SPRING 2015 NEWSLETTER

Contents:

1. Welcome Message from the President, Board of Governors 2. Attend Spring Banquet (4/24) and Alumni Weekend Champagne Brunch (5/16) 3. Please Donate to the Sphinx Alumni Fund 4. Current Sphinx Campus News 5. Sphinx Alumni News 6. Sign Up for the Sphinx Class Alumni Directory 7. Visit Penn Campus as a Distinguished Sphinx Alumnus 8. Mentor a Sphinx Undergraduate 9. Contribute to a New Sphinx Historical Archives Page 10. Help Us Identify Missing Honorary Sphinx Members 11. Join the Sphinx Facebook and LinkedIn Groups 12. Send Us Your News, Comments, and Suggestions

1. Welcome Message from the President

Since our Fall Newsletter in October 2014, the Sphinx Senior Society, now in its 115th year, has continued to work through its 17 member Board of Governors (BOG) and the 30 members of the Sphinx Class of 2015 to implement our five goals:

1. Strengthen alumni outreach; 2. Support the undergraduate program; 3. Add an online Sphinx Class Alumni Directory to our ever improving web site, www.sphinxseniorsociety.com ; 4. Expand the Sphinx Links mentoring program; and 5. Raise $10,000 to support the Society’s activities.

In this Spring 2015 Newsletter, you can read about our most recent activities to achieve our goals. These activities include:

 Expansion of our new Sphinx Class Alumni Directory, where you can sign up, enter your profile, and contact other members of your Sphinx class or any signed up alumnus;

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 Continuation of a program started by the Class of 2014 to invite distinguished Sphinx alumni to campus to meet with the current Sphinx class;  Matching of 10 Sphinx Class of 2015 mentees to date with 15 Sphinx alumni mentors in various professional fields through our “Sphinx Links” mentoring program, now in its fifth year;  Our continually expanding website, which contains news of current Sphinx events, alumni accomplishments, an updated Class Awards list going back to 1900 and the founding of Sphinx, and with more web site assistance a new Sphinx historical archives page. This archive will include a recently rediscovered video Mika Rao, Chief ’96, and Carrie Kitchen-Santiago,’92, made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sphinx in 1999-2000. The video is entitled “Sphinx Senior Society: Celebrating 100 Years.” We showed the video at our annual Spring Banquet on April 25, 2014, and will eventually post the video on our web site. Here's a link to it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWVf6hWkGk&feature=youtu.be&noredire ct=1

Please read this newsletter and check our website to see how you can get involved this year in the Sphinx Senior Society. For example, you can:

 Mentor a Class of 2015 Sphinx student in the “Sphinx Links” mentoring program;  Speak on campus as part of the new Sphinx Alumni Series;  Join already over 150 Sphinx classmates who’ve done so and enter your profile in our new Class Directory and email classmates;  Send us your personal alumni news and memorabilia for the new Sphinx archives page at [email protected]   Interview a fellow Sphinx classmate of public interest for a future newsletter;  Attend the annual Spring Banquet on April 24, 2015, and/or the annual Alumni Weekend Champagne Brunch on May 16, 2015;  Donate to support these activities.

Finally, I want to thank the following members of the Sphinx BOG for their continued excellent help to achieve our goals this year: Gregory Suss, C’75, Vice President; John K. Fiorillo, W’86, Treasurer; Samir Malik, C’08, W’08, WG’14, Secretary; Merrie S. Frankel, C’76, President-Emeritus; Eileen McKeown, C’10, Coordinator, Sphinx Links Mentoring Program; Kiera Reilly, C’93, Coordinator, Alumni Outreach; Carlos Rodriguez, W’12; Lex Ruby-Howe, C’07, WEV’09, WEV’10, GED’12 ; Anita Saggurti, C’12; Glen S. Schuster, C’86, Co-Coordinator, Web Site and Class Directory; Franklin Shen, ENG’03, Co-Coordinator, Web Site and Class Directory; Elizabeth Katz Miller, W’87; and Current Student Officers: Tim Lee, C’15, Chief; Sam Rappaport, W’15, Scribe; and Victoria Ford, C’15, Scribe.

