution forbidding It was a pleasant surprise when I saw any US government agency from interfer- RESIDENCES one of the postcards from my collection, ing in the elections of other countries or BY THE WEEK which is now at Penn’s archives, used as sponsoring coups in other countries. an illustration for the “Old Penn” feature Eliot Kenin C’61, Martinez, CA OR MONTH in the Jan|Feb 2019 issue. This very rare postcard shows a dormi- Apologia for Hillary tory room in a fashionable Victorian I haven’t read Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s décor as a typical Penn student dorm book Cyberwar but it appears that both room, a home away from home for she and Richard Clarke, through his re- “Bruce, Class of ’07.” view, are presenting another apologia for The Skaler Postcard Collection, col- Hillary’s failure to win three key states in lected over 40 years, shows University 2016. They stand fi rmly inside the liberal City and Spruce Hill as they looked circa bubble with Hillary and condescend- 1910 in real photo postcards. ingly point their fi nger of blame at “non- Anyone who wants to restore their college-educated white audiences,” “Afri- West Philadelphia home should check can Americans,” and “Haitian Ameri- the Penn archives and may fi nd a real cans,” not explaining how these segments photo postcard of their house the way it of the population had the time, inclina- looked one hundred years ago. tion, or wherewithal to engage with po- Robert M. Skaler Ar’59, Cheltenham, PA litical social media while trying to survive in President Obama’s economy. Lawyers Turning Comics Common Clarke and Jamieson also fl oat a cou- Your article on Liz Glazer, a law profes- ple logical inconsistencies. They say that sor turned stand-up comedian [“Alumni insuffi ciently educated whites and mi- Profi les,” Jan|Feb 2019] caught my atten- norities were susceptible to laughable With spacious living areas, full tion. As a comedian also serving as the fake political postings but were joined kitchens, and the city’s most executive director of the Ivy League of by Green party voters in falling for Rus- spectacular residential views, the flexible-stay residences Comedy, I’ve run across a number of at- sian propaganda. I am sure that most at AKA University City offer torneys who became comedians. It’s actu- Green party voters are well-educated the perfect home base while ally not an uncommon career path. Just liberals and therefore don’t fi t their the- visiting Philadelphia, just steps from campus. in the Ivy League, Dan Naturman W’91 sis, but are included out of pique that and Talia Gil Reese C’97 are Penn alumni. votes for Jill Stein, Green party candi- Extraordinary amenities include Harvard has given us Karen Bergreen and date for president, drew off support for Level 28, an entire club level dedicated to resident wellness, (the late) Greg Giraldo. Jeff Kreisler went Hillary. They also aver that the Russian relaxation and enjoyment; Cira to Princeton. All are attorneys who be- cyber intrusions were and are state of Green, a one-acre landscaped came comics. I’m a Penn alumnus—a the art and hard to detect. So, basically oasis; and on-site restaurant, Walnut Street Café. banker turned comedian, although for they are saying that the Russians’ weap- some reason people seem to think that I ons delivery system is state of the art or used to be a lawyer. And I object to that. better, but their ammunition is poor and I don’t know the optimum number of defective except for their categories of lawyers, but the world could always use vulnerable targets. So we are dealing more comedians. with an adversary that has the advanced Shaun Eli Breidbart W’83, Scarsdale, NY technical knowhow to develop sophisti- UNIVERSITY CITY 30TH AND WALNUT STREETS cated cyber delivery systems but with Forbid US Interference in Elections poor social media munitions. How clev- STAYAKA.COM My conclusion from Richard Clarke’s er can the Russians be if they cannot 215 253.4881 review of Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s book develop believable “bank shots” off of NYC PHL DC LA LDN Cyberwar [“Arts,” Jan|Feb 2019] is that legitimate social media political posts? now is the time for us to write or email John O’Donnell GEE’74, Jenkintown, PA our senators and representatives telling

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per. Indulging in these two underpaid positions, I needed another job to sup- port myself. So I was a busboy, and syn- thesized a life between the three. In a city known for its grungy, ancient pizzerias, the Union League Café stands out as a space of elite dining. Half-moon stained glass windows in the dining room filter light through scenes from American history. A plaque by the fire- place explains that the building stands on the site of a homestead George Wash- ington once visited. My uniform was a crisp white shirt, black pants, black shoes, black socks, and a black bow tie. I was made to mem- orize a ritualistic list of other require- ments. Do not speak to the patrons. Only serve from the right. Clear the table only by beginning with the setting of the el- dest female guest. I learned to distin- guish dessert forks from salad forks by the indentation of the tines, how to refill glasses of water imperceptibly. I learned to be invisible while constantly present, ready to anticipate any need. I rebelled by wearing socks in a dark shade of red. Under pressure, I learned to do little Dessert #2 things very quickly, all while distracted by the food emerging and disappearing “When I went home, I wanted decadence.” around me. Servers yelled obscenities if By Colin Lodewick I fired an espresso too early, its thin film of bitter foam dying away before it reached the dining room. Servers yelled drove home from the Union League spent shifts running between the dining if I poured steamed milk into a latte Cafe every night covered in butter and room and a cramped vestibule where I from too high up, the liquids mixing in- I thinking too much about crepes. I manned a gigantic, sputtering espresso stead of forming tricolor stripes of milk, thought about crepes folded like blan- machine. Unforgiving, it scalded me coffee, and foam. While coffee oozed out kets around cream and supremed orange with unexpected belches of steam as of the machine, I rapidly donned latex segments. I thought about the shatter of servers crowded around me shouting gloves to massacre huge blocks of butter creme brûlée, the arrangement of maca- orders I needed to fulfill immediately. into identical triangle. If I was too slow, rons on a dish, profiteroles. I heard a My summer began with modest hopes. servers hooted and yelled. rumor that the head chef went home and I wanted, first, to go home. I also wanted As I floated between the vestibule and could only eat a simple fried egg on to feel useful, or to at least learn more the tables, I watched guests dissect huge bread. After entire days and nights envel- about my interests. I worked twice a plates of oysters nested in strings of sea- oped in the kitchen’s pungent fog, he week at a small arts nonprofit in Brook- weed, canard au poivre, mountains of couldn’t handle anything rich. lyn, doing communications work for a fingerling potatoes blessed with herb aioli. When I went home, I wanted decadence. stipend so small it only covered my Met- I never got closer than that observation— In my daydreams I was a sous chef roNorth rides through coastal Connect- the staff meal I infrequently received con- caramelizing shallots and chiffonading icut. Back in New Haven I signed on as sisted of a spinach salad topped with a cut sage. But in reality I was a busboy who an arts reporter for a hyper-local newspa- of plain, dry chicken. On a day off, I drove

12 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Illustration by Anna Heigh to a restaurant supply store and bought floor at all times. I convinced myself that refrigerator. I cooled and calmed down four small ramekins. If I cleaned up mess- the macaron was ordered by mistake, among plastic-wrapped halves of yellow- es during the day and left at night smell- that I would be doing my job to clear it flesh watermelon, stacked bricks of im- ing like coffee grounds, I deserved some- away. Using the skills of discreetness I’d ported butter, and drawers full of citrus. thing beautiful at home, alone. acquired, I slipped the macaron and its After a moment, I returned humbled to It became a ritual. For weeks, I crept into engraved silver tray into to the dishwash- the dining room to perform again the my house after midnight and pulled the er’s station. In a fluid motion I placed it image of perfect service. cooled ceramic dishes of custard from the in my mouth and dropped the tray on a Toward the end of the summer, I began fridge. I experimented. My mother’s half- pile of other dirty dishes. It was filled to write a fancy imaginary menu for a and-half yielded a more tender mouthfeel with raspberry jam. I walked out happy. fancy imaginary restaurant. I never fin- than whole milk or heavy cream. Cinna- “What are you eating?” the manager ished the document and only got so far mon didn’t work—it resulted in a textured demanded upon seeing me emerge. as to describe Dessert #2. “A feeling of surface that burned under fire. Using my “A leftover macaron,” I replied. fullness delivered to the center, fulfilled father’s decades-old blowtorch, I lit up the After a long and cruel reprimand, I by a volley of pleases and thanks. Folded dark kitchen as I melted paper thin layers fled to the basement. Most staff mem- into a rich batter scented with the love of granulated sugar. I waited a minute for bers found refuge down there in the of your mother.” it to harden and then cracked it with a single bathroom, where a framed pho- A dessert that’s not a food but a feeling sharp tap from a spoon. I compared the tograph of black beluga caviar hung of contentment. That’s what I was look- taste of the creme brûlée to yesterday’s. askew on a hook above the toilet and the ing for, with my three jobs, my creme And then I went to sleep. air was thick with lemon-scented air brûlée, and that beautiful macaron, but My two other summer jobs lined up with freshener to mask the smell of ciga- couldn’t find. what I thought I wanted to do with my life. rettes. I found myself a few feet further I study English, I thought, so I should do down the hall, standing in the walk-in Colin Lodewick is a College senior. something with writing. But New Haven’s arts scene slows to a crawl in the summer, so my newspaper reporting led to only two published stories. At the arts nonprofit I sometimes interviewed artists about their work—a practice that left me feeling distinctly close to mean- ingfulness, but not close enough. I spent most of my hours copyediting grant ap- plications and designing colorful GIFs to embed in newsletters. During lunch breaks I entertained the other interns with stories from the restaurant. In the ecosystem of the Union League Café, at least I was an essential employee— not just an accessory intern. Away from my lonely custard fantasy, I made friends with the servers and stood in the dining room expressionless, feeling my power grow along with my mastery of the res- taurant’s rhythms. Pending their moods, the servers at the ends of their shifts di- vided cash tips among the bussers. One afternoon, I watched the world’s most beautiful macaron sit on the dining room’s red marble counter for over an hour. By then, I thought I knew every- thing that was happening on the dining

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necklace and bracelet set straight out of The Borgias. “One day,” she would say with glee, “this will be yours.” My mother and I partook of no such ac- tivities. Her jewelry was boringly tasteful, and I had plenty of other things to do at home, such as memorize the lyrics to “American Pie” and bake inedible cakes in my Easy Bake Oven. The only time I saw my mother’s jewelry was on her actual body or when I sat on her bed on a Satur- day night and watched her dress to go out. She kept everything in soft leather cases, lined up like sleeping dachshunds in her top dresser drawer, and while she took the hot curlers out of her hair I would open them, unzipping each pouch to feel the cool metal links of her bracelets and snap- ping and unsnapping the long leather noodles that held her rings. There was only one reason I could imagine that might incite an emergency viewing of this bounty, so when I got home, I put our Thanksgiving leftovers in the freezer and called my father. “What’s wrong with Mom?” I asked. “I can’t tell you or she’ll kill me.” This was just the response I was hop- About That Jewelry … ing for. While my mother will take a secret to her grave, my father never met My mother emerges from the chrysalis of wifedom. one he couldn’t spill. “She’s got a little thing.” By Cynthia Kaplan “What kind of thing?” I asked. “A thing. We’re waiting for some tests to come back. She doesn’t want you to know.” couple of Thanksgivings ago, while Now, there is jewelry looking and “That’s crazy.” my 80-something father, my hus- there is jewelry looking. My maternal “You can ask her yourself about it, but A band, my brother, his wife, and our grandmother, Lillian, was an advocate don’t tell her you heard it from me.” assorted teenaged children slumped of the former. Every childhood visit to I did ask her, and she said she was fi ne. on the living room sofas in a post-dinner her white-carpeted Florida apartment Of course, my mother uses the word “fi ne” fugue state, my mother me in included a complete inventory of cock- as a synonym for an assortment of moods the foyer. She spoke in a low, ominous tail rings in the shapes of fl owers and and conditions, up to but not including tone, just above a whisper, as though she snakes, bangles to be worn in stacks death. Just like there’s jewelry looking and were proposing the kind of large-scale with cunning three-quarter-sleeve jack- jewelry looking, there’s fi ne and there’s fi ne. drug deal that takes place in an empty ets, and earrings with garnets or topaz “I have a little thing,” she said. “Don’t airplane hangar. that could choke a medium-sized dog. tell anyone.” “I need you to take a look at the jew- The selection, laid out on my grand- Every few years now my mother has the elry and tell me what you want.” mother’s bed, never varied, yet I was impression that Death may be imminent. “When?” I asked. thrilled every time, particularly by the Either hers or my father’s. She does not “Soon.” grand fi nale, a gold and ruby encrusted share her concern with us but instead is-

14 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Illustration by Melinda Beck sues a fl urry of tense directives. Arrange- of unexpected complications. middle of the night delirious, and I had ments must be made! These include, of “There’s a cascade effect,” said my to call the ambulance.” course, the future ownership of her jew- mother. “You go in for some big problem, I got dressed in the dark and told my elry, and the question of who wants the and they fi x it, maybe. Either way it gives husband I’d call him when I knew any- plug pulled and when (my mother, im- birth to other problems, some that were thing. I got in a taxi. My cell phone rang. mediately if not sooner; my father, Not so there already and get worse, or brand “It’s on 71st and York.” fast, mister!). There is also a list of further new ones. Your father isn’t young.” When I got to the hospital I walked directives written in her looping, illegible Someone should tell all the old people through the waiting room and the triage cursive on college ruled paper and stowed they don’t have to say they aren’t young. area. My mother was standing by the in her night table drawer. My father is You might wonder how it is that two entrance to the nurse’s station. mostly concerned we will be able to deci- old Jews never got around to getting cem- “Hi, Sweetheart.” pher the Alan Turing-worthy enigma of etery plots. For now, chalk it up to the She led the way to my father, who lay his many and varied computer passwords: fact that my father, despite his various on a gurney in a narrow, glass-walled the grandkids’ birthdays in chronological infi rmities, doesn’t think he needs one. room, hooked up to a variety of tubes. order and in reverse chronological order. He wants to be cremated and have his He was asleep, or unconscious, I wasn’t Mom’s birthday with two asterisks. Their ashes sprinkled on a golf course or on the sure which, and very pale. I put my hand anniversary plus their birthdays minus sidewalk in front of a Nathan’s hot dog on his forehead. “Hi, Pop,” I said. something he doesn’t remember. stand. My mother has another theory. “The doctor has been wonderful,” said There is little warning for these occa- “He doesn’t think he is ever going to die.” my mother. “He’s young. Thank God sional forays into estate planning. One My father has a thousand doctors for someone is.” reason for this is that my mother’s code this express purpose. Paradoxically, my “What happened?” I asked. of parental ethics includes not troubling mother seems to have outrun death thus Basically, he didn’t take to the chemo, one’s children with sad and sorry tales. far by having no doctors at all. developed an infection, and now he had Another is that both of my parents are Willowbrook, Ferncliff , Woodlawn. The sepsis. old-school hush-hush about mortality. names of the cemeteries my mother sug- “They’ve asked me if Dad has a do-not- Someone had a procedure, maybe a smid- gested were practically identical to the resuscitate order.” geon of surgery, a pinch of cancer? Why names of the all-girls summer camps she “Does he?” should everyone worry? Who wants to and my father took me to see the summer “No. He wants them to do everything make a thousand phone calls? after I turned eight. This was just the they can to save him. Listen,” she said, A week later we knew. They’d examined kind of disconcerting switcheroo people “when my time comes, no tubes, no ma- the thing, and she was going to be fi ne. say occurs as our parents age and we be- chines, no nothing. Just set me on an ice “Do you still want me to look at your come involved in their care. And yet, the fl oe and push.” jewelry?” I asked her. conjuring of happy times playing fi eld “You got it.” “I guess it can wait.” sports on a verdant Maine camp-scape “And while we’re on the subject,” said I called my brother, whom I had se- added an unseemly excitement to the my mother, “he’s not getting cremated.” cretly told about the thing. prospect of touring green spaces. Then Just when I thought I had a handle on “The death is off for now,” I said. my mother said she’d like to be the directives, came this whopper. (stowed?) in a mausoleum. A simple, en- Over my father’s prostrate body, I de- This past Thanksgiving, once again, graved marble square on a wall of other fended his right to determine his own, my mother pulled me aside. “I’d like you marble squares might be nice. Preferably post-mortem future. to take me to look at cemeteries.” Carrera, like the kitchen counters on “Nope,” said my mother. “It’s my turn It turned out that my mother’s interest Martha Stewart’s old TV show. Ah, well. to decide.” in purchasing graves for my father and One morning, however, before the fi eld This was irrefutable. She has earned a herself, unlike the viewing of her jewelry, trip was to commence, the phone rang. At say in her future. She has always been a stemmed, for once, from a well-founded 5:15 a.m. Anyone who knows my family or feminist at heart but not necessarily in foreboding. In three weeks, my father knows some Jews knows they don’t call practice. She applied her practical abilities would go into the hospital to have a Thing each other outside the hours of 7:30 a.m. and intellectual rigor to raising two chil- with a capital T removed. This latest Thing and 10:30 p.m. Crack of dawn and dark of dren and supporting her husband through was potentially dire. My mother was ad- night are strictly reserved for ill-tidings. the highs and occasional lows of running mirably composed while we awaited test “I’m at New York-Presbyterian, in the a small business. I believe her when she results and contended with the prospect emergency room. Dad woke up in the tells me she has no (well, few) regrets—she

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 15 VIEWS Elsewhere

was a product of her time—but I have al- ways believed her gifts were not put to full Against the Fire use as a mother, housewife, and helpmate. My mother possesses the rare ability to be California burning. both pragmatic and kind when everything By Daniel Bercu is going to hell, and she would have been an excellent social worker or fi rst respond- er. She also would have made a terrifi c lawyer, possibly personal injury, because she can really hold a grudge. alifornia exists as a target for catas- At 8:30 a.m. we got the first text that all The truth is that my mother is not that trophe. Wildfires and mudslides of Malibu was being evacuated. This concerned about her dachshunds of jew- C erupt from hills that tremble with clearing out of the entire city—which elry. She knows I don’t even want them. tectonic pressure while population spans 27 miles of coastline—had never I wear earrings from Claire’s and a silver growth strains the land. The constant before been ordered. Yet I was still not ring made for me by a friend and tied to action drew me west after graduating overly concerned. We had evacuated sev- a piece of black string around my neck. from Penn in 1987. eral times in the past, only to see the I’m not even sure my mother cares that My new home lived up to its reputa- winds change and the fire pass us by. And much where she is buried, so long as it’s tion for chaos. Within five years I expe- as the frequency of fires has accelerated, not with her in-laws. Rather, she is mak- rienced the Northridge earthquake, fires so has the technology underpinning our ing her wishes known, in all the ways and floods in Malibu, and the Los Ange- daily lives. Years ago we struggled to she can, that when the time comes, les riots. But the next 20 years passed cram huge metal file cabinets filled with when it all goes to Hell, puh puh puh, almost quietly, until November 8, 2018. financial information into our cars. Now everyone will be alright, and everything My family woke that morning to news most materials exist on “the Cloud,” sav- will be in its place. Including her and my from Thousand Oaks, which lies eight ing critical space and time when fleeing. father. And, if she says that she does not sparsely settled miles from our home on Having packed a few old-fashioned doc- intend to lay in the cold hard ground/ the far western edge of inland Malibu, uments—birth certificates, Social Secu- marble drawer alone, so be it. where a gunman had killed 14 people at rity cards, passport—the night before, I I take back what I said about respect- the Borderline Bar and Grill. Not long felt little urgency now. I finished my om- ing my father’s wishes. My mother has after lunch, about 10 miles to our north, elet at 10:15 a.m., threw my wallet in the emerged from the chrysalis of wifedom, the Hill Fire ignited. Barely 20 minutes truck, and helped my wife and kids pack and I am brimming with pride. after that, this time 20 miles to our east— the three other cars. upwind—the Woolsey Fire broke out. The boys loaded up their electronics, A few days after we bring him home Our years in California have given us surfboards, and some signed memora- from the hospital, I lay on the bed with a complicated attitude toward fire. The bilia. I am a minimalist and took noth- my father, looking at animal videos on Santa Ana winds whipped over the hill- ing. Before fleeing we drove to the top YouTube, while my mother is in the side our three children share with two of our mountain to have one last look kitchen making us cheese sand- huskies, seven chickens, three goats, and around. A giant mushroom cloud of wiches. We watch one with fainting three sheep, carrying the telltale smell. smoke, over 10,000 feet tall, blocked the goats and laugh. These are the goats that Yet the following morning found me sun. Fifty-foot flames danced atop the when you frighten or surprise them, thinking about the consistency of my adjacent ridgeline. their legs become rigid and they fall over omelet. I can barely manage to change Now I was scared. onto their sides or backs. Moments later, my Facebook status, let alone master the Only two of us were licensed drivers. they hop back up, as though nothing calculus of distinguishing a random Our son Hunter was 14 and had never happened. Sure, it’s a metaphor, and you blaze from a specific threat. So every driven more than a few miles. Yet now we could say my father is the goat. Christmas we leave offerings on the hurtled down the mountain, right into the But you’d be wrong. doorstep of Fire Station 56—Paul Mitch- line of cars heading north on Pacific Coast ell shampoo and homemade cookies we Highway. The PCH was stuffed full of traf- Cynthia Kaplan C’85 is the author of two hope will protect us from the devil fic going both directions. This gridlock, it books of essays, some fi lms, and a bit of TV. winds. And the rest of the year I make would soon become clear, was to prevent You can fi nd her at www.cynthiakaplan.com. sure the captain’s mobile number is cur- many fire engines from entering Malibu Her father is Jack B. Kaplan W’53. rent in our iPhones. from either direction.

16 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 View from behind our home. November 9th 2018.

by Arshile Gorky in the bed of his Ford F-350 pickup. Soon he and his son Elijah were helping their neighbor, Hollywood stuntman and City Councilman Jay Wag- ner, try to saturate his own home and grounds with water as the next house over exploded into flames. Convinced that he alone could save his home, Wag- ner would not leave. He would end up in intensive care at UCLA Medical Cen- ter after his house burned to the ground. Jeremiah and Elijah would lose the paintings when a drifting ember inciner- ated the lot, but they helped save sev- eral of their other neighbors’ homes along with their own—though smoke damage drove them to sleep on the ground outside of it for four nights. We were lucky. Our family’s exodus first responders. More were dispatched In the midst of California’s most dev- included a prolonged stay at the Santa to the even deadlier Camp Fire, which astating wildfire season in living mem- Barbara Hilton, which threw open its started the same day and reduced the ory, they epitomized a new reality that doors to all evacuees and their pets. Our town of Paradise to cinders. Meanwhile is bound to shape how people will re- 100-pound huskies had the time of their Pepperdine University had been sur- spond the next time we smell smoke: lives. They destroyed planters of rich rounded by fire and the dean had ordered Leave and your house is gone. Stay and foliage. They drank out of fountains. all 4,000 students to “shelter in place,” you might ensure its existence. They drank from toilets. They ate room spreading firefighters thinner still. Our family is among the lucky ones. service—only some of it ordered by us. So people like our neighbor put them- The hills are charred black, we need a From the beach we could see fire on the selves between their homes and the generator for electricity, and our kids mountains 50 miles away. But we flames. Malibu may be synonymous with are still without a functioning high strained for information. spectacular wealth, but the “Canyon school, but our home was spared. Yet The Hill Fire, which had initially spread Folk” who inhabit the nooks and crannies our good fortune fills me with ambiva- with frightening speed, was soon con- on the land side of the PCH are a world lence, given that so many others lost all tained. But the slow-starting Woolsey away from the multimillion-dollar mans- they had. A layer of survivor’s guilt has Fire spun out of control, racing through es perched above the shoreline—buffered been deposited atop the ordinary Jewish 96,000 acres before meeting the Pacific from danger both by the highway and in variety—along with a creeping dread Ocean. It was almost impossible to get some cases private firefighters. So when about what the future may hold. The any news. All access points to the city Jeremiah Redclay noticed coyotes fleeing good news is that only two people lost were blocked by California Highway Pa- on his way to work as a Hollywood set- their lives in the firestorm. The bad trol deputies. The electric grid had been builder, and then watched fire jump the news lies in the lesson many residents fried. Cell phone towers had melted. I eight-lane 101 freeway, he turned back may take from the limited death toll. started a group text with our six closest homeward toward Latigo Canyon. For When the next fire comes, hundreds neighbors, one of whom—a former years he had attacked the grounds may stay to defend their turf. I don’t Blackwater military contractor—had around his stucco home with a weed- know whether I will be one of them. stayed to protect his home. whacker and a shovel, trying to create a And fire is by no means the only men- He was not the only one. 200-foot-wide fuel-free buffer around his ace in this dramatic landscape that con- Cal Fire records would later show that family and his second livelihood—restor- tinues to hold me in its thrall. As I tuck more that 3,200 personnel were deployed ing rare oil paintings. the kids into bed, the drumbeat of rain against the Woolsey Fire, commanding As his wife and children bundled pos- starts to pelt our glass windows. A steady 418 fire engines and 19 helicopters. Yet in sessions into their cars, Jeremiah sand- trickle of mud flows into our street. Malibu it felt like no one had turned up wiched a 14th-century Titian between at all. The Hill Fire had sucked up many several abstract-expressionist canvases Dan Bercu C’87 W’87 lives in Malibu, California.

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One answer is a merely personal one: I was up for the thrill of the challenge. During a teaching career spanning four decades, I taught English versions of the play many times in undergraduate courses. On occasion I would compare passages with the German original, and the thought would occur to me that I could do better. To test if I was merely deluding myself, I had to give it a shot. To render Goethe’s great play into Eng- lish is at once a fool’s errand and a labor of love. The best recent English translation is David Luke’s 1987 edition—and as he put it eloquently, “in the end we must ac- knowledge again the inherent hopeless- ness of the whole attempt to fi nd an Eng- lish equivalent for poetry of this order.” So, again, why even try—especially in light of Luke’s award-winning rendition? Let me invoke the authority of Goethe himself for the most fundamental justi- fi cation. In an essay on Shakespeare, he asserted that “so much has already been said about [him], that it would seem that there’s nothing left to say, and yet it is the peculiar tendency of the spirit that it per- petually motivates the spirit.” The spirit of Goethe’s dramatic poem continues to speak to us in new and changing ways, as we and our world continually change. Finding Faust With the exception of a single scene, Faust, Part I is in verse, and most of it Tackling “perhaps the most formidable in rhyme. However, to translate the translation problem” in world literature. play consistently using rhyme, as most of the translators, including Luke, do, By Eugene Stelzig forces them into a straitjacket and re- sults in inevitable distortion of the meaning of the German text, disloca- tion of syntax, and extra wording in recently completed a translation of the formidable translation problem in all the order to get the rhymes. The alterna- most famous work by the most famous literature of the world”—yet counted 44 tive—a prose translation—is tempting, I German author, Faust, Part I by Johann complete attempts in English. There have and has been done (most ably by Stuart Wolfgang von Goethe. It will be pub- been at least half a dozen since then, sev- Atkins). But the problem is that Faust lished this summer, joining a list of eral of which remain in print. without rhyme isn’t really Faust; read- English versions that was already daunt- So why go to the trouble of doing yet ing such a translation is like watching ing well before I came along. Since its another one? Wouldn’t that arduous a color fi lm in black and white. Thus in publication in 1808, Faust has been ren- task be a wasted and redundant labor? my rendering of the play I have chosen dered in English almost too many times Why re-translate a classic literary text a fl exible alternative, employing a more to keep track of. In 1932, a scholar judged that’s already available in multiple Eng- or less contemporary English with Goethe’s masterpiece “perhaps the most lish versions? some use of rhyme to make the poetry

18 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Illustration by Rich Lillash memorable, but without any consistent a refreshed and revitalized version of use of or regular reliance on it. the original. This may in practice be an My fl exible approach of not doing a impossible ideal, but it does refl ect strictly rhymed translation is in keeping Goethe’s appreciation of such a task as with Goethe’s expressed views on the a creative and regenerative process, and translation of classic texts. In his autobi- one that has the potential to even rein- ography, Poetry and Truth, he praised vigorate the source text. Goethe had a Wieland’s prose translation of Shake- sophisticated and cosmopolitan under- speare’s plays as accessible to the reader, standing of literature, and his praise of adding: “I honor rhythm as well as rhyme, the French translator (the poet Nerval) through which poetry fi rst becomes po- provides fuel for the argument that new etry, but that which is actually deep and translations of classic texts are neces- fundamentally eff ective … is that which sary for new generations of readers pre- remains of the poet when he is translated cisely in order to bring to light anew into prose.” And when in 1830 he read a their almost inexhaustible power. For new French translation of Faust, Goethe them to stay relevant and fresh, and for praised it, “even if the greater part is in their timeless and universal appeal to prose, as very eff ective.” He then added a resonate in the here and now, they need remarkable declaration: “I don’t like to to be re-translated—or re-created, as it read Faust in German any more, but in were—every so often, again and again. this French translation everything appears entirely fresh, new, and witty.” Eugene Stelzig C’66’s translation of Faust will What this surprising comment sug- be published in July by Bucknell and Rutgers gests is that a translation, at best, can be University Press.

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one o’clock in the space after the previous shop of shows they do every year. So morning on a in was “Ask Peter,” the demand for tech keeps It’s Saturday in closed in 1997, and he thought someone will expanding, and Whinnery November, and of everything. The shop has a helps students to stay afloat. Peter Whinnery is watching ramp and an elevator to bring inevitably say. Their ambitions sometimes students rip aluminum tape set pieces up and down. meet with the crusty skepti- off a makeshift coffi n. The There’s also a props closet, “Peter knows.” cism of one well-versed in students, all 30-plus of whom two costume rooms, a furni- the gulf between dreams and have spent the semester ture room, a tool shed, and a practicality, but Whinnery working on the Penn Players’ wide, paint-splattered floor. likes the enthusiasm. He un- production of Heathers: The Whinnery has been work- derstands why newer under- Musical, are incredulous that ing with his hands since graduates are so eager to try they’ve fi nally arrived at ev- childhood. His father owned their hands at everything. As ery production’s mortuary a small woodworking factory tume design), and built rela- a professional designer, he’s ritual: striking the set. In in Michigan, and he learned tionships along the way. In familiar with the pressure of sleep-deprived, post-show how to use tools early. Whin- particular, Whinnery is a looming deadlines and tries giddiness, they drill out nery was introduced to the- close friend of InterAct The- to pass on the modus ope- screws, unhinge wood flats, ater through an elective atre founder Seth Rozin C’86 randi taught to him by his throw out scraps, fold up cos- course while majoring in [“Profi les,” Jan|Feb 2004], father: “Make it good enough tumes, shelve props, and math at Albion College. The with whom he has worked for who it’s for.” In other words, maybe keep a stray memen- following summer, his pro- on 46 productions. if the group you’re designing to. Whinnery is overseeing it fessor called him up from Thanks to InterAct, Whin- for doesn’t care what it looks all but lets the producer and Interlochen Arts Camp. The nery says he’s enjoyed being like, there’s no need to sweat tech director—students as entire staff had gotten mono- able to pursue his original as- the details—it’ll be gone in a well—take charge. It’s only a nucleosis, and they badly pirations as a professional week. Whinnery observes matter of time before they start needed someone to work at designer. That was one of the that this is something stu- redirecting questions to him. the shop: Would he be will- things he missed the most in dents tend to fi gure out “Ask Peter,” someone will ing to take the job? the early days of his job, when themselves over their four inevitably say. “Peter knows.” “It was room and board he realized that being a super- undergraduate years, as they “It’s one of the things that’s and 150 bucks for a month,” visor wouldn’t allow him to narrow their focus and learn gonna be hard for the next Whinnery recalls. He was design on behalf of the stu- how to manage their proj- person that has this job,” says working in his father’s factory dents. Nowadays, Whinnery ects. And groups that put Whinnery, who’s retiring at the time. “I said, ‘You bet- works as a designer across the their souls into their produc- from his position as technical cha, I’ll be there tomorrow.” Philadelphia area while stay- tions can count on Whinnery advisor for Student Perform- In 1982, after a master’s ing busy with the demands of to respond. He takes some ing Arts in the spring. “I just program in Technical The- his Penn position, which are pride watching “tenderfoots” know. I mean, I’ve been here atre and Design at the Uni- considerable: this Fall semes- who come in stressed and for 36 years, so when someone versity of Michigan, he came ter alone, there have been 21 clueless emerge knowledge- says, ‘Do you have X, Y, or Z?’ to Penn. Whinnery assumed PAC-funded productions, able and self-assured, ready it’s like— ‘God, we used to, let he would stay in his fi rst job eight of which required a fully to wield a circular saw and me see if I can fi nd that thing.’” until something better came built set. In the Spring, there teach others how to do it too. The Performing Arts Coun- along. “And the better came are usually even more. So Whinnery never says no. cil wood shop can be an over- along here,” he says. Whinnery says the perform- Joshua Slatko C’00, the busi- whelming space to navigate. What started as a nine- ing arts community has ex- ness manager of Mask and lt occupies the second fl oor of month gig supervising the ploded in the time he’s been Wig Alumni, was a member a building whose ground level shop in Irvine would turn here. Somewhat at variance of the stage crew during his serves as an apparel store for into a 36-year career. Whin- with his own philosophy— undergrad days. He remem- the Restaurant School at Wal- nery has aided student pro- “just do one or two things bers a set he designed senior nut Hill College, on 4lst Street ductions, taught three classes well, instead of a dozen things year, which featured a ship between Locust and Walnut. as a lecturer in theater arts half-assed”—Penn students that looked like it had Whinnery helped design the (on lighting, scene, and cos- keep ramping up the number crashed into a rock. The fi nal

