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Protect and Elect Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State is on a mission to make sure that every vote counts.

56 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Illustration by Lincoln Agnew ALUMNI Kathy Boockvar C’90 “When I talk to the morning of June 2, to ensure a smooth transition, mentary series Lenox Hill (see young people, my Kathy Boockvar C’90 and blitzed radio and TV sta- photo, next page). “It was in- hoped for the best tions with a bilingual public spiring. And she became a primary message On while preparing for relations campaign about vot- great role model for us.” is to never have the worst. ing by mail. “We did every A legal studies class taught Since being appointed Penn- layer of communications we by Kenneth Shropshire, the blinders on, sylvania’s Secretary of the could possibly do to make sure David W. Hauck Professor Emer- Commonwealth on January 5, voters knew about this option. itus of Legal Studies and Busi- to never think 2019, she’d been tasked with And boy, did it work.” ness Ethics, sent Boockvar upgrading the state’s voting A former voting rights attor- down the law path, and her life will be a machines to models that pro- ney and poll worker, Boockvar experience at the University straight path.” duce voter-verifi able paper claims that there were fewer proved so formative that records and implementing Act negative incidents reported the native New Yorker de- 77—an election reform bill, than in any presidential pri- cided to begin her career signed into law by Governor mary that she could recall in in Pennsylvania after grad- Tom Wolf last October, that al- at least a decade, which she uating from law school at lows anyone in the state to calls “incredible.” And it’s giv- American University. She vote by mail without needing ing her hope for the general and her husband Jordan an excuse. election on November 3, in Yeager, whom she met at So there was already a “huge which the state is preparing law school and is now a sea change,” Boockvar notes, for more than 3 million mail- judge, opened their own heading into the Pennsylvania in ballots and the possibility fi rm in Bucks County— primary on June 2—even before that votes may still need to be Boockvar & Yeager—which the COVID-19 pandemic swept counted for days after Election they ran for 11 years while through the country (causing Day. At that point, the eyes of raising a daughter. After the election to be rescheduled the nation could very well fall representing, pro bono, a from April) followed by the on one of the decisive swing low-income community civil unrest that enveloped states from the last presiden- group that had its polling major cities the weekend pri- tial contest—and on Boockvar. place moved, she applied for a machine broke, rather than or. “Any one of those changes It’s not a position she ever job at the Advancement Project, being told to “go home and would be challenging,” Boock- thought she’d be in, particu- a nonprofi t organization run by come back later.” var says. “To have all four con- larly when she fi rst arrived at Judith Browne Dianis W’87 After three years at the Ad- verge in one election was ex- college in the fall of 1986 intent [“Alumni Profi les,” Nov|Dec vancement Project, she was tremely challenging. on following the family tradi- 2019] that focuses on racial recruited to run for Congress “But,” the state’s chief elec- tion of studying medicine. justice issues. in 2012 as a Democrat in what tions offi cial adds, “it was incred- “Then I took chemistry the fi rst She accepted a position as a some analysts had identifi ed as ibly and remarkably smooth semester and realized, ‘Nope, voting rights attorney leading a possible “red to blue” Penn- and safe.” not for me!’” She did, however, up to the 2008 primary and sylvania district. Though she Because of the pandemic, lean on lineage in her decision quickly discovered Pennsylva- admits “it was not on my buck- nearly 1.5 million Pennsylva- to attend Penn. Her grandfa- nia’s voting inequities, seeing et list” and she lost to incum- nians voted by mail in the pri- ther, the late Edward Saskin incredibly long lines and poor bent Michael Fitzpatrick, she mary—more than the roughly C’31, and mother, Virginia organization at polling places still calls it a “life-changing” 1.2 million who voted in per- Saskin Boockvar CW’65, at- in communities of color. One experience. “What I realized in son (and way more than the tended before her. Her twin of the biggest issues she that campaign,” she says, “was 84,000 who voted by mail in brothers, Daniel Boockvar worked to correct was urging that I loved having a million the primary four years earli- C’93 L’96 and John Boockvar her future employer, the Penn- balls in the air at one time.” er). “Once COVID-19 hit, we C’93, followed her there, arriv- sylvania Department of State, Her brother John believes knew things were going to ing on campus to fi nd “a lead- to “put a much clearer direc- she’d make a fi ne elected offi - change,” Boockvar says, noting er in the community,” says tive to counties that every cial if she ever runs again, in that the state department John, now a neurosurgeon voter needed to be off ered an large part because she’s a worked closely with counties featured on the Netfl ix docu- emergency paper ballot” if a “glass is half full” kind of per-

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son who “doesn’t have that She’s aware that mail-in vot- politicians’ personality.” Boock- ing has become a hot-button var, though, hasn’t followed a issue, in large part due to traditional political path. Not rhetoric from President Don- long after her congressional ald Trump W’68, whose re- run, she served as executive di- election campaign sued Penn- rector of Lifecycle WomanCare, sylvania over its mail-in drop- a women’s healthcare nonprof- off sites for ballots. But Boock- it that blended her interests in var has been working with the public health, law, and policy. National Association of Secre- After four years there, she ac- taries of State (of which she is cepted the “opportunity of a the elections committee co- lifetime” to join Governor chair) and other federal agen- Streaming Before Netflix released the docu- Wolf’s cabinet in Harrisburg, cies to “make sure voters Surgeons mentary series Lenox Hill on June fi rst as a senior advisor on elec- know they can rely on county 10, John Boockvar C’93 GM’04 warned tion modernization and then and state election offi ces to his wife and kids about the potential for cringeworthy scenes. the Secretary of the Common- provide accurate informa- For a year-and-a-half, he and three other doctors—including wealth, where, in addition to tion,” she says. “Don’t think his colleague in the neurosurgery department, David Langer her role promoting the integ- what you see on Twitter or C’85 M’90 GM’98—were mic’d up and followed around by rity of the electoral process, she what you see on Facebook or cameras, allowing for an intimate look into the real-life drama also oversees professional li- whatever is accurate.” at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. censing, the state athletic com- Indeed, despite “misinfor- “We dropped the f-bomb a bunch, my tag is sticking out the mission, and more. mation” fl oating around social back of my lab coat every now and then, and my bald spot is “When I talk to young peo- media about the potential for apparent in every scene,” Boockvar says. “But this was worth ple, my primary message is to fraud, voting absentee has doing because the world needed to see what life is like as a doc- never have blinders on, to “been an incredibly safe, se- tor, patient, nurse, nurse practitioner, PA, and what our healthcare never think life will be a cure process for decades,” she system is like—the good, the bad, and the emotional.” straight path,” she says. “Be- says, adding that a voter’s eli- The nine-episode series, which has been critically well cause if you do, you’ll miss the gibility is checked before they received, leans in on the emotional, not only in interactions things to the right and left get a ballot and again once the with patients but in the “special relationship” that Langer that might lead to a more in- county receives it. “And none and Boockvar have with each other as chair and vice chair of teresting career. I’m thankful of that has changed. There’s the hospital’s growing neurosurgery department. (Langer was for every experience that’s just more people taking ad- recently profiled in the Gazette for saving a stranger’s life on a come my way—and if I had vantage of it.” beach and later performing surgery on him [“Alumni Profiles,” those blinders on, I would’ve And just as she’s spent al- Jan|Feb 2020], which was captured in an episode.) missed half of them.” most two years fortifying vot- The fact that half of the doctors featured in the documen- For now, it’s hard for Boock- ing systems’ defenses, adding tary got their schooling at Penn was a happy coincidence, var to look beyond November multiple layers of protection notes Boockvar, who wears a Penn lapel on his lab coat and 3. She plans to ensure that the to secure voter registration recently started the Boockvar Saskin Family Lectureship at Penn 8.5 million registered voters in databases, and creating other Medicine. In the second episode, he even gave a shoutout to the state all receive applications safeguards against election Steven Fluharty—Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences and for mail-in ballots, and has been interference, Boockvar’s state Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and pushing for the General Assem- department is prepared to Neuroscience—for sparking his interest in neuroscience when he bly to pass a law allowing coun- conduct a November election took Fluharty’s neuropsychopharmacology class as a freshman. ties to begin pre-canvassing as smooth as the one held fi ve Boockvar says he hadn’t been in touch with Fluharty and ballots before Election Day (a months earlier amidst unprec- “didn’t know he was dean” when Fluharty reached out to lengthy process that involves edented conditions. him after seeing the episode. “He was just so appreciative,” extracting documents from two “Yes, November 3rd is going Boockvar says. “As a teacher, you probably don’t always real- sets of envelopes—“basically to be insane,” she says. “But we ize the impact you make—particularly on someone who’s on a everything except for counting,” have the framework for every- Netflix show 30 years later.” —DZ she notes). thing in place.” —DZ

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equity and community. Penn While he led last spring’s also announced that it will popular virtual class on the Moments look at campus iconography, pandemic, Wharton’s Mauro continuing a reckoning with Guillén was also awaiting the the University’s past that be- publication of 2030: How To- gan with the Penn & Slavery day’s Biggest Trends Will Col- in Time Project a few years ago; it has lide and Reshape the Future of already been decided that Everything. (With some mi- the statue of George White- nor caveats, he says the virus he Quattrone Center panies; and as a participant fi eld will be removed from will accelerate them.) “The for the Fair Administra- in the Northern California the Quad. And the role of Future Is Coming—Fast!” de- tion of Justice—which Innocence Project. This var- scholarly publishing in scribes the new world to T seeks to apply what its ied set of experiences alerted bringing issues like defund- come within the next decade executive director John F. him to the ways in which jus- ing the police into the main- and off ers some “tips and Hollway C’92 LPS’18 calls a tice is not administered fairly stream is part of what will tricks” Guillén recommends “systems approach to pre- and provided insight from motivate the new leadership for making the best of it. venting errors in criminal disciplines outside the legal team at the University of Some things endure, like justice”—has been around system into how to correct— Pennsylvania Press. the friendship between Rob since 2013. In those seven ideally, to prevent—such mis- Hyman C’72 and Eric Bazil- years, it has made signifi cant carriages without recourse to ian C’75. Also, their band, the contributions to reform ef- the enormous expense and Hooters, featured on the cov- forts by exposing, through its lost years of life and eff ort One important er of the December 1989 is- research, the negative im- required in relitigating indi- function is to sue of the Gazette and back pacts of cash bail, pretrial vidual cases. in our pages now, in “Rock- detention, and “stop and The center’s approach bring together ing Through the Decades frisk” police practices, draws on the work of man- with Rob and Eric” by Jona- among others. agement guru W. Edwards Penn’s disparate than Takiff C’68, sometime But as frequent contributor Deming, who espoused “con- expert voices Gazette contributor and long- Julia Klein notes in this is- tinuous quality improve- time music journalist and sue’s cover story, “Connect- ment.” Another important on the subject supporter of the band (see ing the Data,” the center’s function is to bring together his bio on page 41). work has gained new urgen- Penn’s disparate expert voic- of criminal His original plan was to cy and relevance as the wave es on the subject of criminal justice reform. write about the band’s 20+20 of protests initially sparked justice reform, from Dorothy tour celebrating 40 years of by George Floyd’s death at Roberts—an advocate of performing as the Hooters, the hands of police in Minne- abolishing the police and scheduled to launch on Me- sota in late May have expand- prisons—to John M. Mac- Meanwhile of course, CO- morial Day. The coronavirus ed into a broad interrogation Donald, who contends that VID-19 continues to cause rendered that moot, so the of systemic racism in the US reforms can be accomplished devastating health and eco- piece is more of a career ret- far beyond the issue of police through changes in policies nomic impacts, and Penn and rospective—but with a brutality. “We’re precisely and practices without major other schools have been faced guardedly optimistic ending. placed for this moment in social changes. with making decisions in an The tour has been resched- time,” Hollway told her. The recent protests have uncertain landscape as the uled for next summer, and Before founding the center, also helped inspire initiatives virus has spiked in many plac- Hyman told Jonathan, “We’re which is housed in the law here on campus. In “Gazet- es in the US over the summer. sure hoping we can get back school where he is an associ- teer,” associate editor Dave In the end, those rising case on that horse again.” ate dean, Hollway had Zeitlin C’03 talks with Uni- counts dashed hopes that the worked as a corporate law- versity Chaplain Chaz How- University could bring stu- yer, also involved in pro bono ard C’00, who has been ap- dents back to campus for the criminal cases; as an execu- pointed to the new position fall semester. We have the de- tive in pharma and tech com- of vice president for social tails in “Gazetteer.”

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 3 FROM COLLEGE HALL Science and Solidarity A powerful prescription for what ails us.

By Amy Gutmann

“The bitter truth was that AIDS navigating such public health crises now get a second chance to make a good one. did not just happen to America— and into the future. My coauthor These three truths call for a renewed it was allowed to happen ...” Jonathan Moreno (the David and Lyn commitment to science and social solidar- Silfen University Professor) and I have ity. From developing safe and eff ective —Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: proposed one such roadmap, which we COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, to Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic call pandemic ethics. Paved by science getting testing and contact tracing up to and the ethics of mutual respect, its speed, to enacting preventive measures hough it describes a viral pandemic pathways lead us to affi rm some endur- such as face masks and social distancing, that erupted more than four decades ing truths that pandemics lay bare. we must broadly support good science, ago, And the Band Played On speaks Among them, that global health is which goes hand in hand with good ethics. T to us even today. This bestseller pres- local health. Contagions such as COVID- Just as essential, every one of us needs ents an eerily familiar assessment: faced 19 respect no borders or cultural diff er- to care about and invest in people we with a lethal nationwide contagion, too ences. A virus affl icting a stranger’s fam- may never know. We depend on the many Americans, too many political lead- ily halfway around the world can (and World Health Organization for tracking ers among them, willingly downplayed increasingly does) wind up in our own global public health, but the WHO needs the crisis or just turned away. neighborhood. to become more nimble while also being Subsequent epidemics from H1N1 to Another is that issues of health equity more adequately funded. A renaissance Ebola have each spawned reports that aff ect us all. COVID-19 exacts a dispropor- in cooperative and robust US diploma- add up to a grim litany of missteps. tionate toll from Black, Hispanic, Native, cy—directed with laser-like strength at Stack one report atop the next and they and low-income Americans, who are improving public health—would be a may leave us wondering, if not despair- being hospitalized and dying at a stagger- superb start. ing: Will pandemic missteps be ours to ing two to fi ve times the rate of their We must redress injustices that render repeat forever? Or can the United States peers. Addressing this systemic injus- too many people so terribly vulnerable. help sow the seeds of a better response tice—born of longstanding health inequi- The massive Black Lives Matter move- not only to this COVID-19 crisis, but to ties—is essential to any eff ective societal ment shows, among other things, that the future threats that touch us all? response to the pandemic. The pandemic seeds for such social solidarity still thrive The answer to this last question is yes, peels back other layers of systemic racism in America. In a public health crisis, that provided that enough Americans take as well, both within and beyond the sense of solidarity—a shared commit- both science and solidarity to heart. As immediate health emergency. The largest ment to safeguarding the health and Penn’s president, I am devoted to steer- mass movement for racial justice in gen- well-being of others everywhere—is one ing our University through these chal- erations comes amid the pandemic, of the surest ways we can in turn protect lenging times while protecting lives. I sparked by the horrifi c killing of George our closest loved ones and friends. also bring to bear on this pandemic my Floyd—following that of Breonna Taylor, While examining pandemic ethics scholarship and teaching in moral and Ahmaud Arbery, and many others. with Jonathan, we both cannot help but political philosophy and bioethics. Our Still another truth is that public health notice that so many of the world’s great- society’s approach to COVID-19 and policy is only as successful as it is eff ec- est assets for fostering science and soli- similar threats is fractured, haphazard, tive, safe, and trustworthy. Expertise—not darity are already here in our backyard. and unjust, at a tragic and unnecessar- political expedience—must guide our Look no further than the world’s great ily high cost in lives and livelihoods—a pandemic policies. Getting it right the research and teaching universities, Penn cost that falls harder upon the most vul- fi rst time is essential to maintaining pub- prime among them. nerable among us. We need a scientifi - lic trust. In this sense, pandemic respons- Solidarity is not a seasonal jacket one cally and ethically sound roadmap for es are like fi rst impressions: you may not can squeeze into when a crisis hits,

4 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Admissions then shrug off when danger passes. We a proposed paper-based COVID diagnos- must practice this virtue perennially tic, imbedded in face masks, that would admissions.upenn.edu and universally. This year-round, all- detect the virus on a person’s breath and in-it-together ethos needs to be taught off er test results in seconds. and cultivated. A broad, interdisciplin- On the pandemic and far beyond, fac- Penn Admissions ary Penn education is designed to do ulty across all of Penn’s 12 eminent remains a resource exactly that. schools comprise an invaluable global Penn fosters a diverse, inclusive aca- storehouse of knowledge with a commit- for students and demic community because it is both the ment to the common good. Though we parents navigating right thing to do and the best way for know the contours of the challenges— the college search students from diff erent backgrounds to and opportunities—our world faces learn from one another and from their right now, we cannot know the exact process. faculty how to think globally, plan empa- shape of what lies ahead. Penn’s endur- MORE INFORMATION: thetically, and engage civically. I have ing investment in broad and deep fac- written in the past about how important ulty expertise is the surest way to meet admissions.upenn.edu/ it is to cultivate interpersonal relation- whatever may come. parents-families ships to achieve good results in gover- Not often in life do we get to have the nance: familiarity breeds attempt. We fi nal word on a subject, and surely the become more attuned to the needs of defi nitive analysis of what went wrong— INQUIRIES: others when we ourselves live and learn and what we got right—with COVID-19 [email protected] in diverse communities and make the will not be written for some years yet. value of solidarity explicit. By framing a pandemic ethics in the fi rst Just like solidarity, science—and exper- six months of the most devastating pan- tise across all disciplines—fl ourishes at demic in over a century, Jonathan and I IT’S NOT TOO LATE Penn. No other institution today surpass- occupy a space dissimilar to that of TO BECOME es the global research university for long- Shilts, who analyzed the national A DOCTOR term investments in expertise despite response to AIDS several years into that • Intensive, full-time preparation for medical uncertain short-term dividends. Pre- epidemic. But with many public health school in one year COVID-19, who cared about coronavi- opportunities already missed, policies • Early acceptance programs at select medical ruses in bats? After the pandemic struck, mangled, and lives lost with many more schools—more than any other postbac program • Supportive, individual academic and media worldwide wanted to talk to Penn at risk, we do not have years to do this premedical advising professor and coronavirus expert Susan work. We bring our best ideas and exper- VISIT US AT WWW.BRYNMAWR.EDU/POSTBAC

Weiss, who marveled, “I knew the same tise to bear now in the hopes that [email protected] thing a year ago, but nobody cared. So together we can help map a better path 610-526-7350 from my life it’s been crazy.” forward for all people. BRYN MAWR COLLEGE From pursuing basic research to devel- That same ethos is what drives every- oping the standard of care for coronavi- thing Penn has done and will continue rus patients, there you will fi nd Penn doing far in the future. Since science people. As I write this, for example, coupled with solidarity is one powerful there is no approved medication for prescription for what ails us, so much of Alumni in Business treating COVID-19. Penn Medicine has the medicine our world desperately Advertise your business a Phase 3 study underway that seeks to needs can be found at Penn. or profession with us change this by investigating the poten- and reach 270,000 tial efficacy of the antiviral drug Portions of this column are adapted from a fellow alumni. Remdesivir. In pursuit of improved test- new afterword on pandemic ethics, featured ■ Must be a Penn graduate ing, Penn Presidential Professor César in the forthcoming paperback edition of Amy ■ All ads prepaid de la Fuente just won the inaugural Gutmann’s and Jonathan Moreno’s book, Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody See the current ALUMNI IN BUSINESS on page 69. For more information, call Linda at Opportunity prize (established by Penn Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transforma- 215 898-6811 or email: [email protected] alum Ofer Nemirovsky EE’79 W’79) for tion of Health Care in America, out this fall.

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Moving Tribute dealing with Corona is something he I was moved by “Penn and the Pan- learned at Penn: when you helped create demic” [Jul|Aug 2020], which covers the a problem, your best bet is to just ignore multidiscipline range of specialties and it and pretend it doesn’t exist. perspectives of the Penn community Francisco Martinez L’07, Los Angeles during the coronavirus crisis—from hospital administrators to infectious At Least the British Didn’t Have to disease physicians and biologists, to “Social Distance” During the Blitz nurses, transportation executives, res- Thank you for your article about taurateurs, as well as education, public Churchill [“Courage Through History,” health, history, and other experts. It Jul|Aug 2020]. And thank you to Erik made me realize how much I was un- Larson for his book. aware of and missed during my three I happened to start reading The Splen- years at Penn, largely sequestered away did and the Vile shortly before the pan- in the law library. Your article is a trib- demic. As a psychoanalyst, I couldn’t ute to what it means to be a great uni- help but contrast our 2020s New York versity and to the many Penn people “As a psychoanalyst, City population with the 1940s British who are making substantial contribu- in terms of psychological responses to tions on an ongoing basis. They deserve I couldn’t help but the respective horrors. Notwithstanding grateful thanks from all of us. the risks and frightening concerns of Dave Keehn L’72, Leeds, MA contrast our 2020s being blown to smithereens at any mo- ment by air bombers, and of soon being One Alumnus Left Out New York City popula- invaded by the Nazis, British morale The Gazette article about “how the remained superior to ours. I believe that University and alumni have responded tion with the 1940s this was due to gratifi cation of the two to the current crisis” lets us pat our- British in terms of essential drives or needs that were fi rst selves on the back while ignoring the identifi ed by Freud: Love and Hate. response of our most prominent alum- psychological During their ordeal, the British always nus. President Donald Trump W’68’s enjoyed the benefi ts of aff ectionate en- denialism and constant misinformation responses to the gagement with their loved ones—as well have almost surely made the pandemic as readily interacting in friendliness and much worse—and cost many lives. respective horrors.” even physical contact with strangers (as I am a proud Penn Law graduate, and in the bomb shelters). In other words, I too wish Trump would just go away, but “social distancing,” as required to reduce we can’t ignore him. This article makes coronavirus contagion, represents a pro- me think that maybe Trump’s method for found psychological deprivation.

8 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 The British all shared in their hatred ered questions, and your accurate por- rattling despondency and all-conquering of Hitler and the Nazis. Here in 2020, trayal of our experience. optimism when it comes to failure, a our aggression has been diverted into Brava! space where we can accept setbacks with- multiple opposing channels, amplifying Laurie Leevy, parent, Merion Station, PA out becoming victim to them—but also our long-standing polarization. Thus we without needing to mythologize them as are deprived of the gratifi cation of being The writer and her dog Lahdee were fea- mere stops on the way to success.” united in expressing hatred towards a tured in “Camp Comforters,” a sidebar to Most Penn alumni, let alone most peo- common enemy. the main article about the use of therapy ple, will never get a profi le in the Gazette If not for those two considerations, I dogs at a bereavement camp for children for their great career accomplishments, think that even Churchill might have run by Penn Medicine Hospice.—Ed. just a brief He was a retired lawyer, at become more vulnerable to polarization Penn he worked for Hillel in the obituar- (as he was at other points in his career). Long Live Majoring in the DP ies. I am proud as I approach 70 that I am David Port C’60, New York Congratulations to Eric Jacobs for his still trying to serve the public interest, 40-year career at the Daily Pennsylva- and wish Ms. Friedman a good life, Illustration Undermined nian [May|Jun 2020]. whether or not her aborted viola career Exemplar of Leadership I was a DP staff er before Eric arrived, leads to a successful writing career. Having just completed The Splendid so we never crossed paths. However, I’m Bill Marker C’72, Baltimore and the Vile, I was surprised and in- impressed by how he has guided the DP trigued to see the book and its author through the daunting challenges that all No Awareness of Racism’s Eff ect on featured in the Gazette, but profoundly newspapers face. Economic Outcomes disappointed by the illustration [show- The article referred to “majoring in the I found the letters published in re- ing Churchill lounging in the bath] ac- DP,” and that has been true for many of sponse to the May|Jun article “Inequal- companying the article. us who devoted a signifi cant portion of ity Economics” fascinating [“Letters,” The book presented a complex human our undergraduate lives to the paper. Jul|Aug 2020]. being who transcended his foibles to Our educations occurred both inside Three of the letters were submitted provide the great leadership his people and outside the classrooms. by Wharton grads. And all three curi- needed. It showed one need not be su- After graduation, I worked as a journal- ously expressed no awareness of the perhuman to be a great leader; in fact, ist before earning an MBA and switching role systemic racism plays in economic Churchill’s humanity was essential to to the business side of newspapers. The outcomes. his leadership, as when he wept in pub- papers were profi table and served their It concerns me that in the past one lic while inspecting bomb sites. communities well, but once the internet might graduate Wharton and apparently At a time when the world once again arrived, ad revenue and readership start- not be exposed to the extensive evidence desperately needs great leadership, and ed eroding, fi rst slowly, then precipitous- supporting the existence of this critical many of us ardently yearn for it, the ly. Now some newspapers are folding and determinant of socioeconomic status. editor’s choice of image, which featured their communities lack local journalism. Hopefully current Wharton students the man’s foibles while excising his lead- I hope Eric’s successor can keep the DP receive a more rounded educational ex- ership, undermined an exemplar whose operating as a vital University institu- perience and will be able to become bet- story can give us hope that the leader- tion. Students should have the opportu- ter informed leaders in shaping Ameri- ship we need now is possible. nity to experience grassroots journalism, ca’s response to inequality. Kennard Wing G’89, Havertown, PA and everyone benefi ts from having a David Berman C’73, Andover, MA newspaper—in print or digital—focused Who’s a Good Therapy Dog Article? on the Penn community. Another Approach to Attracting Talent I have spent a good part of my life Andy Candor C’73, Fort Wayne, IN “Inequality Economics” is a very inter- writing and reading articles relating to esting article that seems to focus on dogs. Kathryn Levy Feldman’s dog ther- Still Trying marginal tax rates as the principal way apy article [“Power of the Pup,” Jul|Aug It was interesting to recently read “I to address this issue. Why not consider 2020] is without question one of the Quit,” by Rachel Friedman [“Alumni Voic- other approaches such as fi nancial in- best, most comprehensive articles I have es,” May|Jun 2020], as on June 2, I lost yet centives to help students pursuing ever read on this particular aspect of the another attempt for elective offi ce. STEM majors? That old saying “as the human/dog connection. Thank you for Friedman rightly says, “There must be tree is bent so grows the tree” may have your thoughtful listening, your consid- some middle ground between identity- more relevance here in attracting talent

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to certain societal benefi cial endeavors for a response. It starts by citing cau- Rare Insight than just tax rates and also may be eas- tiously that the rising gigantism of corpo- I thoroughly enjoyed the articles fea- ier to administer and adjust as required. rations may have hurt today’s workers turing architect Andrew Gould in the Frank Edwards EE’54 WG’56, Venice, FL while providing effi ciencies to consumers. Mar|Apr 2020 issue [“American Byzan- Using this skepticism as a stepping-stone, tine” and an accompanying book ex- Lost in Translation he brings out as an obvious corollary the cerpt, “Onion Domes in the Old South”]. Thank you for the interesting story familiar right-wing trope that govern- It was a rare insight into a creative pro- about Dotdash [“Dotdash Rising,” ment concentration is also bad. cess that supports value-centered archi- May|Jun 2020]. Since both gigantisms are mainly due tecture; successfully capturing the es- I saw one small item that I think is to the same set of causes, namely the sence of a religious belief in stunningly incorrect. quest for effi ciencies of scale through the beautiful forms and spaces. The ap- On page 52, paragraph 4, the text says, Information Revolution, why is corpo- proach Gould uses came across as being “(the dot was taken from aboutdotcom, and rate growth good but matching govern- closer to the reverential and creative the dash in Morse code is the letter A).” mental growth bad? Well, Mahlin’s letter continuation of a tradition, than the re- Long ago, I was in the Boy Scouts. At the claims that taxpayers are suff ering. casting of an “historical fantasy.” time, one of the requirements for one of He goes on to point to the civil servants Refreshing too, was Gould’s ability to the early badges was to learn Morse Code. as the villains who create taxpayer suf- scale back elements of the design to fi t I did enough to satisfy the requirement. I fering! To blame the powerless under- a client’s budget, whether it be a reli- memorized the easy codes, E, one dot; I, lings for the failings of their imposed gious building or residence—yet without two dots; etc. Surprisingly, I still remem- superiors is simply wrong; yet it fi ts well reducing the essence or function of the ber these, including the one, two, and into the right-wing bubble’s mythology. space. Such adroit flexibility seems three dashes; T, M, and O, respectively. The nation’s predicament has been worth noting. Beautiful architecture can When I read the explanation for the heightened of late by the COVID-19 lift the spirit, and surely contributes to name of the company, something didn’t plague. In this terrible time, effort making us better human beings. seem right. I checked Google to see if my should be spent toward more clearly Simon Herbert GFA’88, Tucson, AZ memory was correct. Yes. A single dash understanding the government’s role. is the letter T. It is there to realize the collective en- In Good Company The code for the letter A is dot dash. deavors that private interests won’t or I have no connection with the Univer- That lines up with the A, presumably shouldn’t tackle. In this country, the sity of Pennsylvania, other than the fact from the former name, About.com. Right claims to prefer small govern- that my brother, Charles Kerpelman G’56, Thanks again for an interesting story. ment, yet relishes the oversize military was a graduate student in mathematics John J. Landers WG’63, Bethesda, MD that only a massive governmental struc- at Penn in the early 1950s. I have long ture can support. thought that my alumni publication, the Government’s Role It is becoming clear that halting the Johns Hopkins Magazine, was the best in Before COVID-19, hiring practices al- virus, if not eradicating it entirely, is the country—consistently well-written, ready bestowed on workers several part- going to require a friendly collective interesting, and substantial. Recently time jobs, all of which were unencum- eff ort among a coalition of well-run and while in a waiting room I picked up an bered with the shackles of assured con- resourceful governments, all of them old (May|Jun 2019) issue of the Pennsyl- tinuity and benefi ts. These practices al- relying on science rather than self-cen- vania Gazette to while away the time un- lowed employees to constantly fl y high on tered myths—and probably using well- til called for my appointment. The sub- adrenaline while running nonstop be- supplied military assets already in place jects of the feature articles (such as Nich- tween several jobs or gigs, not having to for peace corps activities. olas Christakis, Charles Bernstein, Jean waste much time on social or family life, William Acar GrW’83, Boulder, CO Chatzky) were as fascinating and singular but having the “freedom” to manage their as the writers of those articles (Julia own meager savings and health provi- Compelling Interview Klein, Daniel Akst, Caren Lissner) were sions with little knowledge of either. “American Byzantine” [Mar|Apr 2020] probing and clear. I now must admit that Against this doleful background, Stu was fascinating! I usually just skim the I consider the Pennsylvania Gazette as Mahlin’s provocative letter in praise of Gazette, but I read every word of this one of the best in the country (along with, freedom [“Letters,” May|Jun 2020, re- compelling interview. Thank you for still, Johns Hopkins Magazine). sponding to the Mar|Apr issue’s “Expert this informative and inspirational piece. Larry Kerpelman, Acton, MA Opinion” essay, “Kronos Syndrome” ] calls Nina Szap Ditmar SW’86, Manahawkin, NJ

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At the end of the day, I watch night fall. I am fi lled with gratitude for this “one wild and precious life.” I worry about young people and their future. I think about forgiveness by the Central Park birdwatcher and the fury in our nation. I suspect my own com- plicity. I despair about lives upended and deaths untended. I see miles-long queues for food and think the virus has unmasked reality. I am swamped in email and send most to Trash. Being in touch electroni- cally is a mixed blessing. I read news- papers online and do the crossword. I look things up. I subscribe to a couple of periodicals and read them at the big dining table while I sit for dinners that take maybe 10 minutes. I Zoom to meetings but never say much. It’s impossible to be a smartass on Zoom. I see my image in the square and think, who are you? I text and use Twit- ter. I feel compelled to fi nd new ways to be—so exhausting. I vet fi les and take stuff to the shred- der. I give away clothing and books. I’m down to seven pairs of shoes, not count- ing boots. In my closet is a pile of fancy pocketbooks from before, including a Kelly bag in its original orange box. Jew- elry, also from a diff erent life, is locked in the safe along with heirloom Georg Jensen place settings for 13, never used. My shotgun and a couple of pistols are also in there, no ammo. I have Michael’s gun-cleaning kit and a couple of his shirts I can’t part with. Home Stretch The days flip by, and the months. “At the end of the day, I watch night fall.” Eighty-seven is gaining on me. I worry about how I will end: I fear the virus less; By Elinore Standard anxiety more. I should be making lists, saying where everything is, instructing from Beyond. I know this: it will take has taken the COVID quarantine sports are gone. I binge on movies via maybe two days for a crew to come in to make me realize I can’t keep up. Acorn and Netfl ix. I shop at Amazon. I here and clear everything out. It will be For a long time, well into my 80s, listen to Spotify. I read junk. I eat oddly. clean, empty space all ready to be sold. It I thought I was doing OK. I worry about falling and not getting I live alone and am used to isolating. up. I walk outdoors often but not every Elinore Standard CW’55 is the coeditor with My beloved family are nearby but they day. From my intown eyrie, I see weather Laura Furman of Bookworms: Great Writers don’t hover. I don’t watch TV now that roll in across the mountains and lake. and Readers Celebrate Reading.

