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Choice and Change We know what we should do when it comes to leading healthier and 44 happier lives. But too often we default to easier, more pleasurable wants. Behavioral scientist and Wharton professor Katy Milkman is determined to help us change for the better—and for good. By JoAnn Greco

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It’s known that lacrosse Along with Grit author and comes from a Native Ameri- psychology professor Angela Pushing can game, and I also learned Duckworth Gr’06, Milkman recently that Native enthusi- codirects the Behavior Change asm for basketball goes back for Good (BCFG) initiative. to the early 1900s. That fact Coming to the fi eld from a for Change came up in senior editor Trey background in computer sci- Popp’s story, “The Raven and ence, Milkman has helped Rico Worl,” on anthropolo- pioneer an approach using do our share (maybe the greatest American squash gist-cultural preservationist- “mega studies” involving tens more) of anniver- players of all time,” refl ect in commercial artist Rico Worl of thousands of people and sary stories in the their diff erent ways on what it C’09, who draws inspiration dozens of separate experi- We Gazette, and they was like to be a generational from his own Tlingit back- ments to fi nd the interven- often come with a strong dose talent recognized much more ground and other Native cul- tions that work best at “nudg- of “those-were-the-days” nos- widely off campus than on. tures, fi ltered through a ing” people toward desired talgia. Not so much in associ- Track and fi eld standout modern sensibility. behaviors. One such study ate editor Dave Zeitlin C’03’s Ruthlyn Greenfi eld Webster The occasion for our story provided valuable information cover story, “Century Club,” Nu’92 shares her return to was his being asked by the US for getting more people to go on the progress of women’s international competition Postal Service to create a “For- for a fl u vaccine, transferable sports at Penn since the after age 35 (with plans to ever” postage stamp paying to the ongoing vaccination founding of the Women’s continue till 90). homage to Tlingit culture, for eff ort against COVID-19. Athletic Association in 1921. which he selected the fi gure This is also the issue in We may smile at a quote of Raven, a “canny shapeshift- which we report on Com- like one in the story from the Dave’s piece er” who sets the moon, stars, mencement and Alumni 1930s about “opponent-host- and daylight, imprisoned in Weekend. The latter was again esses” inviting the Penn wom- focuses in on boxes, free. But designs from a virtual aff air (viewable at en’s basketball team out for a handful of key his company, Trickster, have www.alumni.upenn.edu) but tea after away games, but the appeared on silkscreen prints, Commencement returned to candid comments that the players to tell clothing, stickers, skate- Franklin Field. Attendance pioneering athletic stars pro- boards—and basketballs. was restricted to undergradu- fi led in the piece gave to Dave— the story. Back when she was in high ates who had followed COVID and others he unearthed from school, Wharton’s Katy Milk- guidelines, while families and old Gazette issues and other Dave closes out the piece man was a highly ranked ju- friends watched online (which sources—make the obstacles with profi les of two players nior tennis player more inter- you can still do at commence- facing women athletes at the who were central to chang- ested in that sport than she ment.upenn.edu). The most University, and in college ing the fortunes of what are was in her classes, she told notable touch—for fans of tra- sports generally, abundantly now two of Penn’s strongest JoAnn Greco, who profi les her ditions and the reworking of clear. This was particularly teams—Diana Caramanico in “Choice and Change.” them to meet circumstances— true before Title IX, but con- W’01 LPS’11, the only Penn bas- Though she was always a good came at the beginning of the tinues on some level even ketball player to score more student, her teachers would ceremony when President into the present in terms of than 2,000 points; and Ali De- have been surprised she Gutmann staged a mini Hey the attention and prestige Luca C’10, who sparked the turned out to be a professor— Day, complete with canes and generated by women’s sports women’s lacrosse team’s run of the James G. Dinan Professor hats, to get around the diffi - compared to men’s. 11 Ivy League titles since 2007. of Operations, Information culty of graduating the Class Dave’s piece focuses in on a (Those fi ve are pictured on and Decisions, to be specifi c— of 2021 without having already handful key players to tell the our cover, along with two much less a rising star in the offi cially made them seniors. story: Field hockey and la- athletes of more recent vin- fi eld of behavioral science and crosse All-American and tage, star runner Nia Akins author of the bestselling How Olympic medalist Julie Staver Nu’20 GNu’20 and basketball’s to Change: The Science of Get- CW’74 V’82 and Alicia McCon- Kayla Padilla W’23, Ivy League ting from Where You Are to nell C’85, “considered one of Rookie of the Year in 2020.) Where You Want to Be.

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 3 LETTERS We Welcome Debating guaranteed Letters Please email us at [email protected]. Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, income, shortsighted on Gazette offices are closed until further notice and we cannot retrieve postal mail at this time. Letters should refer to material published in the mRNA, in praise of magazine and may be edited for clarity, civility, and length. telemedicine (and May|Jun), something for nothing. The strategy underlying the Democrats’ effort to grow bad credit, and more. ever longer government tentacles with programs like guaranteed income for all is to build a permanent left-wing US gov- What Nonsense ernment supported by dependent masses. “Fighting Poverty with Cash” [May|Jun Michael Pschorr C’61, Santa Fe, NM 2021] is another cracked plank in the wobbly Woke Progressive platform that A Better Safety Net: Negative Income Tax has become the foundation of prevalent In an industrial society or a post- thinking at Penn. industrial society there must be a safety It’s hard to take seriously the recently net. The issue is how such a safety net launched Center for Guaranteed Income should be designed. Since I have Research. I long thought a university is believed for many years that the United supposed to prepare young people to States should have a negative income pursue life and vocations on their own tax, Dave Zeitlin’s article “Fighting Pov- merits rather than inculcate them with erty with Cash” caught my attention. expectations of “entitlement” to feed at A negative income tax should provide the taxpayers’ trough? incentives for people to work. A negative Conservative voices have long been income tax should provide only a mod- stilled at Penn. Self-reliance, determina- “‘Fighting Poverty est amount of money. A negative income tion to forge ahead on one’s own, critical tax should be designed to keep families thinking, and recognition that life is a with Cash’ is another together; I believe that the Great Society challenge have all been replaced by cracked plank in has failed to keep families together and emphasis on shielding the delicate stu- in fact has caused families to break dents from unpleasant experiences and the wobbly Woke apart. A public discussion of the nega- indoctrinating them to seek the enticing tive income tax will no doubt suggest embrace of the Nanny State. Progressive platform additional public policy objectives that Assistant Professor Amy Castro Baker that has become the a negative income tax should promote. tries to convince us the solution to pov- I have read that the negative income tax erty is to abolish it directly with guaran- foundation of prevalent would cost less than the Great Society. The teed income. What nonsense. Since FDR, thinking at Penn.” Great Society would probably undermine every discerned social problem has got- the policies that the negative income tax ten the same reply from the left: throw The current struggle to fill jobs is was designed to promote. other people’s money at it. greatly due to huge sums lavished on us People who received a negative income She makes no mention that we all know all as federal stimulus payments, with tax would have to manage their money $500 guaranteed income today will grow the result that many would rather stay responsibly. There might be concern about incrementally tomorrow. And no men- home without the bother of working. the welfare of children whose parents mis- tion of the cost to administer such give- Guaranteed annual income is just more managed money from the negative income aways by a future cadre of more unelect- socialist pablum—great for crushing ini- tax, but if we do not establish a negative ed government officials, who will then tiative, squelching innovation, destroying income tax, we will be stuck in the present. fight hard to justify their sinecures. self-reliance, and glorification of getting Frederic H. Poor III C’69, Littleton, CO

4 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 Cash Payments as “Pump Primer” UBI Is a Win-Win-Win I was ready to reject “Fighting Poverty Enjoyed “Fighting Poverty with Cash,” with Cash” just from the title, but Amy however: Castro Baker makes a valid case for A Universal Basic Income (UBI) should using cash payments as a “pump prim- be seen as the progressive section of a new er” for helping people take steps towards federal tax code. Currently, the poor face employment and self-sufficiency that extremely high effective tax rates when they otherwise couldn’t afford to take. they lose benefits by earning additional Who knows? A program like this may be money. For example, a $2,000 raise might like the VA College programs after World cause a $6,000 loss of SNAP (food) bene- War II that returned something like $3 fits. On the other hand, while the rich face in GNP for every dollar of cost. Her pro- “supposedly” progressive high tax rates, gram definitely warrants expanded test- those rates are lowered by tax deductions ing with different populations in differ- (70 percent of which go to the rich). ent settings. Our current tax system is too compli- Lewis R. Elin W’60 ASC’61, Chicago cated and inefficient. But a flat tax is a political loser, since it is not progressive. Not “Will It Work?” But “Is It Enough?” However, if you marry the flat tax with Giving cash grants to impoverished an untaxed UBI for all citizens, the effec- people to lift them out of poverty is a tive tax rates are more progressive than notion that appeals, or surely should, to the current system. every empathetic person. The cost of a UBI (at the Federal Pov- The article asks: “Will it work?” In the erty Level, eliminating financial poverty) narrowest sense—yes, it will likely work, would be $2.5 trillion. Because it would rate imposed upon the grant. These dis- as long as the cash keeps flowing. Rath- go to all citizens ($10,000/adult and incentive effects are minor at first but er, the key question is: “Will recipients $2,000/child), the poor would see a dol- grow at a nonlinear rate. Also, they grow become economically self-sufficient?” lar-for-dollar replacement of safety-net with time. Even worse, grants had a To my knowledge, public welfare pro- programs ($0.9T of $2.0T total) and the major impact upon family dissolution. grams have never succeeded on a sig- rich would lose $1.6 trillion of tax deduc- The positive results reported to date nificant scale in making the recipients tions. The poor would not be looking over from the Stockton, California, program economically self-sufficient. And a prime their shoulders looking for welfare agents described in the article would, at best, reason is they do not acquire the neces- trying to catch them with a husband or be applicable to a $1.25 trillion program sary economic skills. under-the-table money. The middle class ($6,000 per US adult with no tax rate) The aim “to see if guaranteed income would do better on net income. The rich that lasted only one year. (The program can lift their residents out of poverty” is would pay more in taxes, but because the was a two-year program, but data for too narrow. They must become econom- economy would be doing 2 percent better, only the first year has been reported.) It ically self-sufficient, else they will likely it would be on higher incomes, for a net would be an error to generalize the relapse. If self-sufficiency can be gain. Win-win-win. results to more ambitious programs. If achieved, surely policymakers will listen. That’s my take. If you are interested, more there were a “tax” rate upon the grants Successful or not, I applaud the noble can be found at: nedland.substack.com. (and/or unrelated income of lower-paid effort. Nedland (Ned) Williams WG’76, Marblehead, MA workers), or if the grant amounts were John S. Thomas CE’52, Bradenton, FL larger, the results would likely have had Disincentive Eff ects Grow more work disincentives. Losing and Unhealthy Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) Leon Taub W’68, Selbyville, DE Helping people with government cash did a number of much larger and more without requiring their attempts to look sophisticated studies of what they called Permanent Fix Needed for work is a losing and unhealthy pro- a Negative Income Tax in the early I suggest that we (the federal govern- gram. Jobs are available now with severe 1970s. They found, not surprisingly, that ment through its state agencies, perhaps) shortages of goods because of lack of driv- the amount of work disincentive is adopt a “Guaranteed Allotment,” one that ers sitting at home getting free money. directly related to the size of the pay- provides not only cash but a rigorous and Oleg Dudkin ME’48, Berwyn, PA ment and inversely related to any “tax” appropriate application of job training,

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childcare, housing, education, and med- Medical Center to check it out. The tech- about Abigail Powers. The Upstate New ical care to all those in need. In this way, nology, though black and white, worked York community in question is my home people would (should) be enabled to fi ne. Getting doctors, insurance compa- town of Moravia. The house where Abi- (learn how to) care for their needs on an nies, and others to buy in has taken a gail and Millard Fillmore were married ongoing basis. Greater success of such an bit longer. bears a plaque noting the event, and the assistance program would be enhanced Keep up the great writing and editing! local elementary school is named for him. by adding the dignity of work—with Kas Kalba ASC‘67 Gr’75, New Haven, CT Not only did Abigail Powers Fillmore ample salaries and benefi ts—to the dis- install the first library in the White tribution of cash payments. In addition, Credit Where (Not) Due House, she is also credited with installing a socioeconomic safety net should be The Student Federal Credit Union’s the fi rst bathtub there. For years, Moravia established for those who experience program detailed in the article “Extra would commemorate this by having bath- unforeseen diffi culties and for those who Credit” [“Gazetteer,” May|Jun 2021] is tub races, with participants even coming cannot achieve independence because of both fraudulent and immoral. from other states, some far away. It was physical or mental disabilities. The program allowed participants to quite a spectacle to see teams of bathtub Gail Harrison Roman CW’68, Stamford, CT take out a $1,000 shared secured loan in racers charging up Main Street. a frozen account they couldn’t access. David B. Zwirn C’64 L’67, New Paltz, NY No Thanks to Penn for mRNA Advances Then, the SFCU made monthly payments I recently read the article “The Vaccine to repay the loan and any accumulating Get Past the “Struggles” Trenches” [May|Jun 2021]. Initially, I interest on the customer’s behalf, report- in Coverage of Black Alumni was quite proud and reminded myself ing these to credit agencies to allow the The Mar|Apr 2021 Pennsylvania that this is another instance where Penn customer to increase their credit score. Gazette delved into many facets of Afri- did amazing innovative work only to The “borrowed” money never leaves can American history, from the “Breaking lose the credit for work done. One exam- the SFCU’s custody. The interest is never Barriers” of Marty Vaughn as “Penn’s fi rst ple that comes to mind is the ENIAC really charged or paid by the “borrowers” Black starting quarterback” [“Sports”] to developed at Penn. either. The whole process is a sham the creation of a new center to “under- However, as I read the article, I realized meant to deceive while unjustifi ably giv- stand the African American struggle” that Dr. Katalin Kariko worked on the ing students a “perfect” credit history. [“Gazetteer”] to the Rosenwald schools’ mRNA technology despite the lack of sup- Credit scores need to be earned through contribution to African American educa- port by Penn bureaucracy. Her lonely quest actual behavior over time, not awarded tion [“Black Education Before Brown”]. for advancement of science, supported by arbitrarily simply to accomplish a social The compilation of stories about African Dr. Drew Weissman, is not something that justice goal. Americans in this and most Gazettes con- Penn can take credit for. This article really Paul Price D’77, Chadds Ford, PA tinue to patronize Black alumni by not whitewashes the sordid behavior by Penn taking opportunities to expand upon and its staff , as I later learned through a Picture Perfect outcomes. The Gazette must get past the quick search on the internet. Penn should Thanks to the editors for carrying the “struggles” of African Americans to be ashamed and should publish a mea extraordinary aerial photograph of describe the many positive outcomes of culpa and profusely thank Dr. Kariko. Penn’s not-so-little corner of West Philly a Penn education. Young S. Nam EE’85 WG’89, Vienna, VA by Greg Benson [“Gazetteer,” May|Jun Why is this important? Unless the 2021]. It brought back many memories. Gazette broadens its delivery of the out- No, This One Was Better And not just of the campus. The photo comes and accomplishments of its gradu- I know the Mar|Apr issue received put Penn in the context of the city across ates, it perpetuates stereotypes and per- kudos [“Letters,” May|Jun 2021], yet the Schuylkill. I could even spot my area spectives that narrow the true breadth of think the May|Jun issue is the best I have of Panama Street, where I lived as a the contributions of its Black graduates. read (starting in the late 1960s). I espe- senior, and Taney Park, where my son Penn’s Black alumni are representing cially liked the articles on guaranteed played Little League, in the 1990s. their alma mater and country well. We income (“Fighting Poverty with Cash”) Noel Hynd C’70, Culver City, CA deserve to be portrayed in our totality and telemedicine (“Webside Manner”). with pride and not simply by our “strug- It’s high time that telemedicine has More Fillmore First Lady Firsts gle.” Do Better. Do more. caught on. The fi rst video connection I was delighted to read the article Helen F. Giles-Gee CW’72 GEd’73 Gr’83, between hospitals was in Nebraska in “Framing First Ladies” [“Arts,” May|Jun Philadelphia 1968. I remember visiting the Omaha 2021], especially the fi rst paragraph

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and news stories, in our families and communities, at the top of tech compa- nies—are predominantly male. I took my first computer science class during my first semester of college. I didn’t even know how to run a program, let alone write one. I spent many office hours feeling overwhelmed by all the things I didn’t know and didn’t even know how to ask about. But the first friend I made that year was a girl who was just as confused as I was. We attended office hours together and spent a memo- rable 24 hours in a dorm basement grind- ing out our final project. By the end of the semester, I was hooked on computer sci- ence. Yet it still took me another nine months to convince myself to switch my major to computer science. At the end of my sophomore year, I became a teaching assistant in an introductory computer science class—but I still felt imposter syn- drome. I was convinced that everyone knew more than I did, and that I was un- derqualified for every internship I applied for. Even four successful years at Penn did not wipe away my doubts. Only when I secured a software engineering job at a large tech company after four years at Penn did I begin to consider myself a ‘real’ programmer. This change in how I viewed myself was not the product of any new material I mastered, but of my belated realization that many of the talented com- puter scientists I look up to struggle with Math League Dropout similar doubts and insecurities. Until I sat down recently to think about Refl ections of a computer science outsider. this, I hadn’t quite realized that only one By Olivia O’Dwyer of the 21 STEM classes I’ve taken at Penn has been taught by a female professor. A single professor, my freshmen year, for a seventh grade, a boy I liked told me, despite my facility with math and half-credit laboratory. Yet I remember me it was weird for me to do math science. I had no idea what it was, and that limited encounter vividly. She spoke league. So I stopped, because I the notion of pursuing something I about her children and connected to stu- In wanted him to like me. I resumed didn’t know if I’d be good at scared me. dents in a way I’ve very rarely felt in in high school a few years later, but by I don’t think I felt weird doing math other classes. When it struck me that I that time my self-consciousness had so- league or intimidated by computer sci- never had another female professor after lidified, cementing doubts that would ence because I was a girl. But I believe her, I was so shocked I had to double- follow me for the rest of my education. that far fewer boys feel this way growing check my transcript. I didn’t take a computer science class up, for many reasons. The math and tech It started me thinking about other in high school; it never even occurred to figures we see all around us—in movies things. Of more than 20 tech-job inter-

8 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by Tracy Walker views I’ve been through—anxiety-induc- pulled me up with them. I hope I have was for me, though it was almost too late ing occasions in which you are often done the same for some of them. Wheth- by the time I recognized it—to tell girls: asked to code the solution to a problem er it is spoken aloud or honored in quiet No, math league can be for you, and screw on the spot while explaining your thought observance, we can only have one motto: any boy who tells you otherwise. process to the interviewer—only two were your success is my success. It is this way When I think about the time I quit conducted by a female. I remember enter- because it has to be, to survive, to be math league, it breaks my heart. And it ing those interviews and feeling some- happy, to learn in a meaningful way. I makes me angry. I do not blame myself thing in me relax, though in the moment feel an unspoken, immediate bond with for quitting. I’d been programmed by I didn’t know why I felt that way. any woman who’s reached out to me for society to believe that making that boy Over the course of three tech intern- help or has admitted to me they’re strug- like me was more important than exer- ships, each of which found me working gling. I’ve been there, I tell them. I know. cising mastery of math. I do not even on a 10- to 20-person team, I’ve never And you will make it through. blame the boy for throwing out a had more than two female collaborators. But if our society wants to capitalize on thoughtless comment; he could not have In my first tech internship, there was the full range of talent possessed by girls known how much damage it would do. not a single woman in the office apart and young women, we need to do this We are all complicit in this, and we can from me. In my second, the only other better. That project must include univer- all do better in addressing the problem women were fellow interns. sity decisions about who is sent into class- and creating spaces that are welcoming It took further reflection for me to real- rooms to teach. It should inform tech and inclusive to everyone. ize that I’ve never had a female boss or company decisions about who conducts manager. And when I think up the chain job and internship interviews. We must Olivia O’Dwyer EAS’21 graduated in May of command, I’m not sure if I’ve ever had create environments where being a wom- with a major in computer science and a a female superior. At one company I an isn’t an anomaly, it’s normal. Maybe minor in creative writing. She is a software worked for, someone had created a then there would be no need—as there engineer in Boston. 2048-style sliding puzzle game featuring the faces of the company’s executives. It was intended, as far as I could tell, as a lighthearted attempt to get the interns familiar with the company’s leadership. Not one of the faces on the tiles was female. As I look back, what disturbs me most is how little any of this disturbed me at the time. These absences blended into everything else that I registered as nor- mal: the standard operating procedure, nothing out of the ordinary. I never looked at my syllabus and thought, “Oh, another male professor.” It would have been like entering a classroom and find- ing it remarkable to see another black- board. Wow, 15 in a row! Fortunately, there is another side of my personal experience in computer sci- ence at Penn. It consists of the women www.alumni.upenn.edu/momentum2021 who have been in the trenches with me, grinding away at assignment after as- signment, lifting me up, sending words of encouragement, making me ginger tea, waiting in the office hours queue with me, helping me during my own of- fice hours as a TA. These women have

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piece-rate wages in an unventilated gar- ment factory alongside other immigrant women. When factories closed, we bought second-hand machines to per- form the work at home. For much of my childhood, my sister and I assisted our family with industrial sewing. In those days, my parents charged my sister, several years older and tall enough to reach the foot pedal, with the actual machine. They assigned me, who they viewed as small but capable and nimble- handed, with the lighter tasks. By the time I was seven, I could confi dently sus- pend a bolt of fabric, and steadily feed it, inch by inch, into the curved metal chute of a Juki machine, where my mother would coax it with a double needle to shape an inverted collar, waist band, or cuff of a sweatshirt. Cotton dust hung in the yellow lamplight as I let these reams slide through my fi ngers, with the ma- chine whirring in my ears like a shaky, oversized lawn mower. By the end of these nights, our hair appeared as if Aft er Atlanta dusted with a layer of fi ne snowfall. We structured our lives around work, I clicked one news link after another, at fi rst yet strived for ordinary ways to tran- not realizing what I was feverishly searching for. scend it. My father and I took breaks to teach ourselves English by listening to By Hoa Tu Duong Sammy Takes a Bath on Saturday Night and other cassette tapes borrowed from March 16, 2021, I was working tails of the slain. For days, I sought the the local library. As I grew into middle from my home offi ce when I predictable profi les that typically follow school, I dragged my books to the base- opened the news and saw mul- horrifying events like this. I found no trace ment and propped them on a discarded Ontiple versions of the front-page of the things the dead usually left behind: music stand so I could study while we headline, Atlanta Murders of Asian no name, age, profession, religion, chil- worked. Our willingness to accept low Women. I stared, stunned by the words. dren, or loved ones. No abruptly truncated wages despite worsening conditions un- They stirred a deep, unsettling sadness dream, not even a grainy, smiling photo derscored our vulnerabilities. By coin- and fear within me, and simultaneously incongruous with the moment. Yet the cidence of circumstance, any one of a surprising observation: I had never gunman’s face haunted me everywhere. us—my mother, my sister, myself—fi t the seen sustained national media coverage I imagined the women’s lives by refl ect- phenotype of the women violently si- of violence against Asian Americans in ing on my own past. My family arrived in lenced in the Atlanta shootings. my lifetime. I was drawn to the news the US in 1980 from a Malaysian refugee On March 19, national newspapers pub- with a relentless sensation of seeking. camp, where I was born after the war in lished the victims’ names: Soon Chung I clicked one news link after another, at Vietnam. Through the Refugee Resettle- Park (74), Hyun Jung Grant (51), Sun Cha fi rst not realizing what I was feverishly ment Program, our group of seven land- Kim (69), Yong Yue (63), Delaina Ashley searching for. I kept seeing the same ge- ed in the north woods of Maine, and one Yaun (33), Paul Andre Michels (54), Xiajie neric photos—the parking lots of Gold month later, we moved to Reading, Penn- Tan (49), and Daoyou Feng (44). Spa, Aromatherapy Spa, or Young’s Asian sylvania—one of the poorest small cities Instead of reporting on these women’s Massage—in articles featuring scant de- in the nation. There my mother toiled on actual lives, I noticed a troubling story-

10 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by Camelia Pham line empathizing with the killer while lege. My fi rst trip overseas. You’re on that while our struggles are not the same, fetishizing the victims. “He does claim mute, my colleagues emphatically ges- they are profoundly interconnected. that it was not racially motivated,” ex- tured in the video link, and asked me to This led me to Asian American Studies plained a sheriff ’s captain, relaying the begin a moderated business negotiation. (ASAM) faculty, who helped me access an perpetrator’s statements at face value. While running errands: The day a American story that I could stand at the “He apparently has an issue, what he con- middle-school boy hit me with rocks in center of, rather than the periphery. I mar- siders a sex addiction … a temptation for my backyard. When I instinctively raised veled that I had completed high school him that he wanted to eliminate,” he con- my hands to protect my face, he shat- without encountering the barest historical tinued. “He was pretty much fed up, kind tered the perfect jade bracelet my moth- fact or reference to Asian Americans. For of at the end of his rope, and yesterday er had given me as an heirloom. After- the fi rst time, I learned the policies span- was a really bad day for him.” wards, I collected the shards of green ning from the Chinese Exclusion Act The precise profession of the victims— stone that had collapsed around me and (1882) to Japanese American Internment who are described as elderly cleaners and hid them in my coat closet. during World War II (1942) to the role of cooks in Korean-language newspapers— While making dinner for my kids: A uninterrupted US militarization in Asia remains unclear. What is brutally clear is man four times my age waving a dollar ever since. This curriculum could help all this: this man blamed an entire group of bill from his rolled down car window, students contextualize these policies women for his problems and went on a masturbating and laughing, Me Love You against the broader sweep of US history. premeditated killing spree to get rid of Long Time. Fie dolla, Fie dolla, Sucky As a sophomore, I led the Asian Pacifi c them. By elevating his perspective, the Sucky! I was in the fourth grade, walk- Student Coalition, which represented 14 media and police eff ectively recapitu- ing home from school. diverse groups that collectively accounted lated the erasure of the victims and pro- A boy leaning from a playground rail- for 25 percent of Penn’s student body. moted a stereotype that endangers us all. ing to spit on me, calling me Chinky Alongside faculty and staff , we advocated After Atlanta, I slept fi tfully. I tried to Chink. His mother, watching nearby, for the establishment of a center respon- bury my initial grief and replace it with adding: Because that’s what you are. sive to the unique needs of AAPI students. joyful remembrances, but my mind The high school teacher who repeat- In 2000, Pan-Asian American Commu- fl ooded involuntarily with scenes I had edly asked, Are you going to write this nity House (PAACH) opened its doors, spent a long time repressing. Over the essay in English, or in some other back- with priorities to launch an Asian Pacifi c following days, they resurfaced— wards language of yours? American Women’s Leadership Initiative, In the car on the way to school drop-off , After a youth punctuated with these create a formal partnership with ASAM, waiting for the light to turn red: That kinds of encounters, I arrived at Penn in and provide counseling and psychological encounter with a group of fi ve men my the summer of 1997, eager for a fresh per- services on site in the evenings. fi rst year in Philadelphia. I was walking spective. I joined an intensive four-week This year marks 21 years of PAACH as through a crowded Penn Relays event academic session preceding new student a cultural resource center. when a circle tightened around me, I felt orientation. The program provided an Atlanta reminds us that the issues that hands grabbing my body, tearing at my essential gift: mental and emotional mobilized Asian American students in clothes, and the words spat in my face: I space unfettered by fi nancial anxiety to 2000 remain equally salient today. These never fucked a Korean bitch before. focus on academics and form unencum- challenges take on renewed urgency Focusing on the present, I checked the bered friendships. It solidifi ed my convic- amidst increased reporting of violence rearview mirror and saw my children’s tion that comprehensive institutional against AAPI, and an incomplete nation- faces—cheerful, expectant. I parked at support is a necessary precursor to suc- al reckoning on race during a global pan- their school, walked them to the en- cess for fi rst-generation college students, demic. With this in mind, I will continue trance, watched them recede to class- and especially those from underrepre- trying to transform America into a place rooms. I slid back into my seat, smoothed sented geographies and backgrounds. where we can all live without fear of rac- down my hair, my skirt, turned on the During that year, I gravitated toward ism and exploitation—a place where we ignition and turned up the volume. inclusive spaces. The Albert M. Greenfi eld don’t have to search so hard to fi nd the While logging into an online meeting: Intercultural Center became a haven for humanity of Asian Americans. The evening two men followed me to my me and countless students. Its dedicated hotel room after dinner. They grabbed staff off ered meeting spaces, advisors, and Hoa Tu Duong C’01 is a founder of the Pan- my arms, knocked my head into the wall, programs to promote cultural pluralism. Asian American Community House at the dragged me across the fl oor. I was on a There I met student leaders from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a public University-affi liated study tour, post col- United Minorities Council, and learned policy and strategy consultant.

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 11 VIEWS Elsewhere

The South By Sophia Al-Banaa

southern drawls disguise spitting words

the earth sighs water melon cut

tobacco drenched saliva.

its breath loosening chunks of spanish moss

open by bare hands pink flesh lined in white spills black seeds onto the countertop.

a man takes out a red handkerchief to wipe away

i dreamed of erasing every pulsing linoleum Piggly Wiggly from memory plucking away the y’all embedded in each sentence & crevice

of my brain.

at sunset, cicadas sing a lullaby, lemons growing beside the splintered porch blister & rot on cracked concrete.

one magnolia holds my childhood

echoed through the voice of a great uncle asking if my father built bombs in his madrisa a land of reddened sand

far from the scattered sharp seashells here anticipating vacationing feet.

i drank coke floats in haunted diners, vanilla ice cream clouding a cup of crystalized brown carbonation a girl, unaware of cavities blooming between her front teeth.

12 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by Jeff Koegel gameela/beauty By Sophia Al-Banaa in a shop of cherry blossom scented lotions & greasy hands, a saleswoman holds my face between perfectly manicured fingers: “your beauty is that of an Arab lady.” she sees through my mourned memories in a room of polished women, skin free from scars. my aunt rubbed nivea crème into her henna stained palms, never wearing makeup, her wrinkled cheeks carrying the deaths of husbands & her son’s dreams that fell like tea leaves sinking in the scratched cups she sipped from quietly sighing ya Allah,

& i always wondered if she wanted more than what prayers grant.

Sophia Al-Banaa SPP’19 is a Kuwaiti American, Muslim woman who has spent her life between Kuwait and South Carolina but now lives in Philadelphia, where she is a social worker and therapist. Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 13 VIEWS Expert Opinion

VA said it could fi nd no record of that Wounded Warriors service and rejected his claim. Mote ap- pealed the decision in 2013, but he died Veterans denied disability claims are thrown later that year. His widow then contin- ued the fi ght for disability payments. But into a deeply broken system. They deserve she too passed away before the claim better—and a solution is within reach. could be resolved. The system for resolution of VA dis- By Richard Rosenbleeth ability appeals is a national disgrace. Thousands of veterans die before their appeals are heard. Roughly 22 die by suicide per day, according to a study re- leased by the VA in 2013 that found—like other studies—that veterans take their own lives at a higher rate than the gen- eral population. Many more suff er un- necessarily. Mote’s case is just one dis- turbing example of how unreasonable delays aff ect veterans and their families who have waited years for resolution of their disability claims. To lodge an appeal, veterans must fi le a Notice of Disagreement to the VA. The VA must then issue a Statement of the Case. On average, the Statement of the Case takes 500 days to be issued. At that point the veteran has 60 days to appeal, which takes 37 days on average. Then the appeal must be certifi ed—a process that typically takes 773 days. But the bureaucratic marathon has an- other lap: 321 days, on average, for the appeal to be docketed with the Board of Veterans’ Appeals. In total, from the Notice of Disagree- ment to a decision by the Board of Veter- ans’ Appeals, the process can take more than fi ve-and-a-half years. Yet incredibly, even this is not the end for many veterans. Some cases are remanded to the VA for further proceedings by the Board of Vet- erans’ Appeals or the courts, which in- November 2010, Wayne Gary Mote volves further delay. In such cases, the fi led a claim with the US Depart- total delay can stretch to seven years. ment of Veterans Aff airs (VA) ask- If there is any doubt about the human Ining for disability payments due to cost of this broken system, it was dis- the heart condition he had developed solved by a recent estimate by the VA from exposure to Agent Orange. He said Inspector General that 7 percent of he had fl own several classifi ed missions cases are “resolved” by the death of the in Vietnam and produced affi davits from veterans. As of earlier this year, some fellow veterans to support his claim. The 425,000 appeals were outstanding.