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set spanned Iron Gate The- usually unwilling to discuss atre’s entire stage. “A lot of Stuffed it.) Their reasons for saving people would’ve said, ‘You’re When a penchant for hanging onto things are “the same as yours out of your mind,” says Slatko. and mine,” she said. The “Peter said, ‘It’s a great idea, things crosses a clinical line. items may be sentimental, and here’s how you do it.’” useful, or beautiful and thus “It really is learn by doing,” hard to let go. One woman says Whinnery. “You’re not tudying hoarding has and teenagers who keep anthropomorphized her yo- gonna know what it looks been like trying to catch things “much, much longer” gurt cups and felt guilty like until you actually put it S a freight train, said Gail than their peers, eventually throwing them away. together, and paint it, and Steketee, professor and “accumulat[ing] enough so Hoarding aff ects not only put it on stage.’ Behind-the- dean emerita at Boston Uni- that they couldn’t move the one doing it, but also scenes work off ers opportu- versity’s School of Social around the bedroom.” The family members and the nities for personal growth, Work, during a Wolf Human- disorder peaks in middle age. community, putting adjacent and for things to go wrong. ities Center lecture last fall People hoard clothes, neighbors at risk of insect Whinnery calls it “commu- titled “Buried in Treasures: shoes, newspapers, mail, and rodent infestations, and nity building by disaster”— When Stuff Takes Over.” food, take-out containers, creating fi re hazards. Steke- like when a set is too big and “Once we realized that plastic bags—everyday items tee told the unfortunate story the production staff has to hoarding was a serious prob- that they can’t part with or of a man whose rooms and try to tetris the unwieldy lem that we needed to pay feel they will need one day. halls were so jammed that pieces through the door, or attention to, and once the (Animal hoarding is consid- fi refi ghters could not enter to when the paint isn’t deliv- research started in the late ered a “special manifesta- save him when his house ered on time and it’s all- 1990s … it just took off , and tion” of hoarding disorder, caught fi re, and he perished hands-on-deck to get the set we were running as fast as and is diffi cult to study, in the blaze. And in a highly done by opening night. we could to catch up.” Steketee said, because after it publicized case in the 1940s, “You can talk about big Steketee is an expert on becomes criminal, people are the two Collyer brothers concepts—he certainly un- treating obsessive-compul- derstands it,” says Rozin of sive spectrum conditions, InterAct. “But what he wants specifi cally hoarding disor- to know is: What does it look der, and she is the author of like? It really comes down to numerous books on the sub- something simple.” ject, including Stuff : Compul- Whinnery jokes that his sive Hoarding and the Mean- whole life has followed the ing of Things, coauthored theater cycle: you build with Randy Frost. something up, you strike it In fact, it was thanks to down, and then you start all Steketee and her colleagues’ over again the next semester. research that hoarding disor- So in that way, he’s been der was included in the fi fth practicing retirement every edition of the Diagnostic and summer—and this time, as Statistical Manual of Mental usual, he’s planning to keep Health Disorders in 2013, col- things simple. But Slatko, loquially known as the bible of who’s helping to organize psychiatry. Its primary feature Whinnery’s retirement party is diffi culty discarding items, during Alumni Weekend, is resulting in disorganized clut- planning to “make as big a ter, distress, and impairment. deal of Peter as he’ll let us.” One in 20 people in the After all, it should be good has a hoarding enough for who it’s for. problem, she asserted. It fre- —Meerabelle Jesuthasan C’19 quently starts in preteens

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SOCIAL SCIENCE were found dead in their One common comorbid Amazing Scientific Finding! home after their possessions mental health problem, how- (Wanna Bet?) collapsed on one—causing ever, is major depressive dis- the other, who was blind and order. Fifty percent of people Research methods in the social sciences have come under paralyzed, to die of starva- with hoarding disorder, she fi re in the last decade for being unreliable. In a new study, tion. Other people have be- said, are also depressed. Gideon Nave, a Wharton assistant professor who specializes in come homeless or estranged It is perhaps for this rea- decision science [“Gazetteer,” Jan|Feb 2018], fi nds the criticism from family members. son that Steketee and her is justifi ed—and that online betting markets could be a handy Hoarding often gets lumped colleagues have found cogni- in with obsessive-compulsive tive behavioral therapy way to distinguish solid fi ndings from spurious ones. disorder, but they are two dis- (CBT) to be so eff ective. CBT Nave and his collaborators set out to reproduce the results of tinct mental illnesses. One of uses short-term goals to 21 high-profi le social science studies published in Science or the diff erences, Steketee said, change thinking patterns, Nature. The researchers were is that those who hoard often which in turn aff ects behav- unable to fi nd evidence sup- lack what psychiatrists call ior. It can take about a year, porting the original fi ndings “insight.” That is, they have but after 26 sessions of CBT, for eight of the studies. For no awareness of their illness, most people will no longer the other 13 they found as is also typically the case fi t the clinical criteria for weaker, though still consis- with patients with psychosis hoarding disorder. tent, evidence. They pub- and bipolar disorder. This So how do you know when makes treatment diffi cult. your collection of Beanie Ba- lished their results in August Nature Human Behavior And it is also why forced bies has crossed over into in . cleanouts are often upsetting hoarding? Steketee herself “The incapacity to repli- to patients and can even lead admitted she collects antique cate and generalize pub- to suicide attempts. fans. The diff erence, she said, lished scientifi c fi ndings un- In a study of 62 elderly is that collections are often dermines the very core of the Online betting hoarders, social service pro- themed, planned, organized, process in which science viders reported that cleanouts and not distressing. accumulates knowledge,” markets could be by outside organizations “All mental illness runs on said Nave. helped only 15 percent of a continuum,” she said. But a handy way to Studies that failed to repli- them. If safety or legal rea- when people can no longer sons mandate a cleanout, use their homes in the way cate tended to have traits in distinguish solid Steketee said, it is best to in- that they used to—such as common: they involved small findings from volve the affl icted person as having nowhere to sit in the sample sizes, high p-values much as possible in deciding living room because the fur- (refl ecting the likelihood the spurious ones. what to keep and what to toss. niture is piled high with results occurred by chance), Trauma is not a typical clothing, or not being able to and hypotheses that just cause of hoarding, she said, use the stove because it’s cov- sounded too good to be true. In a twist, the researchers also set but it can sometimes play a ered in papers—that’s called up a betting market in which social scientists could guess which role. “We had an instance, for impairment. That’s when you studies would replicate and which wouldn’t. Bettors correctly example, where a woman know you’ve crossed the line. predicted the replication outcomes for 18 of the 21 studies, was raped in her own home “We all have memories, and suggesting experts know a fl imsy result when they see one. by a stranger,” Steketee ex- we like being reminded of plained. “She walled off the things we found pleasurable,” Yet the new study wasn’t entirely gloomy about the future of whole second fl oor of her she said, musing on the emo- human knowledge. Of the 21 studies, those conducted in the house where that happened, tional resonance certain ob- last fi ve years replicated at higher rates than those conducted and gradually that wall of jects can have in our lives. fi ve to eight years ago. This suggests, said Nave, that social sci- stuff spilled into the lower But “in many ways, we don’t entists have taken the criticism to heart and improved their fl oors and the whole place need objects for that. All we methods. “I’d take it as another reason for cautious optimism,” was covered. It was clear that need is a reminder some- he wrote on his blog. —Kevin Hartnett was a triggering event for her.” where, sometime.” —NP

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Now that same computing To Infinity and Beyond power is in your cell phone. The Digital Media Design major turns 20. Today it’s much more feasible for the average person to make animations.

hree years after Toy Story Was it hard to get students leapt onto movie screens interested in the program T as the fi rst fully computer- early on? animated feature fi lm— Actually, it was pretty easy and soon became the high- to fi nd students who were est-grossing movie of 1995— interested. But it was hard to Penn debuted a new major. fi nd employers who believed Housed in the School of En- that undergraduates were gineering and Applied Sci- capable of doing this work ence, the Digital Media Design because they had only hired program launched in 1998 to people with PhDs up to that prepare students for careers in point. I would go and visit computer graphics. The fi eld companies like Pixar and say, was racing forward by then, “Hey, we have undergradu- as computer-generated imag- ates who are majoring in ery (CGI) became more so- graphics,” and they’d say, phisticated and reached fur- “Well, what can they do?” ther into video games, mov- The challenge was to con- ies, and even TV commercials. vince industry people that Twenty years later, Penn is you didn’t need a PhD any- still training the next genera- more to do this work. tion of computer graphics experts—and while the DMD “The coolest thing about To fi nd out more about Was there a certain point that program only graduates about DMD is meeting people and DMD’s evolution, Gazette you noticed things were be- 25 students a year, many of the community-building,” contributor Molly Petrilla ginning to change? them go on to work at compa- said Ray Forziati EAS’04, C’06 spoke with Calhoun, Paul Kanyuk EAS’05 went nies that rule the fi eld. one of the panelists. “In all who has been with the pro- to do an internship at Pixar According to Amy Calhoun three of my entertainment gram for 19 of its 20 years. his junior year. We knew by C’82, the director of integrat- gigs, I’ve had DMD alumni midway through the summer ed studies programs for the around me. I think I brought What’s been the biggest that they were going to ask Engineering School, one in in 10-plus DMDers to change since DMD started? him back. That changed ev- 10 technical directors at DreamWorks. I lost count, In the years before DMD erything. Once you have an DreamWorks Animation there were so many. And in started, the only people who undergraduate working at a came from Penn. A signifi - my fi rst few days at Netfl ix, I were studying computer company like that, then the cant number of alumni have met three Penn grads and graphics were PhD students, other companies start to take also landed at Disney, Pixar, two of them were from because you had to know you seriously. Google, Electronic Arts, and DMD. We’re everywhere.” enough math and enough Around the same time, we Microsoft, and she says that In addition to Forziati, the programming to build all had a couple software engi- roughly a quarter go into panel included alumni who your own tools. Also, the com- neers go off to Disney and special eff ects. work at Pixar, Instagram, and puters that did rendering in other [DMD grads] were To celebrate its double-de- Etsy; who make their own the early days were massive breaking through in the cade, DMD invited nine movies and animations; and and unbelievably expensive. games industry. It was around alumni to speak at a panel who work for Major League Unless you had access to that 2004 that we started to see event during Homecoming Baseball and augmented real- kind of computational power, great interest from industry Weekend in November. ity start-ups. you couldn’t make anything. in these kids because of what

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BIOMEDICINE they could do, their level of dimension or some new ca- Engineered Spinal Discs enthusiasm, and the fact that reer fi eld that’s opened up. If they were the same age as the I were trying to make a ma- An interdisciplinary team including researchers from the people [those companies] jor really successful, it would Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Vet, and the University’s were marketing to. be that: to make each class department of bioengineering successfully implanted engi- feel that they built it, they neered spinal discs in goats—the largest animal yet to receive DMD students take classes contributed to its success, such a treatment. As reported in Science Translational Medi- in computer science and en- and they reshaped it to suit cine in November, the team extended its work on rats to an gineering, fi ne arts, math- their needs. animal model whose size and semi-upright posture have far ematics, and communica- more in common with humans—for whom disc degeneration is tions. Those are some very Any predictions for the future a major cause of pain and disability. different disciplines for them of DMD? MRI results and histological analysis revealed that the engi- to toggle between. The technology changes so In some ways, DMD really fast that the notion that your neered discs—biomaterial scaffolds seeded with stem cells— is a major about language. curriculum should stay sta- had compressive properties When DMD students are in ble is ludicrous. It can’t. Now matching or exceeding an art class, they have to we have at least 10 people native goat cervical speak art speak. Then they working in VR/AR [virtual discs, and integrated go off to a communications reality/augmented reality] well with surrounding class, and that defi nitely has and it didn’t even exist as an tissue. Other evidence its own lingo. And then they industry 10 years ago. You suggested that the engi- come back to engineering have to be willing to change neered discs’ composi- and they’re speaking engi- and keep pace with things. tion and mechanical neering lingo. That’s been And you also don’t know properties grew more one of their successes out which things are going to there in the world. They can take off and which aren’t. robust over time. talk to all of the people who When VR and AR fi rst came “This is a major step: to build an animated movie or a out, the hardware was so bad grow such a large disc in the lab, to get it into the disc space, game—artists, businessmen, that people were like, this and then to have it start integrating with the surrounding na- computer graphics people, isn’t going anywhere. But we tive tissue,” said Robert L. Mauck, a professor for Education software engineers. None of thought it would. Now it has and Research in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perelman School those people were trained in the potential to be an incred- of Medicine and co-senior author of the paper. “The current the same way and they don’t ibly large business. standard of care does not actually restore the disc, so our have any shared language. What DMD will be in 20 hope with this engineered device is to replace it in a biological, DMDers learn all of the lan- years won’t look anything functional way and regain full range of motion.” guages and then they pick like what DMD is right now the right one for the people except that it will probably they’re talking to. I think have very creative, very en- off and work in all diff erent And most people aren’t. The that’s as essential as the tech- gaged students who are in- forms of industry, they are reason it’s a small program is nical education they receive. terested in changing what- fi rst and foremost engineers that it is asking you to be ever it is we have now. who are solving real problems equally skilled with your It also sounds like many DMD for people in tangible ways. right brain and your left students stay in touch with Is there something you’d like Each year in admissions brain, and most people really the program after they gradu- everyone out there to know selection committee, I see are not capable of doing that. ate—you know what so many about DMD—or maybe a mis- kids who might make great It’s a particularly challenging of the alumni are up to. conception you’d like to animators but are not going major, and I think it some- They do stay in touch. Every- clear up? to make great engineers. I what discredits the amount body in DMD feels like they That it is an engineering want people to know that of work that it took to just made DMD, so they feel a degree. It is a technology de- this is a real marriage be- think they’re all going to go sense of pride of ownership. gree. When you look at the tween art and science, and off and make pretty pictures. Each group adds some new number of graduates who go you have to be good at both.

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Resiliency by Design A new certificate program addresses urbanism’s latest watchword.

ick a city, virtually any novative stormwater man- city, and odds are high agement program emphasiz- P that its movers and shak- ing porous pavement and ers are talking about “re- rain gardens instead of a sin- silience.” Resilience offi ces gle-minded focus on tradi- have become fi xtures of mu- tional engineering solu- nicipal government in places tions—Neukrug can be for- as diff erent as and given for being biased. Yet Addis Ababa. According to the watery aspects of climate the Rockefeller Foundation, change loomed large at the sand years working at these potential costs of muddling politicos and business boost- all-day roundtable, which things”), provided an overview along with the status quo. ers are touting “resilience served as the offi cial launch of the academic topics the cer- “It’s useful,” she said, “to strategies” to attract outside of PennDesign’s new Urban tifi cate program will cover, think in terms of ‘more resil- investment to cities ranging Resilience Certifi cate pro- including the science of deci- ient equals less vulnerable.’” from Semarang, Indonesia, gram. Presentations by ur- sion-making, unpredictability, Carolyn Kousky, director of to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ban planners, architects, and systems thinking, social jus- the policy incubator at the Fittingly for a term that engineers—plus an activist, a tice, and the design and plan- Wharton Risk Management encompasses readiness for sociologist, and a risk ana- ning aspects of water policy and Decision Processes Cen- sudden shocks (fl ooding, lyst—also touched on issues and energy management. ter, also addressed the busi- earthquakes) and remedies ranging from forest fi res, to Attendees—made up large- ness aspect of conservation. for chronic stresses (endemic the urban heat island eff ect, ly of students and faculty in She described a novel project violence, overloaded public to coral reef restoration. related fi elds—showed an spearheaded by The Nature transit), resilience planning The new certifi cate pro- inclination to frame the aca- Conservancy (along with the comes in many forms. It in- gram was initiated by profes- demic content in terms of Rockefeller Foundation) to forms climate-related con- sor of architecture and urban real-world challenges. How safeguard both coral reefs in struction standards for city design and former School of can designers work around Mexico and the tourist indus- buildings in New York, Design dean Marilyn Jordan cumbersome zoning regula- try that depends on them. A green-roof incentive schemes Taylor, and made possible by tions? When a municipality public-private partnership in , and bike-share a grant from the Rockefeller needs new aff ordable hous- established a trust funded by programs everywhere. Foundation. Taylor observed ing units but its only vacant tourist taxes to fi nance ongo- But mostly, as Howard Neu- that the term resilience land abuts a fl ood plain, ing maintenance of reefs and krug CE’78 observed during a gained traction in the wake of what’s the best way forward? beaches, as well as to pur- January symposium titled Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as “A big focus … has to be chase insurance to ensure “Building Resilience in De- environmentally oriented about the overlap of practice their restoration after ex- sign”—presented by PennDe- urbanists advocated for pro- and theory,” observed treme storms hit. sign with Rockefeller Founda- active planning that would PennDesign lecturer Rebecca Whatever the approach, tion support—“no one talks address long-term threats Popowsky GAr’10 GLA’10. whatever the discipline, par- about cities and resilience posed by climate change and “Having this mix of people at ticipants agreed on one without talking about water.” other large-scale phenomena. the table can help pinpoint thing: the necessity of being As founding director of the The program’s director, as- moments of opportunity to proactive. “We need to keep Water Center at Penn and sociate professor Matthijs translate ideas into projects.” the design community in- former CEO of the Philadel- Bouw (who hails from the wa- Taylor advocated building volved so [the responses] are phia Water Department— terlogged Netherlands, where business cases for resiliency shovel-ready,” Neukrug said. where he established an in- people have spent “one thou- initiatives, emphasizing the —JoAnn Greco

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SPORTS MEDICINE Rhodes Scholars Five Yard Solution Kickoffs have long been a uniquely dangerous part of football. They produce three to fi ve times as many concussions as ordi- Anea Moore nary plays from scrimmage, depending on the league. In 2016, In November, Penn senior Rhodes Scholar Anea Moore,” the Ivy League tried to reduce that toll with a minor rule change: Anea Moore was awarded a said Penn President Amy Gut- Rhodes Scholarship for mann. “Anea’s commitment moving the kickoff line from the 35-yard line to the 40-yard line, graduate study to advocacy on behalf of fi rst- and shifting the touchback line from the 25-yard line to the 20- at the Univer- generation, high-need stu- yard line. The intent was to increase the number of touchbacks sity of Oxford. dents advances our Penn (in which the player receiving the ball opts to kneel in the end The Philadel- Compact 2020’s inclusion zone to begin the ensuing pos- phia native, principle to the next level by session at the touchback line, who is major- creating programs to rather than attempting to ad- The rate of ing in sociol- strengthen academic success vance it himself). ogy and urban studies, is a and retention. She shows a concussions The experimental gambit fi rst-generation college stu- passion for engagement and seems to have paid off. In a dropped by dent who has devoted sub- embodies the fi nest attributes stantial energy to improving of Penn scholars who are research letter published in more than JAMA the undergraduate experi- working to make a profound last November, a team ence of other such students. diff erence in the world. Anea led by Douglas Wiebe, a pro- 80 percent. Moore created a program is truly deserving of this pre- fessor of epidemiology at the housed at the Greenfi eld In- eminent recognition.” Perelman School of Medicine, compared the incidence of kickoff tercultural Center that pro- concussions before and after the rule change. They found that the vides additional resources to Adamseged Abebe rate of concussions dropped by more than 80 percent in the more than 1,000 fi rst-gener- Penn senior Adamseged 2016 and 2017 seasons. ation/low-income students. Abebe, of Gondar, Ethiopia, “The national conversation on concussions that occur in foot- She has also served as co- has been awarded an inaugu- ball can be informed by scientifi c research aimed at making president of the Collec- ral Global tive Success Network Rhodes Schol- sports safer,” said Wiebe, who co-leads the Ivy League’s concus- at Penn and chair of arship for grad- sion surveillance system. “We’ve found that this simple yet stra- the Netter Center for uate study at tegic policy change helps sustain the quality of the game, while Community Parter- Oxford. He was also making it safer for student athletes.” ships student advisory one of two cho- board, among other sen from coun- and population health in Ma- the two inaugural Global leadership positions. She tries around the world for lawi; and the impact of Chi- Rhodes Scholars,” said Gut- came to Penn as a Philadel- the new award, which allows nese investment on Ethio- mann. “His compassion and phia Mayor’s Scholar and exceptional students who are pian infrastructure. He has determination to help others was also the University’s 2017 from countries not histori- also served as a teacher and throughout the world is the Newman Civic Fellow. cally eligible to apply. a mentor for children at a essential embodiment of a At Oxford, Moore plans to Abebe is simultaneously nonprofi t school in Ethiopia global citizen at Penn. Adam pursue a doctor of philoso- pursuing a bachelor’s degree for the past three sum- wants to make a diff erence phy degree in evidence-based in health and societies from mers. He is a Penn World in the world, and I could not social intervention and poli- the School of Arts and Sci- Scholar, a Perry World House be more confi dent that he cy evaluation. She applied for ences and a master’s in non- Student Fellow, a Lipman will, aided by this well-de- the Rhodes Scholarship with profi t leadership from the Family Prize Fellow, and a served recognition as a Glob- assistance from the Center School of Social Policy and Paul Robeson and Anna Julia al Rhodes.” for Undergraduate Research Practice. He has conducted Cooper Scholar. At Oxford, he will pursue a and Fellowships. research on mitochondrial “We are so very proud that master’s degree in interna- “All of us at Penn are incred- proteins at Penn Medicine; Adamseged Abebe—Adam to tional development. ibly proud of our newest HIV/AIDS, mental health, his friends at Penn—is one of

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Hooking on with Mater Dei campus than at Harvard. “I Taiyuan Tower High School in Santa Ana came here for a visit and I just After moving from China to California, eased the transition. Not only fell in love,” says Wang, who does the school boast a presti- reckons there’s only a handful freshman hoopster Michael Wang gious basketball program but of Division I college basketball finds a home at Penn. the team was led by Spencer players from China. Freedman, who became Donahue faced obstacles By Dave Zeitlin Wang’s best friend. So when during the recruiting process, Freedman’s parents asked including the fact that Wang’s Wang if he wanted to live parents don’t speak English. hen Michael Wang re- a pro, or you become a full- with them, he happily accept- But on his visit, Penn fencing turned to the locker time student.” And so, with ed the off er. “And then they coach Andy Ma, who is of Chi- Wroom following the the blessing of his parents, just became family to me.” nese descent, tagged along, Penn men’s basketball both of whom played basket- Freedman is now a fresh- which “helped with the lan- team’s 78–75 victory over ball and helped nurture his man point guard at Harvard. guage barrier.” And Donahue reigning national champion love for the game, he moved Wang, who developed into a came away impressed with Villanova in December, he to California when he was 14. highly rated recruit, could how Wang’s parents helped was expecting some congrat- ulatory messages. But for the Quakers’ 6-foot-10 freshman, the sheer volume of texts on his phone was almost as shocking as the win itself. Only later did Wang learn the reason: the Penn–Villanova game had been streamed live across China, and he was told about 8 million people in his native country watched. Among them were friends and family members from Taiyu- an, the capital of the Shanxi province where he grew up. “For a player who comes straight from China, that means a lot to a lot of peo- ple,” says Wang, who scored 14 points against ’Nova and has since emerged as a key starter. “Hopefully my story Michael Wang will motivate others and help have probably joined him foster their son’s passion and them become more success- His mom stayed with him there, or have signed on to motivation. ful players.” for a couple of months to play for one of the Pac-12 pro- “I think it’s kind of unique Although basketball is very help get him settled, and he grams that showed interest. that a kid that age is willing popular in China, Wang al- initially stayed with a family But Wang picked Penn, ac- to pick up and move halfway ways felt he’d have more op- friend. But adapting to cording to Quakers head across the globe because he portunities in the United American culture, learning coach Steve Donahue, because thinks it’s right for him aca- States. “Before I came here,” English, and fi nding a per- “his parents really stressed demically and for basket- he says, “there were two manent place to live was hard. going to an Ivy League school.” ball,” Donahue says. “It’s also paths: you either choose to “I moved all over the place,” And he got better vibes at the remarkable how he’s adjust- play basketball and become he says. “I got used to it.” Palestra and around the rest of ed to American life.”

Photo by Tommy Leonardi C’89 Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 29 Scoreboard Colby 9-0 (W) Princeton 5-4 (W) Wang has also adjusted well assistant for much of that from Dec. 6 to Feb. 7 Dartmouth 6-3 (W) Harvard 3-6 (L) to college basketball, bursting tenure—is moving on from MEN’S BASKETBALL (6-5) WOMEN’S SQUASH (3-4) onto the scene with 14 points Temple at the end of this La Salle 83-65 (W) Yale 2-7 (L) in his fi rst game and pouring season after 13 years, mak- Villanova 78-75 (W) Brown 5-4 (W) New Mexico 75-65 (W) in 23 points the next month ing the 2018–19 campaign Trinity 1-8 (L) Toledo 45-77 (L) Colby 9-0 (W) in a win over Miami. A something of a farewell tour Monmouth 74-76 (L) Princeton 1-8 (L) sprained ankle caused him to for a coach that Donahue Princeton 65-68 (L) Dartmouth 6-3 (W) Princeton 53-62 (L) miss a couple of games and believes belongs in the Nai- Harvard 0-9 (L) Temple 77-70 (W) then struggle upon his re- smith Memorial Basketball Saint Joseph’s 78-70 (W) MEN’S SWIMMING (4-1) Cornell 71-80 (L) turn—a contributing factor to Hall of Fame. Yale 191-109 (W) Columbia 72-70 (W) Penn’s four-game losing “You can count on one Dartmouth 227-73 (W) Harvard 102-198 (L) streak from December 29 to hand the college basketball WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (8-1) Brown 174.50-125.50 (W) Iona 66-43 (W) January 12—but he put in a coaches at this level that West Chester 196-100 (W) Drexel 55-39 (W) good performance versus have achieved as much as he Stetson 75-53 (W) WOMEN’S SWIMMING (2-3) Saint Joseph’s to help Penn has,” Donahue says, pointing Princeton 66-60 (W) Yale 63-237 (L) Villanova 50-58 (L) complete its fi rst sweep of Big in particular to the number Dartmouth 161.5-131.5 (W) Temple 71-62 (W) Brown 82-218 (L) 5 opponents in 17 years. of league championships that Haverford 81-46 (W) Harvard 78-222 (L) he won, including 10 at Penn. Cornell 59-46 (W) Wang, who has a sweet West Chester 173-126 (W) shooting stroke and is a great “I think it’s not a coincidence Columbia 72-60 (W) MEN’S TENNIS (4-1) passer for his size—he said our 11-year [Ivy League title] MEN’S FENCING (12-6) Navy 7-0 (W) Penn State Invitational, 2-3 he’s still growing and may hit drought coincided with him Baylor 1-6 (L) Philadelphia Invitational, 5-2 7 feet soon—has “got to get a leaving the program. You Cleveland State 6-1 (W) Northwestern Duals, 5-1 little grittier, a little tougher,” just don’t replace guys who Liberty 6-1 (W) NJIT 7-0 (W) in Donahue’s estimation, to are legendary.” WOMEN’S FENCING (9-5) Philadelphia Invitational, 5-3 WOMEN’S TENNIS (3-0) become an Ivy League star or Donahue hopes Dunphy Northwestern Duals, 4-2 win a dreamed-for place in will remain in coaching if he Delaware 7-0 (W) Drexel 6-1 (W) GYMNASTICS the NBA. wants to because “I see the Marist 7-0 (W) Maryland, West Chester, Cortland, 3rd “I think his commitment in same guy I saw 20 years ago. Place WRESTLING (2-4) Yale 192.350-193.775 (L) the weight room, the physical I see great energy, great pas- Duke 18-25 (L) Temple, Ursinus, Ithaca, 2nd place part of it, will be a big piece in sion.” But barring a return, Drexel 15-16 (L) Brown, Cornell, Ursinus, 1st place determining to me if he can this year’s Penn–Temple Binghamton 12-24 (L) Army West Point 10-28 (L) MEN’S SQUASH (5-2) make a real living playing game marked the fi nal meet- Brown 18-16 (W) Yale 7-2 (W) Harvard 35-6 (W) basketball,” the Penn coach ing between the two friends, Brown 9-0 (W) says. “But he does have a lot with Donahue pulling off his Trinity 3-6 (L) bold indicates a home game of things you can’t teach.” second win over Dunphy in 17 tries. The only other came Spoiling Dunphy’s when Cornell upset Temple “I told Dunph that I’m any better. That drove me to Farewell Tour in the 2010 NCAA Tourna- handling this worse than he stay. And I haven’t worked Few people have done as much ment—which Donahue called is,” said Donahue, who was for anyone else since. I’m for Big 5 basketball as Fran “a terrible feeling for a hired by Dunphy as an un- just really lucky.” Dunphy, who played at La Salle while,” even though it was paid volunteer assistant al- Dunphy said that he, too, before long coaching stints at the “highlight of my career.” most 30 years ago. He then learned a lot from Donahue Penn and now Temple. So it In this year’s game, Donahue served on Penn’s staff from during their time on the was with mixed emotions for pulled some tricks out of his 1990 to 2000 before head bench together. “At the end Donahue when he led Penn sleeve, playing a few reserves, coaching stints at Cornell, of the game,” Dunphy said, to a mid-January upset of including Kuba Mijakowski, Boston College, and now “we shook hands, we hugged Temple in Dunphy’s fi nal city who surprised the Owls with Penn. “Every spring, I used a little bit, and I said, ‘I’m series game. four three-pointers in the to think, ‘I’m going to have very proud of you.’” Dunphy—who coached at fi rst half to help boost the to work for someone else.’ Penn from 1989 to 2006, Quakers to their fi rst win And I thought about it and I For more on Penn’s Big 5 title, visit the with Donahue serving as his over Temple since 2007. knew it wasn’t going to be sports blog at thepenngazette.com.

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For 40 years, Mariette Pathy Allen GFA’65 has focused her camera on gender identity and expressions of gender. Through portraits of men who identified as crossdressers in the 1980s—and later, through photos of the transgender community and trans rights movement—she has shined a light on people who were often pushed to the margins of society. Some consider her the unofficial photographer of transgender life. But finding her place in the fine art world has been another story.

By Molly Petrilla

Mar|Apr PHOTOGRAPH2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA BY CANDACE GAZETTE DICARLO 33 “The gathering I met on the last day of Mardi Gras in New Orleans.” 1978.

1978, Mariette Pathy Allen GFA’65 “I didn’t have a word for it at the time, or a woman, but somehow at the essence and her husband Ken went to but I hadn’t seen people quite like them of a human being. I said to myself, ‘I have New Orleans for Mardi Gras. before,” Allen remembers. “I just thought, to have this person in my life.’” In On the last morning of their these are amazing-looking people.” That’s how Allen met Vicky West, who trip, Ken woke up early, put on Soon the group headed outside to the turned out to live just 20 blocks away his homemade jester costume, and took hotel pool, circling it and then lining from her in Manhattan. “And it was off for the closest parade. But Mariette up shoulder to shoulder beside it. Allen through meeting that one person,” Allen was too sleepy to join him. She made her followed. says, “that I entered this whole world.” way downstairs a little later, her two She watched as one person pulled out cameras and assorted photo gear in tow. a camera and started taking pictures of Forty years later, Allen rummages She’d been working as a photographer the group. Allen still had her photogra- through a closet in her Upper West Side since fi nishing her MFA at Penn, snap- phy bag with her. An introverted kid apartment. The shelves hold extra copies ping pictures of 30th Street Station, of who had only recently outgrown her shy- of her four photography books, pub- suburban New Jersey, of antique shops ness, she wondered whether anyone lished in 1989, 2003, 2014, and 2017. and billboards and artists and pig farm- would mind if she took a picture, too. Each book contains photo after photo ers. In those days, wherever she went, With some hesitation, she raised the of people who are transgender or who her camera bag usually came, too. viewfi nder to her eye. Through it, she express themselves outside the limits of Noticing that she was alone in the saw a group that was giddy and distract- the male-female gender binary—starting hotel dining room, a group nearby asked ed, everyone looking in diff erent direc- with men who identifi ed as crossdressers if she’d like to join them. They were a tions, talking, laughing. But one person in the 1980s (including a few people from glamorous bunch, especially for break- stared straight back into Allen’s lens. the Mardi Gras group), continuing with fast time: full make-up, evening gowns, “I had an astonishing feeling,” she trans men and women in the US and luscious wigs, glossy jewelry. says. “I felt like I wasn’t looking at a man Cuba, and ending with genderfl uid spirit

34 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 PHOTOS AND CAPTION INFORMATION COURTESY OF MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN “Maxine, Ariadne, and Virginia at the Unitarian Church, Provincetown, MA.” 1980. From Transformations (1989).

mediums from Burma and Thailand. calls itself “the longest-running annual She returned the next year, 1981, as Allen pulls out a copy of each heavy event in the trans world.” In those days, Fantasia Fair’s offi cial photographer. book and heads back down the hall, past there were workshops on wigs, makeup, “That’s when I started to learn how to a wall-sized collage from her Penn days and scarf-tying; all-night pajama par- photograph crossdressers,” Allen says. and into her sunken living room. Amid ties; volleyball tournaments with more “I fi gured out how to make them com- the room’s glossy wood fl oors and views than a few participants in heels. fortable, how to make them take up of Riverside Park and the Hudson River, “Fantasia Fair wasn’t just a cross- space in more interesting ways, how to she settles into a chair. Her hair is neat- dresser convention—it was THE cross- help them connect with the femininity ly styled except for a single rogue strand. dresser convention,” the Fair’s website they felt inside. An aqua blouse intensifi es the blue of notes of 1980, the fi rst year Allen at- “I was always trying to make it playful her eyes. Two large abstract paintings tended. “In these early years, the Fair and fun,” she continues, “but often it was she made shortly after graduating from served as a model for transgender events a very moving experience for me and for Penn hang to her left and right, and all over the world.” them. They had never been photo- prints from her third book, TransCuba, In spite of the gathering’s joyous tone, graphed before by someone who ac- decorate the wall behind her. not everyone was happy to see Allen and cepted them and appreciated them and She sits down carefully, a little stiff ness her camera there. One of the organizers encouraged them.” in each movement, and starts to talk chided her for not writing to introduce As she continued to take pictures of peo- about two years after Mardi Gras, when herself in advance. Another person ple who identifi ed as crossdressers over the Vicky West invited her to Fantasia Fair threatened to smash Allen’s camera if next decade, Allen used her work to docu- in Provincetown, Massachusetts. she took their picture. But others wel- ment their everyday lives: hugging their Vicky had brought her to a few parties comed her into their experience, laying wives, playing with their kids, washing and clubs by then, but nothing like the out their own stories and showing her dishes, putting on mascara. To Allen, it was 10-day gathering in Cape Cod that now around the event. never about shock value or exploitation.

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 35 “Valerie at the End of a Glamour Session.” 1986. From Transformations.

person’s story and included written pro- fi les along with her pictures. Then she started contacting publishers. She tried almost 50 before fi nding one who would take on Transformations. Now, sitting in her apartment, she picks up a copy of the book. “Valerie and I were up in the dunes in Provincetown,” she says, looking at a ver- tical portrait. “She wanted glamor pic- tures. We’d been doing that all afternoon. Then it was starting to get cold and sud- denly I found her hugging her fur jacket. It occurred to me that she looked like a child with her teddy bear.” “What a beautiful child who accepts her father,” she says, pointing to another picture. It shows a young girl, about 8 years old, embracing her dad, who looks a lot like Princess Diana. Their side-by- side heads and clasped arms form a heart shape. Allen says that when Transformations came out in print, the people featured in it were thrilled. Many even signed each other’s copies next to their own pictures, yearbook-style. “Up until then, the only materials they could fi nd were either in porn shops or they were scientifi c discussions,” she says. “Many told me it was the fi rst time they saw pictures of people who repre- sented who they are.” “Back then, it was very avant-garde to portray folks who were so outside the norm,” Cross explains. “But she really humanized them and helped document a community that otherwise would have been invisible.” Several decades later, Zackary Drucker, a producer on the Amazon series Trans- “I was determined,” she later wrote in for some, it felt safer to say they were parent, brought copies of Transforma- an essay, “to change the way crossdress- simply crossdressing. tions to the set and shared them with the ers saw themselves, and how they were “Not that all crossdressers identify as creative team. At the time, they were seen by others.” transgender,” adds Erin Cross, director of working on fl ashback scenes of the main Today the diff erence between a cross- Penn’s LGBT Center. “But that language character, a trans woman named Maura dresser and a trans man or woman is wasn’t even there. So Mariette created a (played by Jeff rey Tambor), attending a clear. But when Transformations came visual language, which is so powerful.” crossdressing retreat in the early 1990s. out in 1989, “transgender” hadn’t yet Over the next 10 years, Allen’s collec- (“We are crossdressers, but we’re still become a mainstream term and the idea tion of photos grew until there was men!” one attendee, angry that a friend of transitioning was still so taboo that enough to fi ll a book. She typed up each has transitioned, tells Maura.)