12 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Illustration by Hadley Hooper Elsewhere Into the Mist Looking for Avalon. By Beebe Bahrami

was near dusk on a May evening in 2012 when I climbed up the foot- worn cobblestone street that traces It Avallon’s black granite spine. I passed through the town’s clock tower gate. I paused before Saint Lazarus church, founded in the ninth century when a monk brought the bones of Mary Magdalene’s brother here. Its engraved stone archway depicts the 12 labors of the agrarian year, symbols of balance and responsible living. May showed two lov- ers facing in a representation of the life- creating energies of late spring. I pressed on to the top of the rising ridge on which the medieval town had been built—succeeding a Roman fort town, which had in turn been erected over a Celtic oppidum. On park benches, locals hashed over the day’s news. I stood, speechless: Avallon’s upper rampart wall gave way below to the expansive dark green canopy of the Morvan Forest. From the Celtic mar, black, and vand, moun- tain, the Morvan was a realm of jagged dark granite hills and a mixed forest of oak, beech, birch, and chestnut trees fed The name Avallon, like Avalon in Eng- around Bourges, the Visigoths attacked by streams and lakes. Wild animals, lish, came from the proto-Celtic word, and gutted Riothamus’ army. Injured, he birds, fi sh, and all manner of under- aballo, apple. This place was one of at rallied and led survivors into Burgundy. growth thrived there, protected from hu- least three contenders for the shrouded Some think that Riothamus found sanc- man development by its ruggedness. land of legend where the mortally wound- tuary in Avallon. Romantic lore suggests Two women on a bench turned to say ed King Arthur was last seen slipping he was last seen ascending the slope into hello. I returned their greeting but cast through the mists. The other two were Avallon and disappearing behind the my gaze quickly back to the forest. A soft Glastonbury—Avalon in mythic time— mists, taking on an aura of timelessness mist began to slip across its treetops. and the Ile d’Aval in northern Brittany. like Arthur, the once and future king. “It’s an enchanted place,” one woman said, According to the sixth-century Goth Then, in the Middle Ages, when Aval- “full of fairies, dotted with dolmens, et trés scribe Jordanes, a ruler of the Britons and lon was devoted to Lazarus, Vézèlay was sauvage.” A thrill ran through my spine. Bretons known as Riothamus came to dedicated to his sister, Mary Magdalene. I’d come here for this, to walk through Roman aid around AD 470 to help The village to this day houses her re- layers of enchantment and legend, from against invading Saxons and Visigoths in mains, a rib at least, in its hilltop basil- Avallon through the Morvan to the Gaul. He brought 12,000 men across the ica, also founded in the ninth century. neighboring hilltop town of Vézèlay channel and initially succeeded, but as According to French lore, soon after some 20 kilometers away. he waited for Roman reinforcements Jesus’s crucifi xion and resurrection,

Photo by Beebe Bahrami Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 13 Mary Magdalene, along with her sister At fi rst, the trail markers were clear, but I then visited the crypt, a low arched Martha and brother Lazarus, left the soon they became irregular and open to gold stone cavern. At one end it held a Holy Land and sailed to Provence to live interpretation. I puzzled along creek-fl ood- reliquary containing a clear cylinder with out the rest of their days. Upon her death, ed paths. I arrived at rockface dead-ends what looked like a rib, Mary Magdalene’s she was buried in Saint-Maximin-la- and impassable thickets. I stepped around rib, set within a gold stand fl anked at Sainte-Baume, but then a monk—the fox and deer scat. Once, I just caught the each corner with angels, clergy, and same one who brought Lazarus’ bones to fl itting form of a beech marten—its cat- kings. At the other end was an altar de- Avallon—smuggled her bones north to sized, weasel-bodied, taupe-toned form voted to Jesus. I understood intuitively, Burgundy and gave them to the new ab- slipping quickly across tree roots and dis- reinforced by the wild hike, the carved bey in Vézèlay. As with Avalon and Ar- appearing behind the ferns with a whip of stones, and the sung devotions above in thur, all this is contested; there are camps its fox-like tail. I scrambled across a slip- the nave, that this place, the forest, Aval- who believe that Mary Magdalene’s re- pery log over a wide creek, up a steep lon, and their stories collectively were mains are still in Provence, and others in muddy bank, and along a narrow ridge about balance and harmony in all things. Turkey. The Gospels mention several above menacing black stones far below. I lingered in Vézèlay, enjoyed a cele- women named Mary, and some identify Three hours later the trail spat me out bratory glass of chardonnay made from Mary of Bethany as Lazarus’ sister, but onto a patchwork of yellow mustard the vines I’d climbed through, and then none identify her as Mary Magdalene. Yet fi elds alternating with green hills dotted returned to Avallon. On the way, I met a medieval Catholic commentary, com- with cream-colored cows who stopped man from a village nearby. bined with the popular extra-Biblical lore their munching to stare. I went over hill “What do you make of all these leg- in France, gave rise to the belief that and dale toward Vézèlay, which ap- ends,” I had to ask, “of Arthur and Aval- Mary Magdalene was one and the same peared as a dot, then grew like a golden lon, and the Magdalene and Vézèlay?” as Lazarus’ sister. The relics turned these stone ship approaching on an ocean of “There are a lot of places called Avalon- paired hilltop towns into pilgrimage des- wavy green hills, the two towers of its this and Avallon-that,” he replied. “The tinations in their own right. They also crowning Romanesque basilica evoking misty island could be any one of them.” became part of the wider network of pil- masts. I fi nally arrived at the hill’s base He then fl ashed an impish smile. “But we grim paths on the Way of Saint James. and climbed up through spring grasses, do have lots of Celtic remains, magical Before all this, Vézèlay had been a shrine wildfl owers, and grapevines. forests and hills, plus good wine, so why devoted to Bacchus, surrounded by Ro- Famished and parched, I landed at the not let Avalon be here?” We laughed. man vineyards and fruit orchards, espe- base of the central village street that led “But,” he added, “why not let the other cially of cherry and aballo. straight up to the basilica at the hill’s pin- places have their fun with the legends Early the next morning I climbed past nacle. In what felt like mythic timing, I too, including those places that also Avallon’s rampart walls down to the west- arrived as the white robed brothers and claim to have Mary Magdalene’s remains bound trailhead of the Morvan Forest. I sisters of the Monastic Fraternities of in Provence? There’s enough for every- turned to look back but Avallon, like Rio- Jerusalem began their midday sung one, and everyone needs these stories.” thamus, had disappeared behind the prayer. Chant ricocheted off the towering He’d nailed it: Avalon wasn’t a single mists. I stepped in. Trees quickly closed walls and striated black-and-white stone place out there; it was a destination around me. Sound shifted. I felt as if I arches, all bathed in dappled sunlight. As within. But out there was also impor- could hear every leaf rustling in the wind, in the forest, sound and light washed tant. It seemed that the power of trans- every insect scouting the fl owers, but not over me. I stood in the back pew as each formation embodied in the legends ar- a single human sound, though there was harmonized wave plowed into me, fi rst rived at the threshold between the two, a road nearby. I walked along a narrow, through my skin, then muscle, then or- the inner worlds we carry and the wild coff ee-colored dirt trail edged with ferns gans and bones. They rattled and loos- outer ones we walk consciously into. unfurling their springtime fi ddleheads. ened anything I no longer needed and And here, by walking into these ancient Colorful wildfl owers dipped their heads dropped them onto the fl oor where they and mythic landscapes of northern Bur- near a burbling stream churned by leap- dissolved. If Avallon cultivated mists, its gundy, and by letting them walk into me, ing trout. Moss dripped from oak branch- sister hill obliterated them. The forest in I’d slipped across the invisible threshold es like shawls and carpeted stones like between primed one for both sensations. and into Avalon. velvet. A red-breasted European robin After the service, I took in the en- belted out her territorial song. A hawk graved capitals and arches, rich in folk- Beebe Bahrami Gr’95 is the author of two quietly took fl ight, rising up through a loric and Biblical themes. I found the memoirs on southwestern France, Café small opening in the trees. familiar labors of the year. Oc and Café Neandertal.

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could reasonably support. When he was trying to identify the ideal location for the race, Iceland in December came to mind. “My team came back and said, ‘No, because there’s no light and it’s extreme- ly cold,’” he told me. “And I said, ‘Perfect.’” His team was not mistaken. The condi- tions were harsh. But Iceland was also beautiful in the way that only stark land- scapes can be. When I crossed the fi nish line, I had such an immense gratitude for my body and the fact that I have kept it strong. I wasn’t the best, by any means, but without any special training, I did it. My glutes and biceps and quads and abdominals and whatever muscles are in my forearms showed up for me. Being strong makes life easier and more fun. Because fun is what I had out there, even if it didn’t exactly feel that way when my life fl ashed before my eyes as a fellow competitor slid uncontrol- lably down a sheet of ice, narrowly avoiding launching me off the mountain as I swiftly jumped out of the way. “You’re really lucky you have quick re- fl exes,” he told me, still dazed. I am lucky to have quick refl exes—al- though I like to think there was a little skill involved, too—but I’m even more lucky that I grew up when I did, after a lot of hard work by female athletes helped make it possible for me to com- pete in a race of this kind. Growing up, I played whatever sport Flex Time I wanted, without much fear of being considered masculine, which might be Discovering the benefi ts of physical power. why I was so surprised at the reaction when I announced that I planned to en- By Haley Shapley ter a bodybuilding contest. My fi t fam was excited, wanting to know the details about my training plan and the color of was working on a cultural history of mile loop over unforgiving terrain that my sparkly bikini. My actual family, on physically strong women when I had included carrying buckets of gravel long the other hand, was mostly in disbelief. the opportunity to travel to Iceland distances, sliding down sheets of ice, “Why are you hanging out with those I and participate in the Spartan Ultra climbing ropes, hoisting giant sandbags, disgusting women?” a relative asked World Championship. Most of the ath- and much more that I’ve mostly blocked after seeing a photo on social media of letes there were racing for 24 hours, but from memory. me supporting some of my bodybuilding having no training in either obstacle- Before the race, Spartan founder Joe teammates at a show. course racing or ultramarathons, I signed De Sena explained that he had designed Disgusting is a harsh word to describe up for the “sprint” course, a nearly seven- the course to be as diffi cult as logistics anyone, and yet people who would nev-

Illustration by Anna Heigh Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 15 er refer to someone who is obese or muscular defi nition is OK if you still weights, and within a couple of weeks, alarmingly thin as disgusting have no look good in a swimsuit that’s small she felt her strength returning. She was problem hurling that label at women enough to fit into a sandwich-size able to do sit-ups, and getting off the with above-average muscle defi nition. Tupperware container”? fl oor was becoming easier. A year in, When I visited home a few weeks be- For me, bodybuilding was a goal like she’d lost fat, gained muscle, and felt she fore my show, the commentary shifted many other things I’ve done in recent looked better in her clothes, although from the people I was keeping company years, including running a marathon, that was just a fringe benefi t. “I was with … to me. “You look like a man!” an- summiting a 14,000-foot mountain, and starting to feel more energy,” she told other relative exclaimed. I think it was riding a bike 206 miles. It was hard work, me. “I really liked being able to do the meant to be a joke, but considering that and I did it to prove that I could. I want- day-to-day things better, like pulling a I still had plenty of fat, at least by body- ed both to be strong and to look strong. suitcase through an airport and going building standards, objectively this just While I can’t pretend that the positive up and down stairs.” wasn’t true. But even if I had been leaner comments I received about my appear- Once she could lift 25 pounds, she went or more cut or as fl at as a pancake, that ance while I was training didn’t please for 35, and then for 50. On her 81st birth- wouldn’t have made me any “manlier.” me on some level, what touched me the day, she deadlifted 121 pounds, a fact that I was also amazed by how very worried most was when my mom’s cousin, who’d lit up her face to share. “The body is everyone became about my romantic been following my journey unbeknownst meant to work, and when it doesn’t work, prospects. “But how will you date?,” to me, showed up to cheer me on. I later it gets really lazy,” she said. As much as people would exclaim. Others would say found out she was inspired to get into the Edmundson understands the gravita- things like, “Wow, look at you! Guys gym and work toward a pull-up. tional pull to want to sit (how lovely it is must love your muscles!” or “Don’t get My mom’s cousin may have found some to curl up with a good book), it’s worth it too strong. Men don’t fi nd that attrac- inspiration in me, but I found a huge for her to keep moving. She takes no pre- tive.” They’re opposite sentiments, but dose of inspiration on my way back from scribed medication, her bloodwork levels the common thread running through the Spartan Ultra World Championship, are all perfectly normal, and she’s found the commentary was how bodybuilding on a layover in Chicago. I struck up a con- a great community through getting stron- was aff ecting my relationship with men. versation with a man sitting near me. ger. And, of course, that bucket of cat lit- When I signed on for the competition, “You should meet my wife,” he said. “She’s ter is no longer a problem. how men would perceive me wasn’t a very strong.” We all love to cheer for the US wom- consideration, and I wish society at large Fortunately, I got to do just that. Re- en’s soccer team and watch in awe as didn’t feel the need to frame women’s tired businesswoman Edie Edmundson Simone Biles does gymnastics, but their fi tness decisions in the context of how recounted the story of how, at age 75, she level of athletic talent is on another they aff ect their marriage or child-rear- stood in the store, staring down a plane. Here is a woman in her eighties ing prospects. We have come so very far, 25-pound bucket of kitty litter. There proving that you don’t have to possess a and yet our defi nitions of womanhood was a problem: she couldn’t get it into superhuman-style capacity in order to remain somewhat constrained by what her cart. “I asked a customer to take it benefi t from pursuing strength-based a person should look like—and if she down,” she said. “I thought, ‘This is ri- goals—you just have to be willing to put doesn’t look that way, she must make up diculous. I can’t depend on other people in the eff ort. “I’ve had people who have for it somehow. to do simple things for me.’” said, ‘You’re my inspiration,’ and I’ve I struggled with these ideas while Now 82, Edmundson was active growing said, ‘Anybody can do this; it’s just a training for my show. In the end, I went up and had been the captain of the drill mindset of getting yourself to the gym,’” onstage with fi ve-inch heels, hair exten- team. But no one back then lifted weights, Edmundson says. “I don’t think I’m un- sions, glittering jewelry, false eyelashes, not even the boys. She never really consid- usual; I think I’m normal. You’re never and fake nails, and I smiled and strut- ered trying it until that wave of frustration too old to start.” ted—or tried to, at least. It was so diff er- came over her in the grocery store. ent from who I normally am, and I liked In a case of serendipitous timing, she Haley Shapley C’06 is the author of Strong it for that reason. I felt like an actor tak- won a one-month membership to a Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, ing on a role. I also disliked it for that CrossFit gym around that same time. History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes, reason. Was playing up an expression of She remembers that she couldn’t com- from which this essay is adapted. Copyright © traditionally defi ned femininity under- plete a single sit-up or get off the fl oor 2020 by Haley Shapley. Reprinted by permis- mining the message I wanted to convey? without using a box to pull herself up. sion of Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Were my actions saying, “Hey, a little She started a program of lifting light Schuster, Inc.

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Back to (Virtual) School After initially inviting students back to campus for a hybrid model of instruction, Penn reversed course with a fully remote fall semester.

Photo by Tommy Leonardi C’89 Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 17 GAZETTEER Coronavirus Response “We continue to enoit Dubé, Penn’s chief ing students and some re- living on or off campus, had to hope that we will wellness offi cer, used a search work for graduate and have a negative COVID-19 test colorful metaphor to de- professional students) and within 14 days prior to arrival be able to welcome B scribe what the past few requiring all undergraduates after receiving a testing kit at students back months have been like being to be tested for COVID before their home address from a part of the University’s recov- and after arriving on campus, private third-party testing lab for the spring ery planning group to deter- among other measures. with which the University mine plans for the fall 2020 But “unfortunately, COV- contracted. Students then semester.” semester. “It’s kind of like ID-19 continues to spread at needed to be tested upon ar- your car’s going 60 miles per an alarming rate across the rival on campus and were re- health and safety of our com- hour,” he said, “and you’re country, with approximately 2 quired to quarantine until munity is jeopardized we will trying to change the tire at million new cases reported receiving a negative result, take swift action.” the same time.” just over the past month,” with some others required to Changing course, as Penn Like every institution navi- Penn President Amy Gut- take an additional third test. did, wasn’t an easy decision. gating the COVID-19 pan- mann, Provost Wendell Pritch- But less than two weeks Dubé noted that he had heard demic, Penn has been trying ett Gr’97, Executive Vice Presi- later (and about two weeks passionate feedback from to make sure the wheels don’t dent Craig Carnaroli W’85, before students would have both sides throughout the fall off . And after a couple of and Perelman School of Medi- started to move into their summer, with some calling the detours and turns, the Uni- cine Dean J. Larry Jameson dorms), University offi cials initial decision of bringing in versity in the end settled on wrote in their August 11 mes- said that “supply chain issues students from around the what’s likely the safest route. sage to the Penn community. have more severely limited country irresponsible and un- After initially inviting stu- “The progression of the dis- the availability and the turn- ethical while others were dents back to campus to par- ease is evident in many states around time of COVID testing grateful for the University cre- take in a “hybrid model” of from which Penn welcomes than medical experts foresaw. ating a responsible pathway to instruction, the University thousands of students. The Since we last communicated, reopening campus for stu- announced on August 11 “the sheer number of students who we learned that our planned dents who wished to return. deeply disappointing news by Pennsylvania public health pretesting program regimen A limited number of stu- that with only very limited recommendation would now would not be possible.” dents may still get the oppor- exceptions for international upon arrival—or based upon Dubé said that the Univer- tunity to do their virtual learn- students and those students testing or high-risk exposure— sity had considered “rescind- ing from college housing, if dealing with signifi cant hous- need to go into a two-week ing or rolling back inviting they apply for an exception ing or personal hardships, we quarantine is untenable.” students to come live on cam- and are approved. It’s likely will not be able to accommo- The University announced pus” earlier in the summer, other students will live in off - date undergraduate students that tuition will be rolled keeping campus closed as it campus houses or apartments in University housing.” back by 3.9 percent, freezing did when dorms were depop- in University City, though “it is The revision came after two it at last year’s rate. The gen- ulated in mid-March for the important to note that with previous announcements out- eral fee will also be reduced remainder of the spring se- the limited exception of re- lined more in-person options by 10 percent, housing and mester [“Gazetteer,” May|Jun quired in-person instruction for the fall semester. In late dining fees will be credited 2020]. But after consulting [such as clinical experiences June, the University unveiled or refunded, and signifi cant with public health experts, in nursing], there will be no its hybrid model of instruc- increases to the fi nancial aid they were encouraged by a physical on-campus activities tion in which large lectures budget have been made “to college housing plan that was in the fall semester,” the Uni- would be conducted online assist students and families “a little more aggressive than versity notice stated. “For the while smaller classes would in this diffi cult time.” other schools” by off ering safety of the students and the have an in-person option. As A key element in the plan to only private bedrooms. He broader community, we are COVID cases surged, Penn bring students back to cam- also noted at the time that the encouraging all other students updated its plans a month pus safely, announced in the plan could still change. “We’re not to return to Philadelphia.” later, moving to almost all July 31 update, was a compre- continuously looking at the Students who do return to virtual instruction (with a few hensive testing program in data,” Dubé said in an inter- Philly will be off ered free test- in-person exceptions, such as which all students planning to view on August 4. “There is a ing upon arrival and again clinical simulations for nurs- be at Penn in the fall, whether precedent that if we feel the seven days later at Houston

18 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Social Justice Howard at 38th and Lancaster, near the former “Black Bottom” neighborhood razed in the 1960s.

Hall and will need to be en- jumper on the Penn track rolled in the mobile symptom team was short-lived. He lost tracking program PennOpen a student government race Pass to gain access to labs and and didn’t make an a cappella other buildings, though very group. His high school sweet- few campus services will be heart dumped him. “Being a open in person to undergradu- freshman’s hard enough,” he ates. They also still must ad- says. “Being a fi rst-year stu- here to the Student Campus dent facing social inequities Compact—which, among oth- makes it even harder.” er things, requires students to Trying to push aside his inse- collaborate with the Univer- curities, Howard soon made it sity on testing, daily wellness into several prominent groups checks with PennOpen Pass, (including the a cappella and tracking contacts follow- group The Inspiration, which ing a positive test; wear a fa- he sang in for four years)— cial covering outside their though in the course of be- place of residence and practice coming a campus leader, he social distancing; wash their overextended himself to the hands frequently and use alco- point that he drank too much hol-based disinfectant wipes and was briefl y kicked out of to clean surfaces with which school for bad grades. After they come into contact; be giving up drinking and gradu- up-to-date on all vaccinations ating Penn on time, he felt a and get a fl u shot; and refrain calling to ministry. This led from organizing, hosting, or him back to his alma mater as attending events, parties, or the University chaplain, where other social gatherings. for the past 12 years he’s been Expressing “an enormous ministering hope and love to sense of sadness” in being un- students also struggling to able to off er a hybrid learning Common Ground fi nd their place on campus experience on campus this fall and in the world [“The Idea of as originally planned, Penn’s Chaplain Chaz Howard has been Love,” May|Jun 2018]. top offi cials wrote, “We con- tasked with running a new Now, he has another impor- tinue to hope that we will be tant role. In late June, Presi- able to welcome students back office on social equity and community. dent Amy Gutmann and Pro- for the spring semester, and vost Wendell Pritchett Gr’97 will do everything in our power announced the appointment to maximize that possibility.” of Howard as Penn’s fi rst-ever In the meantime, they added, harles “Chaz” Howard “I like to think, at best, he vice president for social eq- “We will do all that we can to C’00 was already wres- was trying to use some re- uity and community, begin- keep each class involved and tling with imposter syn- verse psychology to motivate ning August 1. connected virtually, so that C drome when he fi rst ar- me to run harder,” Howard “Chaz has made it his life’s they can continue to interact rived on Penn’s campus in the says. “But that’s not what an mission to bring together and share their Penn experi- fall of 1996. So he was 18-year-old who was already diverse groups of people,” ence with classmates in a safe shocked and crushed when insecure about being here Gutmann said in the an- and productive way.” —DZ his freshman advisor looked needed to hear.” nouncement. “Where some at him during their fi rst meet- Howard quickly found a see division, Chaz sees com- For more information on the Uni- ing and said, “Another Black new advisor but still “took a mon ground; where some see versity’s fall semester plans, visit student from Baltimore— series of L’s” as a freshman. despair, he sees hope; where fall-2020-planning.upenn.edu. you’ll probably fail out too.” His athletic career as a triple some see hate, he sees love.”

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ICONOGRAPHY

Howard’s appointment In his new role, Howard will came on the heels of the na- design and oversee the Uni- Quad Statue to tionwide racial justice pro- versity’s recently announced Be Removed tests sparked by the police Projects for Progress, a fund In a July message to the Penn community from President Amy killings of George Floyd and intended to encourage stu- Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett Gr’97, and Executive Vice other Black Americans. How- dents, faculty, and staff to im- President Craig Carnaroli W’85, the University announced plans ard had attended some of the plement research-based pilot demonstrations in Philadel- projects designed to advance to remove the statue of George Whitefi eld, which was erected in phia, leaving each one en- Penn’s aim of becoming a the Quadrangle in the early 20th century. couraged by the “amazingly more inclusive university and A well-known Evangelical preacher in the 1700s whose church diverse” group of protesters community. He will also work meeting house at Fourth and Arch Streets was purchased by Ben- he saw. “I was feeling very with other administrators to jamin Franklin to house the Academy of Philadelphia (an early expand the fi ve-year-old Cam- predecessor to Penn), Whitefi eld led a successful campaign to paign for Community, which allow slavery in Georgia, which was “undeniably one of White- “Some of the off ers funding and sponsor- fi eld’s principal legacies,” the note read. “Honoring him with a ship for small-group events statue on our campus is inconsistent with our University’s core activism and some related to social issues. values, which guide us in becoming an ever more welcoming of the changes “We’re a space of ideas,” How- community that celebrates inclusion and diversity.” ard says. “If we put the right A reckoning over statues of historical fi gures who supported slav- from people on resources, encouragement and ery was reignited during many of this summer’s protests for racial affi rmation behind some of the equality. Two years ago, members of the University community in- ideas, we might be able to the streets really volved in the Penn & Slavery Project discovered that at least 75 early move the needle a little bit.” University trustees owned at least one enslaved person, including has brought me Howard’s fi rst order of Penn’s fi rst provost, William Smith [“Gazetteer,” Nov|Dec 2018]. a lot of hope.” business will be hiring three people to work under him “It is important that we fully understand how the institution of and fi nding a physical space slavery—a profoundly shameful and deeply tragic part of Ameri- low. Very, very angry. Very on campus, before building a can history—affected Penn in its early years and that we refl ect sad,” he admits. “And then, I website, launching an online as a university about the current meaning of this history,” the think, some of the activism magazine, and developing a notice continued. “Penn recognizes that some of its trustees, and some of the changes from University-wide speaker se- including our founder Benjamin Franklin, had owned enslaved people on the streets really ries. Over the course of the persons. Importantly, Franklin changed course in his life and went has brought me a lot of hope.” 2020–21 school year, he on to become a leading abolitionist.” It was around this time that hopes to examine “the big To further grapple with the issue, the University announced the Gutmann asked to speak to issues on campus right now,” formation of a Campus Iconography Group to “advise us on further Howard, who did not expect starting with public safety steps to ensure that the placement and presence of statues and to be off ered the opportunity and policing. He also wants other prominent iconography better refl ects our achievements and to lead a new offi ce on diver- to “wrestle with hard ques- aspirations to increase the diversity of the Penn community.” The sity and inclusion. It was im- tions from our past,” includ- group will be cochaired by Joann Mitchell, senior vice president for portant to him that he stay ing how the “Black Bottom” institutional affairs and chief diversity offi cer, and Fritz Steiner on as chaplain—which he neighborhood in West Phila- GRP’77 GFA’86 Gr’86, dean of the Weitzman School of Design. will, while passing off some delphia was razed in the day-to-day duties to senior 1960s to make way for the associate chaplain Steve Ko- expansion of University City. Quad. And there were bomb meant to be a young Black cher LPS’13—and thinking Howard has been thinking threats that forced him to man in America,” he says. about managing such an ex- about diffi cult issues since evacuate W. E. B. Du Bois Howard has heard the panded portfolio was daunt- his days as an undergradu- College House, where he claims throughout the years ing. But, he says, “I think my ate. During his freshman lived for three years and says that a college house created heart was quickly like, I love year, he remembers seeing a is a place that “still feels like for Black students is self-segre- Penn—anything I can do to large Confederate fl ag hang- home” when he visits. “It gating, “but the reality is those serve Penn, it’s a yes.” ing out of a window in the helped me discern what it Black students clearly leave

20 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Archives A chart showing deaths in several US cities during the 1918 infl uenza pandemic. the building,” he says. “And poned—including the start of white students certainly are Collective Memory the football season—University allowed in the building. … It’s life returned to normal fairly important to have affi rming A new Penn Archives project quickly once the city quaran- spaces on a campus if you feel aims to document people’s tine was lifted on October 27. like the rest of campus isn’t After seeing that there was particularly affi rming.” pandemic experiences. so little about the 1918 infl u- Howard does believe the enza pandemic, Duffi n campus has made big strides thought, “I know people will in becoming more affi rming hortly before the fall se- just so awful that people want to look at [the COV- for Black students and other mester started in 1918, a didn’t want to remember it.” ID-19 pandemic] 20 or 30 minorities in the 20 years deadly fl u arrived in Phil- Overall, the 1918 infl uenza years from now, even fi ve since he graduated. He S adelphia. The timing pandemic did not have the years from now. The best points to a more diverse up- could not have been worse. same institutional impact on time to collect materials is per leadership group, includ- World War I was still in full the University that COVID-19 when it’s very close to the ing Pritchett and others in swing and, with many doctors has had. On October 4, 1918, events themselves, while the the Provost’s offi ce, the Penn and nurses working overseas, public schools and churches in people are still around and Trustees, and some of the city hospital staff was reduced Philadelphia were ordered to it’s fresh in people’s minds.” University deans, including by an average of 25 percent. close, but the city’s Board of He continues, “That’s part Erika James, who began in Nurses in training at Penn Health did not see a need to of the reason why I felt really July as Wharton’s fi rst Black were preparing to join them cancel classes at Penn. Al- compelled to be proactive in and female dean. “She’s but, as the Class of 1919 Train- though indoor club meetings this case.” sharp, really smart, and ing School for Nurses year- were canceled, and large out- Shortly after campus was thoughtful,” Howard says. book describes, “Then came door gatherings were post- depopulated in mid-March, “And she’s right on time.” the epidemic of infl uenza, and Among the other “real our plans for service were measurables” he’s seen on brought to a standstill, for we the road to a more just cam- had all we could manage at pus are the rise of cultural home.” Two members of the centers—including the Black class, Grace Virginia Fitzger- cultural center Makuu, ald and Marie Luise O. Bor- which celebrates 20 years on mann, died from the virus on campus this year—and Afri- October 12 and 13, respec- cana Studies becoming a de- tively, in 1918. “We dedicate partment. “Retention rates this book to the memory of are signifi cantly better for our classmates,” the Nurses’ Black students,” Howard Record reads. says, before adding that the Surprisingly, it is one of number of Native students is only a few references that the “still amazingly low” and University has to a pandemic that “there’s still a whole lot that killed more than 12,000 of growth left.” Philadelphians. “It seems He’s ready to keep pushing that World War I was just the for more growth, at a place bigger issue,” says J.M. Duf- he loves enough to want to fi n, acting University archi- always make better. vist, offi ce manager, and se- “I think Penn, like America, nior archivist at the Univer- is trending in the right direc- sity Archives and Records tion,” Howard says. “I’m Center. “It may have also hopeful. I really think things been that [the pandemic] are changing.” —DZ happened so quickly and was

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LEADERSHIP Duffi n and his colleagues cre- says. There are also personal New Administrative ated the Penn COVID-19 Com- essays from alumni discuss- munity Archiving Project to ing homeschooling their chil- Appointments document the experiences of dren, students describing In late June, the University announced the appointments of the Penn community during their experiences with online Beth Winkelstein EAS’93 as deputy provost and Mamta Motwani the pandemic. According to classes, and, of course, a face Accapadi as vice provost for university life. the project’s website, the “goal mask selfi e. “Twenty years Winkelstein had served as the vice provost for education for is to collect as many diverse from now, someone will see the last fi ve years, becoming “one of our most essential leaders voices and experiences as pos- that and think, ‘Oh yeah, that of teaching, learning, and student life,” Provost Wen- sible so that future historians, was the COVID-19 peri- students and scholars, doctors od,’” Duffi n says. “Hope- dell Pritchett Gr’97 said in a release. “Her insight and scientists, public policy fully that will be the and energy enhance every part of our campus.” and health experts, University only time people are In her new role, Winkelstein will work closely with administrators, and others remembering wearing Pritchett “to better integrate and expand our edu- will be able to understand and face masks.” cational initiatives, especially by incorporating new learn how our community re- One of Duffi n’s favorite technologies, new ways of teaching, and additional acted to the COVID-19 pan- submissions so far is from support for faculty and students that advance our core priorities demic and how we were able the Penn Band. “They basi- of innovation, impact, and inclusion,” he said. to respond and help support cally submitted all of the During her time at Penn, Winkelstein has helped enhance the the broader world.” planning materials for their Penn First Plus program, which provides support for fi rst-genera- The website allows elec- videos, of how they put to- tion and/or low-income students, as well as the Graduate Stu- tronic or hard copy submis- gether these virtual con- dent Center and Family Center [“Gazetteer,” Jul|Aug 2020]. She sions from anyone in the certs,” including email cor- has also taught in the Engineering School’s bioengineering de- Penn community—students, respondence and schedules, partment since 2002, becoming one of the world’s leading inno- faculty, staff , alumni, and he notes. “So we not only vators in research on new treatments for spine and other joint others. “This is the fi rst time have the fi nal product, but we have a sort of streamlined more importantly, we really injuries. Appointed two years ago as the Eduardo D. Glandt Presi- donation process,” Duffi n like to capture how people’s dent’s Distinguished Professor, she continues to lead Penn’s says. “Someone can go online normal operations changed— Spine Pain Research Lab and serves as coeditor of the Journal of and fi ll out the paperwork, how did the band learn to do Biomechanical Engineering. upload the fi le, and boom, we all of this stuff remotely? It’s Accapadi arrived at Penn after seven years as vice president for have the item for our collec- all documented now.” student affairs at Rollins College in Florida, which followed stints tion—as opposed to calling The website will be open to at Oregon State University and the University of Texas us up, having a discussion, contributions for at least a at Austin. She replaced Valarie Swain-Cade McCoul- arranging a time to mail the year or more, and Duffi n lum, who in February moved into a new position as materials, and so forth.” hopes more people in the Penn’s vice provost for student engagement after Duffi n expects records will be Penn community will 25 years as the vice provost for university life. donated in electronic or digital submit something that Pritchett called Accapadi “a highly experienced format more in the future, shows how their lives national leader in student affairs, whose career has instead of paper or analog. changed during this time—or been devoted to goals of inclusion, community, and social jus- Suggested materials that how they’ve stayed the same. tice. She has been a particular advocate for fi rst-generation stu- the project seeks include “This is something that’s dents, low-income-students, and children of immigrants—refl ect- photographs, videos, journal really important for the his- entries, and artwork. So far, tory of the University,” he ing her own background as a child of immigrants who went on to most contributions have says, “if not the country, and earn three degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.” come from students, and the now the world.” —NP Pritchett added that at Penn, particularly during what will be a second largest group of con- “highly unusual year for our students,” she will be tasked with tributors is alumni. To learn more about the Penn “advancing student care and wellness, helping students navigate “Someone submitted pho- COVID-19 Community Archiving the student conduct process, leading confl ict resolution, devel- tos of graffi ti they saw and Project and make a submission, visit oping student-led multicultural initiatives, and creating diversity commented on it,” Duffi n archives.upenn.edu/covid-19-project. education programs and workshops.”