14 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by David Hollenbach These disability claims relate to ser- concluded that mandamus (when a vidual cases, it did not achieve the broad vice-connected injuries/illnesses for higher court directs a lower court or of- due process relief that veterans deserve. which the government off ers compensa- fi cial to take action) was the appropriate Courts have been reluctant to deal with tion based on a rating system. The VA remedy. So the lawsuit sought a writ of due process relief on a class basis for two decides eligibility and amount. Veterans mandamus and a fi nding that the delay reasons: a determination by some judg- depend on these benefi ts for basic neces- is unreasonable and violates due pro- es that courts lack suffi cient statutory sities such as food, clothing, housing, cess. The Veterans’ Court denied relief, authority over the VA; and the conclu- and medical care. Their delay in obtain- whereupon an appeal was taken to the sion that Congress is the proper entity ing them is not new. Rising numbers of US Court of Appeals for the Federal Cir- to address the problem. claims stemming from the wars in Iraq cuit. That court reversed the Veterans’ It is clear now that broad court relief and Afghanistan exacerbated the situa- Court and changed the mandamus stan- to fi x the delay problem is not feasible. tion—just as many experts had feared at dard, granting highly signifi cant relief The fi ght for them, begun in 2006, must the outset of these confl icts in the early to veterans in individual cases in Martin be continued by other means. 2000s. A panel of Ninth Circuit judges v. O’Rourke (2018). Given the current state of play, a single found, in Veterans for Common Sense v. Broader due process relief to all veter- proposal promises substantial improve- Shinseki (2012), that veterans were be- ans was not granted, however. The case ment—whether it is implemented by the ing denied due process—but the full was remanded to the Veterans’ Court for Board of Veterans’ Appeals or Congress Court later reversed the panel and the further proceedings applying the new itself. Either one of those bodies could Supreme Court opted not to consider mandamus standard. In a concurring fi x the problem by adopting our pro- the appeal. opinion, Judge Kimberly A. Moore laid posal for a system of arbitration for ap- For years, I have led an eff ort to reduce out the moral stakes. “The men and peals that remain outstanding for one this unconscionable delay. I fi rst pro- women in these cases protected this or two years. This could be accom- posed an Alternative Dispute Resolution country and the freedoms we hold dear; plished by Congress amending an exist- program similar to the highly successful they were disabled in the service of their ing statute, or the board amending one Philadelphia Judge Pro Tem program as country; the least we can do is properly of its rules. It is a simple fi x. a way to speed up decisions. The Amer- resolve their disability claims so that The VA’s motto is “To care for him who ican College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) they have the food and shelter necessary shall have borne the battle and for his agreed to provide Fellows as Judges Pro for survival. It takes on average six-and- widow, and his orphan.” In practice, the Tem to handle appeals to the Board of a-half years for a veteran to challenge a department falls far short when it comes Veterans’ Appeals. The board rejected VBA determination and get a decision to the hundreds of thousands of veter- this approach, citing the absence of on remand. God help this nation if it ans who lodge good-faith appeals to its statutory authority for such a system took that long for these brave men and decisions. Some have said the VA’s poli- even though the requisite rule changes women to answer the call to serve and cy is “Deny until they die.” were eminently possible. protect. We owe them more.” President Joe Biden Hon’13 can dem- In 2008, the then secretary of the VA After remand, several of the claims on onstrate real substance behind the sup- agreed to pilot a Pro Tem program as appeal in the Martin case were settled. port he has articulated for Americans proposed. Yet a veterans organization The Mote case remained unresolved. who serve our country in uniform by representing claimants declined to par- After that case was remanded, the Vet- directing his new VA secretary, Denis ticipate on the grounds that the veterans erans’ Court failed to apply the proper McDonough, to take up this fi ght on benefi ts system was a non-adversarial mandamus standard, and a second ap- their side. system, and this program would change peal was taken to the Federal Circuit. that. So the pilot program was never That appeal was once again decided in Richard M. Rosenbleeth W’54 L’57 is a retired implemented. Thereafter, the VA and favor of Mrs. Mote. The case was again partner at the Philadelphia law fi rm Blank veterans organizations resisted further remanded to the Veterans’ Court on Sep- Rome and a former chair of its litigation de- proposals that aimed to address their tember 28, 2020, and thereafter the VA partment. He is a fellow of the American Col- objections. Congress did enact some pro- granted Mote disability benefi ts. In a lege of Trial Lawyers and the International cess changes in recent years, but these perverse demonstration of the system’s Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is a proud show little sign of improving delays. defects, Mrs. Mote passed away before “Mungerman,” having played football at Penn Finally, in 2016, the ACTL brought a she could receive them. under the legendary coach George Munger. A lawsuit against the VA Secretary on be- Although the litigation was successful version of this essay appeared in the Penn half of 12 veterans. In that process, I in achieving relief for veterans in indi- Law Journal’s Winter 2021 issue.

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 15 Panama City, Panama The Penn Wharton Club of Panama is a true pandemic revival story. Our club was founded 20 years ago, and since then has aimed to bring together graduates of all Penn disciplines and schools, to foster a thriving Penn Community in Panama. In 2021, we relaunched our club as a Penn Wharton Alumni Club, to broaden the scope and access to resources for our member base of over 150 alumni. Since the onset, we co-created activities to build awareness of Penn through events open to both alumni and the general public. We are passionate about bringing “The Power of Penn” to our country, and rather than sit still during our stringent lockdown, we brought renewed energy to our club in 2020. Led by our former club president, Ramiro Parada (E ’94), we off ered a public online forum to propel conversations around the importance of reopening economic activities as Panama navigated the initial stages of the global pandem- ic. Our highest aspiration is to continue to bring important conversa- tions to the forefront, that inspire action for the greater good. Another key goal is to contribute to the lifelong learning experience of Penn alumni through programs, lectures and other activities. We off ered an interactive event, led by our fi rst Penn Club president and honorary board member, CE Maurice Belanger, (WG ’66), titled “2020 US Election & The Dollar,” with special guest Larry MacDonald. More recently, we enjoyed a Red & Blue “Smokey Joe’s Craft Beer Tasting.” This event was led by current board member, Peter Stanziola (C ’06), and included sending craft beer kits to members to share in a casual “Zoom” atmosphere. To involve younger generations and spread the word to future Penn applicants, we’ve launched a YouTube series, “Pennamanian.” Led by board member, Juan Carlos Ortega (W ’20), and current student Miguel Heras III (W ’22), the series features distinguished alumni, as well as students. Some of our guests have included a fi nance expert, an award-winning fi lm director and producer, a young management consultant, and an experienced dancer and social entrepreneur. Our newly renovated board of directors is fi lled with enthusiasm, love for Penn, and openness to involve all of our members as we continue to grow our presence in Panama and beyond. You can become involved or reach out to us by emailing [email protected].

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Tearing Down Walls, Within and Without A resilient Class of 2021 was encouraged to pair “humility and ambition” as it moves on after a year of challenges and sacrifi ces.

Photo courtesy University Communications Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 17 GAZETTEER Commencement

In his invocation, Univer- sity chaplain and vice presi- dent for social equity and community Charles “Chaz” Howard C’00 began “with just two words: thank you. Thank you for this class. Thank you for this day.” Gutmann acknowledged the challenges and sacrifi ces this graduating class has navigated. “Learning online, masking up, remotely singing with Counter- parts or playing with the Penn Band, marching for justice, [and] missing milestones so that others may enjoy more life. … We’re at the threshold of a bright future thanks to your everyday acts in solidarity with and for others,” she said.

ur seniors have a problem,” began Penn President Amy Gutmann at the start of the Uni- “Oversity’s 265th Commence- ment ceremony on May 17. Looking over Franklin Field at the fi rst large gathering on campus since the pandemic It was a markedly smaller began, Gutmann explained crowd than in years past— that due to the postpone- the stands were devoid of ment of last year’s in-person friends and families, who Hey Day, “I cannot declare instead watched via you graduates because I livestream at commence- didn’t have the chance to de- ment.upenn.edu. Only grad- clare you seniors.” uating seniors who abided by “But we can fi x this,” she Penn’s asymptomatic testing continued, instructing them protocol were invited to at- to open the red bags under- tend the ceremony, with corded messages from the Drawing comparisons to the neath their chairs, which chairs on the fi eld placed six families of the graduates Class of 1919, which graduated contained the iconic walking feet apart. (Commencement and a performance by the amidst the infl uenza pandem- cane and fl at-brimmed hat ceremonies for graduate and Penn Band aired on a screen. ic and the close of World War that the junior class tradi- professional schools re- Outgoing chair of the board I, Gutmann quoted a line from tionally receives. After snap- mained virtual only.) of trustees David L. Cohen their yearbook that read: “It ping off a piece of their hats But the day was not lacking L’81 delivered an opening will always be remembered (more sanitary than the cus- in pomp and circumstance. proclamation, and graduat- that as the class advanced, it tomary biting), the students As members of the Class of ing senior Henry Platt C’21 helped those who followed.” were declared seniors. 2021 took their seats, prere- sang the national anthem. She added of the Class of 2021,

18 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photos courtesy University Communications Honorary Degrees

“You, too, advanced while readiness for the moment of Emerson Collective, an organi- Elizabeth Alexander Gr’92 helping those who follow.” revelation, of challenge, of zation aiming to create a more Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Commencement speaker opportunity. We have to be just society through impact Frances H. Arnold Laurene Powell Jobs C’85 prepared to walk through the investing, philanthropy, and Honorary Doctor of Sciences W’85, a philanthropist and door when it opens, or by our advocacy. “Overriding every- David L. Cohen L’81 social justice advocate, re- own power and purpose to thing is a recognition that hu- Honorary Doctor of Laws called the resiliency her moth- open it ourselves. And some- manity is bound together, and Joy Harjo er modeled after becoming a times we need to tear down we realize our own potential Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters single parent to four children walls, the ones within and only by caring for each other.” David Miliband when Powell Jobs’ father, a the ones without.” “All of life is reciprocity, fi lled Honorary Doctor of Laws US Marine Corps pilot, died After leaving Goldman with the circular joy in giving Laurene Powell Jobs C’85 W’85 in a training accident. Sachs, she started an organic and grace in receiving,” she Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters To attend Penn she had to vegetarian food company explained. “[But] it’s important John Williams do some “creative fi nancing,” called Terravera—“a rather to partner your joy with humil- Honorary Doctor of Music but it was here that she radical idea 30 years ago”— ity. Even as we use our heads, Janet L. Yellen “caught the entrepreneur- and then later changed we must learn to bow them. Honorary Doctor of Laws ship bug” as the founder of a course to found College Track, Humility and ambition need Bios of honorands are student-run agency that de- a nonprofi t that equips low- not contradict each other.” at commencement.upenn.edu livered birthday cakes and income high school students Speaking of her late hus- care packages to students with resources to earn college band, Apple cofounder Steve memories, all the laughter, all (and is still functioning un- degrees. “There is no higher Jobs, who died in 2011, she the love we feel—into who we are. One of life’s most beauti- ful dimensions is integrating those you’ve loved and lost into your own being. We see more, and we understand more, and we love more.” “Infuse your values into every part of what you do, and how you live,” Powell Jobs said in closing. “Your

der the name Special Deliv- or better use of your time on eries). After graduation, she this planet than to be helpful worked at Goldman Sachs, to others,” she said. “I learned but she felt herself drawn this at College Track.” toward another path. Still, she said, “I wanted to “Change in ourselves and do more to address the multi- change in the world happens tude of interlocking injustices said, “We do not pass through values should be like your similarly,” she said. “It comes that were evident from work- grief and leave it behind. In- fi ngerprints: proof of where slowly, slowly, and then all at ing with students and their stead, I found, we integrate you have been and what you once. What matters is your families.” So she founded the it—along with all the joyful have touched.” —NP

Photos courtesy University Communications Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 19 GAZETTEER Moral Education

“Authentic, lasting success “Everybody wants to do the in any profession demands right thing, I think, unless adherence to the highest you’re a psychopath,” Shell standards of integrity. When says. What often trips people you bring your sense of right up is fear. “Even the most and wrong to work, you can courageous person feels fear,” enjoy tranquility in that he adds. “And if you’re 26 or most private of all domains: 27 years old, having your of- your conscience,” Shell fi ce create this emotion for writes in the introduction. you can cause people to duck But that can be very hard to for cover and just hope and keep in mind, he concedes, pray it’ll go away.” “when the heat is on to make Personality type also plays deadlines, please bosses, a role. “Some people are re- and fulfi ll client demands.” ally reluctant to engage in The author of previous interpersonal confl ict—even books on persuasion and ne- if it’s a negotiation, they gotiation, Shell is the Thom- don’t like to do it—and con- as Gerrity Professor at Whar- fl ict over values is going to be ton and chairs the depart- much more reactive,” he says. ment of legal studies and This is especially daunting business ethics. He created when the other person is old- the Responsibility in Busi- er, more experienced, and ness course a decade ago and wields authority, “which is teaches several sections each almost certainly the case for year. In it, he invites students my demographic, the people to write up a brief descrip- who I’m writing for,” Shell tion of times when they felt says, referring to MBA stu- Doing What’s Right— they had responded well and dents in their 20s with only a badly to an ethical challenge, few years of work experience and Being Smart About It from which he then selects under their belts. “So, I tried for group discussion, with to write the book to prepare In any career, ethical challenges will the student’s permission. people for that moment.” arise. A new book shows how to be ready “The fact that they’ve been The moment will almost willing to share them has certainly come at some point. to meet the moment when it comes. been a revelation,” Shell says, Shell cites research showing and has “opened up the vul- that about 40 percent of em- nerability of the students, so ployees say they witness a company dinner, a down moral and legal con- that they are willing to dis- wrongdoing every year, and client puts his hand cerns about a company poli- cuss these things that have 25 percent report that they’ve on your knee under cy and threatens retaliation traumatized them, in some been asked to participate in it the table. A senior if you don’t keep silent. ways—and off er suggestions by peers or superiors. manager asks you— Ethical dilemmas like these, for each other.” Listening to the students’ At“just this once”—to fudge shared by Wharton MBA stu- Certain themes come up stories, Shell realized that data in an important report. dents in G. Richard Shell’s year after year: sexual harass- “there was no place that I Members of a project team Responsibility in Business ment, abusive bosses, infl at- could point them to, to say make sexist or racist jokes at class, provided the seed for ing expense accounts, “mis- how you could be proactive a meeting. Colleagues rou- Shell’s new book, The Con- representing data” provided and be more eff ective and tinely falsify expense ac- science Code: Lead With Your to clients. With their personal have less regret and more op- counts and expect you to join Values, Advance Your Career details disguised, many of tions when these things hap- in. A bullying boss shouts (HarperCollins Leadership). them serve as case studies. pen, and so The Conscience

20 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by Mitch Blunt HONORS

President’s Engagement Code was born out of my at- Shell quotes Enron whistle- and Innovation Prizes tempt to put that in one place.” blower Sherron Watkins, who In the book, Shell off ers 10 once observed that “wrongdo- Ten graduating seniors were awarded the 2021 President’s Engage- rules—from “Face the Con- ing requires only three condi- ment and Innovation Prizes, which provide $100,000 in funding for fl ict” to “Choose to Lead”— tions to take root and thrive: projects designed to make a positive, lasting difference in the world. that derive from a four-stage pressure, opportunity, and a Each team member also receives a $50,000 living stipend and men- “values-to-action process” face-saving rationalization.” torship from a Penn faculty member. The prizes are the largest of their with the acronym ROAD: Perhaps the book’s most kind in higher education. Here are this year’s winning projects: Recognize that a value is at important message, Shell PRESIDENT’S ENGAGEMENT PRIZES says, “is never do it alone.” risk, Own the problem, Ana- Project HOPE | Elizabeth Carson Eckhard C’21, Natalia Rommen lyze your decision, and De- People facing pressure to C’21, and Sarah Simon C’21 plan to address the lack of legal and sign your action plan. commit or overlook wrongdo- reentry support to incarcerated Philadelphians with an expansive “It’s a pretty commonsense ing often doubt their capacity advocacy network. Mentor: Marissa Boyers Bluestine, assistant direc- way of formulating the steps to respond ethically. “I think tor of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice. toward action,” he says. the biggest mistake they “Then the rules fall out of make is they internalize it,” he Maji | Martin Leet C’21 and Leah Voytovich EAS’21 will install a solar- those four steps, so each sec- says. “They don’t think about powered water tank for both household and irrigation use in the Olua I tion of the book is a collec- how they could bring some- Refugee Settlement camp in Uganda, as well as offer agricultural and tion of chapters, or in one one else into the picture that fi rst-aid medical training to refugees. Mentor: Ocek Eke, director of case a single chapter, that they can talk to, get advice global and local service-learning programs in Penn Engineering. handles each of those stages.” from, or even form an alliance Be Body Positive Philly | Christina Miranda C’21 and Amanda Moreno To make his case, Shell also with, that would allow them C’21 will address eating disorder risk among Philadelphia high school draws on classic psychology to fi nd confi dence to do it.” students by implementing a body-positivity curriculum and a near-peer experiments and considers He notes that in the fa- mentorship model. Mentor: Caroline Watts, director of school and com- high-profi le business scan- mous experiments devised munity engagement at the Graduate School of Education. dals, corruption in law en- by Solomon Asch (in which forcement and other fi elds, peer pressure led subjects to PRESIDENT’S INNOVATION PRIZES true crime, and historical agree that lines of diff erent Mobility | Aris Saxena W’21 and Yiwen Li C’21 W’21 have created events. Those stories—from length were the same) and software for health clinics in Africa to seamlessly coordinate at- how two 23-year-olds helped Stanley Milgram (where sub- home primary healthcare for patients in under-resourced areas with bring down the fraudulent jects were induced to deliver little technological access. Mentor: Tyler Wry, associate professor of medical-device manufacturer what they believed were in- management at Wharton. Theranos, to a nurse whose creasing levels of electric Lumify Care | Anthony Scarpone-Lambert Nu’21 Gr’24 aims to sup- sharp observation and quick shocks to another person), port frontline healthcare workers with a product called uNight Light, thinking exposed a serial-kill- individuals were more likely a wearable LED light allowing workers to illuminate their workspace er colleague, to what separates to resist when a supportive while decreasing patient sleep disturbances. Mentor: Therese S. individuals who hid or res- third party was introduced Richmond, the Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing and associ- cued Jews in the Holocaust into the situation. ate dean for research and innovation at Penn Nursing. and others who followed or- Shell emphasizes that ders to murder them—are confronting and attempting your own career and your science or career?’—it’s either/ there to show that ethical be- to correct unethical behav- own safety.” or—and my approach to it is, havior “is a continuum; it’s ior is unlikely to be a one- Despite the book’s subtitle, ‘No, conscience is career.’” not just, get to the moral crisis off event. “Something is go- he doesn’t suggest that good Standing up for your values and those are the only ones ing to happen that you deeds are always rewarded, at means you’re willing to pay that count,” he says. “Having didn’t anticipate,” he says, least in the short term; never- some price for having them. the confi dence to speak up for “so then you have to impro- theless, he insists, behaving “You don’t want to do it stu- yourself starts with the vise from there: ‘What hap- ethically is the wisest career pidly,” he adds. “But in the end, small—a moment in the offi ce, pened, where am I now, choice. “To a lot of people, your career ought to refl ect the the team meeting where how do I continue to take when they encounter these best of who you are as a person someone tells a sexist joke or action and be eff ective?’—as confl icts, their immediate and not just be a ladder you makes a racist comment.” well as not be reckless with decision tree looks like, ‘Con- climb at any price.” —JP

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 21 The board members of the Penn Glee GAZETTEER Student Life Club and Penn Sirens convene on the steps of College Hall after the two groups decided to merge.

dents. (Milner says the previ- Glee for All ous bylaws mandated that students be “male-identifying” A 159-year-old club strikes a new chord. to sing with the group.) It was unsettling, Jaramillo says, to watch the Glee Club reject female auditionees at the same time that she served as its president. Meanwhile, membership was dwindling. The group had about 40 singers when Milner joined in 2017. By last year, it had shrunk to about half that size. “That’s evidence that the club is not drawing as much interest as it did be- fore,” he says. In competing for talent with Penn’s many a cappella groups, “I think we were kind of looked at as a dinosaur in a lot of ways.” Still, when the club ap- proached McCall with their idea of opening to all gen- hen the Penn Glee “We didn’t think it was right Sharon Hudson EAS’95. An- ders, “I was a little hesitant Club prepared its fi nal to tell people that they other woman joined the fol- just on the basis of what song of the 2020–21 couldn’t sing in the group on lowing year as part of the tech would happen to Penn Si- academic year, the the basis of their gender,” says crew, and in 2009 the Glee rens,” she says. “I told them, fact that members the club’s outgoing president Club band also began includ- ‘Make sure you’re not going Wwere recording themselves Jake Milner W’21. “Now, no ing women. But as they to hurt them by doing this.’” from scattered locations matter who you are, if you’re a toured the world, delivered A choral group formed in wasn’t the only deviation Penn student, you can audi- singing valentines around 2011—a full 149 years after the from tradition. tion for the Glee Club.” campus, and took the stage at Glee Club began perform- After 159 years, the Glee “I think it’s great,” says Lau- countless University events ing—the Sirens were consid- Club debuted a new sound for rie McCall, director of Penn’s including Convocation and ered Glee’s sister group: a a video performance of its Platt Performing Arts House. Commencement, the singing home for women who might signature song, “Afterglow,” at “The Glee Club is a group that section remained all male. have joined Glee Club had it Penn’s Baccalaureate ceremo- often gets put in front of the Suggestions to change that been an option. McCall wor- ny on May 16. The traditional University at high-profi le had been fl oating around for ried that by becoming a gen- tenor and bass vocals were events, so why should it only several years by the time Su- der-inclusive group, the club still there, but for the fi rst be one gender up there? That’s sanna Jaramillo EAS’19—a would squash Sirens’ mem- time ever, they were joined by not really a refl ection of Penn.” member of the club’s tech bership numbers. “It’s hard to soprano and alto voices. Founded by eight under- crew—became its fi rst woman go up against a group that’s That’s because in April, the graduates in 1862, the Penn president in 2018. Jaramillo 160 years old,” she says. “It’s group offi cially dropped the Glee Club is the University’s focused her campaign on not an even playing fi eld.” “all-male” from its descriptor oldest performing arts group opening up the club to singers Last spring, Glee Club lead- and merged with the Penn [“Glee at 150,” Jan|Feb 2012]. who do not identify as male— ers approached their coun- Sirens women’s choir to cre- It wasn’t until 1992 that it not only cisgender women, but terparts in Penn Sirens to ate a larger group open to all welcomed its fi rst female also trans, nonbinary, gender broach a merger. And they students and voices. member, piano accompanist neutral, or genderqueer stu- sought input from Glee Club

22 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photo by Eric Sucar, University Communications PLANNING

Vaccines Required for Fall alumni through Zoom calls and don’t want to be a part of Barring some exemptions for medical or religious reasons, and a survey. it. It goes up and down and all Penn students, faculty, and staff will be required to be fully vac- But with about 1,000 living all around, as can be expect- cinated before the start of the fall semester. alumni who fondly remember ed when you’re evolving a In April, Penn President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett their all-male singing group— 160-year-old tradition.” Gr’97, and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli W’85 an- plus a 159-year-old tradition of This fall, 14 Sirens will join nounced that, before returning to campus, students would have to strictly performing songs ar- the Glee Club, along with new be at least two weeks past their fi nal vaccine dose. Those who ranged for tenor 1, tenor 2, members from auditions. haven’t complied will be able to get shots at vaccination clinics bass 1 and bass 2 (often short- Moving forward, the group provided by the University but will have to quarantine for two weeks ened to TTBB)—some worried will perform as a combined about what may be lost. soprano, alto, tenor, bass after their fi rst dose. International students receiving vaccines not “There’s an aesthetic eff ect [of (SATB) choir of about 35 to 40 approved in the US were to receive special instructions. The an- TTBB choral singing] that is students, and also break into nouncement added that fl u vaccines will also be required in the fall. quite extraordinary,” says several smaller chamber While the University’s leadership left open the likelihood that some Gregory Suss C’75, who found- groups. A TTBB subgroup will level of social distancing, mask wearing, and limitations on large in- ed the Glee Club Graduate keep the Glee Club’s musical person classes could remain in place, residence halls will be at normal Club (GCGC) alumni organiza- roots alive, as will a soprano occupancy and dining options will be expanded and expected to largely tion and still sits on its board. and alto group for the Sirens. “resemble pre-pandemic confi gurations.” Also, Penn’s “academic poli- “My concern is that the TTBB The club will also keep its cies regarding grading will return to their regular, pre-COVID standards.” sound will no longer have a barbershop quartet-style In a follow-up announcement, the University made vaccines a re- signifi cant place on campus. … group, the Penn Pipers, and quirement for faculty, staff, and post-doctoral trainees, with a dead- For me, [the Glee Club] was the Sirens will become a sec- line of August 1. Faculty, staff, and postdocs who aren’t vaccinated never about representing ond small a cappella ensem- for medical or religious reasons, or who won’t disclose their status in Penn in totality. It was repre- ble within the larger choir. the personnel management system Workday, will have to keep par- senting the University with “My view is that we’re not ticipating in daily symptom checks, get tested weekly, and wear particular musical products.” taking anything away from masks indoors. “Vaccinated individuals should expect to return to “This switch musically alters the group, but a whole new pre-pandemic conditions while on campus,” the announcement said, the Glee Club in a very tangible category of music is being adding that the phaseout of other health measures instituted to fi ght way,” adds Robert Biron C’91 added,” says Marina Dauer COVID-19 will depend on “widespread vaccination of our employees.” GGS’92 G’97, who spent 12 C’22, the outgoing president “Barring any signifi cant new developments in the course of the years as president of the GCGC. of the Penn Sirens. “The goal pandemic,” move-in for the fall semester will begin on August 25. “We were trying to learn: Why of this isn’t to destroy the New Student Orientation (including programming designed for re- do you want to change the group. It’s to make it repre- turning sophomores who missed out last year) will run from then Glee Club musically? I don’t sentative, add new sounds, through August 30, when Convocation for new students will be held, know that the students ever and make sure everyone has really answered that ques- the same opportunities.” and the fi rst day of classes will be August 31. tion. It seemed they were fo- Jaramillo says it’s “thrilling “We remain enormously grateful to everyone in the Penn commu- cused on goals beyond the to know that the club will nity for the resilience you have demonstrated,” Gutmann, Pritchett, music that in fact were chang- never reject someone on the and Carnaroli wrote. “As we look ahead to the fall, we see the op- ing the musical underpin- basis of gender ever again.” portunity for a return to campus activities and interactions that are nings of the Glee Club itself.” “While there were obvi- much more in keeping with what we have always known at Penn. As for the overall alumni ously alumni who were op- We await that with great anticipation.” response to the change, “I posed to it,” she adds, “there think it runs the gamut,” Suss were also a lot of alumni who singer multiple times—not a club that you love that says. “Some people—espe- came out to say, This is really because she thought she’d get doesn’t always love you back. cially the younger alums— exciting. I’ve been waiting for in, but to make a statement. You give a lot to the Glee Club. think it was long overdue. this. Finally the club repre- “As a former Glee Clubber, It becomes a musical and so- Others feel it’s [the current sents me.” That includes it’s now a place that I feel cial hub for you at Penn. I feel students’] club, they should Kathryn Wilson Nu’20, who much prouder to have come so much better to say that we be able to do what they want. played bass in the Glee Club from,” Wilson says. “Another are gender inclusive.” Others feel it’s a big mistake band and auditioned as a Clubber used to say, You’re in —Molly Petrilla C’06

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 23 GAZETTEER Technology

ly spoke about his newest one, when companies are able to Voice Control The Voice Catchers: How Mar- harvest huge quantities of keters Listen In to Exploit voice data. Can our devices learn about our Your Feelings, Your Privacy, The issue is that this new state of mind from how we speak? and Your Wallet (Yale Univer- voice intelligence industry— sity Press), with Gazette con- run by companies you know, tributor Daniel Akst C’78. such as Amazon and Google, and some you don’t, such as Your book is about what can NICE and Verint—is sweeping happen when companies across society, yet there is little digitize people’s voices and public discussion about the apply the power of comput- implications. The need for this er learning to this data. Just conversation becomes espe- what can companies tell cially urgent when we con- from my voice? sider the long-term harms that I describe an emerging in- could result if voice profi ling dustry that is deploying im- and surveillance technologies mense resources and break- are used not only for commer- through technologies based cial marketing purposes, but on the idea that voice is bio- also by political marketers and metric—a part of your body governments, to say nothing that those in the industry of hackers stealing data. believe can be used to iden- tify and evaluate you instant- How pervasive is this ly and permanently. Most of technology? hat can increasingly A revelatory undergraduate the focus in voice profi ling There are hundreds of mil- smart computers class in media led him to en- technology today is on emo- lions of smart speakers out learn about you from roll at the Annenberg School tion, sentiment, and person- there, and far more phones your voice? A lot more for master’s and doctoral de- ality. But experts tell me it is with assistants, listening to than you might think, grees. There he was a re- scientifi cally possible to tell you and capturing your voice. Waccording to Penn communi- search fellow for Robert Lew- the height of a person, the Voice technology already per- cations professor Joseph is Shayon, who in addition to weight, the race, and even meates virtually every impor- Turow C’71 ASC’73 Gr’76. And teaching at Penn had a sto- some diseases. There are ac- tant area of personal interac- when you get to know him, ried career as a radio pro- tually companies now trying tion—as assistants on your it’s not surprising to learn he’s ducer and TV critic. Long- to assess, for example, phone and in your car, in written a book about it. time Annenberg Dean whether you have Alzheim- smart speakers at home, in When Turow was a young George Gerbner became er’s based upon your voice. hotels, schools, even stores boy in Brooklyn, his parents Turow’s PhD advisor. instead of salespeople. wanted him to be a lawyer, Turow went on to teach at So there are some upsides but he was fascinated by ad- Purdue University for a de- to advances in voice Why do people bring these vertising. In high school he cade before returning to Penn, technology? things into their homes? read every book he could where he’s remained ever Absolutely. Diagnosis is They’re seduced by the nov- fi nd on the subject and even since and is now the Robert one. Another is authentica- elty, convenience, charm, cu- subscribed to Advertising Lewis Shayon Professor of tion—say when you call your riosity, and the quite low price Age magazine. When he got Media Systems & Industries at bank and they use your voice of the smart speakers. My to Penn, he became an Eng- Annenberg. In that role he’s print to confi rm your iden- wife got an Amazon Echo as lish major, fi guring it would still pursuing his interest in tity. That’s fi ne. an offi ce “potluck” Christmas help him succeed as a copy- the advertising industry. Its gift. Couple that with the me- writer. But the more he digital transformation, he But in the book you are dia coverage of the devices, learned, the more critical of says, led him to write fi ve mostly concerned with the which often makes it seem the industry he became. books on the topic. He recent- problems that could arise obvious that people have

24 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by Mark Allen Miller LEADERSHIP them and are oblivious to the already contends it can tell Provost Takes voice-profi ling possibilities. you how you sound emotion- Leave of Absence ally to your boss, mother, And is this all about Google spouse, and others. It’s the Provost Wendell Pritchett Gr’97 is taking a medical leave of and others listening to what company’s fi rst public proof absence from Penn, beginning July 1 and continuing through the I say? Or is it about how I say of concept. But Amazon and end of the fall semester, Penn President Amy Gutmann an- it—that is, the tone and vol- Google are not yet using the nounced in a message to the University community in May. ume and pitch and so forth? maximum marketing poten- While not life-threatening, his health issues “require greater These devices listen to and tial of these tools, evidently attention over the coming months,” Gutmann said, adding that respond to your words, of because they are worried Pritchett has been “an exceptional leader who is universally rec- course, and make use of their about infl aming social fears. ognized for his scholarship, teaching, compassion, and commit- meaning to do your bidding, Contact centers, which are ment to academic excellence and civic engagement.” Pritchett and for certain marketing out of the public eye, point began his tenure as Penn’s 30th provost in 2017. purposes. But my concern in toward the future. If you call Beth Winkelstein EAS’93, Pritchett’s deputy since June 2020, the book is that the assistants an 800 number and you’re assumes the role of interim provost until Pritchett returns. Win- are tied to advanced machine angry or worried or happy kelstein previously served as Penn’s vice provost for education learning and deep neural- when you speak to the inter- network programs that com- active voice response (IVR) or and has taught in the bioengineering department since 2002. panies can use to analyze to a live person, there’s a de- “Beth is an exceptional University citizen, who is involved in all what individuals say and how cent chance a computer in the aspects of our academic, research, and student-centered pro- they say it with the goals of background will draw conclu- gramming,” Gutmann said. “We are very grateful that she is will- discovering when and wheth- sions about your state of ing to take on this important responsibility.” er particular people are mind while it looks at the his- worth persuading, and then tory of your purchases to de- generally have concluded your home or your block … fi nding ways to persuade termine how important of a they won’t succeed. So a ma- or how wrist-based sleep de- those who make the cut. customer you are. If it deems jority of Americans are re- vices can lead to algorithmic Amazon and Google have you are substantially worried signed to companies exploit- evaluations of your psycho- several patents centering or angry and important, it ing their data, often even giv- logical state. around voice profi ling that might instruct the agent to ing their consent, because When it comes to under- describe a rich future for the give you a substantial dis- they want or even need the standing the implications of practice. And advertising ex- count to make you feel better. services that media fi rms and a company’s creation and use ecutives told me they expect Or the IVR might triage you marketers off er. The question of your voice print, there can voice profi ling will not too to a human agent who is good is, will the same pattern hap- be no such thing as informed many years from now be used at speaking to people with pen with voice profi ling? consent—people don’t know to diff erentially target people those emotions, and espe- what conclusions about their based on what they infer about cially good at “upselling” So what can we do to protect minds they are consenting them in real time from their them—convincing them to ourselves from the growing to, or what the implications voice. But consider the down- buy more than they intended. power of the voice intelli- might be. That’s why I sug- side: we could be denied loans, gence industry? gest in the book that regula- have to pay much more for Isn’t the horse out of the The fi rst thing to realize is tors should ban companies insurance, or be turned away barn on digital privacy? that voice assistants are not from using voice profi ling as from jobs, all on the basis of Haven’t we long ago handed our friends no matter how part of their marketing ac- physiological characteristics over all kinds of information friendly they sound. I argue, tivities. Voice-based authen- and linguistic patterns that about ourselves without any in fact, that voice profi ling tication is fi ne, for the most may not refl ect what market- control of how it’s used? marks a red line for society part, but to allow companies ers believe they refl ect. National surveys I’ve con- that shouldn’t be crossed. If to use your voice to catego- ducted with colleagues found the line is crossed, voice pro- rize you for the purpose of You see a lot of this as poten- that about 60 percent say fi ling will be just the begin- selling things, ideas, or po- tially right around the bend, they would love to control ning. Think of what market- litical candidates—that’s be- but what’s going on now? that information—and they ers can learn from studying yond the pale. Amazon’s Halo wrist band try now and again—but they your face as you walk around