Think Sphinx!

Steve Klitzman, C’66, President, Sphinx Senior Society Board of Governors, [email protected] , [email protected]; W: 202-418-1763; H: 301-263-0616; C: 202-277-9509.

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2. Attend Spring Banquet(4/24) and Alumni Weekend Champagne Brunch(5/16)

April 24, 2015, Spring Banquet: Celebrate and bid farewell to the Sphinx Class of 2015, welcome the Sphinx Class of 2016, and socialize with Fellow Sphinx Alums!

 One way to distract ourselves from the extended cold and snowy weather many of us had this winter is to turn our attention to spring! The Board of Governors of the Sphinx Senior Society invites all Sphinx alums and guests to the annual Spring Banquet on Friday, April 24, 2015. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres begin at 6:30 pm at the historic Orpheus Club at 254 S. Van Pelt Street in Center City, .

 At the banquet we will officially initiate the Sphinx Class of 2016 and this year’s Honorary Sphinx member, Professor Justin McDaniel, Professor of Religious Studies, Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Undergraduate Studies Chair.

Professor Justin McDaniel 2015 Honorary Sphinx Inductee

 According to James (Jung Ho) An, Sphinx 2015, “ Professor McDaniel's research foci include Lao, Thai, Pali and Sanskrit literature, art and architecture, and manuscript studies. His first book, “Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words,” won the Harry Benda Prize. His second book, “The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magic Monk”, won the Kahin Prize. He has received grants from the NEH, Mellon, Rockefeller, Fulbright, PACRIM, Luce, and the SSRC Foundations, among others. He is the co-editor of the journals: Buddhism Compass, Journal of Lao Studies, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He has won teaching and advising awards at Harvard U, Ohio U, the University of California, and the Ludwig Prize for Teaching at Penn. In 2012 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2014 a fellow of Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His forthcoming work includes edited books on Thai Manuscripts, Buddhist Biographies, and Buddhist ritual. He also has a new book on modern Buddhist architecture.”

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 We also plan to honor members of the Sphinx Class of 1965 celebrating their 50th Reunion this coming Alumni Weekend in May.

 At the Spring Banquet, we also will bestow on a graduating member of the Class of 2015 the annual Paul Miller Leadership Award for outstanding public service and campus leadership. The award is named in memory of the late Paul Miller, C’83, former Sphinx Scribe, Mask & Wig performer, and Commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1994-2004.

 Please look in your Inbox next week for a special Spring Banquet e-mail invitation with a link to order tickets.

You can also purchase your tickets for cocktails, dinner, and the evening program by clicking here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sphinx-spring-banquet-tickets-16135282063

May 16, 2015, Alumni Weekend Champagne Brunch: Please join the new Sphinx Class of 2016, the graduating Class of 2015, members of the Sphinx Board of Governors, and fellow Sphinx alumni as we kick off Alumni Weekend. Join us for our annual free Champagne Brunch on Saturday, May 16, 2015, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 am, just before the Class Parade down Locust Walk to College Hall Green. The Brunch will be held in the Goodhand Room of the LGBT Center, 3901 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6031.

 Please also be on the lookout for a special Alumni Weekend email invitation that we will send out after the Spring Banquet.

Alumni Weekend Champagne Brunch May 2014

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3. Please Donate to the Sphinx Alumni Fund

Penn President Hosts the Sphinx Senior Society Class of 2015, November 2014

The Sphinx Board of Governors (BOG) invites you to help us strengthen our support of the undergraduate Sphinx membership and the entire Society by participating in the 2015 Sphinx Alumni Fund Campaign.

Here's what you need to know:

Why: To build a stronger connection between Sphinx alumni and undergraduate members, it’s important to strengthen the current community and a future leadership legacy that extends beyond the senior year at Penn.