22 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Digital Collections From a 1944 scrapbook, Marian Anderson sings during her famous performance at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.

sift through the piles of music “Scholars can knit all of this Preserving a Pioneer manuscripts and concert pro- together in interesting ways. grams, boxes of tapes, and For one thing, we’re hoping Thanks to a newly digitized Penn reams of scrapbooks and to create an interactive map Libraries research portal, singer notebooks in person. of her performances. Or may- The 2,500 or so digitized be someone will do content and civil rights icon Marian Anderson items represent about a analysis to determine which “will be reintroduced to her city tenth of the entire collection, songs she performed most.” but there’s plenty to dig into. The general public thinks and the world.” of Anderson (1897–1993) as an opera singer, but when she began her career, “opera wasn’t a viable option for Easter Sunday 1939, Black singers,” says April Marian Anderson James, reader services librar- Hon’58 descended the ian at the Kislak Center. As On steps of the Lincoln she pages virtually through Memorial and walked right Anderson’s programs, she into history. But there’s a lot adds, “but she did sing oper- more to the story of the Black atic selections—I’m looking Philadelphia-born classical through one program from a singer who so triumphantly 1935 concert in Russia and delivered a concert that day there are three Handel arias in front of a crowd of 75,000, right there.” after being denied an oppor- An opera singer herself, as tunity to perform at a venue well as a specialist in women owned by the Daughters of composers, James points out the American Revolution. that Anderson was very re- And now, those interested in ceptive to submissions from further exploring her ground- contemporary female com- breaking fi ve-decade career— posers, such as Florence from the minutiae of her daily Price, who often rearranged life to her interactions with traditional African American music luminaries and world spirituals for the performer. leaders—can dig deeper than “In some of the scores, you ever, thanks to the recent digi- can see Price’s notes to An- talization of thousands of derson, asking her if some- items from her collection at thing would work for her the Penn Libraries’ Kislak Cen- De Preist W’58 ASC’61 Hon’76. The notebooks alone contain voice,” James says. “You see ter for Special Collections, Over the years, more donati- scribbled shopping lists, jot- the composer tailoring the Rare Books and Manuscripts. ons followed and Penn now ted expenses, reminders of song to the singer.” Available through the new holds a vast quantity of people to call, drafts of Recordings of these works Discovering Marian Anderson ephemera and recordings. Up speeches, and playlist ros- turn up in the digital archive, research portal, the eff ort was until now, researchers—in- ters. “Combined with the of course, but so do taped in- funded by a $110,000 grant cluding fi lmmakers working concert programs, these ma- terviews such as a series of from the Council on Library on the 2019 documentary terials provide ‘day in the life’ conversations with New York and Information Resources. Once in a Hundred Years: The peeks at a traveling musician Times critic Howard Taub- Anderson made her fi rst Life and Legacy of Marian on the road, in hotels, on man, conducted as prepara- gift of materials to Penn in Anderson, and on an upcom- trains,” says David McKnight, tion for My Lord, What a 1977, at the encouragement of ing American Masters pro- director of the Rare Book Morning, the Anderson auto- her nephew, conductor James duction on PBS—have had to and Manuscript Library. biography he ghostwrote.

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EXIT INTERVIEW “There are several unexpur- the Met stage. It wasn’t until Furda Says Farewell gated interviews that are in- 1954 that she received an of- teresting for the enormous fer to do so. “My heart was After 12 year as Penn’s dean of admissions, Eric J. Furda C’87 insight they provide into her beating so loudly that I didn’t will be stepping down in December. The University announced Green Book-like experiences know if I was going or com- Furda’s decision in June. “Eric’s work at Penn has been exceptional,” on tour,” McKnight says. “Al- ing,” she recalls of that mo- said Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett though she was regarded as a ment. “I tried to answer as Gr’97 in a statement. “Under his visionary and strategic leadership, very important, iconic fi gure nonchalantly as the question the diversity and academic excellence of our classes have grown in the civil rights movement, had been put to me.” each year. Among his many achievements, Eric has been she rarely spoke publicly The performance, in Verdi’s instrumental in supporting our priority of bringing more low-income, about these issues. She was a The Masked Ball, was her only fi rst-generation students to Penn,” they continued, noting that 20 very politic woman.” Listening operatic stage role and it percent of the incoming class qualifi es for Pell Grants (which to the tapes, we hear the re- came in 1955, relatively late in typically implies an annual family income of less than $60,000). porter gently press for more her career. But the distinction “I started during an economic collapse and am ending during a memories and more details. of breaking that particular pandemic,” Furda told the Gazette in July, refl ecting on the genera- The singer at fi rst demurs, color barrier was the begin- tion of undergraduates he helped to shepherd into Penn. “These distancing herself from the ning of a long succession of young people I’ve been interacting with, that’s what’s shaped their scene with repeated uses of honors for the star, including lives: economic convulsion, awareness of global issues like envi- the pronouns “one” and “we.” singing at the presidential ronment and war. These are heavy issues, and they are still grow- Gradually she opens up with inaugurations of Eisenhower ing up and still hopefully having a sense of childhood, but this is a several anecdotes, adding that and Kennedy, an appoint- group with a big awareness of what’s going on in the world and how she remains keenly aware that ment as an alternate delegate it will impact their future. And that has shaped their sense of what because of her status, she was to the UN General Assembly, often protected from the worst and inclusion in the fi rst needs to be done, and what is just and right, and what difference Jim Crow off enses. “Excep- group of artists to receive the they want to make—and that comes through in their applications.” tions are made for one person Kennedy Center Honors, Furda, who plans to become a college counselor at the private and that one person knows which debuted in 1978. school his children attend (William Penn Charter School), cred- that there are so many others Anderson always preferred ited the principles of Gutmann’s Penn Compact as the driving who are just as good, just as to “let her excellence be her force of his tenure. “Civic engagement is at the core of a Penn fi ne a character, who are sub- activism,” James says. “That’s education, and the Franklin idea of education. And I think what mitted because something her true legacy. With so much Penn has to offer is the reason why applications go up in a lot of about them hasn’t been shout- of her collection now online, I ways—it’s not just the race to apply to a lot of places, but what ed to the housetops.” hope she will be reintroduced we have to offer in terms of values of civic engagement. That’s In a later interview—this to her city and the world. what really resonates.” time for the New York classi- “If she hadn’t paved the The University will form an advisory committee to guide the cal music station WQXR—she way, would it have even been search for a successor. Asked about the challenges he or she revisits another event that achievable for Black opera can expect to face, Furda cited the rising cost of a college educa- would defi ne her career al- stars like Leontyne Price, tion, recent disruptions to practices around standardized testing, most as much as the Lincoln Kathleen Battle, and Jessye and shifting ideas about how learning relates to jobs and careers. Memorial performance: her Norman to get to the Met “Admissions is a process with a toolbox that’s not precise,” he debut at the Metropolitan stage? And would the spiritu- said. “People want predictability: given Input A and Input B, what Opera. Despite fi nding ex- als have become part of the is the result? But selective admissions doesn’t look like that, and traordinary success in Europe concert repertoire? All of this is under scrutiny. The challenge is how you can explain what (where she’d sung the work of would have taken so much you’re trying to achieve in terms of assembling a community of Finnish composer Jean Sibel- longer, and maybe not have learners. For practitioners of admissions—particularly amid dis- ius for him at his home and happened at all.” ruptions to testing and K-12 education—the question is how you won the praise of Arturo To- —JoAnn Greco identify potential and promise, as a student and as a person, in scanini, who dubbed hers the people who are going to be in your community. It’s not just a mat- “once in a hundred years” To explore the Discovering Marian ter of having a 4.2 GPA and a perfect score on the ACT. It’s fi gur- voice), she says her “greatest Anderson portal, visit marianan- ing out how to identify young people who will bring vibrancy and dream” remained to sing on derson.exhibits.library.upenn.edu. inquisitiveness to your community.” —TP

24 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Scholarly Publishing

scholarly publishing—from ing the press, where Halpern Press Forward upending traditional work had left his stamp on every New leadership—plus the pandemic routines to accelerating aspect of operations. Add in shifts toward delivering con- the impact of recent events, and protests—are fueling change at tent digitally and amplifying and “without me having obvi- calls for making more of it ously planned any of this, the venerable Penn Press. available at low or no cost, people will probably look known as Open Access. They back at my fi rst year at Penn, he year 2020 was always arrived in Philadelphia two are also assessing prospects and [say], ‘Oh wow, a lot of going to be a time of tran- days before the coronavirus- for industry changes coming things changed.’” sition for the 130-year-old prompted lockdown in out of the wave of protests As director, Francis is re- T University of Pennsylva- March. He has yet to enter sparked by the death of sponsible for the overall man- nia Press. It was just last Sep- the press’s distinctive mid- George Floyd and other agement of the press, which tember that a new director— Victorian building at 3905 Black victims of police vio- includes a journals division Mary Francis, who formerly Spruce Street as an employ- lence that began in late May. as well as the books program held leadership roles at the ee, though he did see it when That movement has high- and publishes about 140 vol- umes annually in the social sciences and humanities. She also serves as the main point of contact with the University administration. Biggins leads the acquisi- tions department, overseeing the press’s slate of new books and crafting its overall cre- ative vision. He’ll also con- tinue to acquire books himself in fi elds including cultural studies, the intellectual and political history of the Ameri- cas, the Atlantic World, and postcolonial studies. Getting used to that “bifur- cated” framework has been challenging while working remotely, he said on a video call in mid-June. “Learning the social environment of the Penn Press—how people oper- University of Michigan and he interviewed back in De- lighted the Penn Press’s es- ate, and who does well with University of California press- cember. And except for the tablished strengths in pub- what—has been a learning es—succeeded Eric Halpern, people he met then, he’s been lishing books related to the curve that I wasn’t expecting, who’d held the job since 1995 getting to know the editors struggle for racial justice, because obviously we didn’t [“Pressing On,” March 1998]. and other staff from the con- which Biggins hopes to have COVID-19 when all of Then, at the end of January, fi nes of Zoom, BlueJeans, build upon. this was being formulated. the appointment of a new and Microsoft Teams. “I’m the kind of person But we’re in it now.” editor in chief, Walter Big- But Francis and Biggins who is very attracted to dy- Francis described the edi- gins, was announced. are forging ahead with their namic environments, and I tor in chief as playing an al- Biggins, who most recently plans for the press amidst knew that just my arrival most symbolic role in shap- was executive editor at the the changes wrought by the would create some dyna- ing a press’s intellectual iden- University of Georgia Press, novel coronavirus within mism,” Francis said of join- tity. Biggins stood out as a

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PENN PRESS candidate because of the way scholars—and really diffi cult Anti-Racism Penn Press provided this selection he “hit the highest-level for publishers to fi gure out Reading List of books relevant to the current mark” when it came to his how to pay for,” he said. “So movement for racial and economic ideas about that and about we’re thinking about those justice and against police brutality. All can be found at “what’s important for schol- challenges on top of just the www.upenn.edu/pennpress. arly publishing to be focus- regular COVID-19 concerns.” SET THE WORLD ON FIRE: ing on now,” she said. The fl ood of research on the Black Nationalist Women and the Global As an editor, Biggins has coronavirus that has been Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain mostly concentrated on “books disseminated ahead of peer Highlights the Black nationalist women who about the Americas,” he said. review in online forums has At Georgia, he frequently highlighted larger questions fought for national and transnational Black libera- found himself in competition over accessibility, Francis tion from the early to mid-20th century. with Penn Press editors for the said. The pandemic “has put REMAKING THE REPUBLIC: same books, “so I knew Penn’s a lot of social pressure” on the Black Politics and the Creation of American list very deeply in that regard.” existing system, in which ma- Citizenship by Christopher James Bonner He also was attracted to the jor scholarly commercial Examining newspapers, conventions, public protest press’s “engagement with the publishers “get very large fees meetings, and fugitive slave rescues, the author rest of the world, with Eu- for their subscriptions,” she reveals a spirited debate among African Americans rope, with ancient and early added. “It has given a plat- in the 19th century, the stakes of which could modern cultures,” as well as form and more of a mega- determine their place in US society and shape the the opportunity to engage phone for the people who are terms of citizenship for all Americans. more broadly and deeply with out there saying, ‘Why is this IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER: Philadelphia as a subject— not costing less, why are peo- The New York Riots of 1964 and the War something he suggested the ple making so much money on Crime by Michael W. Flamm press hasn’t taken as much on this, when your taxes went In Central Harlem, the symbolic and historic heart of advantage of as it could. to the National Science Foun- Black America, the violent unrest of July 1964—the According to Biggins, the dation to pay for those fi rst “long, hot summer” of the ’60s—highlighted a pandemic has “amplifi ed” grants’” to do that research? new dynamic in the nation’s racial politics. scholarly publishing’s more or Francis, who was heavily FORCE AND FREEDOM: less perpetual state of crisis. involved in Open Access ini- Black Abolitionists and the Politics Brick-and-mortar bookstores, tiatives at Michigan’s and of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson online sites like Amazon, and California’s presses, believes In the fi rst historical analysis exclusively focused scholarly and regional librar- that scholarly publishers on the tactical use of violence among antebellum ies are all taking fewer books. need to be involved in those Black activists, the author argues that abolitionist “So we’re having to think cre- discussions, though she ad- leaders created the conditions that necessitated atively about ways to publish mits that the Penn Press “has the Civil War. that are dynamic and still get done no Open Access at all.” POLICE POWER AND RACE RIOTS: into people’s hands,” he said. That could change in the fu- Urban Unrest in Paris and New York All current and future press ture, though the question of by Cathy Lisa Schneider books will be available in elec- how to cover necessary ex- The book looks at the relationship between racial- tronic editions, and they’ve penses remains critical to ized police violence and urban upheaval in impover- been working to convert as resolve. “I do think it’s impor- ished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris. much as possible of the back tant, but it’s not like a switch list as well. that you turn on or off .” “But we’re also just think- In addition to issues arising terms of its own economic, make it in if you come from a ing about new modes of pub- from the pandemic, Francis gender, and racial biases. working-class background. lishing,” he added. Making suggested that the ongoing Publishing is populated It’s also very, very feminized content available to as many “national dialogue” on “Amer- mostly by people who are at the entry level but largely readers as possible “often ica’s original sin” could lead white and relatively privi- male at the leadership level. freely, is something that is the publishing industry to leged economically, she said. So, this has been a real mo- really appealing to a lot of “take a look in the mirror” in “It’s a very hard industry to ment of self-refl ection.”

26 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Sports

As a woman replacing a debated in books published longtime male leader, Fran- by Penn and others, Biggins Waiting Game cis considers herself a repre- noted. “A phrase like ‘De- With Ivy League sports on hold, sentative of positive change, fund the Police,’ for instance, which she has continued which has become very pop- two new head coaches are trying to with hires like Biggins, who ular—in scholarly circles is Black, and others. “That’s and within university press- navigate an unusual situation. been a real gift, even as it’s es this is not a new idea. happened during a time of These sorts of carceral stud- struggle,” she said. ies and things like that have nstead of leading practices Some of the press’s existing been present not only at this or workouts, Meredith strengths speak directly to press but at a lot of presses Schamun started a book the current moment, Biggins that publish on humanities,” I club with her team. Casey said. Penn is best known for he said. “What’s been really Brown had her players come to books in early American his- galvanizing is to see how the a Zoom meeting with an item tory and early modern stud- work that’s been produced or souvenir that explained ies, and also has “a very by university presses is be- why they play the game. strong list” in human rights coming mainstream.” What do you do when studies, but includes off er- This is something that the you’re hired to coach a team ings in a wide variety of oth- Penn Press has always been right as your new campus is er disciplines as well—per- good at, he said, “and that I being shut down by a global haps too many, he suggested. want us to highlight and to pandemic? How do you keep Schamun “We [have] published in so think about more and get out your players engaged when many areas that it’s hard for into the world more—so in your fi rst season as head “We’ve laughed. someone coming to our press terms of acquisitions and coach is put on hold, as the cold—looking at our catalog editorial vision, that will con- Ivy League announced in July And we’ve had and looking at the website—to tinue to be a big part of what with the cancellation of all more serious know ‘What is Penn’s identity, we do,” Biggins said. “I think intercollegiate competition what is it that they consider that’s true not just of this for the entire fall semester? conversations themselves really good at?’” press but of any number of For Schamun and Brown— about what we’re He said he wants to strike the presses that do any kind of the new head coaches of the right balance between “ex- work on race, any type of Penn women’s volleyball and trying to do to get panding what people think of work on discrimination, and women’s soccer team, respec- as the press but also in some any type of work on public tively—it’s all about resil- past the weirdness ways contracting the actual policy—and we do all three.” ience and resourcefulness. of not being able to things that we acquire.” “You hate to feel that you “We’ve laughed,” Schamun Francis pointed to alliances are ready to jump into such a says. “And we’ve had more be with our teams.” with the McNeil Center for terrible situation, but we serious conversations about Early American Studies and were ready,” added Francis. what we’re trying to do to get the Institute for Urban Re- “Particularly in the books past some of the weirdness the remainder of the spring search, which she hopes to program that Walter is the of not being able to be with sports season would be can- grow, and other potential leader of, we do have contri- our teams. We’ll swap stories celled [“Dashed Dreams,” partners in areas such as hu- butions to make—not just and ideas—and give each May|Jun 2020], adding a man rights. “It’s a way of the books we’ll publish in the other a little support along foreboding aura to what thinking about expanding, future … but also the stuff the way.” should have been an exciting but it’s also about taking that we already have ready to One of the only times time. “It was a little bit of a your strengths and making go to help people get through Schuman has ever been on hectic day,” says Schamun, them more concentrated.” this remarkable and chal- Penn’s campus was on March who was offi cially hired to Many of the social issues lenging, but I think hopeful, 11, for her fi nal round of job run the volleyball program raised by this summer’s pro- moment in the national dia- interviews. While there, the on March 20. Three days lat- tests have been studied and logue,” she said. —JP Ivy League announced that er, Brown was named the

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GIFT

Brown, who fi nds herself miss- Baseball Stadium ing little things that new staff Upgrades Planned members may have once taken for granted. “You know what I Tommy Lasorda, the legendary former manager of the Los Angeles can’t wait to do?” she says. Dodgers, will have his name stamped on Penn Baseball—literally. “Just take a proper tour [of In late July, Penn Athletics announced a gift of more than $2 campus], where you actually million from Warren Lichtenstein C’87 to help fund upgrades at learn the ins and outs, just like the home of the Quakers’ baseball program, which will be named a student would.” Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium once the fi rst phase Like Schamun, Brown was a collegiate star only about a of the renovation is complete. decade ago, graduating Boston Lasorda—a Baseball Hall of Famer from Norristown, Brown University as an All-American Pennsylvania—won two World Series titles while managing the and getting drafted by the Bos- Dodgers and is very friendly with Lichtenstein, the founder and “Whatever it’s ton Breakers of the old Wom- executive chairman of Steel Partners Holdings L.P., a global en’s Professional Soccer (WPS) diversifi ed holding company. In a statement, Lichtenstein said going to look like, league in 2010. She quickly left that “Tommy and the Lasorda family have meant so much and we want to be playing to get into coaching, done so much for Norristown and the state of Pennsylvania that working her way from LIU it is only fi tting to name Penn’s baseball fi eld after him.” prepared for it. Brooklyn back to her alma Through a portion of his gift, Lichtenstein will match dollar-for- mater and then to Holy Cross, And we want to be dollar any contribution to the stadium project up to $2,050,000, where she served as head the best at it.” coach for the last four seasons creating the $4,100,000 necessary to complete Phase 1 of the and was the 2019 Patriot renovations—which, according to athletic director Grace Calhoun, League Coach of the Year. will “include artifi cial turf and enhance the student-athlete and fan Brown replaced Nicole Van experience in a number of ways to help us compete for Ivy League head women’s soccer coach, Dyke, who left for the Univer- championships.” Among the other upgrades planned for Meiklejohn as both coaches snuck in un- sity of Washington in Janu- Stadium are renovated dugouts, a reorientation of the fi eld, der the wire before a Univer- ary after fi ve seasons at the updated protective netting, and a permanent restroom facility. sity-wide hiring freeze. Quakers’ helm, highlighted Though he doesn’t have a true connection to Penn, Lasorda was Schamun grew up in south- by an Ivy League co-champi- signed by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945, before reaching the big ern California, played volley- onship in 2018. leagues as a pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954. At 92, he’s ball at Rice University, and “I’m excited to not just con- coached at Tulane and the tinue what’s been good,” currently the oldest living Baseball Hall of Famer and has been part of University of Central Florida, Brown says. “I’m a competi- the Dodgers organization in some capacity for more than 70 years. before “taking a leap of faith” tor. I’m hungry to win. I want “I am honored to have a baseball fi eld named after me in my to head north to Villanova, to compete for Ivy League home state of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania,” where she served as an assis- championships, I want to be said Lasorda, who resides in Fullerton, California, with his wife tant coach the previous two in the NCAA tournament, and of 70 years. “I am most thankful to my great friend, Warren years. Transitioning from a I want to push the threshold Lichtenstein, and everyone at the University of Pennsylvania, for nearby Philly-area college of what we can be nationally.” this unbelievable tribute and honor.” (and not having to move off Schamun might have a the Main Line) made things tougher road ahead of her. slightly easier to manage for She’ll be the fourth coach in covery of off ensive posters in during her fi rst few months Schamun than Brown, who fi ve years for a volleyball pro- the team locker room. on the job. “I’m excited to recently left New England gram that’s been beset by up- Schamun notes the “best come in and provide some (where she’s lived almost her heaval, with players fi ling for- part” so far has been how re- continuity and stability,” she entire life) for a new place in mal grievances against former ceptive the players have been says. “I became a coach be- Cherry Hill, New Jersey. “I coach Iain Braddak two years to “good, positive change”— cause I had great coaches in don’t recommend moving ago and the 2019 season get- even though she only got to college that made me feel very during a pandemic,” says ting cut short due to the dis- meet two of them in person loved and supported.”

28 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Photo courtesy Penn Athletics Senior quarterback Ryan Glover is ready for one more season of college football—whenever that might be.

mainly served as a backup last year as the Quakers fi n- ished fourth in the Ivies for the third straight campaign following back-to-back co- championships. “It’s been three upsetting seasons for me in a row,” Glover says. “So for this last one, it’s all or nothing.” Despite not knowing when he’ll get the opportunity to be a starting senior college quar- terback, Glover worked out with teammates in both At- lanta and Los Angeles over the summer. And he returned to campus to live in an off - campus apartment in late July, eager for “a little human interaction” despite the social distancing rules in place. Glover has also been a lead- Like other fall-sport coach- “Whatever it’s going to look moved), he plans to graduate ing voice in conversations es, Brown and Schamun will like,” adds Brown of an uncer- from Wharton in May and about diversity and inclusion try to treat this semester as an tain future for her players, “we perhaps use the season of within the athletic depart- off season—with a lot more want to be prepared for it. And eligibility lost to COVID-19 at ment and football team. Just Zoom meetings. The hope, we want to be the best at it.” a diff erent school. (The Ivy like Penn basketball senior then, is that their seasons will League does not allow gradu- Jelani Williams (see “Seizing be moved to the spring— A Practice in Patience ate students to play intercol- the Moment” on our web- though that all depends on Before arriving at Penn in legiate sports, but some stu- site), Glover felt compelled to how the pandemic looks in the fall of 2017, Ryan Glover dents may have the option to act during the protests for the coming months. (From had an encouraging message graduate later so they can racial equality following the the Ivy League’s July an- for Penn football head coach play another season at Penn.) police killing of George nouncement: “A decision on Ray Priore. “I told Coach ‘P’ Glover’s college football Floyd, and has helped create the remaining winter and that I’m gonna get him some career has already been an a new group for Black stu- spring sports competition rings,” says Glover, now a exercise in patience. A high- dent-athletes at Penn that he calendar, and on whether fall senior quarterback. “I ly touted recruit out of Geor- hopes will foster change—in- sport competition would be haven’t been able to get him gia who comes from a celeb- cluding more ways to “reach feasible in the spring, will be any rings but I have one rity family (his mother is the out and give back” to the lo- determined at a later date.”) more opportunity. So I defi - famous fashion stylist Tame- cal West Philly community. “It’s nice to have something nitely plan on succeeding ka Foster, who used to be “I think everyone on the to look forward to and prepare with that.” married to the iconic musi- team is on board and every- for,” Schamun says. “The peo- It may be out of his control. cian Usher), Glover only ap- one wants to help,” says ple navigating the most uncer- With the Ivy League foot- peared in one game as a Glover, adding that he felt tainty are the seniors and ball season cancelled, Glover freshman. Then, after start- “proud” and “optimistic” freshmen, but we’re all taking is hoping to get a chance to ing all 10 games at QB as a while attending a couple of it in stride. Not every day is lead the Quakers to an Ivy sophomore in 2018 (during protests in California this great. But overall, I think they championship in the spring. which time Usher attend- summer. “Now it’s just time feel blessed for whatever we If sports are not resumed ed—and Instagrammed—a to actually take action and can do and however it looks.” then (and the football season game at Franklin Field), he do it.” —DZ

Photo courtesy Penn Athletics Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 29 CONNECT- ING THE DATA Penn’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice is pioneering a systemic, data-driven approach to criminal justice reform. Its executive director, John Hollway, started with the idea that the law should function more like science— less argument, more truth seeking. By Julia M. Klein

ven after graduating from law for a reprieve dimming, they uncovered school, John F. Hollway C’92 LPS’18 evidence suggesting that their client recalls, “If they had said on the radio hadn’t simply been denied a fair trial. He E that they arrested someone, I would was actually innocent of both crimes. think, ‘Oh, they got the guy.’” Then he “That really grabbed me,” says Hollway, encountered the saga of John Thomp- executive director of the Quattrone son, a Black man convicted, in two sepa- Center for the Fair Administration of rate cases, of carjacking and murder, and Justice and associate dean at Penn’s Carey sent to Louisiana’s death row. Law School. “It redefi ned my view of the Two of Hollway’s former colleagues at criminal justice system. In 1988, 12 inde- the Philadelphia law fi rm of Morgan, pendent people had heard all the evi- Lewis & Bockius spent nearly two dence and come to the conclusion that decades, pro bono, on the capital case, this guy was absolutely guilty. And then working all the legal angles. Years into it turned out they hadn’t heard all the the laborious appeals process, with hope evidence, and 12 other people, when hear-

30 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY MELINDA BECK Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 31 ing the evidence told in a diff erent way, temic, data-driven approach to criminal were absolutely certain he was innocent. justice reform. Its methods derive, in Hollway likes to It shook my foundations of what I part, from W. Edwards Deming’s notion thought the law should be doing.” of a feedback loop of “continuous qual- point out that the He began researching a book on the ity improvement.” Deming, an engineer case in 2004. Soon afterward, he became and physicist turned management guru, initials “QC,” for vice president for business development introduced his techniques in Japan in at a South San Francisco biotech startup, the 1950s. They were adopted in the Quattrone Center, Achaogen Inc., tackling the problem of 1980s by the American automotive and bacterial resistance to antibiotics. “It was aviation industries and, more recently, also stand for 10 PhDs and me, basically,” Hollway says, by the US health care sector. “and what was clear to me was that the Hollway likes to point out that the ini- “quality control.” way that scientists resolved disputes was tials “QC,” for Quattrone Center, also very diff erent from the way I had learned stand for “quality control.” The center’s to resolve disputes as a lawyer.” tagline, he says, is “a systems approach As he wrote Killing Time: An 18-Year- to preventing errors in criminal justice.” Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom Quattrone melds policy and practice, (Skyhorse Publishing), Hollway kept using one to inform the other. The cen- thinking about how much happier ter’s research on issues such as cash bail, and cultural landscape. The movement Thompson’s fate might have been “if pretrial detention, and the controversial has boosted Quattrone’s profi le and we’d had a collaborative process of truth- police practice of “stop and frisk” have demand for its services. Given its long- fi nding instead of an adversarial pro- fueled litigation, legislation, and admin- standing concerns with racial bias in cess.” While shopping the book (co- istrative reforms nationwide. criminal justice, “we’re precisely placed authored with Ronald M. Gauthier) to “Data can be connective,” Hollway says, for this moment in time,” Hollway says. publishers, he got another jolt: “I kept bridging professional and ideological As a result, the center has stepped up getting told, ‘Oh yeah, this is a great divides and fostering consensus. its activities, cosponsoring webinars on story, but we get way too many of these— Former Philadelphia Police Commis- police reform and applying its expertise two or three a month.’” sioner Charles H. Ramsey, a Penn Law to an increasing number of projects In 2010, the year the book was pub- Distinguished Policy Fellow who cotaught nationally, in Philadelphia, and at Penn lished, Hollway joined the advisory the seminar “Policing in the 21st Century” itself. At the request of President Amy board of the Northern California with Hollway last spring, echoes that Gutmann, Quattrone is conducting the Innocence Project, devoted to overturn- idea. Quattrone “can be a convener, they University’s Public Safety Review and ing wrongful convictions. But maybe, he can bring a diverse group of people Outreach Initiative, designed to evaluate was starting to think, the best solution together to have real dialogue—not just Penn’s success in creating “a physically wasn’t litigating individual cases. That shouting at each other,” he says. and emotionally safe environment on process was riddled with uncertainties, Pamela R. Metzger, the inaugural direc- campus and in the surrounding com- consumed years, and cost millions in tor of the Deason Family Criminal Jus- munity,” while promoting “anti-racism, lawyers’ fees (or, in pro bono cases, tice Reform Center at Southern Method- racial equality, and justice.” unbilled time). What if it was possible ist University’s Dedman School of Law, The center’s approach hasn’t changed, to step back and examine the whole sys- sees Quattrone as a model. Hollway “estab- Hollway says, even if his vocabulary has tem, to see how such devastating mis- lished the fi rst major criminal justice shifted to refl ect a new sense of urgency. takes could have occurred in the fi rst reform center that had both national Introducing a July 8 webinar on struc- place? And, by diagnosing the problems, ambition and national reach,” says tural impediments to police reform, Hol- fi x them? Metzger. “And he did that by bringing lway talked about Penn Law’s commit- people together around issues that they ment “to support all communities in their aunched in 2013 with a $15 million had in common. John went out and got anti-racism advocacy.” The panel featured gift from the Frank [W’77] and people to the table.” Ramsey, two other former city offi cials Denise [SAMP ’78] Quattrone Foun- In recent months, the Minneapolis now affi liated with the law school, and a L dation and Hollway at its helm, the police killing of George Floyd, mass pro- policy analyst for the Philadelphia Police Quattrone Center for the Fair Adminis- tests, and growing demands for a racial Advisory Commission. Focusing on such tration of Justice is pioneering a sys- reckoning have transformed the social nuts-and-bolts obstacles as Philadelphia’s

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Photo by Tommy Leonardi C’89 Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 33 grievance arbitration process and the Hollway leads. (“They’re all basically the In a June 23 webinar sponsored by the powerful Fraternal Order of Police union, same thing—it’s just branding,” he says.) National Association for Civilian Over- it was a view from the trenches—in He is also an expert on setting up “con- sight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE), Ramsey’s case, from the streets. viction integrity units” that reexamine Hollway said that “at this moment in An earlier, June 24 panel, “Beyond questionable cases with an eye toward time” the review process can help soothe Reform: Re-envisioning the Role of possible exoneration. anger and “improve the relationship Police,” showcased both more radical In Austin, Texas, Quattrone helped to between police departments and their politics and loftier aims. Its participants investigate defi ciencies at the Austin communities. were fi ve like-minded “abolitionist” aca- Police Department’s DNA lab, closed in “I don’t think anybody wakes up in the demics, all highly skeptical of policing 2016. The release of its report was pend- morning thinking, ‘Today’s the day that and worried that incremental reforms— ing as of late July. In Tucson, Arizona, it I’m going to be involved in an excessive the sort of fi xes that Quattrone has often is reviewing two incidents in which use of force and lose my job and cost recommended—could backfi re by legit- Latinx individuals died in police custody. somebody his life,’” Hollway says. “The imizing or reinforcing the system. In 2015, the center worked with the question we ask at the Quattrone Center “To be perfectly honest, my view is not Montgomery County District Attorney’s then is, ‘If that’s the case, why do these the same as the way the Quattrone Center’s Offi ce, in the Philadelphia suburbs, to tragedies keep happening? And what mission is framed,” says Dorothy E. Roberts, analyze how a rape case involving a can we do to prevent the next tragedy?’ the George A. Weiss University Professor of prominent political fi gure and a misread We all want to fi gure out how we’re Law and Sociology, the Raymond Pace and lab report went awry. going to move forward from here in a Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor Kevin A. Steele, the current Montgom- way that can begin to reunite and heal of Civil Rights, and professor of Africana ery County District Attorney, says that some of the wounds in our society.” Studies [“Dangerous Ideas,” Jul|Aug 2016]. the review identifi ed “a lack of indepen- Roberts, a Quattrone affi liate, a Penn Inte- dent oversight” as “an underlying root aul Heaton, a University of Chicago- grates Knowledge Professor, and director cause” of the debacle. Thanks to Quat- trained economist who is Quat- of Penn’s Program on Race, Science, and trone, the county commissioners funded trone’s academic director and a Society, moderated and assembled the anti- a new position, a “deputy for profes- P senior fellow, describes Hollway as policing panel. “It is so rare that our more sional standards” who reviews “hun- “enormously capable at handling and radical viewpoint gets aired,” she says. dreds of criminal investigations and case adapting to new and unfamiliar situa- Roberts, who is among those advising dispositions each year in an eff ort to tions.” He adds: “If there was some game Penn’s new public safety initiative, favors minimize mistakes,” Steele says. where you’re just going to drop some- the abolition of not just police, but prisons, Quattrone also coordinates the ongo- where in the world and you have to sur- which she views as a manifestation of this ing Philadelphia Event Review Team, vive and thrive and pick a teammate, country’s legacy of slavery, segregation, described in an April 2019 report as a John would be the guy.” and racism. “I believe that the US criminal “fi rst-of-its-kind initiative in the United “He’s a little bit of a polymath or a justice system is designed in a way that States, dedicated to a culture of learning Renaissance man,” SMU’s Metzger says produces injustice. So the problem isn’t a from error.” The Philadelphia District of Hollway. “He’s clearly very skilled at malfunction that has to be corrected,” she Attorney’s Offi ce, the Philadelphia Police developing partnerships, both fi nancial says. “The problem is the system itself.” Department, the First Judicial District and intellectual. He’s really good at insti- Courts of Pennsylvania, and the tution building—which is, I have discov- ost of Quattrone’s interdisciplinary Defender Association of Philadelphia ered, much harder to do than it appears.” group of affi liated faculty and fel- are all participants. The team investi- Hollway grew up mostly in Maryland, lows—with degrees in medicine, gated the case of George Cortez, con- outside Annapolis. His father was a US Air M nursing, law, economics, sociology, victed of murder in 2012 on the basis of Force offi cer, his mother a homemaker criminology, political science, and psy- inaccurate eyewitness testimony; sen- and, later, a nurse. His younger brother is chology—share a more reformist bent. tenced to life without parole; exonerated a helicopter paramedic. At Penn, Hollway The center’s hands-on involvement in 2016; and shot to death on the streets majored in diplomatic history and generally takes the form of after-the-fact of North Philadelphia two months after minored in East Asian studies, polishing probes of undesirable criminal justice his release. Among other recommenda- his fl uency in Japanese during a summer outcomes, variously known as “sentinel tions, the report urged caution in charg- abroad. He attended George Washington event reviews,” “root cause analyses” or ing defendants whenever eyewitness University Law School, where he excelled “just culture event reviews,” which testimony remained uncorroborated. at moot court competitions.