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 25 GAZETTEER Robotics

Stewart-Height using a wire- Hutton says. “I saw the less gaming controller to di- YouTube video of [X-RHex] rect X-RHex’s every move; walking around, and I Wei-Hsi Chen Gr’22 wielding thought, this would be perfect a laptop linked to X-RHex’s for a forest cabling robot.” internal computer; and J. After a few conversations Diego Caporale Gr’22 ready with Daniel E. Koditschek, to spring out and grab the the Alfred Fitler Moore robot if one of its six legs Professor of Electrical and snaps (again) or rain starts Systems Engineering and plopping down on the deli- namesake of the Kod*lab, cate electronics. Hutton and some of his pro- “The X-RHex was the star, duction crew arrived at Penn truly,” says Noah Hutton, to meet both X-RHex and the writer and director of Lapsis, people who power him. “but the students were like “Once they told me more the supporting cast.” about the plot and I realized Set in a parallel present, the that the robot wasn’t the vil- fi lm centers on Ray, a guy from lain in the movie, I thought it Queens who lands a job was a great opportunity to tramping through the forest, show robots in a diff erent laying out miles and miles of light and educate people in cable to link enormous metal the movie-making business— cubes. The tougher the routes because at the time we met, he and his fellow gig workers they didn’t know much more X-RHex, Movie Star select, the better their payouts. about robots than most other A Penn Engineering creation While fi rst introduced in a people,” Stewart-Height says. training video as “little help- For a handful of days in the flips the robot narrative. ers” useful for “picking up summer of 2019, X-RHex and the slack when routes can’t a cadre of Kod*labbers trav- hen it comes to Holly- robot a negative image and be completed, and always eled to upstate New York to wood, robots are often make it the bad guy—and I pushing cablers to set new set up movie robot headquar- cast as the perfect vil- said straight up that if that personal bests,” it turns out ters: a cabin in the woods W lains, destined to wreak was the case, I would not that the robots (played by fi lled with batteries, chargers, havoc, turn on their creators, help with the movie.” Penn’s X-RHex) can easily cables, motors and replace- or show up programmed to But nearly two years later, out-cable the human cablers, ment legs. “People assume kill humans. Those depictions you can fi nd little X-RHex costing them their paydays. the robot is always going to are exactly what fl ashed (pronounced “ex-rex”), a ro- The result is a battle between be strong and robust,” Chen through Abriana Stewart- bot from Penn, in the new man and machine—but driv- says. “In reality, it needs to be Height Gr’24’s mind when a sci-fi fi lm Lapsis, released on en by an evil corporation, not treated more like a baby.” fi lm director came to campus February 25. Bug-like and evil robots. Like Stewart-Height, Chen in 2019, asking to use a robot unthreatening, about the Hutton had already written began working with X-RHex from Penn Engineering’s size of a small dog, it high- the script when he began shortly after he arrived at Kod*lab in his new indie fi lm. steps through the forest searching for the perfect ro- Penn. It’s a good entry-level “I don’t want people to be alongside human actors, un- bot to play his fi lm’s automat- robot for students, he says— afraid of robots, because there’s spooling cable wire with a ed cabling carts. “I wanted “easy enough for beginners to so much they can do out in the merry mechanical whir. something that had this cute pick it up and try to write their world to help benefi t society,” What you won’t see on factor, while characters might own code and just test it out.” Stewart-Height says. “I was screen is the trio of Penn also feel uneasy about what The original RHex debuted very nervous about whether Engineering doctoral stu- [the robots] were doing with- in 2001—the fruits of a joint this movie would give the dents standing nearby: in the world of the fi lm,” project between teams at

26 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Illustration by Roman Klonek PENN MUSEUM

Two Apologies, and a Reckoning McGill University and the is using the X-RHex to inves- Over Human Remains University of Michigan, tigate what happens when a where Koditschek was based hexapodic robot snaps one of As the Penn Museum looks to the future under new director at the time. It was among the its legs: rather than needing Christopher Woods, it is also reckoning with its past. fi rst legged robots that didn’t an instant repair, can the In April, the same month that Woods began, the museum apologized need to be plugged into a robot learn to identify which for “allowing human remains recovered from the MOVE house to be used wall outlet, and thus one of leg it has snapped and adjust for research and teaching, and for retaining the remains for too long.” the fi rst capable of navigat- its gait accordingly? For in- About a week before that apology, news outlets reported that the ing the outdoors. spiration, she’s turning back museum had been storing bones of a victim from the MOVE bomb- Nine years later, with RHex to biology, since an injured ing—the infamous 1985 incident in which the Philadelphia Police starting to show its age and animal or human intuitively Department bombed a residential home occupied by the group. Koditschek at Penn, a group adjusts their movements if MOVE was led by John Africa, who was among 11 killed. In a message of Penn graduate students they break or lose a limb. to the University community, Woods and Provost Wendell Pritchett decided to update the robot. Of course, you won’t see Gr’97 wrote, “The Africa family and our community have experienced They named the revamp any of that in Lapsis. But you profound emotional distress as a result of the news … and this fact X-RHex, “and we’ve been will see a new representation has urgently raised serious questions.” beating it up for a decade of work-buddy bots that rais- In the note, they explained that the Philadelphia Medical Exam- now,” Koditschek says. es broader questions, includ- RHex falls into the sub- ing for actual roboticists. iner’s Offi ce had asked Penn physical anthropologists to assist with genre of bio-inspired robots. “Noah’s movie made us think the efforts to identify some of the remains in 1985. “But despite In this case, the inspiration about the ethics in robotics,” these efforts, we, unfortunately, are still unable to provide conclusive was a cockroach, with six Chen says. “We know a robot confi rmation of identity,” they wrote, adding that Woods learned on individually powered legs. can only be as good as the April 16 that the remains, reportedly a burned femur and pelvis, were It’s petite enough to fi t in a operator is going to be. But in the museum and had been used in an online forensic anthropology backpack, has the computa- what about the creator? Does class (which has since been suspended) that was offered by Princ- tional power of up to two the creator have a responsi- eton University and taught by a member of the Penn Museum staff. computers, and its fl at back bility in making the robot as Calling it a “serious error in judgement” to use bones without con- can serve as a carrying sur- hard to use for bad as pos- sent, “these remains should be returned to the Africa family as soon face, table or mini lab bench. sible? It strikes a lot of con- as possible,” Pritchett and Woods wrote. “Unquestionably, the deci- “It’s like a research lab on versation, and I won’t say we sion to use the remains in this way has torn at old wounds that our legs,” Stewart-Height says, have the answers.” city and community have long sought to heal.” “where you can have every- To Koditschek, Hutton’s Promising to “reassess our practice of collecting, stewarding, dis- thing you need to collect fi lm is “a triumph from peo- playing, and researching human remains,” the University announced samples and analyze them ple who are interested in ex- the hiring of two attorneys to investigate what transpired, adding that on the robot itself.” plaining and popularizing the fi ndings will be shared with the community. In the last few years, science and technology in an X-RHexes have gone out on honest way.” Woods and Pritchett pointed out that this topic was “very much on multiple desert and forest “We’re good at designing the mind of museum staff” because earlier in April the Penn Museum research missions. But new robots and thinking announced its plan regarding the repatriation or reburial of other hu- Stewart-Height says they about how to animate them man remains, including those of Black Philadelphians, within the may be most useful for and make them do tricks,” Samuel G. Morton Cranial collection. Collected in the fi rst half of the search-and-rescue work, Koditschek adds. “We’re not 19th century by Samuel G. Morton M1820, whose research was used helping to fi nd people after always as good about think- to justify white supremacist views, the collection has been housed in disasters. Compared to hu- ing through the implications storage in the museum’s physical anthropology section. man or canine searchers, of their impact on society. “The Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania apologize for robots can be faster, fatigue- We’re grateful to have had the unethical possession of human remains in the Morton Collec- proof, and “if something falls this opportunity to connect tion,” Woods had said in a statement. “It is time for these individuals on them and they break, it’s up with society in a much more to be returned to their ancestral communities, wherever possible, as sad, but it’s a robot, and we’ll comprehensive way than we a step toward atonement and repair for the racist and colonial prac- build another one,” she says. can ever do with our papers.” tices that were integral to the formation of these collections.” Right now Stewart-Height —Molly Petrilla C’06

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 27 Penn baseball alum Ken Fetter GAZETTEER Sports mentored gymnast Emma Cullen while she applied to dental schools.

sicians, he was “supposed to A Mentoring Program, With Teeth be a doctor” and studied biol- A former Penn wrestler has developed a platform ogy at Penn. He went into business consulting instead to connect alumni with job-hunting athletes. and founded a defense and aerospace consulting com- pany that he sold in 2008. He uring a Penn gymnas- started another consulting tics practice early in company in 2013 but has al- her freshman year, ways spent a lot of time serv- Emma Cullen C’20 ing on the Penn wrestling smashed her face on board on the side. “I didn’t Dthe uneven parallel bars, wrestle all four years, and I knocking out a front tooth wasn’t the best wrestler,” he and gashing her lip. She says. But he made lasting spent hours in the emergen- bonds with his teammates— cy room, had braces put in, as well as wrestlers who and underwent a few diff er- came after him. “That’s a ent procedures before getting great starting-off point for a a new permanent tooth—all relationship,” he says. of which was “annoying as a When his role on the board patient,” she says, “but also led him to start a mentoring nice to learn about all of the program for Penn wrestlers, diff erent specialties.” “it was very informal and the Cullen’s ordeal spurred an results were mixed,” he notes, unexpected interest in den- Marquette University School successful it needed some at- because sometimes students tistry. And even though her of Dentistry last August. tention,” Bowe says. What sets and alums never actually college gymnastics career “He got me thinking about Umentor apart from other connected. But more than 15 ended after only one sea- a lot of considerations about mentoring initiatives is a soft- years later, it’s grown to the son—a back injury exacer- what I would want in a den- ware platform that provides a point where 2,400 Penn stu- bated her off -the-mat strug- tal school,” Cullen says of space for athletes and men- dents and alumni have par- gles—she still leaned on the Fetter, who also helped her tors to stay connected through ticipated in the program as a Penn Athletics community to “talk to a patient and be close an app, off er feedback on how mentee, mentor, or advisor, determine that becoming a enough to watch a procedure the relationship is going, fol- and almost 40 percent of cur- dentist was indeed some- for the fi rst time.” low a checklist of suggested rent mentors went through thing she wanted to pursue. The connection was made tasks per semester, and more. the program themselves as a Through Penn’s Student- possible by Rick Bowe C’74, “You need information in or- mentee. Currently, about 375 Athlete Mentor Program, an old friend of Fetter’s and der to manage something, athletes across 18 Penn var- which is administered the architect of Penn’s men- and you really need a better sity teams are matched up through the athletic depart- toring program. A former system than a bunch of with an alum mentor. ment’s Pottruck Center for Penn wrestler, Bowe began spreadsheets,” says Bowe, The program’s mission is Student-Athlete Success, Cul- matching mentors with the who works with each coach to threefold: to enable athletes len was set up with Ken Fet- wrestling team in 2005 be- track the data and ensure the to succeed in life and land ter C’72 D’76, a former Penn fore expanding to other program runs smoothly. “We jobs after graduation; to in- baseball player and a dentist sports and creating a small don’t assume the athlete is crease alumni involvement in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Af- company called Umentor that going to reach out to the men- with their sport after gradua- ter several conversations works with the Penn athletic tor, or vice versa, and the tion; and to bolster recruit- about applying to dental department and a few other magic is going to happen.” ing. The Penn Athletics’ web- school, and a few trips to schools around the country. Running Umentor is a far site (pennathletics.com/men- Wayne to shadow him in his “I realized after a while that cry from where Bowe started. torprogram) features some of offi ce, Cullen began at the in order for this thing to be Coming from a family of phy- the program’s “success sto-

28 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photo courtesy Penn Athletics By the Numbers SPORTS Shanahan Tapped as 100 New Athletic Director Goals scored in Zoe Belodeau C’21’s career after she netted fi ve Alanna Shanahan C’96 GEd’99 GrEd’15 is coming home. in a 16–11 victory over La Salle in Penn’s only game of the season In early June, Shanahan was appointed the T. Gibbs Kane, Jr. on April 22. She is the 13th player in women’s lacrosse history to W’69 Director of Athletics and Recreation, starting July 19. She reach the 100-goal mark, though she had fewer games to do so replaces M. Grace Calhoun, who spent seven years as Penn’s with the pandemic wiping out much of the last two seasons. athletic director before taking the same job at Brown University in April [“Sports,” May|Jun 2021]. Rudy Fuller, a senior associate athletic director, has been serving as the interim AD. 10 “We set out to bring to Penn a trailblazing leader in intercol- Penn track and fi eld athletes who qualifi ed to compete at the legiate athletics and that is exactly what we have with Alanna Division 1 NCAA East Region Preliminaries in Jacksonville, Florida, Shanahan,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in the release. in late May. That included freshman Isabella Whittaker, who ran “Alanna has the vision, experience, expertise, and energy to the 400 meters in 51.92 seconds to set a program record and ensure that Penn Athletics continues its commitment to excel- advance to the national semifi nals in Oregon. lence both on and off the playing fi eld.” Shanahan has strong roots at Penn, playing lacrosse for the 9 Quakers in the 1990s before an almost 20-year career at the University that began as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach. Goals scored by Adam Goldner W’21 in the men’s lacrosse team’s She rose through the administrative ranks as an assistant, as- 23–9 win over Cabrini on April 23. It was the only game of the sociate, and senior associate athletic director, eventually serv- season for the Quakers, but it was memorable; Goldner’s nine ing as deputy director of athletics from 2012 to 2016 and ex- goals set a program record. ecutive director of the Penn Relays from 2011 to 2016. She left her alma mater in 2016 to become the athletic direc- tor at Johns Hopkins University, where in 2019 she moved into ries,” including Penn Execu- coached by former Penn coach a non-athletics role as the vice provost for student affairs. tive Vice President Craig Darren Ambrose, and a hand- “It’s an honor to return to Penn, a University and athletics de- Carnaroli W’85’s mentorship ful of wrestling teams. But he partment with a storied history which continues to excel today,” from baseball alum Jake Sad- admits he’d be “kind of chal- Shanahan said in a statement. “As a former Penn student-ath- owitz W’20 and radiation on- lenged” if another Ivy League lete, coach, and administrator, there is no place I’d rather be. cologist Shelly Hayes EAS’95’s school asked to employ his The opportunity to lead a program that had such a profound work with a trio of recent company’s services. “I’m a impact on my life is a dream come true.” women’s basketball graduates Penn guy,” says Bowe, whose As Penn’s deputy under former athletic director Steve Bilsky interested in healthcare: wife, sister, and daughter all W’71 and later Calhoun, Shanahan managed all aspects of Christina DiCindio C’21, Mi- went to Penn, as well as his Penn’s 33-sport program with direct oversight of the football, chae Jones C’21, and Eleah older brother Andy Bowe C’72 basketball, and lacrosse programs—including recruiting, bud- Parker C’21. (Athletes are gen- (a physician who also wres- geting, Title IX compliance, academic services, and alumni rela- erally paired with alums who tled and has been a longtime tions. At Johns Hopkins, she guided the university’s 24-sport, played the same sport, but mentor to Penn wrestlers pur- not in every case.) There’s also suing medical careers) and mostly Division III athletic program to some of its most success- a job board for Penn athletes, his niece Elise Bowe C’11 (a ful years, with 37 conference titles from 2016 to 2019, and and the website boasts that former Penn gymnast who also prioritized student well-being with the creation of several “100 percent of senior stu- helps run the mentor pro- new programs and centers. dent-athletes [involved in the gram for Penn gymnastics). In a Zoom call with the media, Shanahan—who will become program] received job off ers.” “I’m really proud of what the fi fth current female athletic director in the Ivy League—not- “Everybody needs mentors,” we’ve done,” Rick Bowe says. ed how special Penn is because of the opportunities it provided Bowe says. “The program is not “These alums will go to great her as the fi rst person in her family to go to college. perfect, but it can be great.” lengths to help these kids. So “For me, this return means so much more than just landing Bowe works with other ath- to be able to leverage that my dream job,” she said. “It really is personal in every sense of letic programs, including network and that energy, it’s the word.” —DZ Vanderbilt women’s soccer, a pretty awesome thing.” —DZ

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 29 Century As the University celebrates 100 years of women’s sports, a handful of prominent former student-athletes Club recall their athletic triumphs and hurdles—and the paths they both followed and paved. By Dave Zeitlin

30 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Captains of Penn’s women’s teams in 1940 show off their uniforms and equipment.

ot long after the Penn men’s bas- forgotten,” declares a page from the Uni- Few records exist from that 1921–22 ketball team captured the 1920 versity’s 1922 women’s yearbook. “For season—the women’s basketball team’s national championship, members who would imagine last year that we fi rst of intercollegiate competition— of the University’s newly formed would be able to invite teams to come but the yearbook does boast of fi ve women’s team were enjoying a dif- play us, as we did George Washington, victories, including its “big game” over Nferent kind of hoops delight. Adelphi, and Pittsburgh? The fi rst fi ne the University of Pittsburgh. “Basket- “The thrill of seeing our fi rst printed exaltation that we felt when we fi rst saw ball is not all,” the yearbook continued. basketball schedule still lingers—the those ‘Penn beat Pitt’ tags and knew they “Hiking, fencing, swimming—all our sight of the Penn–Pitt game is not yet referred to us, still is with us.” sports are fl ourishing.”

Photograph courtesy Penn Archives Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 31 The women’s basketball team played six games in 1938, including two away from home in which teas were “held for the Pennsylvania women after the game.”

The groundwork for these achieve- competition to intramural activity. And and joining Ivy League competition ments had been laid just one year ear- once it returned to intercollegiate play while records and statistics were main- lier—and about 40 years after women after about a decade, games were local tained and preserved. But it took even began to earn degrees from the Univer- and the stakes seemingly small. In the longer for many women to be properly sity—with the foundation of the Wom- campus history series book University of recognized for their athletic skills. en’s Athletic Association. Led by physical Pennsylvania, a photo of the 1938 wom- To paint a picture of some of these strug- education instructor Margaret Majer en’s basketball team accompanies a pas- gles and triumphs, we’ve spotlighted a (who left Penn in 1924 to marry Olympic sage describing its season as four home handful of the University’s most promi- gold medalist John Kelly and whose fu- games and two away games, including a nent female athletes over the past half- ture children would include Olympic quote from the 1939 women’s yearbook century, spanning several diff erent de- rower Jack Kelly C’50 and the actress that explains “the inconvenience of out- cades and sports, all of whom have pushed their programs forward—beginning with a “double All-American” who arrived on campus at a transformational time.

Olympic Ambitions “The word may not yet have gone forth from Weightman Hall, but the Penn ath- lete who received the highest national recognition last year is a woman.” So reads the opening paragraph of a feature story in the Gazette’s December 1972 issue titled “Meet Penn’s Double All-American.” After describing some of Julie Staver CW’74 V’82’s feats in fi eld hockey and la- crosse, the author Susie Adams CW’72 continues, with more than a hint of be- mused bitterness: “Why are her achieve- ments secret? Because, fi rst of all, being a woman athlete at Penn is like being a Grace Kelly), the association paved the of-town games was more than compen- teetotaler at a cocktail party; it’s unusual, way for the creation of several women’s sated by the graciousness of the oppo- gauche, but tolerable if kept quiet. It isn’t teams and funding for new facilities. nent-hostesses who held teas for the just that Penn alumni haven’t heard of A century later, the University’s Divi- Pennsylvania women after the game.” Julie; unless they play on teams with her sion of Recreation and Intercollegiate Over the next few decades, women or sit beside her in a Russian lit course, Athletics is honoring the 100th anniver- continued to fi ght for an athletic perch. even Penn students draw a blank when sary of the Women’s Athletic Association Top athletes like Penn Athletics Hall of you mention the star in their midst.” and the offi cial start of women’s athletics Famers Cynthia Johnson Crowley CW’52 An All-American in fi eld hockey (1973) at Penn. The celebration will include old (softball/basketball/badminton) and and lacrosse (1973, 1974) who played on photos, interviews, and video montages Penny Teaf Goulding CW’65 GEd’65 numerous US national fi eld hockey and at pennathletics.com, as well as special- (field hockey/softball/basketball/la- lacrosse teams throughout the 1970s and ly made patches on the uniforms of crosse/badminton) played for multiple ’80s, Staver’s place in Penn Athletics lore Penn’s 16 varsity women’s teams—some Penn teams, a stark contrast to the high- is now secure. The Julie Staver Award, of which have risen to championship- ly specialized nature of sports today. which Penn presents annually to the level prominence. It wasn’t until the 1970s—when Title outstanding athlete who competes in But it hasn’t been an easy road to get IX of the federal Education Amend- both of her sports, has ensured that. there, and title aspirations haven’t always ments of 1972 prohibited sex-based dis- But Staver, now a veterinarian in Read- been possible. About fi ve years after its crimination—that women’s sports began ing, Pennsylvania, doesn’t sugarcoat founding, the Women’s Athletic Associa- to more closely resemble the men’s what her athletic experiences were like tion shifted its focus from intercollegiate game, with teams earning varsity status at the time. “I came to Penn when wom-

32 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photograph courtesy Penn Archives Julie Staver CW’74 V’82, left, and Alicia McConnell C’85 dominated their primary sports—field hockey and squash, respectively—and also lacrosse even though neither had played it before getting to Penn.

made a huge diff erence,” bringing better Even if there wasn’t always much fan- access to trainers, physical therapists, fare, other women followed Daniel and and full-time coaches. At Penn, Staver Staver to the Olympics, including fencer played under Ann Sage, a pioneering Mary O’Neill C’86 and a slew of rowers head coach at Penn who helped build from Anita DeFrantz L’77 to Susan Fran- both the fi eld hockey and lacrosse pro- cia C’04 G’04 [“Gold, Again,” Sep|Oct grams, and then spent a couple of years 2012] to Regina Salmons C’18, who has as her assistant after graduation. been tapped to join Team USA this sum- Staver also continued to play on the mer in Tokyo. US national fi eld hockey team after “There are always battles to be fought,” graduating (picking that over lacrosse Staver says. “But it’s awesome to be a because she couldn’t handle traveling part of that history.” for both) and even after starting at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 1978. She initially planned to hang up her cleats after the 1980 Summer Olympics, the fi rst in which women’s fi eld hockey was a sport. But after the US boycotted the Games, which she notes was “devas- en’s athletics wasn’t very well support- tating for lots of people,” she decided to ed,” she says. Whether that meant shar- hang on for four more years, through her ing uniforms, buying her own equip- vet school graduation and the beginning ment, or playing games on Hill Field, of her career as a veterinarian. “where sometimes you had to fi ght with Staver ended up serving as cocaptain of the intramural guys to get off the fi eld the US fi eld hockey team at the 1984 and out of the way,” it was a battle to Olympics in Los Angeles, helping the simply get through a full (all-local, non- Americans capture the bronze medal Ivy) schedule, let alone win games. thanks to a unique ending. After fi nishing Of course, this wasn’t a problem exclu- the round-robin tournament tied with sive to Penn. Growing up in rural central Australia for third place in points and Pennsylvania, Staver played fi eld hockey goal diff erential, the US team was called and basketball at Lower Dauphin High back out onto the fi eld—from the stands, Best of the Best School because those were the only two where the players had been wearing street Alicia McConnell C’85 enjoyed her own sports off ered for girls. It wasn’t until ar- clothes—to face Australia in a tie-breaking Olympic experiences, having worked as riving at Penn—a school she chose because shootout, which the US won. “We thought the director of training sites and com- she wanted to be in a city—that she we were out of it,” Staver says. munity partnerships for the US Olympic learned how to play lacrosse. “I kind of had Staver isn’t the only Penn athlete to Committee in Colorado. And she almost a knack for it,” says Staver, who quickly got medal at the Olympics, which has a rich certainly would have reached the highest called in to play for the US national team. Olympic tradition for both men and wom- mountaintop as a competitor too … if Ivy League competition for fi eld hock- en [“Penn in the Olympics,” Jul|Aug 2012]. only squash were an Olympic sport. ey and women’s lacrosse didn’t begin One of her classmates, swimmer Elie Dan- Nevertheless, McConnell is considered until 1979–80 (the fi rst Ivy League cham- iel CW’74, won gold, silver, and bronze at one of the greatest American squash pionships in women’s sports were held the 1968 Olympics before arriving at players of all time, dominating the rack- before that, beginning with rowing in Penn—and then bronze in 1972. (A Gazette et sport through the 1980s—before, dur- 1974) but Staver still detected changes feature, from the May 1973 issue, paints a ing, and after her time at Penn. from the time she arrived at Penn until picture of another superstar athlete over- “Around Weightman Hall, she has been she left. As a senior, she got the chance looked. “No school even approached me,” called ‘the kind of player Penn gets once to take on future Ivy League rival Princ- Daniel told the Gazette about her lack of every 10 years,’ although Ann D. Wetzel, eton for the fi rst time, and to play games recruitment. “I was a gold medal winner. the women’s squash coach, considers it inside Franklin Field, which “was a big Football players, they get wined and more like once in a lifetime,” reads a line deal for us.” She also notes that “Title IX dined, and they’re a dime a dozen.”) from an old Gazette article, which also

Photographs courtesy Penn Athletics Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 33 touted her ability to beat most men on joining the US national lacrosse team on wrapping up a 20-year run with the US the court, generally to their confusion. a UK tour. “We’re not talking a lot of Olympic Committee, which followed a “Some guys think that it invalidates them money—maybe $500 here and there,” stint in the 1990s teaching squash at the as an athlete to have a woman better than she says. But it helped pay her tuition, club where she fi rst learned the game, they are,” McConnell told the Gazette which she couldn’t otherwise aff ord. the Heights Casino in Brooklyn. while she was a Penn student. “But it Even still, she needed a last-minute stu- She’s promoted squash everywhere she’s doesn’t at all. They’re good the way they dent loan to graduate on time. “It’s dif- been, and while the sport is still not lucra- are, but I just happen to be better.” ferent today,” she says, bemoaning her tive, she’s pleased to see American stars Making her way in a man’s world was struggles despite the attention she have a better chance at making a living at a theme for McConnell. Growing up in brought the University as the top squash it than she did. She also likes—albeit with Brooklyn Heights, she recalls “going into player in the country. “I think female a pang of jealousy—that University City the backdoors of men’s clubs” to play athletes now feel more empowered.” has become a hub for American squash tennis and, when it rained, going inside Money continued to be an issue for Mc- with a new US center opening at Drexel to try out squash. “I just got hooked on Connell after she graduated and went and the Penn Squash Center recently un- squash,” McConnell recalls. “I could hit overseas, where there were more oppor- dergoing $20 million renovations. hundreds of balls in a row against the tunities to fi nd training partners and “It would’ve been fun to have a shot play- wall. Somehow my coaches convinced compete in tournaments. To make ends ing full time now,” admits McConnell, who me that that was fun.” Crushing the ball, meet, she’d crash with friends, drive rath- serves on the Penn squash advisory board, fi nding the right angles, wrong-footing er than fl y when possible, and buy her heads Penn Alumni’s regional club in Ire- her opponents—she loved it all. own equipment. She rose to No. 14 in the land, and has mentored Penn athletes. A two-time national junior squash world rankings, winning easily and often, “But I just love seeing the growth of champion while in high school, McCon- but her travel expenses usually negated women’s sports,” she adds. “It’s a confi - nell decided to come to University City her earnings (about $18,000 in her best dence booster for women to really ap- after playing in a tournament at Penn’s year, as she recalls). And without trainers preciate what your body can do, what Ringe Courts, which, she notes, “had the and coaches to support her, the physical your mind can do. What’s most important best squash setup at the time.” Like demands took a toll—so she quit the sport is the friends you make, the life experi- Staver a decade earlier, McConnell also when she was still at the top of her game. ences you have, and the skills you learn gravitated to lacrosse when she got to “Alicia McConnell used to dream of be- through the sport. You don’t realize that campus. Though she had never played ing the Billie Jean King of women’s when you’re playing—at least I didn’t.” the sport before, she not only made the squash and turning the sport into a mul- Quakers’ varsity squad under Anne Sage timillion-dollar enterprise,” opens an il- Never Stop Running but also rose to the US national team. luminating article in the February 1, 1989, (and Jumping) She tried a little fi eld hockey too, for a edition of the New York Times. “Now the Like Staver, McConnell, and other star semester. “I just loved sports,” McCon- seven-time national champion is quitting athletes who came before her, Ruthlyn nell says. “If somebody gave me a chance the game, disillusioned, disheartened, Greenfi eld Webster Nu’92 had an op- to play, I was like, ‘OK. Why not?’” and, for the most part, broke.” The article portunity to compete at the highest But squash was her No. 1 sport, and ends with a quote from McConnell, who level after graduating. But hampered by she was No. 1 in squash. She won both said: “It didn’t seem fair to me that here a hamstring injury and ready to move the intercollegiate and national singles I was, number one, and still buying my on to a career in nursing, she turned championships as a member of Penn’s own skirts. Over in Australia, everything down an invitation to jump at the 1992 varsity squash team, bringing home in- is taken care of. … I feel used by squash. US Olympic Trials for track and fi eld. dividual titles for the Quakers in 1982, Through squash, I lost my whole identity.” “I decided I was done,” says Greenfi eld 1983, and 1984. (Two other Penn wom- McConnell is more comfortable in her Webster, who immediately began work- en’s squash players would later wear the own skin these days. Long after strug- ing as a nurse at NYU Langone, where crown of national singles champion— gling with her self-confi dence at Penn she’s remained for the last 29 years. “I Jessica DiMauro C’99 G’00 in 1996 and while “becoming more aware of my said to myself, I’ve done everything I Reeham Salah EAS’19 in 2018.) McCon- sexuality,” and being “too afraid” to fully can. I’m leaving on top of everything. Ivy nell would have gone for the clean sweep come out to all her teammates, she now champion. School record holder. Captain as a senior but lost her amateur status lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her wife of my team. I’m good.” when she accepted prize money playing and their English bulldog and pug. She A four-time Heptagonal Games cham- in squash tournaments in Europe after moved there about three years ago after pion in the triple jump who graduated

34 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Ruthlyn Greenfield Webster Nu’92 is a national, regional, and world champion in Masters track and field. with program records in that event for of the top runners in Penn history—and both indoor and outdoor track and fi eld, arguably one of the best women athletes Greenfi eld Webster certainly left behind the University has ever seen in 100 years. a strong legacy at her alma mater. The school record holder in the 800 me- But, as it turned out, she wasn’t done. ters and the 1,500 meters and a two-time About 15 years after graduating, she national runner-up in the 800, Akins heard about Masters track and fi eld for helped bring the women’s track and fi eld athletes over 35 years old. Intrigued, she program to new heights with several started hopping, skipping, and jumping overall team wins at the Heptagonal in her Yonkers, New York, backyard— Championships and its fi rst-ever distance and, from there, to Italy, Finland, France, medley relay championship at Penn Re- Brazil, and other countries where the lays [“Penn Relays at 125,” Jul|Aug 2019]. biggest Masters events were held. And like Greenfi eld Webster, Akins is Reinvigorated by an opportunity that Black. Last summer she wrote about race wasn’t always available to women of a and an experience she had with racism previous era, she added more medals to for Runner’s World (which was later re- her collection, earning the trifecta she published by Penn Nursing magazine). set out for as a national champion, re- Now a professional runner, Akins has her gional champion, and world champion. sights set on the Olympics. “I absolutely But it didn’t come easy. adore Nia,” Greenfi eld Webster says. “She At the 2013 World Masters Athletic has a special place in my heart.” Championships in Brazil, she won gold in Getting the opportunity to see Akins— the women’s triple jump for her age group or any other Penn alum—in the Olym- (40–44), despite competing with a menis- support her in her Masters endeavors. pics would be quite the thrill for Green- cus tear in her right knee. At the 2019 “It’s a lifelong thing for me.” fi eld Webster, who has no plans to stop North, Central America and Caribbean She also has a lifelong connection to traveling the world to run and jump Region of World Masters Athletic Cham- her alma mater, feeling a particular af- herself. COVID-19, of course, enforced a pionships in Canada, she brought home fi nity for Franklin Field, where she’s pause as she dealt with the far more se- triple jump gold in the next age bracket competed at the Penn Relays from high rious implications of a once-in-a-centu- (45–49)—after sustaining a left foot plan- school events to 40-and-older Masters ry global pandemic. “For the fi rst time tar fasciitis injury that knocked her out of relays. “I talk about Penn like you think in my career,” the New York nurse says, the 100-meter and 200-meter dash events, I owned the place,” she says. She cur- “this was something that actually scared and other Team USA sprint relays. rently serves on the Penn track alumni me.” She also devoted extra time to sup- “I’m crazy,” she laughs. “You would board, conducts Penn Alumni inter- porting and comforting her two daugh- think it would make me stop, right? But, views, and was named the 2018 Friar of ters, including one who missed her no. It really sort of motivates me more.” the Year. A painting of her jumping graduation, prom, and other teenage It’s gotten to the point, she says, where adorns the lobby wall inside Penn Nurs- rites of passage as a 2020 Yonkers High she actually gets worried when she’s not ing’s Claire M. Fagin Hall, she says. “Can School graduate. hurt. “I’m so used to competing with I tell you how amazing that feels to me?” But she managed to still train the entire injuries that it doesn’t really faze me like Greenfi eld Webster is particularly time, and after turning 50 this year, is it probably should—because I’ve been proud of her nursing degree. When she primed to dominate another age group doing it since college.” fi rst got to Penn, she recalls hearing that (50–54). How long can she keep going She credits her Penn coaches, Betty many nursing students drop out of the from there? “The way these knees are act- Costanza and Tony Tenisci, for helping track program because it’s too time- ing up, I don’t know if I’m gonna make it her push through a hamstring injury to consuming to balance both. “For me,” to 90,” she says. “But I’m gonna try.” successfully defend her Heps/Ivy League she says, “it was like, Challenge accept- triple jump title and develop her raw ed.” She later learned that she was the Palestra Lifer talent. Sometimes, that included tough fi rst Penn track and fi eld record holder Although basketball has the deepest roots love and a little bit of yelling, but “I love to graduate from the nursing school. of any of the Penn women’s athletic pro- those two like they gave birth to me,” But she wouldn’t be the last. Nia Akins grams, it wasn’t until the turn of the mil- Greenfi eld Webster says, noting they still Nu’20 GNu’20 recently graduated as one lennium that it reached the next level.