What: Our specific campaign goals are two: first, to reduce the amount of Sphinx dues for the next Sphinx Class of 2016, and second, to add to the Sphinx Alumni Endowment Fund we’ve created to support current and future Society programs and activities.

Current undergraduate dues are $225 per the 30- member class. These dues support programming, events, and get-togethers of the current Sphinx class.

The Ask: We seek to raise funds to build our Sphinx Alumni Endowment Fund initially to offset$4,000 ($125 x 30 members) by April 24, 2015, the date of the annual Sphinx Spring Banquet. These funds will reduce the dues of the incoming Sphinx Class of 2016 to $100 per member.

We intend to use further endowment contributions to keep future undergraduate dues to an affordable level, or even eliminate such dues, as well as to support ongoing activities of the Society such as the Fall and Spring undergraduate smokers and inductions, the Fall Sphinx-Friars Homecoming Reception, the Spring Banquet, the Alumni Weekend Champagne Brunch, the

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“Sphinx Links” mentoring program, the Fall, Spring and Summer Newsletters, our new Sphinx alumni Class Directory and our ever improving web site, www.sphinxseniorsociety.com

How: Be part of this important initiative by:

* Donating here. OR

* Mailing your check made out to the Sphinx Senior Society to John K. Fiorillo, Esq. W'86, Treasurer, 1634 Wildlife Drive, Chester Springs, PA 19425; OR

* Responding positively when members of the Sphinx BOG call you in the coming weeks.

The Bonus:

-Donate $1000 or more- receive an attractive Sphinx hooded sweat shirt with the Sphinx logo, a Sphinx pin and hat, and a ticket to the Spring Banquet to be held on April 24, 2015 at the historic Orpheus Club near Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, PA;

·Donate $500-$999- receive a Sphinx pin and hat and a banquet ticket;

·Donate $250-$499- receive a Sphinx pin and hat;

·Donate $100-$249- receive a Sphinx pin.

Whatever you donate, the Sphinx BOG thanks you for your support as will the Sphinx Class of 2016 and future Sphinx classes.

4. Current Sphinx Campus News

The Sphinx Class of 2015 has selected the first 23 members of the Sphinx Class of 2016. And the 2016 class will select 7 more members of their class this fall.

Here’s a list of the new inductees who’ll we’ll welcome warmly and induct officially at the Spring Banquet on April 24, 2015, at the Orpheus Club in Center City, Philadelphia:

Diana Cabrera C’16 (Latin@ Coalition) Victoria Chen C’16 (Sigma Psi Zeta, Penn Q&A) Kevin Grossman W’16 (NEC) Peter Jeffrey W’16 (Parliamentary Debate) Brooklyn Juday W’16 (Women's Basketball) Connie Kang C’16 (Penn Chinese Theater)

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Erich Kessel C’16 (Lambda Alliance) Hong Kim E’16 (Penn Labs) Jin Kim C’16 (APSC) Alex Kleis W’16 E’16 (Assembly of International Students) Bobby (Robert) Lundquist C’16 (1 in 4) Matt Mantica C’16 (DP) Shannon McCarthy N’16 (Student Nurses at Penn, Track and Field) Jane Meyer C’16 (UA) Afrah Mohammad C’16 (PRISM) Rachel Palmer W’16 (UMOJA) Cathryn Peirce C’16 (Class Board / VagMons) América Perez C’16 (Penn for Immigrant Rights) Ingred Prince N’16 (4A) Prashant Ramesh E’16 () Sydney Schneider C’16 (Quaker Girls, Reach A Peer) Zach Shen C'16 (Mask & Wig, SPEC) Joe Step C’16 (Shira Chadasha)

And here are some other updates on the Class of 2015, in addition to selecting our new class:

1) Joyce Kim won a Fulbright award to study in South Korea next year.

