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Almanac, 04/30/91, Vol. 37, No. 31 INSIDE " A-i Assembly Slate, p.2 " For Comment: Draft Policy on Racial Harassment, pp. 3-4 " Academic Calendar, 1991-92, p. 5 " Speaking Out: Confidentiality in Grievance Process; Open Letter on Animal Research, pp. 5-7 " CrimeStats, Update, p. 8 Tuesday, April 30, 1991 Published by the University ofPennsylvania Volume 37, Number 31 SAS Chairs At left and below: Five endowed chairs, old and new, and two new term chairs are filled in the School ofArts and Sciences. See story. Dr. Nina Auerbach Dr. Myra Jehien Dr. Lynn Hunt Dean Claire Fagin Mr. Alan Rachins Baccalaureate and Ivy Speakers An actor-alumnus is the senior class's choice for Ivy Day speaker (Saturday, May 18 at 4 p.m.) and the University's senior dean is to give the Baccalaureate address (Monday, May 20 at 4. p.m.). Both events are in Irvine Auditoriumpre-.Commencement The Baccalaureate Speaker, Dr. Claire Fagin, has been widely honored on the eve of her retirement as the Dean under whose leadership the School of Nursing instituted a doctoral program, began receiving federal research funds Dr. Mark Liberman Dr. Amos Smith, Dr. Beth Allen Dr. Lawrence Bernstein and nearly quadrupled in size. Ivy Day speaker Alan Rachins, star of the the Howard E. and Judith P. Steinberg chair to 1'V show "L.A. Law" and a fellow of the Chairs for SAS Faculty become the first holder of the Richard and American Film Institute, left the Wharton School term's As end approaches, Dean Hugo Laura Fisher Professorship of English. The during his junior year(1 963)for a career on the Sonnenschein gave a summary previously new chair is a 25th reunion gift of Mr. Fisher, stage and in screenwriting. He has appeared in unannounced awards of named chairs to fac- C'63, G '67, a former TA in the English de- the off-Broadway hit "The Trojan Women" ulty in the School of Arts and Sciences. partment who is now a University Trustee, andonTV's "Hill Street Blues" and "Quincy.' The list includes five endowed chairs and SAS Overseer, and partner of Fisher Brothers, two term chairs. (Both types of named profes- a New York real estate management firm. Honorary Degrees 1991 sorships are funded by capital gifts. Endowed Dr. Hunt, who has held the In history, Lynn The University will confer seven honorary chairs are supported by income from the gift Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation term chair in at its 235th Commencement on Tues- and thus continue in degrees perpetuity; term chairs the humanities, takes the Annenbcrg Chair in 21-with an eighth, for the noted draw on a combination of income and day, May capital History, the third offive chairs endowed for the pianist Rudolph Serkin, if he is able to attend. until the fund is used up over a specific term.) department by Ambassador Annenberg, the After the academic procession down Locust Endowed Chairs: In addition to the Zeller- alumnus and longtime trustee. Walk, ceremonies will beginon Franklin Field bach Family Professorship assumed by Dr. Term Chairs: Two new term chairholders at 10 a.m. Some 5,000 undergraduate and Frank Furstenbcrg (Almanac November 27, are Dr. Beth Allen, who becomes theMilton C. graduate degrees will be conferred, along with 1990), two endowed chair appointments made Denbo Term Professor of Economics, and Dr. the honorary degrees to: last term were those of Dr. Mark Liberman of Lawrence Bernstein, who takes the Leonard Stephen Jay Gould, the Alexander Agassiz the linguistics department as Trustee Professor Shapiro Term Chair in Music. Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. contributions of Phonetics, and Dr. Amos Smith as the Wil- The Denbo chair is the 25th reunion gift of Dr. Gould has made significant liam Warren Rhodes and Robert J. Thompson an alumna, Suzanne Denbo Jaffe, CW '65, and to biometrics, paleontology, evolutionary biol- Professor of Dr. Liberm an's chair Jaffe ogy, and the history ofscience. He hasreceived Chemistry. is named in honor of her late father. Ms. of Punctuated is a new one in the series setup by the Univer- was an art who is now a wide acclaim for his Theory history major manag- which a new sity Trustees as part of the Campaign, and Dr. ing director for the New York brokerage firm Equilibrium (1972) opened way of analyzing fossil record of evolution. Smith's was established in 1972, named for ofAngelo, Godeon & Co. and a member of the two DuPont associates-one of them, Mr. Judith Jamison, artistic director ofthe Alvin Trustees' Council of Penn Women. American Dance Theatre. Ms. Jamison Rhodes, a member of Penn's Class of 1910. Ailcy anew also is Bernstein . Dr by Theheld chair was a dancer with the company for 15 In newer actions, three holders of term one, in Leonard A. principal established 1990 by Shapiro years, electrifying audiences throughout the chairs were named to endowed chairs: ofMcLean, Va., a member