Photographs courtesy Penn Athletics Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 35 Diana Caramanico W’01 LPS’11 still holds the Penn, Big 5, and Ivy League scoring records.

And that was because of Diana Cara- 2003, and actually played Texas Tech in an manico W’01 LPS’11. exhibition just a few months after the The only men’s or women’s player in NCAA tournament. Even more surprising, Penn basketball history to score more Texas Tech fans who made the trip to than 2,000 career points, she currently France recognized her (despite the lack of holds the Penn, Big 5, and Ivy League any programs or rosters in the arena) and records for most career points with began a “Let’s Go Penn!” chant. “I almost 2,415. She also holds Penn records for started crying right there on the court,” career rebounds (1,207), and steals (201), says Caramanico, who was missing home among other all-time marks, and was at the time. “It was just what I needed.” named the Ivy League Player of the Year Almost 20 years since her basketball three straight seasons. career ended, Caramanico is back home And she capped it all off in 2001 by and “living the dream,” having built a life leading the Quakers to their fi rst-ever Ivy in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, with her hus- championship and NCAA tournament band Geoff Owens C’01, a former men’s berth, completing a stunning turnaround basketball center she met in college, and from when she arrived on campus with their two athletic children, ages 12 and 9. nine other freshmen recruits. Not surpris- And she’s far more recognizable at the ingly, the young and inexperienced team In a narrow come-from-behind win over Palestra, where she’s a regular visitor, was picked to fi nish dead last in the Ivies. Yale, Greenberg was ejected for arguing than in any French gym. “That’s like my “But we had all come from winning pro- with the refs. In another nail-biter, Car- second home,” she says. “Our kids have grams,” Caramanico says. “No one told us amanico recalls former men’s basketball known for years you don’t wear orange we were supposed to lose.” star Mike Jordan C’00 “herding hun- [Princeton colors] at the Palestra, and you In her freshman year, the Quakers fi n- dreds of shrieking kids down under the try to avoid orange in general.” ished a respectable 13–13 overall and 8–6 basket to bother” a Dartmouth player She also believes her Penn education in the Ivy League, good enough to come shooting potentially game-winning free helped her navigate a few career changes, in fourth place. The next season, they throws with no time left on the clock. from playing basketball professionally fi nished third. As a junior in 1999–2000, She missed one, allowing Penn to run and trying out for the WNBA ... to working Caramanico and the Quakers began to away with the win in overtime. in international sales for AND1 … to start- take off , winning 18 total games under The Quakers ended up clinching the Ivy ing a business on mental toughness train- the leadership of fi rst-year head coach title with a few games left in the season ing for athletes … to now teaching at her Kelly Greenberg, who had replaced Julie but saw their long-awaited celebration alma mater, Germantown Academy. Soriero and implemented an up-tempo curtailed because Harvard had “hid any- Penn, she notes, “set me up for success style that suited the 6-foot-2 Caramani- thing we could stand on to cut down the for the rest of my life.” Likewise, Cara- co’s ability to run the fl oor. nets,” Caramanico recalls. They made up manico helped set Penn women’s bas- Heading into her fi nal season with a for it with a home win over rival Prince- ketball up for success, elevating the smaller group of classmates but still a ton to cap off a perfect Ivy season and roll standard so that Ivy titles became more strong class that included Erin Ladley into the NCAA tournament with an regular and star players followed the C’01 (who would join Caramanico in the NCAA-best 21 game winning streak. legacy she carved. Three years after she 1,000-point club), Penn had all the piec- The Quakers fl ew to Lubbock, Texas, graduated, one of her former teammates es to make a run. Caramanico remained to take on Texas Tech in front of approx- and fellow Penn Athletics Hall of Famer, confi dent even after the team lost fi ve of imately 14,000 hostile fans—a long way Jewel Clark C’04, led the Quakers back its fi rst six games. What followed was 21 from the “out-of-town” games around to the NCAA tournament. More recently, straight victories, many of them memo- the Philadelphia area in the 1930s when Alyssa Baron C’14, Sydney Stipanovich rable for diff erent reasons. tea was served afterwards. They lost, by C’17, Michelle Nwokedi C’18, Eleah Park- The beginning of the streak included a wide margin, 100–57, but the experi- er C’21, and Kayla Padilla W’23 have a win over Air Force that was played in ence on the national stage was eye open- grabbed the torch and helped turn Penn an almost empty Palestra due to a snow- ing and formative for both Caramanico into a perennial Ivy League powerhouse. storm. About a week later, Caramanico and the Penn program. Yet the University’s marquee program, scored 42 points against Albany, which Caramanico went on to play profes- in many ways, is the same one that used remains a program single-game record. sional basketball in France from 2001– to pluck players from other Penn teams

36 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photograph courtesy Penn Athletics Ali DeLuca Cloherty C’10 never lost an Ivy League game in four seasons and made three trips to the NCAA final four. even if they had never before played the but accomplished something perhaps Waxman C’08 (also a two-time National sport … and now has legitimate nation- even more remarkable by capping off its Goalkeeper of the Year and a recent Penn al championship aspirations every year. fourth straight sweep of the Ivy League— Athletics Hall of Fame inductee) and an achievement that would have been Melissa Lehman C’08 (who went on to New Frontiers unimaginable in previous years and de- keep winning titles as a longtime Penn Perhaps the best way to chart the growth cades. “When I came here, the Prince- assistant coach). But DeLuca—who still of women’s sports over the last 100 years is tons and Dartmouths were killing us,” holds the program record for career through lacrosse—and, more specifi cally, Brower Corbett told the Gazette in 2007. goals with 148—became the fi rst player through Ali DeLuca (now Cloherty) C’10. “It was, ‘Can we hang with them for 20 in school history to be a fi nalist for the Like Caramanico a decade earlier, De- minutes?’ These girls were not recruited Tewaaraton Award, given annually to Luca joined a program that did not have by those programs, and they didn’t be- the best lacrosse player in the country. a championship tradition. But by the lieve they could beat them.” time she left, Penn had not only ascend- For Penn to move so swiftly from Ivy ed to the top of the Ivy League but ad- also-ran to Ivy powerhouse—and remain vanced all the way to the national semi- on that perch to this day with 11 league fi nals three times, including one trip to titles since 2007—is something DeLuca the national championship game. wears like a badge of honor. “When I talk “I wanted to be a part of the story,” De- to people who know Ivy League athlet- Luca says. “And every woman on that team ics, they’re stunned,” she says of her at the time felt the same way. We would spotless 28-0 record against conference always joke because in 2007 they kept re- foes. “No one does that. It’s incredible.” ferring to us as this Cinderella story. And Among the former Ivy athletes she talks we did not think of ourselves like that.” to about it is her husband, former Brown DeLuca credits Karin Brower Corbett, football player Colin Cloherty. They live the team’s head coach since 2000, for be- in Silver Spring, Maryland, with their ing “the foundation of that shift” and in- two toddler sons who are usually hold- stilling in her players a mindset that “we ing a ball or a stick. (Her two sisters also were an elite team that deserved to be went to Brown, where they played la- amongst what people considered the top crosse. “Brown’s a great place but Penn’s teams in the country.” The Quakers hadn’t obviously better,” she says.) She also likes qualifi ed for the NCAA tournament since to bring it up with her former team- 1984 or won the Ivy League since 1982 mates, many of whom she’s remained when they did both in 2007, soaring to a close with. She says she is consistently She didn’t win it but believes a Penn No. 2 ranking in the country before losing impressed by where they’ve gone in their women’s lacrosse player will hoist that to Northwestern in the fi nal four. careers since graduating. “We’re sort of trophy eventually. She’s equally confi dent Penn got a measure of revenge against used to winning,” says DeLuca, who in Brower Corbett’s ability to navigate the Northwestern—which won fi ve straight works for National Geographic’s Cre- unique challenges of two straight lost national titles from 2005 to 2009—by up- ativeWorks. “Being super competitive pandemic seasons and lead the Quakers setting the Wildcats during the 2008 and strong-willed translates profession- back to the fi nal four—and beyond. regular season. But that ’08 campaign ally after you’re done with lacrosse.” “There’s no doubt in my mind,” she says, once again ended with a loss to Northwest- Just the same, some of DeLuca’s fond- “that we’ll win the national champion- ern, this time in the national title game. est lacrosse memories include dance ship one day.” So close to reaching the pinnacle of college parties in the locker room before games, From fi eld hockey to track to soccer, sports, it would be the most diffi cult defeat and the entire team chanting “Giant softball, squash, and more, other Penn of DeLuca’s career. “It’s still hard now to Chicken” to get pumped up—and no one programs keep raising the bar too. And as even take that loss,” she says, although a knowing exactly why. “To an outsider they move into a new century, the dreams double overtime defeat to Northwestern looking in,” she says, “it was probably will remain tantalizing, the goals never in the 2009 semifi nals, on a “totally lucky” like the weirdest and craziest thing.” greater—a 100-year climb from feeling goal, was almost as excruciating. Several of DeLuca’s teammates earned like nobody was paying attention to trying The Quakers fell one win short of four major accolades at Penn, including All- to make sure nobody can look away. straight trips to the fi nal four in 2010, American nods for goalkeeper Sarah

Photograph courtesy Penn Athletics Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 37 The Raven

When the United States Postal Service tapped him to design a “Forever” stamp, Rico Worl took another step in his metamorphosis from cultural anthropologist to commercial artist. By Trey Popp

Rico Worl’s first-class stamp, depicting the Tlingit story known as “Raven and the Box of Daylight,” hits post offices this summer. A silkscreen print (opposite page) shows the titular character in a pose of relaxation.

38 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 and Rico Worl

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 39 A 2021 edition of Worl’s “tiny sticker” series depicts a fish wheel modeled after designs his grandfather employed for subsistence salmon fishing.

a kid growing up in Alaska, name of his design fi rm, Trickster Com- means of social binding. It’s a source of Rico Worl C’09 used to visit pany. Their minute measurements belie wealth. It’s a healthier means of living his maternal grandparents the density of meaning they contain. than commercialized processed foods.” in Nenana, where about 400 “The fi rst few were food,” Worl says, Trickster, which Worl founded with his souls lived beside the con- refl ecting on the importance of products sister Crystal in 2014, initially focused on fl uence of the Nenana and like seal oil and sea asparagus (other sports equipment. Skateboards bearing AsTanana rivers midway between Fair- sticker subjects) among Indigenous Alas- Northwest Coast formline motifs—whose banks and Denali National Park. His kan communities. Raised “modern-tra- ovoid features and curvilinear abstrac- favorite thing to do there was poke ditionally” by parents who were Tlingit tions are a signature of Tlingit and other around his Grandpa Rudy’s woodwork- on one side and Athabascan on the other, artistic traditions among First Nations in ing shop. It was stuff ed with meticulous Worl frequently mines his cultural heri- Alaska—led to basketballs and yoga-re- scale models of cabins, food caches, fi sh tage for artistic inspiration. “There’s a lated gear. Worl is drawn to play in vari- traps, and other traditional artifacts of certain pride we take in our subsistence ous forms. One early product was a deck Athabascan material culture. food: there’s the pride of being able to of playing cards bearing Tlingit designs Worl was particularly fascinated by his acquire it, and more importantly being and packaged with the story of Raven, a grandfather’s fi sh wheels—miniaturized able to share it with our community. My trickster character in Tlingit mythology. versions of the current-driven contrap- sister and I both hunt,” he continues. “It As culture conservation goes, Worl blends tions that indigenous peoples had adopted earnestness with whimsy. To honor Eliz- for subsistence salmon harvesting. These abeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights devices combined watermill-style paddles activist whose advocacy led to Alaska’s with netted baskets designed to scoop fi sh infl uential Anti-Discrimination Act of from a river and deposit them automati- 1945, he made holographic stickers bear- cally into an integrated holding tank or ing her portrait in the style of a dollar bill. box. Rudy sold his replicas to tourists. But A combination of happenstance, con- the source of his craftmanship ran deeper. venience, and certain notions about art “The models were just a side hustle,” aff ordability led Worl into the realm of Worl would later marvel. “Grandpa used tiny stickers. Before the pandemic he to build these for real. Like put it on a found himself traveling frequently be- river and feed his family. They literally tween Alaska and Phoenix, where his fi - grew up without money, so it was a vital ancée was living. All the plane trips got source of livelihood for my mom and her him brainstorming about something that siblings.” Worl’s uncle Chris recalled how was always this big deal to go and catch would be lighthearted, easy to carry, and they used to outfi t the paddles with cof- a seal, or get herring eggs, or catch some sellable in pop-up stores. Trickster had fee cans that would splash water onto fi sh and bring it back and share it with for some time off ered larger stickers as the caught fi sh to keep their gills moist other people in the community.” an “add-on product,” so Worl—who as a and the fl ies at bay. Sticker number 19, fi ttingly, depicted a jeweler was already comfortable working This past winter, at the urging of sub- traditional halibut hook. “It’s a discussion in miniature—thought it would be fun to scribers to his Patreon channel, Worl piece about the ingenuity of Tlingit peo- go sticky and small. bundled up all these inspirations—the ple,” Worl explains. “Because it’s probably “Most people like stickers,” he laughs. woodshop memories, a photo of one of a more effi cient hook than any modern “I don’t know why. There’s just some Rudy’s fi sh wheel models, his uncle’s fi sh- hook. It’s crafted in a way that the size and kind of universal draw to them. They are ing stories—transformed them into a angle are specifi cally designed to catch the artwork that’s accessible to anybody— three-dimensional digital CAD model, exact size halibut you need. You want they’re super cheap. So anybody can pick and then distilled it all down to a peel-off smaller fi sh to keep getting bigger,” espe- up a sticker; if they appreciate an artist, sticker roughly the size of a US quarter. cially reproductive females. “And some fi sh they can have that little bit of artwork.” As number 18 in a series of stickers are too big … So this hook is really a very And it doesn’t take much work to fi nd a that rarely exceed one inch in any direc- targeted system: it lets you choose exactly place to stick it. “Your water bottle is full tion, Worl’s fi sh wheel extended a theme the size of fi sh that you want to catch. of stickers,” he notes, “but maybe there’s that has dominated his adhesive oeuvre “There are so many diff erent aspects” a tiny little corner for a one-inch sticker.” since his fi rst edition, which depicted a to the subsistence foodways he has cel- At $1.50 to $4 a pop, they’re more of a jar of preserved salmon labeled with the ebrated in his stickers, he says. “It’s a creative lark than anything else. (Several

40 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photographs courtesy Trickster A Trickster women’s basketball features traditional Northwest Coast formline depictions of aquatic life. The company’s Rainforest Party skateboard blends formline motifs with Japanese Chibi influences. Both designs are by Crystal Worl. editions double as Trickster branding, but most bear no trademarks.) But you could also look at them—and Rico Worl’s en- thusiasm for tiny, sticky-backed art—an- other way. Because his miniature fi sh wheels, salmon jars, formline eagle mo- tifs, and all the rest are also successors to his breakthrough public recognition as an artist: in July, the United States Postal Service will debut a “Forever” stamp he designed in homage to Tlingit culture.

efore he was approached by a USPS tions were claimed for repatriation under art director in the spring of 2018, the 1990 Native American Graves Protec- Worl didn’t really think about himself tion and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) as an artist. “I got my degree in an- [“Gazetteer,” Mar|Apr 2011]. thropology,” he says, and that aca- Partly because there is little doubt that Bdemic discipline persisted as the wellspring at least some of these objects would have of his professional identity after college. perished but for their original transfer to Before Worl came to Penn, he came to the Penn Museum, Shotridge left a com- the Penn Museum. Drawn by a research plex legacy. “He was pretty bad at being exchange program designed to bring Na- a Tlingit,” in Worl’s off -the-cuff gloss, “but tive students to do anthropological re- alright at being an anthropologist.” search, he spent a semester there exploring Worl’s experience at the museum hooked the legacy of Louis Shotridge. Shotridge him on the discipline. “Penn made an im- was a Tlingit anthropologist who worked pression on me,” he says, “so the next year as an assistant curator at the museum from I applied, and I came as a student.” 1915 to 1932, during which time he con- Upon returning to Juneau after earn- ducted three museum-sponsored expedi- ing his bachelor’s degree, Worl dove tions. He collected some 400 artifacts for right into the world of Indigenous cul- the museum’s collection. In the early 2000s ture preservation by way of a job with the propriety of some of his purchases— the Sealaska Heritage Institute, a non- and rightful ownership of the artifacts— profi t dedicated to the enhancement of was challenged by various Tlingit entities. Southeastern Alaska’s Tlingit, Haida, Roughly one-third of Shotridge’s acquisi- and Tsimshian cultures.

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 41 “I worked on a lot of things that had to live in a capitalistic system,” he says. And He ended up choosing to depict the do with the Native American Graves and when it comes to cultural renewal and Raven character, using the characteristic Repatriation Act, getting things re- vitality, the realm of commerce is where formline style of Tlingit graphic art. turned from museums to tribes,” he re- the rubber meets the road. Lest there be “The image references a story that’s of- calls. “There is, of course, a bit of a con- any doubt about that, consider the way ten referred to as ‘Raven and the Box of tentious relationship between Penn and USPS art director Antonio Alcalá discov- Daylight,’ or ‘Raven Steals the Sun, Tlingit people, and I’d gotten to be right ered Worl to begin with. It happened at Moon, and Stars,’” he says. “That one is in the middle of that during my studies. the Smithsonian National Museum of the a foundational story, if you want to learn Which was very educational.” American Indian in Washington, DC—but about Tlingit culture.” The work had a major upside. “I was not in the exhibition galleries. Alcalá no- The story’s particular resonance to always surrounded by very big pieces of ticed a Trickster basketball in the gift Worl came out vividly in a blog post he Tlingit artwork, all the time,” he says. “I shop. (Basketball’s popularity among Na- wrote when the stamp design was un- got to travel to museums and be around tive Americans dates back to the early veiled last November. In an abbreviated these pieces.” 1900s, when certain American Indian rendition of the story, he described Ra- Meanwhile, Worl found himself in- schools in the Midwest developed a style ven as a canny shapeshifter bent on lib- creasingly nettled by a dynamic that of play whose fast tempo reportedly riv- erating the heavenly bodies from a chief- weighed heavily on the arts economy in eted the sport’s creator, James Naismith.) tain who had sequestered them in boxes, contemporary Juneau. “Pre-COVID, we “He was drawn,” Worl says, “to how we keeping the world dim. Transforming had over one million people a year com- were working to represent our culture himself into a pine needle, Raven con- ing through Juneau as tourists, spending in a very modern way.” trived to be drunk in a glass of water by millions of dollars” there and in south- the chieftain’s daughter, who gave birth east Alaska. “And a huge chunk of that was defi nitely a lot of pres- to the trickster nine months later. was going toward knockoff Native art. sure,” Worl says about be- “In the child’s youth he loved the box- “That was really bugging me during the ing tapped to design a post- es of family treasure which held the sun, same time I was working on repatriation,” age stamp. “I knew it was the moon, and the stars,” Worl recount- he recalls. He became engrossed by a new going to be a national plat- ed. “He begged to play with them. With question: “How do we empower ourselves form,” and the relative rar- time, the grandfather could not say no to return some of that market share back “Itity of Indigenous artists in the postal any longer. Raven was allowed to play to the community that developed that stamp program gave him a sense of re- with the box of stars. Not long after, he artwork?” His search for solutions shifted sponsibility. Cultural stewardship has freed the stars. Raven was in big trouble his viewpoint away from research and been the driving pursuit of his adulthood, … He cried for forgiveness. After time he toward creative design. “So that’s when I and suddenly he had a stage as extensive asked to play with the next box. Raven created one of the fi rst products, which as the US mail network and as accessible promised not to open the second box, was the playing cards.” as a nickel and two quarters. “Rather than but he did. The moon was free. Raven The choice of playing cards as a vehicle focusing on creating a piece that repre- cried. He cried for forgiveness. A grand- for honoring an Indigenous culture in- sented me or my artwork, it was really parent’s love is immeasurable. He let vites multiple interpretations. Face cards about, how do I represent Tlingit art?” Raven play with the box of daylight.” and card backs are natural canvases that It was the same question he had been In this manner, Raven fi lled the uni- aff ord broad artistic latitude within well- answering for about fi ve years via Trick- verse with heavenly light. defi ned limits. They are also, of course, ster. As the company’s product lines have “The stamp depicts a moment of climax a means by which many American tribes expanded to include men’s and women’s in one of his heists,” Worl elaborated. “Ra- generate revenue through casino gam- apparel, face masks, jewelry, cutting ven is trying to grab as many stars as he bling—though not, it is signifi cant to boards, and other home goods, Rico and can—some stuck in his feathers and in note, in Alaska. But at a more basic Crystal Worl have become curators as his hands or in his beak, some falling level, playing cards belong unambigu- well as creators, opening their market- around him. It’s a frazzled moment of ously to the world of commerce, rather place to a select group of designers, il- adrenaline. Partially still in human than the rarifi ed realm of art museums. lustrators, and authors. Their goal isn’t form”—as the stamp shows by way of a And the same is true for the lion’s share far from what originally drew Rico to the human hand—“he carries the stars away. of Rico Worl’s artistic output. (His silk- Penn Museum and anthropology: “to “I think it depicts a moment we all screen prints merit an exception.) represent modern Indigenous lifestyle have experienced,” Worl wrote: “The “We don’t really have a choice but to to a broader audience.” cusp of failure and accomplishment.”

42 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 “Transforming Raven” silkscreen print, depicting the Raven character in metamorphosis. Design by Rico Worl.

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 43 We know what we should do when it comes to leading healthier and happier lives. But too oft en we default to easier, more pleasurable wants. Behavioral scientist and Wharton professor Katy Milkman is determined to help us change for the better—and for good. By JoAnn Greco

hen it comes to matters of the psyche, scientists in lowing a grueling day of classes, I tended to procrastinate and search of a theory often start with themselves. Sig- curl up on my couch with a juicy page-turner.” That reading mund Freud drew upon his feelings toward his parents fi ction was not the best use of her time “came in loud and clear to develop the notion of an Oedipal complex; Carl Jung during midterms my second semester when I checked my frequently experienced vivid, involuntary hallucina- grade in one of my toughest computer science classes and Wtions that informed his archetypes; and Marsha Linehan, a discovered I was on track to fail. I’d never failed a class before well-regarded expert in borderline personality disorder, suf- or even come close. fered from teenaged bouts of mental illness. “Something had to change,” she concludes. The “me-search” of behavioral scientist Katy Milkman, the The solution she came up with was to basically repurpose James G. Dinan Professor of Operations, Information and Deci- her wants to be a motivator for her shoulds rather than an sions at the Wharton School, is of a much less tortured bent, obstacle. “What if I let myself indulge in reading the page- but it’s driven by an equally powerful desire to understand and turners only while working out?” she writes. “I’d stop wasting improve upon herself—and to share what she’s learned with time at home reading when I should be studying, and I’d start the rest of us. In her new book, How to Change: The Science of craving trips to the gym to fi nd out what would happen next Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Portfolio/ in my latest novel.” Suddenly she saw opportunities to “kill Penguin), she revisits her early struggles with self-control while two birds with one stone” everywhere: scheduling pedicures a fi rst-year graduate student at Harvard University. only when she had a big reading assignment to tackle, binge- “The thing I knew I should do—hit the gym after a long day watching shows only while completing household chores. This of classes—wasn’t instantly gratifying,” she writes. Similarly, “temptation bundling,” as she called it, would become a regu- “Instead of turning to assigned readings each afternoon fol- lar strategy: “Years later, as a professor, I even realized I could

44 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY GÉRARD DUBOIS Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 45 eat less junk food if visits to my favorite breaking 2008 book, written with Cass “I would have assumed that was just a burger joint were reserved for mentor- R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Deci- small fraction—but it was 40 percent. ing sessions with a diffi cult student sions About Health, Wealth and Happi- What we eat, what we drink, whether we [whom] I knew I should see more often.” ness—as her main infl uence. “Thaler smoke, whether we’re active, whether we In the foreword to How to Change, An- basically says that if it’s established that buckle our seatbelts. It was this light bulb gela Duckworth Gr’06 [“Character’s Con- people are suboptimal decision makers, moment,” she says. tent,” May|Jun 2012], the Rosa Lee and then they could probably use a little help Milkman fi rst made her mark while Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology making better decisions. Why not try to still an undergraduate with a quantita- and author of Grit: The Power and Pas- do that in a way that will maximize well- tive analysis of the fi ction published in sion of Perseverance, writes that Milkman being?” she says. “That way of thinking the New Yorker magazine, and in her “copes with the same fallibilities we all laid the foundation for everything I do.” PhD dissertation, she compared how share. … [She] has learned that the secret long people held onto their DVD rentals to a better life is not to eradicate the im- always been a bit of an for lowbrow and highbrow fi lms (the pulses that make us human but instead oddball,” Milkman says. former got watched—and returned— to understand them, outsmart them, and The focus of her work is sooner). At Penn, she coauthored a study whenever possible, to make them work “I’ve applied behavioral science, with Wharton colleague Jonah Berger, for us rather than against us.” but she is neither a psychologist nor an associate professor of marketing, on “Katy’s desire to use science to help economist by training, instead coming to what kind of articles in the New York people live better lives is completely au- the fi eld from a background in operations Times got forwarded most often (stories thentic,” says Duckworth, a frequent col- management and computer science. Her of uplift and inspiration led the list), laborator who calls Milkman her “aca- research spans several disciplines, and which is still among her most frequent- demic sister and BFF.” she publishes regularly in journals fo- ly cited papers. Milkman organizes her fi rst book around cused on economics, management, psy- “I had fun with those questions,” Milk- seven stumbling blocks—including impul- chology, marketing, and medicine—and man says now, “but it was this realiza- sivity, laziness, and lack of confi dence— once in the journal of Literary and Lin- tion that if I could apply my research to that she says get in the way of good decision- guistic Computing, she says. trying to improve outcomes, I might making. “The surest path to success is not But Milkman doesn’t limit herself to have some positive impact. So, my work one-size-fi ts-all,” she writes. “[Y]ou’ll get traditional academic publishing. She since then has focused on [things like] further faster if you customize your writes op-eds; makes herself available fi guring out ways to help people make strategy: isolate the weakness prevent- as an expert resource for reporters; and healthier choices around their exercise, ing progress, and then pounce.” (See has hosted Choiceology, a podcast from whether or not to get vaccines, savings page 49 for some examples.) fi nancial services fi rm Charles Schwab, decisions, [and] helping kids study and Even when we know better, Milkman since 2018. Writing the book was an op- do better in school.” emphasizes, we still can make poor deci- portunity to spread the word even more Behavior Change for Good (BCFG), an sions—because people don’t always act widely. “When I was a senior in college, initiative she and Duckworth cofounded, predictably, or rationally. “Every day is I signed up for a journalism seminar,” is allowing Milkman to tackle those is- a series of decisions, and so many of the Milkman recalls. “Everyone in the class sues on a larger scale than ever. The two outcomes in our lives are the sum of our wanted to be a journalist—except me. I are faculty codirectors, with Milkman choices,” she says during a video chat. wanted to be a scientist who communi- taking the lead in research on savings “There’s a whole fi eld in economics and cates about science.” and health and Duckworth focusing on decision science about rational deci- It wasn’t until shortly after her arrival education. A collaboration between sions, too, but to me it’s less interesting at Penn in 2009 that Milkman’s intellec- Wharton and the School of Arts and Sci- to fi nd the ways that people do things tual “north star” truly emerged. A newly ences, BCFG is a multidisciplinary eff ort really well. To the extent that you care minted assistant professor, she wandered to understand and improve human be- about social impact and making the over to a seminar at the Perelman School havior involving about 100 internation- world a better place, then there’s this of Medicine (where she now holds a sec- al experts from multiple institutions natural opportunity when you say, ‘Oh! ondary faculty appointment) to attend a representing neuroscience, behavioral here’s all the mistakes that we make! presentation. She was particularly struck economics, psychology, medicine, com- Let’s see what we can do about that.’” by a pie chart that broke out the diff erent munications, and data science. The She cites behavioral economist Rich- causes of premature death. One wedge group includes two Nobel Prize winners ard Thaler—and particularly his ground- was for decisions that could be changed. and fi ve MacArthur Foundation “genius-

46 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Milkman says her “light bulb moment” came when she happened to see a chart showing 40 percent of premature deaths arose from decisions that could be changed. es,” one of whom is Duckworth [“Gazet- teer,” Nov|Dec 2013]. At the core of the eff ort is the mega study, a type of large fi eld experiment that is new to behavioral science— though a similar approach has been used productively in artifi cial intelligence and machine learning experiments, Milkman explained in an online presentation from BCFG in November. “In that arena, you would have researchers competing to solve the very same problem—say, im- age recognition—subject to the very same constraints. Everybody is working with the very same data set,” she said. “You can really see, ‘Oh wow, this algo- “There’s this natural opportunity when you say, ‘Oh! here’s all the mistakes that we make! Let’s see what we can do about that.’” rithm really outperforms these others,’ But running fi eld experiments tradi- The mega study approach avoids these because of that common task frame- tionally has involved large fi xed costs, drawbacks. “A mega study is a very work—and so we’re trying to bring that and the process of validating an idea can large fi eld experiment in which many idea into behavioral science.” be time consuming. Even when data are smaller sub experiments are synchro- Interest has been growing among poli- available, looking at studies with diff er- nously run with the very same depen- cymakers in using the insights of behav- ent variables and populations often re- dent variable,” Milkman said. “Instead ioral science, Milkman said in the presen- quires “apples versus oranges compari- of having, you know, two experimental tation, with hundreds of “Nudge Units” sons,” Milkman added. And as with conditions, you have more like 50 ex- being established at institutions around other fi elds, behavioral science research perimental conditions and many hy- the world over the last decade or so. faces the “replication crisis” and “fi le potheses tested simultaneously.” “There’s just tons of appetite for applied drawer problem,” meaning the failure to This removes the apples-to-oranges behavioral science solutions to policy produce consistent results from similar problem, while the fi xed costs of execut- problems. But how do we get those good studies and to publish at all about un- ing the study can be borne by a central solutions?” Ideally, policy advice should successful studies, respectively. As a organizer, which “really lowers the mar- be based on fi eld experiments, since it’s result, “it’s not always clear which be- ginal cost for individual scientists.” With only “in the wild” that scientists can as- havioral insights will be robust,” she so many experiments being run at once, sess whether and how much a given in- said, “and we may expend huge amounts it’s unlikely that nothing will be found tervention aff ects behavior, and measure of resources to try to replicate others’ that’s eff ective, “and it also eliminates factors like cost eff ectiveness. failures without knowing it.” the fi le drawer problem, because you can

Photograph by Candace diCarlo Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 47 publish all of the results together and ined the more timely question of encour- ber that they can have a snowball eff ect. the nulls are just as interesting in that aging vaccinations. In partnership with Momentum builds, as more and more context as the successes.” Walmart, BCFG and Penn Medicine’s Americans can say to one another: ‘Yes, Mega studies also produce a lot more Nudge Unit tested nearly two dozen text- I’ve been vaccinated.’ After all, nothing data for “behavioral phenotyping,” she based messages aimed at prompting ap- changes a person’s mind like altering added, explaining it as a “nerdy medical proximately 700,000 of the store’s phar- what the crowd around them is doing.” term for basically fi guring out what works macy customers to get their fl u shot. De- for whom.” In most traditional studies of signed to close the gap between intentions ilkman regularly incorporates a one hypothesis being tested, you might be and actions, the messages played on psy- case study of this bit of human able to tease out that something worked chological traits like “loss aversion” to nature into her classes—with better for women than men, for example, encourage people who said they wanted her students as the subjects. As “but you don’t really understand.” By test- the vaccine to actually go get it rather than she recounts in How to Change, ing 20 diff erent interventions, “I can find try to convince anyone who was ambiva- M“One day every February, the packed out which one is the very best for women, lent. Tactics included commitment (nud- lecture hall where I teach my Wharton which ones are very best for men, and ging people to text “I will get a fl u shot” to MBAs erupts with the cheers of enthu- other subgroups and so on,” she said. “The their pharmacy), information (fl u season siastic twenty somethings. Full-grown wider your trial, the more experimental is upon us), and motivation (asking people men and women leap from their seats, conditions, the more you can do this.” to encourage others to get shots by copy- hooting and hollering like they’re at Overall, the use of mega studies “just ing and pasting a message). Mardi Gras. … [They] are responding vastly accelerates the pace of scientifi c dis- The results revealed that communica- exactly how I asked them to in an email covery relative to the usual one-at-a-time tions like reminders that a fl u shot was sent the night before.” Received by all processes we’re used to.” Though the large “waiting” proved most eff ective, increas- but three students, the email requests numbers do mean limited opportunity to ing vaccination adoption by up to 11 that, when she shows a picture of the talk with or closely watch participants and percent. A separate study of nearly school’s dean in her slideshow, everyone a lack of fl exibility and variety in the kinds 50,000 patients of the Penn Medicine applaud furiously. At class the next day of tests that can be employed, she adds. and Geisinger Health systems yielded she watches as the three clueless stu- “The broad-based experiments that strikingly similar results. “Our results dents dutifully stand and cheer along Katy is doing require a lot of coordination suggest a promising way to encourage with everyone else. Why? she asks one. and are of a scale that allows us to burrow COVID-19 vaccinations at scale,” Milk- “I just clapped because everyone else down and identify small diff erences,” says man said when the study’s results were did,” the student will inevitably reply. It’s Milkman’s departmental colleague Mau- released earlier this winter. “We can po- a harmless experiment, she points out, rice Schweitzer G’91 GrW’93, the Cecilia tentially help save lives for less than 10 but it demonstrates the power of con- Yen Koo Professor at Wharton. “That type cents per person.” forming to social norms, a key driver in of scholarship in judgment and decision- In May, as daily vaccination rates were decision-making. making has really distinguished her in down from their early spring peaks, “I like to set up challenges or puzzles in the fi eld. She’s been very entrepreneurial Milkman published an op-ed in the every class,” Milkman says. She speaks in her ability to leverage partnerships and Washington Post—coauthored with rapidly, the velocity of her words punctu- build bridges by collaborating with large Duckworth and Mitesh Patel, director of ated by high-spirited laughter. Sharp and organizations.” the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit and the funny, she’s a hit with students. Poets & In one (pre-COVID) mega study, BCFG Ralph Muller Presidential Professor at Quants, an online publication that covers recruited nearly 63,000 members of the the Perelman School—touting the ad- the graduate business education market, national gym chain 24 Hour Fitness to vantages of the text-based approach. listed her as one of the World’s 40 Best participate in a free 28-day program to “Compared with other tactics, including Business School Professors Under 40 in test which of 50-plus, randomly assigned glitzy ad campaigns and cash incentives, 2011. (Now 39, she’d still qualify, but at methods, designed by 30 diff erent sci- strategies based on text messaging are the time she was 28.) In 2013, she was entists, worked best to boost attendance. virtually costless. Yet they move the voted that year’s “Iron Chef” by MBA stu- All told, nearly half of the methods in- needle (literally). And unlike mandates, dents, beating out other faculty pitching creased weekly gym visits (by a range of nudges preserve the autonomy of indi- their research in fi ve-minute presenta- 9–27 percent) for four weeks. viduals to make their own decisions,” tions. (According to the recap in Wharton While gym attendance has not been top- they wrote. “And as we think about vac- Magazine, she went with the study bun- of-mind lately, another mega study exam- cine nudges and incentives, let’s remem- dling pleasure reading with exercise.)