36 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 “Paula and Daughter, Rachel.” 1987. From Transformations.

Drucker says that Allen’s book showed At the time, the Fine Arts Library housed She set up a darkroom in her Philadel- the Transparent team how self-identifi ed all the studios and classrooms for her phia apartment and began booking job crossdressers were styling themselves concentration and its cousins: printmak- after job. around that time: what they wore, how they ing, sculpture, architecture, landscape “Photography is a passport into the did their makeup and hair, and—through architecture. The program encouraged world—you can go anywhere and do any- Allen’s interviews—how they talked about its artists to learn from each other. If thing,” she says. Suddenly, the shy, uncom- themselves and their experiences. Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71 gave a lecture to fortable kid didn’t feel so shy anymore. “For me, as a millennial trans “Once you have the camera in your person who didn’t experience the hand and a project in your mind, it’s ’70s and ’80s, Mariette is crucial not about you,” Allen adds. “It’s to helping me locate my own his- about what you’re trying to do. That tory,” Drucker adds. is the great gift of photography.” But since the beginning of what She’s had a long-standing interest Allen now considers her “Gender in cultural anthropology, too. Series,” the art world has been less While studying it at Dalton during enthusiastic. After Transforma- some of the most awkward years of tions came out, she recalls a mix her own life, “I was totally fasci- of outright negativity and conde- nated and kind of relieved to learn scending comments about her about other cultures and ways of work being some kind of self-sac- forming families,” she says. rifi ce. It was the beginning of her “I always questioned whether long battle for recognition in the the way we were living was the fi ne art world—and an extension only way to go, and whether the of the years she had already spent adults really were right in their feeling like an outsider. rules,” Allen adds. “I was asking myself questions all the time.” The only child of wealthy Hun- As her long-running gender se- garian immigrants, Allen sums up ries has unfolded, it’s only prompt- her childhood in two words: mis- ed more questions. In fact, “it’s erable and uncomfortable. people living the most important “I was between two worlds: the questions,” she says. “What does it European, old-fashioned, conser- mean to be a man or woman? And vative world of my parents and the who makes up the rules, and why?” very contemporary and progres- sive school that I went to where people the architecture students, the painting In 1952, when Allen was just entering called their teachers by their fi rst names classes went, too. If high-profi le painters her teens, Christine Jorgensen became and kids wore blue jeans to school while came in to critique student work, the archi- the fi rst American to publicly announce I went in there carrying a pocketbook,” tecture students sat in. “The whole thing her transition from male to female. she says. was an ecstatic experience,” Allen says. “EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY” Whether she was at Manhattan’s ex- As graduation loomed, a University a New York Daily News headline shout- clusive Dalton School or at home, Allen photographer came in to snap pictures ed from the front page. felt out of place. “I had very few friends of the students at work. On his way out, It was the fi rst time many Americans and was extremely shy—that lingered he invited Allen to a class that he was had heard about a trans person, and Jor- for a long time,” she says. taking downtown. She fi gured, why not? gensen quickly became famous—the Painting provided some of the only mo- The instructor was Harold Feinstein, subject of news stories and photo shoots, ments that she felt at ease. She didn’t have a fi ne art photographer best known for then the author of an autobiography, to talk to anyone or wear the right thing. his black-and-white images of Coney and eventually the focus of a 1970 movie, She studied art history at Vassar and Island from the 1950s. “I went to this The Christine Jorgensen Story. (Actual then enrolled at Penn as an MFA student class and I had such an interesting time text from its poster: “Did the surgeon’s in painting. Allen remembers those years that I thought, ‘I’ll just take pictures,’” knife make me a woman or a freak?”) at Penn as some of the happiest in her life. Allen remembers. Exactly 50 years after Jorgensen fi rst

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 37 “Kiwi at a coffee shop, NYC.” 2002. From The Gender Frontier (2003).

Allen was focusing her work on all sides of the trans community by then. Since the early 1980s, she’d been traveling the coun- try to snap photos and give slide presenta- tions at transgender conferences and re- lated events. She’d photographed the cover for Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (1997)—a book by Riki Anne Wilchins that was “incredibly ground-breaking, and is still used in a lot of classes,” Cross says. Allen often did TV and radio inter- views, and her work had even appeared on fi lm at the Sundance Film Festival. She consulted and shot still photography for Southern Comfort, a documentary about the last year of a transgender man named Robert Eads’ life, and the fi lm won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for documentary in 2001. “Mariette was positioned in a very cen- tral place because of her continued in- vestment in the trans community,” recalls Drucker, whose college years in New York partly overlapped with Grady’s. “She was really in the center of the action.” Allen began taking the photos that would become her second book, The Gen- der Frontier, a few years after Transfor- mations came out. Those images reveal the change that was happening around her: a growing trans rights movement, a new generation who were coming out as transgender, and the diversity of people around the country—this time both men and women—who identify as trans. “That book represented the next stage,” Allen now says of The Gender Frontier. Its cover shows a 21-year-old Grady looking straight into the lens, her lips in a semi-smile. Her eyes, hair, and even arm position—along with that hint of a came out to the country as transgender, Grady was majoring in gender and smile—all have a Mona Lisa quality. Kiwi Grady was an undergraduate stu- sexuality studies at NYU, but much of The image was snapped at a time that dent at NYU who had recently come out her education happened outside the Grady now remembers as both exhilarat- as trans herself. It was 2002: three years classroom. She was a frequent face at ing and frustrating. She says that in the since the fi rst Transgender Day of Re- trans demonstrations and conferences, early 2000s, the trans community was membrance was established to honor and had founded the city’s fi rst trans- battling sensationalized media coverage, victims of anti-transgender violence; a focused college student club, T-Party. fi ghting for its rights, and searching for year before a National Center for Trans- It was only a matter of time before she acceptance—even among other margin- gender Equality existed. crossed paths with Mariette Pathy Allen. alized groups. “There was still a very

38 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 “Antonia, alone at Christmas, NYC.” 1993. From The Gender Frontier.

strong trans-phobia in certain feminist side of the community—the diverse lives sessions, too—almost everyone had their spaces,” Grady says, “and we were very that are present and the diff erent ways own digital camera by then, and several angry at the larger LGB community be- that diff erent trans people live.” years later, an iPhone. And thanks to the cause we felt excluded there, too.” Antonia Gilligan, who’s pictured in The internet, the trans community didn’t have Along with images of protests, vigils, Gender Frontier working in her science to rely on conferences to meet each other and lobbying trips to DC, Allen’s book lab, lounging at home, and skydiving, anymore. They could just fi nd a message again captured slices of everyday life: remembers her fi rst time posing for board or website. dance lessons, horseback rides, hospital Allen in the early 1990s. As a trans “I didn’t know if what I could off er was stays, frolicking in the mud. woman, “there’s always a fear that you’re still important,” Allen remembers. “The “It was cool just to see someone trying just going to be used for exploitive pur- conferences were ending and I was feel- to respectfully represent trans people in poses,” Gilligan says. “I’ve never had that ing less and less useful.” the media,” Grady says. “There weren’t feeling with Mariette. What she’s done So she went to Cuba. a lot of positive or diverse images out is shed a light on the community—but More specifi cally, she went to a profes- there at that moment, and I appreciate it’s been a friendly light, as opposed to sional conference for sexologists in Ha- what she did.” just taking cheap shots.” vana. It was mostly in Spanish and “At that time, the community was al- mostly academic, but while she was in ways being represented through the eyes After The Gender Frontier came out, the city, she also met three transgender of other people, and that obviously can Allen wasn’t sure about her next move. women who became the focus of her be a critique of Mariette, too—that she’s She was still giving her slide presenta- next book, TransCuba (2014). an ally, not a community member,” Grady tions at transgender conferences, but “I went wherever they took me,” she adds. “But I think as an ally, she did a fewer people were fi lling the seats. They’d says. “I went to visit their homes and good job of trying to show the human stopped coming to her on-site portrait families and friends and went to events.

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 39 “Nomi and Miguel, partners, watching tele- vision at Malu’s apartment, Havana, Cuba.” 2013. From TransCuba (2014).

I had a wonderful time with them and HIV positive. “The other problem was been particularly drawn to the intimate they were so open.” the bullying,” she says. “If they went to nature of her work and to the engage- In Cuba, Allen found a very diff erent school, they would be bullied not just by ment and emotional involvement that situation from the one she’d been track- the other students, but by the teachers she has with the people in her photo- ing in the US. By 2012, America had its as well. So they dropped out.” graphs,” Moscovitch adds. “She’s not a fi rst openly transgender judge, its fi rst But Allen also observed a country on fl y on the wall. She is a participant, a openly transgender NCAA athlete, and the cusp of change. Decades after Fidel friend and a partner.” a ruling that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Castro had sequestered gay men in mil- “I’ve seen her photograph a few times,” Rights Act also protected transgender itary “re-education” camps, his niece notes Drucker, the artist and Transpar- employees. Soon it would have trans Mariela Castro was running the Cuban ent producer, “and I think she has an characters sensitively represented on- National Center for Sex Education incredible ability to reach people and to screen in the hit series Transparent and (Cenesex), championing LGBT rights see people.” Netfl ix’s Orange Is the New Black. and acceptance. Drucker considers Allen “the single Meanwhile, in Cuba, “the situation for Cenesex exhibited a selection of Allen’s most dedicated photographer of the trans them was so terrible,” Allen says of the work in 2014 and again in 2017. community.” While well-known artists transgender women she met there. Keren Moscovitch, an artist who teach- including Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus “There was still so far to go.” es at the and cu- have “glimpsed into our lives,” Drucker She discovered that transgender peo- rated the Cuba show, says Allen’s work says, “Mariette is the only one who has ple in Cuba couldn’t legally change their is both “a poetic form of storytelling” embedded herself and invested her time names and had limited job opportuni- and a type of political activism. and creative labor into investigating trans ties. Most of the trans women she met And whether it’s her Cuba pictures or and gender non-conforming lives.” worked as prostitutes and had become her earlier work in the US, “I’ve just “She’s our photographer,” Drucker adds.

40 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 “A novice nat kadaw (spirit medium) preparing to assist their teacher at a nat pwe (spirit festival) in Mandalay.” 2015. From Transcendents (2017). bution” in the school’s commitment to documenting transgender communities. Still, 2018 didn’t turn out the way Allen had hoped. So she sits in her chair, eyes fi xed on the wall of windows across from her, looking out at and won- dering what its art world might want from her. Should she shift her focus to mixed- media and one-of-a-kind pieces? Or maybe it’s time for a retrospective book. “I am struggling,” she later admits, to fi gure out her next steps. The transgender community, once pleased that Allen wanted to document their lives and struggles, is no longer as interested in posing for her. “The focus now is that transgender people should photograph transgender people, and why do you need an outsider?” she says. “I began at a time when I really was llen had a good feeling about 2018. senting her and she’s had limited exhibi- needed, in many ways. Now I am not.” Her fourth book, Transcendents: tions of her work over the years. Allen is still in touch with many of the A Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thai- Does she feel under-recognized? “Yes, people she’s shot over the years, but now land, came out in late 2017, raising to be honest with you,” she says with a they swap stories about grandkids rath- fresh questions about gender expression small laugh. er than connecting over intimate por- and acceptance. (In the places Allen vis- Even Erin Cross, who calls herself “a trait sessions. ited—two countries known to be homo- professional queer,” hadn’t heard of As she fl ips through old pictures in her phobic and transphobic—she found that Allen before. apartment, remembering the most pro- genderfl uid spirit mediums were not “I was shocked that I didn’t know who lifi c years of her gender series, it’s hard only accepted, but revered.) the heck she was,” Cross adds. “She’s not to wonder if her long-standing inter- The new book sparked a fresh crop of done this groundbreaking work. What est in marginalized people—the invisible articles about Allen and reviews of her is it that has kept it to the side, not just pull that drew her toward the group at work. Then a collection of her photos in the mass appeal sense, but even in Mardi Gras, that bonded her with Vicky appeared in Aperture, a major photog- niche communities?” West and the hundreds of people she’s raphy publication, at the end of 2017. Drucker says it’s because trans stories photographed since—stems from her She was eager to see what would hap- in general are still only a small piece of own feelings of isolation as a kid. pen next as the calendar rolled over to public discourse. “For me, Mariette’s She bristles at the suggestion. “It’s too 2018. She hoped for an exhibition or big,” Drucker says. “But in the larger personal, and also a put-down of my maybe some book signings. Anything world, the trans zeitgeist is so periph- work,” she says. “It suggests that I wouldn’t that would indicate an uptick of interest eral still. I’m constantly surprised at how have done this unless I myself had had around her work. little people know.” struggles.” “I thought, This is going to go some- Granted, there are institutions that But maybe there’s another way to see where,” she says, back inside her apart- have taken notice. Duke University’s Ar- it. Maybe a diffi cult childhood left her ment, the end of 2018 then only a few chive of Documentary Arts has been pre- with more compassion and empathy than months away. “And, well, it hasn’t so far.” serving Allen’s work since 2006. Today most. Maybe it gave her special powers Her work is in a number of museum the Mariette Pathy Allen Photographs to see people for who they are. collections—the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Papers includes over 900 items. “Yeah,” she says thoughtfully, eyes drift- in DC, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Laura Micham, who directs Duke’s Cen- ing back over to the window. “I guess Portland Art Museum, among others— ter for Women’s History and curates its that’s a good way of looking at it.” and private collections, too, but she gender and sexuality history collections, doesn’t currently have a gallery repre- says Allen’s work is “a signifi cant contri- Molly Petrilla C’06 writes frequently for the Gazette.

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 41 TheTheThe ViralityViralityVirality ParadoxParadoxParadox

Damon Centola thinks the contemporary wisdom about how behavior spreads is missing something fundamental—and that may be why mindless trivialities crowd out civic engagement. Can anything be done? He has an idea or two.

By Trey Popp

midday on November 29, 2012, the age in July, which lasted a few hours, been a city-spanning web became a scat- internet crashed throughout Syria, sparked exoduses from neighborhoods tered archipelago of geographically iso- At bringing the country’s high-speed fearing a military blitz. lated groups. Yet rebel activity did not cellular network down with it. But there was something different about stall—it spread like wildfire. The civil war was in its second year. Four the November 29th blackout. For one As political scientist Navid Hassan- months had passed since Bashar al-Assad’s thing, it lasted an unusually long time— pour later documented, those three days Syrian Army repulsed rebel forces in the until the afternoon of December 1. Fur- saw a dramatic jump in firefights, anti- Battle of Damascus, and the opposition thermore, there’s reason to believe that the regime bombing attacks, and other as- was back on the move. On November 28, Syrian government did not trigger it. pects of “revolutionary unrest.” The day rebels had launched an attack on the Later, Edward Snowden claimed that it before the blackout, such clashes oc- capital’s airport, hoping to cripple had been caused, inadvertently, by US Na- curred in five neighborhoods. By its end, Assad’s air force, which had begun bar- tional Security Agency hackers attempting they had spread to 13—including five rel-bombing civilian targets. to remotely install a snooping device into that had not seen conflict all year. And The sudden internet blackout was an one of the country’s core internet routers. though urban warfare is often marked ominous development. It deprived reb- That might explain the apparent lack of a by hotspots of repeated skirmishes, the els of critical communications tools at a concerted attempt by the Syrian Army to blackout featured an unprecedented dramatic juncture. Civilians too had capitalize on the blackout. rash of “first-time” incidents in locations much to fear. Autocrats elsewhere had But what made this multi-day disruption that had been quiet for a month or more. used strategic internet outages to quell truly remarkable was the impact it had on By the conventional wisdom on tip- dissension, and Syria’s tech-savvy gov- the rebels. The loss of Skype, cell phone ping points and social contagions, this ernment seemed to have experimented service, and other digital tools kneecapped is about the last thing you’d expect. For with the same technique. A similar out- their communications network. What had a behavior to go viral, there must be

42 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS GASH Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 43 paths it can travel. And the paths that momentum of demonstrators in Tahrir who directs the Network Dynamics seem most valuable—the long ties bridg- Square. Suddenly dependent on face-to- Group at the Annenberg School for Com- ing dispersed subgroups—were exactly face contact to share information and munication, which he joined in 2013 as what the Syrian rebels lost. coordinate, the people of Cairo turned an assistant professor. (He also holds an There’s an exception to every rule, you what had been a single protest location appointment in SEAS.) But research over might say. But the real reason that what into a city-spanning constellation of eight the past decade or two has served up happened in Syria is so surprising, says that overwhelmed the regime’s police— evidence of stranger sorts of contagions. Penn sociologist Damon Centola, is that and, in short order, the regime. “Like: obesity is contagious,” he says, we’ve gotten the rule wrong. If the common understanding of how referring to an influential 2007 study by The dynamic that emerged during Syr- behavior spreads is missing something Nicholas Christakis G’92 Gr’95 and ia’s blackout mirrors patterns observed in fundamental, the implications reach James Fowler. “Well, what does that ac- a huge variety of contexts: the spread of from military insurgencies to public tually mean? What is spreading? Or, the the early labor movement in Sweden, the health campaigns, commerce, politics, iPhone is contagious. It’s not literally adoption of family planning practices in and social change writ large. spreading from person to person, is it? South Korea, the mobilization of insur- What’s happening?” gents during the Paris Commune of 1871, THE LIMITS OF THE VIRAL VIEW What’s happening, of course, is human the adoption of air conditioning units in Human social dynamics do not reduce behavior, in all its mysterious complex- midcentury Philadelphia, the process by to any single formula, but you’re prob- ity. And that’s where the insights which Wenzhou, China (rather than, say, ably acquainted with the dominant ac- Gladwell popularized begin to falter. Shanghai) became the “birthplace of Chi- count of how new behaviors spread. “We use epidemiology as a reference na’s private economy,” and the list goes on. “Ideas and products and messages and point because it’s convenient,” Centola says. In each instance, some new behavior behaviors,” Malcolm Gladwell declared “You can make a lot of simplifying mathe- spread through a tightly knit, spatially in his 2000 bestseller The Tipping Point, matical assumptions that allow us to think cohesive group. So what?, you might re- “spread just like viruses do.” The best about diffusion and not worry too much tort. Imagine how much faster Koreans way to understand phenomena ranging about the fine points of the network. And would have adopted birth control if social from fashion trends, to crime waves, to while that does work for viruses, it’s a re- media existed at the time. But Centola con- the rise of teenage smoking, he argued, ally bad idea when it comes to behaviors.” tends that that may have been more likely is to regard them as epidemics. Obesity is a good example of why. The to doom Korea’s campaign than to boost At a time when the average Facebook last 20 years have seen literally hundreds it. “The network pathways that were most user has upwards of 300 friends—and every of public-health efforts to tackle the prob- successful for spreading behavior change last one has an opinion about whether lem. Yet obesity rates among American were not the same networks that would that voice is saying “Laurel” or “Yanny”— children and adults continue to climb, be predicted by the theory of viral diffu- this seems self-evident. Gladwell’s thesis most interventions seem to fail, and even sion,” he observes about that case in his rested on two seminal works of . successes often remain mysterious. new book, How Behavior Spreads: The In 1973, emphasized The AIDS epidemic in Africa provides Science of Complex Contagions (Princeton the power of “weak ties” to spread infor- an even starker illustration. The virus University Press, 2018). mation through social networks. In his has spread like, well, a virus. Meanwhile, The reason, he says, is that behavior classic example, he showed that Boston- one behavioral intervention after an- simply does not spread the way informa- area workers tended to find their jobs other—promotion of male circumcision, tion does. If the Syrian rebels had been though distant contacts far removed from free condom distribution, pre-exposure trying to disseminate LOLcat memes, the densely overlapping relationships at prophylaxis medications—has hit snags the blackout would have been fatal. But the center of their social lives. In 1998, that have held progress to a heartrend- for spreading revolution, it was an un- Duncan Watts (who will join Penn’s fac- ingly slow pace. expected boon. ulty in July) and elabo- “The things that we would like to spread Indeed, a final reason to suspect that rated the mathematics of “small-world often fail to diffuse,” Centola writes. “At the Assad didn’t trigger that outage is that he connectivity” to show that even a modest same time, the things that we want to pre- presumably knew what had happened the number of “short-cut” links connecting vent from spreading often succeed despite previous year in Egypt. There, President distant people dramatically accelerate an our best attempts to stop them.” His new Hosni Mubarak cut internet, cell phone, infection’s diffusion across a network. book attempts to explain why. Drawing on and significant landline service across “We all get the idea of having the flu a decade’s worth of his own experimental Egypt in an apparent attempt to stall the and sneezing on someone,” says Centola, research, Centola argues that the very

44 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 characteristics that make modern social ture on the civil rights movement often In the social sphere, things that spread networks ideal for accelerating simple emphasized the critical role of strong, by a single contact often turn out to in- contagions—from communicable diseases overlapping ties—which, for instance, volve minimal effort or cost. Consider a to viral videos—turn out, unexpectedly, to had proved pivotal in the recruitment of viral video. “Someone sends it to you, stymie the spread of behavior. participants in the 1964 Mississippi Free- you watch it, and you forward it, right?” dom Summer Project. Centola asks. All it takes is a click. SOCIAL CHANGE AND “There appeared to be kind of a puzzle,” “Now suppose the video shows up on COMPLEX CONTAGIONS Centola recalls. “On the one hand, the your screen, but when you click on the link Centola, who grew up outside of Phila- strength of weak ties, and then the small- it asks you to install new software,” he goes delphia in Bucks County, belongs to the world model, argued that the kind of on. “All of a sudden there’s a little question last generation to come of age before the network features that would accelerate mark that gets raised—because it’s a little internet conquered American life. He spreading were these long-distance ten- bit risky now to proceed.” Who sent it to was a year out of high school by the time drils across a network. And that just you? Is he trustworthy? Is he computer- the first Netscape browser debuted, and didn’t seem to jibe with the literature on savvy enough to even know that a nasty was a senior at Vermont’s Marlboro Col- the civil rights movement, and the litera- virus might spread this way? “And it’s not lege when Hotmail ushered in the era of ture on the classic diffusion of innova- until a couple more friends say, ‘It’s safe, I web-based email. Without social media tions through geographical pathways.” did it, it’s fine,’ that you actually think, to cast a spell over his free time, he fell His attempt to reconcile that paradox ‘Okay, maybe I’ll do it, too.’” under the influence of two parents who proceeds from the premise that conta- were interested in social change. With gions come in two major flavors: simple Damon in tow, they regularly took to the and complex. Simple contagions can streets to join demonstrations: for wom- spread by a single contact—like the mea- “I spent a lot of en’s rights, for environmental sustain- sles, or a tweet. Complex contagions re- ability, for nuclear arms control. quire some social reinforcement, which time marching “I spent a lot of time marching as a is to say multiple contacts, to spread. kid,” he laughs. as a kid.” It led him to sociology, just as the field was shifting from the ethnographic and often activist orientation it had developed in the 1960s toward an emphasis on quan- titative analysis. The math part played to Centola’s academic strengths. But the so- cial-change piece remained a big motiva- tor. Centola’s passage into adulthood saw him go from marching to community ser- vice, volunteering with the American Friends Service Committee and spending a year working for Habitat for Humanity. By the time Centola embarked on grad- uate study in sociology, Granovetter’s “The Strength of Weak Ties” was one of the most-cited papers in the field. But Centola’s interest in social movements made him wonder if something was being missed. As a kid who’d marched for environmental sustainability in the 1980s—“when it wasn’t fashionable yet”— he knew what it felt like to be part of a group that seemed to take forever to con- vert acquaintances into full-fledged allies. Meanwhile, empirical sociological litera- Damon Centola.

Photo by Rob Dolecki Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 45 There’s hardly anything revolutionary every single person they know has gotten Our 44-person model is stripped clean about that commonsense observation. on board. Add in that some individuals of all such variation. But what Centola But as soon as an individual requires have a couple dozen social contacts while has shown, along with coauthor Michael two nudges rather than one in order to others have hundreds, and the picture Macy of Cornell, in a 2007 paper hon- adopt a given behavior, the dynamics of grows more complicated. ored as the year’s best publication in contagion change dramatically. What’s more, different behaviors may mathematical sociology, is that when In his book, Centola considers a stylized entail different thresholds. In some cases you inject those sorts of complications 44-person “large world” network in which that threshold might be an absolute num- into the model—muddying it up to make each individual is linked only to his four ber. “Think about a rumor,” Centola says. it more and more realistic—“the results closest neighbors. If any given person re- “Hearing it from one person may not be are not just robust, but they actually be- quires two recommendations before in- enough to get you to believe it. But add come stronger.” In other words, the more stalling new software and then recom- a second or third or fourth source, and lifelike the model, the more important mending it in turn to their other contacts, that may be enough [for you to spread it these “wide-bridge structures” turn out it would take 26 days for the new software further].” In other contexts, an individ- to be for fostering the spread of behav- to spread across such a network. ual might pay more attention to a behav- iors requiring social reinforcement. If three of those neighborly ties are con- ior’s relative prevalence among all of his verted into long-tie shortcuts that make the contacts, weighing adopters against NETWORKS AS POLICY TOOLS world a little smaller, a simple contagion non-adopters. Not long ago, Penn’s campus witnessed a would conquer the network in just six days. “This notion of a contested or a frac- tidy display of how complex contagions But now the software actually takes longer tional threshold shows up anytime there differ from simple ones. The beginning of than before to spread—35 days. are reputation effects at stake,” Centola the fall semester brought an announce- Increase the number of long ties to points out. “Think about a Fortune 500 ment that Huntsman Hall, which has long seven, and something even weirder hap- manager who’s in a position where she’s been open 24 hours a day, would begin pens: this minimally complex, two-contact got a lot of people paying attention to her. closing between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. as part contagion never gets beyond three people. If one person adopts some sort of really of a larger effort to improve wellness This happens, Centola says, because unusual or unfamiliar kind of manage- among Wharton students. Opponents of although long bridges are decisive for ment innovation, and then she just this change planned a sit-in to protest. As diffusing simple contagions, complex adopts it immediately, that makes her a word spread on Facebook, it generated a contagions travel best via wide bridges— little reckless, you know? Whereas the massive response. As the Daily Pennsyl- that is, multiple, overlapping ties uniting more people who adopt it—the more es- vanian reported, 318 students clicked a clusters of individuals. You can think of tablished it is—the more credibility she button to confirm that they would be the members of a second-grade class- has as an actor in making that decision “going” to the sit-in, and a further 548 room as forming a wide-bridge struc- … so if it goes sideways on her, there are clicked an “interested” button. Meanwhile, ture: everybody knows everyone else, so lots of other people doing it too.” through a separate process, 547 people had there’s a huge number of pathways along That dynamic, incidentally, changes signed a petition calling for reversion to which two tablemates can spread a bud- the way network hubs function when a the old policy. Yet when the appointed ding interest in soccer-star trading cards potential contagion is complex rather hour came—requiring an action that went to the rest of the class. But suppose one than simple. “From the classic viral per- slightly beyond a touchscreen tap—only of those students has a second-grade spective,” Centola explains, “a hub is eight students showed up. cousin 1,000 miles away. Now the soccer- likely to get infected early on because it To use Centola’s terminology, the net- card obsession has only a single route to has so many contacts. And once the hub work characteristics that made a trivially travel—a long bridge—which may not be gets infected, it acts as an accelerant, easy behavior go viral were no help at all enough, especially if the kids there are since it just spreads the infection to ev- for stoking one that required the modest in the throes of Pokemon mania. eryone they know. But that only works effort of being physically present. (To say The real world, obviously, contains more if the hub’s not paying attention to all nothing of what it takes to stand up for a than 44 people. And real people might the non-adopters. And as soon as you marginalized group, agitate for threat- wait for a third or fourth person to chime have reputation or legitimacy at stake, ened rights, or oppose a tyrant.) in before cluttering their computers with hubs actually become fairly conserva- In the decade since his 2007 paper— extra software. More realistically, some tive—they become the people in the net- which kicked off a wave of related re- will need three recommendations, others work who are the least likely to adopt an search and has now been cited over eight, and still others will hold out until innovation early on.” 1,000 times—Centola has put his theory

46 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 to increasingly elaborate tests, often an automatic email to all the registrant’s group collectively completed the most rooted in public health. buddies encouraging them to join. classes. This time, all participants could One of them built off of a cancer-screen- If networks don’t really matter for in- also web-chat directly with their buddies ing website called Your Disease Risk, which dividual behavior, one would expect to to coordinate schedules, encourage one is run by the Harvard Center for Cancer see similar rates of registration in each another, or anything else. The difference Prevention and attracts tens of thousands condition—especially considering that here was that one condition displayed the of unique visitors per month who com- every participant had enrolled in Cen- scores of other teams, introducing a com- plete health surveys that provide risk as- tola’s health community expressly be- petitive prompt absent in the other. sessments for various forms of cancer. cause they thought it would give them The control condition, Centola points Centola placed a link on its final assess- resources they might value. But that was out, bears more than a passing resem- ment page inviting people to join a cus- not the case. In the six clustered net- blance to what Penn already does for its tom-designed online health community. works, about 54 percent of participants faculty and staff: namely encouraging Its purpose was to enable participants to registered for the recommended site. In them, on an individual basis, to pursue learn about new health resources from the random networks—the ones that healthy behaviors via modest financial one another. It was also an experiment, would spread a simple contagion with rewards for taking part in wellness pro- for participants were randomly placed in the greatest ease—only 38 percent of par- grams. At least to some degree, that one of 12 online health communities that ticipants registered. In other words, alter- works. Hundreds of University staff get were identical but for one difference. Six ing the network’s structure produced a flu shots and cholesterol screenings this were structured as clustered networks in 40 percent change in behavior adoption. way, and many achieve fitness goals like which neighbors shared overlapping con- Even more striking was the speed with walking one million steps in a year. But tacts, “creating wide bridges to the near- which behavior spread. On average, reg- Centola found that two of the cluster- by neighborhoods.” Another six were istration spread four times faster in clus- network conditions—the ones incorpo- randomly structured networks with lots tered networks than random ones. rating comparisons with other individu- of long ties. Armed with experimental evidence for als or teams—increased the daily exer- When registering, participants entered how to optimize network structure to cise rate by a whopping 90 percent. information about their health interests, spread a desired behavior, Centola tried Interestingly, the experimental group lifestyle, and fitness background. This to leap a higher bar. Could he use network provided only with the ability to chat un- helped match them with six similar design to actually drive people to the gym? derperformed the control group. This, “health buddies” (eight in some trials) With funding from the Annenberg Centola says, demonstrates the potential with whom they could share information. Foundation and the NIH, he created an pitfalls of social design—and the perils of In the clustered networks, each group of 11-week fitness initiative that offered giving too much credence to people’s stat- buddies was clustered close together in more than 90 weekly exercise classes to ed desires. At the conclusion of an earlier the mesh of dense, overlapping ties. In nearly 800 Penn graduate students. study, Centola asked participants what the random ones, the buddies were There were four experimental condi- extra features they would have liked. “Ev- spread out. But the networks themselves tions. A control group was given an on- eryone said, ‘Oh, I wanted to chat with my were invisible to the participants, who line portal through which they could health buddies. I wanted to get to know could see only that they had a fixed num- sign up for classes—nothing more, noth- them. I wanted to go to classes with ber of buddies to interact with. ing less. Another group was broken up them.’” But whereas the combination of Centola kicked off the experiment by into online buddy groups according to social comparison and the right network selecting a random node in each net- fitness-related similarities, and given a structure generated a striking positive work to send a message to its buddies web portal enriched with information behavior change, simply providing a rich encouraging them to join a particular about the class attendance of anony- social-media space backfired (perhaps health forum website. To join, people mized health buddies, with whom no because it shunted attention from top per- had to click on an email link and then communication was possible. In each of formers toward mediocre ones, creating a fill out a form designed to be just long those conditions financial prizes were “social inertia” that pulled the entire group enough to necessitate a little scrolling to promised to individuals who completed toward inactivity). reach the end. That turned out to be just the most classes (as measured by actual “I don’t think Steve Jobs would be sur- enough work to discourage a surprising attendance reported by the instructors). prised,” Centola says, referring to the number of people who clicked the email In two additional conditions, participants late Apple CEO’s famous insistence that link from actually completing the regis- were again assigned to groups, but prom- customers don’t actually know what tration. Successful registration triggered ised rewards on the basis of which buddy they want until you tell them.