ofWharton's Class world and some of most In Dr. inspiring Ailey's English, Nina Auerbach leaves the of 1964 whose daughter, Alexandra, isa senior including "Revelations" Morton Komreich term chair for the John enduring choreography, in The College. Mr. Shapiro is chairman ofThe and his seminal tribute to black women,"Cry." WelshCentennial Professorship of History and New Life Group, a real estate development Ted newsman. This year's Com- Literature, one of the Koppel, oldest endowed chairs in firm. mencement speaker is anchor for ABC News SAS. Also in English, Dr. Myra Jehlen leaves Information on the chairholders: page 2 (continued on page 2) About the New SAS Chairholders Honorary Degreesfrom page 1 Kappa and received both the Henry Reed Eng- lish Prize and the Penn Review Current Fiction Dr. Nina Auerbach, a Wisconsin alumna "Nightline," "Viewpoint," and "The Koppel Prize as a student at the University. She is a who took her Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Libraries Hunter and California State Report." Cited by Time magazine as "the best current member of the University University in L.A. interviewer on American TV," he was a lead- Board of Overseers. before joining Penn in 1972. A winner of the ing participant in Penn's 250th Anniversary Charles S. Wolf (WG '43), chairman of the Lindback Award and a Guggenheim and other and trustee she is the author of books Celebration when he moderated a series of Board of York Container Company fellowships, five Walls" Mr. Wolf served as a of Ellen colloqia entitled "World Without which emeritus of the University. including biography Terry nomina- aired on PBS last June as a series. term trustee for 20 and chaired the Veteri- ted for the Barnard HewittAward, and Woman three-part years JamesB. Pritchard, distinguished Biblical nary School BoardofOverseers for 25 years. He and the Demon: The life ofA Victorian Myth, ofthe Inter- nominatedfor theNational archeologist who is emeritus professor of reli- has been director and past president Book Critics Circle at Penn and curator emeritus national Case Association and the Award. Last year she was the Solomon Katz gious thought Corrugated of the Near Eastern Section of the University FibreBox Association, and director of the Penn- Distinguished Visiting Professor in Human- Museum. In addition to his Manufacturers' Association. In addi- ities at the University of Washington, Seattle. important scholarly sylvania contributions, Dr. Pritchard has been commit- tion,he was chairman ofPennsylvanians for Ef- Dr. Myra Jehien, a City College alumna and who took her Ph.D. at Penn in ted to making Biblical archaeology scholar- fectiveGovernment in 1983-1984 president Berkeley,joined accessable to the of the Board of Trustees of York College of 1989 afterteaching atNYU,Columbia, SUNY/ ship public. Purchase and and as lecturer Claude E. Shannon, mathematician and Pennsylvania from 1971-1978. Rutgers, visiting educatorknown in for his work in the Serkin, the renowned and orprofessor atYale, California/Santa Cruz, the particular Rudolph pianist ofParis and of field of communication. Dr. Shannon's infor- teacher, has been offered an honorary degree but University University Washing- mational scientific his health not him to travel from ton. Major work includes Class and Character theory profoundly changed may permit in Faulkner's South and American Incarna- perspectives on human communication and Vermont to accept. Mr. Serkin, now 88. made his facilitatedthe ofanew communi- New York debut in 1936 with the New York tion, on critical assumptions behind American development literature and culture. She is also a winner of a cation technology. The theory became a mile- Philharmonic Symphony Society in Carnegie and ofWilson and otherawards. stone in research and marked the transition Hall at the invitation of Arturo Toscanini. A Guggenheim, from an industrial to an information member of the American ofArts and Dr. LynnHunt, another winner of society. Academy Guggen- Rebecca Wharton Sinkler (CGS Sciences and the National Council on the Arts, heim, Wilson and other major awards, is an Pepper alumna ofCarleton whotook herPh.D. '75), editor of the New York Times Book Re- he is president and artistic director of the College view. Mrs. Sinkler was elected to Phi Beta Marlboro Festival and the School of Music. at Cornell. She began at Berkeley in 1974 and rose to full professor in 1984, winning the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977 and A-1 ASSEMBLY taking visiting posts in France and China be- fore Penn in joining 1987. She publishes widely Slate for Elections 1, 1991 in several languages (e.g., her 1984 Politics, May Culture, andClass in the French administra- Revolution, in To All A-i Assembly Members at Penn for7 years. She began as an Italian, German and tive assistant in the Office of Japanese).
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