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She’s repeatedly been a fi nalist for the science. Though not his kind. I was more of Change school’s Helen Kardon Moss Anvil interested in people and wanted to under- her new book How to Change, Whar- Award for most outstanding MBA teach- stand weird things about human nature.” ton’s Katy Milkman emphasizes that er, and in 2017 was named to the Evan They would wind up moving on to what’s holding you back may not be C. Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Harvard together for their PhDs, getting the same as what’s getting in the way Excellence in Teaching, established in married, and having a child, Cormac, In of your best friend. But in this lightning round, 2003 to recognize teaching excellence. who is now fi ve. When Milkman came “I think students like that if they ask me to Penn, so did Blake. An associate pro- we brought up some general goals and asked a weird question, I can give an hour lec- fessor in the department of physics and her to offer tactics that might turn common ture because I know this stuff so well,” astronomy, he spends his days, says foibles (in bold) into agents of change. she laughs. “I’m getting to teach exactly Milkman, “looking for life on other plan- I can’t stick to a diet. If laziness is the prob- what I study, and they respond to that.” ets and building cool gizmos.” lem, take advantage of that trait by changing But growing up in Washington, DC, Before all that, though, having left eco- your environmental defaults, Milkman says. Milkman didn’t imagine herself at the nomics Milkman had to settle on an- “Purge all of those tempting snacks from your front of a lecture hall. “I think my high other undergraduate major. She re- fridge or your pantry so the path of least resis- school teachers would be, like, ‘You turned to her familial roots and tance will be to grab (hopefully tasty) substi- turned into a professor?’” she says in- switched to operations research and fi - tutes like smoothies or nuts.” credulously. nancial engineering, with a minor in I never call my mom. You think about it, Her mother, a senior executive in pro- American Studies, “to have an excuse to plenty, but then it slips your mind. Tackle for- curement for the federal government, read fi ction.” Required to touch upon getfulness by “being more deliberate and was an avid reader, and her father was both her major and her minor for her making a plan in a systematic way,” Milkman an engineer (as were both of her grand- senior thesis, Milkman thought, what a says. “What are the cues that will remind you fathers). Education was prized at home, weird set of interests to combine. to make the call?” A pledge like “When ___ and while Milkman grew to love books Which is how she found herself spend- happens, I will ___,” with the blanks fi lled in as and numbers, nothing really lit her fi re ing a year reading 450 New Yorker short specifi cally and in as detailed a fashion as academically. She was more interested stories and cataloging their authors by in tennis, where she was ranked among gender, religion, race, age, and native possible, might help. the top 150 junior women’s players. “I geographical regions. Along the way, she I hate housekeeping! Temptation bundling got out of school and went straight to met a handful of New Yorker legends is one way to make an unpleasant task palat- the tennis academy and played for three (including Roger Angell, who befriended able, as Milkman notes in her book. But if it’s or four hours. I got home, ate dinner, her) and caught the attention of New getting started that overwhelms you, she and was exhausted,” she recalls. York Times media columnist David Carr. recommends looking at the fresh start effect. She still did well enough to gain ad- He wrote an article on her study that How about spending just 30 minutes after mission to Princeton, entering as an appeared the day Milkman graduated dinner every Sunday night, before the work economics major and intending to pur- from Princeton, noting that it was “long week gets underway? sue a career in fi nance. But Econ 101, as on statistics and short on epiphanies: I’d like to be more involved in my commu- taught by a very well-known economist one main conclusion was that male edi- nity. Try to “copy and paste,” as Milkman calls whom she now admires, soon disen- tors generally publish male authors who it, the best practice actions of a social leader chanted her. “It wasn’t just his dull write about male characters.” or friend. This plays on a penchant for confor- teaching,” she says. “I didn’t resonate It wasn’t the answers that mattered mity. “It’s important to be in good company with the model. It was taught as ‘we’re but the way they were arrived at. Not when you hope to achieve big goals,” Milkman all optimizing, we’re perfect decision- only did Milkman create data where writes in the book. makers’ and I was, like, what is this gar- none had existed, but her study was fun; I wish I spoke up more at work. Lack of confi - bage? Aren’t we human?” it attempted to quantify something a can hold us back in all kinds of ways. She quit economics (and tennis). Soon certain set of people might idly fi nd dence after that she met a fellow student at themselves pondering. One of those Consider forming an advice club with friends or Princeton, Cullen Blake, who was major- people was Max Bazerman W’76, the colleagues who are struggling with the same ing in astrophysics and, unlike her, “had Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business issue, she suggests. Not only will you benefi t, known he wanted to be a professor since Administration at Harvard University. but giving solicited feedback to others has been he was 13,” she says with a laugh. “I fell in He remembered Milkman and her the- shown to boost your own confi dence. —JG love with him and then fell in love with sis when they met at Harvard, which she

Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 49 had selected for graduate school because chapter, she addresses the question of How to Change earned a spot on the Wall of a new interdisciplinary program that fi nding the impetus to simply get started Street Journal’s Bestselling Hardcover combined computer science and business. on a behavioral change. Challenging the Business Book list a week after its release, Sensing that she was fl oundering during view of economic theory that “our pref- and Milkman has been powering through her fi rst year, Bazerman invited her to join erences remain stable over time unless several podcast and print interviews a day, his lab group for a discussion and pizza we face changing circumstances, such while continuing to conduct research and later that evening at his house. “From that as new constraints, new information, or meet with her students. “I like days that point on, she was a central part of the a price shock that forces an adjustment are packed,” she says. “I like being around group,” he says. “Her ability to see connec- to our beliefs or budget,” Milkman set people and thinking on my feet.” (“There’s tions and opportunities to collect and up a project to “identify other moments working at human speed, and then there’s analyze data in ways that I wouldn’t have that provoke the same reaction and to the speed of Katy,” observes Duckworth, thought about was phenomenal. It’s un- understand how and why they can un- who’s no slouch herself.) usual to have a colleague in a young stu- stick us and motivate change.” To blow off steam and help keep fi tness dent who knows stuff that you don’t.” She and her collaborators sent out let- and family time in the mix, she’s been Bazerman—whose work focuses on ters featuring bright red proclamations taking a 45-minute walk around the negotiation, behavioral economics, and to thousands of Penn employees urging neighborhood almost every day with her ethics and who had been publishing in them to save for retirement. “In addition husband and young son. It began during management journals on what he to the option to start saving immedi- the pandemic—“checking out the window termed the “want–should” confl ict since ately, we off ered some people the chance boxes, the delivery people, the squir- the early 1990s—became Milkman’s to start saving at a later date,” she writes. rels”—but amidst the whirlwind of atten- doctoral advisor. As Milkman shifted “For some it was a fresh start date—after tion, it’s been a lifesaver, she says. “I’m a direction once again, she encountered their next birthday or at the start of big fan of exercise as a way to feel better, this and other concepts that would be- spring. Others [received] an arbitrary, think better, have better conversations.” come key in her current work. Later, unlabeled further date or an upcoming More than a decade after that pie chart she’d wind up enlisting many of these holiday without fresh start connotations, opened her eyes, she still wakes up “cu- thinkers into BCFG. People like the per- such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” The rious about what I’m going to do,” she suasion expert Robert Cialdini; Thaler “fresh start” messages turned out to be continues, “but now I also feel that of Nudge fame; and the psychologist 20–30 percent more eff ective. there’s this broader mission behind the and economist Daniel Kahneman, win- Throughout the book, Milkman freely work. As a social scientist, I can’t cure ner of the Nobel Prize and author of admits she hasn’t completely mastered cancer or solve the climate crisis, but I Thinking Fast and Slow, who had fi rst her own foibles. “Whether it’s scheduling think fi nding out what creates lasting challenged traditional economic theory a dental checkup, voting, texting a friend behavior change is also critical and—” about the predictable patterns of buyers a birthday message, or even recalling She stops as fi ve-year-old Cormac ex- and sellers. where I put my keys, you can be sure I’ll citedly bursts into the room, back home “I was, like, ‘Whoa, this is so interest- drop a ball (or several) every day of the from visiting his grandparents. “Mom- ing!” Milkman says. “Where has this been week,” she writes in her chapter on for- my’s just about to fi nish up,” Milkman all my life?” (Ironically, Kahneman was getfulness. And, as evidenced in conver- reassures him as he leans his curly head teaching at Princeton while she was a sation, she’s subject to self-doubt, an- against hers. “That’s OK,” he says. “I have student there, but she never took a class other one of the obstacles spotlighted in things to do, I have things to make!” She with him, thinking, “Psychology? That How to Change, fretting that the title laughs, then fi nishes her thought. “There sounds like baloney. I’m a math person!”) sounds a little too much like “another of are so many lives that could be extended those yellow books for dummies.” and whose quality could be improved if How to Change, Milkman shares But with media outlets from Bloom- we better understood how to help people the stories of real people and the berg to Wired and infl uencers from Sili- achieve their own goals when it comes psychological barriers that pre- con Valley venture capitalist and mar- to savings, diet, education, exercise.” In vent them following through on keting guru Guy Kawasaki to bestselling Cormac squirms and giggles and she their good intentions. She then unpacks Happiness Project author and podcaster says, “I should run …” As Zoom fatigue the big data behind the tactics that can Gretchen Rubin spotlighting the book, sets in, it seems that for now her shoulds work to break down those obstacles. Of- it’s clear that Milkman has hit a post- and her wants are perfectly aligned. ten, she draws from her own research COVID nerve. (If ever there was a time and experiments. In the book’s fi rst for a fresh start, she says, it’s now.) JoAnn Greco writes frequently for the Gazette.

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Photograph courtesy Penn Libraries Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 51 ARTS Museums Perfectly Clear (Ganzfeld), James Turrell, 1991.

And now, Thompson has wrangled with the realization that it might be time Outside the Frame to leave. “I’ve begun to feel like that per- Joseph Thompson on building the country’s son who says, No, we’ve done that al- ready or We tried that and it didn’t unlikeliest art museum. work,” he observes. “There are whole new generations of staff who have won- derful ideas. It’s their turn.” The story of Thompson and MASS e’s fl own his Grumman Tiger from Sprawled across a campus containing MoCA goes back to the early 1980s. After western Massachusetts to the more than 500,000 square feet of interior graduating from Williams College in Wil- Burning Man festival in the Ne- space, half of which is devoted to exhibi- liamstown, Massachusetts, he spent a few vada desert, and he’s sweated it tions, MASS MoCA is a place of exposed years bouncing around those Oklahoma out, in altogether diff erent fashion, brick and unfi nished plaster. It’s a place oil fi elds, and then the world, before ac- Has a roughneck “pushing pipe” in the oil where immersive artists like Nick Cave and cepting an off er to come to work with one fi elds of his native Oklahoma. But the Cai Guo-Qiang have installed large-scale, of his art professors, Thomas Krens, who derring-do of Joseph Thompson WG’87 site-specifi c works in galleries that stretch had been appointed as the director of the likely reached its apogee when he as- hundreds of feet. It’s also a place that the college’s newly renovated and expanded sumed the helm of a then-nascent mu- 62-year-old Thompson describes as “all I’ve art museum. When Krens returned from seum in 1988. In the ensuing 33 years, lived, done, and thought about for more an art festival in Germany, his enthusias- Thompson helped create MASS MoCA, than three decades. The fi rst was trying to tic descriptions of the raw, makeshift gal- now billed as the world’s largest muse- build it, the second making sure it survived, leries he’d seen—minimally retrofi tted um of contemporary art. and the third getting it into great shape.” garages and crumbling churches—got the

52 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photo by Florian Holzherr courtesy Mass MoCA Tree Logic, Natalie Jeremijenko, 1999.

two thinking. “We had been turning away him. “But I wanted to stay,” Thompson arts center with a packed schedule that a lot of artists who wanted to knock down says, “and make MASS MoCA happen.” brings in a diversity of visitors who might walls and rip up carpets,” Thompson But fortune had other plans and the never have come otherwise. MASS MoCA laughs. “So we were, like, ‘Let’s go fi nd an project derailed. has also populated parts of its complex abandoned warehouse and open up a “Dukakis went off and ran for president, with commercial tenants, ranging from satellite wing of the Williams museum.’ but his campaign collapsed and so did a brewery to professional offi ces; ac- I was just 26 years old. Tom was only 10 the Massachusetts economy,” Thompson quired a few other parcels around town; years older. Hubris got the better of us.” recalls. “1989 and ’90 were brutal years and even built a boutique hotel across the They visited a few small factory build- and everything associated with Duka- street. “When I think back on my career,” ings in the area before stumbling upon the kis suddenly had a negative side. No Thompson says, “it’s been as much about 1870s Arnold textile mill in the neighbor- exaggeration, there were about 150 edi- real estate development as anything.” ing town of North Adams, Massachusetts. torials along the lines of ‘What the heck Perhaps most signifi cant, MASS MoCA “It was so beautiful,” Thompson says of the has embarked on a series of phased ex- massive complex, which knits together pansions, rehabbing varied spaces every more than two dozen buildings with a few years and turning them over to the pleasing array of covered bridges and long-term display of work by artists like courtyards. “From the outside, it looked Sol LeWitt, Jenny Holzer, and James like a hulking red brick fortress. But inside Turrell. “These pieces are like the great it was full of sunlight and huge open spac- lodestones,” Thompson says. “They give es with trusses. The textures of the wooden us all the benefi ts of a permanent collec- fl oors and the exposed masonry had a ro- tion—every time you come back, they’re mantic feel—the amplitude and generos- here—without the burdens.” ity of space was jaw-dropping,” he contin- With the institution fi nally in a good ues. “But the idea of using it as a museum place, Thompson will bow out by the end was pretty radical at a time when there was of this summer. The pandemic forced a museological fascism that said galleries him to lay off or furlough about 75 per- had to be hermetically sealed, climate- cent of MASS MoCA’s employees, but controlled, and with no outside light.” most have returned and the museum Just fi ve miles from the Clark Art Insti- reopened in July 2020. tute, and not far from other cultural at- Not surprisingly, it continues to be tractions like the Norman Rockwell Mu- hard to leave. “This place feels like home,” seum and the Tanglewood and Jacob’s he says. “I’m just starting to think about Pillow performance venues, the location where I go from here. I’m letting my also held the promise of looping struggling “I’m just starting to mind wander. I like commercial real es- North Adams into the richness of the Berk- tate development, I love biking, I love shires. “At the time, North Adams had the think about where I go fl ying. I’m not going to work in another highest unemployment, highest illiteracy museum, but Tom [Krens] has been rate, most teenage pregnancies, you name from here. I’m letting fl oating the idea of a new model rail- it, in the state,” Thompson points out. The my mind wander.” road-meets-architecture museum. We’ve mayor was sold and Governor Michael talked about it a lot. It’s a 100,000-square- Dukakis came around once Thompson foot, $60 million, highly speculative wrote an economic impact statement, “us- venture in North Adams. People love ing those skills I sharpened at Wharton,” is the state thinking of in supporting miniatures and movement, and inter- he says. “We didn’t lead our case with the this crazy eff ort when we can’t pay weaving that with the vast terrain of 200 art; we wanted to change the future and teachers and roads can’t be paved?’” great buildings, of Fallingwater next to feeling of North Adams.” Eventually, the So Thompson devoted himself to non- the Empire State Building next to…” his complex would far exceed his predictions, stop fundraising and lobbying eff orts. voice trails off . drawing almost 200,000 visitors a year. For 11 years. “I don’t know if I want to bite off some- When Krens was off ered the oppor- MASS MoCA fi nally opened to the pub- thing like that again,” he says. “But tunity to run New York’s Guggenheim lic in 1999. Since then, it’s turned into not doesn’t it sound fabulous beyond belief?” Museum, he suggested Thompson join just an art museum, but a performing —JoAnn Greco

Photo by Zoran Orlić courtesy Mass MoCA Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 53 The Mystery of the Tattooed Lady, 2017, ARTS Visual Art by Ken Lum. From the series Necrology. Archival inks on Hanhemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper. New Grit City The Philadelphia Museum of Art debuts new galleries with an exhibition featuring faculty and alumni.

osters sketchily chronicle stories of of fi ne arts, are fi ctional lives crafted illustrations that faced the title pages of the recently departed—their details from a mix of obituaries and personal many books during that period. On view sometimes lurid, sometimes mun- recollections. They are written in snatch- in a gallery thematically devoted to “The dane—in sentence fragments print- es of old-timey, fl orid prose reminiscent Epic and the Everyday,” the works are, ed in red and black, set in myriad of 18th- and 19th-century frontispiece Lum says, “infused with not just stories Pfonts, and laid out in staggered lines. Videos follow a dozen Philadelphians who wander in and out of the pretty rooms of a Germantown house, fl opping onto sofas and beds to read passages from activist pamphlets. Jacquard fab- rics depict a rocky coastline and dense palm foliage while an accompanying screen shows footage of ice fl oes and polar bears. These strikingly diff erent pieces, each created by an artist currently on the fac- ulty of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, are just a handful of the 100-plus works by 25 locally based artists that comprise New Grit: Art & Philly Now, the inaugural exhibition of the Daniel W. Dietrich II Galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dedicated to showcasing modern and contemporary art, the eight galleries are part of a larger Frank Gehry- designed expansion. A rare collaboration across curatorial departments that also spans generations, media, and cultural backgrounds, New Grit attempts to “take the pulse of Philadelphia art today,” says associate curator Erica Battle C’03. The Penn trio described above is as diverse as the overall body of artists presented, but Battle sees some similarities among them. “They are all very conceptual and research-based,” she observes. “They are guided fi rst by ideas, then the materials and media follow.” In their work here, all three also exam- ine the past from a social justice perspec- tive. The text-based portraits of the Ne- crology series (2017) by Ken Lum, chair

54 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photo by Ken Lum courtesy PMA Installation image of In My Little Corner of The Histories (Crepuscule), 2019-2020 by David the World, Anyone Would Love You, 2016, Hartt, from the cycle The Histories (…). Jacquard by Sharon Hayes. 5-Channel HD video, color, woven tapestry; single-channel 4k video. sound, installation.

come and go, alone and in varied pairs, reading aloud and typing excerpts of tracts and correspondence from feminist, les- bian, and trans newsletters produced in the US and UK from 1955 to 1977. “I most vehemently object to this harsh criticism and fi nd it extremely diffi cult to believe that my dress could have wounded any- body,” one performer pronounces. “On the contrary, I have been wounded by cer- tain members of the group…” Hayes modeled her installation after domestic spaces. “We think of protest happening on the public street or square, but these communities found danger in that kind of setting,” she explains. “The of ordinariness but with politics and the stresses that people have to bear in their lives due to class, race, and gender.” Lum conceived of Necrology in 2015, when the Philadelphia Inquirer reprint- ed its original announcement of Abra- ham Lincoln’s death 150 years earlier. “It had all these subheads, starting with Born in a log cabin and ending with A nation mourns,” he says. “I thought, ‘Wow, the entire life of Lincoln is like a haiku.’ The text was so pictorial, and I’m always interested in the intersection of image and text.” The disjointed details presented in Lum’s pieces—keypunch operator Char- lotte Wilson Turner was the seventh of 10 children; Lucy Santos once supported her parents and siblings in Manila by “retriev- going and persistent interest in the near members of this collective are meant to ing value from garbage”—give viewers past,” she says. “It’s a past that isn’t re- be fl oating in time, as well as in place. tantalizing hints about, but not a complete solved and continues to insert itself into They are ghosts in this house, occupying picture of, the subject. “You get the consti- present political discourse.” Situated at the specter of a reader, the specter of a tution of a person that you don’t actually the end of a gallery called “Memory and writer, the specter of an editor.” see,” says Lum. “It’s like reading a novel, Belonging,” her piece—whose title clev- In his enigmatic work, The Histories where there’s a constant oscillation be- erly references a 1960 tune by Anita Bry- (Crepuscule) (2020), David Hartt, the Car- tween the words and your imaginings.” ant, the pop singer turned orange juice rafi ell Assistant Professor in Fine Arts, Fine arts professor Sharon Hayes’ In My spokesperson turned outspoken anti-gay also mixes video with other media. Music, Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would crusader—greets visitors with a plywood textiles, and photography come together Love You (2016) also uses documentary wall pasted with reproductions of letters in his piece. Conceptually inspired by the material, taking inspiration from the Hall to the editor and bulletins announcing writings of Herodotus, and particularly Carpenter Archives, a collection dedi- upcoming demonstrations. the Greek historian’s interest in the cated to the recent history of gay activism Around the corner from these panels, a movement of people and goods, the work in Britain. There Hayes found a “fertile 37-minute video introduces viewers to a is one of fi ve specially commissioned for environment that circled back to my on- cast of local LGBQT personalities who this exhibition. A tapestry of two photo-

Photos by Andy Keate and David Hartt courtesy PMA Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 55 Window with Chain, 2019, by Micah Danges. Photograph printed on mesh, steel hardware. ‘TIL BRONZE FLOWS THROUGH THE STREETS, Briefl y Noted 2020, by Wilmer Wilson IV. UV print on vinyl. DIGGING by Lu Anne tion or even responsibility for it [as the Tracey Stewart C’77 United States]. As a Canadian,” he adds, (Fat Dog Books, 2020, “I’m trying to understand the dimen- $16.95.) In this fast-paced sions of these entangled moments in novel, a young journalist in history.” A moody soundtrack emitting a small New England town is covering a mysterious from a vintage Panasonic shortwave ra- string of textile mill fi res dio adds more layers to these already when she begins to sus- turbulent histories. Performed by the pect there is more smoldering beneath the sur- electronic musician Pole, it’s a contem- face—and that discovery puts her life at risk. porary riff on Crépuscule, composed by ANOTHER DAY’S BEGUN: Oswald Russell, a Jamaican pianist who Thornton Wilder’s Our enjoyed international fame during the Town in the 21st Century latter half of the 20th-century. by Howard Sherman C’84 Hartt’s work occupies one end of a gal- (Methuen Drama/ lery called “(Un)Natural Histories,” which Bloomsbury Publishing, also includes several pieces by Micah 2021, $26.95.) Through Danges, manager of the Silverstein Digi- extensive interviews with more than 100 artists about how the play Our tal Projects Lab at Weitzman. Of particu- Town impacted them professionally and person- lar note are two “windows” suspended ally—and including background on the play’s from the ceiling of the gallery that feature early years and its pervasiveness in American photographic images of lush hanging culture—this book underscores how this plants printed on mesh. Acting as book- American classic has the power to inspire, heal, ends for a gallery titled “Crossing Bound- and endure. aries,” alumnus Wilmer Wilson IV GFA’15 THE (UN)POPULAR VOTE off ers two vinyl banners that he had ini- by Jasper Sanchez C’14 tially shown in his native Richmond, (Katherine Tegen Books, Virginia, last summer when the city’s 2021, $18.99.) This young Civil War monuments were being ques- adult novel chronicles a transmasculine student’s tioned. (One piece addresses melting run for student body presi- down the statues with a simple statement dent against the wishes of that reads Til Bronze Flows Through the his politician father. With Street in white letters printed on a brown an investigative journalist digging into his past, background.) “There was a question at a father trying to silence him, and a bully front- fi rst of how do we display objects that runner who stands in his way, Mark has to de- have a little grime, some wear and tear,” cide which matters most: perception or truth, says Battle. “But their weather-beaten when both are just as dangerous. graphs that Hartt made in Jamaica and look and lack of preciousness is materi- HEADED INTO THE video footage he shot of shifting ice fl oes ally very important.” ABYSS: The Story of Our off the coast of Newfoundland recreate Battle says that the exhibition, con- Time and the Future works that 19th-century American land- ceived three or four years ago, “was al- We’ll Face by Brian T. Watson C’74 GAr’68 scape painter Frederic Church made de- ways about looking at Philadelphia as a (Anvilside Press, 2019, picting the same scenes. catalyst for creativity. But,” she adds, “it $13.00.) Written before The juxtaposition of the arctic and the became a really generative process for the COVID-19 pandemic tropic is meant to suggest historical and the artists in the wake of what we all and the police killing of economic linkages that are not explic- experienced last year. It was really excit- George Floyd, Watson’s book describes the itly referenced in the art. “What the ing to do something with these artists current state of 10 forces—capitalism, tech- work really deals with is histories of co- who—like everyone in the world—went nology, the internet, politics, media, educa- lonialism and the transatlantic slave through some kind of transformation, tion, human nature, the environment, popula- trade,” Hartt says. “Canada absolutely and to produce a show that doesn’t just tion, and transportation—and how they are driving society in predominantly negative ways. participated in the slave trade, but it react to but embraces those changes.” doesn’t have the same sense of connec- —JoAnn Greco Visit thepenngazette.com for more Briefl y Noted.

56 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Photos by Micah Danges and Wilmer Wilson IV courtesy PMA ALUMNI P.59 P.60 P.62 P. 70 Hockey for Life Making a Monster Alumni Notes Obituaries

The Lox Slicer How “an old Jewish guy with good knife skills” found his smoked fish calling.

Photograph by Tommy Leonardi C’89 Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 57 ALUMNI Eugene “Gene” Mopsik W’70

onestly, I don’t long interest and experiences right?’ And Gene would re- been itching to do something know how I’d man- prepping that food. At the ply, ‘Oh, about two weeks.’” more, something fun that age here without end of our conversation I Mopsik spent most of his could get me out of the house.” my loxsmith.” suggested that if she could adulthood in photography. He Mopsik has always found So marvels Lauren use an ‘an old Jewish guy got hooked as a sophomore at creative refuge in the kitchen. Biederman,“H the 25-year-old with good knife skills’ to Penn, where he worked as a He’d don his proverbial chef’s proprietor of the eponymously carve the lox, do some cook- photographer for The Record, toque “even when my wife named shop she opened early ing, and add some ‘ethnic au- the University’s undergradu- and kids were down the shore this year in South Philadel- thenticity’ to the place, she ate yearbook. “Once the sea- in Stone Harbor,” where the phia’s Italian Market, refer- should ring me up.” soned staff ers decided you Mopsik clan keep a place year- ring to her ace employee Two weeks later, after were good enough, they’d give round and he used to have Eugene “Gene” Mopsik W’70. someone else didn’t work you all the hands-on help and lots of time for sailing. But not For the 72-year-old Mopsik, out, Biederman did just that. materials you could possibly this year. Instead of spending who never expected to be “Best move I ever could have need—a key to the well- fi ve days by the water and two spending his “retirement” made,” she says. equipped darkrooms, unlimit- in Philly, his typical summer slicing lox, the feeling is mutual. Mopsik has broadened Bie- ed access to fi lm, developing week schedule “will likely be “Lauren deserves a tremen- derman’s off erings with his and printing supplies,” he re- reversed,” he says. “No prob- dous amount of credit for suc- own recipes for soups, spreads, members. “For a kid with not lem. I’m loving this.” cessfully launching a business salads, pickles, puddings, much money, it was like I’d He also has some prior his- in the pandemic,” he says, and more. His mushroom won the lottery.” (As a senior tory in commercial-scale Jew- “and, not incidentally, for barley soup is a consistent in 1970, he photographed out- ish cooking. During summer giving me a good reason to crowd pleaser. So is a salmon going Penn President Gaylord breaks from Wharton, he get up in the morning.” quiche—which Mopsik claims P. Harnwell Hon’53 for the Ga- earned tuition money by toil- Modeled after the classic “came to me in a dream.” zette’s cover, and he went on to ing in the kosher kitchen of a New York “appetizing store” A ridiculously early riser, shoot “a bunch more fun as- Jewish sleepaway camp. That’s that serves up Jewish comfort Mopsik “regularly shows up at signments” for this magazine where he fi rst mastered the dishes to go, Biederman’s the shop two hours before I after graduating.) fi ne art of brining pickles (got- Specialty Foods often at- do, to start prepping things,” He launched his career in ta have a salt-measuring hy- tracts a long line of happy says Biederman. “His work the seemingly glam world of drometer, he says), making noshers drawn by delicacies ethic is amazing, and he’s been rock concert and fashion and matzo balls (fi rst refrigerate like pastrami lox, blinis with so helpful in getting my vision celebrity photo shoots, before the dough, then form), and crème fraiche and salmon going. Gene has even arm- gravitating to the more stable slicing serious poundage of roe, and Mediterranean-style twisted friends to make stuff I realms of industrial/commer- smoked fi sh without getting beet salad. And Mopsik has need—like custom-fi t cutting cial photography, working carpal tunnel syndrome. been a signifi cant factor in boards—and then gives them with advertising agencies and What about the wear and its early success, says the food in return, creating a bar- corporate clients. tear on his 72-year-old body young proprietor. ter system. Even on his days He eventually became the from eight hours in the shop, “Gene is so much more than off he’s there to fuss with his executive director of the fi ve days a week? “Taking on a food-prepping employee,” lilies on the windowsill and American Society of Media this gig has actually been she says. “He’s more like an the fl owerpots outside.” Bie- Photographers, a trade group good for my health,” Mopsik advisor, an associate, a brain- derman also consistently mar- representing the interests of says. “I’m working my arm stormer. Really, he’s my Mensch vels at Mopsik’s “great people almost 7,000 of his camera- muscles, my legs are stronger Cuisine and guardian angel.” skills” with customers. toting peers. because I’m on my feet, and The two found each other “When we fi rst opened, After retiring, Mopsik busied my weight is down since I’m by a happy accident. Mopsik people were coming in and himself serving on the boards not snacking all the time. happened to pass by the seeing how he artfully slices of nonprofi ts like Philadel- And I’m having great fun on store a couple weeks before and arranges the lox and phia’s Fabric Workshop and the job. I love making and it opened, and “got to talking makes the matzoh ball soup,” Museum and the American So- talking about the food, tell- with Lauren about the joys of she says. “They’d say ‘How ciety of Collective Rights Li- ing jokes, [and] teaching Jewish appetizing shops in long have you been doing censing (which he helped cre- Lauren Yiddish expressions.” New York, and my own life- this deli thing—all your life, ate). “But lately,” he says, “I’d —Jonathan Takiff C ‘68

58 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 Paul Stewart C’76 A notorious fighter during his brief NHL career with the Quebec Nordiques, Paul Stewart turned to refereeing once he retired from hockey.

year, Stewart trucked it up to Enforcer on the Ice Binghamton the day of his last fall-semester exam in 1975. A hockey Hall of Famer reflects on his time starting (He finished his graduation requirements the following fights as a player and breaking them up as a ref. summer.) The Broome County Dusters of the North American ne day during his se- Hockey League needed muscle, nior year at Penn, while and Stewart was willing to driving the Zamboni oblige. In 46 games in 1975– and sharpening skates 76, he accounted for three at the Class of 1923 Ice goals, four assists … and a re- Rink,O Paul Stewart C’76 struck cord 273 penalty minutes. up a conversation with some That’s an average of one ma- players on the Philadelphia jor fighting penalty per game. Flyers, the two-time defending On his first shift, he got a Stanley Cup champions who souvenir of 23 stitches. Sewn practiced at the arena. up, Stewart finished the game. Stewart was struggling to “It was the movie Slap Shot get on the ice as a senior, every day,” Stewart says, ref- playing just three games and erencing the 1977 cult classic feeling like an afterthought about minor league hockey in the coaching staff’s plans. hijinks. Stewart—who was When he shared his plight actually an extra in the movie, with Bob Kelly, the notorious “I used my ability to fight just like earning $500 and a script member of the “Broad Street signed by star Paul Newman— Bullies” advised Stewart that a plumber uses a wrench.” carved out a niche as an en- what mattered most for his forcer that would make any future wasn’t his coach’s inducted into the US Hockey Russian history class with Slap Shot character proud. It opinion, but Stewart’s belief Hall of Fame in 2018, and is Alexander Riasanovsky— got him to training camp in himself. now spinning his hockey ca- upon which he’d later draw with the New York Rangers “I took his advice,” Stewart reer into a business that has as the director of officiating in 1976 before he returned to says. “I picked the worst taken him around the world. in Russia’s Kontinental Binghamton, where he team in the worst league. … A born raconteur, Stewart Hockey League—as well as racked up 540 penalty min- They needed bodies—and pivoted from hockey to story- his time working the door at utes in 116 games over two they needed muscle.” telling with a weekly blog, a Smokey Joe’s (where his pic- seasons. The following year, Stewart’s professional 2018 memoir titled Ya Wanna ture still hangs on the wall). he rose to the World Hockey hockey journey started short- Go?, and a children’s book, A “I was grateful that [Penn] Association, first with the ly after that conversation Magical Christmas for Paul took me in and they gave me Edmonton Oilers, then two with a $14 bus ticket to Stewart (the proceeds of something I wanted,” says seasons with the Cincinnati Binghamton, New York, in which go to the Ed Snider Stewart, who turned down Stingers. He often returned December 1975, to play for an Youth Hockey Foundation interest from Boston College to Philadelphia in the summers obscure minor league out- and Ice Hockey in Harlem). (for hockey) and Lafayette to train, learning aikido and fit—setting him on a path to Despite his shifts drying up (for football). “I wanted an boxing with Joe Frazier and become the only Penn alum as an upperclassman on the Ivy League education, be- Marvin Hagler. to play in the National Quakers’ varsity hockey team cause I grew up in Boston Stewart got the call to the Hockey League. But that was (which was dropped in 1978, and I had to listen to all the NHL in 1979, debuting at the not the end. He went on to shortly after his graduation), crap they hoisted on me from Boston Garden with the old become the first American to his memories of Penn don’t all those Harvard guys.” Quebec Nordiques against the referee more than 1,000 NHL focus on what he missed. Desperate to play hockey Boston Bruins, racking up 27 regular-season games, was Instead, he fondly recalls a somewhere during his senior penalty minutes and getting