34 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 “As a lawyer, you’re resolving Back in Philadelphia, Hollway signed on as an associate with Morgan Lewis, disputes by controlling data, where he met his wife, Jami McKeon, now the fi rm’s chair. (Morgan Lewis controlling the debate, and describes itself as “the largest law fi rm in the world led by a woman.”) But arguing,” Hollway says. Hollway, though admiring of the fi rm’s pro bono commitments and challenged By contrast, the scientists by some of his assignments, wasn’t sure he wanted a corporate law career. He “would put all the data together on cites the aphorism that working at a law fi rm resembles “a 10-year pie eating con- a table and ask each other questions test,” for which “the reward is more pie.” He soon had other options. After two about what the data meant.” years, “I got hired away by a client who basically said, ‘You managed this litiga- tion well for me, and I saw you think strategically. Why don’t you come be my chief of staff and you can help me build these hospital software products?’” The In 2011, Hollway gave a talk at Penn Law Hollway and the Quattrones already off er, from Shared Medical Systems, about Killing Time, which had become a knew one another from their involve- included stock and the chance to learn stirring tale of dedicated lawyers and a ment with the Northern California new skills. His title was general man- man both wrongfully incarcerated and Innocence Project. A technology invest- ager for wireless solutions. redeemed by prison. As he recalls the ment banker, Frank Quattrone had had Just before SMS was purchased by event, “Al Russo, on the development team his own unpleasant run-in with the Siemens, in 2000, Hollway left to of the law school, grabbed me as I came criminal justice system several years become vice president and chief privacy off the podium, and said, ‘I have some earlier, fi ghting obstruction of justice offi cer for Acurian Inc., which recruits interested alums who want to know why charges against him that were eventu- patients for clinical trials. In 2004, he we don’t have an Innocence Project.’” ally dropped. Hollway says his thoughts accompanied his wife to San Francisco, Hollway, who had just launched his own “resonated with the Quattrones’ vision where she took charge of Morgan Lewis’s criminal justice reform consulting fi rm, of a center they could support.” California operations. (The couple has told Russo that he had two answers to the two daughters and two sons, including question. The fi rst was, “The Pennsylvania ollway began with “all this expertise Payton Hollway C’22.) Innocence Project already exists, and Penn right there in the [law school] build- That’s when Hollway landed at Achao- students already participate—it just hap- ing.” Aided by Penn’s interdisciplin- gen, whose name, he says, was meant to pens to be housed at Temple. And you H ary culture and compact urban suggest “taking the chaos out of genetics.” don’t need a second one.” campus, he reached out to the medical Working with scientists was revelatory. The other answer was really a sales and nursing schools and the University’s “As a lawyer, you’re resolving disputes by pitch. “It costs millions of dollars to liti- social science departments to assemble controlling data, controlling the debate, gate these cases,” Hollway told Russo. a roster of affi liated faculty. and arguing,” Hollway says. By contrast, “For the amount of money it would take Steven E. Raper L’12, vice chair for qual- the scientists “would put all the data to litigate one of these cases properly, you ity and risk management and associate together on a table and ask each other could create a center that would aggre- professor of Surgery at the Perelman questions about what the data meant, gate data and use data to advocate for School of Medicine, played a key role in and then they would reach a consensus policy reforms in ways that would bring early discussions of how post-mortem about what they agreed on and what they people together. Because suing people is analyses of medical errors might trans- didn’t agree on. And then they would fi g- divisive. But data can be connective.” late to a criminal justice setting. ure out how to answer the questions That, says Hollway, “ended up being Quattrone’s advisory board boasts the about what they didn’t agree on.” The the germ of the idea—something that expected array of legal luminaries, but process, he says, “was based on ‘What’s both the law school and the donors also, since 2017, Grammy Award-winning the truth?’ and not, ‘What can I prove?’” could get behind.” singer-songwriter and reform advocate

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 35 “Almost nobody disagrees he argues, as well as far easier to accom- with the idea that we should plish. “We’re starting to see policies that can produce better equity with no eff ect probably only punish people on public safety,” he says. Another Quattrone affi liate is Cary who have actually committed Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, professor of political science, and crimes, and that we should hold director of the Penn Program on Regulation. Coglianese, who helped launch the center, sees “tremendous people who have committed opportunities for agreement, tremen- dous overlaps and consensus points, crimes accountable.” within our polarized society.” He has lately become intrigued by the ways in which artifi cial intelligence might coun- ter human bias and other errors. John Legend C’99. The Research Fellows Quattrone is now studying the impact Regina Austin L’73, William A. Schnad- Program attracts young talent, seeding its of cash bail reforms instituted partly as er Professor of Law and director of the ideas nationally. Sandra G. Mayson, one a result of the study—a prime example Penn Program on Documentaries & the of the inaugural Research Fellows in 2015- of the Deming feedback loop in action. Law, has approached Quattrone’s mission 17, says her Quattrone stint has “shaped Heaton’s research already has demon- from a diff erent angle: students in her my career ever since,” exposing her to strated that relatively modest institu- “Visual Legal Advocacy” class [“Legal interdisciplinary criminal justice scholar- tional fi xes—such as broadening defense Zoom In,” Nov|Dec 2016] compose short ship and helping her forge new academic teams to include social workers and documentary videos that make the case relationships. (Based at the University of other professionals, and using bail advo- for reforms, sometimes dovetailing with Georgia School of Law, she is returning to cates—can reduce sentences without the center’s research. “Our approach Penn Law for the 2020-21 academic year endangering public safety. tends not to be quantitative—we’re more as a visiting assistant professor.) John M. MacDonald, professor of crim- into storytelling,” she says. Since 2016, Quattrone also has had an inology and sociology, has been studying On occasion, the center, despite gener- Exoneree Fellow Program. Its 2018 fel- racial and ethnic inequities in the sys- ally eschewing adversarial tactics, does low, Keith Harward, was convicted of tem for years. In 2018, with Ellen A. play a role in litigation. Civil rights and murder, robbery, burglary, and rape and Donnelly, he published a paper, based criminal defense lawyer David Rudovsky, served 33 years before being cleared in on Delaware data, about the down- a Quattrone-affi liated senior fellow, has 2016 by DNA evidence. Saved by science, stream consequences of cash bail and been involved for a decade in a legal chal- he participated in a discussion of what pretrial detention. After controlling for lenge to Philadelphia’s “stop and frisk” Hollway called “science that’s gone off factors such as “severity of charges” and practices on racial disparity and Fourth the rails”—in Harward’s case, bite mark “criminal histories,” they found that bail Amendment grounds. He says that sta- evidence. The panel was titled, “Once and pretrial detention contributed to 30 tistical analysis by his Quattrone col- Bitten, Twice Shy.” to 47 percent of Black–white disparities league David S. Abrams, professor of law, In its seven years of existence, Quat- in conviction and sentencing. Other business economics and public policy, has trone has spawned an impressive body MacDonald research has explored “stop, been integral to the case. “We’ve learned of research. In a study of Harris County, question, and frisk” practices in New a lot from the data,” Rudovsky says, Texas, Heaton and his collaborators, York and the impacts of California sen- including how rarely police stops result- including Mayson, showed that cash bail tencing reforms, which downgraded ed in the discovery of weapons. and pretrial detention contributed to some lesser felonies to misdemeanors. wrongful convictions by encouraging Like Heaton’s, MacDonald’s work chal- ollway piloted his “sentinel event guilty pleas in less serious cases. These lenges the notion that addressing sys- review” concept in 2015 by examin- practices disproportionately disadvan- temic inequities in criminal justice ing the “Lex Street Massacre,” a 2000 taged African American defendants, they requires implementing sweeping social H mass murder in West Philadelphia found, and cost taxpayers unnecessary change. Just altering criminal justice in which 10 people were shot and seven money. With the county’s cooperation, policies and practices can be eff ective, killed. In that case, the wrong suspects

36 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 were held for 18 months before police, imply that you’re not already doing to occur tomorrow. We recognize that relying on a competing confession and something well,” he says. “I apply that in it’s an incremental process that is going ballistics evidence, fi nally identifi ed four my Quattrone Center work all the time.” to involve reform. The question is which other men as the perpetrators. (McKeon has applied Hollway’s positive reforms will move us toward abolition “We did a review in which we tried to psychology insights, too: she created two and which reforms will only reinforce fi gure out why, in the most scrutinized unconventional positions at Morgan the existing system.” case in Philadelphia history, we had Lewis—“chief engagement offi cer” and Since “the harms that are done by the arrested four incorrect guys and not “director of well-being,” the latter fi lled criminal justice system that the Quattrone learned about it for 18 months,” Hollway by one of Hollway’s MAPP classmates.) Center wants to eliminate are also harms recalls. “It’s never just one thing. It’s not Hollway sees his work in pragmatic that abolitionists want to eliminate,” just the original arrest: it’s the prosecu- rather than ideological terms. “Criminal Roberts says, working together can tors accepting it, the defense lawyers not justice is really a place that has emerged “reduce the suff ering of people victimized being able to fi x it even if they know as a nonpartisan area for reform, for the by the system,” as well as help “move about it, the judge, etc. The checks and most part,” he says. “We have disagree- toward a complete transformation.” The balances that are supposed to catch that ments about what ought to be a crime, ultimate goal of abolitionists remains a error also failed.” and we may have disagreements about more socioeconomically just, less violent The Lex Street case showed Hollway what we do with someone who’s commit- society, she says, “where prisons are incon- the importance of establishing trust. ted a crime. But almost nobody disagrees ceivable because we’ve dealt with the “Success was going to be based on creat- with the idea that we should probably kinds of harms that people commit today ing an environment of psychological only punish people who have actually in a radically diff erent way.” safety where people were going to be committed crimes, and that we should But can such ideological disagree- comfortable sharing the true stories of hold people who have committed crimes ments really be put aside? “You can’t these traumatic events,” he says. Par- accountable. So where the Quattrone have any kind of legal system without ticipants in these cases “have lived Center starts is, ‘Let’s make sure we get making moral or normative judgments,” through something that they do not the right person in the right way.’” Coglianese says, “and there will be dis- believe should happen on their watch.” While Hollway specializes in deep dives agreement about what those judgments Most, he says, were “hardworking, ded- on individual cases, he says that, as the should be, and what form they should icated professionals, and they pride academic director, Heaton has brought take. You can’t get around that. All the themselves on getting it right.” When the center “this unbelievable ability to do more reason that you have to be sure they don’t, “that is a very diffi cult thing large-scale data analytics projects” on the that whatever system you do have is per- for them to process,” he says, especially impacts of various practices. “That ceived as legitimate.” in “an environment where it’s all about changes the conversation,” Hollway says, The current outcry for racial justice blame and zero tolerance for error.” making it possible to ask: “Is this the only underlines the value of the Quat- Winning their cooperation was a chal- result that you want, or should we think trone Center’s careful, incremental, lenge. Meanwhile, he was parenting teen- about doing it a diff erent way?” social-science-based approach, Cogli- agers—another sort of challenge—and This approach helps to forge alliances, anese says. Major changes occur at “the hearing stories from his wife about high he says, with those on both the right and confl uence of policy ideas and political rates of depression, anxiety, substance the left. Sure, Hollway says, he and pressures,” he says. “So you can have all abuse, and suicide in the legal profession. Dorothy Roberts come at problems from the protests you want, all the high ideas These converging circumstances led Hol- diff erent historical perspectives. “But we and the slogans, but then you need to lway someplace unexpected: Penn’s mas- can both agree,” he says, “that we don’t have those ideas that you know work ter’s degree program in applied positive want a cash bail system if it’s going to that you can put in place. That’s why the psychology, known as MAPP [“Degrees add to crime.” Quattrone Center is so vital.” of Happiness,” May|Jun 2010], which he Roberts seconds this sentiment, despite completed in 2018. her conviction that the criminal justice Julia M. Klein, a cultural reporter and critic in The program’s “biggest takeaway,” system “uses law enforcement to main- Philadelphia, writes frequently for Hollway says, “has been that the way you tain racial inequality”—that unfairness is the Gazette. Her stories on Eli Rosenbaum think about things aff ects not only the not a bug in the system, but a feature. W’76 WG’77 and Eva Moskowitz C’86 won the way you react to things, but the out- “That doesn’t mean that we can’t col- American Society of Journalists and Authors’ comes that you get.” Another insight was laborate,” she says, “because abolition- award for Outstanding Profi le in 2018 and that “the desire to get better does not ists don’t believe that abolition is going 2019. Follow her on Twitter @JuliaMKlein.

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 37 The Future Is Coming —Fast!

In a new book, Wharton professor and “globalization guy” Mauro Guillén breaks down the key factors that will combine to radically transform the world over the next decade (and SARS-CoV-2 is only speeding things up). By John Prendergast

38 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Sep | Oct 2020ILLUSTRATIONTHE PENNSYLVANIA BY ROMAN GAZETTE KLONEK39 ccording to Mauro Guillén, zines like Wired and Fast Company to the ganizations have long been wary of al- “the world as we know it History Channel (“Who Invented the lowing employees to stray from the of- is about to change, and Flush Toilet?”) and features plenty of fice. “Companies didn’t imagine that it won’t be returning vivid examples along with the data. they could have so many remote work- A “The book was motivated by something ers,” he says. “But things are getting done anytime soon, if ever.” I had been experiencing when I was mak- remotely for at least those of us—about He’s not talking about the ing presentations about this topic, which 32 percent of the American population— novel coronavirus. is that people are increasingly feeling who can work from home.” Those words come near the end of a uneasy about what the world is going to He predicts that the crisis will also new book that Guillén—an expert on look like five, 10 years down the road— speed the shift toward automation in both emerging markets who serves as the Zan- because everybody realizes that things manufacturing and services. “The issue dman Professor of International Manage- are changing very, very fast,” Guillén says. here is resiliency and business continuity,” ment at the Wharton School—finished While the book’s focus is on larger in addition to the traditional allure of cost writing back in November. Published last forces and longer-term developments, savings, he explains. “Companies have month, 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends he’s pleased that it’s coming out now, a realized that during a pandemic they have Will Collide and Reshape the Future of few months in advance of the 2020 pres- to send their workers home and they have Everything (St. Martin’s Press) highlights idential election. “We wanted to do it in to stop doing business.” Unfortunately for how a confluence of demographic, eco- the fall—because the book speaks to affected workers, the incentives to invest nomic, and technological developments many of the debates for the election,” he in automation will go up as companies try are creating “a bewildering new reality says. Among them are “immigration, to build resiliency into their systems. “You driven by a new set of rules,” inequality, and the role of don’t have to send machines home be- Guillén writes in the intro- women in society, which is cause of a pandemic.” The resulting job duction. “Before we know it going to be a huge theme.” losses will worsen economic inequality. there will be more grandpar- It’s also coming out in the “I’m sticking to my guns,” he sums up. ents than grandchildren in midst of the worst pandemic “My only regret is that instead of the title most countries; collectively, in a century. Guillén spent being 2030, maybe it should be 2028. I middle-class markets in Asia the locked-down half of think that the future I’m describing will will be larger than those in Penn’s spring semester run- arrive earlier as a result.” the United States and Europe ning a popular virtual class combined; women will own on the impacts of the corona- uillén was born and raised in Spain, more wealth than men; and virus [“Gazetteer,” May|Jun and he holds a bachelor’s degree and we will find ourselves in the 2020], so he thought a lot doctorate in political economy and midst of more industrial ro- about the implications of G business management from the Uni- bots than manufacturing workers, more the current crisis as 2030 moved toward versidad de Oviedo. (He played basket- computers than human brains, more sen- publication. He’s convinced that it will— ball in college, and reports that his team sors than human eyes, and more curren- for the most part, anyway—reinforce won the championship in 1987, though cies than countries.” rather than derail the trends he’s identi- adding that “I only played six minutes Trained as a sociologist, Guillén jokes fied. “Most of the trends—from declining in the final game.”) He came to the Unit- that “I am known in my little field of re- fertility, to intergenerational dynamics, ed States for graduate school, ultimately search as ‘Mr. Globalization Guy’—I’m the to the use of technology—will accelerate earning master’s and PhD degrees in guy who studies globalization of business, due to the pandemic,” he writes in a brief sociology from Yale. After that, “one big trends in the world, all of that.” He’s postscript added over the summer. thing led to the next. I decided to stay,” been writing and teaching about these Take technology adoption. “There’s no he says. After teaching for two years at issues for decades, but this outing is dif- question that people who were reluctant the MIT Sloan School of Management, ferent, he says, pitched more toward a about using technology for online shop- he came to Wharton in 1996. “I’ve been general audience seeking to understand ping or for working, now they have no on campus longer than everyone else the coming reality and gain insight into choice, so they’re learning,” Guillén says. now, with the only possible exception of how to operate successfully within it. The Even people who “always would have Benjamin Franklin,” he jokes. book draws on sources ranging from aca- preferred to go to the store” are chang- “I am passionate about the world, its demic journals to UN, WHO, and corpo- ing out of necessity, further swelling the diversity, its energy, the different cultures, rate reports to tech and business maga- ranks of online shoppers. Similarly, or- and the many things that we can accom-

40 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 plish together, or destroy if we fight,” veloped countries have fallen much more markets will be part of the middle class Guillén says, of the focus of his research. in intermediate-skilled manufacturing by 2030. The dominance of middle class- He traces the genesis of the new book jobs, and have come as the result of au- es in China, India, and elsewhere will back to the financial crisis of 2008. tomation, Guillén notes. “The anxiety and change the nature of many things in the That’s when “I sensed that the world I anger that job losses generate should be economy and business—for one thing, had been born into was vanishing before mostly directed at technological change.” consumer products will be designed and my eyes,” he recalls. “So I started to as- Nevertheless, anti-immigration forces marketed with their preferences in sess demographic, economic, social, and have been more effective and influential mind—but also in politics, he says. “It has technological trends to try to figure out in framing their arguments, often already. A lot of middle-class people feel where they were taking us. I had my “overpower[ing] those who have pro- as if they’ve fallen behind, and they’re ‘aha’ or ‘eureka’ moment in 2015, when moted its benefits,” he adds, which is voting both in Europe and the United I realized that the world we knew was important to realize as 2030 approaches. States for populist” leaders. These trends coming to an end by 2030.” The strongest economies will “take ad- have been going on for a while but are vantage of the dynamic contributions of “coming to a boiling point now.” Guillén begins the book by laying out immigrants while at the same time taking “Intersecting with all of that is gender,” the major demographic changes on the care of those who are hurt by the con- he adds. Women’s changing goals and way. “I emphasize demographics be- stant transformation of the economy.” educational and career paths is the main cause when it comes to thinking about Meanwhile, increased longevity every- factor driving the worldwide decline in pretty much every other topic—politics, where will make the over-60 population birthrates, he writes. And while the book the economy, businesses, industries—a the largest market segment in the world, recognizes and offers examples of con- lot of it depends on, who are the people? creating opportunities for new products tinuing discrimination and poverty, es- Who are the people who can be working, and services to meet the needs of an age pecially for women heading single par- or who are the people who can be con- cohort that is more tech-savvy and also ent households, overall women are doing sumers?” he says. less inclined—and perhaps, less able fi- much better—a trend that will advance Birth rates are declining all over the nancially—to follow a clear-cut progres- further by 2030, Guillén says. world, but the impact will be felt most sion from work to retirement. In the US, women earn the majority of keenly in places like Europe, Japan, and the One growing market will be for high- college and graduate degrees, and are the United States, he says. Societies with aging tech tools to help older people preserve biggest earner in 40 percent of house- populations and a need for workers have their independence or supplement care- holds. “This [income] statistic must have turned to immigration in the past, but that giving, things like exoskeletons to help enormous cultural implications for the may be problematic given the level of an- movement, virtual reality to counter future, but also saves consumer markets. tagonism towards immigrants in some isolation, and software to manage fi- That’s the other point that I made in the quarters—which, unsurprisingly, Guillén nances and keep track of important book.” By 2030, women’s share of wealth considers “wrong and shortsighted.” documents. In Denmark, a robotic seal worldwide is estimated to be 55 percent, While there’s some indication that new (chosen because it had fewer associa- rising from 15 percent in 2000. immigrants may hold down wages for tions than dogs or cats) is used in 80 Guillén also looks at attitudes toward earlier ones and minorities, he writes, the percent of state-owned nursing homes women leaders—changing, though too weight of evidence is against claims that to comfort bedridden patients. slowly—and delves into research on immigrants “steal” jobs from natives or Middle-class aspirations will be less women’s and men’s spending habits and represent a drain on social welfare sys- about keeping up with the “Joneses” investment approaches, suggesting that tems, and in favor of immigrants as net than with the “Singhs and the Wangs” had it been Lehman Sisters the 2008 fi- contributors to society and the econo- by the next decade, Guillén suggests. nancial crisis might have been averted. my—whether that’s in terms of filling jobs “There’s a battle of the middle classes in With regard to global warming, Guil- in agriculture, construction, services, the world going on,” he says. “It’s a battle lén compares the desire to find a “silver healthcare, and other areas that will be for jobs. It’s a battle for natural resourc- bullet” to solve the climate crisis to the vital to serve aging populations in the es. It’s a battle for everything—because focus on a vaccine against COVID-19 West or the immigrant entrepreneurs the European and American middle when “therapeutic treatments will actu- who have founded or cofounded “44 of class are no longer alone.” ally be available much sooner and will 87 private companies worth more than While US and European middle classes probably be more effective and help us $1 billion, so called ‘unicorns.’” And rath- are still richest, they are stagnant, while much more,” he says. “My take on cli- er than those extremes, job losses in de- about 1 billion people from emerging mate change is that it’s a problem in cit-

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 41 ies—and about cities,” he adds. “Unless share a cellphone and must relieve them- portation, Airbnb for housing, and Task- we fix cities, we’re not going to be able selves in the open or go to a shared out- Rabbit for any type of “gig work,” as well to address climate change.” Cities take house.” In much of Africa, where the use as many others, which have proven espe- up one percent of land, but contain 55 of mobile technology is near universal, cially popular among millennials, with percent of the population and produce for example, “there’s no sanitation. Or in their aversion toward (or inability to 80 percent of carbon emissions, he says. India, for that matter,” Guillén says. In the make) major purchases. “In more ways Most are also located along coastlines, US, we take sanitation for granted. “But than one, the sharing economy challeng- making them more vulnerable to rising once you have a city like Lagos [Nigeria, es fundamental assumptions and aspira- sea levels. Water shortages are another the largest city in Africa] with so many tions held for generations, even millen- looming environmental problem in ur- people there—most of whom have built nia,” Guillén writes. “What is the ‘Ameri- ban areas in particular. their own house without getting a per- can way of life,’ after all, if we remove the Part of the solution involves what Guil- mit—how do you plan for sanitation? aspiration to own stuff?” And do such lén calls “the mundanity of excellence— How do you actually build the sewer sys- arrangements represent old forms of it’s not a breakthrough that makes Olym- tem? It’s a different kind of problem than worker oppression in a new guise, as pic swimmers. They improve a hundred putting cell phone towers five miles apart some commentators maintain, or a con- little things that in the end produce a so that you can have cell phone service.” venient source of supplemental income good result,” he explains. With climate From there, he touches on innovations and/or a way “to avoid becoming a cu- change, it will be the “mundanity of sur- including 3-D printing, the use of virtual bicle dweller like those depicted in the vival.” He points out that a third of food reality in healthcare and for psychologi- Dilbert comic strip”? production is wasted. “And food and cal treatment, artificial intelligence, and Guillén is skeptical that Bitcoin and agriculture are the single biggest con- nanotechnologies. Robotics and automa- other cryptocurrencies will ever seri- tributor to global warming.” One action tion will take on a broader range of tasks, ously challenge governments’ control cities could take is to promote vertical he predicts, moving from manufacturing over currency. “Governments are going farming in multistory buildings to re- to legal services and even routine surger- to fight back,” he says. “They don’t want duce food imports and avoid emissions ies. On a future mission to Mars, 3-D to lose their power to print money and from transportation. The added vegeta- printing could make it possible to create their authority over that.” But if the un- tion “would help absorb some of the everything needed from local materials, derlying concept of the blockchain emissions from cars and energy produc- and in the meantime could eliminate lots [“Blockchain Fever,” Jul|Aug 2018] is tion facilities,” he writes. of well-paying blue-collar jobs back here broadened to “include money as one New technologies and renewable sourc- on Earth, he writes. And nanotechnolo- among a thousand other things that it es of energy can help, “but behavioral gies could upend the fashion industry could do for us, then I think it has a very change by itself can go a long way,” he says. and help save the environment by creat- good chance of being widely used.” “We could meet the goals the governments ing clothing able to change its properties. have set for carbon emission reductions, With real-time data collection, insurance the book’s subtitle—How Today’s just through behavioral change.” Such companies could charge by individual Biggest Trends Will Collide, etc. changes could be produced by “nudging” behavior, rather than base fees on as- —suggests, the key to under- people in the direction of environmen- sumptions about risk groups. As standing the world coming by tally beneficial activities, he suggests. “The constellation of technologies be- 2030 is how the different developments Noting that the average lifetime of a hind these potential advancements is Guillén has outlined will bounce off each company listed on the S&P 500 has called the ‘Internet of Things’—all of the other and interact. To do that requires dropped from 60 years to 10, Guillén sees interconnected sensors and other de- “lateral thinking,” he says, drawing on the a “coming revolution in invention and vices designed to run factories, mines, work of Edward de Bono, author of Six innovation” comparable in technological energy systems, transportation systems, Thinking Hats. terms to the Cambrian explosion, when retail facilities, vehicles, homes, offices, “The basic idea is that there’s some- approximately 541 million years ago and even people,” Guillén writes. “By thing going on over here, and you think, “complex animal species appeared on 2030, there will be about 200 billion de- ‘OK, that’s interesting.’ That’s something land and marine ecosystems developed.” vices and sensors connected to it.” that you may want to pay attention to, He sketches the history of flush toilets, In a chapter called “Imagine No Posses- but you don’t realize that it has repercus- first invented in 1596 or so, and recent sions,” Guillén weighs the pros and cons sions on so many other things that are efforts to develop waterless toilets to of the so-called “sharing economy” exem- completely unforeseeable that you didn’t serve the “1.5 billion people who own or plified by companies like Uber for trans- really anticipate,” Guillén says. “Each

42 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 “Each little thing over here is little thing over here is reinforcing an- reinforcing another over there. other over there. All of these things are feeding into this dynamic of change.” All of these things are feeding In the book’s conclusion, he offers sev- en “lateral tips and tricks to survive into this dynamic of change.” 2030,” each flowing from the previous one. “I don’t think there is a magic for- alert for how to improve things along But Guillén cites research by other an- mula for solving all of the problems in the the way”; “Anticipate dead ends,” a call, thropologists that throw a different light world, or for individual people to adapt with caveats, for keeping your options on the story: there’s not much evidence to all of this change—and that’s why I am open that acts as a kind of counter- that groups fought, it was mostly rats that in favor of a battery of recommendations weight to tip No. 1; and “Approach un- destroyed the forest, and the islanders as opposed to just, ‘This is the one thing certainty with optimism,” which coun- created carefully tended gardens to feed that you have to do,” he says. sels against letting anxiety about the a growing population. They failed in the Guillén’s first principle, “Lose sight of future lead to a focus on avoiding losses end, but not for lack of ingenuity or effort. the shore,” is designed to counteract the rather than winning. “The bottom line “It is an example of collapse, there’s no way “fear of the unknown prevents peo- is that the more we refocus on the op- question about that,” Guillén says. “An- ple from seizing the opportunities em- portunity rather than the downside, the other way of looking at it is: ‘Oh my god, bedded in the massive transformations greater our chances of adapting success- they survived on that tiny island for any- to come in 2030 and beyond.” He draws fully,” he writes. “Climate change, for where between 600 and 900 years, de- on the 16th-century story of how Span- example, feels like an intractable prob- pending on when they arrived.’ And that’s ish Conquistador Hernán Cortés scuttled lem, but every problem presents an op- also remarkable.” the ships that had brought his 200 men portunity for action.” The interesting question “is not why from Cuba to Veracruz to prevent any Guillén’s final principle, “Take the cur- the collapse, but rather how come it attempt to return before going on to con- rent,” emphasizes the importance of lasted so long,” Guillén says. “And it was quer the Aztec Empire. The lesson is to good timing, as he offers a litany of prod- through cultural adaptation. They “overcome fear by looking ahead,” he ucts that came to market too soon. Had adapted. Through trial and error, they writes—for example, by recognizing that history worked out a little differently, he pursued other paths, they were innova- immigrants contribute to the economy notes, we might be lauding WebVan gro- tive, they looked for different ways of rather than steal jobs, or working to en- cery home delivery, IBM’s Simon smart- getting organized.” sure that “nobody is left behind” by the phone, and Microsoft’s Tablet PC as Those adaptations even included technological disruptions resulting from iconic advances rather than Instacart et changing their religion. Few statues ap- automation and cryptocurrencies. al. and the iPhone and iPad. pear to have been built after 1500, and Lego’s rebound from declining rele- But a more broadly resonant bit of ad- islanders developed an annual “ritual vance to the “Apple of Toys” is the ex- vice in the present moment may be tip race for the first egg” to choose the rul- ample in “Diversify with purpose.” After No. 6, “Don’t be scared of scarcity.” In the ing “birdman,” which Guillén calls “a a detour into branded fashion, video face of potential “shortages of freshwater, rather peaceful and effective way of cop- games, and theme parks, the company clean air, and hospitable land” by 2030, ing with a declining resource base.” “changed course, went ‘back to the “perhaps we can learn a lateral trick or “For me that is the single most impor- brick,’ and reengaged with diversifica- two from older societies that had to over- tant thing,” he says. tion, this time with purpose,” he writes. come environmental crises of their own,” The story illustrates “the lengths to “Lego realized that the formula for sus- Guillén writes. “Consider the Rapa Nui, which humans and human communities tainable success was to bridge the gap better known as Easter Island.” would go to adapt to a changing environ- between generations,” by combining the In his 2005 bestseller Collapse, Jared ment,” he adds. “And that I think is an appeal of creative building with popular Diamond presents the story as a caution- optimistic message—about human resil- culture, as with The Lego Movie. ary tale, in which territorial groups com- ience, and the human spirit. I don’t put Other tips include “To be successful, peted to build ever larger versions of the it in that way in the book, but reflecting start small,” which references the actual isolated island’s famous statues, cleared on the book in the context of this pan- Apple, Inc. and Steve Jobs’ insight that forests to transport them and farmed too demic, that’s what I see. We are very “the best way to deal with a rapidly shift- intensively, eventually leading to “star- good at adapting, both as individuals ing landscape is not to plan for every vation, a population crash, and a descent and as communities or groups.” move in advance but rather to be on the into cannibalism.”