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 47 “Just asking people what they want isn’t substantially more likely than conserva- Which begs the question: Why is that a good way of doing science,” he says. The tives to make a prediction that accorded so? “Because it makes it more fun,” Cen- same goes for policy. “What we should do with NASA’s—i.e., that the ice pack will tola says. “It’s arousing, and it generates is understand the causality behind behav- continue to shrink. But after their first more clicks, more participation, more ior and then build spaces that generate prediction, participants were shown the emotional reactions. It’s fundamentally the causality we want to see.” average answers of their neighbors, then undercutting the democratic nature of Yet that’s easier said than done. Centola permitted to revise their own estimates. the space, but it’s good from a product says he offered to give the University his “There’s this thesis floating around point of view.” program for free, pitching it to the human- that one of the reasons we see so much Nevertheless, he’s not totally pessimis- resources division as a scientifically prov- political polarization, particularly on tic about the future of social media. en upgrade over the existing wellness social media, is that when Democrats Human beings are wary of manipulation, program. “And they basically said, ‘We’ve and Republicans interact, the fact that and the dawning realization of how much pretty much already committed a lot of they’re confronted with opinions they of it is happening on social media may resources behind our incentive model, so disagree with generates a stronger reac- spark a demand for digital alternatives. we’re just going to keep using it.” tion and basically exacerbates polariza- “Facebook and are not fixed In a way, that just confirms his main tion,” Centola explains. But when the entities,” he points out. “They’re con- research theme. There he was trying to study participants interacted on an stantly revising their design. Facebook get someone to adopt a new behavior anonymous basis (confronting only runs millions of experiments a year. Ob- that would entail some effort and per- ideas and not political affiliations), after viously they’re all product-oriented … haps a little risk, and the evidence mat- two rounds of revision accuracy rose for but is it really that hard to think five tered less than the fact that he was try- conservatives and liberals alike, and po- years into the future about what new ing to spread it through a single contact. larization between the groups complete- tech would be available for people to He thinks his research will eventually ly disappeared. In fact, conservatives have productive political discussion?” find purchase, though. “I suspect that 20 became slightly more likely than liberals To Centola, a deeper problem is that or 30 years from now, there will be these to produce estimates that accorded with society’s failure to design more benefi- kinds of social networks, just pro forma: NASA’s (though the difference did not cial networks stems partly from funda- you’ll show up and you’ll get one. And that reach statistical significance). mental theoretical shortcomings in his will be part of the way in which you are Yet a second experimental condition own field. Even a standard metric like incentivized to do these kinds of things.” showed just how dependent such an ef- path length, which is a measure of how fect can be on getting the social design many steps it takes to get across a net- CIVIC ENGAGEMENT just right. When the exact same exercise work, can lead well-intentioned re- OR CULTURAL AMNESIA? was carried out—only on screens that searchers and product designers astray. Centola’s latest paper, coauthored with had free-floating donkeys and elephants “If you talk about path length, you’re Annenberg colleagues Douglas Guil- in the background—the gulf between already assuming that one link across beault and Joshua Becker last year in groups came roaring back. two groups is a path,” Centola observes. Proceedings of the National Academy of “To me this was the most stunning find- “The definition you have settled on im- Sciences, demonstrated the potential of ing,” Centola says. “We can eliminate the plies that what a connection means is structured networks to do what has political polarization we see—but we do something a simple contagion can pass come to be regarded as impossible: get this small thing and it shows up again.” across. But if you’re talking about a com- liberals and conservatives to participate Yet as everyone knows, the “small plex contagion, there’s no path there! in civil exchanges producing accuracy thing” in question—using a logo to nudge “Our whole concept of networks is and agreement about a key component people to see things through a politicized based on this principle of simple conta- of climate change. lens—permeates contemporary media gion,” he goes on. “So we build more Basically, several groups containing an and social media environments. networks that can spread them, and equal number of self-identified liberals “It’s not that social learning can’t take more of them wind up spreading … so and conservatives were presented, in an place,” he argues. “It’s that we are going we build more networks that can spread online forum, with a NASA graph showing out of our way to design spaces for them. And what gets lost is all the stuff the observed extent of Arctic sea ice over people to interact that actually under- that isn’t spreading, right?” roughly the last 30 years. When asked to cut our whole agenda with the space, This is where Centola’s insights take a consider the trend line and forecast the which is to have people actually learn grim turn. The world we’ve built in the amount of sea ice for 2025, liberals were from each other.” social media age favors “fast spreading,

48 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 easily digestible bits of information” that require minimal effort or engagement on “We’re becoming massively the part of those whose attention they fleetingly occupy. Their proliferation, and connected—but we’re tending the proliferation of networks that am- plify them, may come at the expense of not to notice what those more valuable forms of social intercourse. “Emile Durkheim’s famous notion of connections look like.” modernity and anomie was that people were becoming fundamentally isolated and alone,” he muses, referring to one of the principal architects of modern social science. But the last decade or so has a job through a friend of your cousin’s car- neighborhood—or your school, or your given that idea an ironic twist: “It’s not penter can be immensely valuable. “But workplace—doesn’t offer something that that we’re becoming less connected. there’s a different sort of social capital,” is, it’s up to some other organization to We’re becoming massively connected— Centola says, “and that’s the kind of social provide it. Centola argues that ivory but we’re tending not to notice what capital of someone to watch your kids. Or tower institutions have a role to play. those connections look like,” Centola someone to lend you money if you’re going “We do job training, right? We provide says. “And if the pattern is lots and lots through a financial hardship. And that ways of people getting social mobility of weak ties everywhere, it does make it typically is based on strong ties.” through neighborhood programs and harder to get the kind of social reinforce- One of the epiphanies he experienced as college programs, right? And obviously ment you need for the kinds of coopera- a young man engaged in community ser- we have models of financial capital.” tive or civic-minded behaviors that vice was how often people expressed a Why not add better networks—the ac- maybe require a little bit of work.” thirst for a kind of social capital that wasn’t tual infrastructures and the tools to take He worries that people may increas- present in their lives. He noticed it most advantage of them—to the mix? ingly expect social intercourse to consist with disadvantaged high school students. “I think that the more that hospitals, primarily of the sorts of insubstantial “They would self-consciously say things universities, and other institutions take it behaviors that spread like simple conta- like, ‘I’d like to make this decision, but I upon themselves to provide these spaces, gions, and that they will gradually begin don’t know how.’ Most of the time it was people will come and use them. And we to view anything else as a bizarre anom- about a job or school. And it was clear can shape those spaces in intelligent ways, aly or an unwanted intrusion. that they had this really strong intuition to direct the behaviors we want to see.” “The kinds of gestures and civic-minded that they needed some kind of guidance If the hint of heavy-handedness in that behaviors [people] are expected to display they just didn’t have available to them. formulation pricks your anxieties about may be transformed by the kinds of cul- And in the absence of that, they would Big Brother or the nanny state, it bears tural items that can spread through weak take whatever guidance was available— remembering that any number of social ties,” he writes. “As complex contagions which would lead them into socially en- networks entrenched in society already become less represented in the stream of trenched pathways … which is normal.” shape our behavior in ways often invis- social consciousness, a society may begin Organizations like Big Brothers Big ible to us. But we have the agency to to suffer a form of cultural amnesia.” Sisters of America have long tried to aug- choose at least some of the ones we join. ment the social capital available to dis- So it’s hard to argue against designing SOCIAL CAPITAL AND advantaged youth. Centola is convinced alternatives with a clearer sense of how POSITIVE CHANGE that the “hunger” for such spaces and they can help or hinder us. The overarching theme of Centola’s work networks is far more pervasive. “When people do a network in the is that different kinds of networks confer “People are looking for the kinds of so- right way,” Centola declares, “you actu- different sorts of benefits—and disad- cial capital that can help them make the ally generate social learning that outper- vantages. And the reason to pay close decisions they want to make,” he contends. forms the classic wisdom of the crowd.” attention to what distinguishes one from “It’s clear that all of the stuff floating Without making any presumptions another is that they are all, ultimately, across weak-tie social media is fun. It’s about our own present level of wisdom, conduits for social capital. entertaining. It’s easy. It’s familiar. But if one senses that there are worse fates Weak ties are truly fantastic for informa- you are struggling to make a change, it’s that could befall us. tion flow, he emphasizes. Getting wind of not going to be super helpful.” And if your

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 49 From left to right, James “Booney” Salters, Bobby Willis, Tim Smith, Matt White and Tony Price—the five starters on Penn’s 1978–79 Final Four team. TheTheThe

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Celebrating the University’s most storied sports team on its 40-year anniversary. By Dave Zeitlin

here they are, Booney and Bobby and Tony and Timmy, lined up on a sliver of Palestra fl oor mostly hid- T den from fans, next to one of the ramps they used to run down for practice, near the court where they played basketball in a way few Ivy League teams did before or have since. A nervous energy crackles as they stand alongside their other teammates from Penn’s famed 1978–79 men’s basketball team, waiting to hear their names called over the PA system. “Everybody ready?” someone calls out, and then one by one, they walk out onto the court as their old coach, Bob Weinhauer, hugs them all, whispering encouragement into their ears. For a moment, it’s almost as if they are back in college, getting ready for a game … like 40 years haven’t passed since those plucky Quakers pieced together one of the greatest underdog stories in college basketball history, culminating in what many still believe to be the sport’s most important NCAA Final Four. “The most gratifying part about being here,” says James “Booney” Salters W’80, the starting point guard on that 1978–79 team, “is it makes you feel like you’re 21 again.”

Photos by Rosenblum, Lansner courtesy Daily Pennsylvanian/Penn Athletics Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 51 A couple of hours before Penn’s Final the Quakers’ new motto became “It’s no Four team was honored during halftime longer a secret.” A banner with those “That’s the thing of the Penn–Princeton game on January words once fl uttered across Walnut Street. 12, Salters walks around the Palestra con- While it hasn’t been a secret in the 40 I really enjoy the course, catching a glimpse of his 21-year- years since, the accomplishment, in many old self—smiling, a net hanging around ways, has become even more impressive most—seeing his neck—in a picture on the wall. “Were over time as no Ivy League basketball you a player on the team?” a fan asks him team has come nearly as close to winning how much joy as Salters arrives at the door to the Class a national championship. “As the years of 1978 & Class of 1979 Atrium, which go by—and they’ve gone by kind of quick- served as home base for most of the 40- ly—it seems to become more and more we brought to year anniversary festivities. “James precious,” says Tony Price W’79, the star ‘Booney’ Salters,” he replies with a know- of the 1978–79 squad. people’s lives.” ing smile, making sure to include the nickname that was so ingrained in college that it was on his license plate. The man eagerly asks for his autograph. “That’s the thing I really enjoy the most— seeing how much joy we brought to peo- ple’s lives,” says Salters’ partner in the backcourt, Bobby Willis W’79, sitting up in the Palestra stands and watching pre- game warmups. Back in the Atrium— which connects the Palestra to the bas- ketball practice facilities and was adorned last year with giant photos and murals of the 1977–78 and 1978–79 teams— the joy is easy to see. One former season- ticket holder, Sally Katz C’82, wears her old “Show No Pity in Salt Lake City” T- shirt, which was the hot commodity on campus leading up to the 1979 Final Four, held in Utah’s capital. She’s chatting As such, the University has made a con- special bond with Price, Willis, and Salters. with Robert Oringer W’82, who came up certed eff ort to embrace its illustrious Tragically, the fi fth member of the team’s with that slogan and designed those basketball history, first honoring the starting lineup, center Matt White C’79, shirts as a freshman. “It just rhymed,” 1977–78 Sweet 16 team (which featured the was killed in 2013 by his wife Maria Garcia- says Oringer, who fl ew in from Mon- core of the Final Four squad) last season Pellon, who was found guilty of voluntary treal for the 40-year anniversary party. during the dedication of the Atrium. And manslaughter (but mentally ill) in his stab- “It wasn’t like an advanced Wharton this year’s festivities, which included giv- bing death in their Delaware County home. marketing class.” ing out rings and presenting Weinhauer White had reportedly taken her to a hos- Forty years ago, the Quakers liked to say with a framed jersey, marked Penn’s fi rst pital to address her delusional behavior they had a secret. The slogan began when, offi cial celebration of the Final Four team one day before the attack, but she was while warming up for their second-round since its 25-year anniversary. “I can’t be- discharged with a follow-up psychiatric NCAA Tournament game versus North lieve they’ve done so much for us in put- appointment. “If he had passed away from Carolina, then-assistant coach Bob Staak, ting together this day,” says Tim Smith natural causes, that would have been one sensing a bit of apprehension, told the C’79. “It really warms my heart to know thing,” says Weinhauer, adding that most players, “We’ve got a secret. Nobody knows they care that much about our team.” of the team attended the funeral. “This was it but we’re gonna beat these guys.” And Smith, the second-leading scorer on the a very, very diffi cult situation—one that then Penn did just that, pulling off argu- ’78–’79 squad, admits he doesn’t get back nobody could quite understand.” ably the best win in program history. After to the Palestra as much as he’d like any- White’s two children represented him two more victories to get to the Final Four, more. But he knows he’ll always share a at this year’s Palestra reunion. Price

52 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Facing page: The former players reunite on the Palestra floor. Below: Price and Willis show off their new rings next to old photos of themselves. stood next to them the whole time. “Matt years old. But he was ready to break free The fi rst time the three African Ameri- was a big guy, very physical, but off the of the East Coast and had committed to can city boys laid their eyes on the tall, court the nicest person you ever wanted play at the University of Southern Cali- lanky white walk-on from a Connecticut to meet,” Price says. “He was the greatest fornia. It wasn’t until spending the sum- prep school, they weren’t sure what to person—and a very big part of our team.” mer before college in Europe that he expect. “Matt White happened to walk on decided he might want to stay closer to the fl oor one day,” Smith says. “He was The Makings of Greatness home the next four years. When Wein- pretty raw, but his size and his willingness There are a lot of places you can start the hauer heard the news, he jumped in a car to learn the game was really a blessing.” story of Penn’s magical Final Four sea- to convince him to follow Price to Penn. Adds Willis: “When he walked in the gym, son. A South Bronx apartment on Web- “It was one of the best things that hap- he was as strong as an ox. He didn’t have ster Avenue is as good as any, in a room pened to Bobby,” Weinhauer says, “and a lot of skills but we told Coach, ‘Put him with a few shopping bags stuff ed to the certainly one of the best things that hap- on the team and we’ll teach him.’” top with letters. That’s where Price kept pened to our basketball program.” White would go on to an exceptional all of his college off ers—and there were For the Quakers to nab not one but two career at Penn, shooting a staggering 63.3 a lot of them. New York City public league stars in the percent from the fl oor during the Final Four season (in which he was named fi rst team All-Ivy along with Price) and fi nish- ing his career as a 59.1 percent shooter, which remains a program record. And he meshed well with his classmates from the start, joining Price, Willis, Smith, and Ed Kuhl W’79 to tear opponents to shreds on a freshman team that went 17–1. (At that point, freshmen couldn’t play on varsity— a policy that coincidentally changed for the 1978–79 season.) “I remember playing against Columbia as a freshman and we had more fans for our freshman game than they did for the varsity game,” says Smith, crediting much of Penn’s upcoming NCAA Tournament success to that season. Salters arrived the next year to complete the Final Four core. Like the other New Yorkers, he didn’t know anything about Penn while growing up on Long Island. “I A two-time New York City champion same class was quite a score, and a testa- had never even heard the word college,” out of Taft High School, Price could have ment to Daly’s formidable recruiting says Salters, whose parents grew up in the gone just about anywhere. Penn wasn’t skills. For them to also add a Philadelphia South and “could barely read or write.” His even on his radar until his high school public league standout made the group parents, though, always stressed school- coach, Don Adams, suggested he think even more dynamic. Enter Smith, who work and his high school coach, seeing about going to an Ivy League school. “I met Daly after playing in the Philly high how good his grades were, suggested thought he meant schools with ivy grow- school championship—which the Penn Wharton, even though “people in my com- ing on them,” laughs Price. But after see- coach called on the radio. “Have you ever munity had issues with that because ing the look on people’s faces when he thought about Penn?” Smith remembers Bobby Willis was there, a year ahead of me, started telling them he was considering Daly asking him. He hadn’t, even though technically playing the same position.” Wharton, he knew it was the right move. he lived only a few blocks away in West In the end, Weinhauer told Salters, “Tony was a big thing,” says Weinhauer, Philadelphia. “I probably would have “There’s no rule that I can’t have two an assistant coach under signed with Villanova, but I was still fi g- point guards.” And so, while Price and when Price arrived at Penn. uring out where I wanted to go,” Smith Smith became the team’s top two off en- Willis, another New York City native, recalls. Two days later, he committed to sive weapons as forwards, and White had known Price since they were both 12 Penn. “Best decision I ever made,” he says. gobbled up rebounds and scored easy

Photos by Tommy Leonardi C’89 Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 53 buckets as the center, Salters and Willis Price left the court that day with a mes- but those thoughts went out the window ended up forming a steady backcourt. sage to himself. “I just said, ‘The next when the Quakers traveled to San Diego The explosive Willis had a knack for get- time I get in the tournament, they’re for a tournament and lost a pair of games, ting to the rim while the diminutive Salt- going to have to carry me off the court. fi rst to Iowa in double overtime and then ers, who Weinhauer called “the smartest I’m not leaving.’” Indeed, Price and his to a San Diego State team led by future point guard in the city at the time,” could teammates ended up playing the maxi- Hall of Famer hit the corner jump shot and be the mum possible number of games in the Tony Gwynn. Some of the players enjoyed team’s on-court general. “The most im- 1979 NCAA Tournament—four to qualify a few team bonding experiences while portant part about that class in front of for the Final Four and then two more there—taking a bus trip to Tijuana, skate- me is they took my leadership as a junior once they got there, including a third- boarding on Mission Beach boardwalk, as not a problem,” Salters says. “They place consolation game (which no longer crashing a house party for New Year’s looked for me to do that.” exists). “Maybe I should have been a little Eve—but maybe it was too much bond- The year before Salters joined varsity, clearer to myself and said, ‘I need to win ing. “That was a hard fl ight back,” says the 1976–77 Quakers had a disappointing a championship,’” adds Price with a reserve forward Ted Flick C’81. “That’s season, at least by the lofty standards of laugh. “I said, ‘I’m going to play the most when I started to not like fl ying.” 1970s Penn basketball. They fi nished in games I can possibly play,’ and that’s what The losses in California proved to be a second place in the Ivies, missing the I did. I wasn’t going home early.” blip. Penn began the 1979 calendar year by NCAA Tournament for the second straight easily winning its fi rst two Ivy League year and leading Price to wonder if he The Secret games at Harvard and Dartmouth, before had made the right choice. “I started Although there were some question enjoying an epic week with Big 5 victories doubting things I had been doing all my marks heading into the 1978–79 cam- over nationally ranked Temple and Saint life,” Price told the Gazette in a feature paign following the graduation of Mc- Joseph’s sandwiched around a one-point in the magazine’s April 1979 issue. “I Donald, the Quakers quickly answered overtime victory at arch-rival Princeton. didn’t know who to talk to about it. I a lot of them in the season opener with That set the stage for the most memorable didn’t know where to go.” an 80–78 win over a Virginia team they game of the regular season: a showdown The 1977–78 season brought a sudden had lost to the previous year. Even bet- with No. 10 Georgetown at the Palestra, change: Daly quit just three weeks ahead ter, freshman Vincent Ross CGS’92 punc- televised nationally on NBC with famed of the fi rst game to take a job with the tuated the victory with a thunderous broadcasters and Bucky Wa- . Weinhauer, then only blocked shot, quickly showing how ters on the call. “There was virtually no 37, took over. And Price and the Quakers much Penn would benefi t by the new college basketball on TV then,” says former suddenly got their swagger back, reclaim- rule allowing freshmen to play. Along Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist ing the Ivy League championship, and with fellow frosh Angelo Reynolds C’82 Rich Hofmann W’80, then a sports editor fi nishing No. 20 in the fi nal AP poll. and Tom Leifsen WEv’82, Ross would at . “If you got “Coach Weinhauer prepared us mentally play a big role off the bench that year. So Marv and Bucky to come to your game it and physically to play every game,” Smith would sophomore Ken Hall W’81, who was a big deal.” According to those listen- says. “We used to call him Sarge. He was in his fi rst season on varsity proved to ing, Albert repeatedly said, “I don’t know really a disciplinarian. He made sure we be a valuable third guard behind Salters if you can hear me over this crowd”— went to bed on time. With Daly, those and Willis. “Vince Ross used to call me which Dan Markind W’80 L’83, then the things weren’t as important.” ‘Billy Basic’ because I wouldn’t do any- UTV sports director, said was the loudest Some say that 1977-78 team—led by a thing that was too far out of line,” Hall he’s ever heard it in “50 years of watching trio of seniors in Keven McDonald C’78 says. Weinhauer gave him a little more basketball at the Palestra.” (whose career scoring average trailed only credit than that, calling Hall “probably The Quakers lost the game by two but W’53), Stan Greene C’78, and the most mentally strong individual I’ve still made a big statement. Afterward, Tom Crowley W’78—was more talented ever been around.” Weinhauer famously told a reporter, “If than the one that followed it. But after Less than a month after their win over they’re ranked 10, then we’re 10A”—which opening the 1978 NCAA Tournament by Virginia, the Quakers beat another ACC would prove to be a prescient observa- beating St. Bonaventure in a de facto team, cruising to an 88–66 victory over tion. And Penn went on to win 10 of its home game at the Palestra, the Quakers Wake Forest (behind 12 points from last 12 regular-season games, only losing blew a second-half lead in a Sweet 16 loss Reynolds in his fi rst collegiate game) to to Villanova and, surprisingly, at Colum- to Duke, ending a wildly successful sea- improve to 5–0 on the season. Some fi g- bia after the Quakers had already son in devastating fashion. ured Penn should be ranked at that point, clinched the Ivy League title with three

54 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Weinhauer flanked by former student manager Peter Levy W’82, left, and Tim Smith. games to spare. Weinhauer remembers the Columbia fans, in their glee, shouting, “First-round losers” at the Quakers, in reference to Penn bowing out of the up- coming NCAA Tournament in the open- ing round. Price, in his home city, says he didn’t hear it and wouldn’t have cared if he had. “We were getting ready for the tournament,” he says. “We weren’t even thinking about Columbia.” Indeed, for some teams before them, fi nishing the Ivy League with a perfect record might have been a primary goal. These Quakers, though, took especial joy playing—and beating—top teams out- side the Ivies. “The hard part was trying to stay in shape, stay at that level during the Ivy League season,” Willis says. “We were always more focused playing against the Virginias, the Dukes, stuff like that.” Adds Smith: “We all played in “Coach Weinhauer prepared public league schools, and we saw more action in public league games than we did in college. We weren’t afraid of play- us mentally and physically to ing in hostile arenas.” And so when the NCAA Tournament play every game. We used to bracket came out and the Quakers learned they were a No. 9 seed with a potential call him Sarge.” second-round game looming versus tour- ney favorite North Carolina—in the state of North Carolina, where the Tar Heels had would lead North Carolina State to a na- hauer pointed to Penn’s narrow 1978 loss never lost in the tournament—most peo- tional championship in another one of to a Duke team that went on to the na- ple fi gured “maybe they’d win a game but college basketball’s great Cinderella sto- tional fi nals as proof that his Quakers then they’d get Carolina and that would ries). “I had known Jimmy forever,” Wein- could play with these guys, and Staak be it,” Hofmann says. The players, though, hauer says of the coach who died in 1993 shared his “secret” with the team, Penn weren’t scared. “I don’t think [other after a famous fi ght with cancer. “So we stunned the crowd at Reynolds Coliseum teams] respected our athletic ability,” Price just couldn’t lose that game. And Iona is (the same place where Penn’s 1970–71 says. “We would come out on the court, a New York school and I’ve got three New near-perfect season ended [“Almost Per- and they were like, ‘I thought we were York kids on my team. They weren’t going fect,” Mar|Apr 2011], in crushing fashion playing an Ivy League school.’ Then they’d to lose to a New York team.” to Villanova) with a 72–71 victory. see us start playing and realize they were Up next, two days later, were the mighty The win was essentially sealed when, going to have a rough night.” Tar Heels. For fans of top-seeded North with Penn clinging to a late one-point lead, Iona, coached by , learned Carolina, it probably seemed like a small Price pulled down a rebound and threw a the hard way as the Quakers beat the No. speed bump en route to a showdown with long outlet pass to Salters, who hit a layup 8 seed in the East, 73–69, in an opening- second-seeded Duke, its biggest rival, while being fouled—hard. “Tony comes round game at Reynolds Coliseum in down the road. But former UNC head running down there and they had to hold Raleigh, North Carolina. Showing off the coach Dean Smith expressed caution, tell- him back,” says Salters, who composed team’s depth, Leifsen, a 42 percent free ing reporters that Weinhauer had been himself enough to make the ensuing free throw shooter, made clutch foul shots an invited guest to a North Carolina pre- throw to put the Quakers up four. That down the stretch to seal the win and ex- season practice and might know a thing proved to be enough of a cushion for Penn asperate Valvano (who four years later or two about his team. And after Wein- to hang on, and for Price, who battled foul

Photo by Tommy Leonardi C’89 Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 55 trouble throughout the game, to bask in morial Coliseum was certainly far less The celebrations were even crazier— the glow of sweet vindication. full than it would have been had UNC perhaps hazier, too—back on campus in “This has to be one of the greatest feel- and Duke advanced to the next round in the week leading up to Penn’s Final Four ings I ever experienced in my life,” Price their home state. The Quakers still put game versus Earvin “Magic” Johnson and told after the game. on a show for those that were there, sur- Michigan State. Bedsheets hung from the “And we come from the so-called weak prising Syracuse head coach Jim highrises, painted with signs that read Ivy League.” The Times game recap Boeheim by running with a high-octane “The Secret Is Out” and “The Quakers ended with a Weinhauer quote: “We ab- Orange team led by “The Louie and Don’t Believe in Magic” and “Michigan solutely fear no one.” Bouie Show”—Louis Orr and Roosevelt State Will Pay the Price.” The incredible Bouie. “Bobby and I had something to capper came at where Campus Buzzing prove going into the Syracuse game,” some 10,000 students and fans complete- As the team’s student manager, Peter Salters says. “We were an Ivy League ly packed one side of the double-tiered Bagatta W’79, was always looking around, school and people kept saying we’re not football stadium for a pep rally. “You observing things. That’s what he was good enough to do what we were doing.” walk in and you’re like, ‘What the heck doing after St. John’s completed what’s Fueled by Price, who Boeheim called is this?’” says Hall, who was equally still known in North Carolina as “Black “the best forward we’ve seen all year,” the amazed by all the fans who followed the Sunday” by following Penn’s upset of the Quakers built an early 17-point lead be- team to Salt Lake City. “We’re just going Tar Heels with an equally massive upset fore holding on for an 84–76 win. After to play a basketball game!” It was quite of Duke. First, he saw Weinhauer and St. the game, Smith, who fi nished with 18 the send-off to go to the airport. “That’s John’s former coach Lou Carnesecca meet points (second on the team to Price’s 20) something you never thought would hap- under a stairwell in Reynolds Coliseum rang a familiar bell, telling reporters, “I pen at Penn,” Bagatta says. “We were like and give each other a big hug. Then, from thought Syracuse was going through the on the bus.” his seat on the bus, he watched UNC and motions in the fi rst half.” Forty years later, Hofmann—who says the rally is “still Duke fans exit the arena in shock. the chip is still on his shoulder. “They outrageous when you think about it”— “It was like the night of the living took us lightly,” remarks Smith, who cranked out hoops content for the DP all dead,” Bagatta recalls. “Coach Weinhau- Weinhauer says was the type of guy who week, including driving directions to er says, ‘Let’s just be quiet until we get “could not be stopped when the game was Salt Lake City that cheekily read along out of the parking lot and then you can on the line.” The former Penn coach adds, the lines of, “Go to the South Street do whatever you want.’ Once we got on “I think we surprised them by coming out Bridge, make one left, and drive for two the road, we were yelling and screaming running the way we did. They were days.” He spurned his own advice to take and hooting and hollering.” known to be a running team, but we were an airplane for the fi rst time and cover Meanwhile, Markind and friends were quick. We were New York City quick.” the fi rst major sporting event of a career enjoying their long trek back to Philly. The next game against St. John’s, the that would be fi lled with them. But when “Every time we passed another Penn car region’s No. 10 seed in the midst of an he got there, his journalistic impartial- on I-95, we rolled down the windows, unlikely run of its own, had a diff erent ity collided with a despondency felt by yelled at them—and they at us—and pace. “The game was a horror show,” Hof- every Quaker loyalist. “I was sitting blasted our horns,” says Markind, who mann recalls. “It was just a rock fi ght.” there at halftime looking a little sad and had rushed the court from the upper But the Quakers, hardened by winning [the Utah sports information director] deck and stormed the Penn locker room, close games throughout the season, sur- said, ‘It’s not that bad,’” Hofmann recalls. where Staak “had brought out the vived a series of St. John’s chances in the “And I just looked at him and said, ‘Not cigars.” Hofmann, who also drove back fi nal seconds—culminating with Ross that bad? It’s 50 to fucking 17.’” to Philly that night with Daily Pennsyl- intercepting a length-of-the-court pass— The halftime score was indeed hard to vanian basketball beat writers John to book their ticket to Salt Lake City with swallow, and the fi nal wasn’t much bet- Eisenberg C’79 and Jonathan Lansner a 64–62 victory. Then they celebrated the ter as the Quakers crashed out of the W’79 (both current journalists), remem- Ivy League’s fi rst Final Four berth since tourney with a 101–77 loss. Magic John- bers “standing outside afterward and Bill Bradley took Princeton there in 1965. son led the way with 29 points while everyone is trying to give tickets away “They have a picture of me, I think, talk- Greg Kelser scored 28 for Michigan for the next weekend in Greensboro.” ing to [broadcaster] and State. The Quakers, meanwhile, shot less Perhaps some Penn fans scooped up maybe cutting down the net,” Weinhauer than 30 percent from the field and those tickets for the Sweet 16 and Elite says. “And I honestly do not remember coughed up 24 turnovers. All the missed Eight games, although Greensboro Me- cutting down the net.” layups, especially early in the game, is

56 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 “We were an Ivy League school and people kept saying we’re not good enough to do what we were doing.”

what still sticks in the players’ craws the most. Michigan State coach “Jud Heath- cote saw Bob [Weinhauer] and I later on First row, from left to right: seniors Ed Kuhl, Bobby Willis, Tony Price, Matt White, Tim Smith. and said, ‘You guys executed against our Second row: Head coach Bob Weinhauer, manager Kevin O’Brien, Tom Condon, Vincent Ross, zone better than anyone did all year,’” Tom Leifsen, Ted Flick, assistant coach Bob Staak. Third row: Assistant coach Dennis Jackson, Staak says. “We just couldn’t make Angelo Reynolds, James “Booney” Salters, David Jackson, Ken Hall, manager Peter Bagatta. shots.” The Quakers played better in the consolation game against future NBA star Mark Aguirre and DePaul but again altitude—the players were glad to have been, or how it would mark a glorious fell behind by a big fi rst-half margin, such support. And although Salters, who conclusion to Penn’s golden decade. before losing in overtime. only scored two points in the Michigan “Whoever believes what you’re doing is Penn’s former players and coaches State loss, spent many years wishing his going to last for fi ve years, much less 40?” don’t believe the missed shots were due team had arrived in Utah earlier and got- Looking back, there were certainly to the nerves of playing on a big stage. ten more time to practice away from the reasons to believe the Quakers could Some, however, think the team could crowds, he eventually was able to put the have continued to be a top program na- have been hurt by the very thing they game into proper perspective. “As I got tionally. They had been one win away were so excited about at the time: all of older, I realized I would not have given from making the Final Four in both 1971 the Penn people who made the trip to up that week of being [in Philadelphia] and 1972, and several other teams in the Salt Lake City. Because of the way their and sharing it with the city,” Salters says. 1970s were absolutely loaded with tal- hotel was laid out, with the rooms facing “I would not have given that up.” ent. “The Penn program was as good as a central courtyard, Bagatta remembers any program in the country during that being woken up the morning of the na- Setting the Bar 10- to 12-year period,” Weinhauer says. tional semifi nal game by the Penn Band As one of the players who returned to the “And so we had a lot to live up to.” practicing the fi ght song. And the play- team the next year, Hall fi gured the Some of Penn’s magic continued into ers mixed it up with fans at the hotel Quakers would get to enjoy an encore 1980, with Salters hitting the game-win- throughout their stay. “If we were a little performance. “I was under the impres- ning shot in a one-game playoff versus more isolated,” Smith says, “I think we sion that Penn would be back in the tour- Princeton before leading the Quakers to would have played a lot better.” nament every year,” he says. “After we a fi rst-round NCAA Tournament upset But even if there may have been some fi nished going to the Final Four, all the of Washington State. (Salters holds the extra challenges—including a delayed expectations became: What are you program record for NCAA Tournament fl ight to Utah and needing oxygen tanks going to do next?” At the time, he had no appearances with 10, having won at least at practice to adjust to the Salt Lake City idea just how remarkable the run had one tourney game in each of his three

Photo courtesy Penn Athletics Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 57 varsity seasons). But since then, despite couldn’t have realized as they watched the Final Four. “I would never say remaining an Ivy League powerhouse it unfold from the stands, exhausted never—because if I believed that, then for long stretches of the past four de- from their overtime loss to DePaul that how did we do it?” says Price, whose son, cades, the Quakers have won only one preceded it. “I enjoyed watching Magic. A. J., made the Final Four with the Uni- NCAA Tournament game—exactly 25 I enjoyed watching Bird. But I was not versity of Connecticut exactly 30 years years ago. an enthusiastic observer at that time,” after he did—before also losing to Mich- Perhaps the writing was on the wall. Weinhauer says. igan State. Most of his former teammates Hofmann recalls that “the rest of the Seeing what Bird and Magic became, and Weinhauer agree with that assess- league was not happy” about how good though, made Penn’s Final Four exit ment. A few pointed to this year’s team Penn was becoming, and six years later easier to swallow over time, gradually beating the defending national champi- the Ivy League created an “Academic turning into a source of pride for having ons (Villanova), among other exciting Index” to monitor the academic qualifi - shared the stage with them. “The buzz wins, as proof that maybe the Quakers cations of recruited athletes across all that was brought in by and aren’t as far off as some might think. eight institutions. Meanwhile, the explo- really lit up the NCAA Current men’s basketball head coach sion in college tuition since 1980 has and made it a national phenomenon,” Steve Donahue—who took Cornell to the made it harder for big-time high school Flick says. “We were a part of that—a Sweet 16 in 2010, the closest an Ivy athletes to justify going to a league that Cinderella-type team that wasn’t sup- League team has come since 1979—be- doesn’t give athletic scholarships. posed to be there.” Other Cinderella lieves a Final Four return is possible too. College basketball also changed a lot teams have followed. George Mason “It may be an easier path now,” he re- in the last 40 years. The Big East formed (2006), VCU (2011), and Loyola Chicago marks, because Ivy teams tend to have less than two months after the 1979 Final (2018) each made stunning Final Four more upperclassmen than the big-con- Four, becoming the go-to conference for runs from smaller conferences. But the ference teams whose stars bolt for the many of the best basketball players from 1978–79 Quakers remain one of the best pros after one or two seasons. So does Northeastern hoops hotbeds. A shot underdog stories in college hoops—and, junior forward AJ Brodeur, Penn’s top clock and a three-point line were added, in many ways, the fi rst. “That’s the Final scorer, who enjoys the connection the generating more off ense and excitement. Four that made the Final Four what it is current Quakers share with the pro- And the NCAA, which Hofmann charac- today,” Bagatta says. “We weren’t the gram’s past stars—including Weinhauer, terized as a “real mom-and-pop organiza- stars, but I would say we were like the who returns often to speak to the team. tion” in the 1970s, grew to become a be- best supporting actor.” “It’s good to set high goals to want to hemoth, with its end-of-season basket- The Quakers haven’t received any Os- become a legendary team, to become ce- ball tournament evolving into the much- cars for their performance, but they may mented in Penn’s history,” Brodeur says. hyped spectacle now known as “March soon get their due on the big screen. Two “Every year, some team makes a surprise Madness”—with a yearly TV value of young fi lmmakers have been working on run, and I bet the whole country doesn’t more than one billion dollars. a documentary titled The Secret Is Out: see it coming—except for that one team.” The 1979 NCAA Tournament is now College Basketball’s First Cinderella No matter what happens in the future, considered a launching pad for the mad- Story. They’re still looking for more Penn’s 1978–79 men’s basketball squad ness because it had expanded to include funding to complete the project, but will forever be enshrined as one of the more teams (40, from the previous sea- some footage was shown on the Palestra most acclaimed teams in the University’s son’s 32), and, for the fi rst time, seeded big screen before the Penn–Princeton rich athletic history. Somehow, it was a teams based on their regular-season game, to the delight of the old players. vision that Price always had, when he performance. (The expansion continued “I guess I don’t mind being called that decided to attend a school he knew could to 68 teams but the seeding laid the now, but I thought we were one of the do as much for him as he for it, hoping to framework for the NCAA tourney brack- best teams in the country,” Price says. “I carve out the kind of legacy he didn’t be- et that even the most amateur offi ce pool was trying to win a championship; I ain’t lieve he could have gotten anywhere else. gambler has come to recognize.) The thinking of no Cinderella.” “I want our team to be the one people national championship game that year However he thinks of it, Price—who think of all the time when they mention also pitted Magic Johnson against Larry beat out Magic and Bird for honors as Penn basketball,” Price told the Gazette Bird of Indiana State, two of the greatest the top scorer in the 1979 NCAA Tourna- before the 1979 NCAA Tournament athletes in any sport. It remains the ment with 142 points, capped by a career- began. For 40 years—and who knows how highest-rated game in the history of col- high 31-point eff ort versus DePaul—be- many more—his dream has come true. lege basketball—something the Quakers lieves the Quakers can one day return to