Photograph courtesy Paul Stewart Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 59 ALUMNI Nikki Silver C’89

into three fights in his home- whistle. “Sports wasn’t just town. He lasted 21 games in an afterschool event for the Silver Screen the NHL, scoring two goals Stewarts,” he says. “It was the during that 1979–80 season. way we made our living.” On the rocky—but rewarding—road of Though his playing career con- Stewart started out reffing tinued through 1983, he never eight-year-olds for five dollars bringing an indie fi lm to the masses. got back to the big league. a game. He attended the NHL’s “I used my ability to fight just refereeing school, rocketing like a plumber uses a wrench,” up the ranks on the strength ikki Silver C’89 can Monster, which premiered on he says. “It was a tool. It bought of his skating ability and pinpoint the exact mo- Netfl ix this May. Part of an me the ice time I needed.” hockey mentality. He made his ment she discovered ongoing creative partnership Retirement posed a chal- NHL debut in 1986 (again in what she wanted to do with Tonya Lewis Lee, an en- lenge. As punishing as life in Boston, where he was pressed with the rest of her life. trepreneur and fi lmmaker the minors could be, it provid- into service when another ref SheN had spent her fi rst year (and the wife of director ed structure. While Stewart got injured) and ended up log- or so after graduating from Spike Lee), the fi lm is an ad- disavowed the “goon” label, ging more than 1,000 games Penn working in New York’s aptation of a 1999 novel by YA he understood his role with- before retiring in 2003, helm- vibrant commercial and in- author Walter Dean Myers. It in the on-ice code: if you ing two Canada Cup finals, 49 dependent fi lm industry, tells the story of a studious messed with one of Stewart’s Stanley Cup playoff games, fi rst at a low-level job for and creative Black high teammates, you’d have to and two All-Star Games. PBS and then freelancing as schooler who gets mixed up deal with him. It might seem incongruous a production assistant, em- with a bad crowd and fi nds But with his hockey career that someone who made a barking on predawn coff ee himself in jail and on trial. over, his marriage in trouble, career flouting the rules runs for the crew. She was Silver’s love of history and and a steady paycheck gone, would then administer questioning whether she’d the documentary form was Stewart was at another cross- them. But the tasks are simi- ever go further, when a fostered at Penn, she says, roads. “I went through a lar. As an enforcer, Stewart friend who taught at a public pointing especially to an in- slump after playing,” he says. sought to keep opponents middle school suggested she tellectual history course with “I could’ve gone to drugs and from going after his team- come visit her class and help Alan Charles Kors, now drinking and gone stupid. mates. Officiating, while out on a project that in- Henry Charles Lea Professor Instead, I started coaching more dispassionate, still volved updating A Christmas Emeritus. Penn is also where high school hockey and be- held the goal of safety and Carol into a short fi lm. “I she met her husband, Brad came a police officer. I was letting the game shine. helped them fi gure out how Silver W’89, and where their trying to find a niche.” All told, Stewart lasted 28 to become writers, directors, three sons have followed in While searching, he dipped years on the ice as a player actors, gave them cameras, their footsteps—Harrison into his family’s past. His and a ref—through a 1998 and turned them loose,” EAS’20, Jack C’21, and Justin, grandfather, Bill Stewart, had bout with colon and liver Silver says. “They came up who’ll begin at Wharton this been a Major League Baseball cancer (he later survived a with the idea of Scrooge as a fall. And it’s where she made umpire for 21 years, calling brain tumor and melanoma) Harlem landlord.” lifelong friends, including a four World Series. (A fellow and a constant battering of The experience was “life- group of women with whom US Hockey Hall of Famer, he his body. He now stands (with changing,” she says now. “I she hosts an annual Oscars was the first American-born an artificial hip) as the only saw that media could impact watch party. “It’s a lovely tra- coach to win the Stanley Cup, American that both played young minds. I remember dition that started senior with Chicago, in 1938.) His and refereed in the NHL. watching their energy and year,” she says. father, Bill Jr., refereed col- “I loved being on the ice,” excitement, and feeling a Shortly after Penn—and lege football, baseball, and he says. “When I first put on sense of purpose that I had her formative experience hockey, working games at that pair of skates and I went skills that could help get kids with the teen fi lmmakers— Franklin Field and at 19 edi- around the rink, falling down thinking.” That realization Silver landed a job at Lancit tions of the Beanpot college and getting up, falling down has led to a long Emmy Media, the team behind the hockey tournament in Boston. and getting up, I knew that award-winning career pro- long-running children’s show When Paul sought a life was what I wanted to do.” ducing entertainment for Reading Rainbow. She even- preserver, he reached for a —Matthew De George young audiences, including tually left to start a company

60 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul| Aug 2021 with Lancit’s head of produc- and Christopher Nolan’s tion, Orly Wiseman. In addi- Tenet) as a neighborhood tion to their continued steer- thug involved in a holdup. age of Reading Rainbow If making the fi lm was half (during which the show con- the battle, selling it was the tinued to pick up Daytime other half. “There’s been a lot Emmy Awards for of speculation about this fi lm,” Outstanding Children’s laughs Silver. “How did a fi lm Series), they also began op- that received the only stand- tioning young adult books, ing ovation at Sundance, with including Miracle’s Boys by the cast that it had, take so Jacqueline Woodson. long to sell?” She and Lewis Silver recalls a Viacom ex- Lee have varied theories, but ecutive asking if they’d be mainly, “I think it was because open to turning the book into 2018 was a strange year,” Silver a TV series about Irish says. “For one thing, the indus- Americans. “I’d be happy to try was coming out of the develop something about Harvey Weinstein scandal. Irish Americans,” she recalls There was also confusion in responding. “But the mother’s the marketplace because name in the book is Milagro, Kelvin, the star, was in another which means miracle in new release with a similar ti- Spanish, and it was written tle, Monsters and Men. by an African American, so “We’re constantly looking for new But even while the fi lm no, that’s not this story.” hung in limbo, Silver and At that point, she was in- perspectives on stories that we Lewis Lee never stopped troduced to Lewis Lee. “We may all think we’ve heard before.” producing and pitching. A had an instant connection, a handful of other projects are real desire to make change,” now in various stages of de- Silver says. In 2014 the two velopment, including Muzz, formed ToniK Productions (a though, with having diffi cult Silver says. “It seemed as if it a television series centering combination of their given conversations about issues might be easy to adapt be- on the relationship between names), which specializes in like race or religion, even if cause much of the book is a Moroccan Jewish girl and projects with social justice we don’t always agree.” written as a screenplay—but a Moroccan Muslim guy and themes, such as The Watsons It’s no wonder that Monster in fact it made everything Trell, an adaptation of Dick Go to Birmingham, adapted appealed to both of them. “It harder because it’s all inter- Lehr’s thriller about a teen- from Christopher Paul tells a universal tale of how nal.” The fi nal product repre- ager who sets out to prove Curtis’s 1963 award-winning one decision can change your sents the feature debut for her father innocent of a novel about an African life, but if you’re a young Anthony Mandler, best murder committed when American family’s road trip Black male, the consequences known for directing music she was a baby. during the Civil Rights era. are 100-fold,” Silver says. She videos for Beyoncé and “We’re constantly looking for “We complement each oth- optioned it more than 10 Rihanna. John Legend C’99 new perspectives on stories er,” Lewis Lee says. “Nikki is a years ago, eventually bring- Hon’14 is an executive pro- that we may all think we’ve great producer; she came up ing it to Lewis Lee once they ducer, and the fi lm’s cast in- heard before,” Silver says. “I through the ranks and under- began working together on cludes Kelvin Harrison Jr. as know what my purpose is now. stands how fi lms get made. Miracle’s Boys. It became a the lead character, Steve; From that moment in that She’s also got a great eye for ToniK production, but things Oscar-winner Jennifer incredibly diverse New York talent and great taste in con- did not go smoothly. Hudson as Steve’s mother; City classroom, I learned that tent, while I’m a writer myself “Three diff erent scripts, a and John David Washington if we work together, we can and also a lawyer by trade. couple directors, a couple dif- (Denzel’s son, who’s starred in make a diff erence.” We’re both comfortable, ferent actors, a title change,” Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman —JoAnn Greco

Illustration by Anna Heigh Jul| Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 61 ALUMNI Notes We Want to Hear from You “I have just published EMAIL [email protected] Please include your school and year, along with your address and a daytime telephone my first book of poetry number. We include email addresses only when requested or obviously implied. Please note, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gazette offices are closed until further notice at age 80 and wanted and we cannot retrieve daily postal mail. Email is preferred. ALUMNI NOTE DEADLINES 7/15 for the to share my good news!” Sep|Oct issue; 9/15 for Nov|Dec; 11/15 for Jan|Feb; 1/15 for Mar|Apr; 3/15 for —Sylvia Byrne Pollack Gr’67 May|Jun; and 5/15 for Jul|Aug.

day. / As a member of the elderly / I seek my Profession when it named its award given to 1951 second vaccine shot / Living a day at a time persons and organizations for their promo- Robert B. McKersie EE’51, professor / Wondering what / The future holds. / I am tion of women in the profession the H. Robert emeritus of management at the MIT Sloan aware of / The knowns— / the unknowns / Fiebach Award. I served as president of the School of Management, writes, “I have sum- The fate of democracy, / climate, China, / Bar Association in 1993–94 and established marized my career in two memoirs: A Deci- Anti-Semitism, power / of one. / How can I the Commission on Women in the Profession sive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago act normal / When nothing is / The normal in 1993. I am proud that it continues to pro- Civil Rights Movement During the 1960s now / Being alone has led / to being creative mote the professional interest and addresses (2013) and A Field in Flux: Sixty Years of In- / In cooking, painting, / Writing journals. / the professional concerns of women in the dustrial Relations (2019).” The distribution / of vaccines / leads to hope legal profession to this day. As president, I / that these strange times / will begin to fade. helped to turn the all-white, all-male leader- / We will begin to socialize; / fi nd new ac- ship of that organization into a much more 1953 tivities, / Like we used to / Like we used to / diverse organization. I continue to mentor Shirley Magitson Grallnick Ed’53, who Like we used to. young women lawyers today.” shared a poem in the Jul|Aug 2020 issue’s Alumni Notes, at the start of the COVID-19 Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! pandemic, has written this follow-up, titled 1958 “Strange Times”: I open my eyes / to another Richard Saul Wurman Ar’58 GAr’59 1962 day / or—is it the same day? / It’s hard to tell. [“Arts,” Mar|Apr 2018] has coauthored a book Steve Stovall W’62 ASC’63 writes, “We / Adjust the blinds to let in light, / collect with Nigel Holmes, titled Mortality, contain- moved from our ranch in Hesperus, Colorado, morning papers, / brew coff ee, sip juice, / ing statistics about death, life, longevity, to temporary lodging in Denver, and now we’re listen to the news. / My sparkling eyes / now causes of death, and other related issues, all in a house in Thornton about 20 miles north tinged with sadness. / Spurts of virus / warn presented graphically. of Denver. So much stuff in the house, there’s us to follow guidelines / Trying to adapt to / no room for us. Hopefully I can soon fi nd a This new normal / Forms my platform for the race to run, and I hope there’s an 80-plus age 1961 category for fi nishers. Those 70-plus age group Ya’akov (Jerrold) Aronson Ed’61, a re- runners are too fast for me. I trained all Events tired university librarian at Bar-Ilan Univer- through the pandemic. We had record snowfall sity in Ramat Gan, Israel, writes, “I’m direct- our fi rst winter in Denver. Not having to plow In light of ongoing global health concerns, ing the computerization of a small synagogue made me glad to be off the ranch.” visit www.alumni.upenn.edu/clubs to find library in Rehovot, Israel. In addition, my the latest information on Regional Club wife and I have recently welcomed our 24th events in your area. And be sure to check great-grandchild.” out www.alumni.upenn.edu/govirtual for 1964 H. Robert Fiebach W’61 L’64 writes, “I Charles Horner C’64 and Constance an abundance of virtual events and digital was greatly honored by the Pennsylvania Bar McNeely Horner CW’64 have made a do- resources available for alumni. Association’s Commission on Women in the nation of more than 1,000 predominately

62 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 Alumni Weekend Online Again English language books on Chinese history, poetry magazines online and in print. At the culture, and literature to the National Sun beginning of 2020, I began sending out my Last year we referred to Alumni Yat-sen University’s department of Chinese full-length poetry manuscript, Risking It. It Weekend 2020 as the “first (and, let’s literature in Taiwan. Charles is a sinologist was accepted by Red Mountain Press and hope, one of a kind)” virtual version. It and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, as published April 1. The book can be ordered didn’t quite work out that way, even as the well as a former offi cial at the US State De- through any bookstore or online at Amazon. waning of the pandemic in the US in the partment. In the 1980s and early ‘90s, Charles My website is sylviabyrnepollack.com.” spring promised a return to something like served as deputy assistant secretary of state normal over the summer. But the classes and as associate director of the US Informa- that were celebrating significant reunions in tion Agency, helping craft US policy towards 1968 2020 and 2021, along with other groups, China. The event included a lecture, given by Lionel M. Schooler C’68 has been ap- put together a varied slate of panels and Charles, and an online Q&A session with the pointed to the board of trustees of the North presentations to mark the occasion. participants. During the event, Charles said, America Branch of the Chartered Institute Several sessions drew comparisons and “It is a great honor for me to be associated of Arbitrators, a credentialing organization contrasts between the current pivotal with NSYSU—a place of growing importance for international arbitrators based in Lon- moment in history sparked by the pandemic in many diff erent fi elds, both in science and don. Lionel, who is a fellow of the Chartered and movements for racial and social justice humanities research. Connie and I hope to Institute, also serves as the chair of the Texas and the turbulence of the 1960s era. In contribute to the development of the studies chapter of the North American branch. He one, members of the Classes of 1970 and of China at NSYSU, as it is a great platform has served as an arbitrator since 1992, han- 2020 shared memories of their respective for studies in global sinology.” dling both domestic and international dis- unique Commencements, which in 1970 putes, and is a frequent author and speaker featured an anti-war protest and mass walk- on developments in arbitration. He also out and in 2020, well, you know. (That one 1966 serves on the advisory committee to the Penn did turn out to be one of a kind, as the Class of 2021—if not their friends and fam- Stephen Klitzman C’66 see Zachary Class of 1968. ilies—were able to return to Franklin Field Klitzman C’10. for a limited in-person ceremony Cengiz Yetken GAr’66 has published an [“Gazetteer,” this issue].) Others focused on English version of his book Unlearning Ar- 1970 “The Healing Power of Nearby Nature,” chitecture: Louis I. Kahn’s Graduate Studio Dr. Peter J. Barbour C’70 wrote and il- “Health Care After the Pandemic,” advanc- and Offi ce. Cengiz writes, “The book traces lustrated his third children’s book, Tanya ing the national dialogue on first-generation Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71’s approach to and the Baby Elephant. More information college students, Penn’s “Year of Civic architectural design through his poetic lan- can be found at PeteBarbour.com. Engagement” in 2020–2021, and tours of guage and examines these ideas as means to Ted R. Miller GCP’70 G’71 Gr’75 writes, the University’s architectural treasures past create art and architecture.” “I recently passed several of my academic and present. And more. bucket-list goals. I have more than 111,111 Many of the sessions, as well as a crowd- Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! citations with more than 306 documents sourced photo album of Alumni Weekends cited at least 10 times, including 204 cited past, can be accessed at www.alumni.upenn. 1967 at least 30 times, 102 cited at least 102 times, edu from “anywhere and everywhere.” —JP Sylvia Byrne Pollack Gr’67 writes, “I have and 25 cited at least 1,000 times. According just published my fi rst book of poetry at age to webometrics, I have one of the 4,444 high- 80 and wanted to share my good news! Here’s est citation rankings among the millions University. The New York Times Book Review what I’ve done since getting my PhD in 1967 with public profi les on Google Scholar (www. featured her 2019 poetry book, An Infusion from Penn’s department of developmental webometrics.info/en/hlargerthan100). With- of Violets (Seagull Books), as ‘New and No- biology. After a year at the Medical College of in the past few years, I have received the table.’ In 2018, she was decorated as Cheva- Pennsylvania (then called Woman’s Medical highest awards from two groups: a Vision lier of the Order of the Academic Palms by College), I moved to the University of Wash- Award from the Association for the Advance- the French government.” ington in Seattle, where I worked in cancer ment of Automotive Medicine and a Distin- Stuart Widman W’70 writes, “I’ve had research until retiring as research professor guished Career Award from the Injury Con- some great trips in recent years. In 2018, my emerita. I had always dabbled in poetry but trol and Emergency Health Services Section wife and I walked across the middle of Eng- in retirement have been able to pursue it of the American Public Health Association. land—about 105 miles over 12 days. In 2019, wholeheartedly, taking classes, meeting with My wife, Nancy Naomi Carlson, is a full-time my eldest son and I kayaked along the Lofoten other poets for critique, and publishing in professor of graduate counseling at Walden Islands in the Norwegian Sea, north of the

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Arctic circle—about 67 miles over fi ve days. attorney disciplinary system in New Jersey, and administration of CUNY’s Queens Col- In early 2020, I completed a round trip Mi- subject to fi nal review by the Supreme lege. Earlier in my career, I held a similar ami-to-San Francisco walk—about 6,200 Court. Peter previously served as a member, post at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community miles. On the work front, I published my 26th vice chair, and chair of the District IV Ethics College. I also served the New York City gov- article, this one on arbitration. That’s in ad- Committee. ernment as chief operations offi cer of the dition to my fi ve previously published chap- Evan Kwerel C’72, senior economic advi- Health and Hospital Corporation’s Metro- ters and case notes. All have been on arbitra- sor at the Federal Communications Commis- politan Hospital Center, and as deputy com- tion, mediation, litigation, or ethics. I am still sion, is one of 29 fi nalists for the Paul A. missioner for New York City’s Department of loving my work as a full-time arbitrator and Volcker Career Achievement Medal in the Information Technology and Telecommuni- mediator of a wide array of commercial dis- 2021 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America cations, among other positions. My career putes (e.g., business, healthcare, employment, Medals (the Sammies), presented by the Part- also included work for Gartner Incorporated, construction, etc.). I have four grandchildren, nership for Public Service. Additionally, he Lehman Brothers’ municipal fi nance depart- all living nearby in Chicago, which lets me is up for the People’s Choice Award where the ment, and Deloitte. In retirement, I’m serving access my inner child. Oh, about that Miami– public can vote on their favorite Sammies on a part-time basis as special advisor to the San Fran round-tripper: it was over nine fi nalists. He will be honored at the 2021 Sam- president of Queens College, working on sev- years, walking three miles to and from work mies Award show this fall. According to the eral projects, including the development of each day. The rest is true as is.” press release, “The Sammies recognize the a partnership with Penn’s Netter Center for unsung heroes in our federal government Community Partnerships. The goal is to off er who have made phenomenal contributions academically-based community service 1971 to the health, safety and prosperity of our courses as part of the Queens College cur- Dr. Sylvia Rabson Karasu CW’71, a country. ... Evan pioneered the use of com- riculum. I was also recently reelected to the clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cor- petitive spectrum auctions to allocate the board of trustees of the Port Washington nell Medicine, has been awarded the Indiana public airwaves for sound, data and video Public Library. Additionally, I’m beginning University 2021 Bicentennial Medal, given transmissions, helping fuel the digital revolu- work with Larry Finkelstein W’73 L’76, for her work in assisting the dean of Indiana tion while adding more than $200 billion to Wendella Fox CW’73 L’76, Mark Maas University’s School of Public Health. the government’s coff ers.” C’73, Steve Batory C’73, Robert Drum- Alima Dolores J. Reardon GEd’71 Dr. Mark R. Munetz C’72 M’76 was heller C’73, Anita Sama CW’73, Chris- shares that she has two new grandnephews named the fi rst recipient of the Judge Ste- tine Bebel Garst CW’73, and Mark Dib- and one new grandniece. She writes, “My phen S. Goss Memorial Lifetime Achieve- ner C’73 to begin planning our 50th Reunion older brother John Berchmans Reardon Jr. ment Award from the Judges and Psychia- in May 2023. Volunteers are needed for the has four daughters from his marriage to Rita trists Leadership Initiative (JPLI) on May 12. organizing committee. We need help from Connors Reardon. The eldest daughter as- The JPLI is a collaboration between the anyone who has 50th Reunion ideas and or- sisted at the marriages of her three younger American Psychiatric Association Founda- ganizational energy. Please contact us at re- sisters in 2018. In 2020, Johnny became a tion and the Council of State Governments [email protected].” grandfather three times when his two grand- Justice Center. Mark was recognized as the Dr. Marlene Rabinowitz Wolf C’73 pub- sons and one granddaughter were born. codeveloper of the Sequential Intercept lished a poetry and travel guidebook, titled Nancy Reardon GEd’71, my sister-in-law Model, which he describes as “a conceptual Serenity View: Poems & Images from the Blue and classmate in the late Professor Richard framework to help communities address the Ridge Mountains. From the book’s descrip- A. Gibboney’s urban education course, are overrepresentation of people with serious tion: “The poetry, prose, and images in Seren- great aunts to the babies.” mental illness in the criminal justice system. ity View depict the beauty of the Blue Ridge He is professor and chair emeritus in the Mountains, part of the Smoky Mountain Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! department of psychiatry at Northeast Ohio range located in northern Georgia. The won- Medical University. He lives in Shaker ders of nature, the mountains, the small 1972 Heights, Ohio, with Dr. Lois S. Freedman towns, and the lush countryside are artisti- Peter J. Boyer C’72, a partner at the CW’72 M’76. cally described in this collection of poems. law fi rm Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP, has With a click of the camera, the scenery was been reappointed to serve a new three-year captured and put to verse. Travel the path to term as a member of the Disciplinary Re- 1973 inner peace and serenity as you venture view Board of the New Jersey Supreme Bill Keller C’73 of Port Washington, New through the mountains of Georgia.” For more Court. The Disciplinary Review Board serves York, writes, “I retired at the end of 2020, information or to purchase the book, visit as the intermediate appellate level of the after eight years as vice president for fi nance www.drmarlenemd.com.

64 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 1974 Michael P. Malloy L’76 writes, “I’ve been 1979 Bill Carito C’74 see Barbara Ross C’75. publishing throughout the spring, pandem- Laura Goldman W’79 writes, “I was Linda Rabben CGS’74 published her ic notwithstanding. In March 2021, publish- humbled to be asked to serve on the honor- ninth and 10th nonfi ction books, Journey- er Wolters Kluwer issued the second of fi ve ary board of directors of Blue Card, which woman: A Writer’s Story and My Brazil: 2021 supplements for my three-volume trea- serves the neediest Holocaust survivors. I’m Reports from the Interior, on Amazon.com tise Banking Law and Regulation. In 398 doubly honored to serve with such luminar- in January and April 2021. She is an associate pages, the supplement provides new and ies as Marion Wiesel, the widow of Eli Wiesel, research professor of anthropology at the updated legislative, regulatory, and case law news anchors Bill Ritter and Rita Cosby, and University of Maryland. developments in fi nancial services regula- journalist Kati Marton, the widow of the dip- tion. My article ‘The Emerging Regime of lomat Richard Holbrooke. It was a busy elec- International Financial Services Regulation’ tion season for me. I helped produce the ABC 1975 was published in the Spring 2021 issue of the News town halls for both Donald Trump Patricia Averill Gr’75 writes, “Voices, a North Carolina Journal of International Law. W’68 and Joe Biden Hon’13. The Biden town journal published by the nonprofi t New York The article examines the impact of the Bank hall was the most watched broadcast on ABC Folklore, included my article—‘“Kumbaya” for International Settlements, in which US other than the Oscars.” and Dramatizations of an Etiological Leg- bank regulators participate directly, on bank- Bill Hemmig C’79 writes, “My fi rst solo end’—in its Summer 2020 issue. I used letters ing regulation.” book, a novella entitled Brethren Hollow, was written by the original publisher to identify Rev. Harry E. Winter Gr’76 writes, “I recently published by Read Furiously as part the individuals responsible for ‘Kumbaya’ have just authored a short book on one of of their One ‘n Done series. A year earlier, and looked at the impact of a legend spread Penn’s most accomplished but least known Read Furiously published my short story by Pete Seeger on people’s perceptions. My graduates, Virginia’s Governor John Floyd ‘Cutthroat Alley’ in its anthology, The World coauthor, John Blocher Jr., was responsible (1783–1837), his pioneer feminist wife Leti- Takes: Life in the Garden State. Another for the common melody. He was not a Penn tia Preston Floyd (1779–1852), and their story of mine, ‘Getting Out,’ was published graduate, but some alums may have known children, including Benjamin Rush Floyd in the Spring 2021 issue of the Madison Re- him. He pioneered the fi eld of chemical vapor (1811–1860). John Floyd studied under ear- view and also in the just-published Toho deposition and worked on the Manhattan ly Penn faculty member Benjamin Rush Publishing anthology, The Best Short Stories Project at Oak Ridge during World War II. (1746–1813), graduating in 1804. Letitia of Philadelphia. By day I’m the dean of learn- He was 100 years old when he died in 2019.” wrote to Dr. Rush in 1812, crediting him ing resources and online learning at Bucks Barbara Ross C’75 writes, “My ninth with saving the lives of her husband and County Community College.” Maine Clambake Mystery, Shucked Apart, herself and asking for his advice for their Dr. Joseph A. Rodriguez C’79 M’83 writes, was published in February. I also have a new son, Rush’s godson. Rush’s reply is not well “As a board-certifi ed family medicine physi- series that begins with Jane Darrowfi eld, known; it has been interesting to quote it. cian, I was the country doctor to Mountain- Professional Busybody. My husband Bill It is my contention that the Floyds and their home in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains Carito C’74 and I live in Portland, Maine, children are as important as John and Abi- from 1987 to 1991. Later, as a private practi- and are in Key West, Florida, January gail Adams and their children for the his- tioner in South Florida, I served as a physi- through March. We adore our three grand- tory of the United States. The book, Cloud cian and hospitalist to the Seminole Tribe of daughters, ages eight, two, and one.” of Witnesses: The Floyd–Lewis Chronicles, Florida for 23 years at the tribe’s Big Cypress, Rabbi Rifat Sonsino Gr’75 reports that may be obtained from Amazon.” Everglades, Reservation. My hospital work his blog, Sonsino’s Blog at rsonsino.blogspot. included the Cleveland Clinic Hospital at com, has more than 600,000 viewers around Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! Weston, Florida. I’m now assistant medical the world. director of the Broward Addiction and Re- 1977 covery Center and medical director of the Miles Cohn C’77 W’77 G’77 see Jeremy Nancy J. Cotterman Center, a rape crisis cen- 1976 Cohn W’09. ter, where I supervise the center’s forensic Jeff Hooke W’76 WG’77, a fi nance pro- Dr. David Herbert M’77 received a 2021 nurse practitioners. The latter two facilities fessor at Johns Hopkins University, writes, Most Admired CEO Award from the Sacra- are in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a descen- “I’ve published my fi fth book, after a long mento Business Journal for his work lead- dant of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Florida’s career in investment banking and private ing Sutter Independent Physicians. He Spanish founder, and as a member of ‘Los investment.” The book is titled The Myth of writes, “I also continue to practice infec- Floridanos,’ St. Augustine’s society of Florida’s Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall tious diseases, and I mountain bike almost Spanish founders, I participated in organiz- Street’s Transformative Investments. every day.” ing and promoting La Florida’s 450th anni-

Jul | Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 65 ALUMNI Notes versary celebrations in 2015. (St. Augustine, 1984 “‘Untamed’: Brave Means Living from the the oldest continuously occupied settlement Melissa A. Fitzpatrick GNu’84, a mem- Inside Out” (Ms. magazine, May 3, 2020). of European and African American origin in ber of UNC REX Healthcare’s board and Matthew O’Connell C’89 writes, “After the US, was founded 42 years prior to James- president of Kirby Bates Associates and Tyler 15 years in private practice, I joined Cutler town, Virginia.) A former Eagle Scout, I’ve & Company, volunteered her time to admin- Design as a senior project architect and de- served as assistant scoutmaster to two South ister COVID-19 vaccines at the UNC REX sign manager in 2019. Cutler Design is a Florida Boy Scout troops. My son is also an coworker vaccine clinic in March and April. division of Cutler Associates, located in Eagle Scout. My current civic project is to Melissa is the fi rst registered nurse to serve Worcester, Massachusetts, off ering fully in- assist my friends at the ancient Apalachee on the board of UNC REX, a private, not-for- tegrated design-build project delivery, in Tribe in obtaining federal recognition.” profi t healthcare system in North Carolina. addition to general contracting and con- Harlan Sands W’84, who has been serv- struction management services. My design Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! ing as president of Cleveland State Univer- for the Duxbury House at the Village Mem- sity since May 2018, had his contract extend- ory Care Residence was selected as a win- 1982 ed through June 20, 2026. ning entry in the 2020 SHN Architecture Antonia Villarruel GNu’82, a professor Paul Wellener C’84, vice chairman and and Design Awards. More than 90 new con- and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing leader of the US industrial products and con- struction and renovation projects world- at Penn Nursing, is the recipient of this year’s struction practice for Deloitte, has been wide participated in the annual awards Ohtli Award from the government of Mexico. named to the National Association of Manu- competition, sponsored by Senior Housing According to the press release, “This is the facturers’ board of directors. News. The Duxbury House project was fea- highest honor bestowed by the Mexican gov- tured in a live webinar on ‘Senior Housing ernment to individuals and organizations Architecture Trends in 2021’ and a follow-up that have stood out for their work in favor of 1985 story can be found on Senior Housing the empowerment of the Mexican diaspora John C. Hawley Gr’85 has published a News’s website, bit.ly/2OEsRND.” and helped to ‘open the path’ for the new new book, Islam in Contemporary Litera- Leigh Price WG’89, the former vice Mexican American and Latino generations.” ture: Jihad, Revolution, Subjectivity. He president of corporate development strategy writes, “This study discusses an ongoing at IBM, has been named head of strategy and Reformation in Islam, focusing on the Arab development for Kyndryl, the independent 1983 Spring, the role of women and sexuality, the managed infrastructure services business to Arthur Bruso GFA’83, an artist, writer, ‘clash of civilizations,’ assimilation and cos- spin out from IBM. As such, he oversees Kyn- and cofounder of Curious Matter, an art gal- mopolitanism, jihad, pluralism across cul- dryl’s corporate and services strategy, strate- lery in Jersey City, New Jersey, has released tures, free speech, and apostasy.” gic assessments, and partnerships. a new book, Each Age a Lens. From the book’s press materials: “In this poignant photo- Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! graphic document of the artist’s close-knit 1991 family we glimpse the beginning of a life- 1987 Lawrence M. Bogad C’91 has been award- time’s exploration as an artist.” The book can Kate (Karen Sue) Gladstone C’87 is ed a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2021–2022 be purchased on Amazon. the author of Read Cursive Fast, a book to study theater arts and performance studies. Mark Streich W’83 writes, “I have relo- about teaching students to read cursive by Lawrence is chair of the Theatre and Dance cated to Alexandria, Virginia, from Silicon means other than writing it. The book is Department at UC Davis and author of sev- Valley, but my ties to technology remain, as published by National Autism Resources. eral books and plays, focusing on the use of I’m the technical cofounder of SquareFairy. Kate welcomes alumni contact at Kate@ humor and imagination in movements for We are trying to help struggling couples move ReadCursiveFast.com. social justice and climate justice. His third forward, through either helping fi nd couples book, to be released in October, is Performing therapy, or providing a free way to prepare Truth: Works of Radical Memory for Times of divorce papers and fi nd the least costly way 1989 Social Amnesia. He writes, “It’s a collection of to divide assets (a “Fair and Square” split, thus Lisa Niver C’89 has won second place in my performance scripts with commentary the name). This came about as we repurposed the National Arts and Entertainment Jour- from scholars around the world.” corporate planning software to handle asset nalism Awards’ Book Critic category. Her Anthony Rella C’91 writes, “The three- splits but realized there was a larger problem winning articles were “Treat Your Business issue comic miniseries, Seis Cuerdas: De- to solve, and we want to help couples move Rival as Inspiration, Not Competition” fender of Mexico, which I created, wrote, and forward in their lives.” (Wharton Magazine, December 3, 2019) and lettered is being published by Source Point