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 43 ROCKING AROUND THE DECADES WITH ROB AND ERIC

appointing ends. And before breaking The pandemic has hit pause on 20+20— through with Nervous Night they’d spent the planned 40th anniversary tour for their fi ve years performing around Philadel- phia as the Hooters evolved from an is- iconic 1980s band the Hooters—but Rob landy ska-punk brew (fi rst heard on their indie album release Amore). Hyman and Eric Bazilian insist the show Those professional immersions schooled will go on (20+20+1), while keeping them early in the dark side of the music business—the pileup of advances and musically busy in the meantime. promotional expenses and unfulfi lled promises that eventually cause most By Jonathan Takiff groups to call it quits. “Making music has always been its own reward for us,” said Hyman. “That’s what’s kept us go- ing, through thick and thin.” ife was looking good—maybe too a richly melodic, one-of-a-kind pop-rock, Making the thin years less lean, both good—for Rob Hyman C’72 and Eric reggae/ska and folk-fusing group that have also written songs, fi rst covered by Bazilian C’75 when we fi rst recon- earned “Best New Band of 1985” honors other artists, that have become modern nected back in February to refl ect from Rolling Stone. Their major label de- pop classics and are often licensed for on and toast their topsy-turvy ca- but album from Columbia Records, Ner- fi lms and TV shows—the musical equiv- Lreers in pop music: A marathon gig as vous Night—featuring the infectiously alent of annuities, earning “enough to songwriters, arrangers, band front men, danceable, keyboard-vamped (Hyman) live on,” Hyman says. These signature and featured sidemen. And a verging- and guitars a-blazing (Bazilian) anthems songs have also opened the door to col- on-half-century-long friendship that “And We Danced” and “Day by Day,” and laborations with the likes of Mick Jagger, began when they met in an electronic the heavy hitting, apocalyptic thumper Jon Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, and the Ger- music class at Penn when Rob was a se- “All You Zombies”—quickly amassed two man rock band Scorpions. nior and Eric a freshman. million sales, just in the US. For Hyman the annuity is “Time After “If we’d been just one more year apart, By that time, these guys were already Time,” a haunting ballad that was a hit we’d never have intersected, our lives would veterans of two prior bands that had fi rst for Cyndi Lauper (who shares the be drastically diff erent,” mused Hyman. sprung out of their Penn experience, Wax writing credit and royalties), with Hyman The two are best known as the lead per- and Baby Grand, both of which had gar- singing backup. The song has since been formers and composers for the Hooters, nered record deals before coming to dis- covered by everyone from country legend

44 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY JAY BEVENOUR Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 45 The band in its 1980s “big hair” days ...

Willie Nelson to jazz great Miles Davis The more provocative themes and mix musicians, in rock, jazz, and blues who’ve and has maintained pop currency with of Celtic folk, Cajun, and sing-along pub earned ‘most respected abroad’ status,” 21st century takes by American R&B sing- ballad fl avors that emerged in their second he adds, name-checking edgy originals ers INOJ and Javier Colon, the punk band and third Columbia albums, One Way such as 1950s rocker Eddie Cochran, who Quietdrive, Eurodance project Novaspace Home (1987) and Zig-Zag (1989), in songs died at 21 in a UK car crash; cool jazz and British synthwave group Gunship. like the jaunty TV preachers’ mocking vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker; “God- Bazilian’s ticket to ride was (and re- “Satellite,” lovestruck “Karla with a K,” the mother of rock and roll” Sister Rosetta mains) “One of Us,” introduced by Joan ominous “Johnny B,” and their dub-beat Tharpe; and blues icon Muddy Waters. Osborne. A sly, spur-of-the-moment, remake of “500 Miles,” have won the group Chertoff and Hyman met as freshmen one-take improvisation by the writer, a huge and disparate following overseas. in biology lab, where they were dissecting —which is “how the best ones often hap- Even heavy metal fans “go crazy when frogs. They decided that going back to the pen,” he says—the song ponders the we bring out an accordion and mandolin dorms to listen to albums would be more question What if God was one of us? productive. Chertoff would become Just a slob like one of us?” the drummer in two college years bands with Hyman, fi rst the bluesy ut a musician can’t live on song- Buckwheat, which was strictly a fra- writing royalties alone. With a ternity party thing, and then the jam- feeling of “let’s do this while we ming, prog-rock Wax, which also in- B still can,” back in February the cluded David Kagan C’71 on vocals now 70-year-old Hyman and 67-year- and guitarist Rick Levy C’71. old Bazilian were anticipating the The latter band endeavor lured launch of a major tour for the sum- them away from classes to record an mer of 2020—billed as “20+20”—to album in New York City for a fl edg- mark their 40 years as the Hooters. ling label run by Bob Crewe, already Hyman, who now also functions as famous as cowriter and producer of the band’s manager with his wife hit songs for the Four Seasons, Sally, had spent much of the last two among others. But that adventure years organizing the tour, which was abruptly ended for our guys when to have started on Memorial Day the label went bust, shut its doors, weekend in their still most welcom- and ate their tapes. A long-lost, cut- ing hometown, on a big bill at the Mann and our namesake Hooter,” a harmonica/ live Wax studio session made a belated Center with fellow Philly-rooted duo Da- keyboard hybrid, aka Melodica, said Ba- album debut as Melted in 2010, issued ryl Hall and John Oates. After that Hy- zilian. When I suggested that those by LightYear Entertainment, a label run man, Bazilian, and Hooters bandmates sounds could strike a rootsy, familial by a Penn friend who had been a big fan David Uosikkinen, John Lilley, Fran chord for the Euros, he agreed but added, and publicist for the band, Arnie Hol- Smith Jr., and Tommy Williams, and their “It’s also because we rock them—hard.” land C’71 L’74 [“When Wax Was Hot,” mostly Europe-based road crew of 14 Many of the scheduled summer 2020 Sep|Oct 2010]. were set to jump on the fi rst of many shows were already sold out in frosty When Chertoff went to work after “planes, trains, buses, and automobiles” February, Hyman marveled then. “We’re graduation at Arista Records, he signed for 35 rock-hall and festival dates abroad, headlining a mix of 1,000 to 1,500 [per- and produced Baby Grand. With Hyman, before returning home for more gigs into son] capacity venues and some of the Kagan, and Bazilian at the core, Baby the fall. biggest festivals—major events that go Grand aspired to be the next Steely Dan, The tour was to feature an especially on for three or four days.” even utilizing one of the same studio strong focus on festival and large club “A US band that’s bigger overseas is a musicians employed by the jazz-pop shows in Northern Europe—Germany, rare phenomenon but not unheard of,” group’s founders Donald Fagen and Wal- Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway—where says veteran record producer Rick Cher- ter Becker. Baby Grand released a pair the band is most popular these days. Iron- toff C’72, a roommate of Hyman’s at Penn of albums in 1977–78 that “didn’t have a ically, European listeners fi rst picked up whose life and career in the music world hit single between them,” Bazilian said on the Hooters “just when our American is tightly intertwined with Hyman and (though “Alligator Drive” and “Never album sales were drooping and our label Bazilian. “Historically, it’s been signifi - Enough”—later covered by new wave was losing interest,” Hyman noted. cant but less commercially successful singer-songwriter Patty Smyth—had po-

46 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Photo by Columbia Records courtesy The Hooters and now(ish), playing at Circus Krone in Munich, Germany, in 2015.

tential in this listener’s opinion), before going bankrupt and disbanding. After moving to Columbia Records, Chertoff shepherded Hyman and Bazil- ian’s three Hooters albums for the label. He wasn’t involved in their 1993 album for MCA, Out of Body, or their most ma- ture, life-affi rming set—2007’s Time Stand Still, self-produced by Rob and Eric on their own label—but in 1998 he did collaborate with Hyman on an inter- esting side project, the album Largo. Chertoff also had a hand in Hyman and Bazilian’s respective “annuities.” In 1983, before their fi rst Hooters set was record- ed for the same label group, he show- cased their talents on Cyndi Lauper’s 16 million-selling breakthrough album She’s So Unusual, which featured “Time After Time.” Rob and Eric, who arranged and played on the whole set (also famous for their reggae-cized “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”), were eff ectively “the band before I had a band,” Lauper would de- clare. Then in 1995, Chertoff called on the Hyman/Bazilian team to work the same magic for bluesy singer Joan Osborne. They shaped the studio band sound, ar- ranged and collaborated as songwriters pursuit in the often upbeat Hooters mu- on nine of 12 tracks of her three million- sical world), they delivered the news to seller Relish, including radio hits “St. fans with a posted video performance (at “We’ve never Teresa,” “Right Hand Man,” “Pensacola,” hootersmusic.com) of the heartening and the gangbusters “One of Us.” That song “Silver Lining,” a relative newbie broken up, song and the album were nominated for from 2010 that counsels Take the burden multiple Grammys in 1996. from your back/Somewhere there’s a sun but we took a that’s shining/In your deepest shade of surprise, a month after our initial black/May you fi nd a silver lining. ‘one-year break’ conversations for this story, hell As things stood as of July, all but a few froze over for the Hooters and of the European shows have been re- that turned No the world. Sparked by the rapid scheduled for 2021, Hyman says. And as spread of COVID-19, their grand tour was a longtime music journalist friend (me) threatened then decimated. First the big pointed out, that means the Hooters into eight.” Philly show was optimistically pushed to could still legitimately call next year’s early September (and later postponed delayed outing their “40th anniversary again). Then, like falling dominoes, all 35 party,” since an anniversary celebration Easing the pain of this summer’s tour concert dates booked for June, July, and is traditionally marked at the end of a postponement, and helping to explain August fell by the wayside. calendar year of togetherness, not the their long-lived partnership, Hyman and When the Deutschland bureaucracy of- beginning. (And if you go west around Bazilian cheerfully allow that they’ve fi cially cancelled Oktoberfest, the guys the world in 81 days, you’ve crossed the never put all their eggs in one basket. Or knew their Euro summer was kaput. But, International Date Line, so it’s really only let their dreams outrun reality. Or spent turning lemons to lemonade (a favored 80 for a few hours, right, Mr. Verne?) too much time in each other’s face.

Photo by Heiko Roith courtesy The Hooters Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 47 “We like each other, but we don’t spend cally share or stream the nearly two-hour in a basement home studio “almost ev- every waking hour together,” says Bazil- show for a charity project—a popular ery day,” he says. A most playful and ian. “We’ve never broken up, but we took pursuit in this season of struggle. chameleon-like creator, he’s been known a ‘one-year break’ that turned into eight I whimsically suggested they stage some to sometimes get wrapped up in “nutty (from 1995 to 2003), as we pursued side sort of safe-distancing Drive-in Movie concepts like a series of iconic covers projects and raised our families.” Rob and Event—real or virtual—to reference the sung with a Philly accent—think ‘Sad- Sally Hyman have two grown sons, Matt, look and plotline of their fi rst hit MTV dest Faction’ and ‘Bridge Over Trouble 28, and Nicky, 26, NYU and Pratt grads, music video for “And We Danced.” That Woerters,’” he says, “recorded under the respectively. Eric and Sarah Bazilian have video was shot 35 years ago at the nearby pseudonym Biff Hoagie and the three children, all Penn grads or grads- Exton Drive-in, just a few days after the Passyunk Ramblers.” to-be: Emma C’10, who is 32, Simon C’18, Hooters had opened the US portion of the Is there even a speck of commercial 23, and Maia, 19, a sophomore this year, landmark Live Aid concert in Philadelphia potential here, or just lots of laughs? It are the fourth generation of Bazilians to on July 13, 1985. (They haven’t pursued it, doesn’t matter; he’s only trying to please attend the University. but other musicians, including Garth himself. “I’ve never done anything that With six-and-a-half albums worth of Brooks, Brad Paisley, and Los Lobos, wasn’t for my own satisfaction that sat- Hooters material to perform in concert, would also get the drive-in concert idea isfi ed somebody else,” he says. “I’ve tried the gents say they’ve given up the chase this summer, then actually fi nd locations pandering and it failed miserably. I’m for another hit single. “We already have to pull it off . The Exton is long gone.) only good at doing me.” a big brood of beautiful musical children Soon after our fi rst studio conversation, With just a little streaming-service to attend to. Now it’s time to let them I enjoyed a very long-distance follow-up searching, it’s possible to fi nd two well- give us grandkids,” Bazilian jokes. FaceTime chat with Bazilian, who was by wrought solo albums by Bazilian, The Op- But they’re still striving to fi ne-tune their then back (and locked-in) at his home- timist (2000) and A Very Dull Boy (2002). material with fresh twists and sonic away-from-home in Stockholm, Sweden, Finally nearing completion in forced isola- quotes, Hyman adds, with tweaks that a fl at he’s taken for three years with his tion is a long overdue follow-up tenta- keep the band and the audience in the mo- Swedish-born wife and the sometime tively titled “Songs in the Key of B”—even ment and nod to their musical infl uences, presence of their three off spring. though “not all really are,” he snorts. from Jamaican singer-songwriter and Besides cementing bonds with Sarah’s producer Prince Buster to the Beatles to family, the Stockholm spot has allowed the ccording to Hyman, every time Ba- British folk-rockers Fairport Convention. hyperactive Bazilian to plug into the Euro zilian returns to Philly he’s “lugging The band has had its share of “person- rock scene, working with the likes of Got- a new instrument.” His latest acqui- nel issues” through the years. “What thard (“the biggest hard rock band in Swit- A sition is an oud, a lute-like, pear- group hasn’t?” Hyman ponders. “We’ve zerland”) on their recent single “Bad shaped (and paired strings) instrument had the maturity to work through them,” News” and collaborating in Slovenia with long favored in the Middle East, North he adds. “Four-sixths of today’s band are production partner Martin Stibernik on Africa, and Central Asia. It’s now spark- the same guys that were on the Nervous an album with Eurovision song contest ing him to compose in complex Balkan Night album.” fi nalist Manu. Another international eff ort time signatures. “I get a few pointers “We’ve been together so long we’re is “What Shall Become of the Baby?” a re- here and there, but basically I’ve been friends again,” parries Bazilian. ally terrifi c album project that pairs Bazil- self-taught on everything,” from mando- When we met, pre-lockdown, in Febru- ian with Mats Wester of the seminal Swed- lin to saxophone to harmonica, Bazilian ary, it was at Hyman’s well-appointed Elm ish folk-rock band Nordman. says. That’s been true “since I turned 12, Street Studios in suburban Conshohock- In the US, Bazilian has been collabo- when I realized I could fi gure tunes out en, Pennsylvania. He and Bazilian were rating with and promoting another fe- better than my guitar teacher.” mixing and fi nessing a 2018 video concert male pop talent—Alexis Cunningham, Hyman used to be busy running his shot at the massive Rock of Ages festival strong on voice, tunes, and attitude— elaborate recording studio complex. The in Seebronn, Germany, that they had with her group/album project as Alexx- business hasn’t been helped by COV- planned to off er as a souvenir item for the is and the Medicine. “After seven years ID-19, nor by contemporary artists (like summer showgoers. “Putting this thing of woodshedding, we’re fi nally ready to Billie Eilish) who record multi-Grammy out is not a money maker, but the fans launch,” he says. Award-winning music in their bedrooms expect you to have new merch,” Hyman Because Bazilian can play every band and then brag about it. explained. With the tour put off , they’ve part himself, he’s also been keeping busy He’s also a major collector and restor- been contemplating other ways to physi- in the pandemic, writing and recording er of classic electric keyboards, including

48 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 several examples of the heavy vibes, Meanwhile, covers of Hyman and Ba- plained. “For the fi fth season they fi - heavyweight Hammond church organs zilian’s signature songs keep popping up nally said, ‘We want you to perform “And co-opted by Philly jazz legends like Jim- in fi lms and TV shows, off ering new in- We Danced” on the show.’ We said, ‘Have my Smith, Richard “Groove” Holmes, terpretations—and helping to pay the you seen us lately?’ They said, ‘We can and Shirley Scott, and by British classical rent. Halsey performed “Time After Time” make it work.’ So we all fl ew to LA. They rockers like Procol Harum (think “A with a haunting, minimalist piano ar- took us to the production side. They had Whiter Shade of Pale”). Hyman’s ware- rangement to score the touching “In outfi ts, they had wigs for us”—the Hoot- house also holds “way too many” (he Memoriam” segment at the last Emmy ers had big hair for a couple years in the groans) examples of the dinky, early elec- Awards TV show. Soon thereafter, in the 1980s—“and there were no close-ups. tric pianos and synth keyboards that dramedy Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The episode is called, no surprise ‘The likewise scored British Invasion al- the song reemerged as a meaningful on- Hooters.’” (Exercise fanatics, Hyman and bums—Hyman and Bazilian’s coming-of screen singing duet by the characters Bazilian do look just as lanky now as age-inspirations, along with the ska and played by Cate Blanchett and Emma they did way back when.) reggae originals Rob discovered on vaca- Nelson. I heard it anew this summer, the At our initial meetup, the two were also tions in Jamaica. Hyman has been put- Lauper/Hyman version, scoring the buzzing and sharing tales from their re- ting some of those instruments to work Hulu romantic comedy Palm Springs. cent run as a performing duo in Night of writing and recording a series of classi- Earlier this year, Bazilian’s “One of Us” the Proms, a multi-artist “Classics Meet cally toned pieces “that will hopefully set the mood for an episode of the heady Pops” arena extravaganza with symphony see the light of day soon.” HBO series High Maintenance, “Back- orchestra, band, and chorus accompani- Hyman has also recently reconnected lash.” The bemused evocation is sung on ment that sold out 17 arena shows in Lux- at a socially safe distance with Cyndi screen by diff erent spiritual characters embourg and Germany at the tail end of Lauper. “She invited me to join her in an in both the opening and closing scenes 2019. Alan Parsons and a Euro-touring online fundraising Zoom event with and is now embraced by the composer edition of Earth, Wind and Fire shared the about 100 people. We’ve also done some as “my second favorite use of the song,” pop-side duties with Hyman and Bazilian. online writing. Hopefully more will Bazilian says. Still fi rst in his heart is Dr. “So diff erent than what we’re used to, come from that.” Evil’s performance—and brash lie, “I touring with the Hooters,” Hyman said. And he’s hoping his pal Rick Chertoff wrote that,” afterward—in Austin Pow- “You do four or fi ve songs a night, hardly can rekindle interest, after the theater ers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. break a sweat. We even had time off to do world’s restart, in a stage adaptation of Bazilian also pulled out and played a some songwriting, which we haven’t had their 1998 album Largo. It’s an ambi- “One of Us” cover for me that had “recent- a chance to do for a really long time. tious trek through Americana-fl avored ly come to my attention, sent by the sing- “And yet, that experience still made us music and situations inspired by and er’s manager,” he said. “Kind of sounds like miss the bone-aching, sweat drenching borrowing themes from Czech compos- the Prince version [on his 1996 triple al- work that is touring with our band of er Antonin Dvořák’s two-year visit to bum Emancipation], but you should hear brothers,” he confessed with a laugh. “The America and resulting folkloric sym- it because it’s also got a signifi cant Penn Hooters’ travel regimen is a killer. But the phony From the New World. connection.” It was a performance by the time on stage, striving to connect and “Rob and I felt Largo was some of our student vocal group Counterparts, and the make each night of music the best we’ve best work ever,” says Chertoff in a sepa- recording “took them to the fi nals—and ever had, is our favorite thing in the rate chat from his home in upstate New honors—in the 1998 national champion- world. We’re sure hoping we can get back York, “though the album stumbled out ship of collegiate a cappella at Carnegie on that horse again, next summer.” of the gate even with an all-star cast” Hall,” Bazilian noted. The lead singer was that included the Chieftains, Cyndi Lau- a Penn senior named John Stephens, bet- Jonathan Takiff C’68 has long celebrated Rob per, Taj Mahal, Joan Osborne, and the ter known these days as contemporary Hyman and Eric Bazilian’s talents as an enter- Band’s Garth Hudson and Levon Helm. pop/R&B star John Legend C’99. tainment reporter/critic for the Philadelphia “We’ve gotten development interest from I also was directed to seek out a 2018 Daily News and Philadelphia Inquirer (1971– Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater chief episode of The Goldbergs, the TV sitcom 2018). He also spun their early platters as a who shepherded Hamilton, and done based on creator Adam Goldberg’s real- weekend DJ on WMMR (1971–80). Daughter some workshops. The stage adaptation life experiences growing up in Chelten- Hilary Takiff Weiss GFA’03 is the blurred play- is in the able hands of Eric Overmyer, a ham, Pennsylvania, in the 1980s. “We’d ground fi gure seen swinging like a metro- writer best known for shows like St. Else- been trying to get them to use stuff on nome behind musicians at the open and close where, The Wire, and Treme.” the show since it began,” Bazilian ex- of the “And We Danced” video.

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Annenberg Center annenbergcenter.org Live Wax with Christian McBride (online) Tuesdays at 7pm through Oct. 13 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (online) Alternate Penn Libraries Fridays at noon through Nov. 6 www.library.upenn.edu/ Arthur Ross Gallery (collections/online-exhibits) arthurrossgallery.org Jews in Modern Islamic Contexts Covid-19 Citizen Challenge In Sight: Seeing the People of (online) the Holy Land A Raging Wit: The Life and ICA Legacy of Jonathan Swift icaphila.org Ormandy in China: Planned reopening Sep. 25 The Historic 1973 Tour Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal Calendar Marian Anderson: A Life in Song Sep 25 through Jan 24, 2021 plus dozens more online Penn Museum Slought penn.museum/collections Kelly Writers House slought.org Open with social distancing mea- writing.upenn.edu/wh/ Rx/Museum (online) sures in place. Advanced registra- Temporarily closed, but visit the Art & Reflection in Medicine tion encouraged. Collections are website for links to virtual events, World Café Live Notebook, ca. 1969-1974, from viewable online. Visit the website archived programs, PoemTalk worldcafelive.com Discovering Marian Anderson, Penn for virtual clubs, classes, and lec- podcasts, and the PennSound Schedule in flux; see website for Libraries. See story on page 23 for more information. tures for families and adults. poetry collection. up-to-date information.

50 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Photography William Penn statue atop Philadelphia City Hall.

Civic Pride ike many people, I took city halls for granted,” writes Arthur Arthur Drooker trains his lens on Drooker C’76 in the introduc- that most hallowed and maligned symbol “Ltion of a new photography book dedicated to them. “I ignored them be- of American government: city hall. cause of the essential services they provide and the bureaucracies they represent.” In City Hall (Schiff er Publishing, 2020), Drooker trains his lens on the bricks and mortar (and stained glass and statuary) that embody the fundamental unit of US democracy: local self-government. The project began as a straightforward archi- tectural appreciation, in a similar vein as Drooker’s American Ruins [“Ghost Land- scapes,” Jan|Feb 2008] and Lost Worlds [“Arts,” Jan|Feb 2012]. “But it morphed into something more relevant,” says the California-based photographer, who en- riches this volume with insights from mayors, historians, and city administra- tors he encountered on his journey. “Lo- cal government is where change happens now. Everything from immigration, to minimum wage, to healthcare, to mar- riage equality—all these issues have gained traction fi rst on the local level. It’s been sort of an organized uprising, in a way, to make people at the federal level pay attention and act. So city halls are where change is really happening now.” Drooker spoke with Gazette senior editor Trey Popp in June.

You begin this book by saying that you ignored city halls because of the “es- sential services” they provide. You would have written those words in 2019, but the phrase “essential ser- vices” has a new resonance now. It does. What’s going on now, with the pandemic and also politically, has put a spotlight on local government. We really are all fi nding out who are essential workers, what are essential services—and we’re putting more value and support behind local leaders who are really ad- dressing this pandemic, and the political divisions and strife that we’re all experi- encing. It’s really putting an emphasis on

Photo by Arthur Drooker Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 51 Inside Milwaukee City Hall (left); Boston’s Brutalist ARTS City Hall, foreground (right).

9/11 days we’re living in, I found that kind of shocking, in a way. Even more shocking was Chicago City Hall, where you can also just walk right in. Another expression would be San Francisco’s city hall, which is this abso- lutely stunning, gorgeous, breathtaking Beaux-Arts structure. The mayor at the time [from 1912 to 1931], James Rolph, explicitly wanted that city hall to be “a palace for the people.” And that building was fi nished around 1915, during the City Beautiful movement. The thought process behind that movement was that if you create places and structures that have a sense of uplift, it will aff ect how the citizenry behaves and takes on civic responsibilities. And I defy anybody to go into San Francisco City Hall, stand in the rotunda, and gaze up at the dome, local government. There was a Pew Re- house.” Were there particular city halls and not feel a sense of pride—even if search poll conducted a few years ago that made you feel that way the most? they’re not from San Francisco. that found that the overwhelming major- Each in their own way expressed this Los Angeles City Hall has wonderful ity of adults polled had a more positive idea of the people’s house. Tom Barrett, quotes all around it that express the idea view of their local government than of the mayor of Milwaukee, was the fi rst that this is the people’s house and every- the federal government. And if they took mayor I met on this project who used one’s welcome. In Palm Springs City Hall, that poll now, it would be a lot more! that term. And Milwaukee City Hall was engraved above the city council chamber one of the few city halls where you don’t are the words “The people are the city” You also write about city halls as em- have to go through security to enter— from Shakespeare’s play Corolianus. Each bodying the civic ideal of “the people’s you can just walk right in. In these post- city hall in its own way expresses the fact

52 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Photos by Arthur Drooker Cabinet depicting St. Paul City Halls, new and old. Briefly Noted

THAT’S NOT A THING by Jacqueline Berkell Friedland C’99 L’00 (SparkPress, 2020, $16.95.) Years after Meredith’s engagement to Wesley ended disastrously, he reappears when Meredith is about to marry Aaron. When she learns Wesley has been diagnosed with ALS, Meredith is left with a mix of confusing emo- tions to untangle in this complex love triangle. BUILDING FOR EVERYONE: Expand Your Market with Design Practices from Google’s Product Inclusion Team by Annie Jean- Baptiste C’10 (John Wiley & Sons, 2020, $29.00.) As head of product inclusion at Google, Jean- that, if not directly than at least symbol- choice of whether to go with a very mod- Baptiste provides step-by-step processes for in- ically, this is a place for the people. est building, or—with the unexpected clusive product design that make consumers Philadelphia City Hall is pretty spec- windfall the city had because of the feel seen, heard, and considered—all while in- tacular, too. That building took 30 years bonds they invested in, which did not get creasing a company’s profi tability. Drawing upon examples from Google, she provides guidance to build. It was a heroic eff ort—a lot of hit in the fi nancial collapse but in fact on how to plan for inclusion from the point of workers died in the making of that build- gained in value—they also had the choice product ideation all the way through marketing. ing, which is something a lot of Philadel- to say, Let’s go big. And to their credit, BREAKAWAY AMERICAS: phians aren’t aware of. It’s the largest they went big. And going big in 1932 was The Unmanifest Future of municipal building in the country. There’s going big with the style of the day, which the Jacksonian United something like 14.5 acres of offi ce space in was Art Deco. The building that resulted States by Tommy Richards that building. It’s a monument to big city looks like it could be one of the shorter C’04 GEd’06 (Johns Hopkins government. And the statue of Billy Penn buildings in Rockefeller Center. Inside, University Press, 2020, on top, [Alexander Milne] Calder consid- the Art Deco styling, from the light fi x- $49.95.) This reinterpreta- ered that statue his best work. Thirty- tures to the staircase railings to the fi n- tion of a key moment in US seven feet tall—and the detailing! The ishes on the walls, is just stunning. political history examines six attempts to estab- statue is around 550 feet up in the air, and And the other wonderful thing about lish sovereign states outside the borders of the from street level you can basically make this story is that a thousand local work- early American republic: “patriots” who attempted out the silhouette and that’s about it. But ers—craftspeople, artists, carpenters, all to overthrow British rule in Canada; post-removal the ruffl es in his shirt, the buckles on his local—were hired to create this building. Cherokees in Indian Territory; Mormons in Illinois shoes, the break in the pants… As one of And as a result, that building kept 1,000 and the Salt Lake Valley; Anglo-American overland my interviewees said, it just goes to show families going during the Great Depres- immigrants in both Mexican California and the care and the detail that went into the sion. The carpenters who crafted the Oregon; and Anglo-Americans in Texas. making of this building. And that kind of furniture and the beautiful wall paneling THE ASTRONAUT’S thing is repeated in other city halls as well. throughout the building made a gift to WINDOW: Collection of the mayor for giving them decent-paying Poems and Short Stories Every building is a font of stories. Do you jobs: they created a cabinet made from Celebrating Nature by have a favorite one from this project? all 24 types of wood that they used to Hazel Ann Lee CW’73 (iUni- If there’s one city hall that I keep com- make the building, with an inlaid image verse Incorporated, 2020, ing back to as my emotional touchstone, on one door that showed the new city $20.99.) Fascinated with space travel from a it’s Saint Paul City Hall in Minnesota. It hall, and on the other door showed the young age, Lee believes astronauts offer us a was built during the Depression. The city old city hall it was replacing. To this day distinct view of our world. This book of poems was going to build a new city hall anyway, that cabinet is still in the mayor’s offi ce. acknowledges their contributions to science. but when the Depression hit, they had a Visit thepenngazette.com for more Briefl y Noted.

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many of the wrong kinds of pills. But Clique Bait that’s not how Shaila Arnold went.” The novel centers on Newman’s time Jessica Goodman’s YA debut explores as newbie and then senior member of the Players—a secret society that demands “young girls doing dark things.” often-humiliating, often-dangerous tasks of freshmen aspiring to join. These “pops” range from tame (washing seniors’ cars while singing ’80s songs), to servile here’s a photo on Jessica Goodman (carrying “little fanny packs fi lled with C’12’s Instagram: a thick stack of Player essentials: Juuls, mints, tampons, white papers squeezed together by pencils, mini Snickers, condoms, Advil” T a large binder clip. It’s the galley of to dole out at older members’ request), a new young adult novel, They Wish to extreme (we won’t spoil those). They Were Us. Goodman’s novel. It’s hard not to wonder if Goodman, a It’s been a long time coming. She start- former vice president of Sigma Delta Tau ed it nine years ago, during the fall of her sorority, drew any inspiration from the junior year at Penn. In 2010 the creative Greek scene at Penn. (“Nothing specifi c,” writing major, who planned to work in she says.) magazines, decided to try some courses On top of her classes, Goodman cred- outside of her nonfi ction bubble. Melissa its her growth as a writer at Penn to 34th Jensen C’89 Gr’93’s class, “Writing for Street Magazine—the Daily Pennsylva- T(w)eens,” landed at the top of her list. nian’s weekly arts and culture publica- “It’s defi nitely one of those classes that tion. She started off as a copy editor people were like, wait, what are you tak- there her freshman year, and by her ing? That’s a real class here?” Goodman senior year had become Street’s editor- recalls. “It was just so specifi c and won- in-chief. “I learned the most about what derful. I’d always loved YA fi ction as a I wanted to do career-wise from working reader, so I wanted to see if I could do it.” Goodman says there, and I loved the team aspect of put- As a semester-long project, Jensen’s ting a magazine together,” she says. students wrote several chapters of their her “spirit age” By the time she had graduated and fi n- own YA novels. When Goodman turned has always ished a master’s degree in magazine jour- in her 50-page story about Jill Newman, nalism at Columbia, Goodman wasn’t a high school senior entangled in a been 16. thinking much about the YA novel she’d Skulls-esque secret society, Jensen re- tinkered with her junior year at Penn. She turned it with an encouraging note: “I They Wish They Were Us follows nar- began working in entertainment journal- can’t wait to see this published one day.” rator Jill Newman through her years as ism, and in 2015 she became an editor for As of August 4, 2020, it was. a scholarship student at an affl uent articles about music and books at Enter- Goodman’s YA thriller garnered ad- Long Island prep school, blending her tainment Weekly’s website. vance buzz from Entertainment Weekly, fi sh-out-of-water discomfort with secret “It was a hard, energizing job,” she says. Marie Claire, and Cosmopolitan (where society mischief and a murder mystery Still, “after a while, I realized I wanted she is an op-ed editor). “[T]he talk of the plot around the violent death of New- another creative outlet to play with.” She town for months,” EW wrote, adding man’s best friend, Shaila. also had a new understanding of the book that the book’s acquisition “came about “It’s a miracle anyone gets out of high publishing world through editing EW’s in a heated, competitive auction.” And school alive,” the book begins. “Every- insider-type stories about book deals and though it went through significant thing is a risk or a well-placed trap. If trends. So after four years, she went back changes since fi rst receiving the work- you’re not done in by your own heart, so to those 50 pages from Jensen’s class. shop treatment from Penn writing stu- trampled and swollen, you might fall She spent the next three years writing dents inside Fisher-Bennett Hall, Good- victim to a totally clichéd but equally and editing and rewriting them into a man’s debut novel was both born and tragic demise—a drunk-driving accident, full book. In early 2018, she landed an nurtured on campus. a red light missed while texting, too agent. By that fall, she had a deal with

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Razorbill—a Penguin Young Readers imprint. Another nine months of inten- sive edits followed. “It’s been a long journey,” she says. Still, she stuck by this particular story. “I was just so in love with the characters and the setting and the idea of creating a secret society in high school,” she says. “I knew I wanted to tell a prep school story. It just took me a really long time to fi gure out what exactly that story was and how best to tell it.” They Wish They Were Us drills deeply into the teenage experience, capturing the passion of an early love, the all-con- suming urge to fi t in, and the suff ocating pressure to land a spot at one’s Ivy League school of choice. At heart, it’s a book about clinging to the veneer of per- fection while trying hard to ignore the When it comes to Facebook notice, a collegiate a cappella group with roughly 1,000 messiness of real life. followers will take whatever praise comes its way. So when Barry Manilow gave the Though she fi nished the book more Pennchants a shoutout in mid-May for its video rendition of “Copacabana,” the group than a decade removed from her own counted it as a win. It’s part of a streak. When Penn students were sent home in mid-March, high school experience, Goodman says the all-male vocal group was about halfway through preparations for its annual spring show. her “spirit age” has always been 16. “I Rather than letting the rehearsals go to waste, they decided to record the performance just feel so in touch with that teenage remotely—with scattered members (and a few alums) linking up from West Philadelphia to version of myself,” she says. Australia. The result, a seven-part video series called “Social Distance-SING,” doubled as a “I think there’s no other time in a fundraising effort for the hunger relief organization Philabundance. With tunes ranging from woman’s life when you’re so raw and Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” to Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now,” to the group’s open and searching for something,” she fi rst original song—sophomore Bauti Gallino’s “Intertwined”—the Pennchants has helped says, noting that until very recently, teen to raise $27,000 so far. Check it out at tinyurl.com/pennchants. girls were too often written off as flighty or overly emotional or love-obsessed. “Now there are so many more books Could Get Deported Any Day,” “The Dan- cause of coming from a women’s maga- and TV shows and movies that explore gers of Being Asian American Right Now,” zine,” she adds. “I think it’s so unfortu- the inner workings of young women’s and “The Coronavirus Doesn’t Have a nate that that stigma still exists.” brains in ways that feel respectful and Race Problem—America’s Systems Do.” As COVID-19 continued to spread reverent,” Goodman adds. “I wanted to That last one, written by activist Brittany across the country in mid-summer, capture that as well. I wanted to explore Packnett Cunningham, received an enthu- Goodman—who lives in Brooklyn—was how fragile our brains are at that age. siastic tweet from Hillary Clinton. still juggling full-time magazine work How intensely we feel when we’re young. “I think anybody who has misconcep- with her own fi ction writing in the early I never felt as deeply as I did in those tions about what [today’s Cosmo] is mornings and on weekends, just as she’s tender ages. That’s always what drew me probably isn’t paying attention,” Good- been doing for the past fi ve years. to writing about that time period.” man says. The stories about acne break- They Wish They Were Us landed her a Goodman’s day job also keeps her em- outs and sex toys are still there. But as two-book deal with Razorbill, and she’s bedded in stories about women’s lives and that small sampling of essays illustrates, already fi nished writing its follow-up—an- experiences. She became a senior editor “we do some of the best, most cutting- other standalone YA thriller, slated for at Cosmopolitan in 2017 and moved over edge journalism in terms of what comes release next summer. She can’t say much to op-ed editor last fall. Some of the essays out of magazines these days,” she says. about that one yet, other than that it’s she’s overseen have included “I’m Risking Still, “I can’t tell you how many times “also about young girls doing dark things.” My Life to Save Your Grandparents, but I somebody has talked down to me be- —Molly Petrilla C’06

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Protect and Elect Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State is on a mission to make sure that every vote counts.