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Newly settled in Costa Rica, diverged. Whereas I had been lured by for his zealously anti-slavery views. visions of sunshine and hammocks, Walk- Though no abolitionist fi rebrand like a recent alumnus investigates the er tried to take over large swaths of Cen- Whitman, Walker at the time wrote legacy of “filibuster” William Walker tral America to create his own personal against the expansion of slavery in the slave republics. For a time, he succeeded. growing United States. M1843—largely forgotten in the Walker was the central antagonist in In 1850, Walker moved to , US but still perhaps the most Costa Rica’s national history and mythol- whose population had ballooned following hated man in Central America. ogy. Probably Nicaragua’s too. El Salva- the discovery of gold nearby in 1848. After dor, Guatemala, and Honduras all helped obtaining an editorial position at the San By Myles Karp to vanquish him. Here in Costa Rica, the Francisco Daily Herald, he made the en- repulsion of the would-be invader and forcement of law and order in the rela- usurper was largely what fi rst forged the tively lawless young city his journalistic young republic’s sense of national iden- crusade. But despite his righteous tirades, tity and unity. Though the past century Walker seems to have gotten caught up in and a half have largely eff aced Walker the city’s culture of violence. He appar- from the historical imagination of the ently fought three duels, one of which United States, Central Americans have ended with a bullet in his leg. few months ago, I found myself not forgotten the misdeeds of the so- While it was primarily the material browsing in a novelty store in Ala- called “Grey-eyed Man of Destiny.” promise of gold that drew prospectors to juela, Costa Rica, about an hour California, this mid-19th century west- A Walker was born from where I live. Among garments in Nashville, Tennes- ward expansion also had strong ideo- displaying more familiar Costa Rican see, on May 8, 1824, a descendent of Lip- logical underpinnings. During the 1845 iconography—sloth on a surfboard, sloth scomb Norvell, a lieutenant in the Con- debates over the annexation of Texas, with sunglasses, sloth trapped inside a tinental Army. Academically precocious, journalist and politician John O’Sullivan glass of a tropical beverage—was a T- he graduated from the University of wrote in the Democratic Review that it shirt bearing the proclamation: “William Nashville at age 14. After some time at was “our manifest destiny to overspread Walker was a punk ass bitch.” the universities of Edinburgh and Hei- the continent allotted by Providence for I had moved to Costa Rica in January delberg, he obtained a medical degree the free development of our yearly mul- 2017 after a bout of restlessness and was from Penn in 1843, by then all of 19. tiplying billions.” The concept of manifest trying—awkwardly—to learn the lan- Walker practiced medicine in Phila- destiny, though not universally endorsed, guage, the customs, and the history; I still delphia and law in New Orleans for brief became a rallying cry for the expansion am. I had never heard of Walker, but I stints, before coming into control of a into and annexation of territories near soon learned that—like me—he was a New Orleans newspaper called the Dai- the country’s growing borders. visitor to Central America from the US ly Crescent as editor and co-owner. At Politically, manifest destiny featured who had graduated from Penn and tried one point, his co-editor was a pre-fame prominently in the platform of the Dem- his hand at a few jobs before getting hit Walt Whitman—who was fi red, as he had ocratic Party. President James K. Polk, a with wanderlust. From there, our paths been from other journalistic positions, Democrat, fervently pursued expansion

60 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN BARTLETT Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 61 during his tenure from 1845 to 1849, wrest- mitment more to his own aspirations of Back in California, he was charged with ing 600,000 square miles of land from power than to any patriotic ideology. violating neutrality laws, which forbade Mexico in the Mexican-American War. Though slight in appearance and of American military expeditions to allied During his time in California, Walker gentle aff ect, Walker inspired fear and nations. Representing himself in court, became a strong advocate of the mani- loyalty in his men. According to the Walker deployed his substantial cha- fest destiny ideology, and he eventually writer J.C. Jamison, who fought for risma and rhetorical charms to obtain shifted his journalistic focus from local Walker in Nicaragua: an acquittal after eight minutes of jury crime to American expansionism. His “He was a man of small stature, his deliberation. He was a popular hero in writings were especially concerned with height being about fi ve feet fi ve inches, California, as well as throughout the Latin America; he advocated for the an- and his weight close to 130 pounds. His sympathetic American South and West. nexation of Cuba and US involvement in body, however, was strong, and his vital Walker settled into another newspaper Nicaragua, which in addition to a ter- energy surprisingly great. The expression position, but it was not long before he em- ritorial boon also promised to be a prof- of his countenance was frank and open, barked upon his next fi libustering journey. itable business opportunity, given the and heightened by the absence of beard Nicaragua was in the throes of a civil war country’s role as a prominent shipping of any kind. His aggressive and deter- between the Legitimist and Democratic byway in the time before the Transcon- mined character was plainly indicated by parties, based respectively in Granada and tinental Railroad and the Panama Canal. his aquiline nose, while his eyes, from León. The Democrats sought mercenary Though Polk embraced manifest destiny, which came his sobriquet, ‘Grey-eyed Man help and contacted Walker. Eager to ex- the US presidents who followed him— of Destiny,’ were keen in their scrutiny and ploit the nation whose shipping route Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, both almost hypnotic in their power. A woman’s could prove immensely valuable to himself of the Whig Party—proved less enthusias- voice was scarcely softer than Walker’s … and to the United States, Walker agreed; tic. With federal support lacking, zealous But with all his placidity of voice and de- this time, however, he made sure to cir- expansionists often took matters into their meanor, men leaped eagerly into the very cumvent neutrality laws by obtaining a own hands, traveling to nearby lands with cannon’s mouth to obey his commands.” contract to bring “colonists” to Nicaragua. ideological compatriots or mercenaries On May 3, 1855, Walker and 57 follow- and small arsenals to claim territory for By the time of this fi rst fi libustering ers left San Francisco by boat. Shortly the United States. These guerilla expan- mission, Walker had long abandoned after arriving, and reinforced with local sionists came to be known as fi libusters, his mildly anti-slavery views and instead Democratic troops, they attacked the from an arcane Dutch word for pirates. championed the institution’s expansion Legitimist stronghold of Rivas. They lost Walker was not the fi rst fi libuster, but he throughout the Americas. He may have decisively, driven out of town after suf- became the most famous and—for a had a change of heart—or may simply fering signifi cant casualties. Though his while—the most successful. have recognized the usefulness of pro- military prowess was questionable, After hearing about a French colonial slavery sentiment in gaining support and Walker became the leader of the Demo- expedition to Sonora, Mexico, Walker set recruits for his fi libustering. The most crats by default, when the chiefs of both in motion his fi rst plan to act upon his ardent advocates of manifest destiny the military and the executive branch expansionist inclinations. Without wait- were Southerners who viewed expansion died. On October 13, in what many con- ing for permission from the federal gov- and annexation as opportunities to es- sider to be the only truly adept maneu- ernment, which Walker believed to be tablish new slave states, tipping the ver of his military career, he comman- too passive, the Tennessean arrived with tenuous balance with the abolitionist deered a ferry and sailed to Granada, a group of 45 mercenary recruits in North. Most of Walker’s enlistees on the taking the Legitimist forces by surprise. Mexico on November 4, 1853. Despite a Mexican misadventure had been recruit- At this point, he eff ectively gained con- complete lack of military experience, ed from the slave states of Tennessee and trol of Nicaragua, installing a puppet Walker successfully commanded the Kentucky. Once in control, Walker bor- interim president in Patricio Rivas. Soon capture of the governor of the Mexican rowed the laws of Louisiana for his new after, he had himself elected president state of La Paz and declared himself republic, making slavery legal by default. and was inaugurated on July 12, 1856. president of the new Republic of Lower Despite the hundreds of reinforce- Walker’s reign was characterized by the California. Though he ostensibly intend- ments who had come to join his ranks, imposition of white American cultural ed to eventually join his republic with Walker failed to take his second target, and racial hegemony over the native the United States, his installation of Sonora. Facing immense pressure from people and traditions. He declared Eng- himself as president of an independent both the Mexican and American govern- lish the offi cial language, confi scated state might have foreshadowed a com- ments, he surrendered in early 1854. property from Nicaraguan rivals to give

62 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 to American supporters, legalized slavery, Walker’s reign in Nicaragua as an oppor- later, Mora issued a proclamation calling and invited—practically begged—white tunity. Southerners seeking to add a slave to arms not only his countrymen but also Americans to immigrate in notices like state to the union, emigrants looking for the “Great Central American family” of this one from a New Orleans paper: new opportunities and land, and capital- Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. “The Government of Nicaragua is desir- ists seeking new sources of profi t each as- Walker responded in kind with a de- ous of having its lands settled and culti- sumed he would champion their unique cree of his own: vated by an industrious class of people, causes. But as he gained power, Walker “The Natural law of individual protec- and off er as an inducement to emigrants, demonstrated that his only unwavering tion obliges us, the Americans of Nicara- a donation of Two Hundred and Fifty ideological commitment was to himself. gua, to declare eternal enmity to the ser- Acres of Land for single persons, and One It was his repudiation of powerful capi- vile party and the servile governments of Hundred Acres additional to persons of talists that led to his eventual downfall. Central America. The friendship we have family. Steamers leave New Orleans for Since 1849, the Accessory Transit Com- off ered them has been rebuff ed. We are San Juan on the 11th and 26th of each pany, controlled by Cornelius Vanderbilt, left with no option other than to make month. The fare is now reduced to less had enjoyed contractual dominion over them recognize that our enmity can be as than half the former rates.” the transit route across Nicaragua. Assum- dangerous and destructive as our friend- He established a bilingual newspaper, ing their compatriot would prove sympa- ship is faithful and true.” El Nicaragüense, which originated his thetic to their aims once in power, com- The Costa Ricans did indeed take up famous sobriquet, based on a supposed pany executives had provided much of the arms. The fi libusters had, by that point, indigenous legend about a grey-eyed fi nancial and logistical support for Walk- actually penetrated into Costa Rican ter- leader who would drive out Spanish op- er’s mission. But shortly after gaining con- ritory, inhabiting a farm called Santa pressors. “This traditional prophecy has trol of the country, Walker revoked the Rosa in the Nicoya Peninsula, just south been fulfi lled to the letter,” proclaimed company’s charter and seized its boats. of Nicaragua. Mora and the Costa Ricans a writer for Walker’s paper in December Though Walker had made a great number reached Santa Rosa on March 20 and won 1855. “‘The Grey-Eyed Man’ has come.” of enemies, none had been so rich, power- the ensuing skirmish in 14 minutes, offi - If his ideological commitment to slav- ful, and vengeful as Vanderbilt. cially expelling the invaders from their ery had been ambiguous earlier, Walker As Walker established himself in Nica- country. They then continued to Rivas for was by now a zealous proponent. He also ragua and began hinting at greater ambi- a now-legendary battle. After grueling saw slavery as a means of limiting the tions in the region, nearby countries street fi ghting, the two sides reached a race-mixing between Spanish and indig- sought to prepare defenses. Costa Rican sort of stalemate, with the fi libusters en- enous people that he considered the root president Juan Rafael Mora became the trenched in the Guerra family’s home and of social unrest in the region. primary galvanizer of opposition to the boardinghouse, from which they main- fi libusters for both Costa Rica and the tained a secure fi ring position. Back in the US, Walker was practically region as a whole. In November of 1855, As the possibly apocryphal legend goes, beatifi ed. Plays were staged about his about a month after Walker’s victory at a Costa Rican drummer boy named Juan exploits, with a playbill for one July 1856 Granada, Mora off ered the following Santamaría volunteered to charge the production at Manhattan’s Purdy Na- warning to his countrymen in a decree: house with his torch as long as someone tional Theatre calling him “The hope of “Peace, that fortunate peace that, to- would take care of his mother in case of freedom.” W.F. Brannin of Kentucky took gether with your industrious persever- his death. He managed to light the house it upon himself to write the “Nicaragua ance, has so increased our credit, wealth, on fi re, drawing out the fi libusters, but he National Song,” presenting Walker as a and happiness, is perfi diously threat- was gunned down in doing so. Juan San- tyrant-toppling liberator: ened. A gang of foreigners, scourge of all tamaría is now Costa Rica’s national hero. peoples … plan to invade Costa Rica to The international airport is named for It needs not a Prophet or talker look in our wives and daughters, in our him, and every April 11—the anniversary To tell you in prose or in verse, houses and farms, pleasures for their of the battle—the country celebrates Juan the exploits of Patriot Walker, fi erce passions, nourishment to their Santamaría Day. Whom Tyrants will long deem a curse - unbridled greed. Will I need to paint for Though they do also commemorate the A brave son of Freedom is Walker you the terrible ills that coldly awaiting anniversary of independence from Spain, And Nations his fame will rehearse. such a barbaric invasion can result in?” Costa Ricans consider Juan Santamaría On February 26, 1856, Costa Rica of- Day to be the primary national holiday, In addition to lauding his bravery and fi cially declared war on the fi libuster and mark it with comparable fanfare. accomplishments, many Americans saw government of Nicaragua. A few days This past April, fi reworks displays audible

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 63 from around the Central Valley had the In a dedicatory note to “my comrades haven’t forgotten. Still-popular terms for stray dogs that rule my street howling in Nicaragua,” he describes the book as both Salvadorans (Salvatruchos) and loudly and proudly; even the little dachs- an eff ort “to do justice to their acts and (Catrachos) derive from the hund-chihuahua mutt was celebrating motives: To the living, with the hope that name of the allied commander in the war the rout of Walker’s men at Rivas. we may soon meet again on the soil for against the fi libusters, Florencio Xatruch. The Costa Ricans had a key ally, and which we have suff ered more than the Here in my adopted home of Costa Rica, Walker a fateful enemy, in Cornelius pangs of death—the reproaches of a the national heroes and holidays, the Vanderbilt. The tycoon sought to seize people for whose welfare we stood ready names of airports and highways, stem back control of the San Juan River and to die: To the memory of those who per- from the story of Walker and the heroic his former boats, which had become ished in the struggle, with the vow that quest to prevent the country from becom- Walker’s lifeline for supplies and rein- as long as life lasts no peace shall remain ing a Yankee-controlled slave state. As I forcements. In doing so, Vanderbilt with the foes who libel their names and was researching this piece in a room full could help defeat his nemesis while si- strive to tear away the laurel which of battle dioramas at the Juan Santamaría multaneously regaining the lucrative hangs over their graves.” Museum in Alajuela, a group of school- transit route. In December 1856, one of But Walker’s next return to Central Amer- children around eight or nine years old his agents, Sylvanus Spencer, led 120 ica would prove considerably less conse- entered the room, their teacher spinning Costa Rican troops by canoe and raft to- quential to the region—and fatal for him. the national yarns of the campaign ward the ferry port at Greytown, Nica- A group of rogue British settlers hoped against the fi libusters; they looked like ragua. There they were joined by Mora to establish a colony on Roatán, an is- they had heard it all before. and 800 more troops, well-armed with land off the Honduran coast, and they It’s all too easy to canonize our heroes guns and ammunition supplied by asked the famed fi libuster for help. He and forget about our demons. Walker Vanderbilt. Together they traversed the agreed, but shortly after arriving, he was was an exceptional case, but he cer- river and captured the ferry boats one captured by Commander Nowell Salmon tainly was not the last demon in the by one, eventually gaining control of the of the British Navy. The British con- story of the relationship between the route. Walker’s lifeline was cut, and trolled the land that is now Belize and US and Central America. Many of the Vanderbilt had gotten his revenge. viewed Walker as a threat to their inter- most egregious transgressions are, like Meanwhile, the allied coalition of Hon- ests in the region. Salmon turned Walk- the Walker aff air, left out of our history duras, El Salvador, and Guatemala at- er over to the Honduran government—a books. Even without sinister intention, tacked from the north. As fi ghting went gift surely received with pleasure. On US culture continues to exert a hege- on, Walker’s situation became increas- September 12, 1860, at the age of 36, monic—often uninvited—infl uence on ingly desperate, exacerbated by out- Walker was executed by a fi ring squad. Central America. Ironically, the words breaks of disease and desertion among The New York Times report of the ex- on the T-shirt that inspired my William his men. Finally, on May 1, 1857, Walker ecution suggests the fervency with Walker fact-fi nding initiative were, de- surrendered and was brought to New which the Honduran executioners un- spite their anti-imperialist sentiment, York by the US Navy. dertook the task: printed in English. Once again greeted as a hero at home, “Three soldiers stepped forward to Given the historical context, to wel- he cast himself as the injured party, lodg- within twenty feet of him and dis- come a visitor like me is an act of for- ing a formal complaint against the US charged their muskets. The balls entered giveness for Costa Rica, and I’ve been naval commander who had captured him his body, and he leaned a little forward; striving to adapt to local customs and be in a meeting with President Buchanan. but, it being observed he was not dead, a good guest—an anti-Walker. I’m not His continued criticism of the Navy for a fourth soldier mercifully advanced so sure how we can keep the memory of our interfering cut into his popular support close to the suff ering man that the muz- collective misdeeds alive—but a handy somewhat, and there were occasional run- zle of the musket almost touched his T-shirt with a disparaging quip about ins with the law over his fl outing of neu- forehead, and being there discharged, one of America’s most nefarious punk trality laws, but nothing came of them. He scattered his brains and skull to the ass bitches is a good starting point. lectured widely, trying to raise money for winds. Thus ends the life of the ‘Gray- a return to Nicaragua, and in 1860 pub- eyed man of Destiny.’” Myles Karp C’12 is a journalist living in Costa lished The War in Nicaragua, an autobio- Rica, seeking out and writing about exotic fruits, graphical account of his military cam- Though lionized during his lifetime, compelling human stories, and lesser-known paign, where he is listed on the title page over the decades Walker faded into ob- episodes in Latin American history for publica- as “Gen’l William Walker.” scurity in the US. But Central Americans tions ranging from The New York Times to Vice.

64 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 ARTS P.66 P.67 P.68 Crowd-sourced Curation Briefly Noted TV’s Gold Standard

Wolf Humanities Center A History of Space Debris Stuart Grey Mar. 27 Queer Urgencies Calendar (Conference) Apr. 5–6 Ahmad Almallah and Tom Sleigh Mar. 20 Monuments and Memory Annenberg Center A reading and conversation David Brownlee, Ken Lum Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Michael Londra and the Celtic Fire Penn Museum Apr. 17 Mar. 16 Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Bearing Witness: Mar. 25 The New Lionel Hampton Big Band Reading Four Days in West Kingston World Café Live Mar. 26 Mar. 20 Featuring Jason Marsalis Mar. 23 Brunch Conversation Moundbuilders: Ancient Artifacts Kat Edmonson Mar. 22 Union Tanguera + Kate Weare Lunch with Emily Jane Fox C’11 of North America The Barr Brothers Mar. 27 Company Apr. 5–6 Alumni Authors Series Both through Dec. 2 Meow Meow + Thomas Lauderdale: Mar. 26 Hiromi Apr. 11 City Planning Poetics 7: Hotel Amour Tour Penn Libraries Hospice Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Apr. 12–13 Carceral Justice The Antlers: Whitman at 200: The English Concert Emily Abendroth and Keith Reeves 10 Year Anniversary Acoustic Show Looking Back, Looking Forward Semele Mar. 28 Mar. 27 Handel’s Mar. 29–30 (Symposium) Mar. 28 Apr. 16 Allison Cobb and Brian Teare: An Evening with JD Souther Apr. 2 Wise Men Fished Here: Mar. 30 BODYTRAFFIC Apr. 26–27 A Poetry Reading New Sound Brass Band A Centennial Exhibition in Honor Katie Degentesh Poetry Reading An Evening with John Parr Apr. 2 Arthur Ross Gallery of the Gotham Book Mart, Apr. 9 Tobe Nwigwe Apr. 4 Soy Cuba: The Contemporary 1920-2020 Through May 20. Brave Testimony: The Wild Reeds Apr. 9 Landscapes of Roger Toledo Music Partnerships at Play: A Reading by Chris Abani Wild Belle Apr. 10 Apr. 6–June 2 The Marlboro Music Festival Sponsored by the Center for Cyrille Aimée Through Jun. 21 ICA Africana Studies Apr. 16 A Sondheim Adventure Apr. 14 Colored People Time: Roseanne Cash Slought Foundation The Dip Apr. 17 Mundane Futures Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Concerning Violence Natalie Prass Apr. 18 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen Reading Apr. 22 (Film) Mar. 29 Against the Current Past Lives Both through Mar. 31 Brunch Conversation Apr. 23 The Politics of Race in America World Tour 2019 Apr. 19 Introducing Tony Conrad: A Conversation with A conversation with Johnathan Metzl, Joy Williams With Special Guest A Retrospective Douglas Brinkley Dorothy Roberts, and Anthea Butler Anthony De Costa Apr. 24 Through Aug. 11 Povich Journalism Program Apr. 24 Apr. 17 Lisa Loeb Apr. 26

Kevin Jerome Everson, IFO, 2017. Film still. Courtesy of the artist, Trilobite Arts DAC, and Picture Palace Pictures. Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 65 Exhibition Below: The Workshop by Jacob Lawrence. ARTS Facing page: The Quintessential Puffin by Dale DeArmond, and Lady Madonna by Audrey Flack. Citizen Curators The audience takes over at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

hen she creates an exhibition, Heather Gibson Moqtaderi is used W to guiding it through the full cu- ratorial cycle, from rough concept to finished show. As both assistant direc- tor and associate curator of the Arthur Ross Gallery, it’s her job to intuit themes, select specific artworks, and even piece together audio tour scripts. But as she began planning a new exhibi- tion drawn from the University’s expan- sive art collection—something the gallery does semi-regularly—“I realized that I was more interested in hearing what our audi- ence members would like to see on the walls,” Moqtaderi says. So she asked them. The result was Citizen Salon, the Uni- versity’s first fully crowd-sourced exhibi- tion, which opened in December and runs through March 24. The process kicked off last May, when Moqtaderi launched a Citizen Salon website with 125 eclectic artworks and invited “citizen curators” from the Penn community and beyond to vote for their favorites. The gallery’s own email list exhibition turned out as a result of the did, and Moqtaderi says that several was supplemented with “every campus citizen curator choices,” Moqtaderi says. Workshop voters mentioned the idea of listserv we could get our hands on,” she There was no single theme among the “building something for the greater good says, and they also reached out to arts works voters chose, but “I was surprised— and people working together,” just as they organizations and individuals from and relieved—to see the serendipitous were doing with Citizen Salon. Philly to China (via the International relationships among the artwork,” she Others said they chose The Workshop Council of Museums listserv). Along adds. “It felt natural to put these seem- because they wanted artwork in the show with an image of each piece, she includ- ingly disparate works together.” that was both by an African-American ed some background about the artwork A 1972 print by Jacob Lawrence re- artist and depicting African-American and its creator. Four months and a little ceived the most votes of any piece. Cre- subjects. Moqtaderi noticed that thread over 600 votes later, the 50 most-select- ated in a style that Lawrence himself running through many of the comments: ed pieces became Citizen Salon. (The dubbed “dynamic cubism,” The Workshop voters told her they were specifically title is a nod to both modern “citizen depicts a group of black carpenters who choosing a work by a woman, or an Afri- science” collaborations and the 18th- are working together on a building proj- can American, or an artist who came century salons of Europe.) ect. Citizen curators were invited to com- from another community that is under- “I couldn’t be more excited with how the ment on why they chose the pieces they represented in the art world.

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modestly sized gallery, she drew on the MAN OVERBOARD: New “salon style” of double- and even triple- and Selected Poems By hanging certain groups of work. Michael H. Levin C’64 Moqtaderi’s citizen curators wrote (Finishing Line Press, 2018, much of the show’s wall labels—their $14.99). This thin volume of online comments are woven throughout 29 short poems traverses the text—and many of their voices ap- love and loss, family ten- pear on the audio tour. sions, and international politics. Several have won freestanding awards or have been pub- lished previously in anthologies. LOWDOWN By Anthony Schneider C’87 (The Permanent Press, 2018, $29.95.) Schneider’s sec- ond novel is a gripping, romantic thriller that spans two continents and three decades. At the opening, Jimmy Paccini, a for- Dale DeArmond’s The Quintessential mer Brooklyn mobster, is released from a Puffin (1983) had the second-highest num- 25-year prison sentence for arranging the exe- ber of votes, reaffirming the citizen cura- cution of the head of a rival crime family. tors’ interest in representation. DeArmond Milena Cossutta, who loved Jimmy as a young was living in Alaska when she enrolled in man, is married to another mobster and on the a correspondence course called “The Fa- run in Sicily. Their story follows a twisting road mous Artists.” She completed her art train- of violence and tenderness to arrive at a sur- ing through mail-in submissions, far out- prising, bittersweet redemption. THEN WE GREW UP: A side the art world’s hot spots. Her colorful Post-College Journey into Puffin woodblock print reveals the Inuit “One of my takeaways is that our audi- Adulthood By Andrew Marc influence on DeArmond’s work—and with ence members are interested in visiting Berman C’14 (Savio its rounded body and big glossy eyes, it’s exhibitions to learn something and also Republic, 2018, $16.00.) also just plain cute. for inspiration within their artistic com- Four years after graduation, Other works are on view in Arthur munity,” Moqtaderi says. “So I thought Berman still felt as lost and Ross for the first time, including Audrey people would be interested in hearing the hopeful as the day he strolled down Locust Flack’s Lady Madonna (1972). The print comments of their fellow citizen curators.” Walk in his cap and gown. In this collection of marks Flack’s transition from abstract While she hasn’t ruled out another introspective essays, he shares his experienc- expressionism to photorealism, and crowd-sourced show, Moqtaderi says es navigating his early 20s with charm and wit. combines a reference to the popular there isn’t one on the calendar at this THE 30-DAY MONEY Beatles song “Lady Madonna” with a point. She will, however, write up the CLEANSE: Take Control of representation of the Virgin Mary. “I’m exhibition as a study to help other mu- Your Finances, Manage always amazed by how relevant [this seums that want to give citizen curation Your Spending, and piece] is to topics in religion and ritual, a try. “There really isn’t a defined prec- De-Stress Your Money for motherhood and feminist movements, edent or best practice,” she says. Good By Ashley Feinstein the neuroscience, psychology and phys- “Crowdsourcing is certainly not for Gerstley W’08 (Sourcebooks, iology of emotions, as well as literary every exhibition,” Moqtaderi adds. “But 2018, $17.99.) Gerstley, a former investment studies and theory,” one citizen curator it was incredibly gratifying for me to banker turned money coach, encourages read- notes in the audio tour. listen to what members of the public ers to examine their relationships with money After studying the 50 most-selected were attracted to within certain art- in this workbook, based on her popular online artworks, Moqtaderi eventually sorted works and think through how we might course. Using reflective questions, Gerstley them into six broad categories: Place, use that information to shape our exhi- guides readers to discover why they spend their Body, Spirit, People, Sky, and Birds and bition schedules in the future.” money the way they do. Beasts. To hang so many pieces in the —Molly Petrilla C’06 Visit thepenngazette.com for more Briefl y Noted.

Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 67 ARTS Interview

In terms of the process, we split it up The Sopranos Lives initially based on the seasons we covered at the paper. Matt wrote the first drafts Alan Sepinwall C’96 dives deep of the recaps for seasons one through into one of television’s greatest shows. three; I did the first draft of the recaps from season four on. And then I would tweak his stuff and he would tweak my stuff. The interviews we did together with ack at Penn, when he wasn’t going Chase, and then it was just a matter of to class or working as 34th Street’s editing them down. There was a lot that B managing editor, Alan Sepinwall we talked about that there was just not C’96 spent a lot of time watching his room for in the book—or the book would then-favorite show NYPD Blue and writ- have weighed 20 pounds and cost $80. ing about it (you can still find his old articles at stwing.upenn.edu/~sepinwal/ The Sopranos is often credited with nypd1.html). ushering in a new golden age of TV. That led to a job out of college as a What do you think made it so far ahead reviewer at the Star-Ledger in Newark, of its time? New Jersey, and laid the groundwork for For 50 years before The Sopranos came him to become one of the country’s most on, television had a lot of these unwrit- well-known TV critics. Sepinwall, who ten rules, about what the audience now writes for Rolling Stone, after previ- would and would not accept and what ous stops at the websites HitFix and you could get away with. The main char- Uproxx, has published several books on acter of a show ultimately had to be lik- television, including The Revolution Was able; if you had a villainous character Televised (2013); TV (The Book) (2016), THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS who was prominent, there had to be a coauthored with Matt Zoller Seitz; and By Matt Zoller Seitz & Alan Sepinwall C’96 hero put next to him; you couldn’t tell 101 (2017). Abrams Press, 2019, $30.00 super-serialized stories; you couldn’t His latest book, The Soprano Sessions, have narrative complexity; you couldn’t on HBO’s famed mobster series, also dolfini (who played Tony) on his TV have moral complexity. Basically all of coauthored with Seitz, is a callback to Mount Rushmore, and how he keeps up the things The Sopranos did, we had both writers’ roots, as each first wrote with so many damn television shows been told for 50 years you couldn’t do. about the show while working at the these days. The interview has been ed- And The Sopranos became a big hit, a Star-Ledger—the newspaper, Sepinwall ited and condensed. critical darling, and eventually an proudly notes, that sits at the end of awards magnet. [Then] other people main character Tony Soprano’s driveway. I was struck by how thorough the book started copying it. Basically any show Timed to coincide with the 20th an- was, with essays devoted to every you just binged on Netflix owes some niversary of the series’ debut, the book Sopranos episode, plus interviews with trace of its DNA to The Sopranos. provided an opportunity, Sepinwall says, series creator David Chase, and more. to bring back to center stage “this great How did you and Matt come up with the For those who haven’t seen the show, and important show that seemed to be structure and then write it? how well do you think it holds up today? dropping out of the conversation a little We had separately done books—I did And does it work well for people to re- bit in terms of what’s the best show of one on Breaking Bad, he did one on Mad watch, perhaps while using your book all time,” as it’s been obscured by more Men—that featured the same episode- as a guide? recent favorites like Mad Men or Break- by-episode recap format. The interviews The goal was to make a book where ing Bad, “which would not have existed with Chase were new; that was one of you could do a re-watch and after each if not for The Sopranos.” the things we wanted to do for the value episode you turn to that essay and you Gazette associate editor Dave Zeitlin added. We also knew we wanted to in- read it. But you can also read it without caught up with Sepinwall to discuss how clude some archival material from when having to re-watch the show. the book came to be, where he ranks The we were at the paper together, which is That was the one thing I was worried Sopranos and the late actor James Gan- in the back of the book. about when we agreed to do the proj-

68 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 ect—it had been a long time since I asking that, or what it means, or just Is it better or worse being a TV critic watched the show and would it hold up? dismiss your premise altogether. now, trying to keep up with all the great Or would it seem like this dusty, old Also, we were talking about a show that shows that are on? relic? But to my pleasant surprise, I re- was made 20 years ago. A lot of stuff he just It is a very mixed bag. On one hand, ally liked it better this time than I did didn’t remember. I came loaded to bear there is never a lack of things to write back then. Obviously it’s dated in some with a lot of nerdy questions, and a lot of about. And on the other hand, there is ways because of the fashion and technol- times, he would just say, “I don’t know. It’s never a lack of things to write about. Back ogy, but it really holds up quite well, been a while.” But on the other hand, what in the day, there were a lot of times I’d be especially if you look at it as a turn-of- he always really recalled well were the cre- scratching and clawing trying to find a the-millennium period piece. ative instincts behind it. So after a couple subject for the column that day, particu- of interviews, I learned to steer towards larly in certain months of the year when that and away from the minutia. the TV business basically shut down alto- gether. Now there’s always something but “It feels like I think you’ve said that Breaking Bad there’s not enough time to get to it all. and Mad Men, along with The Sopranos, the growth is are on your TV Mount Rushmore of dra- Where do you see TV—and writing about mas—what’s the fourth? TV—going in the next 10 or 20 years? unsustainable. Almost certainly, it’s The Wire. It feels like the growth is unsustainable. But what’s kind of funny is in the years There’s just too many shows—not only for since The Sopranos ended, there’s almost someone like me to keep up with but for There’s just too been this TV-actor Mount Rushmore. all of these different places to make mon- Bryan Cranston [Breaking Bad] is on ey with. I’m not even 100 percent sure that many shows.” there, and Jon Hamm [Mad Men] is on Netflix is sustainable at this point, even there, and Elisabeth Moss [Mad Men, The though it’s been cornering the market; Handmaid’s Tale] or Claire Danes [Home- there’s so much stuff out there. How can But also, if you’re watching it a second, land] or somebody else is on there. anyone possibly be making a profit— third, fourth time, you already know But James Gandolfini gets his own knowing how expensive these shows are what happens, so you’re not spending a mountain. With all due respect to every- and how many of them there are and lot of time speculating and imagining body else, including Edie Falco [who therefore how few people must be watch- scenarios that are not going to come to played Tony Soprano’s wife, Carmela], ing any one of them? So I feel there has to light. And so you can focus on what the Gandolfini is the best dramatic actor in be an implosion at some point. But I’ve show really did moment to moment. TV history, and I don’t know that anybody felt that way for about five years now, and There are other shows that came after else is particularly close. It was amazing it’s yet to happen. The number just keeps it that are more consistent and tell bet- to go back and watch it again—and also going up and up and up. ter overall stories, but in each particular sad because he’s no longer with us. I will say the one thing that’s been in- moment—thematically, character wise— teresting is there was a period of time, I don’t think there’s been a drama that’s How much has changed in TV since you maybe 10 years ago, where mostly what ever been better than this one. were writing recaps about NYPD Blue people wanted from me were the recaps. from your Penn dorm room? They wanted me to break down episodes What was it like to do a bunch of long It’s changed a lot. I looked at NYPD of Mad Men and Breaking Bad and ev- interviews with David Chase, who it Blue and thought, “Wow, TV can’t get erything else. But now because there’s so seems doesn’t always love talking to any better than this.” Obviously it did. much stuff, I’ve cut way back on the re- the media? That’s still a really good show, but it’s a capping because mostly what people Oh, he never loves it. He is one of the very conventional show in a lot of ways. want to hear from me is: Is this show three or four most challenging inter- Shows have gotten darker, less compro- worth my time? What should I be watch- views I’ve ever had, and that was true mised, more complicated in a lot of dif- ing? So I’m doing a lot more of the tradi- for this as well. Most people are trained ferent ways. It’s funny, they’re doing a tional reviewing that I did back when I to give you some kind of answer, even if remake of NYPD Blue right now. I don’t was a newspaper guy. Technology is not it’s not exactly to the question you asked. know if it will get on the air, but I can’t cyclical but something about this par- Chase is not wired that way. Chase will imagine that will be a show I would ticular beat has turned out to be, weirdly. interrogate you about your reason for write about every week.