2) Shadrack Frimpong has won one of the 2015 President's Engagement Prizes - he will establish the Tarkwa Breman Model School for Girls and Community Clinic in his poverty-stricken home village of Tarkwa Breman, Ghana. The Tarkwa Breman Model School for Girls and Community Clinic will serve young girls and citizens in Tarkwa Breman, as well as citizens in the surrounding seven villages.

3) Wyatt Shapiro is working on a new project called PillPal, is currently a finalist in Pennvention and is also in talks with other funding sources.

4) Dilip Rajan and new Sphinx member Prashant Ramesh just released a new with Penn Masala that fuses hip-hop and music: The Bollywood Breakdown

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5) Many Sphinx performing artists finished their last shows as Penn performers, including Abrina Hyatt (African Rhythms), Dilip Rajan (Penn Masala), James An (PennSori, KLASS), Jason Fernandes (Onda Latina), Kanad Ghosh (Strictly Funk), Rishi Simha/Wyatt Shapiro (Mask & Wig), and Victoria Ford (Excelano Project).

6) Penn Women's Basketball Team (captained by Katy Allen) was invited to the National Invitational Tournament, winning their first round before losing in a tightly contested match to Temple.

5. Sphinx Alumni News

a. Charles “Chuck” Bednarik, Sphinx Class of 1949, Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame Center & Linebacker, Died March 21, 2015, at 89

Photo Credits: University of

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Chuck Bednarik, ED’49 and Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Famer waves to Penn fans in during a Penn-Princeton football game half time show in recent years.

By Kiera Reilly, C’93 and Member, Sphinx Senior Society Board of Governors

Kiera Reilly posted in Sphinx Senior Society 5:19pm Mar 26

Last weekend, a Penn football great died. Charles Bednarik, ED'49, was a three-time all American at Penn. He was the first one drafted in the NFL draft of 1949 by the Philadelphia Eagles and played his entire career with them. He was one of the last "60-minute men" - players that played both offensive and defensive positions. He is a member of the college football hall of fame, the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame and the NFL Hall of Fame. And he was in the Sphinx Class of 1949. These are just two links to obituaries about him - search google to read more. RIP Chuck.

See http://www.pennathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1700&ATCLI D=209975005&SPID=537&SPSID=8576 and http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150323_Why_Chuck_Bednarik_mattered_to_Philadelphi a.html Read Penn Athletics Mourns also: Passing of Chuck Bednarik

www.pennathletics.com

9 b. W. Joseph Blood, W’46, Sphinx Class of 1946 and Sphinx and Penn Sports Benefactor , Great Penn Baseball, Basketball Athlete, Died January 9, 2015, at 89

W. Joseph Blood, Sr., W’46, Sphinx Class of 1946, Captain of the 1946 Penn baseball team and a member of Penn’s 1944-1945 championship basketball team, died January 9, 2015 in La Jolla, CA. He was 89.

His widow Brigitte Blood informed the Society that Mr. Blood was a “retired industrial business executive” who at Penn also served as President of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and President of the Inter-Fraternity Council.

In later years, Mr. Blood was a generous benefactor of both the Penn Athletic program and the Sphinx Senior Society. According to Ms. Blood, “he endowed the Baseball Head coach position, the first of Penn’s major coaching positions to be endowed.”

In 2014, Mr. Blood donated $1000 to the Sphinx Alumni Fund.

Ms. Blood also noted that “Joe would appreciate” our noticing his passing since “his days at Penn were so important to him.”

Besides his wife, Joe is survived by his sons Joe Jr., John, Bryan and their families. His stepdaughter Elizabeth Wulfert, stepson Kenneth Honingford and their families. He was preceded in death by his son Thomas and his stepson Curtis.

W. Joseph Blood, W'46

10 c. E. Craig Sweeten, Sphinx 1937, Former Penn VP for Development, Public and Alumni Relations, Turns 100

E. Craig Sweeten, Sphinx Class of 1937 and former Penn Vice President for Development, Public and Alumni Relations, turned 100 on January 17, 2015.