56 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Illustration by Lincoln Agnew ALUMNI Kathy Boockvar C’90 “When I talk to the morning of June 2, to ensure a smooth transition, mentary series Lenox Hill (see young people, my Kathy Boockvar C’90 and blitzed radio and TV sta- photo, next page). “It was in- hoped for the best tions with a bilingual public spiring. And she became a primary message On while preparing for relations campaign about vot- great role model for us.” is to never have the worst. ing by mail. “We did every A legal studies class taught Since being appointed Penn- layer of communications we by Kenneth Shropshire, the blinders on, sylvania’s Secretary of the could possibly do to make sure David W. Hauck Professor Emer- Commonwealth on January 5, voters knew about this option. itus of Legal Studies and Busi- to never think 2019, she’d been tasked with And boy, did it work.” ness Ethics, sent Boockvar upgrading the state’s voting A former voting rights attor- down the law path, and her life will be a machines to models that pro- ney and poll worker, Boockvar experience at the University straight path.” duce voter-verifi able paper claims that there were fewer proved so formative that records and implementing Act negative incidents reported the native New Yorker de- 77—an election reform bill, than in any presidential pri- cided to begin her career signed into law by Governor mary that she could recall in in Pennsylvania after grad- Tom Wolf last October, that al- at least a decade, which she uating from law school at lows anyone in the state to calls “incredible.” And it’s giv- American University. She vote by mail without needing ing her hope for the general and her husband Jordan an excuse. election on November 3, in Yeager, whom she met at So there was already a “huge which the state is preparing law school and is now a sea change,” Boockvar notes, for more than 3 million mail- judge, opened their own heading into the Pennsylvania in ballots and the possibility fi rm in Bucks County— primary on June 2—even before that votes may still need to be Boockvar & Yeager—which the COVID-19 pandemic swept counted for days after Election they ran for 11 years while through the country (causing Day. At that point, the eyes of raising a daughter. After the election to be rescheduled the nation could very well fall representing, pro bono, a from April) followed by the on one of the decisive swing low-income community civil unrest that enveloped states from the last presiden- group that had its polling major cities the weekend pri- tial contest—and on Boockvar. place moved, she applied for a machine broke, rather than or. “Any one of those changes It’s not a position she ever job at the Advancement Project, being told to “go home and would be challenging,” Boock- thought she’d be in, particu- a nonprofi t organization run by come back later.” var says. “To have all four con- larly when she fi rst arrived at Judith Browne Dianis W’87 After three years at the Ad- verge in one election was ex- college in the fall of 1986 intent [“Alumni Profi les,” Nov|Dec vancement Project, she was tremely challenging. on following the family tradi- 2019] that focuses on racial recruited to run for Congress “But,” the state’s chief elec- tion of studying medicine. justice issues. in 2012 as a Democrat in what tions offi cial adds, “it was incred- “Then I took chemistry the fi rst She accepted a position as a some analysts had identifi ed as ibly and remarkably smooth semester and realized, ‘Nope, voting rights attorney leading a possible “red to blue” Penn- and safe.” not for me!’” She did, however, up to the 2008 primary and sylvania district. Though she Because of the pandemic, lean on lineage in her decision quickly discovered Pennsylva- admits “it was not on my buck- nearly 1.5 million Pennsylva- to attend Penn. Her grandfa- nia’s voting inequities, seeing et list” and she lost to incum- nians voted by mail in the pri- ther, the late Edward Saskin incredibly long lines and poor bent Michael Fitzpatrick, she mary—more than the roughly C’31, and mother, Virginia organization at polling places still calls it a “life-changing” 1.2 million who voted in per- Saskin Boockvar CW’65, at- in communities of color. One experience. “What I realized in son (and way more than the tended before her. Her twin of the biggest issues she that campaign,” she says, “was 84,000 who voted by mail in brothers, Daniel Boockvar worked to correct was urging that I loved having a million the primary four years earli- C’93 L’96 and John Boockvar her future employer, the Penn- balls in the air at one time.” er). “Once COVID-19 hit, we C’93, followed her there, arriv- sylvania Department of State, Her brother John believes knew things were going to ing on campus to fi nd “a lead- to “put a much clearer direc- she’d make a fi ne elected offi - change,” Boockvar says, noting er in the community,” says tive to counties that every cial if she ever runs again, in that the state department John, now a neurosurgeon voter needed to be off ered an large part because she’s a worked closely with counties featured on the Netfl ix docu- emergency paper ballot” if a “glass is half full” kind of per-

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son who “doesn’t have that She’s aware that mail-in vot- politicians’ personality.” Boock- ing has become a hot-button var, though, hasn’t followed a issue, in large part due to traditional political path. Not rhetoric from President Don- long after her congressional ald Trump W’68, whose re- run, she served as executive di- election campaign sued Penn- rector of Lifecycle WomanCare, sylvania over its mail-in drop- a women’s healthcare nonprof- off sites for ballots. But Boock- it that blended her interests in var has been working with the public health, law, and policy. National Association of Secre- After four years there, she ac- taries of State (of which she is cepted the “opportunity of a the elections committee co- lifetime” to join Governor chair) and other federal agen- Streaming Before Netflix released the docu- Wolf’s cabinet in Harrisburg, cies to “make sure voters Surgeons mentary series Lenox Hill on June fi rst as a senior advisor on elec- know they can rely on county 10, John Boockvar C’93 GM’04 warned tion modernization and then and state election offi ces to his wife and kids about the potential for cringeworthy scenes. the Secretary of the Common- provide accurate informa- For a year-and-a-half, he and three other doctors—including wealth, where, in addition to tion,” she says. “Don’t think his colleague in the neurosurgery department, David Langer her role promoting the integ- what you see on Twitter or C’85 M’90 GM’98—were mic’d up and followed around by rity of the electoral process, she what you see on Facebook or cameras, allowing for an intimate look into the real-life drama also oversees professional li- whatever is accurate.” at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. censing, the state athletic com- Indeed, despite “misinfor- “We dropped the f-bomb a bunch, my tag is sticking out the mission, and more. mation” fl oating around social back of my lab coat every now and then, and my bald spot is “When I talk to young peo- media about the potential for apparent in every scene,” Boockvar says. “But this was worth ple, my primary message is to fraud, voting absentee has doing because the world needed to see what life is like as a doc- never have blinders on, to “been an incredibly safe, se- tor, patient, nurse, nurse practitioner, PA, and what our healthcare never think life will be a cure process for decades,” she system is like—the good, the bad, and the emotional.” straight path,” she says. “Be- says, adding that a voter’s eli- The nine-episode series, which has been critically well cause if you do, you’ll miss the gibility is checked before they received, leans in on the emotional, not only in interactions things to the right and left get a ballot and again once the with patients but in the “special relationship” that Langer that might lead to a more in- county receives it. “And none and Boockvar have with each other as chair and vice chair of teresting career. I’m thankful of that has changed. There’s the hospital’s growing neurosurgery department. (Langer was for every experience that’s just more people taking ad- recently profiled in the Gazette for saving a stranger’s life on a come my way—and if I had vantage of it.” beach and later performing surgery on him [“Alumni Profiles,” those blinders on, I would’ve And just as she’s spent al- Jan|Feb 2020], which was captured in an episode.) missed half of them.” most two years fortifying vot- The fact that half of the doctors featured in the documen- For now, it’s hard for Boock- ing systems’ defenses, adding tary got their schooling at Penn was a happy coincidence, var to look beyond November multiple layers of protection notes Boockvar, who wears a Penn lapel on his lab coat and 3. She plans to ensure that the to secure voter registration recently started the Boockvar Saskin Family Lectureship at Penn 8.5 million registered voters in databases, and creating other Medicine. In the second episode, he even gave a shoutout to the state all receive applications safeguards against election Steven Fluharty—Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences and for mail-in ballots, and has been interference, Boockvar’s state Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and pushing for the General Assem- department is prepared to Neuroscience—for sparking his interest in neuroscience when he bly to pass a law allowing coun- conduct a November election took Fluharty’s neuropsychopharmacology class as a freshman. ties to begin pre-canvassing as smooth as the one held fi ve Boockvar says he hadn’t been in touch with Fluharty and ballots before Election Day (a months earlier amidst unprec- “didn’t know he was dean” when Fluharty reached out to lengthy process that involves edented conditions. him after seeing the episode. “He was just so appreciative,” extracting documents from two “Yes, November 3rd is going Boockvar says. “As a teacher, you probably don’t always real- sets of envelopes—“basically to be insane,” she says. “But we ize the impact you make—particularly on someone who’s on a everything except for counting,” have the framework for every- Netflix show 30 years later.” —DZ she notes). thing in place.” —DZ

58 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Photo courtesy Netflix Alison Malmon C’03 and Steve Lerman W’69

ly wrote, “I’m not sure how helped the organization raise Staying Active my story would have ended.” enough money to triple its When Emily was healthy budget, which has led to Ac- These multigenerational mental enough to accept a job as an tive Minds growing from 350 elementary school teacher in chapters to having a presence health advocates are shifting the New York, she asked her fa- at more than 1,000 high discourse and shedding stigmas. ther to consider assisting Ac- schools and colleges—with a tive Minds with fundraising. big increase in programming. At the fi rst event he attended, The powerful Send Silence Packing exhibits, with back- packs representing students who died by suicide, began in 2011 with 28 stops and was scheduled for 53 stops during the 2019–2020 school year, prior to the COVID-19 out- break. They’ve also intro- duced new programs, includ- ing the Healthy Campus Award and Transform Your Campus Advocacy program, both of which celebrate schools that are exemplary in how they address student mental health and well-be- ing. Since 2015, these pro- grams have been implement- ed on 142 college campuses. Programs like these “get the issue out in the open,” Lerman says, “and empower students to get the help they need and motivate colleges to provide that help in a comprehensive or Alison Malmon C’03 tive Minds during a harrow- Lerman was struck by Malm- and eff ective manner.” and Steve Lerman W’69, ing time in her life, in which on’s calm, authoritative de- When it comes to growing mental health advocacy she once wrote, “the simplest meanor and her knowledge of the organization, Lerman— F is rooted in family. things made no sense … [and] the subject matter when she an attorney who serves on Malmon founded Active conversations became puzzles addressed a crowd of more several other boards—largely Minds—a nonprofi t organiza- I couldn’t quite solve.” than 600 people. “Her whole stays out of Malmon’s way on tion supporting mental While recovering from an manner, her mastery of the day-to-day decisions. But the health awareness and educa- acute debilitative depressive mental health arena—I could pair of Penn alums have a tion for students—as a Penn episode in 2008, Emily began tell right away she was an ex- deep, mutual respect for junior in 2001, following the volunteering at Active Minds’ ceptional person,” he says. “I each other—which stems suicide of her older brother, Washington, DC, offi ce near just said to myself, ‘This is from similar work ethics. Brian [“Alumni Profi les,” the Lerman family home in somebody I could be proud to “We’re both no-nonsense, Mar|April 2009]. Lerman has Potomac, Maryland. “If I get behind.’” point A to point B people,” since become its board of di- hadn’t connected with Active Lerman joined the board’s Lerman says. “We don’t like rectors chair because of his Minds, and gained access to a executive committee in 2012 to analyze things to death. daughter, Emily Lerman Tay- world that embraced and un- and has served as chairman “We went to school 34 years lor C’04, who discovered Ac- derstood mental illness,” Emi- since 2014. Since then, he’s apart,” he adds, “but it doesn’t

Photo by Sydney Weinberg courtesy Active Minds Sep |Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 59 ALUMNI Rachel Harrison Gordon EAS’12

feel that way. It feels like she’s me appreciation for the kids a colleague on my level.” I meet along the way who Indeed, there is a signifi cant may not have that support.” age diff erence not only be- Malmon likens the support tween the 73-year-old Lerman that the Lerman family—not and Malmon, who recently just Steve and Emily, but mom turned 39, but between the Charla and siblings Stephanie entire board and executive C’02, Jeremy C’07, and Zack— staff . That’s by design. shows Active Minds to fami- “From the beginning my lies who become involved in goal was to mobilize and em- the LGBTQ movement after power young adults to be their child comes out. change agents in mental “There are a number of health,” Malmon says. “I saw young adults who are part a generational shift in how of Active Minds but don’t, or much my friends and Brian’s can’t, tell their family because friends responded to these is- the stigma in their family is so sues versus how my parents’ pervasive,” Malmon says. “Our friends did.” connection with Steve and his Malmon adds that Lerman family’s incredible generosity is “opening up conversa- towards Active Minds … is tions” with his Baby Boomer pretty unique and admirable.” peers. “In my parents’ gener- As the COVID-19 pandemic ation, mental health was continues to wreak havoc on completely swept under the schools and routines, many rug,” Lerman notes. “Therapy young people have been was almost nonexistent for forced to contend with mental us as kids. It was a taboo sub- health struggles in an envi- ject. What I notice being in- ronment where they might Free Bird volved with Active Minds is not have been open about it A first-time filmmaker brought her that it’s brought about attitu- before. Malmon notes that dinal changes. I have never several students have asked unique experiences as a biracial Jew been to a conference where about how to have a mental at least one kid did not say to health conversation with their to the screen. me, ‘If it wasn’t for Active parents for the fi rst time. Minds, I wouldn’t be here on “There are a lot of people this planet.’” who did not grow up learning prawled on the fl oor of a painful, scalp-scorching pro- Lerman’s commitment to about mental health or emo- wood-paneled room, cess. Her mom, who is white, Active Minds, and to the tions or resilience,” she says. foam headphones press- reacts with surprise when she cause of mental health advo- “To force a conversation on a S ing against both ears, sees it. Then it’s off to a truck cacy, also illustrates the valu- generation that might not be Birdie is trying to memorize stop diner where Birdie’s dad, able role family members as familiar is very diffi cult. her Torah portion. who is Black, arrives for par- play in supporting loved ones But when someone in their It’s a familiar pose to any- ent-daughter bonding time. who live with mental illness. life—a peer like Steve, a child, one who’s ever been a bat When she refuses a soda at “I have two kids who suff er a grandchild—talks openly mitzvahed tween, but pre- lunch because her mom from depression and anxi- about their struggles and ex- paring to warble out Hebrew doesn’t allow them, her dad ety,” he says. “And I don’t periences, I see people open- before an audience is only says almost sternly, “With me, know what would have hap- ing up a little bit more. Maybe part of what’s occupying we drink soda,” before gulp- pened if they were in a situa- they don’t understand right Birdie these days. There’s ing from his own glass. tion where they didn’t have away, but a change happens.” also her hair, which she has The push-and-pull between parental support. That gives —Holly Leber Simmons turned stick-straight in a Birdie’s divorced parents and

60 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Photo courtesy Rachel Harrison Gordon her biracial identity exemplify short, but I’d think about Harrison Gordon loved the Since Broken Bird made its Broken Bird, a short fi lm writ- those minutes for days and fi lmmaking process, though world debut at the Berlin Film ten and directed by Rachel weeks and months after,” she it was nothing she’d ever Festival in February, she’s Harrison Gordon EAS’12. To says. “Now I realize that the imagined herself doing. As a been approached about other Harrison Gordon’s shock, the amalgamation of all those mo- mechanical engineering ma- projects, including possible fi lm was selected for more ments really did build some- jor at Penn, she didn’t take directing gigs for kid-focused than a dozen 2020 festivals, thing substantial. It made it so any fi lm classes. The closest programs. “I’ve had a couple including the Berlin Interna- I didn’t give up on him.” she got to the arts was a basic of really cool meetings with tional Film Festival, South by Harrison Gordon made Bro- acting class and volunteer studios and production com- Southwest, Aspen Shortsfest ken Bird for her fi rst fi lm as- work with CityStep Penn, a panies that have acquired and the San Francisco Inter- signment at NYU, where she dance-theater program for material they think I’d be a national Film Festival. It’s is completing a dual MBA/ local elementary schools. good fi t for,” she says. “I think also her fi rst fi lm—ever. MFA program meant for as- She moved through several part of the desire to work Every moment of Broken piring fi lm producers. She ini- tech-centered jobs after gradu- with me is because of my ex- Bird is deep-rooted inside tially worried about sharing ation, including a run as the perience in this intersection- Harrison Gordon, not just the fi rst draft of her 10-page manager of mobile analytics al world, which I think is a because she made it, but also script with her class. Was a for the New York Times. In budding topic right now.” because it’s her actual life, re- slice-of-life story pulled from 2014, she became a Presiden- Harrison Gordon is also ea- visited on screen—with a few her own experience impor- tial Innovation Fellow in the ger to turn Broken Bird into tweaks here and there. tant enough? Interesting US Department of Veterans a feature-length fi lm. She still Harrison Gordon’s white enough? It turned out her Aff airs. Still, “I felt like there has plenty of story left to tell, Jewish mom and Black dad classmates thought so. was something missing,” she and plans to begin pitching it divorced when she was four So did Spike Lee, the leg- says. “I kept getting so close to as Hollywood opens back up. years old. She grew up with endary fi lm director who having a real impact, but then “Obviously I would love to her mom in North Jersey, teaches a course at NYU. not being in the right role.” be on set with people right where “most of the spaces I Harrison Gordon signed up So she “quit everything” and, now laughing and fi guring was in were predominantly for his offi ce hours and Lee while on a backpacking trip in out how to tell a story and white,” she says. It often felt read an early script of Broken New Zealand, decided to apply getting the lights right,” she like no one, including her Bird, challenging her to to graduate schools. Learning says of the pandemic halting own parents, could fully un- think about how her life techniques on the fl y from fi lmmaking just as she was derstand her experience as a might have been diff erent if YouTube tutorials, she made a getting started. “But I have biracial Jew. At her syna- both her parents were Black. short documentary fi lm for her been grateful for the time to gogue, she was asked to argue “He made me appreciate the application to NYU. It focused write things that I wouldn’t which was worse: slavery or uniqueness of my setup— on her in-laws, Ruben Gur allow my mind to spend the Holocaust. Later, as a that it was special and that I and Raquel Gur M’80 GM’84, time thinking about when I Black woman in STEM, “I should lean into portraying both of whom work in neuro- was in school.” persevered through misogyny that,” she says. psychiatry at Penn. (Harrison Meanwhile, as the fi lm fes- and racism,” she says. Because Lee also introduced her to Gordon met their son, Alon tival acceptances continue of such experiences, “I was the young actor Indigo Hub- Gur C’12, at a Mask and Wig rolling in—Florida, Atlanta, ashamed of my intersection- bard-Salk, who became Bird- performance her junior year Philadelphia, Annapolis, ality and made myself small- ie in the fi lm. For Birdie’s at Penn. “I guess when he was Palm Springs—she says she’s er, more invisible, to fi t in.” dad, Harrison Gordon landed doing a kickline in a skirt, most moved by the parents Time with her dad was Chad L. Coleman, who that’s when I fell in love,” she and other biracial kids sparse, and often he’d spend starred in both The Wire and jokes of her husband.) who’ve reached out after as long traveling to their The Walking Dead. When she fi rst got into watching Broken Bird. meetups as he spent with his Shooting lasted fi ve days in NYU, she fi gured she’d learn “That’s what really fi lls my daughter once he got there. New Jersey, including some the skills required to perhaps heart,” she says. “They’re just They’d usually hit the mall or scenes in her actual child- create a production compa- grateful to see images of a music store, buy a CD, then hood home and the syna- ny. “I did not see myself as themselves on-screen, and I drive around in his car listen- gogue where she herself was [an artist] until I got to make can defi nitely relate.” ing to it. “It would be really bat mitzvahed. this movie,” she says. —Molly Petrilla C’06

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ALUMNI Notes Events

UTAH “My father, Joe Silverman The Penn Club of Utah is proud to cohost the 9th annual Penn Wharton Sundance Schmooze, a gathering of entertainment C’52, has been complaining industry professionals and friends of film, at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival that he never sees my name in Park City, Utah. This complimentary event features a panel discussion with noted alumni in the industry, moderated in the alumni magazine, by Penn Cinema Studies Professor Peter Decherney, followed by a catered cocktail so in the interest of family party. Cohosted by Penn Film and Media Pioneers, Penntertainment, the Penn/ Wharton Club of Los Angeles, PennNYC, harmony, I’m writing about and the Penn Club of Westchester and Rockland Counties, the event will take what I’m up to.” place the weekend of January 23, 2021, with exact details forthcoming. For —Lisa Silverman Meyers C’90 WG’97 updates, follow our website (bit.ly/PennUtah) or email Jesse Tendler championship points with me as owner-handler EAS’03 W’03 at [email protected]. 1952 in July 2019, at the Jupiter-Tequesta Dog Club VIRTUAL Joe Silverman C’52 see Lisa Silver- show in West Palm Beach, Florida. The judge In light of ongoing global health concerns, man Meyers C’90 WG’97. was Wayne Burton from New South Wales, Aus- visit www.alumni.upenn.edu/clubs to find tralia. Six weeks after attending our wonderful the latest information on Regional Club Class of 1964 50th Reunion in 2014, I fl ew back events in your area. And be sure to check to Philadelphia to meet Wayland Chesapeakes’ 1953 out www.alumni.upenn.edu/govirtual for Douglass Mann C’53 writes, “I am Kim Cramer at the airport. Kim drove up from an abundance of virtual events and pleased to report that my recently written Bridgeton, New Jersey, to bring me my eight- digital resources available for alumni. novel, A Most Welcome Change, is available week-old puppy, Sunny. We fl ew back to Fort on Amazon, in paperback and on Kindle. It is Lauderdale that same afternoon. Dog shows meant to be an amusing and suspenseful tale were a new sport for me, and I wanted to see if focusing on an inscrutable work of modern art, I could show her to a championship myself. We a story featuring a dramatic auction, a third- did it. Yay! Now we are hunkered down at our 1967 world uprising, and a marketplace of fraudu- Mermaid Urban Mangofarm in Fort Lauderdale, Tommy Arnold WG’67 and Earl lent transactions. There is even a bloody mur- swimming in the ocean as often as we can. Sun- Wright WG’67 announce the recent merg- der. But below its painterly surface, I have at- ny swims on weekends at a dog beach. In 1963, er of their two private wealth management tempted a serious polemic that deals harshly as captain of Penn women’s swim team, I won fi rms: AMG National Trust, headquartered with a world gone off its societal axis. A recent the women’s national collegiate 200 individual in Denver, and Boys, Arnold and Company, Kirkus review has stated that its ‘prose is self- medley NAIA championship. Women athletes headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina. assured and inventive,’ that it is ‘a deliciously were excluded from NCAA events at that time.” Earl is chairman and cofounder of AMG, and eclectic drama that sharply satirizes pretention Tommy is former chairman and one of the and venality in the professional art world’ and original two partners of Boys, Arnold. Tommy is ‘as entertaining as it is thought-provoking.’ I 1966 writes, “The merger brought together two can only hope that those who read it will agree.” Cengiz Yetken GAr’66 writes, “I’ve classmates and intramural basketball team- published a book with YEM Publishing in mates 53 years after our graduation. Head- Istanbul, written in Turkish, about my three quarters for the private wealth management 1964 years in Philadelphia, from 1965 to 1968, as and trust banking organization will be in Susan B. Peterson CW’64 writes, “My a student in Professor Louis Kahn’s graduate Denver, with other offi ces in Boulder, Colo- Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Ch. Mermaid Sum- architecture class, working in Kahn’s offi ce, rado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Chicago; Mor- mer Sunny, fi nished her AKC conformation and teaching in the School of Architecture.” ristown, New Jersey; Virginia Beach, Vir-

64 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 We Want to Hear from You ginia; and the Boys, Arnold offi ces in Ashe- EMAIL [email protected] ville and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. 1972 Please include your school and year, along The combined fi rm oversees almost $6 billion John Ascenzi C’72 writes, “I retired in with your address and a daytime telephone of assets for individuals, families, and orga- December, after 21 years at Children’s Hos- number. We include email addresses only when requested or obviously implied. nizations, both taxable and not-for-profi t. pital of Philadelphia. I worked as a medical Both fi rms began over 40 years ago—AMG in and science writer covering biomedical re- Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gazette offices are closed until further 1975 and Boys, Arnold in 1977.” search. During the 1980s, I traveled to notice and we cannot retrieve postal mail schools in a fi ve-state area presenting science at this time. programs for the Franklin Institute. I am DEADLINES 7/15 for the Sep|Oct issue; 1968 currently staying at home with my wife and 9/15 for Nov|Dec; 11/15 for Jan|Feb; 1/15 Joseph Cohen W’68 WG’70 has been son in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 for Mar|Apr; 3/15 for May|Jun; and 5/15 named to the board of directors of Madison pandemic.” John invites alumni contact at for Jul|Aug. Square Garden Sports and Madison Square [email protected]. Garden Network. He writes, “This marks the Hon. Kathryn Streeter Lewis CW’72 Super Lawyers. She is the only female attor- return to my professional roots at MSG, was honored at a portrait unveiling ceremony ney to make the Top 10 in 2020. where I began my career 50 years ago.” The where her judicial portrait was presented to sports business executive was profi led in our the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court of Jan|Feb 2017 issue [“Suiting Up”]. Common Pleas of Philadelphia on February 13. 1974 Jeff rey Goodman C’68, former Ful- Judge Lewis has served as a judge of the Court Hon. Frederica Massiah-Jackson bright Scholar and Mirrielees-Stegner Fel- of Common Pleas for 23 years. In addition, she L’74 see Dr. Allener M. Baker-Rogers low in Writing at Stanford, has published writes, “My memoir, When the Unlikely Are GEd’89. his 10th chapbook of poetry, Old School Chosen, was published in December 2019, and (Pinecone Press). He writes, “I’m looking for is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. a fi rst-rate agent to represent my novels. The It exposes a time when many hurdles were 1975 fi rst chapters are available on my website, placed in the paths of marginalized and eco- Fred Bowen C’75 writes, “I am delighted Jeff reyAGoodman.com.” nomically disadvantaged children—especially to announce my 25th sports book for young girls who aspired beyond entrenched boundar- readers ages 8–12, Gridiron: Stories From 100 ies. Remnants of that time still remain. It also Years of the National Football League, has 1969 underscores the importance of fatherhood, been published by Margaret K. McElderry Jeff rey David Jubelirer W’69 has family, and the vision required within the vil- Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The published a new book of poems, titled A Sen- lage to raise a child, not just to become a lawyer, book chronicles the incredible growth of the sitive Person. but to prepare for a productive, rewarding life. NFL from its beginnings in an automobile show- An excerpt from When the Unlikely Are Cho- room in Canton, Ohio, to the success of the mod- sen was included in Memoirs Class of 1972, ern Super Bowl. Award-winning illustrator 1970 published in honor of the Class of 1972’s 45th James Ransome provides more than 70 illustra- Elliot Fratkin C’70, professor emeritus Reunion in May 2017.” tions to help tell the tale. In addition to a 30-year of African studies and anthropology at Smith Chester Mayer Rothman WG’72 career as an attorney for the federal government, College, has published a new novel Maasai: writes, “I’d like to share three events with the I’ve developed a second career as a children’s A Novel of Love, War, and Witchcraft in Penn community: the birth of my fi rst grand- author. I’ve also written a weekly sports column 19th Century East Africa. In 2012, he also child, a beautiful girl, Auden Grace Rothman, for kids in the Washington Post since April published a memoir of his fi eldwork, Laibon: to son Phillip and his wife Riley; the three- 2000. You can contact me and learn more about An Anthropologist’s Journey with Sam- year anniversary of Jasper St. Funding LLC, my writing at www.fredbowen.com.” buru Diviners of Kenya. a partnership formed in 2018 that is already one of the more active investors in tax liens in New York and New Jersey; and the forth- 1976 1971 coming expansion of Jasper St.’s footprint Steve Elkinton GLA’76 has written a George Edward W’71 writes, “I am one with the opening of an offi ce in Charleston, new book, The National Trails System: of four independent authors published this South Carolina, planned for early 2021.” An Illustrated History. He writes, “During July in an anthology titled The Blue Bottles Deb Willig CW’72, managing partner my 36-year career with the National Park Writing Studio. One of the pieces calls to of Willig, Williams & Davidson, has been Service, I worked on the National Trails Sys- mind my freshman year at 106 Ashhurst.” named among this year’s Top 10 Pennsylvania tem for 25 years and watched it double in

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size. In my retirement I compiled this his- Kem Hinton GAr’81 writes, “In late tory to illustrate how citizen action, inter- 1979 2018, I was asked to design a permanent agency collaboration, and smart political Dr. David Bolger D’79 writes, “I retired space in the Nashville Main Public Library timing built our 54,000-mile system of na- two years ago and honestly, I’m just grateful to honor the 100th anniversary of passage of tional scenic and historic trails. My book can that I have to go through six pages of obituar- the 19th Amendment. Library offi cials had be ordered through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ies before I fi nd my graduation year.” hoped to dedicate the room in May or June, and Books-A-Million.” Joyce Zonana G’79 Gr’85 won the but COVID-19 certainly disrupted those Janice Klein C’76, executive director third-annual $5,000 Global Humanities plans.” The opening date is still pending as of the Museum Association of Arizona, is the Translation Prize from Northwestern Uni- of press time, but a virtual celebration was 2020 recipient of the Dudley-Wilkinson versity’s Global Humanities Initiative for her held in August. More information can be Award of Distinction from the American Al- translation from the Provençal (Occitan) of found at https://tinyurl.com/y8lolk4u. liance of Museums. This award is given to a Jóusè d’Arbaud’s La Bèstio dóu Vacarés Lynne Lieberman C’81 and A. Cassia museum professional who has demonstrated (The Beast of Vaccarès). Northwestern Uni- Margolis GSFA’81 write, “William H. commitment to the highest standards of ex- versity Press will publish The Beast, and McCaulley C’81 passed away on April 23 cellence in the registration profession. Other Tales in September. Joyce lives in [see “Obituaries”]. Bill’s tenure at the Rothen- David W. Webber C’76 writes, “After Brooklyn and is professor emerita of English berg Law Firm persisted over 30 years. almost 40 years as a public interest lawyer in at Borough of Manhattan Community Col- Through his puissance in interpersonal rela- Philadelphia, I was recently able to return to lege, part of the City University of New York. tions he ascended to International Director of my collegiate roots in music history (I trans- Attorney Client Relations par excellence. His ferred to Penn as an undergraduate majoring altruism led him to honor every request for in music in 1973 with the idea that I’d become 1980 assistance, whether it was a nationally regis- a musicologist—didn’t quite work out that Bob Di Giovanni W’80 has coauthored tered charity or an undomiciled soul he en- way). My book, The Music of Friends: 75 and published his third novel, Generation countered during a perambulation. Bill could Years of the Chamber Music Conference Blank, available on Amazon. He writes, “Gen- have been accused of sesquipedalian loqua- and Composers’ Forum of the East, was eration Blank is Book 3 of the Svensson- ciousness; however, it was not through any released in August. Here’s a bit from our pub- World Chronicles, a series that untangles the sense of snobbery, but rather due to his being lication announcement: ‘The Music of mystery underlying a global genetic-engineer- a true logophile. He had a veracious catholic Friends is a comprehensive history of the ing catastrophe, chronicles its social and po- (although only in the most lowercase sense) [Chamber Music Conference], from its earli- litical consequences, and confronts the moral zeal for learning. Celebrated for his pacifi c and est years to the present day. In over 300 pag- dilemma presented by the search for a cure.” humble nature, delicious wit, continual self- es, richly illustrated with more than 80 pho- Kevin Gallagher C’80 GEd’89 see Ann improvement, and erudite manners, his pass- tographs, it encompasses the full experience. McCarthy Gallagher W’82 WG’87. ing leaves a Brobdingnagian void. At Penn, he ... It will be of interest not only to conference was a staple at Hillel. Bill maintained intimate devotees, but also to everyone who cares contact with us, and we miss him sorely, al- about the tradition of amateur chamber mu- 1981 though we hope to sit and enjoy his mellifl uous sic from its origins in Europe through its Dr. James K. Aikins C’81, associate ramblings as we shmooze at length with him growth in the United States.’” professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Coo- again, at some (distant) future date, in the per Medical School of Rowan University, was world to come, ’neath the shelter of the shadow awarded the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s of his posters of the Rebbe and Justin Bieber.” 1977 Humanitarian and Volunteerism Award. The Ken Victor C’77, of Quebec, Canada, award is given to an individual for their “exem- writes, “The Montreal Review of Books plary local, national or international volunteer 1982 said of my poetry collection, We Were Like and outreach eff orts in women’s cancer care Robert Carley C’82, an artist based in Everyone Else, that it takes on ugly realities research or training.” James is the founder and Connecticut, writes, “My fl ags made of coff ee ‘with grace and intelligence.’ The Malahat medical director of the nonprofi t Internation- cup lids, milk cartons, and other discarded Review said, ‘the book reads like a greatest al Healthcare Volunteers. He writes, “The or- material, which I created during the COV- hits album,’ and Today’s Book of Poetry ganization has provided medical/surgical care ID-19 lockdown, were featured on ABC Eye- blog said ‘books of poetry this fi ne are as rare to over 14,500 women and their families and witness News Channel 7 in New York on as hen’s teeth. ... We Were Like Everyone continued medical education for healthcare Memorial Day, and also broadcast on CT Else will be amongst the best poetry you read providers in low resource countries. You may News 12 and Fox 61 Hartford.” View the ABC this year.’ It’s now available in the States.” read more about this organization at ihcv.org.” News coverage at 7ny.tv/36SyXP8.