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Since its 2015 revitalization, the Penn Club of Bucks County has been a continuous presence in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia in both Bucks and eastern Montgomery Counties. The Club is thriving—with eight well-attended events in 2018 alone. In addition to First September and Ben’s Birthday Bash, over the last three Hatboro, PA and an years we have brought our member- evening of Indian ship and community a myriad of dif- delicacies at Guru in ferent programs, including culinary Newtown, PA. evenings, five professor lectures, Penn In taking advantage traditions, sporting events, and com- of our proximity to munity service opportunities. the University, our On a snowy winter evening we had a professor lectures have grown to large The Club partners with the local tasting dinner at Phi Vietnamese, a sell-out events, ranging from Professor Penn Alumni Interview Program to restaurant in Doylestown, PA owned David Eisenhower’s insights on poli- host an annual summer send-off for all by a Penn alum. And twice, in the tics and elections to Engineering freshman students from our communi- Spring, we had sold-out whiskey tast- Professor Daniel Lee’s expertise on ty and give the newest Quakers advice ings at Dad’s Hat Rye Whiskey robotics and artificial intelligence. learned from across Penn-generations! Distillery in Bristol, PA, a distillery Club members also enjoyed giving Join us for future events—the Club is founded by two Penn alums. Our back to their community by packag- always excited to see new faces! Be sure membership also had the opportunity ing and delivering food to those in to check out our Facebook Group and to enjoy an afternoon of beer and cider need through the Jewish Relief website. You can reach the Club via flights at Crooked Eye Brewery in Agency (JRA). [email protected].

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Rozelle Radio-Television Award Winner Andrea Kremer.

Hall Call How a broadcaster broke barriers and made NFL history.

Photo by Ben Liebenberg/NFL Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 71 ALUMNI Andrea Kremer C’80 “I’m a journalist and my job is to ndrea Kremer C’80 was about,” such as on players’ she calls the “explosion” of working on a story for use of marijuana and abuse tell important football’s popularity since A HBO’s Real Sports with of the pain-reduction drug stories.” her career began. Bryant Gumbel this past Toradol, as well as cheerlead- “It is the quintessential June when she missed a tele- ers’ very low pay. “I’m a jour- television sport,” she says. phone call from David Baker, nalist and my job is to tell have any experience in front “And as we’re seeing, it’s go- the president and executive important stories,” she says. of the camera, but the ‘deal’ I ing to be the quintessential director of the Pro Football “That’s what I’ve done over made with them was, let me sport to bet on, whether it’s Hall of Fame. “Give us a call my career.” produce myself—the producer fantasy sports or legalized when you get a moment,” his Last year also marked an- in me can bail out the talent sports betting.” voicemail said. other milestone for Kremer, that I didn’t know how I When being honored by the When she did, assuming it as she and longtime friend would be.” Pro Football Hall of Fame, was about coverage of the Hannah Storm became the She ended up having more Kremer had to give a speech. year’s induction ceremonies, fi rst all-female team to call talent in front of the camera She’s done reports on many and Baker instead told her an NFL game when they than she thought, and her topics in many fi elds related that she was being honored shared the booth for Amazon career soon began to skyrock- to sports, but she wanted her with the Hall of Fame’s pres- Prime’s Thursday Night Foot- et. In addition to her work on talk to be one of the most im- tigious Pete Rozelle Radio– ball broadcasts. Real Sports and the Amazon portant events of her career. Television Award, her imme- Though she’s been report- broadcasts, Kremer also “I think I wrote it in about diate response was an exple- ing pro football for several serves as chief correspondent two minutes,” she says. “I tive followed by asking if he decades, this past NFL season for the NFL Network and co – knew what I wanted to say, was kidding. “I said I guess was the fi rst time Kremer did host of CBS Sports Net- knew how I wanted to say it, that it’s good to have my re- analysis for a live broadcast. work’s We Need To Talk, the how to approach it, and I action like that then, as op- She says her best advice came fi rst ever all-female nation- wanted to make it like a sto- posed to later, and we from former head coach and ally televised weekly sports ry. I wanted to avoid the laughed,” she says. famed sportscaster John show. She has also worked laundry list of people to Kremer is only the second Madden. “He said, ‘Don’t feel for ESPN and NBC’s Sunday thank, and yet represent the woman—and fi rst working as if you have to cram for the Night Football broadcasts. people, whom I call my men- mother, she proudly notes— test. You’ve been preparing Kremer has covered three tors. And truthfully, I wanted to receive the award, which for this for 30 years.’” Olympics, MLB All-Star to nail it, like anything I’ve recognizes “longtime excep- Kremer got into journalism Games, NCAA Final Four done in my career.” tional contributions to radio after graduating from Penn, games, and many other Based on the response, she and television in profession- fi rst as a sports editor at a sports. But football has al- succeeded in her quest. al football.” suburban newspaper. From ways been her fi rst love, nur- “It was really amazing “Truthfully, I did not think there, she worked as a writer tured when she and her par- how strongly it resonated it was going to happen,” says and producer at NFL Films, a ents spent many Sundays with so many people,” she Kremer, who has won two groundbreaking company watching Eagles games at says. “It obviously resonated Emmys, a Peabody, and was devoted to producing com- the since-demolished Veter- with a lot of working moms, inducted into the Philadel- mercials, television pro- ans Stadium. And although, who understand the struggle phia Sports Hall of Fame last grams, feature fi lms, and as an objective journalist that you have, and the idea year. “I’ve worked for four documentaries for and about who grew up in Philly but that, ‘Mom goes away be- networks and don’t have one the NFL. Before long, the late now lives outside of Boston cause she has to, not be- network that has pushed me, Steve Sabol, one of the with her husband and son, cause she wants to.’ This and truthfully I’m not the founders of NFL Films, sug- she didn’t root for either probably was the biggest lobbying sort. I think your gested Kremer go in front of team in last year’s Super stage that I’ve ever been work should speak for itself.” the camera. Bowl, she knew what the on—and that’s from some- She also thought the NFL “He wanted to do some- Philadelphia Eagles win over one who’s spoken to 110 mil- might not recognize her be- thing diff erent to change our the New England Patriots lion people in front of a cause she has done stories national show, This Is The meant for her hometown. camera at the Super Bowl.” the league “isn’t thrilled NFL,” Kremer says. “I didn’t And she’s marveled at what — Jon Caroulis

72 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Mark Palatucci EAS’00

ics Business Review said is Character Engineer “straddling the line between pet robot and personal assis- Designing robots with a touch of personality. tant.” Like Cozmo, it runs around the room like a bat- tery-operated toy, lighting up Mark Palatucci EAS’00 robot—whether it’s playing and making sounds. But it can wants to put a robot games with a robot called also respond to voice com- So, in every home. Cozmo, or getting Vector, mands to take a photograph or That might sound familiar. another model, to take a pic- report the weather, or play After all, you may even al- ture when your hands are blackjack with you. And it con- ready have one. But Palatucci, full—all the better. Vector nects with Amazon Alexa. a cofounder of the San Fran- Which isn’t to say that Anki cisco-based robotics company and Palatucci have gotten Anki, isn’t thinking about only raves. The Wall Street task-oriented automatons or Journal’s personal technol- self-directed vacuum cleaners. ogy reporter concluded that He’s not even thinking about Vector “isn’t a very good smart speakers. He’s design- toy”—but added that it “feels ing robots with “character”— like a beachhead for some- enough to spark an emotional thing bigger.” connection with their owners. Palatucci’s interest in ro- botics didn’t peak until after he earned his bachelor’s de- gree, but he credits Penn’s Engineering Entrepreneur- ship program for preparing him to be a business owner. “It fundamentally gave just a little bit of a hook into this world that I didn’t know any- thing about,” says Palatucci, explaining that there weren’t entrepreneurs in his family. Mark “Frankly, if I hadn’t gone Anki’s aim in building ro- toy by revenue on Amazon in through that program, I bots is to enable people to the United States, the United never would have thought of Cozmo “build relationships with Kingdom, and France in 2017, starting my own company.” technology that feel a little according to the market ana- Another boost came just “People are much more more human.” Palatucci, lytics fi rm One Click Retail. after Penn, when he headed willing to put a character in who earned a computer sci- Its main feature is game to Silicon Valley to work on their home than they are just ence and engineering degree playing, but you can also early mobile devices. For fun, some smart cylinder or at Penn, is the company’s learn coding through Cozmo, he joined a team from Stan- smart speaker that doesn’t head of cloud artifi cial intel- which uses facial recognition ford University that competed have any emotion or charac- ligence and machine learn- to learn people’s names. in the DARPA Urban Chal- ter built around it,” he says. ing. Their products have In 2018, Fast Company lenge in 2004. (DARPA is the “It creates a sense of trust been getting notice. named Anki as one of the most Defense Advanced Research that a lot of other products Cozmo—which WIRED innovative robotics companies Projects Agency, the central don’t necessarily have.” called “the smartest, cutest for the fourth year in a row. research and development And if that trust leads to AI-powered robot you’ve ever And late in 2018, Anki organization for the US De- more engagement with the seen”—was the best-selling launched Vector, which Robot- partment of Defense.) The

Photo and renderings courtesy Anki Mar|Apr 2019 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 73 ALUMNI John Chimples C’80

contest required teams to puts it, in a fundamentally build an autonomous vehicle diff erent way from competi- Rush Job capable of driving in traffi c, tors. They were driven by performing complex maneu- the conviction that, as im- How a film editor shaped the story of vers such as merging, passing, portant as engineers and AI the Charlottesville riot—overnight. parking, and negotiating in- people are to the process, tersections. Palatucci has a they don’t know how to cre- vivid memory of his team’s ate a character. So Anki entry traversing its fi rst mile hired experts: people from was supposed to be a three colleagues: the Ameri- on the 144-mile desert course. the feature fi lm industry, routine Sunday edit for can Cinema Editors “Eddie” “I remember it feeling very including some from the It a three- to fi ve-minute and an Emmy for News and much like this moon shot,” DreamWorks and Pixar ani- segment to run on Documentary: Outstanding he says. “It was an epiphany mation studios. Monday’s Vice News Tonight. Editing. The video has been for me that robotics and AI “We’ve built out, I think, But when John Chimples C’80 viewed more than 3.5 million were going to have this abso- what is really the world’s fi rst started screening the footage times on YouTube. lutely massive impact.” pipeline from feature fi lm from Charlottesville, Virginia, That experience helped animation tools to low-level and got to the “infamous ‘tiki push him to pursue a mas- robotic control,” he says. torch’ march,” he thought, ter’s and PhD in robotics at “The robot will feel much “Holy shit, what is this?” Carnegie Mellon University. more alive and much more Chimples and a team of Anki launched in 2011. organic and much more be- fellow editors would end up Palatucci and the compa- lievable as a character be- crafting 30-40 hours of ny’s two other cofounders— cause it’s able to perform a material on the fl y into a Carnegie Mellon classmates basic motion like making eye gripping, disturbing narra- Boris Sofman and Hanns contact,” Palatucci says. tive about the ill-fated “Unite Tappeiner—felt that the ro- “That has a very, very huge the Right” rally. The white botics industry was focused impact on being able to cre- supremacist riot in August mostly on industrial and gov- ate that sense of magic and 2017 left one counter-demon- ernment use cases, rather really being able to create the strator, Heather Heyer, dead than on consumers, and they sense that this character is and dozens of others injured decided to fi ll that gap. alive and emotive.” when neo-Nazi James Alex “When we started the com- Palatucci points to Anki Fields crashed his car into a pany, it was really about, how customers who have written crowd after authorities had do we take these technolo- to the company praising the shut down the event. gies that are having a huge social benefi ts of their ro- Mixing video shot by Vice impact in all of these other bots: families spending time fi lm crews, surveillance cam- domains, and can we make together interacting with the eras, and interviews by cor- an impact on consumer ap- robot, as they might with a respondent Elle Reeve, both plications?” Palatucci says. board game; or a child who on the streets of Charlottes- “For us, one of the long-term didn’t have many friends ville and in the gun-fi lled goals was to get to a place now inviting other kids over hotel room of Christopher where robots are actually to play with the robot. Cantwell (aka “the crying For Chimples, it’s just the helping out people in their “I defi nitely think that this Nazi”), who had fl ed the area latest twist in a career trajec- everyday lives.” is a space that is only going in a van after pepper-spray- tory he laughingly compares But he thinks that calls for to continue to grow,” Palatuc- ing opponents, the eventual to the movie character Zelig, creating robots that make ci says, “particularly as the piece, titled “Chartlottesville: always popping up in diff er- emotional attachments with prices of these technologies Race and Terror,” took up the ent, unexpected places. people, not robots that just come down and the features show’s entire broadcast time After graduating Penn with autonomously clean the fl oor. and the behavior get more on HBO. It later won a Pea- a major in art history, he Palatucci says Anki ap- and more sophisticated.” body and two editing-specifi c moved to New York to pursue proached “character,” as he —Tom Kertscher awards for Chimples and photography. He shared a loft

74 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 “It was pretty clear how near the legendary CBGB the mid-2000s. He and Thor- music club, and a number of son went on to work together important it was—and that post-punk bands—“including, on the main title sequences Vice was the only organization on occasion, Sonic Youth,” he for Treme, Simon’s series set says—used the space for in New Orleans, during its covering it in depth.” rehearsals. He ended up four-season run on HBO (and being employed by a com- to get married in 2006). Vice EVP News Josh Tyrangi- important it was—and that pany that staged multimedia Chimples also did the editing el C’94, who actually turned Vice was the only organiza- presentations for corporate for musical performances 46 in September.) tion covering it in depth.” and theatrical events. “I got to taken from the show that But Chimples feels very Chimples kept working work as a slide programmer were made available as iTunes much in tune with the through the footage, with and projectionist on the downloads. Other gigs includ- approach at Vice, which Tyrangiel returning a few Radio City Music Hall Christ- ed episodes of The American emphasizes “fully immer- more times to check in. At mas Spectacular and several Experience on PBS, various sive,” “character-driven” sto- about 10 p.m., “Josh came on- and off -Broadway shows,” TV shows, and what he calls rytelling, he says. “It’s defi - back and said HBO was giv- he says. Later he contributed “minor fi lms.” nitely geared toward a ing the story the full half hour images and operated projec- He started working at Vice younger audience, but espe- of the next evening’s show,” he tors for the Talking Heads’ Media in 2015, which “was cially left-leaning people my recalls. “I looked at him and music video of “Burning just a dream come true for age watch it all the time.” said, ‘So I’m here all night,’ Down the House” and concert me,” he says. “It’s a weird Initially he worked on a and he said, ‘Yes,’ and that fi lm Stop Making Sense. kind of place, certainly for a weekly show, Vice on HBO, another editor would pick up Chimples still mourns the scripted narrative editor … loosely modeled on 60 Min- the edit in the morning.” passing of the “beautiful but I had always been inter- utes, where his fi rst piece By 2 a.m., Chimples had panoramic slides” and intri- ested in news. I was a news focused on “the Saudis using reviewed the footage that cately timed projectors that junkie, kind of, even at Penn.” US cluster bombs in the war had been sent back to Vice, were displaced by video dis- Back then, he says, he’d in Yemen.” After a couple of “and I began to cut the piece plays—initially pretty often catch the network news years, he transitioned to Vice for real,” beginning with the crude—by the end of the broadcasts by anchormen News Tonight, which he torch-lit march Friday night 1980s. Those presentations Frank Reynolds and Peter describes as “a reimagination on the University of Virginia “were really immersive, and Jennings and follow that up of a nightly news show made campus and working toward it just had a great organic with the MacNeil/Lehrer up of three- to eight-minute the aftermath of Heyer’s feeling,” he recalls. “It was Report (now PBS NewsHour). mini-documentaries.” murder on Saturday. By 10 just a real experience.” He briefl y considered a Tyrangiel, formerly a top edi- a.m., when he handed off the For most of the next 15 career in journalism and tor at Time and Bloomberg, piece, “I ended up with six to years, he was involved in even traveled to Grenada— had come to HBO “to kick- eight minutes of pretty solid making commercials and where memories of the 1983 start the nightly news show,” material through the point corporate fi lms, specializing US invasion were still fresh— says Chimples, who hadn’t where our crew jumps in the in a genre known as “docu- for a “really left-wing photo known him before that. van with Cantwell’s group dustrials,” which involved agency called Impact Visuals On Sunday, August 13, 2017, and another 35 minutes of traveling around shooting out of Chicago,” he says. “I Chimples arrived at Vice’s Wil- much rougher” material. unscripted scenes with com- found myself in some sketchy liamsburg, Brooklyn, offi ces at Three additional editors panies’ customers and oth- situations, and I just sort of 1 p.m., consulted with the pro- (“Tim Clancy, Cameron Den- ers. Along the way, he says, decided my personality was a ducer on the Charlottesville nis, and Denny Thomas,” he taught himself fi lm edit- little too big to be a fl y-on- story, and settled in at his edit- Chimples notes) worked to ing and that became his the-wall photojournalist.” ing bay. A few hours later, fi nish the edit in time to air main professional outlet. And yes, he’s aware those Tyrangiel “came in and asked at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Through a Penn connection, references date him. “I’m how the footage was,” Chim- August 14. “In about 30 hours Karen Thorson C’82, he was twice as old as everybody I ples recalls. “I said it was we had turned around three assigned to edit several epi- work with,” he says. “The insane and showed him a days of some of the most sodes of David Simon’s vener- head of the whole news divi- couple minutes of the march. impactful footage of the ated HBO series The Wire in sion is 45.” (That would be It was pretty clear how year,” he says. —JP

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“I received some logistics support EMAIL [email protected] MAIL The Pennsylvania Gazette on the Appalachian Trail from my 3910 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3111 Please include your school and year, along former Penn roommate, now in with your address and a daytime telephone number. We include email addresses only California, Mark Iwanowski ME’77. when requested or obviously implied. DEADLINES 7/15 for the Sep|Oct issue; 9/15 for Nov|Dec; 11/15 for Jan|Feb; 1/15 … I would recommend against for Mar|Apr; 3/15 for May|Jun; and 5/15 for Jul|Aug. attempting it all at once. Instead, hike in sections, or follow the advice special thanks to our 60th Reunion co- chairs Julie Dill Williams CW’58, Cin- of my other roommate, Dr. Gary tra Scott Rodgers CW’58, and Buck Rodgers W’58. At the last moment, a fam- ily health issue caused me to miss our re- Stilwell W’77: do it 40 years ago.” union. I am happy to say this has been re- solved and my retirement activities of golf, — Tim Kelly W’77 exercise, and volunteerism are back to normal here in Naples, Florida. I am also proud to report that three of our grandchil- unique perspective on how the corporation’s dren have received degrees from the Uni- 1942 retail bias caused a continued erosion of the versity, and a fourth has expressed interest. Julian Hyman W’42, a 98-year-old catalog company’s influence that led Sears However, he is only eight.” WWII veteran and author of U Can Save to abandon its $4 billion catalog company Our World, is offering a $1,000 college in 1993 but failed to challenge Amazon for Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 scholarship to encourage students to pro- leadership in the internet marketplace. My tect the planet. Eligible applicants must Big Book story reveals the corporation’s 1959 submit a 1,000-word essay on their world- missteps that squandered a multibillion Sig Cohen W’59 has released Love’s saving ideas, which will be judged by a dollar business and lost a valuable syner- Way: Living Peacefully with Your Family panel of educators. Current undergraduate gism with its retail stores. Because the as Your Parents Age, written with coauthor and college-bound students in the United future of Sears and its remaining retail and co-mediator Carolyn Miller Parr. Sig States are invited to apply at ucansaveour- stores is currently in doubt, it has made writes, “Love’s Way addresses the impact world.com. The deadline is July 1. my observations even more prescient and that a parent’s aging can have on families an important case study of a monumental and how they can respond with love, un- lost opportunity by a major corporation.” derstanding, and empathy. We show adult 1955 children and their parents how to repair George Eaton W’55 has authored a new and strengthen family relations, start and book, Death of the Big Book: How Sears 1958 stay with hard conversations, make wise Ceded the Internet to Amazon. He writes, “I Dick Censits W’58, president of the decisions about distributing assets, build- was an NROTC student at Penn, and after Class of 1958, writes, “I recently received ing trust, and planning their end-of-life graduation I served as a US Navy supply information from the University, which I care. Our aim is to inspire readers to grow officer until 1960, when I joined the Sears would like to share with the Class of ‘58. in wisdom and the capacity to forgive and catalog division. During my 33-year career Our endowed scholarship has a current accept vulnerability.” at Sears, I moved from the ranks in catalog market value of $375,000 and income in George Felbin Ar’59 was the architect stores management and group and terri- excess of $19,000. Many classmates may for a barn renovation in Sergeantsville, tory management to hold national catalog remember that the fund was established New Jersey. The project was published in management positions in Chicago. My in 1993 to provide renewable scholarships a book by James Garrison, titled At Home breadth of catalog experience offered me a to freshmen with financial need. Also, a in the American Barn.

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Who’s Who published a summary of my account book is the earliest and most com- 1960 career.” Irving is best known for his work plete to have survived from any cabinet- Dr. Roger B. Daniels M’60, a clinical in domestic and international corporate maker working in British North America associate professor at Thomas Jefferson tax law and controversies. As a philanthro- or Great Britain. Thousands of transactions University Hospital, has been awarded the pist, he also serves on the boards of various over a thirty-five-year period (1718–1753) Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award arts organizations, including the Boston record the goods and services by which from the American College of Physicians for Symphony Orchestra. He adds, “My son, Head, and the hundreds of tradesmen with devoting his career to the care of patients. Joshua Plotkin, and daughter-in-law, Alice whom he did business, sought to barter Dr. Richard Labowskie C’60 writes, Chen Plotkin, both teach at Penn.” their way to prosperity in the New World.” “My wife, Marilyn Sanborne L’81, and I traveled to San Francisco recently to visit our Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 son Mark (alas, Columbia ‘06), who teaches creative writing at Stanford. While we were 1964 1969 there, Mabel Miyasaki Ed’60 came up Craig Kuhner C’64 GAr’70 has coau- Jeffrey Jubelirer W’69 released a new from San Jose, and we had a delightful day thored a new book with Alan Ward, titled book of poetry, titled Awareness of Addic- with lunch at the deYoung Museum in Gold- American Residential Architecture: Photo- tions and Recovery from Despair, available en Gate Park. Classmates can be assured that graphs of the Evolution of Indiana Houses on Amazon. Mabel has lost none of her well-known ef- (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers). Craig writes, Senator Tim Sheldon W’69, has been fervescence. We reconnected at the 50th “The research and photography was done reelected to the Washington State Senate. Reunion, stayed in touch, and seriously plan from 1973 to 1978, while Alan and I were Tim is presently the longest-serving legis- on attending the 60th Reunion, fast ap- teaching architecture at Ball State Univer- lator in the State’s house and senate. He proaching. As for myself, I keep busy with sity in Indiana. Alan, now a principle of Sa- writes, “My wife, Linda, and I live on the some longtime antiquarian pursuits follow- saki and Associates in Watertown, Massa- Olympic Peninsula, where we sell logs, ing a varied career in pediatrics, the phar- chusetts, and I, professor emeritus in the gravel, and oysters from our tree farm.” maceutical industry, occupational medicine, College of Architecture at the University of Tim invites alumni contact at timothy. and 33 years commissioned service in the Texas at Arlington, after 37 years, decided it [email protected]. Naval Reserve Medical Corps, including 10 is time to make a book of the photographs. interspersed years on active duty.” The publication highlights the changing expression of architectural styles, both exte- 1970 rior and interior, of significant Indiana Bob Anthony W’70, already the lon- 1962 homes from 1804 to 1978—from Federal to gest-serving current utility commissioner Jay Bear W’62 writes, “Thank you for Gothic Revival, Romanesque to Prairie Style, in the nation, won election to a sixth con- publishing the notes about our small class Art Deco to Late Modern—celebrating each secutive six-year term on the Oklahoma gathering in Las Vegas last fall in the period’s distinctive architectural massing Corporation Commission last November. Jan|Feb 2019 issue. Please note that the list and design features, as well as interior spac- omitted one of our distinct and beloved es. The book explores the essence of Indiana classmates, who was also in attendance. homes through black-and-white photogra- 1971 Conrad Foa W’62 attended and also en- phy, using large-format view cameras.” Dayton Duncan C’71 is the writer and tertained us with his wonderful skills as a Michael H. Levin C’64’s new book of lead producer of the 16-hour documentary jazz pianist.” poetry, Man Overboard: New and Selected series Country Music, directed by Ken Poems, met positive reviews in the Decem- Burns, which will be broadcast in Septem- ber 12 online edition of the Washington ber on PBS. He is also the author of the 1963 Independent Review of Books. companion book, published by Alfred A. Irving Plotkin W’63 writes, “I gradu- Knopf, to be released at the same time. ated from Wharton in 1963, and then, Dayton writes, “This will be my 13th book thanks to strong recommendations from 1968 and my seventh collaboration with Burns my professors, I moved on to MIT for a Jay Robert Stiefel C’68 G’71 has re- on a documentary film.” PhD in economics under Paul Samuelson. leased a new book, The Cabinetmaker’s Ac- Arnie Holland W’71 L’74 writes, “My Upon my recent retirement from Pricewa- count: John Head’s Record of Craft and company, Lightyear Entertainment, released terhouse Coopers as the managing director Commerce in Colonial Philadelphia, 1718– the Australian crime thriller film Goldstone of National Tax Services, the Marquis 1753. From the book jacket: “John Head’s in 2018 to great American reviews. In 2019

78 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 we are releasing the exciting Irish prison- Gerald Grygo SW’75 is a retired social Ezekiel Granor C’78 GEE’81 Gr’86, break film Maze and another fine Australian worker who served for 38 years with the have just completed 14 years as copresi- film, Jirga. Jirga, about a soldier who re- Bucks County Children and Youth Social dents of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of turns to Afghanistan to seek redemption, Services Agency. He was also a member of Greater Philadelphia, a charity providing was Australia’s submission to the 2019 Acad- the 1967 men’s cross country team at Gan- no-interest, no-cost loans to needy indi- emy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. non University, during his undergraduate viduals and those requiring fertility treat- Our 2017 Oscar nominee, Tanna, another years. In February, this team was inducted ments in the Philadelphia area, as well as Australian export, is streaming now on into Gannon’s Athletics Hall of Fame. to start-up businesses. Marshal is a fellow , and a more unique and in the College of Community Association beautiful film would be hard to find. And, Lawyers and practices real estate law from due to our 38-year relationship with Jane 1976 his office in Horsham, Pennsylvania. Fonda, we now have seven of the original Dr. Ron Kaiser Gr’76, a licensed psy- Tim Kelly W’77, along with his wife, Jane Fonda Workout programs, available on chologist in private practice, has authored Jane, recently thru-hiked the entire 2,190- DVD and digital, as well as a collector’s Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of mile Appalachian Trail (from Maine to boxed set. Lightyear has released over 120 Growing Older with Enthusiasm. Ron also ) over a period of five and a half independent films and a whole lot of music serves as a director of psychology at the months. Tim writes, “I received some lo- since its founding in 1987 as a management Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jef- gistics support on the AT from my former from RCA. I’m loving life in Studio ferson University Hospital. Penn roommate, now in California, Mark City, California, with my wife, Carol.” Michael P. Malloy L’76 has written the Iwanowski ME’77. It was fabulous but first 2019 supplement for the three-volume more difficult than expected, and I would treatise Banking Law and Regulation, pub- recommend against attempting it all at 1972 lished by Wolters Kluwer. In it, he offers up- once. Instead, hike in sections, or follow Barbara Barbour PT’72’s photography to-date coverage of current developments in the advice of my other Penn roommate, was on display in the University Club’s the regulation of depository institutions. Dr. Gary Stilwell W’77: do it 40 years Burrison Gallery during the month of Feb- David C. Singer C’76 is the editor and ago.” Both of Kelly’s children, Geoffrey S. ruary. The show was titled Here on Earth. coauthor of a new legal treatise, Arbitrat- Kelly C’07 and Laura A. Kelly C’09 ing Commercial Disputes in the United Gr’16, attended Penn. States, published by Practicing Law Insti- Louise I. Shelley Gr’77 has authored 1973 tute. David writes, “After 37 years practic- a new book, Dark Commerce: How a New Seth Bergmann GEE’73 writes, “On No- ing law as a civil trial attorney, including Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future. vember 17, I ran the Rothman Institute 8K 28 years as a partner at Dorsey & Whitney Louise, who is a professor at George race in Philadelphia, finishing in 36:26, good LLP, I’ve opened my own shop as an inde- Mason University, writes, “I wrote this for third place among men 65 and older.” pendent arbitrator and mediator, special- book while an initial Andrew Carnegie fel- izing in complex commercial contracts, low, and I discussed it on NPR’s Market- business transactions, employment, dis- place on Thanksgiving. It was also picked 1975 tributorships, telecommunications, real as book of the week by Nature scientific Brad Borkan C’75 Gr’79 writes, “The estate, and international matters.” journal for the week of November 28.” audiobook for my book, When Your Life Joel Stone GCh’76 received the 2019 David van Hoogstraten C’77 G’77 re- Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Thomas Champion for Industry Award from cently began serving as associate general Lessons from the Antarctic, was a finalist in Thomas, a product sourcing, supplier selec- counsel of the Peace Corps at its headquar- the Voice Arts Awards’ Best Audiobook— tion, and marketing solutions provider. Joel ters in Washington, DC. History category. Voice Arts Awards are like is chief technology officer and board chair the Oscars for the spoken word. The red at the biotech company Fermentum. carpet event took place at Warner Bros. 1978 Studios in Hollywood, California, and was Michael B. Aronson W’78 was hon- hosted by Sigourney Weaver and other ce- 1977 ored by the Penn Champions Club with the lebrities. In addition, I was recently invited Marshal Granor C’77 is the real prop- H. Hunter Lott Jr. Award during the Fall to give a talk on the life-and-death decisions erty vice chair of the Pennsylvania Bar As- Athletics Board of Overseers Meeting, held made by the early Antarctic explorers (the sociation’s Real Property, Probate and during Homecoming Weekend. Michael, subject of the book) at the Scott Polar Re- Trust Law Section, and will be section a member of the Penn Basketball Sports search Institute in Cambridge, England.” chair in 2019. Marshal and his wife, Tamar Board, was instrumental in helping Penn

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Athletics raise the necessary funds to re- ton Friends Meetinghouse. M. Kelly pro- tory Plays.” David can be found online at brand the Tse Center Atrium, which con- vided the introductory and concluding re- davidweiss.academia.edu. nects the Palestra corridor with Hutchin- marks, in which he stated, “To the extent son Gym, as the Class of 1978 and Class of that this small token on the roadside can 1979 Atrium, where Penn’s 1979 Final Four educate and inspire others to act and speak 1983 team was honored in January. as Benjamin Lay did in the face of gross Jerry Epstein W’83 L’86 writes, “In Tamar Ezekiel Granor C’78 GEE’81 injustice, what we do here today will have October, I retired after 25 wonderful years Gr’86 writes, “I continue to run my custom been well worth the effort.” practicing law at Jenner & Block. I’m ex- software business, Tomorrow’s Solutions, cited to begin anew as a litigation consul- from our home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. tant for the Natural Resources Defense Since the 2016 election, I have been involved 1981 Council in Washington, DC. I’ll be helping in political activism, including creating the Dr. Alyson K. Buchalter D’81 writes, NRDC’s talented and dedicated team fight website Acts of Conscience (actsofconscience. “I have the honor of being the 2019 presi- for safe drinking water and clean air.” com) to aggregate actions generated by oth- dent of the Second District Dental Society. ers and allow people to filter based on their The SDDS is the local component of the interests and abilities. My own activism in- New York State Dental Association and the 1986 cluded trips to Alabama, Pittsburgh, and American Dental Association, represent- Ben Bell WG’86 writes, “I am pleased Kansas to canvass for Doug Jones, Conor ing approximately 1,500 dentists from to announce that I have recently accepted Lamb C’06 L’09, and Laura Kelly, respec- Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York.” the position of president of the Southwest tively, as well as lots of canvassing in the Dr. Gregg Coodley C’81 has published region for the Signatry, a global Christian Philadelphia area and phone banking for his fourth book, The Good Monarchs: His- foundation whose mission is to inspire and Democratic candidates around the country. tory’s Greatest Kings, Queens, Emperors, facilitate radical biblical generosity. The My husband, Marshal Granor C’77, and I Sultans and Caliphs. It is his second book Signatry was founded in 2000 and has as- have just finished a long term as copresidents on a historical topic. Gregg is a primary care sets under management of about $800 of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of Greater internal medicine physician at the Fanno million. We seek to be a conduit between Philadelphia, which offers no-interest, no-fee Creek Clinic in southwest Portland, Oregon. donors and charities using donor-advised loans to members of the Philadelphia Jewish Marilyn Sanborne L’81 see Dr. Rich- funds to maximize giving. I am the first community in need, as well as to local Jews ard Labowskie C’60. and only employee in Texas, and I look seeking fertility treatment, and to people (of forward to penetrating the Southwest to any faith or no faith) starting businesses in facilitate giving in this region.” the area. We are being succeeded as presi- 1982 Charles S. Marion C’86 W’86 L’89, a dent by Amy Krulik GCP’91.” Robert Carley C’82, an artist based in partner at Blank Rome, has been appoint- Connecticut, shared letters and art with ed cochair of the Franchise Law Commit- Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 2014. A few tee of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s years ago, he had the chance to meet the Business Law Section. 1979 former president and presented him with a Dr. Rodney Sherman C’86 writes, “I Mark Shwartz C’79 G’80 writes, “I’ve couple of framed caricatures. Carley was just achieved a milestone in my career, be- happily returned to Manhattan to join recently interviewed by News 12 about this coming the US regional director of medical Ness Technologies as chief legal officer and encounter, following Bush’s death, and the affairs, Lung Cancer, for Merck Oncology.” corporate secretary of this global enter- video clip can be seen at bit.ly/2AKMHMZ. prise encompassing 25 companies and Robert is also an increasingly busy back- 4,000 employees focused on delivering ground actor in movies and television, and 1987 customized digital engineering solutions in an episode of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, he Greg Adler C’87 and Marilyn Schwartz across all industries.” played a hostage with a gun held to his head. Adler WG’91 celebrated the marriage of M. Kelly Tillery L’79, a partner at Pep- David S. Weiss C’82 W’82 WG’90 has their daughter Samantha to Daniel Schub per Hamilton LLP, helped erect a historical obtained a PhD in English literature from in November. Greg writes, “In addition to marker in Abington, Pennsylvania, to honor the University of Birmingham (UK) and maid of honor Melissa Adler, who is a rising the early Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay, the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford- freshman at Penn, Penn attendees includ- also known as “Little Benjamin” because of Upon-Avon. His doctoral thesis was titled ed David Brail W’87, College senior Anna his small physical stature. A dedication cer- “Samuel Daniel’s First Four Books of the Cappell, Jacob Doft W’91, Suzanne emony was held in September at the Abing- Civil Wars and Shakespeare’s Early His- Weiss Doft C’92, James Godman C’87,