At a birthday celebration in Sarasota, FL, Penn Vice President and University Secretary Leslie Laird Kruuhly presented Sweeten with a congratulatory letter from Penn President Amy Gutmann as well as the University Commendation Award from Penn Alumni Relations. Sweeten is also the namesake of the E. Craig Sweeten Penn Alumni Relations building on Locust Walk near the in the heart of the Penn campus.

The Sphinx Senior Society in commemoration of Sweeten’s centennial year also sent Sweeten a complimentary Sphinx pin. Happy 100th birthday, E. Craig Sweeten!

Leslie Laird Kruhly, Penn Vice President and University Secretary with E. Craig Sweeten, Sphinx Class of 1937, at his centennial birthday celebration in Sarasota, FL, January 17, 2015.

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d. John Legend, Sphinx 1999, Co-Wins Oscar for Best Song “Glory” from “Selma”

John Legend (nee Stephens), Sphinx Class of 1999, and the Penn 2014 Commencement Speaker co-won an Academy Award Oscar for the Best Song of 2014, “Glory,” from the Oscar- nominated Best Film, “Selma.” A nine-time recipient of the Grammy Award, Legend received an honorary Doctor of Music at the 2014 commencement ceremony on May 19. He was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2009 and is also known for his humanitarian work. Read more here.

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John Legend, right, with his co-author, Common, hold up their 2014 Oscars for their Best Song, “Glory”, from the Oscar-nominated best Film, “Selma.”

e. 40 Sphinx Alumni Attend Nov. 1, 2014 Sphinx-Friars Homecoming Reception

40 Sphinx alumni attended the Nov. 1, 2014 annual Fall Sphinx-Friars Homecoming Weekend reception held in Houston Hall after the Penn-Princeton football. Here are the photos from the event!

Here’s a group photo:

40 Sphinx alumni make the Sphinx Senior society sign at the Nov. 1, 2014 Sphinx-Friars Homecoming reception.

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In March 2015, Penn’s Mask & Wig Club performed its 127th annual production, “A Comedy of Terrors,” in Washington, DC, New York City and London, England. Cast and production members included two members of the Sphinx Class of 2015: .Rishi Simha, Chairman, and Wyatt Shapiro, Bandleader.

Final Curtain Call of the Mask & Wig 2015 Show, “A Comedy of Terrors”

Wyatt Shapiro, Sphinx’15, Steve Klitzman, Sphinx’66, Rishi Simha, Sphinx’15, pose after the Washington, DC performance at George Washington University on March 7, 2015 of the 127th annual Mask & Wig production, “A Comedy of Terrors.”

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Wyatt Shapiro, Sphinx ’15, plays the trombone and leads the band during the March 7, 2015 performance in Washington, DC of the 127th annual Mask & Wig production, “A Comedy of Terrors.”

g. Jared S. Susco, Sphinx Class of 2001, reports that…

After serving as Chief Financial Officer of Penn Dental Medicine for two and a half years, in January 2014 he accepted a position as Chief Operating Officer of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (CCHP). CCHP is a social enterprise that seeks to help Camden, NJ become the first city to bend the cost curve for health care while improving both quality and access for vulnerable populations in one of America's poorest, most dangerous cities.

He’s very excited to serve as COO of CCHP, where he brings business principles, continuous improvement, systems thinking, and project planning to the effective and efficient execution of the mission. His focus is largely internal, with emphasis on deepening structure, metrics, process, analysis, and planning for CCHP’s existing programs and on supporting outcome- and performance-driven teams with mentoring, coaching, coordination, and integration. Jared’s husband and he live in the Society Hill area of Philadelphia where they are slowly restoring the 204-year-old row home in which they live.