66 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Ann McCarthy Gallagher W’82 executive vice president, head of research and a collection of 95 stories of historical and con- WG’87 and Kevin Gallagher C’80 development, and chief medical offi cer at CSL temporary women. Allener writes, “A number GEd’89 write, “We are pleased to report Behring, a biotech company that manufactures of them were among the fi rst black women to that our son Peter Gallagher was ordained as remedies for serious and rare diseases. graduate from or teach at the University of a Catholic priest in June. He celebrated his Pennsylvania. They include Sadie Tanner fi rst mass on June 21. He will be serving in Mossell Alexander Ed’18 G’19 Gr’21 the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, with his 1985 L’27 Hon’74, Ruth Wright Hayre fi rst assignment in Woodbury, New Jersey.” Roger S. Kobert C’85 has joined the Ed’30 G’31 Gr’49 Hon’89, Dr. Helen Marci Kislin Heskel W’82 and law fi rm Carlton Fields as a shareholder in O. Dickens GM’45 Hon’82, Nellie Mitchell Heskel C’82 write, “We are New York and Miami. He is a member of the Rathbone Bright CCT’23, and Hon. proud to share that our daughter, Marina fi rm’s Business Litigation Practice. Frederica Massiah-Jackson L’74. De- Heskel C’14, has graduated from the Sid- lores F. Brisbon, former CEO of the Hospital ney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jef- of the University of Pennsylvania, is also pro- ferson University in Philadelphia. She re- 1986 fi led. They Carried Us is available on Ama- ceived the Arnold R. Weitz Memorial Prize Jacqueline Varoli Grace Nu’86 has zon. For more information, visit our website in Hematology and is a member of the Alpha been appointed chief development offi cer at at theycarriedus.org.” Omega Alpha Honor Society. She has begun Keep America Beautiful, a nonprofi t com- Lisa Niver C’89 writes, “I want to thank her residency in Internal Medicine at Yale munity improvement organization that everyone who has supported me on my crazy New Haven Hospital.” strives to end littering, improve recycling, ride of a career journey! After Penn, I went to and beautify America’s communities. and then left UCSF medical school, got an MA in education and taught from pre-K to 8th 1983 grade, sailed the seven seas for seven years, Valerie Hansen G’83 Gr’87, a profes- 1987 and then chose to be a journalist. I am hon- sor of history at Yale, has written The Year Karin Donahue C’87 GEd’88 GrEd’96 ored to be a fi ve-time fi nalist for the Southern 1000: When Explorers Connected the has published a new book, Right from the California Journalism Awards in print, digital, World—and Globalization Began. Start—A Practical Guide for Helping and broadcast TV categories, but most espe- Young Children with Autism, with coau- cially for being nominated as Online Journal- thor Kate Crassons. Karin writes, “It focuses ist of the Year! I am grateful for all I learned 1984 on how autistic children struggle with self- in my liberal arts education that allowed me Neil Kaplan W’84 writes, “I’ve just pub- regulation, social skills, play skills, and sen- to know how to fi gure it out in each of my new lished my fi rst book, Acquiring Polish Citi- sory processing, and importantly, discusses endeavors. (You can read more on my website zenship by Descent: What You Need to helpful strategies to teach children these nec- at https://bit.ly/3eF8kQ8.) In March, just be- Know. In 2016, I founded PolandPassport. essary skills. This book is ideal for new clini- fore COVID closed the doors on all of my trav- com, a global advocacy and consulting ser- cians and teachers who seek practical, useful, els, I went alpine ski touring with Heather vices fi rm for individuals wishing to prove empirically-based strategies to use with chil- Fudala C’91 and Carl Law C’87. It was their Polish heritage with the hope of securing dren on the autism spectrum. The strategies possibly one of the hardest things I have ever Polish citizenship and the associated benefi ts are also useful for parents and other helpers.” done, but we loved it and doing it together of an EU passport. I launched this business Carl Law C’87 see Lisa Niver C’89. made it possible! Thank you to Penn for bring- after going through a 12-year odyssey to pro- ing me my lifelong best friends. (Watch a cure my own Polish citizenship. It’s been the video clip of the trip on my website at https:// most rewarding eff ort of my career, as I help 1988 bit.ly/2ZM60m9.)” families from all over the world obtain EU Amy F. Lipton W’88 was promoted to Ellen Peters EAS’89 W’89 writes, “Af- citizenship, which is both meaningful and full professor of fi nance at Saint Joseph’s ter nine years at Ohio State University, includ- practical. With all the global uncertainties University. ing a nostalgia-fi lled sabbatical at UPenn, I recently, having a second passport and citizen- recently moved to the University of Oregon to ship is becoming increasingly attractive. Any- become the Philip H. Knight Chair and Direc- one with an ancestor who lived in Poland after 1989 tor of the Center for Science Communication 1920 is potentially eligible.” Dr. Allener M. Baker-Rogers GEd’89 Research. And I’m so happy to announce my Dr. Bill Mezzanotte M’84 has been ap- and coauthor Fasaha M. Traylor recently pub- 2020 book published by Oxford University pointed to the board of directors at the Univer- lished They Carried Us: The Social Impact Press! Innumeracy in the Wild: Misun- sity City Science Center in Philadelphia. Bill is of Philadelphia’s Black Women Leaders, derstanding and Misusing Numbers ex-

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amines numbers, psychology, communication, from editing duties.” Mark is a professor of bined Action Marine in Vietnam. From and their eff ects on making crucial decisions anthropology and history at the University the book’s press materials: “His memoir re- and living healthier and wealthier lives. Fol- of Illinois at Chicago. Pratyoush is a research counts his experiences fi ghting with the South low me on Twitter @ellenpetersjdm.” director at Martin Chautari, a not-for-profi t Vietnamese, his readjustment to life after the research organization in Kathmandu, Nepal. war, and the circumstances that prompted him to join the Corps in the fi rst place.” 1990 Robert E. Sanchez WG’93 has been Lisa Silverman Meyers C’90 WG’97 1992 elected by United Way of Miami-Dade to serve writes, “My father, Joe Silverman C’52, Hon. Robert R. Prisco C’92 was ap- as board chair for a two-year term. Robert is has been complaining that he never sees my pointed as a New Jersey State Workers’ Com- chairman and CEO of Ryder System, the truck name in the alumni magazine, so in the inter- pensation Judge on January 4, 2018. He cur- rental and transport supply company where est of family harmony, I’m writing about what rently sits in both the Plainfi eld Vicinage and he has worked for more than 20 years. I’m up to. After a long and wonderful time at the Trenton Vicinage. Viacom/Nickelodeon, where I ended up look- ing after Operations and Strategy for our $2 1994 billion international Consumer Products and 1993 Mark Liechty Gr’94 see Pratyoush Location Based Entertainment businesses, I Helen Eaton C’93, CEO of Settlement Onta G’91 Gr’96. recently joined the Metropolitan Museum of Music School [“Arts,” Mar|Apr 2018], is the re- Art as their fi rst head of Global Licensing and cipient of the 2020 Arts Education Award. The Partnerships. I grew up going to the Met, national award is given to people or organiza- 1995 which nurtured a love of diff erent cultures tions who “provide transformational leadership Robert Francis C’95 is CEO and presi- and history, so it has been a particular honor in arts education through strategic planning, dent of Planned Companies, which provides to put my experience to work for this wonder- strong programming, and the engagement of janitors, maintenance workers, front desk ful institution. I remain extremely busy with partners to achieve community goals.” Helen concierges, and security staff for businesses this work despite the pandemic, and I am is the fi rst person affi liated with a Philadelphia and residences. Robert reports that, during greatly looking forward to the museum’s re- organization to receive this award. the pandemic, Planned Companies funded opening at the end of the summer. I remain a Lisa Nass Grabelle C’93 L’96 and $500,000 into a COVID-19 Immediate Re- lifelong New Yorker, living in Washington Kiera Reilly C’93 write, “The Class of sponse Program, which allows current em- Heights with my husband Pete Meyers and 1993 is still continuing to Zoom and connect. ployees to apply for grants of up to $300. The daughters Esme and Willa.” While our weekly sessions have transitioned fi rm also donated masks to two New Jersey Michele Patrick G’90 has written a new into monthly calls, we enjoy connecting with nursing homes. In addition, Planned Compa- book, Haunted Prague: Stories of Spirits, our classmates virtually around the world to nies launched a COVID-19 Disinfecting Ser- Sorcerers, and the Supernatural. From the check in and learn something from each vice Program at a time when many facilities press materials: “The book’s 39 supernatural other. We had fun during our June Zoom call, were preparing for the reopening of public tales provide a unique window on the very escaping together to discuss favorite travel spaces; and developed a set of Commercial spirit of Prague, its history and people.” Michele memories. Thank you also to Jill Abramovitz and Residential Reopening and Rapid Re- also served as senior speechwriter for Penn C’93, Michael Sluchan C’93, and Mark sponse Guidelines, and a Disinfecting Proce- President Amy Gutmann from 2010 to 2011. Kaufman C’89, for sharing their experiences dural Booklet. working in entertainment—writing, acting, and Dorian Mazurkevich C’95 was re- producing scripted series and live performanc- cently appointed as US regional intellectual 1991 es both before and during the pandemic. Con- property attaché for Eurasia for the US De- Heather Fudala C’91 see Lisa Niver C’89. nect with our class in our Facebook group—Penn partment of Commerce. He is based in the Pratyoush Onta G’91 Gr’96 and Class of 1993—to make sure you receive notices US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Mark Liechty Gr’94, in collaboration about our future Zoom gatherings.” with two other colleagues, cofounded a bian- Toni Egnal Mandelbaum C’93 has nual academic journal, titled Studies in written a new book, Attachment and Adult 2000 Nepali History and Society, in 1996. Pra- Clinical Practice: An Integrated Perspec- Dr. Mollie Gordon C’00 is coeditor of tyoush writes, “Mark and I have continued tive on Developmental Theory, Neurobi- a newly released book, Human Traffi cking: to edit the journal for nearly 25 years, making ology, and Emotional Regulation. A Treatment Guide for Mental Health it the premium journal of Nepal studies glob- Edward Palm Gr’93 has written a new Professionals. Mollie is an associate profes- ally. We have no immediate plans to retire book, Tiger Papa Three: Memoir of a Com- sor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medi-

68 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 ALUMNI IN BUSINESS A guide for Gazette readers seeking to reach cine in Houston and codirector of the school’s the world. I invite alumni contact at KDomke@ thethe bbubusinesssiiness serservicesviices off PPenneennn grggraduates.radaduauattees.s Anti-Human Traffi cking Program. gmail.com. Cheers to fi tness (and veggies) Jennifer Lundquist G’00 Gr’04, a pro- keeping us feeling sane and connected and fessor of sociology and senior associate dean of strong during these very unique times.” the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes, “I have a book that will be published with Univer- 2007 sity of California Press in February 2021, coau- Sathvik “Vik” Tandry W’07 see thored with two of my former PhD students. Abigail Seldin C’09 G’09. Titled The Digital Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Dating, it will be the fi rst comprehensive look at how the contem- 2008 porary context of neoliberalism, consumerism, Jill Kahn Marshall C’08 has been pro- and the rise of new digital technologies have moted to partner at the law fi rm Reavis Page given rise to a unique form of digital-sexual rac- Jump LLP. Jill represents individuals and cor- ism in the era of online dating.” porations in the areas of employment law, liti- gation and dispute resolution, and healthcare. 2002 Matthew Asada C’02 W’02 has been 2009 assigned as the deputy commissioner gen- Ethan Schrum Gr’09 writes, “Cornell eral of the US Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. University Press published my fi rst book, The He writes, “Expo 2020, the next World’s Fair Instrumental University: Education in and fi rst to take place in the Middle East, will Service of the National Agenda after now take place from October 1, 2021, to World War II, in June 2019. This book For advertising information, email Linda Caiazzo March 31, 2022. If you haven’t been to a should be of interest to Gazette readers, as at [email protected] or call 215-898-6811. World’s Fair (yes, we still do those!), this one it has two chapters largely devoted to Penn’s will be worth a visit. For more info on the US importance among American universities in appropriate school offi cials requesting addi- Pavilion, visit www.usapavilion.org. We’re the 1950s and 1960s. The book was the sub- tional aid, providing all of the necessary in- looking forward to having some great Amer- ject of roundtable discussions at the History formation they’d be asked for.” Find out more ican speakers and performers during the six of Education Society and Society for US Intel- at https://formswift.com/swift-student. months, so please get in touch if interested.” lectual History conferences in 2019 and has been reviewed in the New Republic. In other news, I was promoted to associate pro- 2012 2003 fessor of history at Azusa Pacifi c University Robert J. Alexander GEd’12 has been Doug Calidas W’03 has been appoint- in California and served on the university’s named dean of Admissions, Financial Aid, ed legislative director for US Senator Amy strategic planning leadership team for 2019– and Enrollment Management at the Univer- Klobuchar. Previously, he was her deputy 20. I also received a fellowship from the sity of Rochester. legislative director. James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University to spend the 2020–21 academic year in resi- 2014 2004 dence there as a visiting research scholar.” Marina Heskel C’14 see Marci Kislin Kimber Domke W’04 EAS’04 writes, Abigail Seldin C’09 G’09, CEO of the Heskel W’82 and Mitchell Heskel C’82. “After 12 years of coaching Pilates, fi tness, and Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, has teamed nutrition in New York and Hong Kong clubs, up with Sathvik “Vik” Tandry W’07, I’m proud to have refi ned my eye for detail cofounder and CEO of FormSwift, to create a 2017 down to the millimeter via Zoom coaching. new tool to assist college students with their Dr. John Michael Barraza Jr. Supporting the health (and immune system!) federal fi nancial aid. Abigail writes, “SwiftS- GM’17, an interventional radiologist, has of those recovering from COVID or just navigat- tudent is a free digital tool that lives on Vik’s joined the medical team at Radiology Associ- ing the rapidly changing world environment company’s platform. SwiftStudent allows stu- ates in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. has been a silver lining despite all the grief in dents to customize letters to submit to their

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1941 Dorothea Manning Liddell Ed’46, Long Please send notifications of deaths Martha Haspel Marsh Groton FA’41, Beach, IN, a retired principal of an elemen- of alumni directly to: Alumni Records, Orange, CA, June 1, 2019, at 100. At Penn, she tary and middle school; May 23. Previously, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 300, was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority she worked at Penn as a reference librarian 2929 Walnut Street, Phila., PA 19104 and the fi eld hockey team. She served in and administrator of the Newman Center. EMAIL [email protected] WAVES, the women’s branch of the US Naval Margaret Dutra Palecek HUP’46 Nu’60, Newspaper obits are appreciated. Reserve, during World War II. Her sister is Vineland, NJ, a retired nurse; April 15. Mary Haspel Naye CW’42. wife (the late Adele Austin Rickett G’48 Gr’67) Edgar R. Weinrott W’41, Eugene, OR, 1947 were arrested by authorities of the new Peo- Feb. 9. Dr. Ames W. Chapman G’47, Wilber- ple’s Republic of China on charges of espionage force, OH, a retired sociology professor at and imprisoned there until 1955, when he re- 1942 Central State University; May 2, at 100. He turned home to continue his studies at Penn. Beryl Kober HUP’42, Telford, PA, a re- was an avid golfer who played well into his He would later write a book about the experi- tired surgical nurse; May 16, at 99. She served 90s, recording 22 holes in one. He served in ence called Prisoners of Liberation (1973), in the US Navy Nurse Corps Reserve. the US Army during World War II, earning which he coauthored with Adele. In 1959, he several medals for valor. joined the faculty at Penn as a lecturer in the 1943 Leonard Feldman C’47 WG’49, Phila- department of Oriental studies (now the Cen- Martin A. Fischer W’43, Philadelphia, delphia, a retired CPA; April 28. He served in ter for East Asian Studies). He became an as- an entrepreneur who rehabbed vacant com- the US Army Medical Corps during World sistant and then full professor. During his time mercial properties into loft apartments in War II, earning a Meritorious Medal and at Penn, he also held secondary appointments, Old City; May 29. He was a veteran of World Purple Heart. At Penn, he was a member of fi rst as a professional consultant for legal re- War II. His children are Jane C. Broderson Beta Sigma Rho fraternity, the Daily Penn- search in the law department, then as a re- CGS’80 and Edward A. Fischer WG’82. sylvanian, and Phi Beta Kappa. His daughter search assistant and then academician in FAS Wilbur W. Hitchcock Ed’43 GEd’50 is Kathy L. Feldman C’81. Special Programs. He was awarded a Guggen- G’51, Austin, TX, a retired US Foreign Ser- Ruth Shenkle Maley DH’47, Venetia, PA, heim Fellowship in 1969. He retired from Penn vice Consul General who held posts in Can- a retired dental hygienist; May 1. in 1987. He served in the US Navy and US Ma- ada, Argentina, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Laos, J. Howard Ornstein W’47, West Palm rines during World War II and used his Japa- Thailand, and South Korea; May 11. He Beach, FL, former president of a men’s cloth- nese language skills during the Battle of Iwo served in the US Army Air Corps during the ing store; April 19. He served as a bombardier Jima. His son is Jonathan C. Rickett C’81. Korean War. At Penn, he was a member of in the US Air Force. At Penn, he was a mem- Craig A. Schoeller ME’48 GME’51, Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the ROTC. ber of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Cheltenham, PA, retired manager of market- His wife is Margaret S. Hitchcock DH’42. Harvey Schoenfeld WG’47, Boca Raton, ing services for a manufacturer of industrial Dr. Jacob Shragowitz C’43 M’47, Wesley FL, a retired director of a hospital; June 5. drying and heat process equipment; July 23, Hills, NY, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist Clark T. Thompson C’47, Thorndale, PA, 2018. He served in the US Army during World and associate clinical professor emeritus at May 21. At Penn, he was a member of Phi War II. At Penn, he was a member of Lambda New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Penn Band. Chi Alpha fraternity and the ROTC. His son where he worked until he was 92; April 13. He His wife is Rose Franck Thompson CW’48. is Mark Bryan Schoeller L’89. served in the US Air Force during the Korean Dr. Herman L. Shulman G’48 Gr’50, War. One daughter is Laura Shragowitz C’77. 1948 Houston, professor emeritus of chemical en- Carroll Bacon Klahr CW’48, Savannah, GA, gineering at Clarkson University, where he 1946 May 21. Her husband is C. Dean Klahr Jr. W’49. also served as dean of engineering and ex- Dr. Roy D. Bertolet V’46, Hawley, PA, a Walter Allyn Rickett CCC’48 Gr’60, Med- ecutive vice president and provost; April 28. retired veterinarian who ran the Somerton ford, NJ, professor emeritus of Chinese and Carl L. “Lee” Strodtman GME’48, Veterinary Hospital in Philadelphia; April 14. Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Penn’s Grand Rapids, MI, a longtime employee at He served as a colonel in the US Army. School of Arts and Sciences; April 18. After Lear Incorporated, an aerospace electronics Ellen Goldin Davenport FA’46, Media, receiving his fi rst degree from Penn, he was fi rm that went through several mergers; May PA, a retired elementary school teacher and awarded a Fulbright Grant for study in China. 16, at 101. He served in the US Navy. an accomplished painter in watercolors and From 1948 to 1950, he studied Classical Chi- oils; April 30. nese language and history and was a part-time 1949 Julia Goldin G’46, Bala Cynwyd, PA, a lecturer in English at National Tsing Hua Uni- Frances Jordan Banks Ed’49, Cape Eliz- retired teacher; April 28. versity in Beijing. In July 1951, he and his fi rst abeth, ME, a retired chief administrator of a

70 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 skilled nursing facility; May 30, at 101. She 1950 PA, cofounder of a Quaker school for children served in the US Army during World War II. Lawrance A. Brown Jr. C’50, St. Paul, MN, with learning diff erences; May 16. He served Dr. William L. Calderhead C’49 Gr’55, a retired manager at what is now GlaxoSmith- in the US Navy during World War II. At Penn, Annapolis, MD, a retired professor of history Kline; May 27. He served in the First Troop he was a member of the lacrosse team. and economics at the US Naval Academy, Philadelphia City Cavalry during the Korean Donald H. G. Segal W’50, Bryn Mawr, where he taught for over 30 years; April 26. War. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Phi PA, former fi nancial analyst for H&R Block; He served in the US Army from 1945 to 1947. fraternity and the tennis and track teams. April 23. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta At Penn, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha Dr. Ruth Panzer Gottlieb CW’50 M’54 Beta Tau fraternity and the sprint football fraternity and the track and wrestling teams. GM’58, Haverford, PA, a retired pediatrician team. His son is John E. Segal C’77. His wife is Margaret D. Calderhead CW’50. and pediatric nephrologist; May 2. Her sons Gloria Rogach Van Gulick CW’50, New- Paula Toland Calhoun CW’49, Bryn are Dr. Charles D. Gottlieb C’76 M’81 GM’84 town, PA, a retired biochemist; May 1. At Penn, Mawr, PA, a homemaker; June 12. At Penn, GM’88 and Dr. Daniel J. Gottlieb M’84. she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Dr. L. Theodore Lawrence M’50, Haver- Richard E. Zellers W’50, Germantown, sorority and the chorus. ford, PA, retired chief of cardiology at Philadel- MD, a retired account executive for Beaver S. Robert Cohen W’49, Chevy Chase, MD, phia Veterans Hospital who later served as a Street Fisheries, a seafood products distribu- a retired business executive who founded an cardiology consultant; May 5, at 99. He served tor; June 1. He served in the US Merchant offi ce supplies business that trained and in the US Navy during World War II and was a Marines during World War II and in the US hired individuals with disabilities, as well as medical offi cer in the Naval Reserves until 1968. Army during the Korean War. At Penn, he the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes, Robert L. MacDonald W’50, Newtown was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. which also served those with developmental Square, PA, former deputy vice dean of Whar- disabilities; May 17. At Penn, he was a mem- ton Undergraduate Division and director of 1951 ber of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Wharton Evening School; Dec. 10, 2019. He Janet Gaden Shand Jones CW’51, William B. Grant W’49, Poinciana, FL, began as director of placement in 1956, be- Worcester, MA, former executive director of May 26. He served in the Korean War. At Penn, came director of Wharton Evening School in a medical foundation; June 8. At Penn, she he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra- 1964, and deputy vice dean of Wharton Un- was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, ternity, the ROTC, and Sphinx Senior Society. dergraduate in 1985. He also was a lecturer the chorus, and Penn Players. One daughter is Lynn Grant Beck C’89. for Wharton courses in administration, be- Robert B. McCullough W’51 L’56, a re- Dr. Frank Hoff man GM’49, Eastham, havioral science, organizational theory, and tired lawyer; Erie, PA, June 3. He served in MA, a retired ear, nose, and throat doctor entrepreneurship from 1953 until his retire- the US Navy and the US Army Reserves. At who maintained a practice in Savannah, GA, ment in 1993. As a student at Penn, he was a Penn, he was a member of Sigma Chi frater- for over 50 years; April 21. member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and nity and the sprint football team. Bernard Loev Ch’49, Haverford, PA, a the Daily Pennsylvanian. He is one of six in Muriel Remaley Riddle Ed’51 GEd’52, former chemist for multiple pharmaceutical his family to attend Penn, and one daughter Bloomington, IL, a retired special needs teacher; companies who later became executive vice is Beth L. MacDonald GEd’83 GrEd’91. June 7. She wrote the state of Utah’s fi rst cur- president of an interior design and branding Alice Wilson McKinley CW’50, Goff s- riculum for students with special needs. At Penn, agency; May 10. He held more than 70 pat- town, NH, May 31. At Penn, she was a mem- she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. ents and was elected Man of the Year by the ber of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Charles L. Wagandt II G’51, Baltimore, American Chemical Society in 1974. One son Seymour H. Miller C’50, Mahwah, NJ, a founder and president of Oella Company, which is Dr. Glen H. Loev C’77, and one brother is former CFO and COO of several publicly manages, develops, and rehabilitates historic Dr. Marvin Loev C’55 M’59. traded companies who founded SYS Tele- mill properties in Baltimore; May 21. He served Edward W. Madeira Jr. C’49 L’52, Phil- phone after his retirement; April 12. One son in the US Marines during World War II. adelphia, chairman emeritus of the law fi rm is Mark D. Miller W’80, and one grandson is Pepper Hamilton; May 21. He coauthored a Michael E. Miller C’18. 1952 book that is scheduled to be published this A. Jane Kirkman O’Brien Nu’50, South- Sidney H. Berson W’52, Niantic, CT, re- year, titled The Defender: The Battle to Protect ampton, PA, a retired school nurse; May 5. She tired president and CEO of Energy Unlim- the Rights of the Accused in Philadelphia. served in the US Army during the Korean War. ited Group; May 28. At Penn, he was a mem- Dr. Elmer L. Off enbacher G’49 Gr’51, Robert J. Rainey W’50, Elverson, PA, a ber of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He served in Jerusalem, Israel, professor emeritus of phys- retired sales and marketing executive; May World War II and received a Purple Heart. ics at Temple University; May 5, 2019. 12. He served in the US Army during World Donald Brenner W’52, Lancaster, PA, a Erwin J. Rogers C’49 WG’52, Moorestown, War II. One son is Michael D. Rainey W’88. retired manager at Scott Paper; May 20. He NJ, a retired traffi c manager at RCA; June 5. George D. Rowe Jr. Ed’50, Wycombe, served in the US Army during the Korean

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War. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Delta a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and the neighborly assistance for seniors; May 3. At Theta fraternity. ROTC student society Scabbard and Blade. Penn, she played on the lacrosse team. Grace Cretella HUP’52, Berwick, PA, a Col. Robert B. Heintz Ar’53, Berkeley retired registered nurse; May 18. Heights, NJ, a retired architect known for his 1954 Joan A. Dolen HUP’52, Houston, Jan. 23, designs of school buildings; April 23. He Jeannine Earnshaw Adams CW’54, 2019. served in the US Army during the Korean War Dedham, MA, a dog breeder; May 16. Dr. Sidney H. Flaxman V’52, Conshohock- and continued his service in the Army Re- Renee Jacobs Brams Ed’54, Gaithers- en, PA, a retired veterinarian; April 27. He serve, rising to the rank of colonel. At Penn, burg, MD, a retired medical offi ce manager; served in the US Navy during World War II. he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. March 30. Previously, she was an elemen- One son is Col. Eric G. Flaxman WEv’79. John W. Hochstuhl C’53, Glenolden, PA, tary school teacher. One son is Jonathan J. Edna Morgan Hollimon SW’52, Phila- a retired insurance executive at Cigna; April Brams W’78. delphia, May 9. 5. He served in the US Army. At Penn, he was Dr. Reinald J. Chutter D’54, Virginia Joseph J. Jagodzinski CCC’52, Newtown a member of the lightweight rowing team. Beach, VA, a retired periodontist; April 24. He Square, PA, June 1, 2018. Stanley A. Joy Jr. W’53, Manchester, NJ, served in the US Navy, retiring as a captain. Donald C. Klinkhammer WG’52, West retired owner of the Joy Oil Company; Jan. Dr. James G. Dempsey C’54, Waverly Chester, OH, a former bank executive, apart- 29. At Penn, he was a member of Alpha Tau Township, PA, a retired surgeon; May 8. ment company manager, and football coach; Omega fraternity and captain of the light- Norton A. Kent Ar’54 GCP’58, Gwyn- Jan. 31. weight rowing team, which he helped win edd, PA, a retired city planner and longtime Sylvia Barton Little HUP’52 Nu’56, the famed Thames Challenge Cup at Henley- community volunteer; April 26. He was a Dover, PA, a retired school nurse; April 20. on-Thames, England, in 1951 and 1952. volunteer at the Penn Museum. Paul V. Marcuson W’52, Farmington, CT, Dr. Barry Lauton C’53, Livingston, NJ, a Robert M. Kratky W’54, Nathrop, CO, retired head of Viking Baking Company, who retired pediatrician who maintained a practice April 12. later became a pilot; June 3. He served in the in Springfi eld, NJ, for over 40 years; April 22. He Dr. Murray Levine Gr’54, Buff alo, NY, US Army Air Corps. At Penn, he was a mem- served as a US Army captain in Korea. At Penn, professor emeritus of psychology at the Uni- ber of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, the soc- he was a member of the Glee Club and WXPN. versity of Buff alo who helped launch the eldfi cer team, and Friars. One granddaughter is Stacy M. Fiszer C’22. of community psychology; May 4. At 88, he John W. Rorer W’52, Havertown, PA, a Richard “Dick” Raines W’53, New York, published a romance novel, New Beginnings. retired publishing company executive; Dec. 10. retired president of a fashion and textiles His sons are David I. Levine L’78 and Dr. He served as a captain in the US Army. At Penn, fi rm; April 5. At Penn, he was a member of Zachary H. Levine Gr’83. he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Psi Epsilon Pi fraternity. He and his wife of Jane Rawley Merrill Nu’54, Syracuse, His wife is Beverly Case Rorer Ed’52 GEd’57. nearly 60 years, Joan, died six weeks apart NY, a retired hospice nurse; April 28. Milton Tapper SW’52, New York, Sept. from COVID-19. His brother-in-law was Jef- William I. Mushake Jr. C’54, Rice, TX, 28, 2018. frey R. Simpson C’55 (see Class of 1955). Sept. 24. At Penn, he was a member of Sigma Sigmund S. Rimm W’53, Margate City, Chi fraternity, Friars, and the heavyweight 1953 NJ, retired commissioner of Margate City rowing team. Nancy “Jody” Jordan Berriman CW’53, who held the position for 32 years; May 20. Ashland, VA, retired assistant director of un- The Sigmund S. Rimm Recreational Complex 1955 dergraduate fi nancial aid at Penn; Oct. 15, is named in his honor. S. David Chauncey W’55, Lake Worth, 2019. She began her career at Penn in 1976 in Michael A. Shore W’53, Pepper Pike, FL, a retired attorney; April 26. At Penn, he the Undergraduate Admissions department OH, former partner at an accounting fi rm; was a member of Phi Sigma Delta fraternity and retired in 2002. As a student at Penn, she May 22. At Penn, he was a member of Pi and WXPN. was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Lambda Phi fraternity. David Elwyn Davies WG’55, Hiram, ME, One daughter is Susan Berriman Bova GEd’81. Dr. Joseph D. Slick V’53, Collegeville, PA, April 27. Henry L. Dragun C’53, Severna Park, retired head of Pennridge Veterinary Hospi- David J. Kaufman L’55, Huntingdon Val- MD, a retired chemistry professor and chair tal, where he practiced for 57 years; April 26. ley, PA, a retired lawyer; May 26. He served of the department at Anne Arundel Com- He served in the US Army Air Forces during in the US Army. At Penn, he was a member munity College; May 14. The school’s science World War II. of the Law Review. building was named the Henry L. Dragun Judith “Judy” Dickson Warren OT’53, Dr. John R. Mann, Jr. D’55, Delray Science Building in his honor. Brunswick, ME, cofounder of the elder care Beach, FL, a retired dentist; May 21. He Carl Stanford Gewirz W’53, Bethesda, MD, company Neighbors Incorporated, the fi rst served in the US Army Dental Corps during a real estate developer; May 21. At Penn, he was company of its kind in Maine to provide the Korean War.