80 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Eric Green WG’91, Clint Greenbaum WG’83, Elisa Fishbein Greenbaum WG’83, Marko Issever G’84 WG’84, ALUMNI IN BUSINESS New York Real Estate Expert Richard Linhart W’83, Morris Massel A guide for Gazette readers seeking to reach /3#(!Ũ€Ũ &&#(!Ũ€Ũ (.#(! C’94, Michael Moffson WG’87, Laura the business services of Penn graduates. Jane F. Katz Siegel Rabinowitz C’86, Wharton senior Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sophie Rose, College senior Aerin Rosen- m 917.887.5309 | o 212.360.2288 , James Shenwick W’79, Nancy [email protected] feld 1226 Madison Ave. Tepper W’87, Jeffrey Tepper W’87, and New York, NY 10128 College senior Jeremy Wilson.” Dr. Michael A. Balk M’87 GM’90 writes, “After 20 years at Northside Hos- pital, culminating as medical director of Boston’s Go-To Prosthodontist the Heart and Vascular Institute, I left and Computer enhanced dentistry All-on-4 implant procedures joined Emory Health Care as chief quality CAD/CAM crowns Impeccable aesthetics officer of Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital. In Advanced reconstructions Periodontist in the practice my current role, I oversee all aspects of 30-year outstanding reputation patient safety and hospital quality of a Why accept mediocre … See a specialist Brown ’83 & UPenn Dental ’86 large tertiary medical center.” Tufts Prosthodontics ’89 Ryne S. Johnson, DMD Mary Jo Pauxtis Daley WEv’87 G’01 www.NewtonWellesleyDentalPartners.com writes, “On January 1, I was sworn in for a fourth term to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.” 1988 Jennifer Goldman Abadi C’88 will give a public talk about her new cookbook, Too Good to Passover: Sephardic and Ju- deo-Arabic Seder Menus and Memories from Africa, Asia and Europe, on March 28. The event, which takes place on Penn’s campus, is sponsored by the Penn Jewish Studies Program and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. More informa- tion can be found at bit.ly/2DcjTPo. 1989Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 Lynch W. Hunt Jr. EAS’89 writes, “Thanks to all of my friends and work as- sociates who have mentored me, inspired me, and worked with me over the years in several professional and personal groups! I just found out that I’m a 2018 winner of a Bank of America (BofA) Global Diversity and Inclusion Award for starting and run- For advertising information, contact ning a mentoring program for a BofA em- Linda Caiazzo at [email protected] ployee network, the Black Professional 215-898-6811; Fax: 215-573-4812 Group (BPG)! The program has been up

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and running for two years and now has 20 books under her pen name Jenny Jen, the Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 mentors mentoring 30 mentees! I’m Skate Woman. With titles such as My First blessed and humbled to be among 135 Skate Book and My First Skating Rink Ad- 1999 award recipients selected from more than venture, the books teach both children and Caryn Beth Lazaroff Gold W’99 writes, 1,750 nominees from across the company’s adults how to “roll with control” on inline “Benjamin Gold and I welcomed our son, 200,000 employees! My title at BofA is as- and quad skates. Jennifer wrote her thesis Shane Bernard, to the world at 8:20 a.m. on sistant vice president, retirement product for Wharton on skating and was profiled in January 1, weighing 6 pounds, 7 ounces, manager. This leadership award demon- the Nov|Dec 2005 Gazette. She writes, “My and measuring 19 inches long. Ben, Shane, strates my passion and advocacy for inclu- focus is promoting education, skating, and and I live in Holden, Massachusetts, and sion while leading professional develop- safety.” Her books can be found on Amazon. wish everyone a very happy new year.” ment! For those of you who actually know Vanessa Hernandez Vance Nu’99 has me, you’ve heard or read my professional founded a parent coaching company called and personal mottos: Each one reach one! 1991 Parent Heroes. Vanessa writes, “I am a cer- Spread the word! Onward and upward!” Marilyn Schwartz Adler WG’91 see tified child sleep consultant, working with Greg Adler C’87. children ages four months to five years old. Amy Krulik GCP’91 see Tamar Eze- I provide virtual coaching to parents, help- 1990 kiel Granor C’78 GEE’81 Gr’86. ing them teach their little ones how to sleep. David J. Glass C’90 has authored, Mov- I work part-time at Dell Children’s Medical ing On: Redesigning Your Emotional, Fi- Center of Central Texas, in the newborn nancial, and Social Life After Divorce. 1995 ICU, as a registered nurse.” In September, David writes, “The book details the steps Dr. Kenneth N. Sable EAS’95 writes, Vanessa received the Austin (Texas) Birth a newly divorced person should take in the “Just wanted to share that as of October 1, Award for Best Sleep Consultant. year after their divorce is finalized to help I was promoted to regional president, them achieve their ‘second chance at hap- Southern Market for Hackensack Merid- piness.’ It is available on Amazon.” David ian Health, where I oversee Jersey Shore 2000 has worked as a therapist and divorce at- University Medical Center and K. Hovna- Sammy Y. Sugiura Jr. W’00 has joined torney, and he is also an adjunct instructor nian Children’s Hospital in Neptune, New Edgar Snyder & Associates as an employ- of law and ethics at the American College Jersey; Ocean Medical Center in Brick, ment law attorney. of Professional Psychology. New Jersey; and Southern Ocean Medical Jennifer Goldstein WEv’90, a skate Center in Manahawkin, New Jersey.” instructor, has authored a series of comic 2001 Montana Butsch C’01 is founder and 1996 CEO of Spotivity, a mobile app catering to Rabbi Yered Michoel (Jared) Viders high school students that helps link them FOLLOW US C’96 has authored a new book, Seize the with extracurricular activities, tutors, and Moment! Finding Meaningfulness in the mentors. The free app launched in Chi- Here and Now, published by Feldheim cago but will soon expand to other cities. ONLINE Publishers. Elizabeth Tabas Carson C’01 has joined Reed Smith as a partner in its Financial Industry Group. Liz is dually qualified to 1998 practice in New York and Pennsylvania. Janice Ferebee SW’98 has been elected Kira Rosen Dabby C’01 has been pro- as the Ward 2 Advisory Neighborhood Com- moted to partner at her law firm, Archer missioner (ANC) for Single Member District & Greiner, P.C., based on her work in litiga- 2F08, in Washington, DC. Janice writes, “I tion and government affairs. She writes, am excited to serve my two-year term as “I am very excited to begin this new chap- one of 296 ANCs in Washington, DC, each ter in my career.” serving approximately 2,000 residents, as Ariel S. Glasner C’01 W’01 has been THEPENNGAZETTE.COM well as public space, business, education, elected partner at Blank Rome LLP. Ariel and religious neighbors. I continue to ded- works in white collar defense and investiga- icate myself to the service of others.” tions in the firm’s Washington, DC, office.

82 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Jon Hoffenberg W’01 is president of er Bear (four), welcomed Zoey Jay Zweifler EAS’13, Lucy Medrich C’11, Jason Joo YellowTelescope, which owns SEOversite. to our family in October. We live in Center EE’10, Gabrielle Matouk Gilliland C’08 com, iScreamSocialMedia.com, and Yel- City, Philadelphia, where I am a Realtor GFA’09, Jason Gilliland C’12, Jacinda lowTelescope Consulting. YellowTelescope, with BHHS Fox & Roach.” Li W’11, Jeff Thesien W’09, Xavier which provides medical training, staffing, Yang W’09, and Peter Hua EAS’08. Cyril and long-term oversight for hospitals, was graduated in 2001 from the Massachusetts named one of Inc. magazine’s “5,000 Fast- 2006 Institute of Technology.” est Growing Companies in America” and Stephanie Gantman Kaplan C’06 has was named the “No. 7 Fastest Growing been elected partner at Blank Rome LLP. Company in South Florida” by the South She concentrates her practice on labor and 2011 Florida Business Journal in 2018. employment litigation in the firm’s Phila- Julia McWilliams GEd’11 Gr’16 Gr’17, Ray Valerio C’01, assistant district at- delphia office. a lecturer in Penn’s Critical Writing Pro- torney in Bronx County, New York, was re- Georgee Thevervelil C’06 has joined gram, has written an ethnographic study of cently honored with the Thomas E. Dewey Blank Rome LLP as an associate in the one of Philadelphia’s chronically under- Medal from the New York City Bar Associa- Corporate, M&A, and Securities Group. funded neighborhood schools. The book is tion. Ray, who is also president of the Class titled Compete or Close: Traditional Neigh- of 2001, led the implementation of the borhood Schools Under Pressure and will be NYPD’s body camera program. He writes, “It 2007 released in late March. has been my great pleasure to serve Bronx Rachel Friedman C’07 has been elect- William F. Moen Jr. G’11 was elected County as a prosecutor for nearly 15 years.” ed partner at Burr & Forman LLP. She is a to a second term as a member of the Cam- member of the firm’s Financial Services den County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Litigation Practice Group. Additionally, William continues to serve 2002 as the Southern New Jersey director for Dana Klinek Pinter C’02 writes, “My Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 United States Senator Cory A. Booker. husband, Jason, and I welcomed our sec- ond daughter, Lyla Sage, into the world on 2009 November 14. She joins big sister Ava in Andrew Todres C’09 and Laura Korn- 2013 Hoboken, New Jersey, where I am a con- hauser were married on October 20, at Bry- Jason Gui EAS’13 W’13 is founder of tent development manager at Pearson and ant Park Grill in New York. Andrew writes, Vigo Technologies, makers of Bluetooth Jason is the founder and publisher of the “I am a litigation associate in the New York headsets and smart glasses. Jason was book publishing company Polis Books.” office of the law firm Ropes & Gray LLP, and named to MIT’s “Innovators Under 35” list Laura is a success consultant in the New for 2019. In addition, in 2018, he was fea- York office of LinkedIn. A very large Penn tured on the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list for 2003 contingent was in attendance, including my the same work. David Gringer C’03 was named part- parents, Susan Molofsky Todres CW’75 ner at WilmerHale on January 1. David is WG’77 and Michael Todres WG’73; my a Washington, DC-based member of the brother Stephen Todres C’14; groomsmen 2017 firm’s Litigation/Controversy Department Adam Sherman W’09, Joshua Wilson Benjamin “BJ” Jones LPS’17, presi- and Government and Regulatory Litiga- C’09, and Jonathan Zane C’09; and dent and CEO of Battery Park City Author- tion Practice Group. many other friends and family.” ity, was named one of Manhattan’s 50 most powerful people by City & State magazine. Celebrate Your Reunion: May 17–19, 2019 The list recognized “key players in the 2010 world of New York politics and govern- 2004 Barbara Wei C’10 writes, “I married my ment ... based on their achievements, eco- Shahnaz Radjy C’04 writes, “My hus- childhood sweetheart, Cyril Lan, in Septem- nomic clout, philanthropic efforts, their band and I are renovating a little piece of ber at Herrington on the Bay, in Maryland. influence with powerful politicians and paradise in rural Portugal and plan to open Bridesmaids included Rosie Li C’11 G’11 the constituencies they represent.” a B&B-style farmstay in 2020. Follow our and Erin Li C’11. The large Penn party con- Meredith L. Mill L’17 has joined Blank progress on Instagram @TheCramooz.” sisted of Omar Khan C’12, Celine Kosian Rome LLP as an associate in the firm’s Cor- Kate Jay Zweifler C’04 writes, “My C’10, Andres Velazquez EAS’11 G’11, porate, M&A, and Securities Group. husband, Jon, and I, along with big broth- Melody Chan W’11 WG’19, Sandy Sun

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Please send notifications of deaths 1933 generous gifts to the Philadelphia Museum of alumni directly to: Alumni Records, Edna Mazer Rosenberg FA’33, Pikes- of Art and its adjacent Perelman Building, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 300, ville, MD, a retired public relations director the Kimmel Center and Perelman Theater, 2929 Walnut Street, Phila., PA 19104 for an insurance company; Oct. 24, at 106. the Perelman Jewish Day School, and many EMAIL [email protected] other Jewish cultural and welfare organiza- Newspaper obits are appreciated. 1938 tions. Both the Children’s Hospital of Phila- Mary “Ruth” Bassett Ed’38 GEd’40, delphia and Drexel University have honored Drexel Hill, PA, Nov. 4, at 101. At Penn, she his extraordinary support by naming areas came assistant to the chair of the founda- was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. of their campuses in his honor. He served tion, and then business administrator in as a flight officer in World War II. His sons 1984 before retiring in 1987. 1939 are Ronald O. Perelman W’64 WG’66 and Mary Hurd Goodwillie DH’42, York, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Barlow Quin- Jeffrey E. Perelman W’71 WG’73, whose wife PA, a former dental hygienist; Nov. 15. tavalle Ed’39, New York, a retired public is Marsha Reines Perelman GCP’74. His school kindergarten teacher in New York grandchildren include Joshua G. Perelman 1943 City; Sept. 29, at 102. C’93, Steven Golding Perelman WG’93 L’94, Edward L. Fenimore ChE’43, Berwyn, Hope G. Perelman C’95, Samantha O. Perel- PA, retired president of the Philadelphia 1940 man C’12, and Alison Perelman Gr’13. Chewing Gum Corporation; Oct. 30. In Raymond G. Perelman W’40 Hon’14, over 50 years of manufacturing bubble Philadelphia, a philanthropist who, with 1941 gum and other confectionery products, he his wife, the late Ruth Caplan Perelman, Betty Brodsky Garfield CW’41, Jupi- worked with his father, former Penn chem- made numerous gifts to Penn, and for ter, FL, a former bookkeeper for a wallpa- ical engineering professor Edward P. Fen- whom the Perelman School of Medicine is per company; Oct. 31. imore, to improve the flavor and chew- named; Jan. 14, at 101. The son of a Lithu- Judith Zander Gross CW’41, Bala ability of bubble gum by adapting products anian immigrant, Perelman became a part- Cynwyd, PA, a former teacher and civil and processes originally developed for ner in his father’s company, the cardboard- rights activist; Nov. 1. wartime use. He served in the US Navy tube maker American Paper Products, ex- Robert M. Taubman W’41, Baltimore, during World War II. At Penn, he was a panding it into the metals business. Over retired CEO of Taubman Properties, which member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. the course of his career, he bought, grew, owns and manages shopping malls; Nov. Two sons are David H. Fenimore C’73 and and sold dozens of companies, continuing 5, 2017. Richard L. Fenimore C’75, and his daugh- to do business into his 90s. He was presi- Amy Markovitz Zeckhauser CW’41, ter is Carol Fenimore Gerson CGS’78. dent and chairman of RGP Holdings, a pri- Buffalo, NY, an artist, poet, and commu- Leo Phaff W’43, Albany, NY, a retired vate holding company comprised of a vast nity volunteer; Dec. 8. At Penn, she was a business executive and volunteer for sev- array of manufacturing, mining, and finan- member of the women’s swimming team. eral Jewish causes; Nov. 19. He served in cial interests. The Ruth and Raymond Perel- She returned to Penn in 2016 to attend her the US Army during World War II. man Center for Advanced Medicine opened 75-year reunion, writing to the Gazette that in 2008, thanks to the Perelman’s $25 mil- it was a “highlight of my long life.” 1944 lion gift. In addition, the couple made a Dolores Grote Kelty Ed’44, Yardley, historic $225 million gift that created a 1942 PA, Nov. 8. permanent endowment for Penn’s School Carroll Warren Bennett G’42, Apex, James C. Lurba W’44, Farnham, VA, of Medicine in 2011, and they established NC, a retired supervisor at Dupont; April Sept. 15, 2017. At Penn, he was a member the first endowed professorship devoted to 18. He served in the US Army Air Corps of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the light- an active, full-time clinician, the Ruth C. during World War II. weight football and wrestling teams. and Raymond G. Perelman Professorship Mildred “Milly” Brill CW’42, Bryn in Internal Medicine. He also served on the Mawr, PA, a retired employee at Penn’s 1945 Perelman School of Medicine’s Board of School of Education and Wharton; Nov. 1. Alice Farr Cowles DH’45, Savannah, Trustees. “His impact on the University of She started at Penn as a stenographer in GA, a retired dental hygienist; Nov. 4. Pennsylvania, the Perelman School of Med- the School of Education in 1941 and went Bertha Watts Gerrard GEd’45, Short icine, and our city was nothing short of on to become chief clerk before transfer- Hills, NJ, a professor of education at Vir- transformative, and it was an honor to have ring to Wharton as an administrative as- ginia State College; June 1, 2016. his partnership,” said President Amy Gut- sistant for the S. S. Huebner Foundation Dennis E. McLellan W’45, Ormond mann. Beyond Penn, the Perelmans made for Insurance Education. In 1974, she be- Beach, FL, a retired funeral home director;

84 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Nov. 2. He served in the US Navy during Robert W. Devonshire W’48, Mercer, Henry J. Devuono WEv’49, South- World War II. At Penn, he was a member PA, retired director of Spanish operations ampton, PA, a retired steel company ex- of the heavyweight rowing team. for US Steel; Oct. 31. He served in the US ecutive; Nov. 22. He served in the US Army Army Air Forces during World War II. during World War II. 1946 Caroline A. Hetzel Ed’48, Media, PA, Raymond S. Drain EF’49, Reading, John A. Carluccio W’46, Wayne, NJ, a a retired kindergarten teacher; Nov. 12. At PA, a retired bank comptroller; Dec. 6, 2017. retired packing engineer for Avon Prod- Penn, she was a member of Delta Delta Forrest “Rod” Farrow Jr. C’49, Mill ucts; Nov. 7. He served in the US Army dur- Delta sorority. Valley, CA, a retired advertising executive ing World War II. His son is John M. Car- Herbert S. Kalish G’48, Manchester, and consultant; Nov. 15. He served in the luccio W’76. VT, a technical engineer who developed US Army during the Korean War. At Penn, Charles G. Fickes Jr. W’46, Cornwall, machine cutting tool technology for Ad- he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fra- PA, a retired business instructor at Penn amas Carbide; Aug. 1, 2016. He served in ternity, Penn Players, Sphinx Senior Soci- State University and former insurance ex- the US Army during World War II ety, and the cheerleading team. ecutive; Nov. 27. He served in the US Army Jane H. Kesson Mu’48 G’50, Jenkin- Charles Kirschbaum W’49, West Palm during World War II. At Penn, he was a town, PA, a retired music teacher in the Beach, FL, Oct. 27, 2017. member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Abington School District; March 5, 2017. Wesley A. Radcliffe W’49, Trumbull, Frederick E. Welte W’46 GEd’51, Glen Robert P. Murray W’48, Waterbury, CT, a retired banking executive; Oct. 26. He Mills, PA, a retired school district business VT, a retired real estate executive; Oct. 27. served in the US Navy during World War II. manager; Nov. 16. He served in the US Navy At Penn, he was a member of Phi Gamma Donald J. Ross C’49, Pensacola, FL, during World War II and the Korean War. At Delta fraternity. Nov. 2. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta Penn, he was a member of the baseball team. Dr. Richard D. Rettew C’48, Lancast- Beta Tau fraternity. Dr. Milton M. Yarmy GM’46, Youngs- er, NY, a retired pastor at Lancaster (NY) town, OH, a retired physician who main- Presbyterian Church; Oct. 29. 1950 tained a practice for 53 years; Dec. 11, at 107. Dr. Maurice J. Smith V’48, Mercer- William B. Davidson WG’50, Wheaton, ville, NJ, a retired veterinarian who owned IL, a retired real estate broker and former 1947 Quaker Bridge Animal Hospital in Hamil- American Motors executive; Nov. 17. He Charles B. Hedrick WG’47, Cincin- ton, NJ; Oct. 15. One son is Dr. Mark W. served in the US Navy during World War II. nati, Feb. 4. Smith V’79. Stanley B. Disson EE’50, Broomall, Frank E. Kohlenberger Jr. W’47, Al- Jerome W. Stedman W’48, River PA, a retired engineering company execu- buquerque, NM, a retired business admin- Ridge, LA, a retired developer who was tive; Nov. 16. He held five patents and co- istrator and accountant; Oct. 20. He served heavily involved with the Louisiana Res- edited a popular engineering textbook. He in the US Navy during World War II. At taurant Association; March 29. He served was president of the Philadelphia chapter Penn, he was a member of Sigma Alpha in the US Air Force during World War II. of the Institute of Electrical and Electron- Epsilon fraternity, the wrestling team, Fri- William K. Weakland W’48, Laguna ics Engineers and helped to create a chap- ars, and Mask & Wig. Hills, CA, a retired aerospace executive; ter in Washington, DC. As a young man, Betta Zuzan Hirko Kriner EF’47, Nov. 11. He served in the US Navy during he served in the US Air Force. His son is State College, PA, a retired high school World War II and the Korean War. Stephen L. Disson W’75 WG’76. business teacher and former instructor at Alfred Weissenbach Jr. W’48, Lin- Edwin H. Gessel G’50, Newtown, MA, Penn State; Nov. 14. colnshire, IL, Nov. 27. He served in the US retired head of an employment agency in Army during World War II and the Korean Dayton, OH; Nov. 14. He served in the US 1948 War. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Ep- Army Signal Corps during World War II. Sanford A. Bookstein W’48, Albany, silon Pi fraternity. One son is Michael D. Gessel C’76. NY, a retired real estate developer; July 14. Dr. Claude Brooks Henderson M’50, He served in the US Navy during the Ko- 1949 Gainesville, FL, a retired psychiatrist who rean War. At Penn, he was a member of William R. Chapin W’49, Reading, maintained a practice in Ocala, FL; Oct. 11. Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. PA, retired head of a lumber and supply He was the only psychiatrist practicing in John R. Boyer W’48, Moorestown, NJ, company; Nov. 13. At Penn, he was a mem- Marion County, FL, in the 1960s, when there a retired real estate executive; Nov. 22. He ber of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. was more of a stigma on mental health issues. served in the US Army during World War Hope Pauline Cramer CW’49, Union Mary Gilmore Huey HUP’50, Homo- II. At Penn, he was a member of Kappa Township, NJ, Feb. 19, 2018. At Penn, she was sassa, FL, July 4. She served in the US Sigma fraternity. a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Army Nurse Corps during the Korean War.

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Anthony R. Lipkin W’50, Delray Jane Gladfelter Chrstos Ed’51, Willow with industrial holdings in the Delaware Beach, FL, a CPA; Nov. 29. Grove, PA, a retired teacher; Oct. 4. Valley, and was extensively involved in Edward F. McGinley III W’50, Vil- Samuel E. Dennis W’51 L’54, Bala thoroughbred racing, operating the Robert lanova, PA, a retired investment banking Cynwyd, PA, a former managing partner P. Levy Stable, serving as chair of the At- executive and vice president of Goldman at the law firm Fox Rothschild; Nov. 12. At lantic City Racing Association, and owning Sachs; Nov. 11. He served in the US Navy Penn, he was a member of Sigma Alpha multiple champion racehorses. He joined during World War II. At Penn, he was a Mu fraternity, the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s Board of Trustees in 1971 and also member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and the Law Review. served on the board of overseers for the Friars, and the football team under legend- Charles D. Gangemi Mu’51 G’55, West School of Veterinary Medicine, the School ary coach George Munger, remaining one Chester, PA, professor emeritus of music of Dental Medicine, and Penn Athletics. of the most active “Mungermen” until his at West Chester University; March 13. He and his family made possible the Rob- death. One brother is Richard D. McGinley C. Lester Kinsolving C’51, Vienna, VA, ert P. Levy Tennis Pavilion, the Levy Center C’58. His late father, Edward F. McGinley a former Episcopal priest who went on to for Oral Health Research, the Paley Profes- Jr. W’25, and late brother, Gerald H. Mc- become a nationally syndicated columnist, sorship for the Dean of the School of De- Ginley W’52, were both former Penn foot- talk radio host, and White House corre- sign, and Blanche P. Levy Park in the cen- ball standouts. spondent; Dec. 4. He served in the US ter of campus. In 2003, he received the Dr. William J. Murtagh Ar’50 Gr’63, Army during World War II. Alumni Award of Merit. Outside of Penn, Sarasota, FL, a leader in historic preserva- Edwin L. Levy W’51, Marlton, NJ, Sept. he served as chair of the Philadelphia tion and retired keeper of the National 30, 2017. Sports Congress, helping to bring many Register of Historic Places; Oct. 28. Once Mary Jane Tobin Schillinger Ed’51, high-profile sporting events to the city, and called the “beloved pied piper of preserva- , Sept. 3. was appointed by President Ronald Rea- tion,” he also served as vice president of Inez Coleman Terry CW’51, West gan to the President’s Council on Physical the National Trust for Historic Preserva- Chester, PA, a former accountant with Fitness and Sports. As a student at Penn, tion and helped establish preservation AT&T; May 18, 2017. he was a member of Friars, WXPN, Zeta programs as a professor at Columbia Uni- Beta Tau fraternity, and the men’s tennis versity, the University of Maryland, and 1952 team, for which he was later inducted into the University of Hawaii. He wrote the Grace Verratti Defeo CW’52, Glen Penn’s Tennis and Athletics Halls of Fame. textbook Keeping Time: The History and Mills, PA, Nov. 27. At Penn, she was a mem- He served in the US Army Reserve Medical Theory of Preservation in America (1988). ber of Kappa Delta sorority. Corps during the Korean War. One son is Allan M. “Pete” Peterson W’50, Sa- Dr. John Z. Delp C’52, Willingboro, NJ, Michael T. Levy C’90, and two daughters vannah, GA, a retired healthcare execu- a retired pediatrician; Oct. 28. are Angela Levy Beck C’87 and Kathryn tive; Nov. 24. He served in the US Army Dr. Victoria Donohoe GFA’52, Bala Levy Feldman GGS’09, whose husband is during World War II and the Korean War. Cynwyd, PA, a former artist, historian, and David N. Feldman C’68 WG’80. Three At Penn, he was a member of Phi Gamma Philadelphia Inquirer art critic; Nov. 21. grandchildren are Alexander P. Feldman Delta fraternity and Friars. Peter W. Franck W’52, Hockessin, DE, C’05 GAr’08 GFA’08, Peter H. Feldman Gladys Young Pollack G’50, Montreal, a retired systems engineer at IBM; Nov. 16. C’07, and Ryder S. Finney C’13. a retired editor at Reader’s Digest; April He served in the US Air Force as a fighter Harry E. Mueller Jr. W’52, North Fort 17, 2017. . At Penn, he was a member of Pi Myers, FL, a retired real estate appraiser; Rolf Valtin G’50, Alexandria, VA, a re- Kappa Alpha fraternity and the men’s la- Nov. 8. At Penn, he was a member of Alpha tired labor mediator and arbitrator; Aug. crosse and swimming teams. Chi Rho fraternity. 1. He was a member of the US Olympic Robert P. Levy C’52, Bryn Mawr, PA, Anthony Panico Jr. ME’52, Linwood, soccer team at the 1948 Summer Games emeritus trustee at Penn and a well-known NJ, a retired engineer as well as a physics after an All-American soccer career at businessman and philanthropist; Nov. 7. and mathematics teacher; Oct. 29. He Swarthmore College. He served in the US A decorated Philadelphia sportsman who served in the US Army during the Korean Army during World War II as an interroga- spent decades mentoring young people at War. At Penn, he was a member of the tor of German prisoners of war. Penn through athletics, he founded the men’s heavyweight rowing team. Little Quakers, an all-star youth football Morton Poloway W’52, Palm Desert, 1951 team for boys in the Philadelphia region CA, a retired partner at an accounting Doris Cafeo Bugnolo Ed’51, Westmin- that still exists today, three years after firm; Sept. 12. ster, MA, a retired schoolteacher; Nov. 2. graduating. He was chair of DRT Indus- Dr. John L. Wilkins V’52, Willow Her sister is Marie Cafeo Manna Ed’49. tries, a Philadelphia-based conglomerate Street, PA, a retired veterinarian; Nov. 11.

86 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 He served in the US Marine Corps during 1954 Ruth Levitan Segal CW’54, Philadel- World War II. One son is Dr. David Wilkins Dr. Donald M. Bergen Jr. C’54, Sum- phia, Oct. 19. She was a longtime volunteer V’86, whose wife is Elizabeth Song Wilkins merville, SC, a retired dentist; Nov. 7. At for the Center City Residents’ Association WG’86. One grandson is John S. Wilkins, Penn, he was a member of Phi Kappa in Philadelphia. Her cousins are Stephen a rising freshman. Sigma fraternity. R. Levitan C’54 and Ralph S. Levitan W’58. John Boyd Bert Jr. W’54, Fort Pierce, Virginia Sudjian Tatarian CW’54, 1953 FL, a retired insurance executive; Nov. 23. Moorestown, NJ, Dec. 7. Dr. Robert G. Collmer Gr’53, Waco, At Penn, he was a member of Kappa TX, professor emeritus of English at Baylor Alpha Society and the men’s lightweight 1955 University; Nov. 21. rowing team. Dr. Ann Craver Andrews Nu’55 Edward F. Fritsch EF’53, Pottstown, Dr. Eugene A. Hildreth GM’54, Read- GrD’71, Mechanicsville, PA, a psycholo- PA, a retired lead company executive; Feb. ing, PA, professor emeritus of medicine at gist; Nov. 27. 21, 2018. He served in the US Navy as an Penn; Jan. 5, 2018. After first serving as an Dr. William Feldman Gr’55, Warmin- aviator during World War II. instructor of medicine in the Perelman ster, PA, a retired clinical chemist; Sept. Dr. Murray “Murf ” Klauber GD’53, School of Medicine, he went on to become 30. His wife is Rhoda Litt Feldman Ed’51. Longboat Key, FL, retired founder and CEO an associate professor in 1961 and associ- Theodore E. Grzelak C’55, , NJ, a of the old Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, ate dean in 1965. He also worked as a pro- retired IBM programmer; Oct. 21. He served which used to draw famous athletes, politi- fessor of clinical medicine as well as a in the US Army during the Korean War. cians, and celebrities to Longboat Key; Nov. professor in the department of allergy and Dr. E. Ralph Heinz M’55, Chapel Hill, 22. He was also a former orthodontist. immunology at Penn, while serving as the NC, professor emeritus and chief of neu- Hugh B. Parsons WEv’53, San Bruno, chief of medicine at Reading Hospital. roradiology at Duke University; Nov. 11. CA, a retired employee of ICI Americas, a Stanley A. Iniewicz W’54, Oxford, A leader in the neuroimaging community manufacturer and distributor of chemical OH, a retired manager for Visteon Corpo- and a pioneer in the subspecialty of pedi- products; Nov. 12. He served in the US ration; Aug. 8. He served in the US Army atric neuroradiology, he previously ran Army during World War II, earning the during World War II and the Korean War. departments at Emory University, Yale Bronze Star. At Penn, he was a member of the men’s University, and the University of Pitts- Nancy Hall-Kirwan Rinehart CW’53, track team. One daughter is Patricia In- burgh, building at Pitt one of the most Dallas, TX, a former financial planner, ten- iewicz Schuman W’87, and one grandson prestigious neuroradiology sections in nis instructor, and author; Dec. 4. At Penn, is Isaac S. Schuman W’18. the country. she was president of Delta Delta Delta so- Claire Brown Kaiser CW’54, Wilm- Wilmer “Bill” Loomis Jr. PT’55, rority and a member of the women’s la- ington, DE, Oct. 27. She worked in adver- Edgewater, MD, a retired physical thera- crosse, field hockey, and tennis teams. tising for a number of years and later stud- pist; Nov. 2. David N. Savitt L’53, Philadelphia, a ied horticulture at the Barnes Foundation. S. White Rhyne L’55, Kensington, MD, retired senior judge for Philadelphia’s Dr. Harry S. Riley D’54, Norfolk, VA, a retired attorney who practiced in Wash- Court of Common Pleas; Oct. 23. He a retired dentist; Nov. 26. He served in ington, DC, for nearly 50 years; Feb. 28, 2018. began serving on the Common Pleas the US Navy during World War II and the At Penn, he was editor of the Law Review. bench in 1974 and attained senior judge Korean War. James H. Shelton C’55, Mount Laurel, status in 1998, presiding over 800 homi- Adolph O. Schaefer Jr. W’54, Wash- NJ; a retired editor at McGraw Hill; Oct. cide cases. He previously worked as a trial ington Crossing, PA, an advertising execu- 13. He served in the US Army and later lawyer, court administrator, and Demo- tive; Aug. 31. His sister is Gretchen S. Jack- coached many youth sports teams. cratic legislator for the Pennsylvania son CW’59, whose husband is M. Roy Morton Stupp WEv’55, Tampa, FL, a House of Representatives. Jackson Jr. C’61. retired CPA; Dec. 4. He served in the US Edwin P. Stauffer C’53, Lewes, DE, Sanford L. Schniebolk C’54, Great Army during the Korean War. Dec. 15, 2017. Neck, NY, a retired light consultant; Aug. Frances Emanuel Tobin CW’55, Constance “Connie” Szmidt HUP’53, 7. He was president of the Penn Club of Haverford, PA, Oct. 24. She started the - Blackwood, NJ, Nov. 10, 2017. Long Island from 1975 to 1976 and acted ers Wives Fight for Lives Carnival, raising Dr. Morton S. Weinstein C’53 D’56, as an alumni recruiter for over 20 years. millions for Hahnemann Hospital. She was Mountainside, NJ, a retired dentist; Dec. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Alpha also instrumental in raising funds for the 5. At Penn, he was a member of Alpha Ep- fraternity. His wife is Sonia Brandt Wistar Institute. One daughter is Sharon silon Pi fraternity. One son is Eric Scott Schniebolk Ed’60, and one daughter is Tobin Kestenbaum W’83 WG’88, and one Weinstein W’92. Beth M. Schniebolk C’84. grandson is David T. Kestenbaum C’20.