66 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 Press May through July of this year. The trade tools that will be valuable to both seasoned paperback of the series will be released in and novice investigators and researchers.” September. In addition to my own work, I’m ALUMNI IN BUSINESS A guide for Gazette readers seeking to reach busy lettering comics for others. I spend the thethe bbubusinesssiiness serservicesviices off PPenneennn grggraduates.radaduauattees.s rest of my time living in Brooklyn, New York, 1995 minding my two- and seven-year-olds, cook- Debra Bernstein C’95, an antitrust lawyer, ing occasionally good dinners for my family, has joined the global law fi rm Quinn Emanu- and drumming for my Beatles tribute band, el as a partner. She is based in Atlanta, where PreFab 4, and other Beatles tributes.” she leads the fi rm’s newest offi ce. A recent Bloomberg Law article stated that Debra “has Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! secured more than $1 billion in settlements on behalf of clients. ... She has represented 1992 computer company Dell in multiple lawsuits, Lt. Col. James Dombrowski EAS’92 including as a plaintiff in cases pursuing price- writes, “I’m currently an orthopedic surgeon fi xing claims against suppliers of components and medical director for surgery at Joint Base including video screens and lithium batteries.” Andrews, Maryland. I’ll retire from the US Air Force in July, having served in Korea, It- aly, and Kosovo as a fl ight surgeon; then in 1996 Japan, Germany, Iraq, and Afghanistan as an Kimberly H. Updegrove GNu’96, execu- orthopedic surgeon. I look forward to a vi- tive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin brant retired life in Washington, DC, and to (Texas), has been named a 2021 fellow of the volunteering locally and abroad.” American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). The fellowship is presented to “those midwives whose demonstrated leadership within ACNM, 1994 clinical excellence, outstanding scholarship, David J. Calkins Gr’94, the Denis M. and professional achievement have merited O’Day Professor of Ophthalmology and Vi- special recognition both within and outside of sual Sciences at the Vanderbilt University the midwifery profession.” Kimberly is also a For advertising information, email Linda Caiazzo School of Medicine, has been named assistant former faculty member of Penn Nursing. at [email protected] or call 215-898-6811. vice president for research at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. discussed a local solo attorney’s interactions Daniel Farber Huang WG’94 has re- 1998 with the media, including print, broadcast, leased a new book, Nowhere to Hide: Open Sarah Federman C’98, an assistant pro- and social media, to increase visibility, estab- Source Intelligence Gathering. How the FBI, fessor of negotiation and confl ict manage- lish expertise, and even frame arguments. Media, and Public Identifi ed the January 6, ment at the University of Baltimore, has 2021, US Capitol Rioters. He writes, “Cell- written a new book, titled Last Train to Aus- phone tracking, facial recognition, reviewing chwitz: The French National Railways and 2000 hundreds of hours of video and 200,000+ the Journey to Accountability. She writes, “I Hon. Marcia Henry C’00 has been ap- images, search warrants, anonymous tips, and was inspired by a request made to me by a pointed as a magistrate judge in the US District good old-fashioned detective work all contrib- Penn history professor when I moved to Court for the Eastern District of New York. She uted to the largest manhunt in US history. France: ‘Find out if those train drivers kept is the fi rst African American woman appointed After reviewing the FBI’s formal fi lings on their jobs after the war.’ This book is the an- as a magistrate judge in the Eastern District. more than 250 people who were charged with swer to his question and much more.” Dara Lovitz C’00 writes, “I’ve coauthored a wide range of violations at the Capitol, I ex- a new book, Gag Refl ections: Conquering a plore the tactics, techniques, and procedures Fear of Vomit Through Exposure Therapy, used to identify and locate rioters. Vividly il- 1999 which explores my journey to recovery from lustrated, Nowhere to Hide contains 36 de- David Koller C’99 is founder and owner emetophobia, a disproportionate fear of vom- tailed case studies and also provides practical, of Koller Law LLC. On April 27, he presented it. Using the seemingly radical approach of actionable insight into the extensive open- a free webinar, “Partnering with the Media,” exposure therapy, I was able to overcome my source intelligence gathering techniques and sponsored by Jenkins Law Library. In it, he lifelong fear in fewer than three months. I

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wrote this book with my exposure therapist, place law matters, including pre-litigation the School of Engineering and Applied Sci- Dr. David Yusko, who explains the what, the claims and litigation, as well as preventive ences. So here I am today, an attorney/econo- why, and the how of exposure therapy. The advice, counseling, and investigations. mist/power systems design nerd and environ- book provides fellow emetophobes with vali- mentalist who has awkwardly but fi rmly fallen dation, hope, and inspiration; it also serves as into the one fi eld where all such passions may a useful guide for therapists whose patients 2006 coexist! I miss my incredible professors and suff er from specifi c phobias of all types.” Michael Israel C’06 and Anu Pokharel wonky classmates. I’m happy to reconnect, and wrote in early April that they had developed you can fi nd me on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/ a free app to notify people when there were in/arushisharmafrank.” 2001 COVID-19 vaccination appointments avail- Kacey Bayles Ofsevit C’08 and Alec Of- David R. Golder L’01 has been elected to able nearby. VaxBot uses an anonymous chat- sevit C’08 write, “We welcomed Gabriel the Connecticut Bar Foundation’s James W. bot to send vaccine appointment notifi ca- Shane into our family in January. He joins Cooper Fellows Program. The program hon- tions to users’ devices. Michael said their app Zachary (three), who loves being a big broth- ors leading members of the legal profession had “delivered 10 million appointment noti- er. We live in New York, where Kacey works and the Judiciary in Connecticut. David is a fi cations.” More information can be found at for Google and Alec for Gillson Capital.” principal at the national workplace law fi rm vaccine.monal.im/. Damon C. Reaves GFA’08 has been ap- Jackson Lewis P.C. in Hartford, Connecticut. Raj Parekh L’06 was appointed acting US pointed head of education at the National He is coleader of the fi rm’s Class Actions and attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Previ- Complex Litigation group. in January, becoming the fi rst person of ously, he was interim senior curator of edu- color in the district’s 232-year history to serve cation and public programs at the Philadel- Celebrate Your Reunion, May 13–16, 2022! as its top-ranking federal law enforcement phia Museum of Art. offi cial. Raj writes, “I’ve tried numerous jury Matthew Schreibeis Gr’08, an assistant 2002 trials to verdict. As acting US attorney, I su- professor of music at Hong Kong Baptist Uni- Shaleigh Cochran Kwok C’02 CGS’07’s pervise the prosecution of all federal crimes versity, writes, “I’ve released a new portrait poems “February I” and “February II” have and the litigation of all civil matters in which CD from Albany Records, which features my been published in the Spring 2021 edition of the United States has an interest. I lead a large-scale song cycle, Sandburg Songs, along the literary journal Ploughshares. These are staff of over 300 federal prosecutors, civil with other chamber works spanning a decade her fi rst poems to appear in print. litigators, and support personnel in a district of creative work. The disc features renowned that covers more than 19,000 square miles soprano Tony Arnold, along with Zohn Col- and serves over six million residents.” lective, and conductor Tim Weiss.” More in- 2003 formation can be found at mschreibeis.com. Jamila Brinson C’03, an attorney at Jack- son Walker, has been selected for inclusion in 2008 Super Lawyers’ 2021 Texas Rising Stars list. Arushi Sharma Frank C’08 writes, “I have 2009 Alexander Morgovsky EAS’03 announc- joined Tesla to lead its US energy markets ex- Jeremy Cohn W’09, son of Miles Cohn es his engagement to Marjorie Thomas. Mar- pansion policy work, advancing the company’s C’77 W’77 G’77, writes, “I’m very excited to jorie is a graduate of Temple University and mission to be a premier provider of residential share that Moody Tongue Brewery, which I works as a television producer in Philadel- and grid-scale batteries, and advance market opened several years ago in Chicago with my phia. After graduating from Penn, Alexander design supporting clean power generation and partner and cousin Jared Rouben, has been obtained his MBA from LaSalle University, storage. I’ve spent the past 12 years in legal awarded ‘two stars’ by the Michelin Guide. and he now works as a DevOps specialist in regulatory and government relations roles in This makes Moody Tongue the fi rst starred Philadelphia. The two are planning to marry Washington, DC, working on market design distributing brewery in the world and the in Philadelphia next summer. and compliance issues for nuclear, natural gas, fi rst two-star brewery-restaurant in the his- solar, wind, and storage power providers and tory of the Michelin Guide. Please join us for regulated investor-owned utilities. I had when you are next visiting Chicago!” 2005 no idea what I wanted to do with my scattered Tian Song GEd’09 was the recipient of the Daniel L. Blanchard C’05 has joined the interests coming into Penn. Thanks to Penn’s 2020 Penn Graduate School of Education Recent national labor and employment law fi rm interdisciplinary approach to obtaining a col- Alumni/Early Career Award of Merit, which Jackson Lewis P.C. as an associate in the lege degree, I hopped around the School of recognizes “a graduate who has shown outstand- fi rm’s Philadelphia offi ce. Daniel focuses his Arts and Sciences’ humanities and sciences ing service to the school prior to their 10th Re- practice on representing employers in work- departments, Wharton, the Law School, and union year and is setting an inspirational ex-

68 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 ample for future alumni of Penn GSE.” Tian at- Rebecca Sha C’10, an associate at the law Coast (contemporary Caribbean Nicaragua tended a virtual ceremony celebrating all of the fi rm Phelps Dunbar LLP, who practices in the and southeastern Honduras) from the colo- honorees during Penn GSE’s Homecoming@ fi eld of labor and employment, has been cho- nial period to the present. Home, which included words from GSE Dean sen to participate in the Leadership Council Pam Grossman. She writes, “It was with service on Legal Diversity’s Pathfi nders program. Ac- in mind that I pivoted from a robust career in cording to the press release, “[The program] 2018 global operations leadership and international gives participants practical tools to develop Francisco Garcia LPS’18 has opened a new educational exchange to answer the call to be- and leverage internal professional networks, distillery in Philadelphia, which was featured come a public servant. In January of this year, I foundational leadership skills, and an under- on Philadelphia magazine’s website. Billed as joined the 205th Foreign Service Generalist class standing of career development strategies.” the “smallest commercial distillery in America,” to represent and protect America’s interests at Yowei Shaw C’10 is a new cohost of NPR’s Strivers’ Row Distillery is further described home and abroad as a career diplomat.” Invisibilia, “a podcast about challenging the as “the city’s fi rst Latino-owned distillery, forces and powers of the status quo.” Her work making Dominican ‘Papa Juan,’ corn whiskey, has been featured on This American Life, Pop and one day, bourbon, out of two eight-gallon 2010 Up Magazine, and Studio 360; and she has tanks in a 200-square-foot space in Kensing- Joshua Bennett C’10 has received a 2021 been honored with a Third Coast Documen- ton.” It can be read at bit.ly/3aV6OKA. Whiting Award from the Whiting Foundation tary Award and an Asian American Journal- for his nonfi ction and poetry writing. This ists Association Award, among others. award is one of the largest monetary gifts 2020 ($50,000) given to emerging writers in the Gulnur Kukenova GEd’20 writes, “My son United States. Joshua is the author of three 2013 Baizhan is 10 years old. He is in the fi fth grade books of poetry and literary criticism: The Sob- David Jackson Ambrose LPS’13 has re- at Penn Alexander School and loves writing bing School, Owed, and Being Property Once leased his second book, a novel titled A Blind stories. He learned English in such a short time Myself. He is an assistant professor of English Eye. According to the press materials, the at a high level. As the result, he started writing and creative writing at Dartmouth College. Dur- book “tackles LGBT relationships, the diff er- a book as a hobby. Some schools in Kazakhstan ing his senior year at Penn, he won a Marshall ently abled perspective, mental health, and are interested in purchasing it, and I am work- Scholarship for graduate study in the United ‘transracialism.’” It tells the story of “Babe and ing on getting it printed there. Also, Baizhan Kingdom and performed his spoken-word po- Chance, who struggle to get past preconceived loves drawing, and in 2019 his artwork was etry at the White House for then president notions of race and how those misconceptions chosen as the best among third graders and Barack Obama [“Gazetteer,” Mar|Apr 2010]. create roadblocks to a true friendship.” sold at a school auction for $30. When he was Zachary Klitzman C’10 writes, “On May 1, in fourth grade, he won second place in his Nicole Romano and I were married in a small, school’s science fair when he turned salt water COVID-safe ceremony at the Penn Museum. 2015 into fresh water. Baizhan’s book is available in We fi rst met in 2014 in Washington, DC, and Ryan Dungee C’15 G’16, a PhD candidate the US if anyone is willing to purchase it to were originally scheduled to get married in at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for support a young writer. Please contact me at 2020 but delayed a year due to the pandemic. Astronomy, has received the Columbia Com- [email protected].” The ceremony, which took place in the muse- munications ARCS Award from the Hono- Justine Wallace GEd’20 writes, “I’m cur- um’s Stoner Courtyard, was co-offi ciated by lulu Chapter of the Achievement Rewards rently running for the Pennsbury School Rabbi Rayzel Raphael and Father Edward for College Scientists Foundation. From Board, which is the board of the district I at- Ogden, OFS. Other Penn alumni in attendance ARCS’s press release: “[Ryan’s] research lays tended for my K–12 education. My platform is were my father Stephen Klitzman C’66 and important groundwork for other astrono- centered around improving educational access Rebecca Kaplan Levy C’10. Rebecca and I mers by improving image quality from tele- and opportunity, and I often cite my Penn were freshman-year hallmates and worked at scopes using adaptive optics and benchmark- education as the foundation for my educa- the Daily Pennsylvanian together; my father ing models for determining a star’s age.” tional ideology. I’m 23 and quite possibly the was also an editor of the DP during his time at Melanie White C’15 has been selected as youngest person ever to run for this school Penn. In addition, a dozen other Penn alumni one of eight WW Dissertation Fellows in board (I’m defi nitely the youngest in recent watched the ceremony via a livestream, set up Women’s Studies by the Institute for Citizens history). I’ve been able to secure endorsements so that our loved ones could still watch despite & Scholars. Melanie is a doctoral candidate from my local Democratic Party and state reps, the in-person restrictions. It was a beautiful in Africana studies whose dissertation traces as well as the recommendation from the teach- day, and Nicole and I are looking forward to the role of transnational colonial imaginaries ers’ and support professionals’ unions.” celebrating in person with everyone next year.” in the social construction of the Mosquito

Jul | Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 69 ALUMNI Obituaries Notifications 1939 1945 Please send notifications of deaths Helen E. Daugerdas DH’39, Woodbury, CT, Dr. Peter A. Frank Jr. C’45 D’46, Glen of alumni directly to: Alumni Records, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 300, a retired dental hygienist; June 29, 2019, at 99. Rock, NJ, a retired dentist whose career 2929 Walnut Street, Phila., PA 19104 Genevieve Rennard Timm Ed’39 GEd’43, spanned almost 70 years; Feb. 6. He served EMAIL [email protected] Coatesville, PA, a retired market researcher in the US Army Dental Corps during World Newspaper obits are appreciated. for National Analysts, a subsidiary of Curtis War II. At Penn, he was a member of the Publishing; Dec. 13, 2019, at 102. At Penn, she heavyweight rowing and swimming teams. was a member of the choral society. He served in the US Marines during World 1946 War II. His daughter is Lynne G. Rubenfeld 1940 Beatrice Novack Engelsberg CW’46, C’80 GED’84. Joseph S. “Buddy” Blank Jr. C’40, New Philadelphia, a pioneering scientifi c researcher Donald E. “Dek” Kanally WG’48, Port Rochelle, NY, retired president of J. S. Blank & who worked for more than 50 years in several Allegany, PA, a retired insurance agent; Company, his family’s neckwear business; April departments at Penn; March 8. She joined Penn’s March 21. He served in the US Marine Corps 8, 2020, at 101. He served as a captain and psy- staff soon after her graduation, as a tech in the during World War II and the Korean War. chologist for the US Army during World War II. Harrison Department of Surgery Research, now Anita Cohen Nason Ed’48 GEd’50, Voor- At Penn, he was a member of Phi Sigma Delta the department of surgery in Penn Medicine. hees, NJ, March 19. fraternity. One daughter is Alice J. Blank C’78. After taking some time off to raise her children, Frances Bender Raphael PSW’48, Silver she returned to the same department and was Spring, MD, a retired social work professor at 1942 part of a group studying cytochrome P450, a Virginia Commonwealth University; March 6. Lathrop P. Smith W’42, Reidsville, NC, family of enzymes that are essential for the Dr. John C. Ritchie III M’48 GM’52, a retired salesman; Feb. 22, 2020, at 99. He metabolism of medications. In 1973, she left Newtown Square, PA, a retired physician; served in the US Navy during World War II. Penn and then returned nine years later, this Feb. 24. His brother is Dr. David J. Ritchie At Penn, he was a member of Delta Kappa time working in the department of pathology C’52 M’56 GM’58. Epsilon fraternity, Penn Players, and the and laboratory medicine. In 1996, she retired as Seymour Schiff ChE’48, Baldwin, NY, a lightweight rowing and swimming teams. a research specialist in the department of radia- former corporate management consultant; Howard C. Story Jr. W’42, Palm Beach, tion oncology. After retiring, she worked as a Jan. 14. He served in the US Army during the FL, retired head of a national newspaper adver- temporary employee in Penn Dental from 1997 Korean War. tising representative fi rm; March 15, at 100. He to 1999. Her daughters are Ilene S. Novack served in the US Army during World War II, CW’72 and Janet E. Novack C’77. One grand- 1949 earning the France Legion of Honor Medical. daughter is Stephanie Novack Golob C’14. Dr. Thomas D. Cook GM’49, Orlando, At Penn, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsi- FL, a physician; Dec. 5, 2020, at 100. lon fraternity and the soccer and the squash 1947 Gordon W. Gerber L’49, Lansdale, PA, a teams. On his 100th birthday, he wrote a Fred W. Malkin W’47, Cheltenham retired partner at the Philadelphia law fi rm Gazette alumni note directed to the Class of Township, PA, an executive in the printing Dechert LLP who later became a judge pro 2024 that read, “I hope your memories of Penn and publishing fi eld; Feb. 5. He served in the tem in the Philadelphia Court of Common are as precious to you when you are my age.” US Army Air Corps during World War II. Pleas; Feb. 23. He served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. 1943 1948 Gloria S. Inniss SW’49, Atlanta, a former Dr. Edwin R. Cornish Jr. C’43 M’47, Frederick L. Bowden C’48, Radnor, PA, a special education teacher in New York; Oct. Frederick, MD, a retired physician and med- retired trust offi cer at First Pennsylvania Bank; 24, 2019. ical researcher; Jan. 4. April 9. At age 92, he was granted a patent for Holmes D. “Mac” McLendon Jr. W’49, Doris Preiss Roach CW’43, Portland, OR, a self-tightening lug wrench. He served in the Asheville, NC, the founder and owner of MRC a retired elementary school teacher; July 31, US Navy during the Korean War. At Penn, he Industries, a computer fi rm in Park Ridge, 2020. One grandson is Andrew M. Roach C’06. was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, IL; Feb. 15. He served in the US Army during Harry L. Rothstein W’43, Wilkes-Barre, Friars, and the football team. His sons are World War II, earning the World War II Vic- PA, a retired commercial real estate executive Richard R. Bowden W’77, Thomas L. Bowden tory Ribbon. At Penn, he was a member of who previously owned a storage company; L’83 WG’83, Frederick L. Bowden Jr. C’83 Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Feb. 19. He served in the US Army Air Forces WEv’90, and Nicholas G. Bowden C’88. Peter E. S. Munger W’49, Villanova, PA, during World War II. At Penn, he was a mem- Dr. Charles H. Greenbaum C’48 GM’56, an owner, executive, and consultant in the ber of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and the Miquon, PA, a retired professor of dermatol- fl oor covering industry; April 8. He served in sprint football team. ogy at Thomas Jeff erson University; April 16. the US Army during World War II. At Penn,

70 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 he was a member of Delta Psi fraternity, Friars, School abstraction (lush colors, fl uent brush- ing the Penn Athletics board of advisors and the the sprint football team, and the track team. work, bustling composition) and an attempt Penn Medicine board. In the School of Arts and His brother was the legendary Penn football at a new possibly eerie form of fi guration.” Sciences, he endowed three professorships and coach George Munger Ed’33, who died in 1994. David L. Ffrench W’51, Swarthmore, PA, six scholarships and fellowships, including four Thomas O. Richey C’49, Honey Brook, former chief fi nancial offi cer of Alpac Mar- Frederic Fox scholarships named after his PA, a retired bank executive who previously keting Services; Feb. 12. He served in the US father. In 2013, he established and permanent- worked in human resources and publishing Navy during World War II. ly endowed the Fox Leadership Program, which for the Philadelphia Inquirer; Jan. 22. At Rev. Donald R. Gebert W’51, The Wood- oversees New Student Orientation. In 2015, the Penn, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fra- lands, TX, a Lutheran minister and founder Robert and Penny Fox Family Pavilion was for- ternity and the heavyweight rowing team. and executive director of the Interfaith of the mally dedicated in honor of him and his wife. His wife is Patricia A. Richey HUP’54. Woodlands; March 15. At Penn, he was a mem- He also chaired the board and generously Perry Seay Jr. W’49, Port Charlotte, FL, a ber of Sigma Nu fraternity. donated to the Wistar Institute, which dedi- retired special agent for the FBI; Jan. 5. He Peter Givas W’51, New Windsor, NY, a cated its Robert and Penny Fox Tower in 2014. served in the US Army Air Corps during World retired accountant at IBM; May 29, 2019. He In 1999, he won the Alumni Award of Merit. As War II. At Penn, he was a member of Sigma Nu served in the 464 Coast Artillery Battalion a student at Penn, he was captain of the football fraternity and the lightweight football team. during World War II. team and a member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. Barberie Harmer VanValey CCC’49, Dr. Albert G. Hofammann III Gr’51, His wife is Penny Grossman Fox Ed’53. Carlisle, MA, a garden designer; Dec. 30. Topton, PA, a retired newspaper art editor Norton Juster Ar’52, Northampton, MA, and musician; Nov. 20, at 100. He served in a retired architect and children’s book writer 1950 the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps dur- best known as the author of The Phantom Harry V. Injaian C’50, Naples, FL, retired ing World War II, earning a Bronze Star. Tollbooth; March 8. First published in 1961, owner and president of Fluid Controls; April 24. Victor Mikovich W’51, Schenectady, NY, The Phantom Tollbooth has sold more than He served in the US Navy during World War II. a retired principal, English teacher, and foot- three million copies and has been turned into At Penn, he was a member of the football team. ball coach in the Mohonasen (NY) Central an animated fi lm and stage musical. When Anne Schacht Lee CW’50 Gr’66, Atlanta, School District; Feb. 17. He served in the US asked about the beloved fantasy novel’s stay- a sociologist specializing in demography; Nov. Navy during the Korean War. At Penn, he was ing power, he once told the Gazette, “I thought 17, 2020. She taught at the Wharton School a member of the football team, Sigma Phi the book was sort of geared to my own pecu- and Penn’s School of Nursing. As a student at Epsilon fraternity, and Friars Senior Society. liarities, but it turned out that it touched a lot Penn, she was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi of universal issues for kids” [“Alumni Profi les,” sorority and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. 1952 Jan|Feb 2004]. He wrote several other chil- Ralph K. Ritter MTE’50, Medford, NJ, a John L. Cowan WG’52, Naples, FL, a dren’s books, continued to practice architec- retired engineer who worked with special- retired senior fi nancial offi cer; Jan. 7. He served ture into the 1990s, and was a founding fac- ized welding equipment; March 30. He in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. ulty member of Hampshire College in served in the US Army Air Corps during Anthony C. Demos GME’52, Bryn Mawr, Amherst, MA, where he taught architecture World War II. At Penn, he was a member of PA, retired head of the Chemalloy Company, and environmental design until 1992. He also Psi Upsilon fraternity. which manufactures and markets alloys, served in the US Navy. At Penn, he was a mem- metals, minerals, and chemicals for various ber of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. 1951 industrial applications; March 8. His son is Sol Koenigsberg SW’52, Leawood, KS, Lorna Cohen Binder CW’51, Oxford, PA, Dr. John E. Demos M’74. retired executive director of the Jewish Fed- July 9. Her sister is Hedy M. Elefritz CW’48. Eugene F. Dire WG’52, Philadelphia, eration of Greater Kansas City; Dec. 21. He Dorothy Ruffi ni Cellini DH’51, West March 16. served in the US Navy during World War II. Grove, PA, a retired school dental hygienist; Robert A. Fox C’52, Philadelphia, an emer- Emil C. Preiss C’52 WG’57, Mundelein, March 1. itus trustee and longtime donor to Penn; April IL, a former employee of the Lehigh Portland Amaranth R. Ehrenhalt FA’51, New York, 14. After graduating, he founded or presided Cement Company; Sept. 1. At Penn, he was a an artist known for her abstract expressionist over several businesses, including a home con- member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. paintings; March 16. Her life and work were struction company and a concrete manufac- Dr. Edwin L. Rabiner M’52, Fort Mill, featured in the Gazette in “Hidden Treasure” turer. In 1979, he founded RAF Industries, a SC, a physician; April 13, 2020. [“Arts,” May|Jun 2013]. In a 1962 review quot- private investment fi rm. He was fi rst elected to Isidore Shapiro SW’52, Tucson, AZ, a ed in the article, the poet John Ashberry called Penn’s board of trustees in 1985, where he former commissioner of mental health for her painting “Jump in and Move Around” chaired multiple committees. He was heavily Nassau County, NY; Dec. 27. He served in the “both an excellent example of New York involved with other governance at Penn, includ- US Army during World War II.

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1953 Medicine and a longtime chief of hematolo- Patricia Davis HUP’55, Villanova, PA, a Dr. Joseph B. Dallett G’53, Ithaca, NY, a gy-oncology and codirector of Philadelphia’s former nurse at the Hospital of the Univer- retired professor of German language and Graduate Hospital Cancer Center; Feb. 21. sity of Pennsylvania; Feb. 10. literature at Cornell and Carleton University; One son is Marc Russell Lisker C’90, and his Dr. Charles B. Fager Jr. V’55, Camp Hill, Feb. 6. brother is Joel S. Lisker Ed’59. PA, a retired veterinarian and owner of Camp Martin J. Milston W’53, New York, a Ronald M. Smullian W’54, Baltimore, a Hill Animal Hospital; Feb. 26. He served in retired fi nancial advisor; Nov. 29. At Penn, retired attorney and CPA; April 1. He served the US Army Air Corps during World War II, he was a member of Kappa Nu fraternity. in the US Army. At Penn, he was a member earning several awards. Hon. Robert Neustadter W’53 L’56, of the Daily Pennsylvanian. Dr. Philip L. Gildenberg C’55, Smyrna, Atlantic City, NJ, a retired Superior Court Sarah Bolton Stahl CW’54, York, PA, a GA, a retired neurosurgeon in Houston and Judge of New Jersey; May 1, 2020. longtime artist; March 18. At Penn, she was coeditor of the textbook Stereotactic and William M. Reilly Jr. WEv’53 W’55, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority Functional Neurosurgery; Jan. 15. At Penn, Conshohocken, PA, a retired production and Penn Players. he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi frater- planning supervisor for a steel company; Hon. Juan R. Torruella W’54, San Juan, nity and the Daily Pennsylvanian. April 11, at 102. He served in the US Army Puerto Rico, a groundbreaking federal judge Faith Sauter Giovino Ed’55, Bound during World War II. who was the fi rst Hispanic judge to serve on Brook, NJ, a retired fi rst grade teacher in Richard A. Sprague L’53, Haverford, PA, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Plainfi eld, NJ; March 23. an attorney who tried high-profi le cases into which covers parts of New England as well Dr. Robert W. Kalish C’55, Harleysville, his 90s; April 3. His client list included for- as Puerto Rico; Oct. 26. Appointed to the PA, a psychiatrist; April 9. At Penn, he was a mer NBA star Allen Iverson, former Philadel- bench by Ronald Reagan in 1984, he served member of the swimming team. His son is phia mayor Frank Rizzo, and former Penn- as chief judge of the circuit from 1994 to 2001 Dr. Eric D. Kalish C’89 M’94. sylvania state senator Vincent J. Fumo. He and continued to hear cases until his death, Julian R. Kossow C’55, Washington, DC, served in the US Navy during World War II. including a joint decision in 2020 to overturn a professor at Stetson, Marquette, and One son is Thomas A. Sprague C’78. the death penalty imposed on the Boston Georgetown Law Schools, specializing in real Dr. Michael F. Wilson M’53, Buff alo, NY, Marathon bomber. A consistent advocate for estate law; Aug. 2, 2020. At Penn, he was a a clinician, researcher, administrator, and Puerto Rican rights and statehood, he member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Two professor of cardiology; Feb. 25. At age 93, he authored The Supreme Court and Puerto children are Amy E. Kossow C’84 and Joseph retired as medical director of imaging at Rico: The Doctrine of Separate and Unequal Falk Kossow WG’92. Kaleida Health. He served in the US Army (1988), among other works. He was also a Dr. Donald W. LaVan C’55 M’59 GM’60 during World War II. competitive sailor, representing Puerto Rico GM’63, Villanova, PA, a retired cardiologist Robert A. Zevin CE’53, Somerset, NJ, a at the Olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976. who, early on, served as attending cardiolo- senior estimator at a construction company; At Penn, he was a member of the track team, gist for Penn’s former Graduate Hospital and Aug. 16. He served in the US Army. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, the Glee Club, Pennsylvania Hospital; April 1. He received and Penn Players. the Alumni Service Award from Penn Medi- 1954 Clyde F. Wilmeth Jr. W’54, Wrightsville cine in 2004 and was the School’s commence- Howard Burman Asher W’54, Phila- Beach, NC, owner of Wilmeth Yarns; April ment speaker in 2009. At Penn, he was a delphia, retired head of what was once the 19. He also once owned the Spartanburg (SC) member of Penn Players, the choral society, largest independent CPA fi rm in Philadel- Spinners, an old minor league baseball affi l- and the crew team. His son is Dr. Frederick phia; March 19. At Penn, he was a member iate of the Philadelphia Phillies. He served B. Lavan C’82 M’86, who is married to Dr. of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and the swim- in the US Army. At Penn, he was a member Marthe Adler Lavan C’82. ming team. His wife is Myrna Zeitlin Asher of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Sphinx Senior John H. Smith Sr. W’55, Cornwall-on- Ed’59 CGS’07, and one son is Noah S. Asher Society, and the lacrosse and soccer teams. Hudson, NY, retired head of an insurance W’84 G’89 WG’89, whose wife is Laurie Stein company; March 15. At Penn, he was a mem- Asher C’85. 1955 ber of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, the Daily Joseph P. Horan WEv’54, Palmyra, NJ, Henry Atlas C’55, Sudbury, MA, a retired Pennsylvanian, and the Penn Band. a retired tax auditor for the State of New Jer- physicist and computer scientist; Jan. 15. Carmen Garcia Tosteson G’55, Olympia, sey; May 10, 2020, at 102. He served in the US William James Baxter Jr. W’55, West WA, a retired research assistant at the Univer- Army during World War II. Chester, PA, a retired trust offi cer for a bank who sity of Puerto Rico; Oct. 13, 2020. Her husband Dr. Sheldon A. Lisker C’54 M’58 also operated a restaurant and a fl ooring com- is Thomas R. Tosteson C’55 Gr’59, and her GM’62, Lafayette Hill, PA, a clinical profes- pany; Feb. 18. At Penn, he was a member of Phi children include Maria S. Tosteson Rosen C’80 sor of medicine at the Perelman School of Sigma Kappa fraternity and the rowing team. and Hugh C. Tosteson Garcia C’93.