72 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 Nina Chaiken Morgenstern CW’55, fi rst book, a biography of the elusive Samuel Howard T. Glassman L’58, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 31. At Penn, she was a Beckett. Beckett: A Biography (1981) earned PA, a partner at Blank Rome, specializing in member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. her an American Book Award, making her the bankruptcy law; May 30. One daughter is Helene D. Popper GEd’55, Blue Bell, PA, fi rst person from Penn to win the award. Her Sharon M. Glassman C’84. a retired high school teacher; Jan. 30. next project was a biography of Simone de Robert E. Hansen W’58, Warren, VT, a Jeff rey R. Simpson C’55, New York, for- Beauvoir. She won both a Guggenheim Fellow- president of a bank who also co-owned a bed mer executive at Casi Designs Limited; ship and Rockefeller Award in 1985. She left and breakfast with his wife; May 27. At Penn, March 25. At Penn, he was a member of Beta Penn in 1988 to become a full-time researcher he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma and Sigma Rho fraternity. His brother-in-law was and writer, authoring biographies on Anaïs Nin Beta Gamma Sigma fraternities. He served Richard Raines W’53 (see Class of 1953). (1995), Carl Jung (2003), Saul Steinberg (2012), in the US Army Reserves. Rev. Phillip R. Troullos W’55, Destin, and Al Capone (2016), among others. Her mem- Holman W. Jenkins Gr’58, Media, PA, April FL, a retired pastor; April 14. At Penn, he was oir, Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de 14. One grandson is Jonathan P. Kreamer C’07. president of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Beauvoir, and Me, was featured in the Gazette Barry A. Landy W’58, Wayne, NJ, April [“Arts,” Jan|Feb 2020]. Her daughter is Katney 25. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta Beta 1956 Bair C’83 and her son is Vonn S. Bair C’80. Tau fraternity and the sprint football team. Dr. Norman N. Cohen M’56 GM’60, Jen- Leon C. Greene Gr’57, Sarasota, FL, a Diane Slavitz Raynes CW’58, Wynnewood, kintown, PA, a retired gastroenterologist who retired executive at what is now GlaxoSmith- PA, May 5. Her sons are Michael Benjamin was the fi rst in Philadelphia to recognize the Kline; May 29. He served in the US Navy as Raynes C’86 L’91 and Stephen Edward Raynes potential of fi beroptic endoscopy; April 16. a research scientist. W’88. Her daughter is Nancy Raynes Dubow Dr. Daniel W. Fasnacht V’56, Holliday- Beverly Korman Popowich OT’57, C’83, whose husband is Jay A. Dubow W’81 L’84. sburg, PA, a retired veterinarian; May 27. He Philadelphia, a retired occupational thera- Dr. Frederick R. Rude V’58, Lafayette is the former mayor of Hyndman, PA. He pist; April 25. At Penn, she was a member of Hill, PA, a retired veterinarian who main- served in the US Army during World War II Penn Players. One daughter is Deborah A. tained a practice in Philadelphia for over 50 and the Korean War. Popowich PT’81 and two grandsons are Max years; April 23. George J. Miller L’56, Bryn Mawr, PA, a J. Korus C’11 and Samuel P. Korus C’15. Dr. Russell J. Snyder V’58, Jacksonville, lawyer, judge, and former chairman of the Thomas D. Thiermann Ar’57, Upper FL, a retired veterinarian; Oct. 1, 2019. Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board; Chichester, PA, Feb. 8. At Penn, he was a Lola Rubins Turner Ed’58, Wildwood May 26. He served in the US Army Judge member of Delta Phi fraternity. One daughter Crest, NJ, a former elementary school teach- Advocate General’s Corps. is Heidi Thiermann Hole C’88. er; May 21. At Penn, she was a member of Judi Oser CW’56, Emeryville, CA, a re- Elias T. Thomas GME’57, South Burlington, Sigma Delta Tau sorority and the chorus. Her tired attorney; Oct. 1, 2018. VT, a retired engineer in General Electric’s weap- husband is Leon H. Turner W’53. Gary J. Riemer W’56, East Hanover, NJ, ons division; March 20. He served in the US Friedrich J. Weinkopf GL’58, Kenilworth, retired president and CEO of the Mooney- military. Two daughters are Andrea Thomas IL, a retired attorney specializing in interna- General Paper Company; April 30. At Penn, he Merrick C’76 and Paula Thomas Gotshalk C’78. tional trade with the fi rm Baker McKenzie; April was a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. 27. His wife is Dr. Ertem A. Weinkopf Gr’61, his Dr. Courtland M. Schmidt M’56, Ann 1958 son is John F. Weinkopf ENG’84 W’84, and one Arbor, MI, a retired surgeon and former May Huber Ball Nu’58, Gwynedd, PA, a daughter is Suzanne W. Huang C’91. chairman of surgery at the Ann Arbor VA former nurse and longtime community vol- John R. Woolford Jr. WG’58, Bryn Hospital; May 16. unteer; April 22. Mawr, PA, a retired packaging industry ex- Nancy Hibbs Beasom OT’58, Punta Gorda, ecutive; March 21. 1957 FL, a retired occupational therapist; May 26. Deirdre Bartolotta Bair CW’57, New Ha- Mary Pat Gallagher Beebe CW’58, 1959 ven, CT, former associate professor of English Bethlehem, PA, an English teacher at the col- Janet Kriebel Hesse Nu’59 GNu’67, at Penn; April 17. After graduation, she worked lege preparatory school Moravian Academy Bradenton, FL, a retired nurse; June 3. as a freelance writer for Newsweek and the New and Northampton Community College; June J. Carey Martien W’59, Towson, MD, a Haven Register before receiving her master’s 8. At Penn, she was a member of Kappa Del- commercial real estate broker; May 24. At and PhD in comparative literature from Co- ta sorority. Penn, he was a member of Delta Kappa Ep- lumbia University. She was hired by Penn in James E. Conlin WG’58, Nashua, NH, a silon fraternity, and the lacrosse and wres- 1976 as an assistant professor in the English retired professor at Fitchburg State College tling teams. One sister is Dr. Katherine Mar- department and was promoted to associate and Rivier College; May 10. He served in the tien Sullivan M’82, who is married to Greg- professor in 1978. While at Penn, she wrote her Korean War. ory W. Sullivan WG’80.

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 73 ALUMNI Obituaries

Eileen Haden Moser CW’59, Locust the biology department at Penn; April 18. She Gerald Evans Manolovici WG’63, Oys- Dale, VA, a retired public school teacher; was a survivor of the Holocaust. ter Bay, NY, an investment executive on Wall June 7. She served in the US Navy. John J. McCann G’61 Gr’71, Philadel- Street; May 15. Dr. Kenith O. Nevard C’59, Clifton, NJ, phia, a retired professor of French literature Melvin N. Miller GME’63 Gr’67, Phila- a retired dentist who maintained a practice at La Salle University; May 7. delphia, former CEO of Numar, a manufac- in Clifton for over 50 years; April 21. At Penn, William S. Tyler W’61, Annapolis, MD, turer of oil well evaluation devices that was he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma frater- fi nance director for the City of Annapolis; April later acquired by Halliburton; May 13. His nity and the sprint football team. He served 25. He served in the US Army. At Penn, he was wife is Eunice A. Miller SW’65. as a captain in the US Army. a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Robert B. Miller WEv’63, Naples, FL, a Roberta Grossman Oberman Ed’59, Eleanor Murray Washington Nu’61, retired insurance executive; April 28. He Piscataway, NJ, a retired elementary school Northridge, CA, a retired school nurse; May 17. served in the US Marines. teacher; March 31. Her husband is Joel R. Seth H. Seablom GAr’63 GCP’63, East- Oberman EE’58 GEE’65, and one daughter is 1962 sound, WA, a retired architectural designer; Cheryl Oberman W’83. Peter H. Alexander Ar’62, Santa Monica, June 13. He also wrote and illustrated children’s Dr. Arnold B. Porges D’59, Penn Valley, CA, an artist known for his ethereal sculp- books. His wife is Victoria B. Seablom CGS’70. PA, a retired dentist and former professor tures made out of resin; May 26. At Penn, he at Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, from was a member of Delta Phi fraternity. 1964 which he received the 2007 Alumni Award Carl Hultzen C’62, Concord, MA, a re- Dr. Eugene M. Beaupre GM’64, Bedford, of Merit for his leadership in the dental pro- tired computer specialist at the Federal Re- NH, a retired physician and medical admin- fession; May 16. His son is Gregory I. Porges serve Bank of Chicago; May 11. istrator; April 27. C’89, and one daughter is Jennifer Lee John J. Kane W’62, Wyndmoor, PA, a William M. Dugle W’64 WG’93, Hilton Porges L’91, whose husband is Joseph M. community planner and developer for the Head Island, SC, retired global director of Manko C’87 L’91. Philadelphia offi ce of Housing and Urban human resources for a company that manu- Alan J. Schultz ME’59, Warminster, PA, Development; May 11. He served in the US factured catalytic converters; May 10. Later, Feb. 29. Navy for 27 years. At Penn, he was a member he was an instructor of human resources of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the ROTC. courses at Georgia Southern University. At 1960 Norman A. Pancoast WG’62, Key Largo, Penn, he was a member of Sigma Nu frater- Dr. Eugene C. Ged C’60, Naples, FL, a FL, a retired executive at AT&T Bell Labs; nity, Penn Players, and Sphinx Senior Society. cardiologist; May 29. At Penn, he was a mem- March 25. His wife is Joanne Mitchell Dugle HUP’63. ber of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Murray H. Rome C’62, La Jolla, CA, a re- Dr. Francis Marion Fletcher WG’64 Nelson J. Gold W’60, Atlanta, a retired tired real estate executive and world traveler Gr’66, Statesboro, GA, professor emeritus securities trader; Jan. 23. At Penn, he was a who visited more than 100 countries; May 5. of management at Louisiana State Univer- member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. His At Penn, he was a member of Penn Players. sity; April 19. brother is Edwin J. Gold W’63. Nan Thomas Woolley DH’62, St. Joseph, Linda Pickthorne Fletcher Gr’64, Chat- John M. Whalley GLA’60, Lancashire, MI, a retired dental hygienist; May 31. tanooga, TN, former professor and business England, a partner in a UK landscape archi- school dean at the University of Tennessee at tecture fi rm; June 11. 1963 Chattanooga; April 20. Susan Subtle Dintenfass CW’63, Berkeley, Dr. Michael D. McManus M’64, Traverse 1961 CA, a journalist and columnist for the San Fran- City, MI, a retired ophthalmologist; May 18. Dr. James J. Canalichio D’61, Maple cisco Chronicle known for her curatorial work He later served as ethical coordinator for a Shade, NJ, a retired dentist and former instruc- focusing on recycled and outsider art; May 11. hospital, helping patients navigate diffi cult tor at Penn Dental; May 24. He served in the Kathleen Harris Fritchey CW’63, Pasa- treatment options and end-of-life decisions. US Navy as a dentist and emergency surgeon. dena, CA, a counselor at California State Thelma Shuster Weiss SW’64, Elkins Alan R. Emery C’61, Palm Springs, CA, a University; May 26. At Penn, she was a mem- Park, PA, a retired social worker; April 24, at psychologist and former chair of the Stop ber of Chi Omega sorority and the Pennguin- 100. One daughter is Jennifer Jane Weiss AIDS Project; May 15, 2019. He served as a nettes, the synchronized swimming team. C’76, whose husband is James L. Johnson consultant to the CDC, WHO, and UN on Martin S. Goldman C’63, West Caldwell, W’75 and daughter is Sarah A. Johnson C’10. AIDS/HIV issues. At Penn, he was a member NJ, a personal injury and criminal defense at- Joseph F. White Jr. WG’64, Webster, of Theta Xi fraternity and the Glee Club. torney who maintained a practice for over 50 MA, a former investment portfolio manager Eva Konrad Hawkins Gr’61, Bronx, NY, years; May 21. At Penn, he was a member of Beta and later a director of an organization for the a marine scientist and research associate in Sigma Rho fraternity and the baseball team. homeless; April 27, 2019.

74 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 1965 throughout the nation; April 20. Best known Penn’s School of Dental Medicine and the David S. Cohen W’65 WG’66, Stamford, for his bronze animal sculptures located in School of Veterinary Medicine; May 8. He CT, retired partner at an accounting fi rm; Philadelphia, he created Philbert the pig at joined Penn in 1965 as an assistant instructor May 18. His daughters are Rachel Cohen Reading Terminal Market, the grizzly bear in veterinary clinical studies. From 1967 to Beaumont C’89 and Sarah Cohen Kass SW’93. and turtle family at Fitler Square, a panda 1970, he was a predoc trainee in medical pa- Katherine Di Mishler HUP’65, Irwin, for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and thology in the School of Medicine. He then PA, April 29. the enormous Drexel University dragon at served three years as an assistant professor C. Ralph Verno GEd’65, West Chester, 33rd and Market Streets. of pathology in the School of Dental Medicine PA, a former professor of mathematics at Robert K. Giss WG’68, Sonoma, CA, before being promoted to associate professor West Chester University; May 13. He served April 1. in 1973. In 1974, he took on a secondary ap- in the US Navy during World War II. Dr. Jerome R. Gutterman GD’68, Sac- pointment in the School of Medicine as an ramento, CA, a retired endodontist; April 30. associate professor of pathology. From 1975 1966 Jeraldine D. Kozloff L’68, Wyomissing, to 1984, he was an adjunct associate profes- Ellen Gevanthor Levine CW’66, San PA, a former teacher who later served as pres- sor and then adjunct professor of pathology Diego, retired offi ce manager at a surgical ident of the Wyomissing Borough Council; in both the Dental School and the Vet School. practice; June 5. May 6. Her husband is David M. Kozloff L’66. He retired in 2019 as director of MD Ander- Dr. Donald G. Norris M’66, Audubon, PA, Richard W. Stumbo Jr. WG’68, Reno, son’s Cancer Metastasis Research Center and a retired pediatric hematologist/oncologist NV, retired chief fi nancial offi cer for a mining Metastasis Research Laboratory at the Uni- and former assistant professor of pediatrics company; May 21. He later taught entrepre- versity of Texas. His experience as a veteri- at the Perelman School of Medicine; April 26. neurial fi nance courses at the University of nary surgeon taught him that the lethality of He was hired as a lecturer in the School of Nevada. He served in the US Army. cancer is mainly due to the ability of cancer Medicine’s department of pediatrics at Penn Carolyn Landis Charles Wenger G’68, cells to spread, or metastasize, to other or- in 1977. In six months, he was promoted to Ephrata, PA, retired director of the Lancast- gans, and so he devoted his career to the assistant professor of the same department, er Mennonite Historical Society and founder study of metastasis at a time when very few where he stayed until 1981, also working at of the magazine Pennsylvania Mennonite in the scientifi c community were focusing on the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He Heritage; April 27. this topic. He received numerous honors left Penn to launch a second career in peer throughout his career, including the World review and quality improvement in the fi eld 1969 Health Organization’s Gold Medal for Bio- of medicine. He served in the US Army as a Judith A. Bresler CW’69, New York, an logical Sciences and the American Cancer general medical offi cer. His wife is Susan art law attorney who was also a former lec- Society’s Medal of Honor for Basic Research. Costello Norris GNu’82, and one daughter is turer at Penn Law; May 21. As a student at Mary Hoopingarner Hastings Nu’70, Dr. Robin Elizabeth Norris M’01 Gr’10. His Penn, she was a member of WXPN. Her Decatur, GA, a retired nurse and teacher who former wife is Dr. Bonnie Hepburn M’66. brother is Samuel J. Bresler C’70 GEd’72 worked on education reform; June 9. From Richard A. Phelps WG’66, Tucson, AZ, WG’75 GEd’82, who is married to Linda B. 1967 to 1970, she was an obstetrics nurse at a retired executive at an investment bank; Bresler CW’73 GEd’73. the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. May 24. He served in the US Air Force. Gerald P. Sanders G’69, Ramona, CA, a Rose H. Kerchmar Nu’70, Fort Lauder- retired associate professor of biology at San dale, FL, a retired nurse; May 14. 1967 Diego State University; April 14. He later be- Dr. Ronald A. Cameron D’67, Funchal, came an EMT and chief of a volunteer fi re 1971 Madeira, Portugal, Nov. 1, 2019. department. He served in the US Navy. Hon. Mark Rindner C’71 GEd’71, An- Norris E. Gelman L’67, Wyncote, PA, a Dr. John L. Thomas V’69, Petersburg, chorage, AK, a retired Alaska Supreme Court leading criminal defense attorney who repre- PA, owner and operator of a veterinary hos- justice; June 12. sented some of the Philadelphia region’s most pital; June 7. infamous defendants; May 24. He was an ex- 1972 pert in the state’s death penalty law, helping to 1970 Elwood A. Dance GEE’72, Port Saint win several reversals for clients on death row. Alfred J. Bacon W’70, McQueeney, TX, Lucie, FL, a retired electrical engineer; April April 29. At Penn, he was a member of Delta 22. He served in the US Army Signal Corps. 1968 Tau Delta fraternity and the heavyweight Eric Berg W’68 GFA’74, Philadelphia, a rowing team. 1973 sculptor whose pieces can be seen in univer- Dr. Isaiah “Josh” Fidler Gr’70, Houston, Dr. William F. Foxx GM’73, Honey sities, museums, zoos, parks, and galleries former associate professor of pathology in Brook, PA, retired cochief of a radiology de-

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 75 ALUMNI Obituaries partment at a hospital; May 22. He served in of Dining,” she founded Houston Restaurant 1985 the US Army during World War II, as well as Weeks, which has raised $16.6 million for the E. Christine Patton G’85, Mechanics- the US Air Force Reserve. Houston Food Bank since 2003. burg, PA, a retired IT support manager at the Ellen M. McDevitt DH’73, Scituate, MA, Administrative Office of Pennsylvania a dental hygienist who specialized in surgical 1977 Courts; May 23. She was also a substitute assisting; June 7. Dr. Shirley E. Dearborn M’77, Oklaho- elementary school teacher. Eugene Rawdin Gr’73, Glenside, PA, ma City, a retired medical administrator and Thomas P. Pinansky L’85, Seoul, Repub- April 25. pediatrician; May 4. lic of Korea, an international business at- Dr. Bruce H. Schneider D’73, Hudson, torney; April 8. MA, a retired dentist; May 20. 1979 Peter A. Shelton GEd’73, Hainesport, NJ, Dr. Michael J. Forsythe GM’79, Welling- 1986 a high school teacher; Sept. 2, 2018. ton, FL, an anesthesiologist; Sept. 30, 2019. Pamella Jean Hall GLA’86, Philadelphia, Charles M. Neul WG’79, Plymouth, MA, director of landscaping for the Philadelphia 1974 April 20. Phillies; Dec. 7. Dr. George Farnbach V’74 Gr’77, Cherry Dr. Suzanne Tracey Zamerowski Hill, NJ, a senior web developer at Indepen- GNu’79, Newtown, PA, a retired professor of 1987 dence Blue Cross in Philadelphia; April 26. He nursing at Villanova University and an expert Felipe Gorostiza G’87 GFA’97 Gr’97, served in the US Army during the Vietnam in maternal–child health and genetics; May 14. West New York, NJ, a lecturer in urban stud- War. One daughter is Ingrid M. Farnbach C’93. ies in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences; Phillip J. Hinman WG’74, Milwaukee, 1980 April 15. In 1991, while earning his PhD in WI, a retired fi nancial executive at a technol- Mark Edward Filipkowski C’80 G’86, city and regional planning at Penn, he be- ogy provider for the fi nancial services indus- Hackensack, NJ, a professor of physics at the gan teaching in urban studies in the School try; Jan. 30. He served in the US Army as a University of Arkansas; April 25. of Arts and Sciences. He was hired in 1995 bereavement offi cer and earned a National William F. Jones Jr. WG’80, Madison, as a lecturer in the College of General Stud- Defense Service Medal. NJ, an investment manager; April 11. His wife ies and lectured in urban studies and city Philip N. Liloia C’74, Haddonfi eld, NJ, an is Mary Ellen Hennessy-Jones WG’80. planning at the Lauder Institute. Beginning employee at the New Jersey Offi ce of Legislative Emily W. Brett Lukens FA’80 GFA’81, in 2011, he also served as a grant writer for Services, where he specialized in tax legislation; Philadelphia, an artist and teacher at Fleish- the Children’s Specialized Hospital Founda- April 28. He previously worked as a chef and in er Art Memorial; May 16. She also taught tion in Mountainside, NJ. He was also pro- 1979 cofounded the Gold Standard Cafe in West printmaking at Penn after her graduation. fessionally involved in the theater and ar- Philadelphia. His wife is Adena J. Adler C’83. Her husband is William W. Lukens GAr’62. tistic communities and served as develop- Sally O’Neill Nu’80, Seattle, a nurse; Feb. 24. ment director for the South Jersey Perform- 1975 ing Arts Center (2002–2004), literary man- Jay F. Bevenour WEv’75, Philadelphia, 1981 ager for New Jersey Repertory Company Jan. 25. Peter A. Marks WG’81, Princeton, NJ, (2005–2006), and a translator and voiceover Dr. Thomas Devers GM’75, New Britain, former partner in a real estate development narrator for HBO Sports (2005–2009). He CT, a gastroenterologist; June 16, 2019. company who later became a consultant; Jan. was recently nominated for a Colorado The- Jay L. Shelofsky V’75, El Granada, CA, a 13, 2019. ater Guild Henry Award for Outstanding retired veterinarian; April 27. William H. McCaulley C’81, Philadelphia, Actor in a Play. 1976 an attorney at Rothenberg Law Firm; April 23. 1996 Dr. David H. Grossman M’76, Blue Bell, 1982 Colette Lamothe C’96, Rahway, NJ, a PA, former chief of the emergency depart- Ingrid A. Stuart C’82, Chelmsford, MA, a senior program offi cer at the Nicholson ment at a hospital; May 31. computer software technical writer; May 23. Foundation, a New Jersey public health ser- Donald D. Haines Jr. W’76, Hopewell, NJ, Martin F. Suto L’82, San Jose, CA, a vice; April 4. She previously worked for 14 a partner at Capital Techniques; May 14. At Penn, teacher at several high schools and colleges; years at the New Jersey Department of he was a member of the football and wrestling May 12. Health. At Penn, she was a member of the teams. His son is Donald D. Haines III C’03. Sphinx Senior Society. C. Cleverley Stone WEv’76, Houston, a 1984 Darrell L. McLaughlin G’96, Pittsburgh, former food writer and host of a food talk Stewart A. Turner WG’84, New York, a a metallurgical engineer and project man- radio program; May 28. Known as the “Diva consultant; April 27. ager; May 28.

76 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Sep | Oct 2020 GEE master’s, Electrical Engineering HUP Nurse training (till 1978) School Abbreviations GEng master’s, Engineering and L Law Ar Architecture Applied Science LAr Landscape Architecture ASC Annenberg GEx master’s, Engineering Executive LPS Liberal and Professional Studies 2006 C College (bachelor’s) GFA master’s, Fine Arts M Medicine Marc Lamparello G’06, Hasbrouck CCC College Collateral Courses GGS master’s, College of General Studies ME Mechanical Engineering GL master’s, Law MT Medical Technology Heights, NJ, a pianist, writer, and former CE Civil Engineering CGS College of General Studies (till 2008) GLA master’s, Landscape Architecture MtE Metallurgical Engineering adjunct college professor; April 1. Ch Chemistry GME master’s, Mechanical Engineering Mu Music ChE Chemical Engineering GM Medicine, post-degree NEd Certificate in Nursing CW College for Women (till 1975) GMt master’s, Metallurgical Engineering Nu Nursing (bachelor’s) 2008 GNu master’s, Nursing OT Occupational Therapy Thomas E. Sheehy LPS’08 LPS’11, Phil- D Dental Medicine DH Dental Hygiene GPU master’s, Governmental PSW Pennsylvania School of Social Work adelphia, a rock-and-roll publicist and his- EAS Engineering and Applied Administration PT Physical Therapy torian who was well known in the Philly Science (bachelor’s) Gr doctorate SAMP School of Allied Medical music scene; April 26. Ed Education GrC doctorate, Civil Engineering Professions EE Electrical Engineering GrE doctorate, Electrical Engineering SPP Social Policy and Practice (master’s) FA Fine Arts GrEd doctorate, Education SW Social Work (master’s) (till 2005) 2013 G master’s, Arts and Sciences GrL doctorate, Law V Veterinary Medicine Whitney Buckholz Gr’13, Boston, associ- GAr master’s, Architecture GrN doctorate, Nursing W Wharton (bachelor’s) ate director of strategic policy at Ryan GCE master’s, Civil Engineering GRP master’s, Regional Planning WAM Wharton Advanced Management Health; June 5. One brother is Quentin A. GCh master’s, Chemical Engineering GrS doctorate, Social Work WEF Wharton Extension Finance GrW doctorate, Wharton WEv Wharton Evening School Buckholz C’12. GCP master’s, City Planning GD Dental, post-degree GV Veterinary, post-degree WG master’s, Wharton Jan A. Egeman W’13, Woking, UK, a fi - GEd master’s, Education Hon Honorary WMP Wharton Management Program nancial analyst; June 2020. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His father is Tomasz Egeman G’97 WG’97. 1984, she became an archivist in Penn’s Archi- dams Family outside the Charles Addams Fine tectural Archives. In 1989, she was appointed Arts Hall. He retired from full-time teaching at 2018 director of the Archives, and from 1997 until Penn in June 2018 but continued teaching part- Jacob E. Snipes EAS’18 GEng’19, Los An- her retirement in early 2008, she also served time until this past March. geles, a software engineer for Sony; April 22. as assistant dean for external relations for the Dr. Isaiah “Josh” Fidler. See Class of 1970. Graduate School of Fine Arts, which was later Dr. John D. Gearhart, Swarthmore, PA, Faculty & Staff renamed the School of Design in 2003. Under the James W. Eff ron University Professor in Marna Barrett, Philadelphia, former ad- her leadership, the Archives grew to become the department of cell and developmental junct associate professor of psychology in the one of the most important collections of ar- biology at the Perelman School of Medicine Perelman School of Medicine; May 14. She chitectural drawings, models, and records in and the former director of the Institute for was hired as an assistant professor of psy- the United States. She received the Dean’s Regenerative Medicine (IRM); May 27. After chology at the Hospital of the University of Medal of Achievement in 2008. She is also teaching at the medical schools at the Univer- Pennsylvania (HUP) in 2001. In 2005, she among the Graduate School of Fine Arts sity of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Univer- also took on a psychiatry position in the (GSFA) staff and faculty at Penn whose hands sity, where he worked for almost 30 years and Clinical Practices of the University of Penn- are memorialized in the Kelly Family Gates at mentored recent Nobel Prize winner Gregg L. sylvania (CPUP). She became an adjunct as- Addams Hall. Her husband is Richard W. Bar- Semenza M’82 Gr’84 [“Journey to the Nobel,” sociate professor of psychiatry in the Perel- tholomew C’63 GAr’65. Jan|Feb 2020], he was appointed as the eighth man School of Medicine in 2013. After retir- Dyer Alfred “Lindsay” Falck, Philadel- Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University ing, she started a private psychotherapy phia, former lecturer and department of archi- Professor in 2008. His appointment was joint- practice in Media, PA, in 2019. tecture associate chair in the Weitzman School ly shared between the department of cell and Judith A. Bresler. See Class of 1969. of Design; May 18. The South African native developmental biology at the School of Medi- Dr. James J. Canalichio. See Class of 1961. and architect became a visiting critic for Penn’s cine (where from 2009 to 2015 he also served Julia Moore Converse, Philadelphia, Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1983 while still as professor of obstetrics and gynecology) and founding director of Penn’s Architectural Ar- teaching at the University of Cape Town in the department of animal biology at the chives and former assistant dean at what was South Africa. He moved to Philadelphia in 1986 School of Veterinary Medicine. Over the then the Graduate School of Fine Arts; May to become a full-time lecturer at Penn, where course of his career—in which his ground- 22. She worked for a year in the Penn Museum he served as associate chair for the department breaking research focused on the role of genes as a secretary in 1970, then went on to hold of architecture from 1986 to 1995 and assistant in regulating the formation of human tissues curatorial positions at the National Gallery of dean for facilities planning from 1995 to 2003. and embryos, especially in causing Down Syn- Art in Washington and the Fogg Art Museum He received Penn’s G. Holmes Perkins Award drome and other congenital birth defects—he in Cambridge, MA. In 1982, she returned to for Distinguished Teaching twice (2005 and made more than 160 trips to Washington, DC, Penn as a coordinator at Meyerson Hall. In 2013), and designed the silhouette of the Ad- to advocate for federal funding for stem cell

Sep | Oct 2020 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 77 research. He was instrumental in founding Dr. Donald G. Norris. See Class of 1966. tee that developed a joint Nursing–School of the International Society for Stem Cell Re- Dr. Arnold B. Porges. See Class of 1959. Arts and Sciences minor in nutrition. During search (ISSCR), which now serves many thou- Walter Allyn Rickett. See Class of 1948. her academic career, she published numerous sands of stem cell scientists from around the Barry Stupine, Rydal, PA, former associate articles in scholarly journals, and she also world. One daughter is Sarah E. Gearhart C’10. dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine; authored a well-regarded book-length biog- Felipe Gorostiza. See Class of 1987. May 6. He was assistant executive director of raphy of Sarah Tyson Rorer, who is often con- Mary Hoopingarner Hastings. See Class HUP from 1969 to 1971, then joined the Med- sidered to be America’s fi rst dietician. of 1970. ical College of Pennsylvania as associate hos- Oliver Eaton Williamson, Berkeley, CA, Eva Konrad Hawkins. See Class of 1961. pital administrator. In 1978, he returned to former Charles and William L. Day Professor Dr. Howard Lesnick, Gwynedd, PA, the the University as director of the Veterinary of Economics, Law and Public Policy who Jeff erson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeri- Hospital. In 1987, he became associate dean won a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; May tus who was a part of Penn Law for 50 years; for administration at the School of Veterinary 21. He arrived at Wharton in 1965 as an as- April 19. He joined the Penn Law faculty in 1960 Medicine, and in 1991 he was named Penn’s sociate professor and was promoted to pro- as an assistant professor and became a full interim vice president for human resources fessor three years later. He later chaired the professor fi ve years later. He helped establish while continuing his Veterinary School roles. economics department and served as direc- Penn Law’s original Center on Professionalism, He also held the post of special assistant to tor of Penn’s Center for the Study of Organi- which became a national model for similar the executive vice president from 1992 to 1994. zational Innovation. He left Penn in 1983 to programs around the country. He left Penn in In addition to his work at Penn, he was a con- join the faculty at Yale and then the Univer- 1982 to become the founding academic dean sultant to Hebrew University in Jerusalem and sity of California, Berkeley, where his ground- at City University of New York Law School but the US Department of Health Institutional breaking research on analyzing the structure returned in 1988 to become the Jeff erson B. Review Board, which works to ensure that or organizations won him a 2009 Nobel Prize, Fordham Professor Law, remaining in that po- human subjects are protected in research. He which he shared with Elinor Ostrom. One sition until his retirement in 2016. He pub- also helped lead animal welfare groups, in- daughter is Tamara E. Williamson GEd’85, lished fi ve books on topics such as moral educa- cluding the Philadelphia Animal Welfare So- and one son is Oliver E. Williamson Jr. C’90. tion, professional responsibility, and religious ciety (PAWS) and the Pennsylvania SPCA. His Takashi Yonetani, New York, professor consciousness in the law, though he was best daughter is Erika A. Yablonovitz C’95 GEd’96, emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics at the known for his intense advocacy of public ser- and his son is Dr. Jeff rey Stupine. Perelman School of Medicine who was on the vice and creation of a mandatory pro bono Richard L. Tannen, New York, professor standing faculty at Penn for 55 years; April 13. program at Penn. Because of his eff orts, law emeritus of medicine at the Perelman School He came to Penn in 1958 as a predoctoral fellow schools now commonly require students to of Medicine; February 22. Before coming to and completed his postdoctral work at the perform pro bono work before graduation. He Penn, he founded the department of nephrol- Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. In 1964, Penn served in the US Army. ogy at the University of Vermont and was also recruited him to serve as an assistant professor Hugh Bilson Lewis, Vancouver, WA, a a chair of nephrology at several other of physical biochemistry. He remained at Penn former professor of medicine and adjunct schools. In 1995, he joined Penn as vice dean for the rest of his career, becoming an associate associate professor in hematology at the in facilities management as well as a profes- and then full professor of physical biochemis- Perelman School of Medicine; April 25. He sor at the School of Medicine in the division try. He served a year as acting chair of the new joined the faculty at Penn as an assistant of renal-electrolyte and hypertension. In department of biochemistry and biophysics professor in medicine in 1971. In 1974 he be- 1997, he became a senior vice dean. He coau- when it was founded in 1975. His earliest work came a lecturer in hematology and then ad- thored several textbooks and served as pres- dealt with the enzymatic mechanism of alcohol junct associate professor in that same depart- ident of the American Society of Nephrology. dehydrogenase, and he went on to study heme ment in 1982. During that time, he also He was part of a group that was invited to enzymes, becoming the leading expert in isola- taught at Purdue University for a few years, the Vatican by Pope John Paul II to discuss tion and purifi cation of heme proteins. Al- and he served as senior director of pathology the Church’s support of organ donations. He though he was red/green color-blind and could and toxicology at Smith, Kline, and French retired from Penn in 2008. He served in the not see the colors of the proteins that he Laboratories. He left Penn in 1986 to become US Army during the Vietnam War. worked with, he was able to visually assess the dean of Purdue’s College of Veterinary Med- Emma S. Weigley, Philadelphia, an ad- state of the protein during purifi cation. He also icine, a position he remained in until 1996. junct associate professor emerita of nursing specialized in various spectroscopic techniques Dorothea Manning Liddell. See Class of at Penn; April 18. She worked at Penn from and made numerous discoveries in the fi eld of 1946. 1980 until 1986 as a lecturer in nutrition, with mechanism of redox proteins. His daughter is Emily W. Brett Lukens. See Class of 1980. stints as an adjunct associate and adjunct Ann Yonetani C’91 Nu’03. Robert L. MacDonald. See Class of 1950. professor. She was part of the ad hoc commit-

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