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1956 Charles T. Morrow W’57, Medford, Eugene C. Capaldi C’59, Newtown Harry N. Bloch W’56, Stamford, CT, a NJ, a retired financial executive; Nov. 7. Square, PA, a retired environmental health retired financial executive; Dec. 29, 2017. Thomas F. Wilber W’57, Endwell, NY, and safety manager at ARCO Chemical At Penn, he was a member of Phi Epsilon retired owner of a family-run jewelry Company; Jan. 21, 2018. One son is Robert Pi fraternity. store; Dec. 5. At Penn, he was a member of E. Capaldi W’91. Robert L. Eichelberger C’56, Baton Beta Sigma Rho fraternity. Joseph J. Carlin L’59, Philadelphia, an Rouge, LA, a retired sales manager at IBM; attorney; Oct. 21, 2016. Nov. 15. He later worked as a career services 1958 Mitchel B. Craner W’59, New York, a coordinator at LSU. At Penn, he was a mem- Arthur W. Allen W’58, Seattle, Jan. 1, retired attorney who maintained a practice ber of the football and baseball teams. 2018. At Penn, he was a member of Tau for over 55 years; Oct. 19. At Penn, he was Dr. Natalia Isachuk Pazuniak Gr’56, Epsilon Phi fraternity. a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity Philadelphia, a former Ukrainian language Dr. Ronald S. Grober C’58, Port Saint and the Daily Pennsylvanian. One son is and literature professor at Penn; Oct. 12, Lucie, FL, a retired orthopedic surgeon; Matthew Lawrence Craner C’94 L’97, and 2017. She also taught at Manor College and Nov. 5. He built the Grober Center into a his brother is John A. Craner W’56. Macquarie University in Australia. sports medicine hub, resulting in a 20-year Edward A. Janse III C’59, Harwich Neil D. Zaentz W’56, New York, a re- relationship with the New York Mets. At Port, MA, Oct. 20. At Penn, he was a mem- tired investment manager; Dec. 16, 2017. Penn, he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi ber of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and Phi At Penn, he was a member of Tau Delta Phi fraternity and was instrumental in estab- Sigma Kappa fraternity. fraternity. lishing the University’s ice hockey program. Kenneth G. Keith GEd’59, Corning, Dr. Irving Zieper M’56, Greenacres, John Litzinger W’58, Bradenton, FL, NY, a retired physics and engineering sci- FL, a retired physician; Feb. 8, 2018. June 27. ences professor at Corning Community Dr. Ruth Addis Marcucci GM’58, Chal- College; Nov. 3. 1957 font, PA, a retired pediatrician; Sept. 17. Dr. Charles Kenneth Koster GM’59, Margaret “Peggy” Davidson PT’57, James E. Taylor WG’58, Gibsonville, Rocky River, OH, a retired ophthalmolo- Lewisburg, PA, a retired pediatric physical NC, a former CPA and owner of Discharge gist; Sept. 19. He served in the US Air Force therapist; Oct. 28. At Penn, she was a mem- Machining; Nov. 20. He served as an offi- through the World War II, Korea and Viet- ber of Delta Delta Delta sorority. cer in the US Army’s Finance Corps. nam era, retiring as a captain. Robert E. Dymsza W’57, Rio Rancho, Dr. Kenneth W. Werley GD’58, Camp Conrad W. Lach WG’59, Bethlehem, NM, a retired investment manager; April Hill, PA, a retired orthodontist; Nov. 18. He PA, a retired computer salesman; Oct. 23. 5, 2016. He served in the US Army. At Penn, served in the US Navy Dental Corps during Josephine W. March GEd’59, West he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta the Korean War. Chester, PA, a former elementary school fraternity. teacher; Oct. 30. Marilyn Chaskin Gordon HUP’57, 1959 Muriel Coward Schroeder GEd’59, Hazleton, PA, a former dress shop owner Warren B. Bastian WG’59, Ham- Reidsville, NC, a former computer applica- and camp nurse; Nov. 17. mondsport, NY, retired head of a sales tions teacher at Rockingham Community Seymour Kurland L’57, Philadelphia, a agency; April 27. He served in the US Navy College; Nov. 7. retired attorney who practiced for over 50 during the Korean War. Michael B. Tischman C’59, Scotch years specializing in antitrust law; Nov. 23. Joseph M. Bernstein W’59, Milwau- Plains, NJ, a retired attorney and founding He was also a former chancellor of the Phil- kee, a retired attorney specializing in real partner of what is now called Sills Cummis adelphia Bar Association and a city solicitor. estate and corporate law; Nov. 28. He held & Gross, one of New Jersey’s largest law John J. McGarry W’57, East Strouds- leadership roles at a variety of Jewish non- firms; Nov. 7. At Penn, he was a member of burg, PA, a retired CPA; Oct. 25. At Penn, profits. At Penn, he was a member of Phi the men’s track team and WXPN. he was a member of the men’s lightweight Alpha fraternity, the marching band, Mask rowing team. & Wig, and the Daily Pennsylvanian. One 1960 Lawrence T. Messick GEd’57, Re- son is Robert A. Bernstein W’87, and one Dr. Anthony Louis Angello M’60, hoboth Beach, DE, a retired music educa- daughter is Stephanie B. Wagner C’89. Denver, a retired obstetrician-gynecolo- tor and director of the Wilmington All-City Dr. Evelyn J. Bowers CW’59 G’75 gist; July 21, 2017. Orchestra who later owned a construction Gr’83, Drexel Hill, PA, a professor of an- Gerald I. Brown W’60, Sherman Oaks, company; July 23, 2016. He served in the thropology at Ball State University; Nov. CA, a retired retailer; Oct. 6. At Penn, he US Army during World War II. One son is 27. She previously worked at the Children’s was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu frater- L. Thomas Messick, Jr. C’89. Hospital of Philadelphia. nity. One daughter is Sara B. Brown C’89.

88 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Sylvia J. Charlesworth CW’60, Roch- Thomas H. Segal C’61, Baltimore, for- NC, a retired researcher and professor at ester, NY, a former clothing consignment mer head of a well-known art gallery on the University of North Carolina School of shop owner; Nov. 16. At Penn, she was a Boston’s Newbury Street; Oct. 9, 2017. At Medicine’s physiology department; Nov. 1. member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Penn, he was a member of Zeta Beta Tau Raoul Yochim L’63, Kalamazoo, MI, One son is Gregory W. Schafer EAS’86. fraternity, Sphinx Senior Society, and the retired general counsel for the Upjohn John Philip Diefenderfer W’60, Lake men’s soccer and track teams. His wife is Company; Nov. 4. Ariel, PA, a retired civil attorney; Nov. 22. Clair Zamoiski Segal CW’75 G’75, and his At Penn, he was a member of Phi Kappa son is Jonathan Michael Segal C’93 1964 Sigma fraternity. R. Jan Carman EE’64 GEE’65, West Robert J. Hastings L’60, Danboro, PA, 1962 Falmouth, MA, a retired engineering com- a retired attorney; Feb. 25, 2017. Robert F. Aldrich WG’62, Lake Wac- pany executive; Nov. 13. At Penn, he was a Susan McInnes Howard CW’60, Bryn camaw, NC, a retired manufacturing ex- member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and Mawr, PA, a retired schoolteacher; Nov. 20. ecutive; Oct. 19. the Penn Band. At Penn, she was a member of Kappa Dr. F. Gene Braun GM’62, Dallas, a William H. Curtis WG’64, Lakeway, Kappa Gamma sorority. retired ophthalmologist; Oct. 28. TX, a retired bank executive; Oct. 21. He Joseph F. Montgomery G’60, King of served in the US Navy for 20 years, retiring Prussia, PA, Aug. 16. 1963 as a commander. Donald L. Pierce GEd’60, Ocala, FL, Richard A. Carrick L’63, New Hope, Dr. Ruby Taylor Davis GEd’64, Or- a retired registrar and math professor at PA, a retired banking executive; Aug. 1. He angeburg, SC, a retired professor of educa- Lincoln (PA) University; May 8. served in the US Army. At Penn, he was a tion at South Carolina State University and Ronald C. Scott L’60, Punta Gorda, FL, member of the Sharswood Law Club. Claflin University; Nov. 27. a retired trial attorney in Philadelphia spe- William S. Clarke L’63, Princeton, NJ, Dr. Malcolm B. Polk Gr’64, Decatur, cializing in aircraft accidents; Sept. 6. He a retired corporate attorney; Aug. 21. GA, professor emeritus of textile engineer- served as a fighter pilot in the US Navy and Thomas H. Conway WG’63, Concord, ing at Georgia Tech; May 22, 2017. retired as a captain with the Navy Reserves. MA, retired founder and head of the pri- Nicholas Settanni GCP’64, Haddon- Thomas J. Ward W’60, Lafayette Hill, vate equity firm Commonwealth Venture field, NJ, a retired engineering planner PA, a retired CPA; Nov. 25. Funding Group; Nov. 4. and architect for the Delaware River Port Robert B. Gordon W’63, Seekonk, MA, Authority; Oct. 18. 1961 a retired teacher and guidance counselor; Dr. E. Armistead Talman GM’64, James Richard Briscoe WG’61, Naples, Sept. 5. Richmond, VA, a retired surgeon; Oct. 31. FL, a retired executive at the old pharmaceu- Roy A. Kull Jr. WG’63, Dallas, Oct. 28. Darrell G. Torgerson GEd’64, Carmi- tical company Schering-Plough; June 30. He worked in commercial real estate, chael, CA, a retired high school science Dianne Hankin-Boyer HUP’61, Fred- banking, consulting, and construction. teacher; Oct. 31. erick, MD, April 24. Dr. David B. Schaffer M’63 GM’67, Dr. Paul F. Zizza Jr. D’64, Fresno, CA, Dr. W. David Kay C’61, Urbana, IL, pro- Blue Bell, PA, professor emeritus of oph- a retired orthodontist; Nov. 27. fessor emeritus of English at the University thalmology at the Children’s Hospital of of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sept. 2. Philadelphia; Nov. 4. While in residency at 1965 Frederick Klutey Jr. WG’61, Green- Penn, he was named the first director of Albert H. Jacobs III W’65, Boyertown, ville, NC, a retired DuPont executive; pediatric ophthalmology at CHOP and he PA, retired head of a paper distribution Nov. 30. remained the department chair until his company; Oct. 23. At Penn, he was a mem- John D. McCarron C’61, West Chester, retirement in 1999. A lifelong educator and ber of the men’s squash and tennis teams. PA, Oct. 12, 2017. At Penn, he was a mem- scientist, he published extensively on clin- William S. May G’65, Parrish, FL, a ber of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. ical topics, including retinopathy of prema- retired engineer; Sept. 12, 2017. Joyce Bauer McGanka Nu’61, Pitts- turity and ophthalmic manifestations of Dr. Luther B. Sowers GrD’65, York, PA, burgh, a retired registered nurse; May 24. systemic diseases. He contributed to re- a retired school superintendent; Oct. 28. He Frank W. Miller W’61, Brooklyn, a re- search that led to the reduction of blindness served in the US Navy during World War II. tired CPA; Nov. 23. At Penn, he was a mem- in premature babies by 50 percent. His son ber of the men’s heavyweight rowing team. is Edward B. Schaffer C’88, his daughter is 1966 Dr. Elliot W. Salloway GD’61, Worces- Dr. Nicole A. Schaffer C’89, and his brother Crawford “Corky” G. Allison III ter, MA, a retired dentist; Oct. 31. He served is Dr. Lewis A. Schaffer M’60 GM’64. WEv’66, Centennial, CO, a retired insur- in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. Barry L. Whitsel G’63, Chapel Hill, ance executive; Sept. 21.

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Mabel Herr Bagenstose Nu’66 GNu’68, Penn, he was a member of Kappa Sigma Marie J. Hall G’70, Delanco, NJ, an West Reading, PA, a former nursing admin- fraternity. English translator of Polish and Russian istrator and director of public health for the J. Steven Lempel W’67, Fresno, CA, an texts; Aug. 8, 2016. Southeastern district of the Pennsylvania eminent domain, land use, and municipal Zenon Mazurkevich GAr’70 GCP’70 Department of Health; Oct. 21. law attorney; Oct. 26. GFA’70, Elkins Park, PA, an architect known Regina Cox Fernandez CW’66, Fort for designing beautiful churches; Oct. 26. Lauderdale, FL, a retired financial analyst; 1968 One son is Dorian S. Mazurkevich C’95. Aug. 27. John M. Garrison PT’68, Clearwater, Dr. Bowmer Preston Thomas M’70, Sally Bennett Green SW’66, Wilming- ID, a retired physical therapist; Oct. 24. Louisville, a retired pathologist; Nov. 18, ton, DE, a retired social worker; March 30. June C. Krinsley Nu’68, Columbus, 2017. He served in the US Army during the Edward B. Kozemchak EE’66, Spring NJ, a retired nurse; Sept. 19. One daughter Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star. Lake, NJ, a retired electrical engineer and is Amy L. Huang Nu’97 GNu’06 GNu’10. former director of Bell Labs; Dec. 8. John E. Millett WG’68, Hanover, PA, 1971 Dr. Virginia Anding La Charite retired executive director of Pennsylvania’s Franklin T. Barrett SW’71, Huntingdon Gr’66, Hoschton, GA, professor emerita State Civil Service Commission; Nov. 15. Valley, PA, a retired pastor of Macedonia of French studies at the University of Ken- Baptist Church and prison chaplain; Dec. 7. tucky; Nov. 7. Her husband is Dr. Raymond 1969 William R. Bloom Jr. WG’71, Moores- C. La Charite G’65 Gr’66. Deborah A. Greeby Bogdan HUP’69, ville, NC, a retired furniture company Dr. Charles J. Olney G’66, Dataw Is- Fairfield, CT, a retired nurse; Aug. 5, 2016. salesman and executive; Nov. 4. land, SC, a retired surgeon; Nov. 26. Suzanne P. Cleaveland GEd’69, San Paul D. Rehal GEE’71, Hazle Town- Joseph E. Slawek Jr. GEE’66, Phila- Leandro, CA, June 22. ship, PA, a retired aerospace engineer for delphia, a retired physicist; Dec. 7, 2017. One John T. Crocker C’69, Concord, MA, a the US Navy; Nov. 4. daughter is Kimberly A. Slawek WG’89, and former teacher; April 27, 2017. one stepson is Dr. Paul A. Heck M’81. Steven R. Derby W’69 WG’73, Spring- 1972 Dr. David C. Ulmer Jr. GEd’66, Long- field, PA, a retired vice president of develop- Allen W. Counts WG’72, Muskogee, mont, CO, a retired educator at the Uni- ment at Riddle Hospital; Nov. 4. He previ- OK, former head and cofounder of an in- versity of Colorado at Colorado Springs; ously worked in development at Penn and vestment banking firm in New York; Oct. Jan. 2, 2018. Temple. He served in the US Army’s Defense 28. He later worked as an attorney. Language Institute. At Penn, he was a mem- Donna Broker Epstein CW’72 GEd’72, 1967 ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Wynnewood, PA, an attorney; Aug. 2. At Dr. Gerrit J. Blauvelt M’67 GM’69, Lark- Joseph M. Juhas L’69, Litchfield, CT, Penn, she was a member of Phi Sigma spur, CA, a retired psychiatrist who main- a former attorney and founder of an in- Sigma sorority, the Daily Pennsylvanian, tained a practice in San Francisco for nearly vestment banking firm; Nov. 28. and Penn Chorus. One son is Eric J. Ep- 50 years; Nov. 11. He served in the US Navy. Glenn H. Landis GEd’69, Lititz, PA, a stein C’01, whose wife is Rebecca Ingis Helen Patterson Brandt GEd’67, retired physical science teacher at Dela- Epstein C’98. Her nieces and nephews in- Doylestown, PA, a retired teacher, coun- ware County Community College; Dec. 1. clude Sandra Epstein C’87, Rachel Broker selor and chemist; Oct. 24. Dr. Barton L. Mackey D’69, Wilming- C’91, and Jason Epstein C’92. Antonio Genovese WEv’67, Cherry ton, DE, a retired dentist; Oct. 3. One Hilton O. Garnes Jr. WG’72, San An- Hill, NJ, Feb. 25. brother is Dr. David L. Mackey M’62. tonio, a retired manager with the Air Force Pamela Procuniar Goldberg L’67, David A. Rubenstein W’69, West Allis, Audit Agency and retired colonel in the US Silver Spring, MD, a retired attorney, law WI, an owner and operator of several retail Marine Corps Reserves; Jan. 21, 2018. professor, and civil rights activist; Nov. 24. stores; Oct. 26. Louise Chaffee Kuklis CW’72, New Her husband is Ira M. Goldberg C’58 L’67. Rochelle, NY, a retired middle school and Dr. Patricia Hughes Gulbrandsen 1970 high school teacher in Edgemont, NY; June M’67 GM’71, Virginia Beach, VA, a retired Lynne Goodstein CW’70, State Col- 28. At Penn, she was a member of Kappa occupational medicine physician; Dec. 9. lege, PA, a professor of sociology, psychol- Kappa Gamma sorority. Beverly Schwartz Held CW’67, Macon, ogy, and women’s studies, as well as an John J. Lorden Jr. WG’72, Punta GA, a retired middle school teacher; Nov. administrator, at a number of schools, Gorda, FL, retired head of a management 11. Her son is Jonathan S. Held C’93. including Juniata College, Simmons Col- consulting company; Nov. 29. E. Ronald Hlatky C’67, Oakhurst, NJ, lege, Penn State, and the University of Con- Dr. Paul A. Messaris ASC’72 Gr’77, a retired insurance executive; Dec. 5. At necticut; Nov. 5. San Francisco, the Lev Kuleshov Emeritus

90 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 Professor of Communication in Penn’s An- Penn, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsi- 1979 nenberg School for Communication, Dec. lon fraternity and the Sphinx Senior Society. Elizabeth Sherman Swing Gr’79, 1. After teaching at Queens College, he was Dr. Eric Lewis D’76, Chula Vista, CA, Concord, MA, professor emerita of educa- hired at Penn in 1977 as assistant professor, a retired captain of the US Naval Dental tion at Saint Joseph’s University; Oct. 23. where he remained until his retirement in Corps; Sept. 29. Her son is Bradford Swing L’88. 2017. He was one of the preeminent schol- Neal S. Loeb W’76, Watertown, WI, ars of visual communication and how Nov. 4. 1980 people make sense out of visual language. Constance R. Roberts-Pydych SW’76, Dr. Sally Archer Gr’80, Roxbury, VT, His books Visual “Literacy”: Image, Mind, Philadelphia, a former librarian; Nov. 1. a former psychology professor at the Col- and Reality (1994) and Visual Persuasion: Her husband is Charles P. Pydych WG’61. lege of New Jersey; April 3, 2018. The Role of Images in Advertising (1997) Alese Rubinroit Garner C’80, New are classic texts in the category. In 1998, 1977 York, an administrative law judge at the he worked with the School of Engineering Michael W. Gery C’77, Marblehead, City of New York Department of Finance; and Applied Science and PennDesign to MA, head of a parking company; Nov. 21. June 20. develop the Digital Media Design interdis- He previously worked as a consultant to ciplinary major, one of the early programs the Environmental Protection Agency and 1981 to focus on computer graphics, animation, the United Nations, creating a chemistry Dr. Thomas Francis Burns Gr’81, and games. model to assess air pollution that is still Millington, MD, former assistant profes- Dr. Daniel A. Nesi GM’72, Furlong, used today. At Penn, he was a member of sor at Wharton and group director at PA, former chief of staff at Doylestown the sprint football team. Penn’s Fels Institute of Government; Aug. Hospital; Sept. 14. He served in the US Dr. Joseph Neustein M’77, Boca 3. He joined Wharton’s faculty in 1981 as Army as a surgeon. Raton, FL, a retired orthopedic surgeon an assistant professor in the department who maintained a practice in El Paso, TX; of social systems sciences and also served 1973 Jan. 29, 2017. One son is Michael S. Neus- as a senior research associate for Whar- Lee A. Brown W’73, Liberty, MO, a real tein W’04, and one daughter is Dr. Shira ton’s Management and Behavioral Science estate executive; May 8. He served in the G. Fishman EAS’98. Center for several years. After leaving US Marine Corps. At Penn, he was a mem- Penn, he went on to become the founding ber of the sprint football team. 1978 director of the OMG Center for Collab- Alan B. Peoples PT’73, Newark, DE, a Janice M. DiGiovanni OT’78, Kalam- orative Learning in Philadelphia, a na- retired physical therapist; Aug. 6. azoo, MI, a former occupational therapist, tional evaluation and strategy firm com- James L. F. Waddell Gr’73, Naples, FL, special education supervisor and school mitted to innovation and shared learning a biology professor at the University of principal; April 14, 2017. in the social sector, and then served as Minnesota; Jan. 31. He previously taught Guy L. Irwin WEv’78, Oreland, PA, president of Urban Ventures Group, a at Penn, Drexel, Cabrini, Cornell, and the co-owner of G&F Systems Incorporated, a national community development con- University of Maine. manufacturer of food processing equip- sulting company. ment; Nov. 30. His wife is Gail Hood Irwin Janet Berney Hunt L’81, Charlotte, NC, 1974 CGS’78 Nu’82, and one daughter is Jeanne senior vice president and associate general Rose Walsh Landers OT’74, Iowa City, Roig-Irwin C’07 L’10. counsel for Bank of America; Nov. 10. At IA, Feb. 5, 2018. Stephen A. Marder ME’78, Birdsboro, Penn, she was a member of the Law Review. PA, Nov. 1, 2017. He worked in the utility Her husband is H. Thomas Hunt L’81. 1975 industry and published a book on railroad Dr. Daniel A. Laurent M’81, Herndon, Edward W. Jones WEv’75, Mana- and canal history of northeastern Penn- VA, a retired urologist; Nov. 27. hawkin, NJ, a quality assurance manager sylvania. His mother is Nancy A. Marder at Automotive Rentals; August 16, 2016. CW’44, his brother is William Z. Zarder 1983 He served in the US Army. ME’70, and his sister is Ellen Marder Dr. Cynthia Lee Ketterer C’83, Hous- Pries CW’71. ton, a general surgeon at El Campo Memo- 1976 Susan Thayer Wilmerding PT’78, rial Hospital; Dec. 5. At Penn, she was a Joe Ann Dupard Akpan SW’76, Vach- Bryn Mawr, PA, a retired pediatric physical member of the women’s squash and tennis erie, LA, a retired social worker; Nov. 21. therapist; April 11, 2018. Her daughter is teams. Her brother is Frederick D. Ket- James H. Davis W’76, Centerville, MA, Amy Wilmerding Manny C’82, and one son terer W’91, and her sister is Gwyneth M. a human resources manager; Oct. 16. At is J. Christopher Wilmerding C’88. Ketterer C’86 W’86.

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1984 tion for the 1985 movie Witness and later 1998 Dr. William W. Vernon G’84, Carlisle, briefly worked in film development for Dr. Thomas Williams Adams Gr’98, PA, professor emeritus of geology at Dick- Columbia Motion Pictures. He served in the New Hope, PA, former director of Penn’s inson College; Oct. 30. He served in the US US Army during the Vietnam War. English Language Programs and a profes- Navy during World War II. Edward R. Eisenlord Jr. GEd’90, Al- sor in the Graduate School of Education; pharetta, GA, a retired US Army captain; Oct. 21. He served two years in the Peace 1985 Nov. 19. Corps in Togo, West Africa. Then, after Dr. Celeste Clement GEd’85, Radnor, David Sanborn Hunt C’90 GCP’91, receiving his master’s of education from PA, an art therapist, teacher, and children’s Wilmington, DE, a founding partner of Temple University in 1977, he took a posi- books author; Feb. 25, 2018. Green Line Business Group, whose signa- tion with Bell Helicopter International in Philip Eugene Marshall WG’85, Win- ture product, Danio Diary, is part of a Iran, where he taught English to helicopter ter Park, FL, a financial executive; Dec. 8. larger technology suite designed to se- pilots in the Imperial Iranian Army. In His wife is Caroline Bensabat Marshall curely connect individuals receiving health 1987, he began teaching at Penn’s English GL’85. care with family and friends; March 2, Language Programs, moving up the ranks 2018. At Penn, he was a member of the to director. He subsequently taught at the 1986 Penn Band and the comedy group Without Graduate School of Education and was Jeffrey H. Fischer C’86, Germantown, a Net. His parents are Chase S. Hunt C’52 awarded a citation for outstanding teach- MD, a deputy assistant director of the Fed- and Suzanne Mahn Hunt Ed’54. ing in 1996. He retired in 2012. eral Trade Commission; Nov. 19. Dr. Constance Ryskamp-Schipper 1991 1999 GEd’86 GrD’86, Holland, MI, a retired Brian J. Gordon C’91, Weston, CT, Nov. Jane E. Hinkle GEd’99, Philadelphia, elementary school principal and reading 18. He owned his own strategic consulting a former business writer and teacher; Oct. specialist; Nov. 27. business and served in Weston’s local gov- 21. Her wife is Abbe Fay Fletman L’88. ernment. At Penn, he was a member of Delta 1987 Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Sphinx Senior 2001 Dr. Eric A. Richard EAS’87, Pittsford, NY, Society. His parents are Ronald B. Gordon Robert A. Koons WG’01, Columbia, a doctor of internal medicine at Strong Me- W’64 and Claire Israel Gordon CW’64. SC, an attorney; April 13, 2018. morial Hospital and a professor at the Uni- versity of Rochester Medical Center; Oct. 24. 1996 2003 Michelle A. Roybal WG’96, Portland, Dr. Debra L. Wiegand Gr’03, North 1988 OR, a former consultant and finance ex- Wales, PA, an associate professor at the Katie Melynda Loeb C’88, Philadel- ecutive; Jan. 16, 2018. University of Maryland School of Nursing; phia, a restaurant manager and bartender Nov. 13. known for making specialty cocktails; Dec. 1997 8. She authored a cocktail book Shake, Stir, Dr. William R. Brennen CGS’97, 2009 Pour (2012) with a foreword by famous Wynnewood, PA, emeritus associate pro- Roy W. Wyss C’09, Millvale, PA, a senior chef Jose Garces. fessor of chemistry; Nov. 9. He joined the business analyst at PNC Bank; Nov. 16. At faculty in 1966 and was promoted to as- Penn, he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi 1989 sociate professor in 1970, which he re- fraternity and the men’s swimming team. Janice Grisan WEv’89 G’95 WEv’97, mained until retirement in 2005. He was Berlin, NJ, Aug. 5. Her sons are Richard the principal investigator of a 1970 project, Grisan ChE’83 and Daniel Grisan W’85, titled Excitation of Atomic Nickel in the Faculty & Staff and her daughter is Bonnie Grisan C’92. Reaction Between Nickel Carbonyl and Ac- Dr. Thomas Williams Adams. See tive Nitrogen, which was sponsored by the Class of 1998. 1990 Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Dr. William R. Brennen. See Class of 1997. Eugene J. Dooley WG’90, Frazer, PA, US Department of Commerce. Mildred “Milly” Brill. See Class of 1942. the police chief of East Whiteland township Owen Seaton WAM’97, Castle Rock, Dr. Thomas Francis Burns. See Class and former Philadelphia Police chief in- CO, a retired US Army colonel and found- of 1981. spector; March 13, 2018. He served as actor ing officer of the United States Investiga- Dr. Dorothy Cheney, Devon, PA, emeri- Harrison Ford’s guide into the life of Phila- tions Services, a security services firm; tus professor of biology in the School of Arts delphia’s police homicide unit in prepara- Nov. 17, 2017. and Sciences and renowned primate re-

92 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Mar|Apr 2019 School Abbreviations GEd master’s, Education Hon Honorary GEE master’s, Electrical Engineering HUP Nurse training (till 1978) Ar Architecture GEng master’s, Engineering and L Law ASC Annenberg Applied Science LAr Landscape Architecture searcher; Nov. 9. She and her husband, Dr. C College (bachelor’s) GEx master’s, Engineering Executive LPS Liberal and Professional Studies Robert Seyfarth, professor emeritus of psy- CCC College Collateral Courses GFA master’s, Fine Arts M Medicine chology, joined Penn’s faculty in 1985 and CE Civil Engineering GGS master’s, College of General Studies ME Mechanical Engineering cotaught a popular animal behavior class. CGS College of General Studies (till 2008) GL master’s, Law MT Medical Technology She and Dr. Seyfarth produced groundbreak- Ch Chemistry GLA master’s, Landscape Architecture MtE Metallurgical Engineering ing research on the communication and ChE Chemical Engineering GME master’s, Mechanical Engineering Mu Music CW College for Women (till 1975) GM Medicine, post-degree NEd Certificate in Nursing social structures of baboons and other mon- D Dental Medicine GMt master’s, Metallurgical Engineering Nu Nursing (bachelor’s) keys living in the wild. One of their most DH Dental Hygiene GNu master’s, Nursing OT Occupational Therapy notable experiments found that monkeys EAS Engineering and Applied GPU master’s, Governmental PSW Pennsylvania School of Social Work are able to warn each other not only when a Science (bachelor’s) Administration PT Physical Therapy predator is present but also what type of Ed Education Gr doctorate SAMP School of Allied Medical predator is approaching. She received a Gug- EE Electrical Engineering GrC doctorate, Civil Engineering Professions genheim Fellowship in 1995 and was elected FA Fine Arts GrE doctorate, Electrical Engineering SPP Social Policy and Practice (master’s) to both the American Academy of Arts and G master’s, Arts and Sciences GrEd doctorate, Education SW Social Work (master’s) (till 2005) GrL doctorate, Law V Veterinary Medicine Sciences and the National Academy of Sci- GAr master’s, Architecture GCE master’s, Civil Engineering GrN doctorate, Nursing W Wharton (bachelor’s) ences. She received the Biology Department GCh master’s, Chemical Engineering GRP master’s, Regional Planning WAM Wharton Advanced Management Teaching Award in 2009 and retired in 2016. GCP master’s, City Planning GrS doctorate, Social Work WEF Wharton Extension Finance Dr. Eugene A. Hildreth. See Class of 1954. GD Dental, post-degree GrW doctorate, Wharton WEv Wharton Evening School Dr. Georg Nicolaus “Nico” Knauer, GV Veterinary, post-degree WG master’s, Wharton Haverford, PA, emeritus professor of clas- sical studies; Oct. 28. After teaching at the Rockefeller Fellow, and was appointed an digenous language and culture, and was a Free University of Berlin, he joined the assistant professor of American civilization consulting scholar at the Penn Museum. faculty at Penn in 1975, where he remained in 1956, moving up the ranks to full profes- He founded the Educational Partnerships until his retirement in 1988. He was a Gug- sorship in 1966. He served as chair of the with Indigenous Communities (EPIC) at genheim Fellow, a Fellow of the National history department for long periods, and for the Penn Language Center, which digitizes Endowment for the Humanities, and a a time edited American Quarterly, the jour- texts in indigenous languages before re- Resident of the Rockefeller Foundation in nal of the American Studies Association. He turning them to their cultural homes; and Bellagio, Italy, among other appointments. was instrumental in restructuring Penn’s he served as EPIC’s director until his He is best known for the book that origi- American Civilization department as its own death. One son is Jibreel J. Powell C’16. nated as his 1961 Habilitationsschrift on discipline, by applying the concepts of social Dr. David B. Schaffer. See Class of 1963. Vergil’s imitation of Homer in the Aeneid, sciences to the data of the nation’s history. Dr. Donald J. White, Philadelphia, Die Aeneis und Homer. His study of Vergil He retired in 2000. He is the author and emeritus professor of archaeology and and Homer remains one of the most fre- coauthor of many books on the history of curator-in-charge of the Penn Museum’s quently cited books in the field of classics. philosophy. In early 2018, after two months Mediterranean section for more than 30 Robert P. Levy. See Class of 1952. in the hospital and shortly after his 90th years; Nov. 21. He taught at the University Dr. Arthur W. “Drew” Mellen IV, Cher- birthday, he published Thorstein Veblen: of Michigan before joining Penn’s faculty ry Hill, NJ, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Economist and Social Theorist. in 1973 as a professor of classical archaeol- Pennsylvania Hospital and clinical associate Dr. Natalia Isachuk Pazuniak. See ogy. He was especially well known as a professor at Penn’s Perelman School of Med- Class of 1956. field archaeologist, directing excavations icine; Oct. 27. He earned his degree in med- Raymond G. Perelman. See Class of 1940. in central Sicily, coastal Libya, and Egypt. icine from Jefferson Medical College in 1980 Timothy Burgess Powell, Philadelphia, In Libya, he and his team excavated an and completed his residency in obstetrics senior lecturer in the department of reli- enormous amount of the Cyrene sanctuary, and gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital. gious studies in the School of Arts and Sci- with discoveries ranging from the 7th cen- From 1984 until his death, he was a professor ences; Nov. 1. He taught at Kenyon College tury BCE to the 3rd century CE. He was of obstetrics and gynecology at the Perelman and the University of Georgia in Athens fluent in Latin, ancient Greek, Italian, Ger- School of Medicine. before joining the faculty at Penn in 2006 man, and French, and he also spoke some Dr. Paul A. Messaris. See Class of 1972. with his wife, Eve Troutt Powell, the Chris- Arabic. An avid competitive rower well Dr. Murray Griffin Murphey, Bala Cyn- topher H. Browne Distinguished Professor into his 50s, he served for several years on wyd, PA, emeritus professor of history in the of History and Africana Studies. He de- the Committee on Recreation and Intercol- School of Arts and Sciences; Dec. 6. He re- voted his career to the preservation and legiate Athletics at Penn. ceived a two-year appointment at Penn as a revitalization of Native American and in-

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