72 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 1956 US Air Force; Feb. 27. He also served in the US Army as chief of the adult clinic at what Linda Adams Farmin CW’56, Spokane, US Army Air Corps. is now Madigan Army Medical Center. WA, Feb. 21. Dr. Donald A. Gooss Sr. C’59 V’63, Wil- David W. Longacre GEd’56, Salisbury, 1958 lards, MD, a retired veterinarian at George- NC, a retired registrar at Glassboro State Col- Harry J. “Chick” Corletta W’58, Roch- town Animal Hospital and Selbyville Animal lege (now Rowan University) in New Jersey; ester, NY, retired head of a restaurant supply Hospital in Delaware for 43 years; Jan. 7. His Feb. 26. business; March 1. At Penn, he was a member sons are Dr. John T. Gooss V’90 Dr. Donald A. Henrietta Healy Martindale FA’56, of Psi Upsilon fraternity. Gooss Jr. V’93, and his brother was Lawrence Lafayette Hill, PA, Feb. 25. Her husband is Dr. Ronald S. Leventhal D’58, Palm W. Gooss GEE’72 (see Class of 1972). Wallace S. Martindale Gr’58. Beach Gardens, FL, a retired dentist who Elinore Satterfi eld Lynch Nu’59, Mount Guyla Woodward Ponomareff L’56, maintained a practice in Staten Island, NY; Gretna, PA, a retired school nurse; March 17. Ashland, OR, a retired attorney specializing Jan. 2. in family law and probate; March 27. Clarence A. “Otto” McGowan Jr. W’58, 1960 William H. Wunderlich W’56, Fairfax, Philadelphia, a retired executive for Cam- Maureen E. Andrews CW’60 G’62, VA, a retired telecommunications executive eron & Associates; April 6. He served in the Palm City, FL, July 14, 2019. for AT&T and later the US Department of the US Army Reserves. At Penn, he was a mem- Rodney D. Henry L’60, Quakertown, PA, an Treasury; July 30, 2019. He served in the US ber of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. His children attorney; March 1. He served in the US Air Force. Army. At Penn, he was a member of Lambda include Daniel L. McGowan C’87 WEv’96 and Charles Hill L’60 G’61, New Haven, CT, a Chi Alpha fraternity. Mary McGowan Heins C’90. career diplomat and a lecturer on politics at William A. Nye W’58 Gr’62, Chimacum, Yale University; March 27. Earlier in his career, 1957 WA, Aug. 19, 2020. At Penn, he was a member he was a speechwriter and aide to secretaries J. Wesley Gray Jr. WG’57, Grasonville, of Zeta Psi fraternity. of state Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz. MD, a retired vice president at Merrill Lynch; John C. Phillips Jr. WG’58, Lincoln, MA, He was later a policy consultant to Boutros March 13. He served in the US Army. a retired real estate executive; April 6, 2020. Boutros-Ghali, the secretary general of the Robert L. Morris GCh’57, Williamsburg, Dr. Charles E. Reich D’58, Sarasota, FL, United Nations, before devoting nearly three VA, a retired corporate vice president of tech- a retired dentist; Feb. 9. He was a veteran of decades to teaching at Yale. nical aff airs at Continental Baking; Jan. 23. the Korean War. Dr. Bryan Kennedy GM’60, Pittsburgh, He served in the US Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Herbert A. Schneider D’58, Santa assistant professor of internal medicine, and Paula Aberle Schneider CW’57, Chest- Rosa, CA, a retired dentist; Feb. 20. chief of cardiology at the University of Pitts- nut Hill, MA, a clinical social worker, couples burgh; Dec. 4, 2020. He served in the US Navy. therapist, and associate professor emerita of 1959 Murrel L. Kohn W’60, Tel Aviv, Israel, a social work at Regis College; April 2. At Penn, Robert J. Ayers C’59, Woodstock, GA, CPA; Feb. 14. At Penn, he was a member of she was a member of Sigma Delta Tau soror- March 15. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and the Daily Penn- ity. One son is Lewis A. Schneider C’83, who Tau Delta fraternity, Sphinx Senior Society, sylvanian. is married to Elizabeth Abbe C’84. and the lacrosse team. Carol Ann Trimble Weisenfeld Nord- Edwin Lee Solot W’57 L’60, San Fran- Gerald M. Donohue WG’59, Stratford, heimer CW’60 ASC’62, Wilmington, DE, a cisco, a retired director of sales training at CT, a former data processor for the old Bridge- progressive political operative who worked Kidder, Peabody & Company and an adjunct port Brass Company; April 22. He served in for several campaigns and also helped found professor at New York University; March 31. the US Army during the Korean War. the University City Science Center in 1963; He served in the US military. At Penn, he was Dr. Richard J. “Dick” Doviak GEE’59 Feb. 15. A pioneering pollster, she went door a member of Beta Sigma Rho fraternity and GrE’63, Norman, OK, an electrical engineer to door during the Civil Rights era in the the debate council. who led the weather radar program at the South to ask questions about race. At Penn, Dr. Leon H. Strohecker D’57 GD’60, National Severe Storms Laboratory; March 12. she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Lansdale, PA, a retired orthodontist who He taught at the University of Oklahoma and sorority, WXPN, the Daily Pennsylvanian, maintained a practice for 50 years; Nov. 13. was a leading expert on the meteorological Sphinx Senior Society, and the volleyball team. At Penn, he was a member of the fencing and Doppler radar, coauthoring the book Doppler Donald A. Peterson GCP’60, Albuquer- track teams. His wife is Juanita Puyoou Stro- Radar and Weather Observations (1984). que, NM, a former city planner for the City hecker Ed’55 GEd’58, and his daughter is Dr. Dr. David H. Goodman C’59, North of Albuquerque, who later operated a legal Sandra Strohecker Beckett GD’99. Bethesda, MD, a retired physician and clini- practice in land use law; Dec. 31, 2020. Dr. Richard C. Wolff GM’57, San Anto- cal professor emeritus of medicine at Wash- Carla Weinberg Satinsky CW’60, nio, a retired chief of anesthesiology with the ington University; Feb. 18. He served in the Potomac, MD, a community volunteer and

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producer of a local cable news program; March 31. He was also engaged in several ously led a family-run clothing business; March March 25. Her husband is Dr. David Satinsky projects for NASA. He served in the US Air 5. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi C’60 M’64 GM’70. Force and the US Air National Guard. fraternity and the sprint football team. Dr. Severin Teufel M’60 GM’67, Haver- Daniel I. C. Wang Gr’63, Cambridge, Thomas B. Swift C’64, Jamestown, RI, a ford, PA, a retired pathologist; Jan. 5. MA, a longtime MIT professor who launched commercial real estate developer; March 10. the institute’s Biotechnology Process Engi- At Penn, he was a member of Delta Phi fra- 1961 neering Center; Aug. 29. ternity and the ice hockey and heavyweight Joanne Crume McClellan PT’61, Vir- rowing teams. One daughter is Nancy Titus ginia Beach, VA, a physical therapist and 1964 Swift C’86. owner of Hip Helpers, which manufactures Dr. Robert P. Blume GM’64, Pittsburgh, Dr. Martha Jane Hester Tanner M’64, supports to help children with disabilities; a retired physician and a pioneer in the treat- Idaho Falls, ID, a retired physician; Feb. 20. Feb. 25. At Penn, she was a member of Kappa ment of myasthenia gravis; April 8, 2020. He Kappa Gamma sorority and the Pennguin- was also a clinical professor of neurology at 1965 nettes synchronized swimming team. the University of Pittsburgh. He served in the Dr. Albert P. Barnett V’65, Boswell, PA, Patricia J. Morris SW’61, Towson, MD, a US Navy Reserves during World War II, and a veterinarian; March 25. retired social worker for the Baltimore Coun- later in the US Army as a physician. Ralph G. Berglund GEE’65, Medford, ty Department of Social Services; March 16. Thressa A. Giampietro Nu’64 GNu’65, NJ, cofounder of Systems Technology Forum, Frederick G. Reed W’61, State College, Vineland, NJ, a retired associate professor of which conducted industrial training semi- PA, a retired manager at the Ford Motor nursing at Temple University; June 6, 2019, nars; April 7. He served in the US Navy. Company; March 3. At Penn, he was a mem- at 102. Jay Eberhardt ChE’65, Exton, PA, a retired ber of Psi Upsilon fraternity. James L. Goroff W’64, Las Vegas, Nov. chemical engineer for the pharmaceutical com- Douglas R. Shaw W’61, Seattle, a retired 24, 2020. His brother is Daniel Goroff C‘67. pany Zeneca; March 23, 2020. At Penn, he was executive at Columbia Ventures, a private Alan N. Harvey WG’64, Lakewood, CO, a member of the swimming team. investment company; Feb. 1. At Penn, he was a retired city manager for fi ve diff erent cities; Dr. Edward F. Good GM’65, Charleston, a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. April 8. He served in the US Marine Corps. SC, a retired neurologist; March 29. He Ida Weber Kampa Ed’64, Tucson, AZ, served in the US Navy. 1962 May 3, 2019. Hon. Isador Kranzel WG’65, Philadel- John A. Bryson W’62, Springfi eld, PA, a Dr. Lewis A. Kay D’64, Moorestown, NJ, phia, a retired administrative law judge of retired projects manager at Boeing; March a pediatric dentist; March 26. After the Sep- the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission; 15. At Penn, he was a member of Sigma Phi tember 11 attacks, he served on the dental June 17, 2020. He lectured and taught at sev- Epsilon fraternity and the lacrosse team. identifi cation unit to help identify victims. eral universities in the Philadelphia area, Dr. A. Gary Lavin V’62, Louisville, KY, a He also served in the US Army. including Penn, where he taught courses on retired equine veterinarian and thorough- Richard R. Kimball W’64, Clinton, CT, government and political policy. His wife is bred horse breeder; Feb. 27. retired head of the Kimball Companies, a Myra Katz Kranzel W’58, and his son is Rev. Sadie Stridiron Mitchell GEd’62, manufacturer in East Longmeadow, MA; Jerome Kranzel C’85. Philadelphia, a Philadelphia elementary March 14. At Penn, he was a member of Dr. Joel B. Lench M’65, Cardiff by the school principal and Episcopal priest; Dec. Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, Friars, and the Sea, CA, retired medical director of the Nurse 16, 2020, at 99. rowing team. His son is Brian A. Kimball Midwifery Service at the San Diego Naval Dr. Anthony C. Ruggerio GD’62, Had- W’90, and his daughter is Suzanne Kimball Medical Center; Feb. 19. He served in the US don Heights, NJ, a periodontist and former Richardson C’93. Navy during the Vietnam War. assistant professor of periodontics at Penn’s Florence K. Kleckner GEd’64, Jenkin- Dr. Ezra Shahn Gr’65, Medford, NJ, Feb. 7. School of Dental Medicine; Jan. 17. He served town, PA, May 4, 2019, at 104. Her daughter Michael Strumpen-Darrie WG’65, in the US Navy during World War II. One son is Rachel Kleckner Penner CW’64. Princeton, NJ, a longtime curriculum devel- is Dr. Mark A. Ruggerio D’82 GD’83 GD’85, Theodore J. Kozloff C’64 G’64 L’67, oper at Berlitz, a language education com- who is married to Dr. Vanessa A. Morenzi Sheldon, SC, a retired managing partner of pany; March 3. D’83 GD’84 GD’89. the San Francisco law offi ces of Skadden, Joseph H. Whitlock WEv’65, West Ches- Arps; Feb. 14, 2020. At Penn, he was a mem- ter, PA, March 22. 1963 ber of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. One brother Dean E. Nold GEE’63, Delray Beach, FL, is Charles Kozloff GEE’85. 1966 professor emeritus of electrical engineering David B. Rosenblatt W’64, Hopkins, MN, Rodney L. Horton GEE’66, Audubon, PA, technology at Purdue University Calumet; a commercial insurance broker who previ- an engineer at General Electric Aerospace who

74 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 helped design landing systems for space shut- Sclerosis Clinic. He served in the US Army as appointments in HUP’s departments of pathol- tles; April 7. He served in the US Army. One a battalion surgeon. ogy and laboratory medicine, as well as neuro- brother is Dr. Vern H. Horton EE’59. H. Michael “Micky” Neiditch C’68, surgery. In 1988, he moved from HUP to CHOP, Arthur R. Kelly Ed’66, Bridgeton, NJ, a Washington, DC, senior vice president for where he established a division of neuroradiol- retired industrial arts teacher and coach at leadership giving at the American Friends of ogy and served as the division chief and direc- Bridgeton High School; Dec. 5. the Weizmann Institute, in Israel; March 23. tor of the fellowship program. Most notably, he George A. Robinson III WG’66, Kitty As vice president of communications for the was one of the fi rst researchers to describe the Hawk, NC, a retired US Navy commander Class of 1968, he accepted the David Tyre craniocerebral fi ndings of abusive head trau- who also worked in corporate insurance and Award of Merit for Communications on ma, cerebral edema, and shear injuries related fi nancial planning; March 5. behalf of his class in 2018. As a student at to trauma, and the evolution of hematomas on Penn, he was a member of the Daily Penn- CT. He pioneered the fi rst clinical spiral CT in 1967 sylvanian, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, the United States and worked with General William Gerald “Jerry” Cox WG’67, and the Sphinx Senior Society. Electric on the development of the fi rst 1.5T Smyrna, GA, founder of the Atlanta Planning F. Lannom Smith Gr’68, Tyler, TX, a MRI. This work merited him several awards, Group, an estate and fi nancial planning fi rm; retired English professor and dean of liberal including CHOP’s Richard D. Wood distin- Feb. 28. arts at Tyler University; March 26. guished alumni award in 2014. He retired in Thomas A. Hyde GEE’67 GrE’77, Mid- Dr. Samuel L. Stover GM’68, Huntsville, 2018, and CHOP created the Robert A. Zimmer- land, TX, Dec. 17, 2020. AL, a retired physician specializing in spinal man Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neuroradiol- David F. Kaplan W’67, The Villages, FL, cord injuries and a professor emeritus at the ogy. He served in the US Army as a radiologist. an educator; April 1, 2020. At Penn, he was a University of Alabama; Jan. 4. member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. 1970 Beryl Levitsky Rosenstock CW’67, 1969 Walter S. “Terry” Batty Jr. L’70, Swarth- Philadelphia, Feb. 28. She worked at several Richard B. Bauschard GAr’69, Shaker more, PA, an attorney specializing in art and nonprofi t cultural institutions across Phila- Heights, OH, a managing partner at an archi- automobile theft, arson, and tax and investor delphia. Her husband is Dr. Jeff rey G. Rosen- tectural fi rm; March 1. He served in the US Navy. fraud; Dec. 22. He was an assistant US attor- stock GM’85. His sister is Suzanne Bauschard Hogan WG’80. ney in Philadelphia from 1971 to 2001, serv- Dr. Gregg E. Springer C’67, Colorado Phyllis Wiegand Born Nu’69 GNu’71, ing as chief of appeals for 27 of those years. Springs, CO, a retired anesthesiologist and Audubon, PA, a retired clinician and man- Dr. Richard Y.C. Wang Gr’70, Exton, PA, cofounder and medical director of the Colo- ager of mental health services at Pennsylva- a retired chemist and pharmaceutical execu- rado Springs Surgery Center; Nov. 27. At nia Hospital; Nov. 15. Her husband is Donald tive; March 16. Penn, he was a member of Delta Tau Delta L. Born W’56. fraternity and Sphinx Senior Society. Stephen G. Conger WG’69, Perkasie, PA, 1971 Charles S. Verdery WG’67, Hanover, VA, a retired systems analyst for DuPont; Feb. 7. Dr. Michael S. Falkowitz C’71, Boca president of Sydnor, a water systems and Maureen C. Maguire Nu’69 GNu’71, Raton, FL, a pulmonary specialist; April 11. pumping company; March 17. Baltimore, an assistant professor of nursing At Penn, he was a member of Tau Delta Phi at Johns Hopkins University; Jan. 27. fraternity. One son is Adam J. Falkowitz C’98. 1968 Joseph G. Sandulli L’69, Ipswich, MA, Geoff rey G. Maclay Jr. WG’71, Mequon, Dr. Melvin S. Blumenthal M’68, Yardley, an attorney and founder of Sandulli Grace, WI, a retired bank executive and an entrepre- PA, a cardiologist and researcher at Bristol- one of Boston’s premier labor law fi rms rep- neur who founded multiple start-ups; March 1. Myers Squibb, where he helped develop resenting employees; March 10. Robert Charles “Bob” Nevin WG’71, clopidogrel (Plavix), which had an important Richard E. Willoughby WEv’69, West Dayton, OH, a retired executive at Reynolds role in the prevention of cardiac ischemic Grove, PA, a retired tax accountant; Jan. 22. and Reynolds, a software company for car events and the utility of coronary artery Dr. Robert A. Zimmerman GM’69, Phila- dealerships; March 14. He served in the US stenting; May 31, 2020. delphia, a celebrated neuroradiologist who Navy aboard two nuclear missile submarines. Robert J. Dodds III L’68, Santa Fe, NM, helped pioneer the use of magnetic resonance Daniel G. Tuller WG’71, Cape Coral, FL, a trust and estates lawyer; Sept. 10, 2019. imaging for the brain and a former professor Dec. 15. Dr. James O. Donaldson III M’68 of radiology at Penn’s School of Medicine, HUP, GM’76, West Hartford, CT, a retired profes- and CHOP; Feb. 23. He joined Penn’s faculty in 1972 sor of medicine and chief of neurology at the 1972 as an assistant professor of radiology in Thomas G. Bewley W’72, Shaker University of Connecticut; Sept. 20, 2020. He the School of Medicine. By 1981, he was a full Heights, OH, a sales representative for Ashley was also director of the university’s Multiple professor and had also gained secondary Furniture; Feb. 2.

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Lawrence W. Gooss GEE’72, Mechanic- 1976 School of Arts and Sciences and a prolifi c com- sville, VA, Oct. 11. At Penn, he was a member Pieter de Jong C’76 GrP’86, Mendon, poser and performer; April 26. He joined of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. One son is Dr. MA, an environmental planner for local, Penn’s faculty in 1988 as an assistant professor Charles Meyer Gooss D’92, and his brother state, and federal agencies as well as inter- of music. In 1993, he was named the Laura Jan was Dr. Donald A. Gooss Sr. C’59 V’63 (see national consulting fi rms; Feb. 3. Meyerson Term Chair in the Humanities, then, Class of 1959). Marilyn Wilkey Merritt Gr’76, Arling- a year later, he became an associate professor Barbara Granger Jaff e CGS’72 GCP’74, ton, VA, an anthropology professor at George of music. In 2002, he became a full professor, Wyncote, PA, a social justice advocate and com- Washington University; Feb. 4. and in 2006, the Dr. Robert Weiss Professor munity organizer who ran a consulting fi rm that Robin Barnett Simon C’76 W’76, East of Music, a chair he held until 2013 and then specialized in research and training for psychi- Windsor, NJ, retired chief actuary at a human again beginning in 2020. In addition, he atric rehabilitation professionals; Feb. 6. resources consultancy; March 15. At Penn, served as the department chair of music from Dean B. Judd GEE’72, Palo Alto, CA, a she was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon mathe- 1996 to 1998, and again from 1999 to 2000, as retired computer programmer; Feb. 4. matical fraternity, Quadramics, and the cho- well as the undergraduate chair of the depart- Dr. Michael E. Kantor D’72, Chapel Hill, ral society. ment from 2002 to 2005. A widely accom- NC, a periodontist and former professor of den- Mary E. Watson Nu’76, Fayetteville, NC, plished pianist, composer, and performer, his tistry at the University of Denver; March 12. a retired nurse; Jan. 6. instrumental, vocal, and electronic works have Harvey D. Kolodner C’72, Philadelphia, been performed by the Los Angeles Philhar- CEO of an architectural fi rm; Dec. 27, 2020. 1977 monic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the His wife is Elinore O’Neill Kolodner CW’74. Patricia Whitehead Kambourian New York New Music Ensemble, and the 21st Barry W. Peirce EE’72, Richmond, VA, WG’77, Tuscon, AZ, a retired partner in a Century Consort. He received a Guggenheim July 7, 2020. At Penn, he was a member of fi nancial advisors fi rm; Feb. 16. She served Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the with the American Red Cross in the Vietnam among other accolades. Most recently, he heavyweight rowing team. War, earning a medal for civilian service. received the 2020 Virgil Thomson Award in John H. Nawn GEE’77, Upper Darby, PA, Vocal Music, administered by the American 1973 dean of science and engineering at Ocean Academy of Arts and Letters, and was nomi- William R. Leighton WG’73, Houston, County College; March 1, 2020. He served in nated for a Grammy Award for Best Choral a retired cofounder of an investment advisor the US Navy. Performance for his album Carthage, per- company; Nov. 27. He served in the US Navy. formed by the Crossing [“Arts,” Jul|Aug 2020]. Lubow W. Lesyk G’73, Wallingford, PA, 1978 Bruce A. Simon WEv’80, Omaha, NE, CEO a retired language specialist for the FBI; James A. Buzzard WG’78, Richmond, and chairman of Omaha Steaks, which was March 3. VA, a former executive at the packaging com- founded by his great-great-grandfather; Feb. pany MeadWestvaco; April 9. 17. One sister is Janice Simon Tecimer C’82. 1974 Kenneth W. Dewey WG’78, Key Largo, Dr. Bruce R. McCurdy C’74, Selbyville, FL, an energy industry executive; Feb. 12. 1982 DE, a retired physician; April 5. Richard Q. Whelan C’78, Merion Sta- Dr. Robert David Halpert GM’82, Roch- tion, PA, a maritime lawyer and a partner at ester, MI, a radiologist and writer; June 10, 1975 a law fi rm; March 19. At Penn, he was a mem- 2019. He authored two gastrointestinal radi- Katherine Draper Miller Kolliner ber of Delta Psi fraternity and the soccer ology textbooks as well as two novels. WG’75, Hudson, OH, a former senior market- team. His wife is Virginia Jarvis Whelan C’78. Hon. Ruben A. Martino L’82, Bronx, NY, ing executive for the Society Bank in Cleve- a family court judge for the City of New York; land (now known as KeyBank); March 13. 1979 Dec. 11, 2020. Lawrence G. “Larry” Wahl W’75, Pom- Sonia Fishkin L’79, Brookhaven, GA, a Dr. Ben F. Van Horn Jr. GrD’82, Newville, pano Beach, FL, an athletics communica- lawyer and real estate agent; March 23. Her PA, a retired superintendent of the Miffl in- tions director who retired as vice president husband is Andrew M. Zangwill Gr’81. burg (PA) Area School District and a former of communications for the Orange Bowl; teacher and principal; June 15, 2020. March 3. He also worked as a public rela- 1980 tions director and a spokesman for the Uni- John F. Kane WG’80, Wilmington, DE, 1983 versity of Miami Hurricanes, the New York a retired strategic and global forecaster for Dr. G. Michael Davis GrD’83, Swarth- Yankees, and ABC Sports. At Penn, he was a Dupont, Pfi zer, and Nestle; Sept. 15, 2020. more, PA, a retired high school English teach- member of WXPN, where he broadcast foot- James Primosch G’80, Philadelphia, the er at Strath Haven High School and an adjunct ball and basketball games. Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music in the professor at Widener University; Feb. 25. He

76 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Jul | Aug 2021 served in the US Navy. His wife is Ginny Lee 1988 Anesthesia Article of the Day, which his col- Davis DH’80 CGS’98 GEd’06 LPS’12. Daniel M. Bernick L’88 WG’88, Wayne, leagues intend to continue. His wife is Daph- PA, a partner at the Health Care Group, which ne Klausner CGS’88 G’93. 1984 provides legal and business services for physi- Shirley Ruth Shils CGS’84 CGS’90 G’93, cians and healthcare providers; Dec. 22. 2012 Penn Valley, PA, a philanthropist; Feb. 1, at 100. Dr. Wenda Susan Long Gr’88, Upper Gabriel F. Donnay C’12, Los Angeles, a She and her late husband Edward Shils W’36 Darby, PA, retired practice manager of the musician and data scientist at a digital mar- G’37 Gr’40 L’86 GL’90 GrL’97 endowed the maternal fetal medicine and the urogynecol- keting company; March 29. At Penn, he was Edward B. Shils and Shirley R. Shils Term Pro- ogy divisions at Penn Medicine; March 18. a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and fessorship in Entrepreneurial Management at She previously worked as the manager of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Penn as well as the Edward B. and Shirley R. Penn Medicine’s genetics lab. Shils Term Professorship in Arbitration and Faculty & Staff Alternative Dispute Resolution at Penn’s Carey 1991 Dr. John M. Daly, Philadelphia, the former Law School. Her daughter is Nancy E. Shils C’77 Kim Iype Mathew WG’91, Darien, CT, a Jonathan E. Rhoads Professor of Surgery in G’86 GEd’98 GEd’01 GrEd’01, and one grand- former managing director for an investment Penn’s School of Medicine, who later twice child is Max Szczurek WEv’03. bank; Dec. 11, 2019. served as dean of Temple University’s School of Medicine; March 26. He joined Penn’s fac- 1985 1996 ulty in 1985 as a professor in the department Gerard Paul Donahoe Jr. GCP’85, Wash- Sanjay Kumar Katyal WG’96, San Fran- of surgery. A year later, he was promoted to ington, DC, a retired housing program policy cisco, Nov. 20, 2019. Jonathan E. Rhoads Professor of Surgery and specialist with the US Department of Hous- Cheryl A. Lang GNu’96, Cheltenham, division chief of surgery/oncology in Penn’s ing and Urban Development; March 14. PA, Feb. 8. School of Medicine. He taught at Penn for eight Wendy Milne McCleary SW’85, Wells- years, before becoming chief of surgery at New boro, PA, a former social worker; April 12. 1998 York Hospital and a professor at Weill-Cornell Stephen Robert Prince ASC’85 Gr’87, Aryeh “Ari” Kushner EAS’98 W’98, Medicine. In 2002, he was appointed dean of Blacksburg, VA, a professor of cinema at Vir- Englewood, NJ, a general partner at Kushner Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Med- ginia Tech; Dec. 30, 2020. Capital Partners and CFO and director of icine. His tenure, which lasted until 2011, was Michael E. Seltzer C’85, Lakewood, NJ, Entanglement Technologies, Inc.; Sept. 16. infl uential, including the construction of a new July 5. His siblings include Sharon Seltzer His father is Murray Kushner C’73 L’76. His medical building and the development of a new Ross W’82 and Larry J. Seltzer C’83, who is siblings include Marc S. Kushner C’99 and postdoctoral research program. In 2019, he was married to Danna Sigal Seltzer W’84. Melissa Kushner C’02. appointed interim dean of the Katz School, and in February of 2021, he was appointed to the 1986 2008 post permanently for a second time. Dr. Ernest L. “Gary” Rosato C’86, Bryn Dr. Ronald S. Litman LPS’08 ML’18, Beatrice Novack Engelsberg. See Class Mawr, PA, a surgeon and professor of surgery Philadelphia, a leader in pediatric anesthe- of 1946. at Thomas Jeff erson University Hospital; siology and a former professor in anesthesi- Manfred Fischbeck, Philadelphia, a cel- March 17. He also founded and directed the ology and pediatrics at the Children’s Hospi- ebrated avant-garde dancer who was a lec- hospital’s Gastroesophageal Center. His wife tal of Philadelphia and the Perelman School turer in the School of Arts and Sciences’ is Jeannette K. Rosato C’86, his daughter is of Medicine; April 21. He came to CHOP and department of theatre arts; March 17. After Madeline C. Rosato C’18, and one sister is Penn in 2001 as a pediatric anesthesiologist graduating from the Free University of Berlin, Gertrude M. Rosato C’89. and a professor of pediatrics and anesthesiol- he moved to Philadelphia in 1968 to cofound Ruth R. Russell G’86, Philadelphia, a ogy, respectively. He was a longtime member the Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater longtime editor at the Chestnut Hill Local of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, and with a Berlin dance group. The troupe, which newspaper who later worked at the Philadel- he also served as chair of the FDA Anesthet- is still active today, became internationally phia Public Record; Jan. 2. Her husband is ic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory known for avant-garde performances and Hon. Edward E. Russell L’57. Committee and as medical director at the outreach. In 1976, he became a lecturer in Institute for Safe Medication Practice. His Penn’s department of theater arts, where he 1987 research ranged from airway anatomy under taught a popular course called Mime and Dagmar S. Keenan GNu’87, Fort Wash- anesthesia to pathophysiology of mediastinal Movement: Movement for the Actor, and he ington, PA, a neonatal nurse practitioner; masses and malignant hyperthermia. In early continued to teach until his death. He received March 23. 2021, he launched a new journal, Pediatric various grant awards and fellowships, includ-

Jul | Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 77 ALUMNI Obituaries 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 ing funding from the National Endowment C College (bachelor’s) GFA master’s, Fine Arts M Medicine for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the CCC College Collateral Courses GGS master’s, College of General Studies ME Mechanical Engineering Arts, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. CE Civil Engineering GL master’s, Law MT Medical Technology Robert A. Fox. See Class of 1952. CGS College of General Studies (till 2008) GLA master’s, Landscape Architecture MtE Metallurgical Engineering Vartan Gregorian Hon’88, New York, for- Ch Chemistry GME master’s, Mechanical Engineering Mu Music mer provost, dean, and faculty member at 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) Penn; April 15. He joined Penn’s faculty in 1972 D Dental Medicine GNu master’s, Nursing OT Occupational Therapy as the Tarzian Professor of Armenian History DH Dental Hygiene GPU master’s, Governmental PSW Pennsylvania School of Social Work and Culture. In 1974, he was appointed the EAS Engineering and Applied Administration PT Physical Therapy founding dean of what is now known as the Science (bachelor’s) Gr doctorate SAMP School of Allied Medical School of Arts and Sciences. As dean, he Ed Education GrC doctorate, Civil Engineering Professions strengthened ties and promoted scholarly EE Electrical Engineering GrE doctorate, Electrical Engineering SPP Social Policy and Practice (master’s) exchanges between Penn and the Sorbonne, at FA Fine Arts GrEd doctorate, Education SW Social Work (master’s) (till 2005) the University of Paris, and helped preserve the G master’s, Arts and Sciences GrL doctorate, Law V Veterinary Medicine GrN doctorate, Nursing W Wharton (bachelor’s) high academic standing of Penn’s department GAr master’s, Architecture GCE master’s, Civil Engineering GRP master’s, Regional Planning WAM Wharton Advanced Management of Romance languages. He served as provost GCh master’s, Chemical Engineering GrS doctorate, Social Work WEF Wharton Extension Finance from 1977 to 1981 before resigning when Shel- GCP master’s, City Planning GrW doctorate, Wharton WEv Wharton Evening School don Hackney Hon’93 was named president, a GD Dental, post-degree GV Veterinary, post-degree WG master’s, Wharton position he had expected to be off ered. As he GEd master’s, Education Hon Honorary WMP Wharton Management Program wrote in his memoir, The Road to Home: My Life and Times, he was so sure of the post that he had withheld his name from consideration urban studies in the School of Fine Arts, a what is now the University of the Arts. He as chancellor at another school. Later, he was joint position with the Wharton School’s then became dean of the Pennsylvania Acad- off ered presidencies at four other universities, department of fi nance. He later rose to profes- emy of the Fine Arts in 1985. In 2002, he was accepting the post at Brown in 1989. He is per- sor of city planning with a secondary appoint- appointed president of the Lyme Academy haps best known for his work as president of ment in the Institute for Urban Studies. His of Fine Arts in Connecticut, from which he the New York Public Library, which he restored research was instrumental in establishing retired. During the 11 years he taught at from a fi scal and morale crisis. By the end of neighborhood change as a subfi eld of city Penn, he was twice nominated for a Lindback his eight-year tenure there, he had raised $327 planning. He studied the politics of housing Distinguished Teaching Award. million in public and private funds and elevat- markets and residential segregation, the eff ect James Primosch. See Class of 1980. ed the library to the spotlight as a national of poverty on neighborhoods, and steps pub- Dr. Anthony C. Ruggerio. See Class of 1962. treasure. A renowned historian and scholar, he lic leaders could take to alleviate negative Dr. Frank A. Welsh III, Bryn Mawr, PA, authored several books and spoke seven lan- eff ects of neighborhood change. His published emeritus professor of biochemistry in the Perel- guages. He received awards from the French, books include Housing Markets and Public man School of Medicine’s department of neu- Italian, Austrian, and Portuguese governments, Policy (1963) and The Dynamics of Neighbor- rosurgery; April 2. He joined Penn’s faculty in as well as numerous honorary degrees. In 1998, hood Change and Decline (1987). In 1996, he 1973 in the School of Medicine’s department of President Bill Clinton awarded him the Nation- retired from Penn. He served in the US Navy neurosurgery. He also taught biochemistry to al Humanities Medal; and in 2004, President during World War II and the Korean War. fi rst-year medical students. In 1990, he won a George W. Bush conferred upon him the Pres- Hon. Isador Kranzel. See Class of 1965. University Research Foundation grant. His idential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest Dr. Donald W. LaVan. See Class of 1955. research focused on strokes and cerebral blood civilian award. In 2004, in his honor, the Anne Schact Lee. See Class of 1950. fl ow, and he published more than 80 peer- Annenberg Foundation endowed a $2 million Dr. Sheldon A. Lisker. See Class of 1954. reviewed articles. His published research Vartan Gregorian Chair in the Humanities at Dr. Ronald S. Litman. See Class of 2008. includes his collaboration with adjunct associ- Penn. Two sons are Vahe Gregorian C’83 and Dr. Wenda Susan Long. See Class of 1988. ate professor of neurosurgery Katalin Kariko Raffi Gregorian C’86. Frederick Osborne, Chester, CT, a prom- and her now-famous studies of messenger RNA William Grigsby, Newtown Square, PA, a inent member of art academia and a former [“The Vaccine Trenches,” May|Jun 2021]. This former faculty member in the School of faculty member of Penn’s Graduate School of work was a major keystone in the development Design’s department of city and regional plan- Fine Arts; Oct. 28. He joined Penn’s faculty of the Moderna and Pfi zer vaccines now being ning; April 20. He joined the faculty of Penn’s in 1966 in the department of undergraduate used to help fi ght the COVID-19 pandemic. In Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1955. In 1961, sculpture, serving as an instructor, lecturer, 2012, he retired from Penn. he became a research associate professor of and professor. He left Penn in 1977 to join Dr. Robert A. Zimmerman. See Class of 1969.

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Jul | Aug 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 79 The Organized Classes, and later ACLC, is made up OLD PENN of alumni leaders from undergraduate classes who help inspire alumni to participate in University events. It celebrated its 100th anniversary last October with a virtual tribute.

en ties between alumni classes and the the Organized Classes into the ACLC: Reorganized University.” As an advisory board, it “It became apparent that one of our ini- consists of leaders from undergradu- tial goals had to be making alumni class ate classes spanning nine decades. offi cers more important in our alumni Classes As Alice Way Waddington Ed’49, an organization so that class members would ACLC member and Class of 1949 presi- want to seek leadership roles,” he says. was a healthy sign of alumni dent, says in a virtual tribute video on “And to convince attendees that they were interest that so many repre- the occasion of the group’s 100th anni- a group of very important alumni lead- sentatives of diff erent classes versary, the ACLC “[helps] classes get ers, the University president and chief “It participated in the fi rst annual together and stay together.” operating offi cer attended, participated, meeting of the Organized Classes last The board of the ACLC works closely and discussed with the attendees the week,” wrote the editor of the Pennsyl- with Alumni Relations staff to provide important issues taking place at Penn.” vania Gazette in the October 22, 1920, classes with leadership and engagement Back in 1920, the Gazette called the issue. A spinoff from the General Alum- tools, such as operating guidelines for group “the type of organization which ni Society, the group met for the fi rst new class presidents, templates for Pennsylvania needs badly.” That’s still true time on October 12, a little more than a class webpages, and an online alumni today, according to associate vice presi- century ago, at the University Club. directory (MyPenn.upenn.edu); as well dent for Alumni Relations (and Gazette “One of the fi rst things the new orga- as to promote reunion activities in the publisher) F. Hoopes Wampler GrEd’13. nization should do, and we are glad to spring. Annually, the ACLC cohosts the “The backbone of any strong alumni see that it has taken hold of the prob- Alumni Award of Merit Gala, held dur- relations program is a really strong lem energetically, is to awaken the ing Homecoming weekend, which rec- classes and reunions program,” he says many classes now either unorganized ognizes classes and clubs with awards in the video. “And you all have been or but slightly active,” the editor wrote. for their ongoing achievements. doing excellent work for now a century.” Known since 2002 as the Alumni E. Gerald Riesenbach W’60, past pres- The tribute video can be watched at Class Leadership Council (ACLC), the ident of the Organized Classes/ACLC from pennalumni.smugmug.com/ACLC- organization’s mission is to “strength- 1999 to 2004, remembers restructuring 100th/n-CQhw6D. —NP

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