15 h. Andrew Kaplan and Tammy Bockow Kaplan, Sphinx Class of 2007, report that…

They met freshman year while campaigning for class board. They served as class President (Andrew) and Vice President (Tammy) for all four years and finally started dating senior year. They have now been married for almost three years. They live and work in Boston, Andrew as a Vice President at Bain Capital and Tammy as a 3rd year neurology resident at Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Andrew and Tammy Bockow Kaplan, Sphinx ‘07

- PLEASE SEND YOUR SPHINX ALUMNI NOTES TO [email protected]

- REQUEST TO ALL FORMER SPHINX CHIEFS, PHARISEES, AND SCRIBES: PLEASE SELECT ONE INDIVIDUAL FROM YOUR CLASS TO BE YOUR SPHINX ALUMNI CLASS NOTES EDITOR. WE WOULD THEN REQUEST EACH CLASS NOTES EDITOR TO COMPILE AND SEND NEWS FROM THEIR CLASS TO [email protected]

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6. Sign Up for New Online Sphinx Class Alumni Directory

Please log onto Sphinx’s latest website feature: a new Class Directory. You can click here to log on: http://www.sphinxseniorsociety.com/community/ Join 161 Sphinx alumni to date and create your own user name, password and profile page. Then start contacting your Sphinx classmates or other Sphinx alumni in the Class Directory. Rekindle old Sphinx connections and kindle new ones!

7. Visit Penn Campus as a Distinguished Sphinx Alumnus

The Sphinx Class of 2014 initiated the Sphinx Distinguished Alumni Visitor Program. This is a program in which the Sphinx undergraduates invite alumni back to campus, upon recommendation or self-nomination, to speak to and meet with the current seniors and the campus community about their experiences at Penn and their post-Penn personal careers.

The second Sphinx Distinguished Alumni Visitor was Elliot C. Williams, Sphinx Class of 1998. Elliott visited campus in November 2014 and met with members of the Sphinx Class of 2015. He’s currently the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legislative Affairs where he oversees legislative affairs operations for the Department of Justice Civil Division as well as the Civil Rights, Antitrust, and Environmental and Natural Resources Divisions. He also served as Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security.

Williams graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degree and a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia. Until July 2009 he was on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as counsel to Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York where he advised the Senator on various matters, including immigration, firearms, crime and drug policy, antitrust, bankruptcy and intellectual property.

Williams also served as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice as well as clerked for Judges Charles R. Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and Donald M. Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Hon. Elliot C. Williams, Sphinx 1998

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During his visit to the Penn campus, Elliott shared valuable career and life wisdom with the class of 2015. Lessons he shared included defining yourself by something other than your work, “paying it forward,” and recognizing that no decision you make career-wise is permanent, no job is really necessary for another job.

For more information about the Sphinx Distinguished Alumni Visitor Program, please contact [email protected] Whether you would like to be a Sphinx Alumnus Visitor, are planning to visit Philadelphia, or are just passing through the City of Brotherly Love, the Sphinx undergraduate members would love to meet you!

8. Mentor a Sphinx Undergraduate

The Sphinx Society Board of Governors created “Sphinx Links” in 2010 as a new mentoring project to offer the career and life advice of experienced Sphinx alumni to current Sphinx seniors. Since 2010 we've made mentoring matches for over 50 Sphinx undergraduates with alumni mentors in dozens of professional fields. These have ranged from the arts, business, entertainment, finance, journalism, law, media and medicine, to biotechnology, global development, and public health.

So far this school year the Sphinx Links mentor program has matched 10 undergraduate mentees with 15 alumni mentors. Mentors and mentees are connecting over job searches, sharing networks and career counseling.

Urja Mittal, C’14, W’14, and now a first--year law student at Yale Law School, was an undergraduate mentee in 2014. She says of her mentor, Josh Gottheimer, C'97: “His thoughts on careers in law were really insightful, and I'm looking forward to talking to him again in the future to learn more about his diverse background and experiences. It's wonderful how Sphinx makes the Penn connection more meaningful and interesting.”

Sam Pasternak, C'13, now a writer on NBC's Meredith Viera Show, said the media and entertainment mentoring he received via the Sphinx Links mentoring program was "invaluable" and taught him the importance of networking with and learning from younger alumni in the media industry as well as more experienced alumni

Sam further noted that "as you're about to take your first step into a post-grad world, it's nice to be able to talk to those who have been there before. The conversations I had as part of Sphinx Links were always reaffirming and encouraging. Sphinx is filled with ambitious, passionate people who thrive when surrounded by like-minded individuals, and Sphinx Links is a natural extension of what can be accomplished in that undergraduate experience. What I'm saying is that Sphinx Links is a good idea, it's helpful in practice, and it's got a catchy name. What more could you want?"

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We are always looking for dedicated Sphinx alumni to serve as mentors for our Sphinx undergraduates. If you are interested in serving as a mentor, please send your name, location of work, professional field, and a brief career description and/or resume to Eileen McKeown, C'10, Sphinx Links Coordinator, at [email protected]. If you are a current Sphinx undergraduate, please also feel free to email Eileen to indicate your interest in having a mentor.

9. Contribute to a New Sphinx Historical Archives Page

In 2002, a group of Sphinx undergraduates, including current Sphinx Board member, Franklin Shen, ENG’03, sought out pieces of Sphinx history through the years to put together a membership book to be distributed to all new members. This membership book explains the origins of the Society, names notable alumni and lists events and initiatives Sphinx has organized and taken in the past. Unfortunately, the contents of the book aren’t easily accessible nor have they been updated since the early-2000s.

In 2014, Jennifer Sun,’14, updated and expanded the 2002 membership book and planned to upload it with additional Sphinx archival material to a new Sphinx History page on our website. She also visited the Penn Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, the University Archives and local newspaper archives and discovered some historically interesting items. See, e.g., these two lengthy news stories in reporting on Sphinx’s election of its first two African-American student members in 1952 and its first female members in 1971. Be on the lookout on our web site for the new Sphinx History archives page in the future and send us your own Sphinx memorabilia items to include on the page to [email protected]

10. Help Us Identify Missing Honorary Sphinx Members

Sphinx members - we need your help. We are trying to complete our list of honorary Sphinx members. On our website we have good records for the very early days of Sphinx, a few listings in the 1930s, and then the list picks up again in 1997. We also have a list of people who were made honorary members but not the year that they were inducted. If you have any recollection of the honorary Sphinx from your or other misisng classes on the list class, or old photos that might help solve the mystery, please let us know at [email protected] Thanks for your help.

You can find our incomplete list of Honorary Sphinx members at http://www.sphinxseniorsociety.com/alumni/honorary/

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11. Join the Sphinx Facebook and LinkedIn Groups

We encourage you to join our Facebook and LinkedIn Groups, both named Sphinx Senior Society. These are closed groups and only open to members of Sphinx.

As the Penn database is not 100% accurate, we also ask you to share this newsletter with your Sphinx classmates. If they did not receive this newsletter, they should email Kiera Reilly, Sphinx '93, member Sphinx Board of Governors, at [email protected] Kiera can code alumni in the Penn database and add Sphinx members to our email list for all future newsletters and other Sphinx information.

12. Send Us Your News, Comments and Suggestions

If you have any personal news, comments or suggestions for future newsletters or emails you’d liked to share with us and/or the Sphinx alumni community, please email us at [email protected] Steve Klitzman,C’66, Newsletter Editor and President, Sphinx Senior Society, Board of Governors, [email protected], W: 202-418-1763; C: 277- 9509; H: 301-263-0616.

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Sphinx Alumni - You are subscribed to this email list as a member of The Sphinx Senior Society. We subscribed alumni to this list based on information indicating who is a Sphinx in the Penn Development and Alumni Relations database.

We encourage you to join our Facebook and LinkedIn Groups - both named Sphinx Senior Society. These are closed groups and only open to members of Sphinx.

As the Penn database is not up to date, we ask you to share this information with your Sphinx classmates. If they did not receive this message, they should email Kiera Reilly, Sphinx '93, member Sphinx Board of Governors. Kiera can code alumni in the Penn database and add members to this email list.

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